16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Sometimes I have to talk to myself about what I am worth because what is going on around me does not always show. Like right now, I'm not feeling the worth due to the decisions of others. This may sound weird to some, that the decisions of others can have a major affect on me, but unfortunately, it happens. Now an infinite decision has to be made on my part: Do I believe what I see or what I know? This is where it is tough on the feelings. (If you think this is not going in the right direction, stay with me.)
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body.
Science has taken a significant jump in watching the development of the fetus in the womb to the point of showing the eggs develop in the ovaries. These eggs, as well as, the sperm that enters the egg which causes the process of division and forming a human being are made up of cells. Each cell has the DNA makeup within the nucleus. This DNA makeup (the chains that make up the DNA) is what determines who we are physically (the outward appearance) and sometimes our physical health. Science has been able to determine what causes some genetic diseases and deformities through our DNA. However, science has not been able to determine a person's purpose in life beyond the physical. Science can make an estimate, a theory, or a prediction using the DNA of the mother and of the father, but they cannot predetermine who a person will turn out to be or their purpose. Even psychiatrist and psychologist will tell you they cannot predetermine a person's future purpose, but only theorize.
Jeremiah 1:4&5 says:
4 The word of the LORD came to me, saying, 5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations."
God is telling Jeremiah He knew him before he was formed in his mother's womb. This is how well God knows me and everyone born on this earth. He sees each future person until there is only eternity in Heaven or in hell (the final destinations) for those who have lived on earth. God created the first man and He knows the last man who will enter earth as a conceived human in the end day.
This is the reason I do not believe in abortion or human selective breeding or cloning: Created beings should not play with what they perceive as creation because created beings stand flawed next to the Creator.
Do we not remember what happened in history and the Tower of Babel? Why did the Bible call it the Tower of Babel (should be Tower of Babble)? God caused man to speak in different languages and dialects to disrupt man's ability to communicate and finish building a tower to where God sits. He did this to protect man from his self destruction due to his own arrogance and pride. Man did not know there was no air up there and that building such a tower would eventually collapse killing many. Arrogance plus pride plus ignorance equals flawed intelligence which will always equal disaster.
Jehovah-Elohim, Eternal Creator,
You are infinite. You are the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I may not be able to control what is the decisions of others, but I can control what I believe and my behavior will follow. Yet I still have these bouts of feeling worthless allowing my focus to leave You temporarily and become sad and sometimes angry. I praise You because this is only temporary and because You cause me to remember the truth of Your Word so You can raise me back up from the pit. I must give my feelings over to You for I allow them to overwhelm me, but You have overcome that which I see in the physical world. Thank You Father God that You also remind me I was worth dying for and that death has no grip on me. This is because of Your Son, Jesus Christ, whose love did this for me and the sins of the world, Amen.
PRAISE GOD FROM WHOM ALL BLESSINGS FLOW!
PRAISE HIM ALL CREATURES HERE BELOW!
PRAISE HIM ALL OF YE HEAVENLY HOSTS!
PRAISE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST!
AMEN!
Monday, April 27, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
My Worth to God--Part 2
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
7Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
The first man, Adam was created from the dust of the ground and God performed the miracle of breathing into a formed piece of dirt life. Evolutionary thought cannot bite on that nor can they conceive this for they are too busy evolving us from apes, fish, reptiles, and slime. They cannot agree from which we came!
The Bible is specific: Adam was formed from dust by the hand of God. God breathed His breath into the nostrils of this formed piece of dust. God did not draw the figure of a man in the dust giving him a face and a nose to breath into; He formed the man. That means God took His hands, formed every intricate detail of this man, far too many details to write, from the dust. Adam is the only human never conceived from another body, but the only man formed from the dust of the ground.
Now read the second chapter of Genesis verses 5 & 6:
Also notice that no plant, shrub, nor rain had come upon the earth when Adam was created, but just a mist that rose from the earth and water from the surface of the ground. He was created as the Lord was preparing the ground for growth.
So what does this mean to me or anyone else for that matter?
We are all direct descendants of Adam because from Adam's rib was formed Eve and from her all mankind was conceived.
Jehovah-Hoseenu, Lord our Maker,
I praise You for making Adam from the very dust You created from nothing. You are Jehovah-Elohim, our Eternal Creator. From nothing You formed everything with Your Mighty Hands which makes everything a miracle of life.
I pray for the folly of those who claim otherwise trying desperately to run and rebel against You. They do not know what they are doing for they are blinded by the father of lies, the devil. I grieve their passing to come face-to-face with You knowing they have spread the lies into the minds of others, especially the young. I pray they will feel the millstone of the lies around their necks as a warning and receive the revelation of their fate in following the father of lies so they can look up to You, not with a raised fist of defiance as he does, but a raised hand of seeking Your love and mercy for them to follow in the truth. May they praise You for sending Your Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for these sins forgiving them from that cross. May they praise You because of His resurrection by Your Power so they can be raised to the life of Your Truth. And I ask this in His name, Jesus, Amen
7Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
The first man, Adam was created from the dust of the ground and God performed the miracle of breathing into a formed piece of dirt life. Evolutionary thought cannot bite on that nor can they conceive this for they are too busy evolving us from apes, fish, reptiles, and slime. They cannot agree from which we came!
The Bible is specific: Adam was formed from dust by the hand of God. God breathed His breath into the nostrils of this formed piece of dust. God did not draw the figure of a man in the dust giving him a face and a nose to breath into; He formed the man. That means God took His hands, formed every intricate detail of this man, far too many details to write, from the dust. Adam is the only human never conceived from another body, but the only man formed from the dust of the ground.
Now read the second chapter of Genesis verses 5 & 6:
5Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 6But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.
God took dust moist with dew to form Adam so the dust would stick together. Ever tried to form something out of just dry dust? Not that God could not bypass this being the Creator of everything, but used the resources He created. A lesson to us all.Also notice that no plant, shrub, nor rain had come upon the earth when Adam was created, but just a mist that rose from the earth and water from the surface of the ground. He was created as the Lord was preparing the ground for growth.
So what does this mean to me or anyone else for that matter?
We are all direct descendants of Adam because from Adam's rib was formed Eve and from her all mankind was conceived.
Jehovah-Hoseenu, Lord our Maker,
I praise You for making Adam from the very dust You created from nothing. You are Jehovah-Elohim, our Eternal Creator. From nothing You formed everything with Your Mighty Hands which makes everything a miracle of life.
I pray for the folly of those who claim otherwise trying desperately to run and rebel against You. They do not know what they are doing for they are blinded by the father of lies, the devil. I grieve their passing to come face-to-face with You knowing they have spread the lies into the minds of others, especially the young. I pray they will feel the millstone of the lies around their necks as a warning and receive the revelation of their fate in following the father of lies so they can look up to You, not with a raised fist of defiance as he does, but a raised hand of seeking Your love and mercy for them to follow in the truth. May they praise You for sending Your Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for these sins forgiving them from that cross. May they praise You because of His resurrection by Your Power so they can be raised to the life of Your Truth. And I ask this in His name, Jesus, Amen
Thursday, April 9, 2009
My Worth to God
I have never been one to understand just how worthy I am until I met the Lord God. Not that I have never known from my parents how important I am to them, but worthy of what I can be. I guess this is one of life's mysteries one must find out for themselves. Unfortunately, I still struggle in this area, but God is not done yet!
In the Book of Genesis chapter one these words were written:
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
What an amazing statement of what we look like as human beings! This is definitely NOT evolution because evolution says something has to evolve from something for man's evolution came from any one of the theories one can come up with (apes, sea creatures, etc). Creation says we are created by the Creator and in His creative power created people (man) in His image. God spoke the words and it was done. He then gave His creation purpose and authority which only He can.
If you read the first few chapters of Genesis you find that God created everything and that everything He created was good.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
This shows that God does not make junk. Junk is worthless that's why we throw it away. The devil likes to make junk of God's creation so he can try to take away from God. The devil is jealous of God and wants to be God, but even though he knows he cannot, it does not stop him. The only way the devil can make junk of us is if we give him the authority to do so. You see, God has all authority, but the devil has none until given authority, even by us. To God's authority over the devil, read this section from the Second chapter of Job:
1 On another day the angels came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"
Satan answered the LORD, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."
3 Then the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason."
4 "Skin for skin!" Satan replied. "A man will give all he has for his own life. 5 But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face."
6 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life."
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. 8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.
Notice the language used concerning the conversation between God and the devil. Does this sound like the devil has any power to do anything he wishes? The devil is a created being who use to be an angel, but as depicted in Isaiah fourteen:
12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! 13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." 15 But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.
The devil was an angel known as The Morning Star until he started his boasting in the fateful statements of the, "I wills." Rebellion against God states, "I will," called "sin." This is the only power we give the devil, but other than that, he has no hold on us. We actually have the power to tell him,"No!" James chapter four says:
7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Such authority, but we lost that authority by becoming a slave to sin, therefore making junk of our lives. In Romans chapter three it says,
10As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. 12All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."
Then God performed the greatest miracle that saved the lives of all mankind according to the statement of Jesus Christ to Nicodemus:
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. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son."
Jehovah-Eloheenu, Lord our God,
You are Jehovah-Elohim, our Eternal Creator. I am worthless nothing without You, a mass of nothing for evolution to evolve me from itself. But according to Your Word in Genesis chapter one, You created the world out of nothing. There was no "big bang," but Your Spirit which is eternal.
Lord,You created the host of heaven, Jehovah-Sabaoth, even those You had to cast from Your heaven into the pit. I praise You none of these hosts has no power over me than what You give them permission and that You give me authority to resist the devil because You created me in Your image and because of Christ's love for me. This is no epiphany, but an actual fact written in Your Word. Your creation who believe in You can only praise You for what You have done, but of mankind, You give the free will to love You. Choosing to love You is the best choice I can make everyday. To You I give the glory for all You have done and all You will do in my life because of the name of Jesus, Amen.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
How Well God Knows Me
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.
Let's start from the beginning.
Genesis 1:
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End did this very action for He is action. From that very beginning, He saw me for who I am--my inmost being, ie. my personality, my character traits, my flaws, and my temperament. From that which He created, He performed the miracle of my purpose in life which He created me to live. My purpose is to love Him and to obey Him--submit to His will--surrender to Him fully my everything. I can say my inmost being came from Daddy and Mama's genes, but my genetic makeup comes from the Lord God who created me. He destined my life according to His will, not the will of the genes Daddy and Mama made up together when I started out as one of Mama's fertilized eggs. Therefore, God knitted me together in my Mama's womb by the natural action of the splitting of cells which turned into me growing in my Mama growing womb.
This is the reason I am so against abortion. I know for a fact where I came from (and no, the old adage of baby souls waiting to be placed in a woman's womb from a waiting tank is absolutely false.), God created me out of nothing. I am, therefore, nothing without Him. Mama and Daddy were the vehicle by which God brought me into the world. I am a miracle of birth.
There is one more miracle which affects this life God has given me: The miracle of rebirth. Part of the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus in John 3:
4"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" 5Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spiritb]">[b] gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'Youc]">[c] must be born again.' 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
What Jesus is explaining to Nicodemus is the difference between natural birth and spiritual birth after He tells him, "You must be born again."
May 5, 1991 is my spiritual birthday when in my bosses office at the bakery at 2:35am, I agreed with Christ Jesus that I was a sinner and that I needed to be saved from myself. I let loose of the rope of control of my own life and committed that little bit of life I had left to Him. I was suicidally depressed and too scared to die by my own hand, but had that rope snapped before I let loose of it, I would had fell into that pit I had dug for myself and the devil's retirement plan of suicide would have been easy. God gave me a second chance in life, but this time to live that life under His terms regardless the fact I am a control freak. He is still working on that aspect and He has come a long way with me.
Jehovah-Elohim,My Eternal Creator,
Blessed be Your name for You know every aspect of my being. I praise You for Your knowledge of me bringing me life twice. I continue to commit my life to You, My Savior and Redeemer for Your love and mercy which I am not deserving, but through the death and resurrection of Your Son, Jesus the Messiah, I am made worthy. You created me to love You from the beginning and now I am Yours for the action I am to be for You completely and totally throughout eternity, in the name of my Messiah, Amen.
Let's start from the beginning.
Genesis 1:
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End did this very action for He is action. From that very beginning, He saw me for who I am--my inmost being, ie. my personality, my character traits, my flaws, and my temperament. From that which He created, He performed the miracle of my purpose in life which He created me to live. My purpose is to love Him and to obey Him--submit to His will--surrender to Him fully my everything. I can say my inmost being came from Daddy and Mama's genes, but my genetic makeup comes from the Lord God who created me. He destined my life according to His will, not the will of the genes Daddy and Mama made up together when I started out as one of Mama's fertilized eggs. Therefore, God knitted me together in my Mama's womb by the natural action of the splitting of cells which turned into me growing in my Mama growing womb.
This is the reason I am so against abortion. I know for a fact where I came from (and no, the old adage of baby souls waiting to be placed in a woman's womb from a waiting tank is absolutely false.), God created me out of nothing. I am, therefore, nothing without Him. Mama and Daddy were the vehicle by which God brought me into the world. I am a miracle of birth.
There is one more miracle which affects this life God has given me: The miracle of rebirth. Part of the conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus in John 3:
4"How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" 5Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spiritb]">[b] gives birth to spirit. 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'Youc]">[c] must be born again.' 8The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit."
What Jesus is explaining to Nicodemus is the difference between natural birth and spiritual birth after He tells him, "You must be born again."
May 5, 1991 is my spiritual birthday when in my bosses office at the bakery at 2:35am, I agreed with Christ Jesus that I was a sinner and that I needed to be saved from myself. I let loose of the rope of control of my own life and committed that little bit of life I had left to Him. I was suicidally depressed and too scared to die by my own hand, but had that rope snapped before I let loose of it, I would had fell into that pit I had dug for myself and the devil's retirement plan of suicide would have been easy. God gave me a second chance in life, but this time to live that life under His terms regardless the fact I am a control freak. He is still working on that aspect and He has come a long way with me.
Jehovah-Elohim,My Eternal Creator,
Blessed be Your name for You know every aspect of my being. I praise You for Your knowledge of me bringing me life twice. I continue to commit my life to You, My Savior and Redeemer for Your love and mercy which I am not deserving, but through the death and resurrection of Your Son, Jesus the Messiah, I am made worthy. You created me to love You from the beginning and now I am Yours for the action I am to be for You completely and totally throughout eternity, in the name of my Messiah, Amen.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
I Need To Stop!
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
I am famous for buying trouble and grappling with what God is trying to say to me. If the path is not absolutely clear, I think, "Well, if He really wants me to do this, He will make it crystal clear." This is me trying to walk in the darkness of somewhere I have never been or not use to penetrating my soul to the foundation of my faith. Is God suppose to take me by the hand like a child and walk me down the path to where He wants me to travel? I suppose seeing as I am a child of God.
Worrying about what has not happened and grappling with a decision takes far more energy than getting up and doing something. Sometimes God has to say to me, "Just do it, Nancy because I love you."
Confession time:
I buy trouble because of past failures. I still have not forgiven myself and my family problems which affected my efforts to go to school educating myself for a better future.
I am grappling with the decision to take a home course in writing for children due to these past failures, financial constraints, and constructing my time for the extra work. I was never good at planning for future events.
Now that I have revealed my little, black hole, time to see what God has to say about all this.
Ephesians 1:7 (NIV) 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace
God through the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ has forgiven me of all my sins through the riches of His undeserved pardon.
I am struggling with the fact I don't have a good enough education to be an effective writer. What is the same advice you keep hearing in all the resources you have about writing:
You are not alone. Take the course. It's affordable now, it's at your own pace, and you will have your own tutor which is how you learn better anyway. Face it, Nancy, you are not good at self-starting and you could use the discipline. Remember Smiley's motto for adult birthday parties, "Organize them like you would a children's birthday party; No one will know the difference." You can always improve your vocabulary for adult writing along the way. And stop wishing for a laptop until you develop the discipline of using the one you have as the word processor it was intended when you asked for it. The other laptop will come. Just remember, the past authors had far less than you yet they were passionate enough to follow in God's will without the new technology. Are you sure you are passionate enough or are you acting like a spoiled brat?
Father God,
I have made my confessions within my little, black hole with one more admission: I want an easier life. I am a brat resisting Your call on my life because I am lazy when it comes to disciplining my given life. You provide all the time, but I waste it or procrastinate until You make it difficult for me to resist (like now). Help me in my unbelief. I commit myself to forgive the past so You can lead me by the hand to You future glory for me, in Jesus name and for His sake, Amen.
I am famous for buying trouble and grappling with what God is trying to say to me. If the path is not absolutely clear, I think, "Well, if He really wants me to do this, He will make it crystal clear." This is me trying to walk in the darkness of somewhere I have never been or not use to penetrating my soul to the foundation of my faith. Is God suppose to take me by the hand like a child and walk me down the path to where He wants me to travel? I suppose seeing as I am a child of God.
Worrying about what has not happened and grappling with a decision takes far more energy than getting up and doing something. Sometimes God has to say to me, "Just do it, Nancy because I love you."
Confession time:
I buy trouble because of past failures. I still have not forgiven myself and my family problems which affected my efforts to go to school educating myself for a better future.
I am grappling with the decision to take a home course in writing for children due to these past failures, financial constraints, and constructing my time for the extra work. I was never good at planning for future events.
Now that I have revealed my little, black hole, time to see what God has to say about all this.
Ephesians 1:7 (NIV) 7In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace
God through the redemptive blood of Jesus Christ has forgiven me of all my sins through the riches of His undeserved pardon.
2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
I am a new creation in Christ! Forgive the past,the old nature is forgiven, let the new thing God is leading you begin. Your past problems are in the past; keep them in the past or at least, learn from them.
I am struggling with the fact I don't have a good enough education to be an effective writer. What is the same advice you keep hearing in all the resources you have about writing:
You are not alone. Take the course. It's affordable now, it's at your own pace, and you will have your own tutor which is how you learn better anyway. Face it, Nancy, you are not good at self-starting and you could use the discipline. Remember Smiley's motto for adult birthday parties, "Organize them like you would a children's birthday party; No one will know the difference." You can always improve your vocabulary for adult writing along the way. And stop wishing for a laptop until you develop the discipline of using the one you have as the word processor it was intended when you asked for it. The other laptop will come. Just remember, the past authors had far less than you yet they were passionate enough to follow in God's will without the new technology. Are you sure you are passionate enough or are you acting like a spoiled brat?
Father God,
I have made my confessions within my little, black hole with one more admission: I want an easier life. I am a brat resisting Your call on my life because I am lazy when it comes to disciplining my given life. You provide all the time, but I waste it or procrastinate until You make it difficult for me to resist (like now). Help me in my unbelief. I commit myself to forgive the past so You can lead me by the hand to You future glory for me, in Jesus name and for His sake, Amen.
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