This post is going to be short and sweet. I want to touch on Colossians 4:5,6. It talks about the importance of our influence and the way we conduct ourselves around non-believers. As christians it simply isn't enough for us to just survive and live our lives the same as we were before Christ. We should have an unspeakable joy that encompasses who we are because of the grace that God provides through his son. We should also have a sudden urge to share and tell people the good news. For example if there is a really awesome sale going on you make sure to tell your friends about it and share the good news! (Little ashamed I just compared Christianity to shopping, but it is really late). I challenge whoever reads this to consider your actions and the things you do and say, when we publicly proclaim the faith we take on a responsibility to be the examples for Christ. Also never forget how great of an impact you can have on someone's walk with Christ or to Christ. We never know where people are in their journey with Christ, maybe a kind word or act of kindness plants a seed for Christ or motivates someone else to do the same. Never forget your importance and impact on everyone you meet.
Till Next Time,
Morgan

Falling In Love

       

        Love is something we all desire. We see it in movies, books, Tv shows, pictures etc. and one of the best feelings in the world is loving someone and receive love from them. If this hasn't occurred yet do not lose hope for there is a God that desires you more than any human being could. When reading the bible it is easy to see that God is the perfect person to be in a relationship with i.e. he ALWAYS has your best interest (Romans 8:28), He will NEVER leave you nor forsake you (Joshua 1:5), he is a great listener (Psalm 19:3-4) (joke partially intended), he will provide us with peace (Psalm 29:11) and is over all just pretty awesome (The whole bible). The thing that discourages many of people is that when growing a relationship with God it isn't instant. It is like any other relationship, you have to put in the time, you have to pray to God and tell him your plans, worries, fears, passions etc. The more you can talk to God and read his word the closer you can become. It is just like meeting someone new, you want to talk to them and learn more about them. You'll end up putting a lot of time into the relationship, but it isn't a problem because you want to. The best part of God's love is that it is the only thing that can truly fill that void or emptiness and will provide you with joy unlike any other. So maybe if you keep praying for someone to love you and it seems to be taking God sometime to answer the prayer it is because God is longing for a stronger relationship between the two of you first, before he gives you someone on earth to love; and there is a chance that he might not, but once you develop that relationship with him you can rely and trust in his most wonderful plan and that what he has in store is the best option for you right now wherever you are.

Much Love,

Morgan

P.S. New year, so I am actually creating a schedule! Yay!! So from now on I will (hopefully) post regular devotions on Wednesday night! So make sure to stop by and check them out! 

New Year...New Look!

Hey guys! What do ya think? I learned some new tricks from a blogger friend of mine and decided to spice up the blog a little! I apologize again for my number of posts! Anyways hope you enjoy the new look and hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I promise to post soon! Thanks for stopping by!

Morgan

Why hello there wonderful people! Sorry sorry sorry about my attendance record hope I can make it up to you during the up coming break! Anyways I wanted to talk about Pslam 136. If you haven't read it, after every line it reads "His love endures forever" it repeats that phrase 26 times! As I was reading it I caught a glimpse of the vastness of his love. So many times do we underestimate God's love. I always forget how eternal and powerful it is! The time I have to remind myself the most is when something bad happens and I am questioning God and his reasoning behind it, but just as the Pslam says that in every aspect of life God's love endures forever. I often pray for God to send a nice Christian guy into my life, but God has been convicting me of that lately because I am rejecting his love and searching for it in a guy. Not to say that having a boyfriend or girlfriend is wrong, but remember to embrace the beauty of God's love before going and searching for more love because God's love never fails and it is forever.

Hey guys! My goodness it has been long, yet it feels like I say that everytime! Anywho, today I was praying and I was really praying about different temptations I have been struggling with and then I stumbled upon this verse; it's Matthew 26:41, "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak." . Temptations are something that everyone struggles with, from gossiping, to a really tempting cupcake, or tempting drink...etc , but how do can we prepare ourselves for these temptations? Well in the first part it talks about watching and praying. I think the best thing is to be aware and admit that you are struggling with the temptations to yourself and then to God. Sometimes it is weird to tell God about your bad habits or not so great temptations in fear of condemnation, but that's the beautiful thing about a relationship with God is that he doesn't look down on us for sin because through Jesus Christ he can look at us will love and compassion. Also a great thing about to talking to God is it will take away such a heavy burden you've been carrying because of sin and honestly sometimes it just feels great to get stuff off your chest. For example today when I was talking to God I could gossip to him and tell him everything and I knew he would understand and be there to listen. That's another awesome thing about prayer is that you can talk anywhere, at anytime, about anything! So ya before I go on a huge tangent about who knows what I want to end this with saying how the more honest you are and the more you admit to God the closer you to will become. If you are mad at God tell him, is you are really struggling with a sin tell him, it is nothing he doesn't already know but by confessing it helps you to grow together in a healthy path. 

Love you guys and thanks for reading! 

Have I already told you guys that my senior year has been over the top busy? None the less, I apologize for my lame excuse and not posting in what seems like forever! Ok so this isn't going to be super long or detailed because it's late and I have 2 tests and a project tomorrow, but I want to encourage everyone to be overly nice to people this week, I have been studying the Beautitudes and one of them is loving your enemies and not judging. I feel like judging people is a MAJOR part of our culture today. It is so hard not to judge people whether it is because of appearance or morals or grades. I hope that I can learn to start looking through God's eyes to see everyone the same as he sees them. Also remember to be really nice, it is actually really fulfilling to be kind and sweet to people. I am extremely guilty of using excessive sarcasm but I am really trying to cut back and be positive towards everyone. People will notice and wonder why you are different and this will be a great witness opportunity without having to go way out on a limb or anything. Well hopefully I can upload a more in depth devotion in the next couple days! Sorry for how flaky I have been lately! Thanks for reading and Hope you all have a awesome week! 

Hello wonderful people! So I wanted to talk to everyone about finding your worth in who created you! It is important to remind ourselves that we are God's masterpiece, created in his imagine to glorify him! A lot of times, at least in my case,  I down play the importance of God's opinion. I think, "Well that's nice and all, but I won't be truly happy with myself until I look like so in so." Or another common thought is, "Why in the world did God make me like this, why did he give me these struggles, why isn't he answering my prayers, why isn't he helping me etc.".Then I found this SUPER cool verse, ok well I think it is super cool haha, it is Isaiah 29:16, "You turn things upside own, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing"'? I mean wow, that hits close to home am I right?! I mean it is really humbling to read, to realize how ironic it is when we are demanding that God made a mistake. So I hope when reading this you guys realize where you are, what you are struggling with is making you unique to the purpose God has in store with your life. Also I don't want you to read that a lose hope that God's purpose is going to make your life miserable. Even though God's plan might not match up with your dreams and plans, that doesn't mean that you won't enjoy the life God has in store. God loves us, as I mentioned in the last devotional, we are God's children, he only wants what is best for us. So don't fret or be nervous (is that what fret means, my vocab isn't the best) that your life will be miserable because God's plan doesn't match up with your plans. It just means that God has something better in store. And in order to have peace in God's plan, we have to put all of our trust in God, it is like sacrificing our life to God and trusting he knows what is best. Once we do that life will be so fulfilling because we don't have to stress if what we are doing is wrong we just give God the wheel and trust that he knows where he is going.
Thanks for reading!
Till Next Time!
Morgan