Random Christian Thoughts Thread

[mrselle]

Some things really do make a world of difference. I haven’t been studying the Bible like I should and I’m embarrassed to say how long it has been. One day the thought just popped in my mind: “Hey, why don’t you pull out your old Bible from college?” I pulled that Bible out and I’ve read it more over the course of a week than I did the entire month of February. It’s the same version as my other Bible, but something about it just makes me WANT to read it. Last night I read out loud some of the scriptures the Lord told me to read years ago. Joshua 1 really resonates with me.

God has been speaking to me. I hear HIM talking to me. I’m not crazy. I know it’s HIM. Saturday night I was up every hour because He was talking tome. In church on Sunday I was praying and He was still talking to me. He told me that I am HIS child. I don’t belong to anyone else. I am HIS.

Saturday night a song came on the radio. I just wanted to close my eyes, rock back and forth and let the tears flow. “Trouble in my way….I had to cry sometimes. Trouble in my way….I had to cry sometimes. I lay awake at night…but, that’s alright. I know Jesus…Jesus he will fix it.” Those words mean something to me.

 

[Lucky's Mom]

I hate how people attack Christianity on this forum. If folks showed the same amount of respect to us as they do Muslims, maybe there wouldn't need to be such separatism.


In all things, I thank God.

Wow - I thought it was me....
Thanks for saying it! The attack is spiritual.... Always.



I am grateful for some amazing women here. Nice & Wavy is so wonderful... and there are a few other folks that make this online community great.

Please Pray for Kristen. Y'all don't know her, but we are hoping she becomes a christian soon...We doing bibile studies with her - and it looks like she is turning a corner

I am grateful for my spiritual family - WOW. they are amazing.

 

[BeautifulFlower]

I came across something last night that nearly brought me to tears...

Psalm 139: 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

Dont you know that there is never a time God is not thinking about you?

I feel so loved that God always has me on his mind. That he loves me and is keeping and guiding me.

 

[Lucky's Mom]

I find comfort in knowing I'm God's favorite child.

What a sweet thing to say! It is true!

He knows us by name!

 

[PaperClip]

Some things really do make a world of difference. I haven’t been studying the Bible like I should and I’m embarrassed to say how long it has been. One day the thought just popped in my mind: “Hey, why don’t you pull out your old Bible from college?” I pulled that Bible out and I’ve read it more over the course of a week than I did the entire month of February. It’s the same version as my other Bible, but something about it just makes me WANT to read it. Last night I read out loud some of the scriptures the Lord told me to read years ago. Joshua 1 really resonates with me.

God has been speaking to me. I hear HIM talking to me. I’m not crazy. I know it’s HIM. Saturday night I was up every hour because He was talking tome. In church on Sunday I was praying and He was still talking to me. He told me that I am HIS child. I don’t belong to anyone else. I am HIS.

Saturday night a song came on the radio. I just wanted to close my eyes, rock back and forth and let the tears flow. “Trouble in my way….I had to cry sometimes. Trouble in my way….I had to cry sometimes. I lay awake at night…but, that’s alright. I know Jesus…Jesus he will fix it.” Those words mean something to me.

I rejoice with you!

I have a joke about the song you quoted here but I don't want to offend but there's a lesson in the joke....

 

[PaperClip]

Not a random thought but a very purposeful one:

Thank you to envybeauty for starting this thread!

ETA: I gotta remind myself that this is Random Christian Thoughts Thread and I don't need to comment on every little thing! My apologies!

 

[mrselle]

I rejoice with you!

I have a joke about the song you quoted here but I don't want to offend but there's a lesson in the joke....

I'm not easily offended. What's the joke?

 

[PaperClip]

I'm not easily offended. What's the joke?

Ok... here it goes....

We know how some church songs/hymns grow out of experiences, particularly our enslaved ancestors, right? So we can appreciate why they were singing the songs they were singing in the context they were in....

So as you mentioned this song "Trouble in my way" and the church where I am now it's about speaking positive words and avoiding speaking (or singing negative words). So my church had a guest speaker recently and he started singing the song.... And pretty much half the congregation STOPPED singing because of the words to the song. I was laughing at myself because I stopped singing the song, too because I didn't want no (extra) trouble in my way and was thinking if I sing (and REPEAT) "lay awake at night" that I would be "laying awake all night" and I didn't want to do that! LOL!

But then the end of the song says "Jesus will fix it", right? So the pastor said "Jesus ALREADY FIXED IT!" LOL!

So that was what happened.... Maybe it's one of those jokes where you had to be there?

 

[Sheriberi]

Omnipotent, omniscient, AND merciful? God IS Good!!!!!!

 

[mrselle]

Ok... here it goes....

We know how some church songs/hymns grow out of experiences, particularly our enslaved ancestors, right? So we can appreciate why they were singing the songs they were singing in the context they were in....

So as you mentioned this song "Trouble in my way" and the church where I am now it's about speaking positive words and avoiding speaking (or singing negative words). So my church had a guest speaker recently and he started singing the song.... And pretty much half the congregation STOPPED singing because of the words to the song. I was laughing at myself because I stopped singing the song, too because I didn't want no (extra) trouble in my way and was thinking if I sing (and REPEAT) "lay awake at night" that I would be "laying awake all night" and I didn't want to do that! LOL!

But then the end of the song says "Jesus will fix it", right? So the pastor said "Jesus ALREADY FIXED IT!" LOL!

So that was what happened.... Maybe it's one of those jokes where you had to be there?

Oh, no...I get it. That is funny. I'm trying to picture the look on the guest speaker's face when half the congregation stopped singing. My old pastor was like that. He couldn't understand why everyone wanted to climb up the "rough side of the mountain" when the Word says that all we have to do is speak to the mountain and it will be moved.

 

[Irresistible]

I have been very surprised at the coldness in the hearts of some christians around here and the things they say


we are all a work in progress

but if we love and belong to the same God I cant make sense of the things I have seen

oh well

not every Christian is meant to connect hearts or understand one another with love and compassion, I LEARN more and more, that it is what it is

as long as God knows .........its best left to him

 

[ChelzBoo]

if the lord chooses to do nothing else in my life...hes already done enough

 

[Ms.Honey]

I have been very surprised at the coldness in the hearts of some christians around here and the things they say


we are all a work in progress

but if we love and belong to the same God I cant make sense of the things I have seen

oh well

not every Christian is meant to connect hearts or understand one another with love and compassion, I LEARN more and more, that it is what it is

as long as God knows .........its best left to him

But hon, everybody ain't pressing towards the mark to be a work in progress, some are a work stalled. Read Thessalonians.

I wish we had lil footstools in my church. We're in there for a longgggg time. Some refreshments and an intermission would be nice too. Oooo and some hot towels and brief shoulder massages would do the trick

I need to find a nice local spa

 

[Irresistible]

But hon, everybody ain't pressing towards the mark to be a work in progress, some are a work stalled. Read Thessalonians.

I wish we had lil footstools in my church. We're in there for a longgggg time. Some refreshments and an intermission would be nice too. Oooo and some hot towels and brief shoulder massages would do the trick

I need to find a nice local spa

heheheeeeeeeeee

I gotcha!

 

[MrsQueeny]

I have been listening to "My Name is Victory" all weekend and it has blessed me so. Q

 

[HeChangedMyName]

1. If you know you "catch" the Holy Ghost every Sunday, why not secure a better fitting wig or at least use some adhesive so that you don't loose the wig er' Sunday?
2. Why do old ladies always have that purse full of mints?
3. When did God start being pronounced 'gawud' with an accent on the g and the d?
4. who came up with 'shout music?'
5. what does that one raised finger REALLY do when you get up to go to the rest room in the middle of a good sermon. . .it doesn't make you invisible so why put it up?
6. Why do people let their kids walk around and be passed around from lap to lap all up in service. . . .that's why the kids grow up and sit in the back playing their PSP. . .they never learned how to respect the Church from jumpstreet
7. What. . .is singing a solo in the choir some type of rite of passage for all choir members. . .some people just like singing background.

 

[Ramya]

*sings* let the redeemed of the Lord say so!

 

[HeChangedMyName]

who was the first person to do the shouting two step? You know the one. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWrj4mvkvfw&feature=related

They deserve a royalty check or something. Can(should) shouting ever be choreographed?

 

[PaperClip]

who was the first person to do the shouting two step? You know the one. . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWrj4mvkvfw&feature=related

They deserve a royalty check or something. Can(should) shouting ever be choreographed?

That would have been King David... who danced out of his clothes.... I'd put money on it he was on some kind of beat, being a musician and all....

LOL! I just watched the video! I grew up in a shoutin' church like that! You might start off jumping in a certain step but at least one of those times you're gonna jump and leap and shout right into the Holy Ghost(!) unless you really in flesh.... I've seen it both ways (in and out of the flesh)....

 

[envybeauty]

I am taking a step forward in faith. That step you take when you don't know where you foot will land, but you believe that God will place you on a rock and not on sand. He has done that before for me countless times and I am believing that He will do the same again. Yes Lord. We are about to make things happen

 

[HeChangedMyName]

I wonder if I invited the Obama family to my church if the secret service would let them come.

 

[envybeauty]

Christians are not perfect. No one in any religion is perfect. There are Jews dealing with adultry. There are Muslims dealing with premarital sex. .... Walk into any synagogue or masjid and you can hear folks talk about their troubles. Why are we held to such a high standard? My belief is that it is because others cannot decipher the gentiles amoung us. They lump us all together so those who are not Christians (and have no reason to be Christian any more than they would be Jewish or Muslim) are not distinguishable. Even so, we are not perfect people. Neither is anyone else.

 

[MrsQueeny]

I wonder if I invited the Obama family to my church if the secret service would let them come.

I've been praying they find a good church home. Q

 

[HeChangedMyName]

Christians are not perfect. No one in any religion is perfect. There are Jews dealing with adultry. There are Muslims dealing with premarital sex. .... Walk into any synagogue or masjid and you can hear folks talk about their troubles. Why are we held to such a high standard? My belief is that it is because others cannot decipher the gentiles amoung us. They lump us all together so those who are not Christians (and have no reason to be Christian any more than they would be Jewish or Muslim) are not distinguishable. Even so, we are not perfect people. Neither is anyone else.

True. we are afterall, sinners saved ONLY by the grace of God.

I honestly think we did it to ourselves, got all high and mighty because we recognized the Messiah when he came the first time and started smelling ourselves. There needs to be more of us to check each other when we start getting all high and mighty and remind one another of just what you've said. . . .WE ARE NOT PERFECT.

 

[HeChangedMyName]

I've been praying they find a good church home. Q

me too. I hope God sends them somewhere soon, if he hasn't already. They need to be covered at all times and especially with him being POTUS and all, he needs a spiritual father to help him to stay in line.(not that God isn't good enough) but he gave us the church so that we could have a physical point of contact with like-minded believers.

 

[Ms.Honey]

Christians are not perfect. No one in any religion is perfect. There are Jews dealing with adultry. There are Muslims dealing with premarital sex. .... Walk into any synagogue or masjid and you can hear folks talk about their troubles. Why are we held to such a high standard? My belief is that it is because others cannot decipher the gentiles amoung us. They lump us all together so those who are not Christians (and have no reason to be Christian any more than they would be Jewish or Muslim) are not distinguishable. Even so, we are not perfect people. Neither is anyone else.

We should be held to a higher standard. We should be constantly conforming to the higher standard of Jesus.

For every willfully backsliding, willfully sinning Christian I met before I got saved, the Lord made SURE that I met one who lived in His will. For every luke warm minister that I saw, the Lord made SURE that I saw one who preaches the gospel and not what some celeb is doing. He makes sure the unsaved and the saved see an example of a on fire saint so that WE will have NO excuse when He judges us.

So be encouraged chica. Those that shall be saved WILL be save regardless.

 

[MrsQueeny]

me too. I hope God sends them somewhere soon, if he hasn't already. They need to be covered at all times and especially with him being POTUS and all, he needs a spiritual father to help him to stay in line.(not that God isn't good enough) but he gave us the church so that we could have a physical point of contact with like-minded believers.

Standing in agreement with you. Thanks for the video. Q

 

[Nice & Wavy]

We must all look at ourselves and not judge other christians this way...its not of God!

 

[Nice & Wavy]

Christians are not perfect. No one in any religion is perfect. There are Jews dealing with adultry. There are Muslims dealing with premarital sex. .... Walk into any synagogue or masjid and you can hear folks talk about their troubles. Why are we held to such a high standard? My belief is that it is because others cannot decipher the gentiles amoung us. They lump us all together so those who are not Christians (and have no reason to be Christian any more than they would be Jewish or Muslim) are not distinguishable. Even so, we are not perfect people. Neither is anyone else.

Thank you for this post. It's on point

 

[HeChangedMyName]

What if we all prayed a prayer to see each other and non-believers as well through the eyes of God. . .oh how the world would change.




BTW N&W, I love that baby in your siggy. cuteeeee