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Thursday, April 30, 2009
God, You Are... A couple of days ago during my prayer time I started thinking about adjectives that describe God. Often times in prayer I find myself jumping to my list of things I want and need God to do for me. On this occasion I wanted to slow down and spend a little extra time in Adoration of God. Adoration is the act of paying honor to a divine being. Jesus gave us the example of adoring the heavenly father in prayer when he taught us to pray in the Sermon on the Mount – “Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name…”. He was paying honor to God at the start of his prayer. This is an example that we need to follow before getting to our laundry list of requests for our heavenly father. So the other day, I made a list of adjectives to pray to God in my own words to describe Him. I wanted to think of a characteristic that corresponds with every letter of the alphabet. Here’s the list I came up with (Keep in mind this is not an all inclusive list and I must say, it was harder than I thought it would be, so don’t laugh at my list): God, You Are: · Awesome, Alive, All-knowing, Absolute · Beautiful, Big · Caring, Courteous, Cool · Dedicated · Everlasting · Fabulous, Fantastic, Forever, Fun, Final, Forgiving · Gracious, Good, Gigantic, Gorgeous · Holy, Huge, Hilarious, Happy · Interesting, Immeasurable, Intelligent · Just, Jealous, Joy · King, Kind · Loving, Life, Lord · Marvelous. Miracle working, Majestic, Merciful, Mighty · Never-ending, Nice · Omnipotent, Omnipresent · Patient, Purposeful, Pretty, Protecting · Quick, Quality · Redeemer, Real · Sincere, Sensitive to my needs · True, Terrific, Tactful · Unending, Unchanging, Understanding, Unity, Unequaled · Valid, Verified, Vine · Word, Waiting, Wanting, Watchman, Wonderful · X-ray our hearts (cut me some slack on this one) · Yahweh, Yearn for us, Yielding · Zestful, Zealous towards us Do you have anything to add to this list? Or maybe you want to make your own list. I encourage you to spend time in prayer each day, adoring God. He longs to be adored by his children. Tell him what you think about him. Now it’s your turn to make a list, God, you are… Word… P. Alex posted by Pasta' Alex # 9:33 AM 0 Comments   Wednesday, April 22, 2009 You Can Count On It Have you ever doubted something? Have you ever had a friend, who you know to be a truthful person, tell you something that you think is just unbelievable? It just seems too good or too far fetched to be true. You want to believe, but truth be told, doubt exists. I remember hearing a missionary tell the story of raising a guy from the dead in Russia. His name is Michael Chowning and he is unbelievable, literally. He tells the story of how this guy was brought before him who was actually dead for 3 days. Michael touched his cold lifeless body and began to pray. He experienced the spirit of God breath life back into this guy with his own eyes. What!?! How!?! Come on Pastor Alex, this sounds too unbelievable. But it is true! Jesus says in his Word that we will see greater miracles than he ever performed and he raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11). So we know this is possible. Yet, I doubt. We doubt. Why? If only I had the faith of a child. I’m reminded of my boys. When I tell them we can go to Dairy Queen for ice cream after dinner, they believe it. In their eyes, when dad says something – it becomes a law that is permanent and binding for future generations! They think that dad’s word is the absolute authority. They have no reason to think otherwise. So it should be with us and our heavenly father. John 8:14 – Jesus said, “You are right that you only have my word. But you can depend on it being true.” Wow! What a statment! My heavenly father says it and I believe it. He sounds pretty convincing to me! Learn to know God’s word, my friend. Then learn to trust it with the faith of a child who was promised ice cream after dinner. You would be surprised how far this will get you. Word… P. Alex posted by Pasta' Alex # 10:35 AM 0 Comments Wednesday, April 15, 2009 April 15 - Tax Day Today is an important day for Americans. It’s a significant day for all of us who are citizens of this great country. It’s Tax Day! I was thinking about what this day could mean to different people. posted by Pasta' Alex # 11:39 AM 1 Comments Tuesday, April 07, 2009 We Don't Need Jesus Anymore I had a thought the other day; it appears that we don’t really need Jesus anymore. We have become pretty good at solving our own problems and taking care of ourselves. Independence is what we call it. We pride ourselves in finding alternative ways to get things done when we come up against obstacles. I know I do anyway. We have become proficient in having a contingency plan and a back up plan to our contingency plan. If all of these fail, we will resort to our failsafe plan. We have become so wise in our own eyes that it is evident – We don’t really need Jesus anymore! © I mean who needs Jesus to heal our sick when we have able and capable doctors who will take care of any ailment for just a co-pay? They prescribe medicine for everything from a headache to diabetes. We have faith that our doctors can cure anything. © Who needs Jesus to feed the hungry after we have followed his revival around for 3 days? We have grocery stores and fast food restaurants. And who goes to church 3 nights in a row anymore anyway, (we might miss our favorite TV shows or social time with friends)? © Who needs Jesus to provide for all our needs when we have credit cards to pay for things when we run out of money? If our credit fails, there’s always the government to bail us out! © Who needs Jesus to seek forgiveness for our sins when, truth be told, we aren’t all that bad anyway? I mean, we may mess up a little, but we aren’t major sinners! There are a lot of people who are way worse than us, people who murder, rape and steal. Bottom line is this: since we can heal ourselves, provide for ourselves, take care of our future security and don’t really have major sins we need to be forgiven for – who really needs Jesus? We obviously don’t! Think about it. Word… P. 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