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Today is a new day....

I have just started flicking through my old prayer journals and i came across a word God gave me a few years ago. I hope it encourages you:

Today is a completely new day. A day I created for a purpose. Do you not know that it is I who keeps the world turning today and forever? The world is literally in my hands. Fear me.
Today my grace is new. Today is one of the days I have numbered for you, planned before the earth was created. Today is a day that awaited you while I was knitting you together in your mother’s womb. I breathed life into you so that you could live today. I know everything about you today. Today counts.
What are you going to do with it?
Go in my power; soar on wings of eagles- for your days are short. I have numbered them- for a purpose.

This is the stuff Francesca Battistelli lyrics

I love this song as it reminds me that Jesus uses even the little things in my life. And that even the little annoying niggles in my life can be used for his glory :)

Prison Break and Jesus's death on the cross

The scenes from Prison Break (the electric chair scene) has really opened my eyes about Jesus's death on the cross. We have been saved from so so so much. And i want to live in the freedom that christ has given me :)

Isaiah 53
1 Who believes what we've heard and seen? Who would have thought God's saving power would look like this?
2-6The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
a scrubby plant in a parched field.
There was nothing attractive about him,
nothing to cause us to take a second look.
He was looked down on and passed over,
a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.
One look at him and people turned away.
We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—
our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,
that God was punishing him for his own failures.
But it was our sins that did that to him,
that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!
He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed.
We're all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost.
We've all done our own thing, gone our own way.
And God has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong,
on him, on him.

7-9He was beaten, he was tortured,
but he didn't say a word.
Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered
and like a sheep being sheared,
he took it all in silence.
Justice miscarried, and he was led off—
and did anyone really know what was happening?
He died without a thought for his own welfare,
beaten bloody for the sins of my people.
They buried him with the wicked,
threw him in a grave with a rich man,
Even though he'd never hurt a soul
or said one word that wasn't true.

10Still, it's what God had in mind all along,
to crush him with pain.
The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin
so that he'd see life come from it—life, life, and more life.
And God's plan will deeply prosper through him.

11-12Out of that terrible travail of soul,
he'll see that it's worth it and be glad he did it.
Through what he experienced, my righteous one, my servant,
will make many "righteous ones,"
as he himself carries the burden of their sins.
Therefore I'll reward him extravagantly—
the best of everything, the highest honors—
Because he looked death in the face and didn't flinch,
because he embraced the company of the lowest.
He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many,
he took up the cause of all the black sheep.

Treating the Bible like our mobile phones

I found this whilst surfing the net and found it really inspiring:

I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell Phones?

What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?

What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?

What if we flipped through it several times a day?

What if we used it to receive messages from the text?

What if we treated it like we couldn’t live without it?

What if we gave it to kids as gifts?

What if we used it as we traveled?

What if we used it in case of an emergency?

What if we upgraded it to get the latest version?

This is something to make you go…hmmm…where is my Bible?

Oh, and one more thing. Unlike our cell phone, we don’t ever have to worry about our bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill!

Women who inspire me

What shall i wear today?....

First of all i would like to say that this video is talking about a big issue- but we can apply aspects of this to our everyday lives. I am simply using it as an illustration about modesty. I really respect rebecca for standing up for purity/modesty and for keeping her cool.

I am really big on modesty. As christians we are meant to be "salt and light" and "light in the darkness." This implies that we are to live differently from the world. This means with everything in our lives- including the way we dress. We are also meant to be "immtators of God." I don't want what i am wearing to be pointing to me. How is anybody meant to see the light of God shining in and through me if I have various part of my body hanging out?!

Also I believe that we shoulld be saving our bodies for our future husbands/wives- it is for his eyes only. I don't want random guys to be looking at my body- i want to save it for him. I also don't want to be seen as a sexual object- i am so much more than that.

A verse which i read recently went something like this:

And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it (1 Tim 2v 9-10, the message)

I want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God (1 Tim 2 v 9-10)

I definelty want to focus on my inside beauty and become more and more like Jesus everyday :)

I want to note that dressing modesty does not mean wearing bland boring shapless clothes that go all the way up to our necks. We can still look good. God is good all the time and he is a God of love. His ways are the best- an these guidelines on modesty are truly for our best intrests.

So here are some of my personal tips:
I wear a white strap top under low tops
I try not to buy tops which show my chest- if i do i wear a white strap top
layering clothes
i don't buy any trousers or skirts that go above my knee- if i do buy skirts which go above my knee i will wear tights