Lord, help me to do what is right.
Help me to trust you.
Help me not to turn to the right or to the left.
YOU will light my path. Let me stop trying to control it because it looks scary. I'm scared. Am I doing the wrong thing? Am I trying to solve human problems on my own power or am I just walking in obedience doing what you have ordained for me to do?
You will open up another path and make it clear that it is your path if it is from you.
I MUST WALK ON THE PATH YOU'VE LAID OUT BEFORE ME. Don't turn to the right or to the left.
TRUST YOU. LOVE Tyrone.
Love comes from You. God, YOU ARE LOVE. I must abide in Christ Jesus. The Holy Spirit- is this the Spirit of Christ? - will remind me, comfort me and lead me into all truth. Jesus is the Truth. Jesus is the Way and Life too! WHO ARE YOU GOD??? Teach me. I am yours. I am not my own. May I die so that Jesus may live. May I be the righteousness of Jesus in You.... is that right? ...that we might be made the righteousness of GOD in Jesus! (2 Cor 5:21) - teach me what this means, Father! Teach me Lord.
Trust You. I trust You. I trust YOU. I must trust You. When I don't trust You, please lead me to trust You. I pray for GRACE. Keep me. Guide me.
Amen.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Dear Pastor
Dear Pastor,
SURELY you see that there are SO MANY meanings.... layers... so much DEPTH in the Bible and in the revelation of God's Word to us.
I am confused. I want someone to explore these with. Would you help me?
I want to go back to your church, but I am afraid of "ruffling people's feathers". I'm afraid of using the authority that God gave me in the past (was it God?)! I'm afraid that my questions and pointing out difficult things will dismantle people's faith. I'm afraid of scaring them off the path. Is this because I think that I have so much power? Perhaps I'll just be looked at as a kook and perhaps that is good. I want to be hated by those of this world, but only because I am following Jesus, not because I have made myself hated on my own power.
Do you see what I see in the Bible? Do you see that we must endure until the end and that those who are in Christ Jesus do not sin? Do you see that the Holy Spirit teaches us everything we need to know? Do you see that there are no RULES, but that we must lay down our lives - die to our SELF (selfish desires, pride, greed, etc.), and take up our CROSS - our exposure to death - that which will actually help us die. We want to die. We must die to live. We can't want to conform to the world! We shouldn't confer with flesh and blood when God makes the call for us.
We don't know a thing.
We have a beam in our eye.
We can't say that THIS is THIS and THAT is THAT. How do you know? Are you IN CHRIST? Do you have the MIND of CHRIST? If so, what does it all mean? How are you BAPTIZED into Christ? What is a NAME? Who is the Father? What is the Spirit of Wisdom that existed before the world? Who are the two anointed ones? What was the "fruit" in the garden of Eden? Why was Esau, who was obedient to his father, the one punished? What does it all mean? The Bible tells us if we are in the Bible and not in the world.
Are you in the world?
Are you running a worldly system? Is the church you "run" a counterfeit of the Spiritual Temple that Jesus Christ is the High Priest of?
How can you stand up and say "such and such" is the truth and not know the whole picture?
Help me understand.
I want to understand.
I want to help.
I LOVE our church.
I LOVE our friends.
I want people to come to Christ - but is the only way through going to church?
I should not love the world or the things of this world. The church that we are talking about is OF THIS WORLD. It teaches people to be complacent. Yes, it can also lure them into worshipping (but they don't know what they are worshiping). You can encourage them to get into their Bibles, but without the Light, they don't understand.
Help me. I want to help you. I want to help God- but I can't, can I? I can't do anything but adore, worship, praise, thank, seek, and LOVE God (because He first loved me). I can love others because of the grace that is imparted unto me... it doesn't come from me. Only God can change me.
Jesus Christ is the mediator.
He is the High Priest.
He is the Messiah and Redeemer who died to atone for my sins.
We are all united in Christ.
Who is Christ? The Anointing? The Holy Oil? Who existed before the world began? What is the Spirit of Christ? Jesus is THE Christ. Has he always been? Just as I have always been an heir- but I have been called, justified, sanctified.... or I am in the process of all that?
Am I already born again because I have the earnest of the Holy Spirit in me? Am I born into Christ? If so, then I doth not sin, right? What if I do? There is no sacrifice to cover my sins?
How do I endure until the end?
Ack!! I have to go to work... but PASTOR, please explain all this to me. Do you see it and just pretend not to? Do you talk about it with others? Do you talk about it with God? Aren't ALL the facts important? Much of (all of?) the Bible is a parable... there are hidden meanings for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Do you see and hear? Are you preaching on the story/parable or the truth below it?
How are we not teaching people to PRETEND worship?
We are so prideful.
I am so prideful.
GOD help me. Only He can. He is my Pastor.
Lord, guide and teach me the Truth. May I worship you in Spirit and in Truth. Who are you? How can I serve you?
Listen and obey.
<3
SURELY you see that there are SO MANY meanings.... layers... so much DEPTH in the Bible and in the revelation of God's Word to us.
I am confused. I want someone to explore these with. Would you help me?
I want to go back to your church, but I am afraid of "ruffling people's feathers". I'm afraid of using the authority that God gave me in the past (was it God?)! I'm afraid that my questions and pointing out difficult things will dismantle people's faith. I'm afraid of scaring them off the path. Is this because I think that I have so much power? Perhaps I'll just be looked at as a kook and perhaps that is good. I want to be hated by those of this world, but only because I am following Jesus, not because I have made myself hated on my own power.
Do you see what I see in the Bible? Do you see that we must endure until the end and that those who are in Christ Jesus do not sin? Do you see that the Holy Spirit teaches us everything we need to know? Do you see that there are no RULES, but that we must lay down our lives - die to our SELF (selfish desires, pride, greed, etc.), and take up our CROSS - our exposure to death - that which will actually help us die. We want to die. We must die to live. We can't want to conform to the world! We shouldn't confer with flesh and blood when God makes the call for us.
We don't know a thing.
We have a beam in our eye.
We can't say that THIS is THIS and THAT is THAT. How do you know? Are you IN CHRIST? Do you have the MIND of CHRIST? If so, what does it all mean? How are you BAPTIZED into Christ? What is a NAME? Who is the Father? What is the Spirit of Wisdom that existed before the world? Who are the two anointed ones? What was the "fruit" in the garden of Eden? Why was Esau, who was obedient to his father, the one punished? What does it all mean? The Bible tells us if we are in the Bible and not in the world.
Are you in the world?
Are you running a worldly system? Is the church you "run" a counterfeit of the Spiritual Temple that Jesus Christ is the High Priest of?
How can you stand up and say "such and such" is the truth and not know the whole picture?
Help me understand.
I want to understand.
I want to help.
I LOVE our church.
I LOVE our friends.
I want people to come to Christ - but is the only way through going to church?
I should not love the world or the things of this world. The church that we are talking about is OF THIS WORLD. It teaches people to be complacent. Yes, it can also lure them into worshipping (but they don't know what they are worshiping). You can encourage them to get into their Bibles, but without the Light, they don't understand.
Help me. I want to help you. I want to help God- but I can't, can I? I can't do anything but adore, worship, praise, thank, seek, and LOVE God (because He first loved me). I can love others because of the grace that is imparted unto me... it doesn't come from me. Only God can change me.
Jesus Christ is the mediator.
He is the High Priest.
He is the Messiah and Redeemer who died to atone for my sins.
We are all united in Christ.
Who is Christ? The Anointing? The Holy Oil? Who existed before the world began? What is the Spirit of Christ? Jesus is THE Christ. Has he always been? Just as I have always been an heir- but I have been called, justified, sanctified.... or I am in the process of all that?
Am I already born again because I have the earnest of the Holy Spirit in me? Am I born into Christ? If so, then I doth not sin, right? What if I do? There is no sacrifice to cover my sins?
How do I endure until the end?
Ack!! I have to go to work... but PASTOR, please explain all this to me. Do you see it and just pretend not to? Do you talk about it with others? Do you talk about it with God? Aren't ALL the facts important? Much of (all of?) the Bible is a parable... there are hidden meanings for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear. Do you see and hear? Are you preaching on the story/parable or the truth below it?
How are we not teaching people to PRETEND worship?
We are so prideful.
I am so prideful.
GOD help me. Only He can. He is my Pastor.
Lord, guide and teach me the Truth. May I worship you in Spirit and in Truth. Who are you? How can I serve you?
Listen and obey.
<3
19 Days
19 days until everything changes.
19 days until my life is no longer my own. (MMM- heart check. It's NOT my own NOW... I belong to Christ.)
19 days until I have to think foraboutwith two.
19 days until I am one with another human who I then must worship with- our walk is no longer our individual walk... we are responsible for each other. We belong to one another. We are united in Christ. When one stumbles, the other must be there to offer a hand to help the other up- our unity, and [I dare say] our salvation depend on it.... we must endure to the end- together. We are yoked. We are one. We are a team. We are for each other. We are in Christ. We must study and pray and love together with everything we've got ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!!!!
God has prepared me. From before the world began, I have been His. All that I've been through in my life- from birth to today has been sovereignly ordained to prepare me for what He has for me to do (each day). Even my trials as a child STRENGTHENED me and made me UNIQUE. I am an alien. I am not of this world. I must not be conformed to this world.
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
19 days.
It is real. That 2_, or 3_, or 4_, or 9_ [days] was protection- a cushion- this is a big step and the time cushion kept it from being completely real. Now it's real. Wellllll.... getting realER. Talk to me in 19 days. Reality is going to smack me in the face and I'm going to love it. (I'm GOING TO LOVE IT!!! Perfect love casts out all fear! 1 John 4:18).
I want Tyrone to love his parents (in deed and in truth).
I cannot change anyone. Ty taught me that. GOD taught me that. GOD taught me that through practical experience. God taught me a LOT. He taught me about addiction and what it does to people and families... I lived it. He prepared me to understand His son, Tyrone. He also used me to help Joe as God rescued Him. God has rescued Tyrone. Trust Him. Love Tyrone.
That's the key there. Forever. Trust God. Love Tyrone.
19 days.
Trust God. Love Tyrone.
19 days until my life is no longer my own. (MMM- heart check. It's NOT my own NOW... I belong to Christ.)
19 days until I have to think foraboutwith two.
19 days until I am one with another human who I then must worship with- our walk is no longer our individual walk... we are responsible for each other. We belong to one another. We are united in Christ. When one stumbles, the other must be there to offer a hand to help the other up- our unity, and [I dare say] our salvation depend on it.... we must endure to the end- together. We are yoked. We are one. We are a team. We are for each other. We are in Christ. We must study and pray and love together with everything we've got ALL FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!!!!
God has prepared me. From before the world began, I have been His. All that I've been through in my life- from birth to today has been sovereignly ordained to prepare me for what He has for me to do (each day). Even my trials as a child STRENGTHENED me and made me UNIQUE. I am an alien. I am not of this world. I must not be conformed to this world.
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
19 days.
It is real. That 2_, or 3_, or 4_, or 9_ [days] was protection- a cushion- this is a big step and the time cushion kept it from being completely real. Now it's real. Wellllll.... getting realER. Talk to me in 19 days. Reality is going to smack me in the face and I'm going to love it. (I'm GOING TO LOVE IT!!! Perfect love casts out all fear! 1 John 4:18).
I want Tyrone to love his parents (in deed and in truth).
I cannot change anyone. Ty taught me that. GOD taught me that. GOD taught me that through practical experience. God taught me a LOT. He taught me about addiction and what it does to people and families... I lived it. He prepared me to understand His son, Tyrone. He also used me to help Joe as God rescued Him. God has rescued Tyrone. Trust Him. Love Tyrone.
That's the key there. Forever. Trust God. Love Tyrone.
19 days.
Trust God. Love Tyrone.
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