Christians In Action

You were made for a mission; a mission to share the good news of Jesus Christ. We were all brought into this world to be a witness for Him and you are still on this world to continue being a witness for Him. Many think that to be a witness for Jesus Christ you have to be an expert. But thats wrong. People do not want to hear from  "know-it-alls" or the "stiff religious people," they are interested in hearing how God has changed lives. They are interested in hearing from you. We are His plan and only plan. The mission field is everywhere. There is no telling what God will do through you, all there is to do is trust. Do you care enough to share the good news of Jesus Christ? Are you living out the purpose that He has set aside for you? We are called to love our neighbors, even when it seems hard to. Love demands that we move past our comfort zones and do life with people that are different from us. Imagine if we all moved out of our comfort zones and spent time with the people who do not know the love of God. You would change lives, you would take those people to Heaven with you someday. How amazing would that feel? You would be fulfilling the purpose that God has set aside for you. There is a cure for it all; the helpless, the lonely.. it is called Jesus. So let me ask you a couple questions.. Will you fulfill your mission that God has given you? Who is going to be in Heaven because of you? Now is the time. You are now entering the mission field.

John 17:18 -  "As you sent me into this world, so I have sent them into the world."

John 20:21 - "Jesus said to them again, 'Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.' "

Acts 1:8 - "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth."

1 Corinthians 9:22 - "To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some."

Ever wonder how different your life would be if you established boundaries, or guardrails in your life? Ever think that maybe our greatest regrets in life could have been avoided if we had put guardrails up. Just like on the roads, there are guardrails to keep us out of the ditches and to save our lives. Well it works the same way in other areas of our life. Like in relationships, friendships, etc. We need guardrails in all the areas of our life to protect us. You might be thinking, "But how? How do I establish guardrails?" Simple. God is your guardrail in all areas on your life. Use Him, call on Him. He will take care of you, He will keep you safe. God knows the situation that you are in and He cares. He will not play backseat to anyone or anything. We need to learn to trust in God and to stop worrying. The Lord will bless your life! Matthew 6:25 tells us to not worry, "'So do not worry, for the pagans run after these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them." I tell you today, establish guardrails in all areas on your life, call on The Lord and you will see miracles. Don't worry anymore, The Lord will take care of you, you are His child. He loves you!! He wants a relationship with you! Try to not get so caught up with the things in life, you will end up going over the guardrails and into the ditches. But instead consume yourself with The Lord, let Him be your guardrail, let Him save you. 

As we live day to day, we are faced with tragedy's, some worse than others and we ask ourselves why does God allow these things to happen? If He is such an awesome and powerful God, why? In John 16:33, Jesus tells us the truth, He says, "You will have suffering in this world." He did not say you might, He said you will. But why exactly? We don't always know why God does some of the things He does, and we may never know, but that is where trust comes in. We need to trust that God will protect us and do what is best for us. When tragedy strikes, He could possibly be trying to get our attention, waiting to see how we will react to it, either we trust Him or turn our backs against Him. Going through a tragedy is never easy, but God will be there with you through the whole thing, He will be there to cry with you and comfort you. If God can bring you to it, He can most certainly bring you through it. <3 

As some of us drift away from God, we need to learn how to find Him again. Life is very difficult when we do not let the Lord in our lives, when we push Him away. In order to find God again, to come back to Him we need to pray about it, talk to Him. God always has a room for us in His house, so when we drift away from Him, our spot in His house will always be there because He wants us, He loves us. The first step in finding God again is to just pray, talk to God about everything that is on your heart, and truly ask for Him to come back into your life. He will then begin to work in your life and if you truly want Him back in your life, you will feel Him move through you, you will feel Him working in your life. We need God in our lives, it's as easy as that. Life will be dark and scary without Him, that's why it is so important to find Him again, to let Him back in our lives <3

"You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart." - Jeremiah 29:13

"But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul."  - Deuteronomy 4:29

I've seen a handful of people in life drift away from the Lord, but I never thought I would be one of those people.. I haven't posted in a year and I am not proud of it, I am not proud of not trusting in the Lord and turning my back on Him.. But it happens, we can get so caught up in life and "fitting in" that some of us turn the other way, we drift away and we fall short of the Glory of God. We think we can do things on our own but we are wrong, we can not do things on our own, we need Gods' help and He wants to help us, He wants us to yell out to Him and ask for help, you just have to want it. We can find our way back to the Lord again when it seems there is no way back, He wants us to come back, He wants us home, we just have to learn to trust Him and have Faith in Him again. It's not over yet, there is still time, and His arms are open for us to come back to Him <3

What kind of choices are we faced with everyday in life? Life is full of choices, bad and good. Can you think of some of the choices that you have made in the past weeks? How do we make the good choices? And how do we feel when we make the wrong choices? Think about it for a minute. Can you think of some good and bad choices you have made lately? While you are thinking about that also think of what kind of things effect the choices we make. People and their moods can effect how we make choices sometimes. Can you think of a situation where the people you’ve been with effect the choices that you make? Maybe stealing, or cheating? Well, what can help us make the right choices? Easy. We can talk about with friends and family, pray about to God and ask for advice. God wants us to make the right decisions and thats why He has givin us some advice written in His Bible to help us. Some examples of some Bible verses are:

"You must not murder anyone" - Exodus 20:13

"You must not tell lies about your neighbor" - Exodus 20:16

and, "Speak up for those wh cannot speak up for themselves" - Proverbs 31:8-9

Those are only a few of the verses in the Bible that gives us advice on how to make the right choices. So, as you can see, the Bible is full of advice, on how to live your life to the max. So read it! I promise you wont regret it <3

Have you ever looked at your life and asked yourself, " Who has influenced my life? " or have you ever wondered if you've ever influenced someone elses life? Well, in life, people will influence you and you will influence other people. What we need to make sure is that the people who influence us are good influences and not bad. By good, I mean people who want you to become and better person and by bad I mean people who want to hold you back. For an example, your parents are great influences on your life and celebrities sometimes influence are lives in good and bad ways. Lets talk about your friends though. Are your friends good or bad influences? Think about it. Peers influence are lives even if we don't see it. Just by spending time with them, we can learn from them and they can learn from us. So if you have ever wondered if you have ever influences someone elses life you probably have. But not all things we learn from our friends are good things. For an example, your friend might try to get you to skip class or maybe letting you copy of his or her homework. To me, thats a bad influence because your friend is letting you think its okay to copy, which its not. So, let me ask you another question. Why do we give into peer pressure? Easy, we want to fit in, to be liked, we don't want kids to think we are wierd and laugh at us. The idea that "everyone's doing it" can influence us sometimes to leave our better judgment, or our common sense behind. Lets finish off with what the Bible says. In Proverbs 13:20, " Spend time with the wise and you will become wise, but the friends of a fool will suffer " and 1 Corinthians 15:33, " Do not be fooled: "Bad friends will ruin good habits." I am not saying you cant be friends with people that might be a bad influence. If anything, go and be friends with them, because you might influence them instead.

" If God is real, if God is personal, if God loves us, why does God allow evil? " It seems that at some time in everyone’s life they must ask themselves or someone else this question. And when it comes down to it, nobody knows! So, did God create evil? No. Then who did? You all are probably thinking, " Well that's easy, Satan created evil, " but Satan, the devil,  cannot create anything. God is the creator of all things. But Satan can twist or turn the things that God has created upside down. Think about it, God creates love, the devil turns it around into hate. In the same way, faith becomes fear, peace becomes anxiety, healing becomes disease, and the list goes on and on. God created everything in perfect harmony. There was no sin, no sickness, no depression, and no poverty. Man was perfect, he would have lived forever in this condition if sin had not entered this world though Adam's unfaithfulness. When Adam decided to obey the devil and not God, he handed Satan his crown of power, and authority over everything. Using that authority, the devil began to twist and  turn upside down all of God’s creation and that is where evil came into the world. As each aspect of evil came into being, it became part of mankind. So to go back to the question, " Why does God allow evil? " its because God allows us be freewilled, and we have the choice to fight off evil and to obey God.

In Matthew 11, the Bible tells us, " Come to me, all you who are tired and have heavy loads and I will give you rest. " So, we all are very good at messing up and doing things wrong. We have failed maybe at school, or at home, messed up a friendship, or upset someone, let someone down, maybe even let yourself down which is even worse. When we mess up, it tends to mess with our heads and we feel worthless, or like a loser.  And because we feel this way sometimes its a good thing to have self confidence. We can get our self confidence from the Bible. Philippians 4:13 tells us, " I can do all things through him that strengthens me. " God will give you the self confidence that you need to do what He has planned for you to do, you just have to take the first step and ask Him. Do not let anyone take your self confidence away. You are so much stronger and keep fighting. It will pay off one day, I promise and God promises.

When we use the word, "jealous" we use it in a sense of being envious of someone who has what we don't have. This kind of jealousy is a sin. It shows us that we are still being controlled by our desires. Galatians 5:26 says, " Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. " Being jealous indicates that we are not happy with what God has given us. The Bible tells us to be content with what we have, for God will never forsake us. Hebrews 13:5 says, " Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. "