True Worth.......God's Word

Gen 1:1-26

God created everything there is--the heavens, earth, plants, and animals. When God finished creating the earth, He then chose to make people in His image. The phase "Let us make human beings in our image" in verse 26 does not mean that God created us exactly like Himself, especially in a physical sense. Instead, we are reflections of God's glory. We can reflect His characteristics like love, patience, forgiveness, kindness, and faithfulness.

Our worth is not defined by possessions, achievements, physical attractiveness, or popularity. Instead, it is based on knowing that God created us in His likeness. Knowing that you are a person of infinite worth gives you the freedom to love God, know Him personally, and make a valuable contribution to the lives of those around you.

Here are Satan's Plan for us Gen 3

Doubt- Makes you questions God's word and His goodness
Discouragement- Makes you look at your problems rather than at God
Diversion- Make the wrong things seem attractive so you want them more than the right things
Defeat- Makes you feel like a failure, so you don't even try
Delay- Makes you put off doing something, so it never gets done.

God wants people who are free to sin to choose instead to trust and love Him.

God longs to speak to his people, but many times we don't look for Him to speak to us or to act. Our ears are turned elsewhere. Or, we expect Him to speak to us in a certain way. Want to hear from God? Be expectant. Watch and wait. Luke 4:16-19

Luke 8:11-15

Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand. A parable: A seed is God's word. A seed that falls on a foot path gets eaten by birds, this represents those who hear the message, only to have the devil come and take it away from their hearts and prevent them from believing and being saved.

The seed that falls on the rock soil grows but then dies from lack of moisture, this represents those who hear the message and receive it with joy. But since they don't have deep roots, they believe for a while, then they fall away when they face temptation.

The seed that fell among the thorns grew but was chocked out, this represents those who hear the message, but all too quickly the cares and riches and pleasures of this life crowd out the message. Therefore, they never grow into maturity.

The seed that fell on the good soil grew to hundred times more than was planted, this represents honest, good hearted people who hear God's word, cling to it, and patiently produce a huge harvest.


All this may seem like random verses from the Bible, but if you read carefully you will see that no matter how random something seems, they all come together as one. God has written the Bible so that we may learn about and know Him. He gives us stories to help us better understand that sinning won't save your life, and He also shows that no matter how much you sin or what you did, that as long as your ask Him for forgiveness and truly mean it in your heart, you will be saved. If you have a tendency to apologize just because you have too, don't do that when you ask for forgiveness from God. He knows your heart, so He will know if you truly mean it. When it comes to belief and faith in God is life and death. Choose Him and you will have life, choose Satan you will have death. Satan's way is usually the easy and fun way, read the temptation blog to help overcome temptation. Even though God's way may not seem fun or easy, but you will get joy out of it and be so much happier and blessed. I leave you with this verse:

2Tim 4:17-18

But the Lord stood with me and gave me strength so that I might preach the Good News (God's Word) in its entirety for all the Gentiles (everyone) to hear. And He rescued me from certain death. Yes, and the Lord will deliver me from every evil attack and will bring me safely into His heavenly Kingdom. All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.

Temptation........You Can Overcome!!!!

The book of Genesis really show a lot to me about being tempted, and it just seem perfect that I am reading it now that I have been growing through some temptations.

Are you headed towards God or drifting away from him? What circumstance tempts you to drift?

At this very moment, I would like to say that I am leading towards God. Just last week I was drifting away from Him. As I was drifting I would not admit that is what I was doing, but it was the truth. What caused me to drift was a love I had for a woman. I thought that I was strong enough to just be her friend, but I found the hard way that I wasn't. I want to be closer to God that is why I stepped away from her in the beginning, but Satan as used my weakness, I contacted her, and he used me more to do something that I really didn't want to do spiritually. I was sinning in the heart and it was eating me up inside, knowing that what I was doing is wrong.

God has given me the courage to tell her what I felt in my heart. I did the right thing and stopped, whatever we had, even if it was only talking to each. I stood up for myself and my beliefs in God, and it wasn't easy to say it, and I didn't get a great reaction from it, but I stood my ground. I asked for forgiveness and was blessed with courage and love from God. He lifted the burden off my shoulders. God wants us to do more than drift through life; He wants people to be an influence for Him.

In Luke 11:4 Jesus says, "don't let us yield to temptation." Jesus wasn't implying that God leads us into temptation. He is simply asking for deliverance from Satan and his deceit. All Christians struggle with temptation. Sometimes a temptation is so subtle we don't even realize what's happening to us. God promised that He won't allow us to be tempted beyond our endurance (1Cor 10:13). God can help you recognize temptation and overcome it.

Gen 39:7-15 tells about Joseph's turning away from a temptation when his Master Potiphar's wife kept bothering him to sleep with him. Joseph avoided Potiphar's wife as much as possible. He refused her sexual advances and finally ran from her. Sometimes merely trying to avoid temptation is not enough. We must turn and run, especially when the temptations seem very strong. Running from sin isn't cowardly. It could say your life.

No matter how small a temptation is, fighting it and running is the best way to go. If you give it a little bit of attention then Satan will take that and run with it. Once he gets a hold of it, your flesh becomes more active and it will be harder to fight it. The only way to break that is calling on God to help strengthen you, give Him all your troubles of fighting this temptation and He will make sure that you get through it. Rebuke the evil that has a hold of you in Jesus Name. If you have a hard time trusting, that is fine, find a church with great people and a good leader to help you gain your trust in the Lord. I myself is working on it, and every day I am learning and getting stronger within the Lord and learning to put all my trust in Him.

Gen 19:14 talks about patience, which is greatly needed when it comes to the Lord. Patience often brings rewards. Both God's plans and His promises are larger than people. God keep His promises! He remains faithful though we are often faithless.

We make mistakes in our lives as long as your confess your sins and ask for forgiveness your mistakes are erased, God even makes use of our mistakes in His plans for us. Just remember don't look behind in the past, but to the future. God didn't design our heads to turn 180 degrees to see the back. He gave us the mobility to see the left and right, and that is where your faithful friends and family will stand with you in your walk with God. Then we can see forward, to see the path that God has laid out for us. Stay on the path without detours and you will feel your faith is growing stronger, seeing Him is getting clearer, and you become brighter with His love shining through you.