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A New Season of Open Doors
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The Vine and the Branches
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ps... i know not everyone will understand this:
(this origonally was at the end, but i put it at the front because I think its important for people to know this)
Jesus loves you and wants you to give you life to Him... He loves you so much he came to earth only to be rejected, despised and spat upon and He did this all so He could save you and set you free from your sins and then He rose again so that we might live with Him. Our lives are transformed because we don't have someone who is dead and is not able to help us, but we have God who is alive and able to help us through any situation and bring us victory in Christ Jesus. Pray to Jesus and ask Him to be Lord, invite Him into your heart and repent of your sins, turn to Jesus and be free.
Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
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Tonight I was just thinking about these verses, lately I've been learning that apart from Christ i can do nothing and everyday I need to put my trust and faith in Jesus and walk in Him.
(this is Jesus talking here)
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Jesus is our vine, He's the whole point of being a Christian, we live for Christ, we suffer with Christ, we rejoic with Christ and we die with Christ, in all things we have Christ. We are never alone, we are part of Him, we have been grafted into Him out of His great love for us and we will live with Jesus for eternity praising and giving glory to God. Jesus holds everything together.
I know what its like to spend time out of the vine, not relying and abiding in Jesus, I felt lonely and isolated and afraid. Since I became a christian when I start to do things my own way its like I suffer, Its like I am not meant to live like that, if I move away from Christ I become insecure and it doesn't feel right to me. I know where I belong, its just who I am, I am Gods Child and I belong to Christ and when I am not trusting in Jesus I am open and vulnerable, but while I am with God I am secure. But I find that even while I fail at times to be perfect, I find Christ who is holding me up, and drawing me to Him. He is able to use these bad situations for His good. There is nothing better in the world then to be loved, and to be loved by God is truly amazing, to think that the one who created this all, who has power beyond my understand and can do all things, loves me... I just think wow.
ps... i know not everyone will understand this:
(this origonally was at the end, but i put it at the front because I think its important for people to know this)
Jesus loves you and wants you to give you life to Him... He loves you so much he came to earth only to be rejected, despised and spat upon and He did this all so He could save you and set you free from your sins and then He rose again so that we might live with Him. Our lives are transformed because we don't have someone who is dead and is not able to help us, but we have God who is alive and able to help us through any situation and bring us victory in Christ Jesus. Pray to Jesus and ask Him to be Lord, invite Him into your heart and repent of your sins, turn to Jesus and be free.
Rom 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Rom 3:24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
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Tonight I was just thinking about these verses, lately I've been learning that apart from Christ i can do nothing and everyday I need to put my trust and faith in Jesus and walk in Him.
(this is Jesus talking here)
Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
Joh 15:5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Jesus is our vine, He's the whole point of being a Christian, we live for Christ, we suffer with Christ, we rejoic with Christ and we die with Christ, in all things we have Christ. We are never alone, we are part of Him, we have been grafted into Him out of His great love for us and we will live with Jesus for eternity praising and giving glory to God. Jesus holds everything together.
I know what its like to spend time out of the vine, not relying and abiding in Jesus, I felt lonely and isolated and afraid. Since I became a christian when I start to do things my own way its like I suffer, Its like I am not meant to live like that, if I move away from Christ I become insecure and it doesn't feel right to me. I know where I belong, its just who I am, I am Gods Child and I belong to Christ and when I am not trusting in Jesus I am open and vulnerable, but while I am with God I am secure. But I find that even while I fail at times to be perfect, I find Christ who is holding me up, and drawing me to Him. He is able to use these bad situations for His good. There is nothing better in the world then to be loved, and to be loved by God is truly amazing, to think that the one who created this all, who has power beyond my understand and can do all things, loves me... I just think wow.
break me
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Sometimes we have to go through painful to learn a lesson. I've just gone through a something with a friend that caused me lots of pain, I felt rejected, and I found it hard to think of other things and get my mood up. I remember I was started walking down the road and started to think things where not fair, anger started to make its way up, but just as it did that God told me to focus on Jesus. It wasn't what I wanted to do, but I forced myself to obey, and thats when God gave me the verse Isaiah 53:3-6. My anger vanished completely. I learnt that God can understand our PAIN because He went through that pain when He came to earth to die for our sins:
Isaiah 53:3-6
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
right then I knew that I wasn't alone in how I was feeling, Jesus(God) felt the same even worse then what I was feeling. I know that Jesus can understand me in my times of weakness and needs because He too has suffered for me, with that I am comforted. I know I don't just have a God who is distant but one who is close and able to take care of all my needs. I've also learnt during this time about waiting and trusting in the Lord, some situations feel like they have no hope, but if you place your hope in God he will deliver you, but you will most likely have to wait on Him. God I find him like a loving father, the amount of bad things I have done makes me deserving of eternity in Hell, but I am grateful that in God's great love he has forgiven all my sins by taken them on Himself through Jesus Christ at the Cross. I am also thankful that through Jesus when I die I'll get to live with Him because He rose from the dead, and he has victory over death =).
Sometimes we have to go through painful to learn a lesson. I've just gone through a something with a friend that caused me lots of pain, I felt rejected, and I found it hard to think of other things and get my mood up. I remember I was started walking down the road and started to think things where not fair, anger started to make its way up, but just as it did that God told me to focus on Jesus. It wasn't what I wanted to do, but I forced myself to obey, and thats when God gave me the verse Isaiah 53:3-6. My anger vanished completely. I learnt that God can understand our PAIN because He went through that pain when He came to earth to die for our sins:
Isaiah 53:3-6
3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
right then I knew that I wasn't alone in how I was feeling, Jesus(God) felt the same even worse then what I was feeling. I know that Jesus can understand me in my times of weakness and needs because He too has suffered for me, with that I am comforted. I know I don't just have a God who is distant but one who is close and able to take care of all my needs. I've also learnt during this time about waiting and trusting in the Lord, some situations feel like they have no hope, but if you place your hope in God he will deliver you, but you will most likely have to wait on Him. God I find him like a loving father, the amount of bad things I have done makes me deserving of eternity in Hell, but I am grateful that in God's great love he has forgiven all my sins by taken them on Himself through Jesus Christ at the Cross. I am also thankful that through Jesus when I die I'll get to live with Him because He rose from the dead, and he has victory over death =).
