I was reviewing my family website where my family and I communicate with one another news, updates, events, reminders, etc. It is such a great tool to keep in touch with one another and to openly express our feelings. And I came across a dedication to a family friend who passed last year. He was such a content man and it was his time, at a young age. And I just wanted to share what was on my heart to my family and in dedication to the man that was always so full of joy and love whenever you were around him! Below you will see the dedication to Stanley. He encouraged me and inspired me to share this and I pray that it blesses you as you reflect on today and God's plans for your life.
You Are Not Promised Tomorrow...to Stanley King
My heart is in so much joy right now because God is so good. His love is unconditional and that can never be taken away. I prayed before putting this out. I am merely speaking from my heart and sharing with you God's promise [Love]. Stanley has always expressed love through his actions, through his words, and through his heart. He is the reason I share this with you. With that being said, after hearing about Stanley, my heart feels and expresses the following:
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We live day to day expecting more than what we have been blessed with.
We hurt when something and/or someone hurts us.
We cry tears of joy when something wonderful happens.
We help each other during times of need.
We weep sadness when we lose those we love.
We work hard to get the things we desire in life.
We live our lives according to the world's way of functioning.
We celebrate weddings, graduations, anniversaries, births, and holidays.
We show our love for loved ones through our daily actions.
We are happy when someone praises us for something good we have done.
We sacrifice to make sure our families are provided for.
We dream of the kingdom of heaven and imagine ourselves living the kingdom of heaven.
We give our hearts, time, and selves to those we love.
We make a living using the skills we have been blessed with.
We live each day endulging in routines that we are conditioned to.
We live conformed to the things of this world.
What if He told you that your today is your final day here on earth?
How do we live and create our own kingdom of heaven while we are here on earth?
Love is the answer. Love is the only way.
Because we are not promised tomorrow, our only answer is to live for today.
Nothing in the past matters. The future is irrelevant.
The present is what matters most because we are not promised tomorrow.
Love is the answer. Love is the only way.
Because love lives in all of us, heaven on earth is possible.
The things of this world are just things.
The reality of this world is not of God.
The present is what matters most because we are not promised tomorrow.
Because God is Love and Love lives in us, then we are of God.
God created us in His own image. God is Love and we are of God.
The present is what matters most because we are not promised tomorrow.
Because the truth is that Love endures all things,
thus we are to live every day in Love.
We are not bound to the things of this world if we choose Love [God].
The present is what matters most because we are not promised tomorrow.
The only way to live for today is in Love.
Why care about tomorrow when God's promise lives today?
God's promise says,
"I love you unconditionally just the way you are.
I am always here loving you. Open your heart to me and my love.
I will show you the way. I am the answer because I am love.
The truth is in You. I, the Father, am in You.
Remember this truth.
Live this truth and you shall witness my promise to you."
What will you choose today? Because you are not promised tomorrow.
I love you all unconditionally and thank God for you.
Dedicated to Stanley King...you are Love
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Always loving you- - April
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Thursday, November 8, 2007
If I Didn't Have Him...
Greetings and Happy November!
Well October has passed by and I missed doing a journal entry. So to catch up: I'll post two for the month of November. And it's the Thanksgiving holiday that is coming up. My favorite holiday: giving thanks and expressing our thanks to our heavenly father!
One topic that stays on my mind is, "Where would I be if I didn't have Him?"
I have thought about this topic a lot. The reason being is that there are times where I want to revert back to the things and cares of the world. I think about the old life I was living and how it "appeared" to be easier. It is what I knew and it is what I was comfortable with. And now that I am surrendering myself (working on surrendering my entire being) to Him, it is becoming harder and harder to manage. But I don't want to go back to that life. I am reminded that that life (the old life I was living) profited me nothing! I am reminded that that life did not include God completely. It is a reminder that will forever be attached to my heart.
If I continued with the lifestyle I was living three, four years ago: then I am sure I would not be receiving the blessings I have received since turning my life over to Christ. So I ask you this chilly afternoon, "Where would you be if you didn't have God?"
(1) Would you be still living in pain, struggling with life?
(2) Would you still be in the relationship that you are in?
(3) Would you love any less than the love God expects of us?
(4) Would you still hold on to selfish behaviors that benefit no one, not even you?
**Where would you be if you didn't have God?**
I challenge you to reflect on this as you go through the rest of your day and week.
Let me know your thoughts. Let's share with each other!
"I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of Life." - -John 8:12 Jesus speaking to scribes and Pharisees.
If we did not have Him, we would continuously walk in darkness, with no light to guide our paths. He is the light and He will bring us up out of darkness. He desires to save us from the things of this world that are toxic to our spirits. God is a God of Promise. Jesus is the way, the truth and the Life.
"Yes, I know this. And yet I still struggle with Life," you may say. He is here for us and He is with us. We just need to be obedient on a consistent basis, study His word, and listen to Him.
We must wait patiently on Him.
The struggle is so prevalent that we can easily miss what God is trying to tell us. If I did not listen to God back in May, I would have gone down a path of selfish desires, wants, and needs. Instead of following my own desires, I decided to risk all of my fleshly desires and follow God's plan for me: the plan that He has already purposed for me to live.
Are you following your way instead of God's way? If you are, then think about where you may end up if you don't have Him with you. Is it (your fleshly desires) worth ignoring God's desires for your heart? Who says you can't prosper if you follow God's lead? God is with us- always.
And if we don't recognize His presence, then we are but mere castaways drift at sea.
"Most assuredly I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin." - - John 8:34
(Jesus speaking to the Jews)
I would be living a life FULL of sin and EMPTY of God! This is where I would be if I didn't have Him. We are all sinners. But God says we don't have to stay this way. For Christ died for all our sins and we have the free choice to repent, ask for forgiveness, and die to self so that we may be new creatures in Christ! Wow, man that is so powerful! Do you feel that? That is the Holy Spirit convicting you.
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." - - John 6:63 (Jesus speaking to His disciples)
Jesus says that "the flesh profits nothing." Sure we may feel good temporarily, but it is nothing compared to the Spirit that comes to help us, to comfort us, and to give us abiding peace. We are convicted in those things that are not of God. And God wants to use us, as victorious believers, so that we may have life more abundantly and help Him to win souls! This is what God desires.
Are you ready to take on this powerful task that He has laid before us as His servants?
Are you read to lay down your life for God? He has already done it for us!
God is a God of unconditional love. His mercy is full of greatness and He never fails. So why ignore Him when He is waiting at the doorstep, to be invited in to your heart for eternity?
If I didn't have Him, I'd be nothing.
Thank God I have Him and thank God He keeps me!
Pray. Love.
Pray: that God works on your heart as you work on building your relationship with Him.
Love: God with all your heart so that you may love His people the way Christ loved us and gave
Himself up for us.
Pray. Love. Pray. Love.
Prayer is powerful. Prayer changes you. Prayer never fails!
Love is priceless. Love softens the heart. Love never dies!
Pray. Love. Pray, love, so that He will be with you always!
Love & Many Blessings,
- - ats
Well October has passed by and I missed doing a journal entry. So to catch up: I'll post two for the month of November. And it's the Thanksgiving holiday that is coming up. My favorite holiday: giving thanks and expressing our thanks to our heavenly father!
One topic that stays on my mind is, "Where would I be if I didn't have Him?"
I have thought about this topic a lot. The reason being is that there are times where I want to revert back to the things and cares of the world. I think about the old life I was living and how it "appeared" to be easier. It is what I knew and it is what I was comfortable with. And now that I am surrendering myself (working on surrendering my entire being) to Him, it is becoming harder and harder to manage. But I don't want to go back to that life. I am reminded that that life (the old life I was living) profited me nothing! I am reminded that that life did not include God completely. It is a reminder that will forever be attached to my heart.
If I continued with the lifestyle I was living three, four years ago: then I am sure I would not be receiving the blessings I have received since turning my life over to Christ. So I ask you this chilly afternoon, "Where would you be if you didn't have God?"
(1) Would you be still living in pain, struggling with life?
(2) Would you still be in the relationship that you are in?
(3) Would you love any less than the love God expects of us?
(4) Would you still hold on to selfish behaviors that benefit no one, not even you?
**Where would you be if you didn't have God?**
I challenge you to reflect on this as you go through the rest of your day and week.
Let me know your thoughts. Let's share with each other!
"I am the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of Life." - -John 8:12 Jesus speaking to scribes and Pharisees.
If we did not have Him, we would continuously walk in darkness, with no light to guide our paths. He is the light and He will bring us up out of darkness. He desires to save us from the things of this world that are toxic to our spirits. God is a God of Promise. Jesus is the way, the truth and the Life.
"Yes, I know this. And yet I still struggle with Life," you may say. He is here for us and He is with us. We just need to be obedient on a consistent basis, study His word, and listen to Him.
We must wait patiently on Him.
The struggle is so prevalent that we can easily miss what God is trying to tell us. If I did not listen to God back in May, I would have gone down a path of selfish desires, wants, and needs. Instead of following my own desires, I decided to risk all of my fleshly desires and follow God's plan for me: the plan that He has already purposed for me to live.
Are you following your way instead of God's way? If you are, then think about where you may end up if you don't have Him with you. Is it (your fleshly desires) worth ignoring God's desires for your heart? Who says you can't prosper if you follow God's lead? God is with us- always.
And if we don't recognize His presence, then we are but mere castaways drift at sea.
"Most assuredly I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin." - - John 8:34
(Jesus speaking to the Jews)
I would be living a life FULL of sin and EMPTY of God! This is where I would be if I didn't have Him. We are all sinners. But God says we don't have to stay this way. For Christ died for all our sins and we have the free choice to repent, ask for forgiveness, and die to self so that we may be new creatures in Christ! Wow, man that is so powerful! Do you feel that? That is the Holy Spirit convicting you.
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." - - John 6:63 (Jesus speaking to His disciples)
Jesus says that "the flesh profits nothing." Sure we may feel good temporarily, but it is nothing compared to the Spirit that comes to help us, to comfort us, and to give us abiding peace. We are convicted in those things that are not of God. And God wants to use us, as victorious believers, so that we may have life more abundantly and help Him to win souls! This is what God desires.
Are you ready to take on this powerful task that He has laid before us as His servants?
Are you read to lay down your life for God? He has already done it for us!
God is a God of unconditional love. His mercy is full of greatness and He never fails. So why ignore Him when He is waiting at the doorstep, to be invited in to your heart for eternity?
If I didn't have Him, I'd be nothing.
Thank God I have Him and thank God He keeps me!
Pray. Love.
Pray: that God works on your heart as you work on building your relationship with Him.
Love: God with all your heart so that you may love His people the way Christ loved us and gave
Himself up for us.
Pray. Love. Pray. Love.
Prayer is powerful. Prayer changes you. Prayer never fails!
Love is priceless. Love softens the heart. Love never dies!
Pray. Love. Pray, love, so that He will be with you always!
Love & Many Blessings,
- - ats
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