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Jan 3, 2011 5:05 am
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Seems to me that there is so much confusion because there are so many that just wont acknowlege what is real. 
There is a common denominator in life, in fact there are many more than are acknowleged.
For instance....Death. Another common between us is the desire to be known - (eg. Validated) To know someone who will acknowlege our worth.
I hear so many say - we must first do this or that, we must first know ourselves - we we we ----- which is just another extansion of somone elses idea of life - in otherwords, they are saying I, I , I - me me mine.......and I suspect it is because of some cultural idea they have been taught rather then a biblical principal.
There IS (Yes I say IS with capitals) a BIBLICAL TRUTH that says there is a Kinsman redeemer......and (AND !!!) tHE reedemer lives (JESUS) in me and you!!!! SO wait (WAIT a minute ans stop, .....breathe and slow down) WE are the hands and feet of CHRIST ( NO NO NO we are not GOD or gods - but we are HIS (CHRISTS) vessels)
The People we find and love and who love us are GODS workmanship and HIS WAY of speaking to us!!!!
SO PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop telling peopl JESUS will make you happy and make all your troubles and worries go away BECAUSE (BECAUSE) IT ISN'T BIBLICAL!!! (NOT IN HIS [GODS] WORD!)
Peace belongs to those at peace with GOd -
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Learning the Way ....
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Dec 26, 2010 2:47 am
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Jesus - Yeshuah/Joshuah - is a real person, real as you and I. He is not dead and He is not gone. He was alive before the world and is still alive and we are His workmanship. In other words we are HIS and He is ours.....IF (IF) [Did I mention if?] we want/desire, hhhmmmm need -yes, YES  NEED HIM 
As a man we seek out a partner, a woman who will captivate us - Now think about this....not just a woman who is beautiful but one who really compliments us to the point that, as time goes by and commitments are formed and the bonds are made, we become a part of one another and YES - NEED one another.
It is similar with Christ and His DESIRE for us - yes US - you and I. But just as we do not pick every woman - God does not pick every man....hhhmmmm life is challenging isn't it. Take heart - God is perfect and we are not - God has a better eye for what true beauty is then we do - this is why God chose the week and foolish things of the world to shame that which is wise.
You life takes time - (seems self explanatory) your life as in - you are a work in progress and you are either growing toward the light of the sun (Son) or you are wilting - but the whole picture is not complete until the end of your life and that is how relationships are - they take life - NOT TIME! But rather LIFE - What you invest yourself into - "Where your treasure is there your heart will be also"
God does not say "Please fall in love with me" Like a schoolboy like a schoolboy staring at a beauty. God Just LOVES you regardless of weather you notice HIM. We can not put a formula on this just as we can not put one on another person - we are either in love or we aren't. We are either committed or we are not.
No I am not suggesting life is black and white and neither am I suggesting that growth is black and white - but as a man when we see a woman we are captivated by we pursue that woman with a passion that can only be denied or fulfilled by the woman we pursue. Loving God is the same.Are we courting, dating, engaged or married to God? Life is what it is - and it takes time and time takes LIFE.
I hope and Pray Gods Peace and Love to you all
Sincerely,
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real Life :)
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Dec 25, 2010 4:43 am
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God - the Allmighty - shakes out life like men who shake out their blankets. One minute a mess and the next neat and clean. One moment the gardens are beautiful and smell fresh and the next there is nothing. Life takes time and what we once thought was clear is fuzzy at best and at worst we are blind. Welcome to life with faith, where walking takes a great deal of risk to ourselves and a great deal of trust in God.
I would like to meet people who understand that life is not a formula or a system but rather a journey into the unknown. An adventure that has great upward swings and downward spirals. People who are not categorized as mundane but at the same time are genuine and human with all their faults and beauty plain to see. If these do not exist then neither does the church of Christ. Love is a Verb - not an idea. As the Apostle Paul said; "The kingdom of GOd is Demonstrative." Gods Kingdom is demonstrated through His people and not through magical fairy tails that happen once a week but in everyday life when things get hard and we are tried. If this is you then say hello and if you are a pretender then I will know that too and I will have a propper response for you as well.
G'day freinds - long time since i've been here - good to see you again
Gods Love and Peace to you.
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Been a while
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Nov 23, 2010 11:50 pm
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I would like to apologize to all the wonderful people I have met on here for not staying in touch. I have been dealing with many varied and sorted issues in life and am stretched. I found that I needed to stay off the net (other then basic email) to protect my heart.
Please know this was not a deliberate snub - I just found my energies and recources needed to be consolidated. I hope that if I have offended anyone that you please forgive me. I do not have enough internet credit to write many emails - so I hope this will suffice and I will check in a bit here and there until other things settle - and then maybe more frequently.
Gods Love to you all -
Sincerely,
Matty
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Compassion a gift???
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Sep 18, 2010 5:05 am
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There is no offence intended in any of this so if you are offended I suggest you take it up with the Allmighty God.
I wrote a blog about the arrogence of people projecting their own realities onto other people without realizing it and somehow that blog turned into a question in my own heart about compassion and what it is and what God asks of us.
I will say this - there is NO Biblical authority that says compassion is a gift that exclusive to some and not others. In my seeking I have found that it is Rather a lack, a deficit, a deficiantcy of the heart. Jesus - God himself has shown compassion on many occasssions and HE is our example. The Scriptures themselves plainy and clearly point out what we are to BE like and WHY we are to be - and that REASON is CHRIST Himself.......and Christ is Compassionate among other things>>>>>I will gladly eat humble pie if someone were to show me a Biblical example of Compassion being an exclusive gift and I will apologize publicly for my error - But I am convinced that those who say compassion is an exclusive gift are only speaking out of a place that is soooooo Human.....weather it be a justification of the hardening of their hearts due to the fact that they simply have had to survive in a world that is all too cruel at times, or that they have had to suffer too much, or that they have not suffered enough as far as being a follower of CHrist is concerned, or many other possible reasons.
I am not judging anyone fir their stance - I am clearly stating that to not have compassion where God Himself has had compassion in our lives is Sin and it hurts those whom it is denied.
There is no justification to deny anyone what GOd has freely given and if it is not accepted then that is a personal matter.
To be bound to those who will not committ and worse, to commit to those who will not commit (or rather those who will not return their love in exchange for yours) is a sin - A sin inspired by a belief that you are not worth as much as you truly are - a sin inspired by a lie that makes you believe that you do not matter as much as somone else because you hunger for what you deny and you deny it becasue you are scared and you justify it because you need something solid to make you feel confident - and I am sad that you feel this way. ( I am directing this at MANY people)
"Love seeks not it's own good but the good of others"
(picture is from Alabania - a world removed from your's - as is yours form their's - maybe it is time for people to let go of themselves in exchange for GOds Love and that is not words - but actual action as Love is a VERB )
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Is it insecurity? (Revised)
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Sep 12, 2010 6:24 am
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I am learning a lot - it seems I do not know all that I think I know - Honestly there is so much I do not understand and my thisrt for knowlege and truth sometimes leads me to places that baffle me.
I have deleted the words from the original post as I believe that I have not communicated what I truly intended and there have been misunderstandings - as well I am uncertain about my own stance on the original issue. The only reason I left the post up was to leave this explanation.
Thank you all for contributing and participating.
Gods Love
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I am flattered
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Sep 8, 2010 5:53 am
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I am extremely flattred by the compliments, emails and etc. that others have expressed to me.
While it makes me smile and feel good -I wonder if people know what they are doing. I ask myself; do they really see me? And as much as I wish the answer was yes, I know that you don't. We all want to be appreciated by another - especially another of the oppostie sex - because that is how God made us. ( I hope this analogy does not offend anyone but it is TRUE - God gave men an outy and women an inny and that in itself is a testimony to GODS creation and his design and plan- - GODS DESIGN AND PLAN - not mine)
Ok back to what I was saying - just because you have an inny and I ahve an outy means NOTHING! Seriously , it means NOTHING!!!
Just because people of the opposite sex mutually have common ground and can "relate" means absolutly nothing as far as a potential partner in life is concerned.
Just because someone can 'APPRECIATE' the talents and beauty of the opposite sex means ONLY that there is an initial attraction and nothing more and nothing less.
I am NOT AN EXPERT and DO NOT know everything as far as relationships are concerned. In fact I can say that at my age I wish I knew more - but knowing another person has NOTHING to do with knowing ourselves or having knowlege. It IS A PROCESS OF TIME and in that time getting to know another HUMAN BEING and learning and deciding and IF IF IF IF IF IF IF someone, anyone, another should come to DECIDE that they TRULY APPRECIATE ANOTHER then THEY will need to LEARN that LOVE IS LOYAL.
But that is all blah blah blah as I am just rambling my raw thoughts onto a blog that is public and what does that mean???
Anyway - I got carried away and now you know I am human and what I believe - at least in so far as you can know what anyone believes on a blog. I got off track - but I wont delete or backspace as I am not ashamed of me
Thank you for flattering me - It is nice and makes me smile - but in turn it is not real; if it was real you would know me.
Gods Love -
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Time to destroy some lies
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Sep 5, 2010 4:31 am
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This post is not about any particular type of love, other then real love. I hear and see so much from others about love and what it means. I do not think Love is mere words although words can certainly be a part of it.
The reality that has inspired me to love is the genuine lack of love in the world and what I find interesting and sad as a person that Loves Christ is that there is still a great lack of it amongst 'westernized' believers. I suppose I should specify what I mean by love and it's lack so there is no misunderstanding. The way I will do this is by posing questions and possible answers and invite you (the reader) to add your own thoughts and beliefs.
Question #1.) Is God all we need?
Genesis 2:18
18 And the Lord God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."
Question #2.) What does this verse have to do with love?
John 13:34 NKJ
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another
John 13:35 NKJ
By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
Question #3.) That has to do with 'US' - 'US' being those who LOVE GOD - hhhmmmmm....thinking....wondering if anyone gets it??? Gods Love is not a matter of words and Christ is our example. So why are so many without Love from other people if there are people who claim to Love the Lord God Allmighty?
Ecclesiastes 4:8 NKJ
There is one alone, without companion: He has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his labors, Nor is his eye satisfied with riches. But he never asks, "For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?" This also is vanity and a grave misfortune.
Isaiah 49:21 NKJ
Then you will say in your heart, 'Who has begotten these for me, Since I have lost my children and am desolate, A captive, and wandering to and fro? And who has brought these up? There I was, left alone; But these, where were they?' "
1 Timothy 5:5 NKJ
Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.
John 12:24 NKJ
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.
Answer - * Because people are blinded by many things; their culture - I am an (insert country here) Forget your country and your television and your financial debts and start investing in what you yourself desire - PEOPLE! If Jesus is 'Your' example, then remember He dies for ' People' - if you live for HIM then you will Love with true humanity in light of your own life, experiences, short comings, abundence, Joy - etc. If you Truly Love GOd then you will show your faith by doing LOVE (DOING) not talking about it, not hypothisizing about it, not studying the theory of Love - but by actual loving. THis may be as simple as a hand on a shoulder - as simple as it may be - it is very important to those who 'Do Not Have' a hand - get it??? I hope you do - Ask yourself what you are missing and then Go and give what you are missing to others and you will have it given to you. Deny it for others and it will be denied for you.
I hope this sinks in for those that need it - and I can say beyond a doubt that in the western world - it is MOST people that need it.
Now smile - Because I say these things in the hope that peoples preaching will go beyond words and prove actual Love.
James 2:19-26
19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe--and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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New Song 26/08/2010 - Remember your mercy in Dm
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Aug 26, 2010 4:13 pm
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New song 26/08/2010 - remember your mercy in Dm Matthew Lynch on Friday, August 27, 2010 at 9:10am
v1 How can I say to you
I don;t wanna be
what you made me to be
v2 How can I play to you
like you're an audience
that's made for me
Chorus:
Please - remmeber your mercy (repeat until message sinks in)
v3 And here you are again
my friend
i'm fallin at your feet
v4 Wash me in your blood
your loving blood
your blood is sweet
Chorus -Remember your mercy Please remember your mercy
(repeat it as much as you like )
v5 I want to walk with you
take up my cross
and follow through
v6 You have the words of life
your love is rife
whom else can I go?
fade into -My eyes are not to proud to see - I raise my life to thee - like a weaned child is my soul within me.
ATHS inc. All rights reserved - Words and Music by Jesus Christ inside the heart of Matthew Lynch
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