Friday, March 28, 2014

God's word is alive!!!!!!!

Food for thought

Deuteronomy 8:3 - Yes, he humbled you, by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unkown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you, that people do not live by bread alone; rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD."

We need to be spend time in the Word of God in order to nourish our souls. God wants to feed your soul. If you believe Jesus came and gave up his life as a sacrifice for your sins, and decide that you really want to turn to God rather than those things our sinful desires lead us toward for satisfaction; the Holy Spirit can use God's word to remind us of the truth! We need to be inputting truth, if we want our thoughts to align with the truth!

Matthew 17: 20-21 NLT - "You don't have enough faith," Jesus told them. "I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible."

This is part of a story where the disciples try to cast out a demon, and fail. They ask Jesus why they couldn't do it, and this is what he says. It is hard to have faith in someone if you don't trust them, and it's hard to trust someone if you don't know them. It's hard to know someone unless you spend time getting to know them. Facebook helps us to know what people are like by the things that they post, like, follow, share, and the things that they are tagged in, posted about them, etc. The Bible is Jesus Facebook Page!!!! It tells us all about him. The Old Testament is full of "posts" about "the coming messiah" (messiah, meaning savior) who is Jesus! The New Testament even has "posts" of stories Jesus told, things he said, and things he did! How much more we can know him when we "creep his facebook!" That combined with spending time praying, and listening to the Holy Spirit whom he sends us when we decide to give our lives over to him, then we can really have faith in who he is, and what he's like!