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I have an experiment for you to try.

Next time you are worshiping God, instead of what you normally do, Pray for those around you. Whether you are singing, or what ever you do when you worship God pray for every one around you.

It's a funny thing how we are the only one that can save ourselves, yet as others draw closer to God around us then we too grow closer to God.

I don't know about you but I like to give, and when in worship I like to bang on the doors of heaven for those around me not because I am any better but because I would give it to them. I find myself caught up and receiving the same things I prayed for others.

I believe that is how God works. As we pour ourselves (prayers, effort, time, money) into others God pours back into us. 

It's funny how things work like that.

Anyways that is my challenge.

God Bless you
God fill you up with his spirit
and give you peace.

God reign in us.

Psalm 146

 ¹ Praise the LORD.^[a]    Praise the LORD, my soul.
 ² I will praise the LORD all my life;
   I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
³ Do not put your trust in princes,
   in human beings, who cannot save.
⁴ When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
   on that very day their plans come to nothing.
⁵ Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob,
   whose hope is in the LORD their God.
 ⁶ He is the Maker of heaven and earth,
   the sea, and everything in them—
   he remains faithful forever.
⁷ He upholds the cause of the oppressed
   and gives food to the hungry.
The LORD sets prisoners free,
 ⁸ the LORD gives sight to the blind,
the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down,
   the LORD loves the righteous.
⁹ The LORD watches over the foreigner
   and sustains the fatherless and the widow,
   but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
 ¹⁰ The LORD reigns forever,
   your God, O Zion, for all generations.
   Praise the LORD.

It's crazy how God set the moon and the stars and determined their orbits.  They continue to move through the heavens like clock work. Actually better then clock work since the clocks themselves are imperfect models of the sky. 

Maybe that's it, as hard as we try to create our own light, our own way, we are just reflections, just examples of what God is.

God reign in us.
God live in us.
God fill us.

Reading

"Son, son it must be one way or the other. Either th day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it; or else fo ever and ever the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves. I know it has a grand sound to say ye'll accept no salvation which leaves even one creature in the dark outside. But watch that sophistry or ye'll make a Dog in a Manger the tyrant of the universe."

C. S. Lewis the Great Divorce

I just read this book again. I find it's a book that I like to read ever so often. Hope your day's are good.

God Bless us
God lead us
God give us everything we need.
God speak to us

Sky Light

So I decided again to give my blog another direction. Mostly because it doesn't look like I will hit my last year numbers for posts.

I have decided to make this more personal. So here we go!

This summer when lots of things where changed (and still are) I believe God was talking to me. I had a new Job, a new apartment to live in, and a new car (along which came debt). 

I was worried about how if I could take all this change. Will I be able to pay for my car, keep my Job ... It would have been so much easier to keep things the same. It was difficult at times. Then one morning when I drove early to work to spend time reading the bible God showed me a picture of myself. He showed my face half rotting, and being eaten by a crow. It scared me ... but then God explained. That's what you life was, and I have came to change you. This change is hard but it is from me.

It's funny because I thought the opposite.

It's funny if you read Daniel you see that even when Daniel is in charge of one third of the kingdom, he still faces challenges that risk his life yet he chooses God every time. God the living God is there for him every time.

Doing things right isn't easy but God is there with us and he is there to show us amazing things.

God show us all that you are the living God
God lead us into a deeper relationship with you
God bless us in every part of life
God be with us