Thursday, August 19, 2010
Check it out
I have two new pages now! They are comprised of mostly pictures, so I hope they are interesting! "Take a peek" and "Creative Juices" are their names! So, take a look!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Stretch yourself!
At "Do Hard Things" Brett Harris was talking to us about doing things that are hard for US! He gave an example of a 20-year-old and a 10-year-old lifting weights together. But they were both lifting a ten pound weight. The older one was pumping it out, no sweat, but the 10 year got tired quicker. It was hard for the 10-year-old.
He made two points on this: Battling discouragement and battling complacency.
Battling Discouragement:
Like the 10-year-old lifting weights, don't get discouraged because lifting a 10 pound weight is a little difficult. keep at it, because your muscles will get stronger, it will get easier, and soon you will be lifting things way heavier.
It may be a subject you struggle with. For me, it's Math. I just don't get Math! I really struggle to grasp the concepts. I will sometimes look at others and think, "Oh, it comes easy for them. I guess I just don't have the capability to know math like they do. My mind just doesn't work that way." NO! I can't make excuses. I have to work that part of my brain and study hard to stretch my mind so that it won't be so hard later on. I'm taking Statistics at Vol State this semester and I'm nervous, because like I told you, I'm not very good at Math, but I'm determined not to be discouraged and make excuses for myself. God gave me this brain, and I'm sure that He didn't make it where I would never understand Math. I will just have to work harder than others might have to.
Remember that God made you just how you are, but He also doesn't want you to be a quitter. So, find something that you struggle with, and determine to make it a priority to work extra hard on just that!
Battling Complacency:
Like the 20-year-old weight lifter, we shouldn't feel good about ourselves when we do JUST ENOUGH to get by. Sometime we might look around and see that everyone else is struggling, but we aren't cause it's easy for us....the Lord isn't satisfied with that! He wants us to give our 100% best no matter what, and He also wouldn't want us to act superior cause we are good at something that is easy for us!
It's like a 6' tall dude jumping and touching an 8ft tall ceiling. And then a little 5'2'' tall dude tries to touch the ceiling but can't quite make it. The tall guy shouldn't think he's something cause he could touch it without barely jumping. He has his height working for him, so he was barely trying. But the shorter guy was trying with all he had and almost made it. At least he was giving his full potential. He conquered way more than the tall guy!
If something is easy for you, don't slack off and do enough to get by! Work at whatever it is you are naturally good at! You might just surprise yourself with what you can accomplish if you truly apply yourself!
Stretch yourself, mentally, spiritually, and even physically. The Lord will bless your efforts. Things that were once hard for you, will become easier. And things that were easy for you in the first place could become incredible strengths!
He made two points on this: Battling discouragement and battling complacency.
Battling Discouragement:
Like the 10-year-old lifting weights, don't get discouraged because lifting a 10 pound weight is a little difficult. keep at it, because your muscles will get stronger, it will get easier, and soon you will be lifting things way heavier.
It may be a subject you struggle with. For me, it's Math. I just don't get Math! I really struggle to grasp the concepts. I will sometimes look at others and think, "Oh, it comes easy for them. I guess I just don't have the capability to know math like they do. My mind just doesn't work that way." NO! I can't make excuses. I have to work that part of my brain and study hard to stretch my mind so that it won't be so hard later on. I'm taking Statistics at Vol State this semester and I'm nervous, because like I told you, I'm not very good at Math, but I'm determined not to be discouraged and make excuses for myself. God gave me this brain, and I'm sure that He didn't make it where I would never understand Math. I will just have to work harder than others might have to.
Remember that God made you just how you are, but He also doesn't want you to be a quitter. So, find something that you struggle with, and determine to make it a priority to work extra hard on just that!
Battling Complacency:
Like the 20-year-old weight lifter, we shouldn't feel good about ourselves when we do JUST ENOUGH to get by. Sometime we might look around and see that everyone else is struggling, but we aren't cause it's easy for us....the Lord isn't satisfied with that! He wants us to give our 100% best no matter what, and He also wouldn't want us to act superior cause we are good at something that is easy for us!
It's like a 6' tall dude jumping and touching an 8ft tall ceiling. And then a little 5'2'' tall dude tries to touch the ceiling but can't quite make it. The tall guy shouldn't think he's something cause he could touch it without barely jumping. He has his height working for him, so he was barely trying. But the shorter guy was trying with all he had and almost made it. At least he was giving his full potential. He conquered way more than the tall guy!
If something is easy for you, don't slack off and do enough to get by! Work at whatever it is you are naturally good at! You might just surprise yourself with what you can accomplish if you truly apply yourself!
Stretch yourself, mentally, spiritually, and even physically. The Lord will bless your efforts. Things that were once hard for you, will become easier. And things that were easy for you in the first place could become incredible strengths!
Saturday, August 14, 2010
New page!
Check out my new page! It's for the songs I'm writing and getting prepared to go on a cd, SO comments would be GREATLY appreciated for real! Be brutally honest! =)I need help from OTHER PEOPLE BESIDE MY FAMILY! Thanks!
TODAY WAS INSANE!
Today we went to the "Do Hard Things" conference at Two Rivers. Alex, Brett, Joshua, and Joel Harris were all there. Joel led the singing, Josh spoke during one of the sessions, and then of course Brett and Alex did all the rest of the speaking! It was so great! Hopefully in the next day or two, I will be posting a big long thing about what we learned, because I just want to share it all with you! It was such a blessing and an eye opener to me in many ways. Hopefully I can relate even just a small fraction of what they were speaking about. I know the effect won't be the same, but the message is still.....sorta....the same, except I'm not that good of a speaker. You know what I'm saying. =) But all this rambling to say.....check this soon, cause I want you to hear about this!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Priorities
I'm reading this amazing book called, "Lies Women Believe," by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. (Which really could be for both men and women I THINK!) But this book is so incredible! I want to share one of the lies that I believe we all fall into! It's a lie about our priorities.
The Lie: "I don't have enough time to do everything I'm supposed to do."
When you ask someone how they are doing, what is their normal response, excluding "I'm good?" Think about it. People will say things like, "I'm so busy," or "I'm exhausted." Right? It's almost like we have gotten into the mind set that this life has TOO MUCH to accomplish and we just can't get it all done.
The Lord Jesus was given only a few short years on earth to accomplish the entire plan of redemption. Now HE had a long "to do" list, but at the end of His life on earth He was able to say " I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." (John 17:4)
Ask yourself this? How many times have you gone to bed at night and thought, "Wow! I got everything single thing that I wanted to get done...DONE!" That rarely ever happens to me. Normally I'm thinking of a mental list of things that I didn't get done that I'll make an effort to get done the following day.
So! How did Jesus get all that done, is so little time? Here's the key...."I have finished the work that thou gavest me to do." Jesus Christ was about His Father's business. Not the business of the multitudes, or His disciples. He did solely what God wanted Him to do.
God has given each one of us a certain "to do list" that He has planned out perfectly for us. The Truth is that God's agenda for us is the only one we need to worry about. We have to realize that the petty things we want to do, or the things others want us to do are not important. Yes, they are important to a certain extent, but the most important things are what the Lord would have us to do.
Remember that God made the 24-hour day! He knows how long it is, and He made it perfectly so that you can accomplish what you need, in the day light. Every day try and sit back and think about the important things you need to do, and what would be Christ-pleasing! I'm sure you will have a great day if you do so! =)
The Lie: "I don't have enough time to do everything I'm supposed to do."
When you ask someone how they are doing, what is their normal response, excluding "I'm good?" Think about it. People will say things like, "I'm so busy," or "I'm exhausted." Right? It's almost like we have gotten into the mind set that this life has TOO MUCH to accomplish and we just can't get it all done.
The Lord Jesus was given only a few short years on earth to accomplish the entire plan of redemption. Now HE had a long "to do" list, but at the end of His life on earth He was able to say " I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." (John 17:4)
Ask yourself this? How many times have you gone to bed at night and thought, "Wow! I got everything single thing that I wanted to get done...DONE!" That rarely ever happens to me. Normally I'm thinking of a mental list of things that I didn't get done that I'll make an effort to get done the following day.
So! How did Jesus get all that done, is so little time? Here's the key...."I have finished the work that thou gavest me to do." Jesus Christ was about His Father's business. Not the business of the multitudes, or His disciples. He did solely what God wanted Him to do.
God has given each one of us a certain "to do list" that He has planned out perfectly for us. The Truth is that God's agenda for us is the only one we need to worry about. We have to realize that the petty things we want to do, or the things others want us to do are not important. Yes, they are important to a certain extent, but the most important things are what the Lord would have us to do.
Remember that God made the 24-hour day! He knows how long it is, and He made it perfectly so that you can accomplish what you need, in the day light. Every day try and sit back and think about the important things you need to do, and what would be Christ-pleasing! I'm sure you will have a great day if you do so! =)
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Why Crazy Daisy?
I know that my old name for my blog was so amazing, "For the love of cheese balls"....I know you will miss it. *snickers* But I had to change it because that was my temporary name for it while it was under construction! I can't name a blog "for the love of cheese balls" when the main reason I have this thing is so I can share what I'm learning about Christ. *laughs* That would be pointless.
But the reason I named my blog "Crazy Daisy" is because:
1. Daisies are my all time favorite flower.
2. I'm Crazy.....only sometimes.....*wink*
3. Some of my favorite verses in the Bible are about a plant. (Let me share)
Okay the verses are found in Jeremiah 17, verses 5-8. "Thus says the Lord: 'Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out it's roots by the stream, and does not fear when hear comes. For its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.'"
I just think those verses are amazing because they create a picture for me of a person whose is grounded in Christ. I want to be someone who is striving to get nutrients from Christ, and who can't get enough of Him. When you think about it, why wouldn't we? He is the Creator of this whole universe, and He gave His life for ME! Why wouldn't we not want to know every thing about Him?
Also, this past week of Camp, one of the "I AM" verses that we studied was "I am the True Vine." I love those verses because the Lord is where I need to get my nutrition. If I take what the world offers I will wither and die. Only God can give me what I need. And this is life changing! Because if I dwell in Christ, and Him in me, I will bear good fruit. My life will be changed forever, never to be the same again. It's the process of sanctification...but that's a long conversation for another day....trust me, I will get to it! =)
Anyways, that's why I names my blog "Crazy Daisy"....cause it's cute, and it makes me think of these verses. Well, hope some of that made sense. My ramblings can get a little confusing at times. But thanks for reading anyhow!
But the reason I named my blog "Crazy Daisy" is because:
1. Daisies are my all time favorite flower.
2. I'm Crazy.....only sometimes.....*wink*
3. Some of my favorite verses in the Bible are about a plant. (Let me share)
Okay the verses are found in Jeremiah 17, verses 5-8. "Thus says the Lord: 'Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out it's roots by the stream, and does not fear when hear comes. For its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.'"
I just think those verses are amazing because they create a picture for me of a person whose is grounded in Christ. I want to be someone who is striving to get nutrients from Christ, and who can't get enough of Him. When you think about it, why wouldn't we? He is the Creator of this whole universe, and He gave His life for ME! Why wouldn't we not want to know every thing about Him?
Also, this past week of Camp, one of the "I AM" verses that we studied was "I am the True Vine." I love those verses because the Lord is where I need to get my nutrition. If I take what the world offers I will wither and die. Only God can give me what I need. And this is life changing! Because if I dwell in Christ, and Him in me, I will bear good fruit. My life will be changed forever, never to be the same again. It's the process of sanctification...but that's a long conversation for another day....trust me, I will get to it! =)
Anyways, that's why I names my blog "Crazy Daisy"....cause it's cute, and it makes me think of these verses. Well, hope some of that made sense. My ramblings can get a little confusing at times. But thanks for reading anyhow!
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