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Name: Sarah
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Birthday: 1/1/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: My Jesus, singing weird harmonies, biking, hands, discovering God's mysteries, days when you walk out the door and just feel like you can breathe, analyzing, crying, playing the piano, cool sheets on hot summer nights, comforting, helping, interior design, Christmas, baptisms, church camp, waking up and realizing I still have 5 hours to sleep, walking in the fall on paths covered with trees, making people laugh, laughing, standing in awe at the wonder of God, worshipping, blogging, writing music, sharing myself with others, apple picking in the fall, picnics, listening, learning, campfires, star gazing for hours, feeling God in the little things, walking down a street (ya know, those ones in cities with the cute little shops and romantic street lights) while it's snowing HUMONGOUS flakes that cover the ground instantly, finding the man who will grow me closer to my God, living
Expertise: Pediatric ICU Registered Nurse
Occupation: Medical
Industry: Medical
Message: message me
AIM:  he refines me
MSN: sarah_jo03@hotmail.com
Member Since:
9/18/2005
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| Who are you worshipping? We all worship something You can say you just go day to day But in between, you are worshipping...something...someone This is reality Where is all of your "free" time spent? At work...the bar...in front of the TV...the computer...where? The time is short...very short There are 2 worship movements being raised up, right now. Many of you are leaders of these movements, Called to the forefront in battle. There is no more "ignoring" it. THIS IS REALITY Lucifer, the worship leader of the angels in heaven Was cast to the Earth...and he has been raising up A worship movement ever since...his worship movement: Children, sold as sex slaves Murder, an every day occurence We sue We war We hate The time is short, very short Jesus Christ, the lead in the greatest love story ever told Is waiting. His weapon is Truth. He brings mercy He brings grace He brings love He will prevail. Nevertheless...He will let you decide CHOOSE THIS DAY WHO YOU WILL SERVE -Joshua 24:15 | | |
| "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins." ~Isaiah 40:2 Standing in the gap in prayer for Israel is something not many Christians address...I know it's a completely new idea for me, but I am realizing the weightiness of it. Often I look at the Holocaust, and at war over Israel, and say why? I believe Isaiah 40:2 tells us why. God loves Israel so much, He is giving them time to return to Himself...and all the powers of hell are working against the Jews. The spirit of the antichrist was in Adolf Hitler...and in the demonic Gods worshipped by many middle-eastern religions. She is receiving double for her sins, but God has not forgotten mercy. He is waiting for Israel to return to Him. Israel’s Rejection Not Final : "I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles." ~Romans 11:11 "if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them." ~Romans 11:14 Wow, so Israel is God's chosen people, and to provoke his chosen to jealousy, I, a Gentile, have received mercy...now becoming one of God's chosen? "For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you." ~Romans 11:16-18 What I am learning in Romans 11 is that salvation was brought to me through the Jew's disobedience...therefore "grafting me in" to the Jewish lineage. I am a wild olive tree...but God chose to cross-breed me with the Jews to bring me salvation. Why? So the Jews, His chosen people, would return to Him. So I came to salvation through the Jews...and salvation will come to the Jews because they will see my life, and return to their lover, Jesus Christ. But, as verse 18 states, I cannot become haughty because I am grafted in, but am called to REMEMBER the root that supports me...that being the Jews. We are partners! No more arguing...no more bitterness....Christians, the Lord is beckoning you, and I am calling you to stand in the gap for Israel! Instead of separation, let's pray for their return to the Lord. I want Jesus to return...I want Him to save us from this hell-hole of a world...I want to love my brother--the Jew. He is my root! Without him, I would never have been grafted in. Pray for Israel. Pray for the Jews to return to God, and accept their Messiah, Jesus Christ.
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| He's not a baby in a manger anymore. He's not a broken man on a cross. He didn't stay in the grave, And He's not staying in heaven forever... | | |
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From the outside looking in, my life looks crazy right now...actually...from the inside looking out, it looks just as crazy
(if not more!) I planned my way to Kansas City...and the Lord directed my steps. I was meant to be there...for a season. I chose to be there, for a season (which is completely contrary to the way I thought the 'Lord was leading me' in the beginning). I gained so much from my adventure...but now, I'm back, on yet another. I am writing this post, not to ease people's conscience...because I rather enjoy stirring the pot...but to try and touch an explanation of the mysterious ways of the Lord. Wow, God is in control. I can remember sitting in the prayer room above BSM one night, and hearing the Lord internally speak, "Your work here is not done." I had no idea that meant I would be leaving, only to return in 3 months. If I had, I probably would have packed more lightly :) my parents would have appreciated that. What's funny is, God doesn't go by our schedules...and I am open to His leading. I am a human. Hm...ya...a human. I am so sloppy at following the leadership of the Lord. I'm kind of like a kid with a coloring book. God says, "color inside the lines" and I try REALLY hard. After the picture is completed the "lines" i colored inside are only the 4 borders of my 8 by 10 paper. It's so funny though, because the Lord looks at my mess, hangs it on his refrigerator, and calls it beautiful. "For it is written:
'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.'
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe." 1 Corinthians 1:19-21 I need this reality inside me! I need to understand that the Lord's ways look foolish to man. Why do I keep trying to impress people!?! I care more about what that guy walking down the street who doesn't see me and probably will never see me again thinks than the Lover of my soul!I NEED to know that when people look at my chaotic coloring book and call it messy, I can look at it and say, "I'm a little kid running after my Jesus. It looks crazy...yes I understand that. I would think you silly to believe something so ridiculous. So absurd. It doesn't fit in America's cookie cutter Christianity...but I love Him enough to look like a fool. I will pursue Him to the point of indignity in man's eyes. I will not call myself wise, because I am not. I am only a lovesick worshipper...a creation, standing in the shadow of a man I look up to and adore...hoping to one day look like Him." | | |
| Please come back to your Lover. Why do you try and live without Me? I want to hold you and show you. It's so empty alone. You are so empty. I sit alone, in a secret place...waiting for you. It's so empty. I long for you! Won't you come and sit with Me a while? Come back. Please come back... | | |
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