Be still, and know that I am God

As some of you may know I have had a concussion over the last week, just to humor you before I get all serious I banged my head on a big 60 inch TV at some speed and yeah... concussion. I have been learning a lot this week before hand my prayer life was dropping I only really prayed when things where going on like youth groups, meetings etc... I never had a persistent prayer life and it is so important that we uphold one to stay in communication with our heavenly father. I also had some struggles reading my bible and most of you will back me up on this one, I just never stop and rest and just be... I never stop and give God time in my busyness I scheduled him round it. This week has been really frustrating for me as I am a person who hates sitting around with a passion I love doing things! I love my job and not being able to work has been really annoying. This week has taught me a lot about my life and my relationship with God, here I was sitting thinking I was close with him but really I was just putting him in here and there. Not in everything I done! I have had so much time to pray and read the bible and I have met with God so many times this week which has just been outstanding and really encouraging. but I am really trying to discipline myself so that when I am back to my self I no longer just fit God around all that I do, but he is everything. I want to be persistently praying again every single day about everything I can possibly think of... I want my eagerness every day to go in to his amazing word and receive from him daily! I lost all of that due to being busy and not allowing God in my busyness. I really encourage anyone who is really busy to just stop and receive from God as he is the one who charges us to do his work, question for you "Is it even his work when we are not relying on him?" don't let busyness of life hold you back in your journey it is so hard to realize or admit it but honestly sit back and reflect on all you do and ask yourself "Where does God fit in to all this?" and if the answer is he doesn't then stop and seek him because he is everything we need, keep him in his rightful place!


Psalm 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God"

Unconditional!

I love working with young people, but we all know you sometimes just come across some young people that you just struggle with, the thought goes through your mind that wow I just can't get through to them. Well I know loads of them young people and most are non-Christians, I love working with them I can relate the them in so many ways! God has really gave me a heart for the lost, It is awesome building friendships with them and being someone they can rely on be Jesus to them. 1 John 4:19 "we love because he first loved us." Show them the unconditional and great love our heavenly father shows us, we should be willing to do anything for a brother and sister in Christ whether they are lost or found. It is like the Parable of the Lost Sheep - Luke 15:3-7 "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbours, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance." This Shepard went out looking for this one sheep hunting and not giving up until he found it, then he carried the sheep home rejoicing in the process. Then he invites his friends to rejoice with him, God wants us to be the Shepard. Jesus was exactly that in his ministry, We should be hunting for the lost loving them unconditionally and Rejoice when they are found, Just as God does in heaven. John 5:19 "Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does." Our father shows unconditional do the same, seek him and do as he wants and the rest will fall in to place just LOVE... It's what God does, that's what Jesus done, It is amazing the difference you make in a young persons life by doing what you see your father doing, it can be life changing. I posted this big rant because I have been challenged big time on loving everyone unconditionally and showing forgiveness in all situations, I am trying to challenge myself to do this for the rest of my days and I would encourage everyone to do the same! 1 John 4:20-21 "Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister." Unconditionally love! some people can be difficult but hey being a Christian and doing Gods work is never going to be simple but this is why it is worth it! 1 John 4:13  This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. We are all the body of Christ and witnesses of the living God so lets all do as he does and love all our brothers and sisters unconditionally!

It is worth it!

So this is the first time I have ever blogged but here it goes...

Well for those who don't know I am a Christian. This year I am studying about Christian youth work with an awesome organisation called South West Youth Ministries. This year I have learnt so much and all of it has been really new to me. The thing that has impacted me most is all the learning on the cost of being a disciple. When I became a Christian I never realized what I signed my self up for until this year. My heart has been shaken up big time and it is step by step being repaired. A lot I have been learning has been challenging and I have been trying to shape my heart back to the way God intended it to be. From reading the Gospel I learned a lot about Jesus and his disciples and how they surrendered all to follow him but I never really let that sink in. When there was areas of my life that were not right highlighted I gave them to God. Lately I came to realization that yes I gave things to him but I gave him the areas that I wanted. I did not give him my all I didn't let him in to all areas of my life to work in, So my heart wasn't getting restoration what so ever. Noticing this I have been praying daily to have the strength to die to self, I am no longer going to put God in a box and give him what I want, but I am going to give him what is rightfully his and that is all of me. 


Luke 9:23 "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." I want to take up that cross daily and I don't care how hard it is going to be... because it is so small compared to what Jesus done and it is 100% worth it. John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." I want to be exactly what God called me to be, I love living out his word and truth and I would never want to do anything else. Looking at what I was to what I am now the transformation is amazing to look at. I love the life God has given me and to show my appreciation I intend to live fully sold out for him. Romans 12:1 "Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God this is your spiritual act of worship." God has a plan for us all but we need to have our hearts right before him so that our acts and our time as a physical being is all that God intended it to be. Live every day as if it is your last!