I am so stubborn! God lays out in the Bible how to act and what to do and not do for my own good! I have been so set in my ways for a long time. Sin is just so hard to beat sometimes to me. This has come up because I have been reading in Deuteronomy(sorry if its misspelled) about how God brings His chosen people into the promised land. The ( Read more... )

Well, its been a while since my last entry. This was gonna be where I record my spiritual life. The last entry pretty much described it till this last week. I fell away from God and was living in selfishness. It was pretty awful. If you know me you know me personally, which you probably do if i gave you a link to my livejournal, you know I ( Read more... )

I just want to give up fighting. It is too hard. Sin is too powerful. I will never reach perfection. I just try and try and then fall and get depressed and stop living for God. Every time I fall to sin I turn away from God and it is hard to turn back. These are my thoughts tonight as I sit here in bed. I have to get up in about three hours to ( Read more... )

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." Pray! "You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God." So ask Him! "For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are ( Read more... )

Everyone needs to listen to this verse here. "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says." This is a major thing that seperates Christians. Those who read the Bible and go about their day like nothing even happened and those who read and try to apply it and actively seek God through His Word.

No battle can be won on our own power. This is something God is teaching me. I have struggled with a lot of sin in my life and when I tried to battle it on my own power i would not succeed. It is just like when they were fighting for the holy land and God tells them to go destroy an army which is "more numerous than the sand on the shore." They ( Read more... )

I started this account and then decided I wasn't gonna use it, but then I got to thinking about keeping a journal with things God is teaching me. So why not use live journal? I already have the account. So this is what this will be. I'm making it a journal of my spiritual life.