May 8, 2013 • 1 note
Okay, so, these people are crazy. Yes, they are entitled to their opinion, but when you attack MY school and MY band, that’s just not gonna do. This is just sad. I went and checked out this church’s website, and my mind was blown. They pull verses out of context to use to their advantage. One verse that totally contradicts them is John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, so that whoever believes in him will not parish, but have eternal life. This says WHOEVER meaning liers, cheaters, hores, gays, and everyone. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8 NIV).

Okay, so, these people are crazy. Yes, they are entitled to their opinion, but when you attack MY school and MY band, that’s just not gonna do. This is just sad. I went and checked out this church’s website, and my mind was blown. They pull verses out of context to use to their advantage.
One verse that totally contradicts them is John 3:16: For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, so that whoever believes in him will not parish, but have eternal life.
This says WHOEVER meaning liers, cheaters, hores, gays, and everyone. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8 NIV).

April 21, 2013

Faith

As humans, we put faith in a-lot of things and people who will eventually let us down. Last Sunday, my pastor said something that everyone needs to hear. We look up to the people who lead our church. The Pastor, the Music Minister, or a Youth Pastor, but they are human, just like us; they are tempted by the devil just like us, and they will fall just like we do. They may lie, which may seem like a little thing, but don’t they tell us that lying is wrong? Or they do something like cheat on their wife? And they tell us that’s wrong? 

The people we look up to will fall to sin, and fail us. So why do we put faith in them? Why not in God? Who won’t let us down. 

Now, I’m not saying don’t trust a minister or pastor, not at all. I look up to the ministry staff at my church, and I trust them. But, especially this morning, I got a HUGE wake-up call. I realized that honestly, I think that we all put the ministers to higher expectations because of their position and they will let you down. In ways that you just kinda don’t wanna believe. 

But, what has been engraved in my mind now, is that; Don’t look up to the man in the pulpit who is preaching, because he will fall to sin, but look up to God, and our risen Savior who is perfect, and won’t fail you. 

April 15, 2013 • Spotify

Even in the mist of these tragic events in Boston today, God is still in control.

God promises to never leave us or forsake us. We just have to call out to him. And everything plays out in God’s perfect timing. We might not like it, but God’s timing is perfect, and his plan is perfect. We just have to be willing to trust him and wait on him.

April 15, 2013 • 4 notes

Pray more those who were involved in the explosions in Boston this afternoon

I was listening to Way FM this afternoon on my way home from school when I found out and Melissa brought up something that really made me think. I was a little too young when 9/11 happened to really understand what was going on. Now I do, but she said something about that these people at the Boston Marathon have to be going through what the thousands on New York did when the Twin Towers were hit. A sense of insecurity, just wondering who planted the explosion, who was behind the plans, and the families wondering if their loved ones are okay. This is insane and these people need our prayers right now. So just take a second to pray, and also realize for those of us who were not there, how lucky you are, or that you weren’t involved in another explosion and you can go home to your family, because the people who died today can’t say hello to their loved ones anymore. 

April 14, 2013 • 5 notes • Spotify

“The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?”- Psalm 27:1

  “I know who goes before me, I know who stands behind. The God of angel armies, is always by my side.”

Who or what can we fear when we know that this God who commands armies of angels, hears us when we call out to him and that is by our side? Nothing can overcome you when you have that relationship with the Lord. How can we be without peace when we have God on our side? 

  Romans 5:1-2 says “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.” Meaning, we have peace through our salvation, which comes through Christ, who died on a cross at Calvery. 

    “Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”- John 14:6

   This means that only through Jesus’ resurrection can we have life everlasting in heaven. Because Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice and was able to cover the sins of the entire world. Which to me is incredible. The fact that a God that great would come to earth to save a sinner like me. 

So what can I fear when I have a God as great as this on my side?

April 12, 2013 • 2 notes • Spotify

“Standing on a road I didn’t plan, Wondering how I got to where I am. I’m trying to hear that still small voice. I’m trying to hear above the noise.” This is exactly what I have been felling the past couple of weeks. I thought that I was on the right path and becoming a music teacher, but then I was rejected admission to the college of music. Especially with 30 days till I graduate, this song rings true. How many times have you cried out to God. Many times, we only praise God in the storm, but when everything is going great, we seem to forget him. Why is that? Because God is why we have good in our lives. We should praise him all the time. The bible says that if we as believers don’t cry out, that the very rocks will cry out to him. I don’t know about you, but I want to praise for myself, and not a rock. On Sunday, my class talked about trials we face and we kinda put a twist to it and came up with this analogy. 

    Life is like school, because we are learning all the time. We, as humans are the students and God is the teacher. Just like in school, we get ‘pop quiz’s in life. Like when we get rejected by the school we want to go to. Or perhaps a break-up. Maybe God puts these ‘tests’ in our lives so we will realize that we need God and we can’t do this on our own. 

April 10, 2013 • 2 notes

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April 10, 2013 • 2 notes

Okay, so, I know I at least am starting to feel the pressure of graduating high school. Honestly, it feels like just last week I was at my freshman year band camp and now I have 30 school days left before graduation. And now I have to make sure my grades are up to par to 1; graduate. and 2: ensure I won’t have my acceptance to FSU revoked. And also the stress of all the crazy events that go on in the last semester of the year, like the trips, the awards ceremonies and the banquets. But as I think about that, I am also reminded of a verse in Philippians that says “I can do all things through he who strengthens me” This verse has always seemed to motivate me, but even more so now. Because it means that I can pray to God just laying my heart out to him with whatever is worrying me and I know he will take care of me, and he even knows what I’m gonna say before I come to him in prayer. I have also come across a Casting Crowns song this semester that I hadn’t heard in a while called ‘The Voice Of Truth’ and this song also has motivated me and is a continuous reminder that God is in control and that I don’t need to listen to the people who bring me down and tell me that I can’t do it.