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| Hello! I like never use this, and probrably no one looks at it, but i just wanted to let everyone know that I just started an artist page on Myspace with the new song off my EP album coming fall 2006.
I would love your support and if you have Myspace save me as a friend. :) I really don't like all this online stuff, but hey, anything to get the music out there until it plays in your head like a broken record. haha.
Here is the link: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=92267019
Enjoy!
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| Matt 6:21
"For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Matt 6:33
"But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you as well."
What is your treasure? What is your kingdom? Last week, God spoke to
me, telling one of the most profound revelations in my walk with Him.
On my way to work, I asked the Lord to speak to me. He said, "Son, you
know a secret that many do not know. That nothing good is withheld for
those who seek my heart." And even before He said that, I would say
again like I do many times before saying: "Father, I just want to make
you proud. I want to bless your heart." Knowing my heart, in that same
moment before work, God replied: "Son, obedience is just by-product of
knowing my heart." And then the verses above made sense to me. Before,
when I would read those verses, I thought it was about saving souls,
feeding the poor, and doing other "godly" works for him. Yet, even
those are still works. And in Corinthians 13, even those things (works)
may truly be in vain without love. And it began to click. As God said,
that 'I know a secret'. I understood that a treasure, a very valuable
treasure, can be hard to find. Yet when is is found, just like the
story of the hidden treasure in the gospel: "The kingdom of heaven is
like a treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it
again, and then in his joy went and sold all that he had and bought the
field."-Matt 13:44. Is this treasure "good works" is it praying ten
times a day and reading your bible in a year? But what this man found,
is something lost to many Christians today. Because this man found the
source of where all blessings flow; the source, of prosperity; the
source, of obedience; the source, of light; the source, of life; the
source, of power; the source, of love; the source, of strength; the
source, of being transformed. The source is--God's heart. Therefore the
truest treasure man can behold is truly the heart of God, and for the
one who seeks His heart, nothing good is withheld for him. Because it
is like saying to God: 'I want to know the inner-most parts of who you
are.' And truly if we make this our one life's objective, 'to seek and
know the heart of God', then truly we have found and unlocked the
greatest treasure man can behold. For it is so profound, that King
David was the only man recorded in the bible as a 'man after God's own
heart', so special it was, that God made him in the lineage of Jesus,
making Jesus the root of David. So make this your one objective in
life, and all impure motives even so-called good intentions will burn
away in the light of this one desire. And out of seeking and knowing
God's heart, everything else good and perfect will overflow as just a
byproduct of knowing the inner-most parts of who He is. So make God's
heart your treasure and your walk will never be the same.
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| Bearing Fruit Part I: One thing...
Did you know there is one thing that will not come under judgement at the judgment seat of Christ? For it it written:"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Since then there is no law for the fruit of the Spirit, there is no judgement. For judgement is given according a standard set by the one who rightfully judges who holds the authority, and Jesus is the righteous Judge. Therefore where there is no law there can be no judgement. The reason why? I put it this way... the fruit of the Spirit is the character of God revealed through our lives. It is the very essence of Christ in us shining through. So at the judgement seat of Christ, when all our works will be tried by fire according to the book of Corinthians, the only things that will remain are the works that bear fruit. For when God sees the fruit He sees a reflection of Himself (the standard on which He rightfully judges, that is the fruit or character of God) through your life and works. Therefore we must always continually bear good fruit as the foundation of our life and works for that is the only thing that will last in the end.
All other things shall come under judgement everything done in the body and speech.
" All other things we will judged for, whether "deeds done in the BODY either good or bad", also Jesus speaks in the Gospels: "by your words For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."(Matthew 12:37)
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad."(2 Corinthians 5:10)
side note: I should of wrote the foundation of bearing fruit as the purpose of our Christianity first, but that's ok, i felt like writing this one.
Blessings | | |
| The time has come... let it begin
Shakina 2005
www.shakina.net | | |
| Approaching the Word of God part II
It is written: "out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks." As
I wrote in the first part of this message, that we must approach the
Word of God in its relational form, so when we undertand this verse
above, we approach the word of God in a new light. As Jesus said, "out
of the heart the mouth speaks", we then can apply that directly to the
Word of God. For the words of the Bible are perfectly and completely
God-breathed. Therefore, we understand that the Word of God is actually
the Heart of God. So
when you approach the word of God it its relational form, you
understand that you are opening the heart of God. You want to know
God's heart? Read the Word.
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