Words of Power

Words can be used for many things, they can inspire, they can oppress and they can set you free. Words are part of the building blocks of life, they can bring about so much change if you truly believe in the words you say.

The very creation of everything happened because of words that God spoke, and that same power, which was also the power that raised Jesus from the dead, is the power we have within us all. If we believe in God and the power that he placed within us, then we can move mountains with a word, we can raise the dead, and we can heal the blind.

Words can cause the most depressed individual to smile, words are power to be used for the greater good. This power is meant to spread joy, healing, love and so much more. Although many of us use our words to harm people, God still believes in us, and that we will do what is right.

Our words can change lives for the better or worse, they can restore faith, or tear it away. I don’t know about you but I want my words to inspire, whether it’s a thousand people or just one. If I can speak a good word to one person and change their life then I have accomplished something great.

I want my words to speak life, not death or despair; I want my final words to be words of the power of God.

Life is too short to speak words that cause pain; I pray my words speak love and kindness. This is what I aspire to and I hope many more follow this example, for these are not my words but the words of the God that made us.

Matthew 12:37
For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

Proverbs 10:19
When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable, But he who restrains his lips is wise.

Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, But the righteous will escape from trouble.

Proverbs 13:2
From the fruit of a man's mouth he enjoys good, But the desire of the treacherous is violence.

Proverbs 13:3
The one who guards his mouth preserves his life; The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Proverbs 21:23
He who guards his mouth and his tongue, Guards his soul from troubles.

Rejection

Rejection is something many of us face in life, whether it's in school, trying to gain employment or in love. Rejection may be hard to receive at times but the best thing to do is let go of it, move on and live your life, because no matter how bad you are rejected in life, God will never reject you.

Life has many ups and downs, and rejection seems to be a big part of it, but often times it can serve as a test of character. No matter how long it takes to get over rejection, the important thing is who you are after you face it. I've experienced rejection all my life, simply because of what I believe and who I am, or even because of my age.

But the one person that has never rejected me or anything I've ever done or said is God, my father in Heaven. This great being has even given me a a mother that loves me unconditionally as well as siblings that love and respect me. It is because of this that I know, no matter the problems I have or the rejection I ever receive, no one's approval matters the only person I need the most is God and he has already proven that he will never reject me as long as I love and honor him.

Rejection might be tuff but a person of good character and a strong walk with God will always come out of it a stronger person.



1 Peter 2:4 ESV / 435 helpful votes

As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 270 helpful votes

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Psalm 94:14 ESV / 242 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;

Psalm 34:17-20 ESV / 572 helpful votes 

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Child Like Heart

Wonder, creativity and innocence, something many of us struggle to find in everyday life and in ourselves, but as kids we had an unlimited supply. This could be a sad thought, but the reality is, many people have been taught in order to grow up they must let go of childish things.

Funny thing really, because when people try to remove the childish things in their lives they often remove what they should hold on to; wonder, creativity and innocence. These are the building blocks of what makes a person interesting and worthy of a place in God’s Kingdom. In order to be accepted into Heaven, God wants us to be as innocent as a dove, and full of his creativity and wonder. In a sense you must be child like in order to grow, however God does require us to leave behind childish things.

What is childish is anything that is selfish and full of bad intentions. I was raised since birth to always keep a childlike heart, I still watch cartoons and have the interests of a child, but I know what it means to be mature, and part of growing up is accepting that I am not perfect but I can still have a childlike heart.

No one really loses the ability to think like a child as they grow up, they simply forget to do so. I know it may be harder for some, but it is completely worth the extra effort. You will find by focusing on maintaining a childlike heart, you will have a lot more freedom and joy in your life. Not to mention God will be even happier to receive you in his kingdom.

It's a Beautiful Life

There are so many beautiful things in life that are often overlooked, the smile of a baby, the sound of a bird chirping even the trees swaying side to side. So many beautiful things to enjoy in this life but many of us including myself waste our days watching TV or playing Videogames. Granted there are many dangerous things in this world that threaten to harm us, and this may prevent us from enjoying all the world has to offer.

But God has given us each day so that we could praise him for all that he has made for us, he has given us the beauty that is the sky, the wonder that is in the laughter of a child playing outside. He has even given us the best gift of all, the ability to live in a world that he designed. So forget about the troubles that wait for you around the corner, because no matter the trouble no matter the pain, God has given you this day and all it has in store for you.

I’ve seen so many pictures of places that God has made that continue to amaze me, pictures of trees that are so beautifully designed that they seem so unreal, oceans that are so clean that you can see all the way to the bottom. I cannot tell you how amazed I feel just to have seen pictures of these places and things, it constantly renews my faith in the impossible, the fact that God could create these things in an instant is just amazing to me.

I hope to see such amazing things in person one day, but for now I’m pleased just seeing the sunset in my backyard.

So remember to always appreciate the beauty in life all around you, the sounds, the smells, the sights and the tastes. Because this life is only temporary and you don’t want to miss a thing.

Love!

We were all made to share the Love of God, I have known personally since I was a kid that my life was made to be a vessel of love. I try to share God’s love with anyone he tells me to share it with. Which Is why I am writing this message, something important that has been brought to my attention lately is people’s perception on what is considered romance and what is considered simple displays of love.

Growing up I have always known that it was okay to hug people we wish to show our love to, not as romantic but as a sign of a holy love. Caring for individuals as human beings or caring for people that are friends should be the same as treating them like family, like brothers and sisters, both young and old.

When I comfort anyone, I will hug them, I will even give them a kiss on the forehead or top of the head or even the cheek. Not as a sign of romantic attachment or feelings, but as a symbol of kindness and pure brotherly or sisterly love.

Now that does not mean I do not know what romance is or what it means to be romantic. Being romantic in a pure way, means showing affection with one special person, someone you intend to one day marry or someone you are married to or about to marry; However I’ve learned a lot about many who believe it is okay to share romantic gestures with everyone, by romantic gestures I mean kissing, a romantic embrace and making love.

I have no judgments for those who do these things, just stating that God does not see this as a pure form of love.

God created sex as a beautiful activity to be shared between married couples; The reason why is when your married, sex becomes the most intimate form of love. Uniting mind body and spirit with your spouse; it is more pleasing and pure because it becomes more satisfying and becoming that close with your spouse makes your relationship that much more amazing.

The reason why sex outside of marriage is not the best is because although it may be gratifying, the connection is not as strong. You are not uniting mind body and spirit. You simply satisfy an itch and remove the love that was meant to be with it. Ultimately making sex unimportant to you.

This message is not to discourage anyone or to put down individuals, it is intended to let everyone know that, Love can be shared in many ways but only someone of a pure heart can share the Love of God the way God intended. No man or woman on earth can change another person’s heart either. It is up to each individual to go to God for the change.

I was raised to be truthful with my words and my feelings and thoughts, never shroud them with false beliefs or coats of sugar. I had the opportunity to learn that when you care for someone that is a friend or a stranger, to treat him or her as God says; to treat each young lady or young man as a little brother, and to treat those older than me as a mother or father. And for those the same age to treat them, as I would expect myself to be treated.

For the one that I will one day marry I will treat her as my equal, with respect and with love. No formalities, no pointless gestures just pure unfiltered Love.

Never water down Love, God made it perfect the way it is, no need to complicate it. For God is Love and there is nothing complicated about that.

Cast Away

Cast away, not only is it a title for a movie it is also what God says we must do in order to move on from our mistakes and forgive others of their own. When we make a mistake we tend to bask in it basically absorbing it into ourselves till the point it consumes us, but doing this will only chip away at your soul and destroy the confidence you gain when you submit your troubles to God.

There are times we like to blame our current troubles on past mistakes saying, “It is because of what I did back then”. When we blame our past because of our future mistakes it is often because we are being haunted by our past.

If you are haunted by your past mistakes even after you have confessed and were forgiven, it usually means that you have not forgiven yourself and you have held on to it instead of casting it away to the Lord.

Now there are also times when we hold a grudge against someone, times where they did something truly awful and never asked for forgiveness. Now of course we all think in order to forgive someone we have to hear them ask for it, some even want to hear them beg for forgiveness; However God says to forgive, he never says wait for begging or hold on to their mistakes.

For one, that person you keep blaming may have already forgotten or he may not ask you for forgiveness as God says all you have to do is come to him and he will forgive you. So even if they have not asked you, they more than likely have already been forgiven or they just do not care.

The only person that get’s hurt when there is unforgiveness is the one who holds on to it instead of casting it away to the Lord.

Love Is Love

Relationships are not based off of gender or sex, they are all formed by love, God meant love to be shared with everyone, now that does not mean having sex with everyone, it just means that you can love anyone no matter the gender, because love is all God cares about because He is Love. People try to define relationships of the same Gender with the words Gay and Lesbian, but if you have a pure mindset and heart then you would know that Gay is just another word for happy and Lesbian is merely a term invented to force women into a category all about sex.

If your relationship is built on Love and not built on Sex then you are not set apart you are simply in a relationship and in love. God is not against love or anyone that loves someone of the same gender. God did not come to persecute people or condemn, he came to bring life, and life abundantly! Life is about love, he is Love and so if you love someone do not be ashamed of it, if it is pure who cares about the gender?! To God, gender does exist, because in heaven there is no such thing, and we are to establish God’s Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven! So if we are his children then we should live by his example. We are all equal in love and in life because God made us all and loves us all just the same. He expects us to obey the law of the land and so we all must do so.

If your relationship is just sex then it is not just to fight for same sex relationships, unless you are fighting for love alone and not any special rights other than what everyone else has. Love is fair and it is pure so if your intentions are not based on equality then you will not receive what you are wanting, because we are all equal in God’s eyes!

Evil?

Evil, a word that seems to be used to describe every form of hardship or anyone who has done wrong or anything that seems wrong really. People always complain how bad things are or how evil that person is for causing them harm.

I understand that it seems logical to blame all hardships on the word Evil, but you have to ask yourself what caused this to happen? Why did that person choose to hurt me? Why? Well something that the bible says is: “God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning--the sixth day.”

Now if everything he made was good then why is there such evil in the world?

“I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the LORD, do all these things.”

Now reading this you might think that God did something wrong, well the answer to that would be no. See if God had not made Evil we would not have the freedom of choice, Evil is nothing more than choice and when someone makes the decision to do evil it affects people.

Satan was not made as the source of Evil either; in fact he was originally a beautiful angel in heaven;

“How you have fallen from heaven,
    morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
    you who once laid low the nations!

You said in your heart,
 “I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
    above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
  on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[a]

I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
    I will make myself like the Most High.”

But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,
    to the depths of the pit.”

When reading this remember what I said about Evil simply being a choice, see Lucifer was good but he allowed pride to manifest inside him, so when he made his choice on how he wanted to live he had to be punished for disobeying the Law.

Pride is not from pure evil either it is an opinion that manifests in your mind something that comes from the knowledge you have about yourself or something you believe which slowly takes over your entire being. Meaning any choice you make in pride will result in something bad because pride is always a bad choice.

“Pride comes before the fall”

God is good, so if he is good then why create evil? As I said God created what is good and what is evil, if Evil is a choice then so is Good. Because Jesus said, "No one is good--except God alone.”  This means that there is no such thing as a good or evil being in existence There is only choice. It is the decisions of others that causes events to take place.

If something bad happens that simply means that either a choice you made caused it or someone else chose to make it happen to you, or God chose to use that experience to make you stronger.

Every event in our lives is intended to make us into the people we are meant to be, some people can handle it and others cannot. God knows who can handle what but when we use our free will things happen that are not his to control because our decisions are ours to make, if they are bad God will simply help us through it if we ask for his help.

I mean what kind of God would he be if he did not allow us to make decisions? If he did change our lives without us asking him for change wouldn’t that affect the free will he has given us?

If things seem hard don’t blame it on him, things happen because they are meant to, God never said life was easy. We are going to live in eternal life and he has even given us free will, doesn’t that seem like something to work for? Decisions are what life is about, make good ones and follow God and he will help you through the tough days.

- Theopneustos

Be Grateful

How many times have you been blessed? If you have an actual number then you need to reevaluate what you consider a blessing. When it comes to blessings you cannot be grateful for only certain things. In life everything is a blessing, even when bad things happen each event in your life is a gift that we should be grateful for.

If you have faced struggles and made it through then it is a gift because you are now stronger for it. If you are still facing struggles then be grateful because when it is over you will be that much stronger.

Every struggle every trial and every event in life is a gift to be grateful for because our life itself is a gift. Part of being grateful is taking care of everything you have been given, whether it is as important as protecting your family or as simple cleaning your living room. Being grateful means cherishing the gifts you have.

Many people including myself forget to take care of the things we have been given, usually because we are wanting something new so bad that we forget the things we have. Something I have slowly been remembering is that God will give us what we can handle and if he cannot trust us with what we were given; then how can he trust us with something new?

Take care of the gifts that you were given, be grateful for them and when the time comes God will bless you with greater things when you least expect it.

Remember, there are many things to be grateful for, so instead of looking for things to be grateful for, be Thankful for everything.

Trust

Trust is not a privilege not a right, it may seem like an easy thing to earn but in reality it can take years to earn trust for a lot of people. It took my brother and I years to trust each other, and we lived in the same house. This does not mean we did not care for each other it just meant we had to earn each others trust in order for us to become close.

In order for anyone to earn trust you have to be loyal, kind, stable, patient, compassionate and full of love. These are the things that make you trustworthy, without all of them you will not be able to earn trust. Trust is the reason soldiers survive in war, if each soldier did not trust one another they would not be able to fight along each other's side.

Trust is a tool for survival and a tool for life, it is what unites mankind and what separates us from those who would bring us down. However don't be too hard on those who are earning your trust because the way you treat them may come back to hurt you. Remember you have to be compassionate as well as kind to everyone. Just because you want them to earn your trust doesn't mean you don't have to do the same. Trust is equal responsibility between everyone involved.

During the entire process of developing Trust remember another important thing, compassion; There will come a time when your close one will mess up they will betray your trust in some form or fashion. You need to have compassion towards them. That means listen to them and have forgiveness towards them before you decide to cut them out of your life. Otherwise you will always have regret and hate surrounding you and it will harden your heart towards everyone you meet.

A strong Friendship/Relationship is built on Trust and trust makes us stronger.