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- Christie Features :) I'm 17, and a complete Jesus freak. I used to love all music, now I only want worship. God's presence is amazing. In fact, it's the best thing on earth. You'll find a lot of my blogs will be related to my faith, probably all of them in fact. Hope you enjoy my blog :)
Wednesday 30 June 2010
The current of life.
Hi everyone, just thought I'd share something I felt prompted to by the Lord. (:
I know a few of you think it's aimed at you, which I can tell you now, it isn't.
Okay, where to start.
Those of you who go to Ignite will know George did something on false vines, and this kind of follows on from that.
A lot of Christians will hold onto things, which are not from God. Satan is a clever little devil (literally) and he will use things to pull you away from Christ. Things which you can see as completely harmless. These are the things which we need to keep an eye out and get rid of.
I like to say,
You need to let go of your current life, in order to live
(I love that little thing ;])
I'm going to dive into this and link to relationships, as I have had personal experience with this in particular.
Last summer/spring (end of June beggining of July) I got into a relationship with a non-christian (who I shan't name of facebook, but a few of you know he is)
I thought everything was all fine and dandy, and this is what God wanted, in actual fact I thought this guy was good for my faith. I thought I loved him, when infact pure love comes from God, which this didn't. He wanted to do things (sexual) and I didn't really want to (because of my faith) yet, he would always use excuses such as "If you love me you'll forget all that" and at the time, being so far from God, I did do some sexual stuff with him which I'm not going to mention on Facebook.
Despite everyone saying to me, "He's no good" and "This isn't God's will" I still stayed in a relationship with him, with the mindset I'll break up with him eventually, I love him too much, no one understands
Of course, the longer you keep something like this, the further you're going to become from God, and the more it's going to hurt when you finally do let go.
I then went to Faith Camp (little plug for Kingdom Faith there ;] and I advise you all to go, it's so awesome)
I felt God speak to me on the Wednesday night, and basically said that I shouldn't be with this guy because he's not good for me, let alone my faith.
I had aboslutely no intention of letting go of this guy, and I did.
Yes it hurt. I was crying my eyes out cudding Laura Tucker (love you chick ;]) when I broke up with him.
Also what hurt more, was the fact that he had a new girlfriend a few hours later.
Thing is satan is clever. He will use the most seemingly harmless thing to do the most damage to you.
We need to stay away from any kind of temptation, plugging into things which ARE of God. (:
Recently, I deleted all of my screamy/shouty death metal, which I so loved, in order to be stronger in my faith. And I feel great! It sounds silly to say music can have a heavy influence on your life, but it can! I've been sleeping better, I'm usually happy and willing to do some actual proper revision (xD) Not to mention, I feel so much better Spiritually in God. :D
The moral of this not-too-lovely story is
You need to let go of your current life, in order to live
(:
I know a few of you think it's aimed at you, which I can tell you now, it isn't.
Okay, where to start.
Those of you who go to Ignite will know George did something on false vines, and this kind of follows on from that.
A lot of Christians will hold onto things, which are not from God. Satan is a clever little devil (literally) and he will use things to pull you away from Christ. Things which you can see as completely harmless. These are the things which we need to keep an eye out and get rid of.
I like to say,
You need to let go of your current life, in order to live
(I love that little thing ;])
I'm going to dive into this and link to relationships, as I have had personal experience with this in particular.
Last summer/spring (end of June beggining of July) I got into a relationship with a non-christian (who I shan't name of facebook, but a few of you know he is)
I thought everything was all fine and dandy, and this is what God wanted, in actual fact I thought this guy was good for my faith. I thought I loved him, when infact pure love comes from God, which this didn't. He wanted to do things (sexual) and I didn't really want to (because of my faith) yet, he would always use excuses such as "If you love me you'll forget all that" and at the time, being so far from God, I did do some sexual stuff with him which I'm not going to mention on Facebook.
Despite everyone saying to me, "He's no good" and "This isn't God's will" I still stayed in a relationship with him, with the mindset I'll break up with him eventually, I love him too much, no one understands
Of course, the longer you keep something like this, the further you're going to become from God, and the more it's going to hurt when you finally do let go.
I then went to Faith Camp (little plug for Kingdom Faith there ;] and I advise you all to go, it's so awesome)
I felt God speak to me on the Wednesday night, and basically said that I shouldn't be with this guy because he's not good for me, let alone my faith.
I had aboslutely no intention of letting go of this guy, and I did.
Yes it hurt. I was crying my eyes out cudding Laura Tucker (love you chick ;]) when I broke up with him.
Also what hurt more, was the fact that he had a new girlfriend a few hours later.
Thing is satan is clever. He will use the most seemingly harmless thing to do the most damage to you.
We need to stay away from any kind of temptation, plugging into things which ARE of God. (:
Recently, I deleted all of my screamy/shouty death metal, which I so loved, in order to be stronger in my faith. And I feel great! It sounds silly to say music can have a heavy influence on your life, but it can! I've been sleeping better, I'm usually happy and willing to do some actual proper revision (xD) Not to mention, I feel so much better Spiritually in God. :D
The moral of this not-too-lovely story is
You need to let go of your current life, in order to live
(:
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