The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes
The world awakes in the light of the day
I look up to the sky and say,
“You’re beautiful”
5/24 21:05 - istandinawe - 203 notes
"Live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God."
(Ephesians 5:2)
"The Biblical gospel says, “You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, and in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.” In the gospel, God reveals the depths of our need for Him."
- David Platt, Radical
5/24 20:26 - 43 notes
It's time to act: "I don't have a boyfriend/girlfriend because Jesus is still writing my love story" →
false.
you don’t have a boyfriend or girlfriend because God is most glorified in your current single state. you don’t have a girlfriend or boyfriend because there’s something God wants to teach you in this season. you don’t have a boyfriend or girlfriend because it’s clearly already at the…
Yes.
5/22 23:05 - blakebaggott - 171 notes
When He says, “Don’t.”
I love how the Holy Spirit guides me even in little things.
Today at work, I was serving a woman and her husband. She was wearing a red cap, and underneath her head was shaved.
I wanted to ask them how they were doing, like I do with every customer, but in my heart I didn’t feel His leading to. I asked God and He said, “No, don’t.” Then I wanted to ask how their day was going (which I often ask as well), and He stopped me again. I simply served them with a smile and let them go to their table. I really wanted to talk to them and hopefully ask if I could be praying for her, but the Holy Spirit didn’t lead me to. So I didn’t.
Later I got to bring their food to their table, and I had to go back to get her soup. When I came back, they were holding hands, head bowed, and praying. I simply closed my eyes and joined them with a smile.
When they looked up, I told them how wonderful it was to see people praying together and thanking God. “Not many people do,” I said.
“Hey, we’re Christians too!” Said the couple sitting behind them. We all laughed together, then talked a bit about prayer and testimonies, just praising God together.
Then the woman with the red hat told me, “I just got a Catscan today and my brain tumor is gone. God is the one who got me through it all.”
Isn’t that awesome?!! I got to rejoice with them and I get to pray for her, too (for continued recovery). I was so encouraged, because I am also praying for healing for another customer who is a believer (Diane), who has a brain tumor. And here God introduced me to a woman who was healed by God of just that!
So I guess today God also just showed me to trust the Holy Spirit’s guidance, and when He says, “Don’t” maybe that’s because you don’t have to “do” anything, because He is going to completely handle it. Just trust and obey. Even in the little things. :)
5/21 20:49 - 32 notes
A Heart That’s His
“But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.” (2 Chronicles 15:17). Other translations say his heart was “blameless”, “wholly true”, or “fully committed.”
How can this be? If we read about the later reign of King Asa, in his anger he imprisoned the seer who corrected him for a foolish decision, he brutally oppressed some of the people, and in the end, didn’t have a perfect reign as king. Yet his heart was blameless all his days. How can this be?
God doesn’t measure success by our standards. Asa’s rule as king was his role and assignment, and he made mistakes. But his heart was what God was looking at most. The standards of the world say success is based on our achievements and acceptance. The standards of the church today is sometimes no different and still influenced by the world’s standards, only curving it with the perspective that with everything we do, we “do it for the glory of God.” (1 Corinthians 10:13). And suddenly it’s about how many members our church has, how much money we raised or how big the offering was, how nice our building is now, how many verses we’ve memorized and talking about our “great spiritual victories” then going home and having no desire to even open the Word or turn off the TV to just sit in God’s presence. I think we get the picture on both of these.
God is searching for hearts that are wholly His.
2 Chronicles 16:9 says, “For the eyes of the Lord search throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.”
God looks beyond our ministry, career, accomplishments and searches out our heart; our innermost thoughts, true attitudes, and secret intentions no one else knows.
And He’s searching because those hearts are rare, not everywhere.
Solomon wrote in Proverbs 20:6 “Many claim to have unfailing love, but a faithful person who can find?” And in Ecclesiastes 7:28, he writes, “while I was still searching but not finding— I found one upright man among a thousand…”
The Lord found a heart like He searches for in this king of Judah: “Asa’s heart was fully committed to the Lord all his life” (2 Chronicles 15:17).
If you have been discouraged about life, or mistakes you’ve made, or just plain screwing things up… look where God is looking. Search your heart. Let God search it out. Are you fully committed? Is your heart is His?
The enemy wants to discourage us and get us focused on other standards of success. But the greatest gain is in full surrender and devotion to God.
What is God looking for? Earnestly desiring?
A heart that is completely His.
5/20 22:42 - 11 notes
"The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word."
- Hebrews 1:3
5/20 22:25 - 80 notes
"For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever. Amen."
- Romans 11:36
5/18 00:32 - beauty-for-ashes - 86 notes
“The Glory of You” - Celebration Worship (Sessions)
Thanks to Kevin for this song.
5/15 16:08 - 9 notes
Pretty encouraged tonight. Read this. →
Today I’ve seen that a lot of people on here really are in a close, serving friendship/marriage with Christ. So blessed and encouraged.
I was getting discouraged, because last week I got a word (I believe) that there’s a lot of “false growth” going on (I’m not exactly sure who this might be) here on tumblr. Some of you are learning the scriptures and theology academically, like grade a students, instead of relationally, like a son learns from his father. I’ve been in that place before, and it’s not a good counterfeit of the experience of true servanthood/intimacy with God.
Furthermore, I seem to have also recieved a word that some will fall away from the faith within the next few years or decades, having come into obsession with the doctrines of God without first becoming obsessed with God himself, as an actual, personal being. This academic obsession with the doctrines of God (which are obviously good, when pursued correctly) is only a reaction to the “coolness factor” on tumblr that comes from knowing theology. The desire to know the scriptures doesn’t come from a desire to be favored by God, but from a desire to be favored by the (oftentimes shallow) tumblr community.
And some of us post and post and post without realizing the prideful condition of our hearts.
When I stepped deeper into a relationship with God, I lost desire to post a lot of personal scripture commentaries because my heart knew that they were a cause of pride in my life. But when I was in my most prideful, spiritually distant stages, I posted plenty. Really, plenty. I see a correlation there, and I would hope that you’ll search your heart to see if you are in the same boat that I was.
Don’t take these possible “words” at face value, Think on them, pray on them, test them, and if God affirms them to be concerning your spiritual state, act on them.
As for those of You who truly pursue God relationally and base your lives on the scriptures as a result, thank you for being a blessing to me in the way you display his work in You. It’s way awesome to see.
This. If there was anything I wish I could say on here, it’s been exactly this. John 15. It’s really about abiding in God and knowing Him through intimate relationship. God knows our hearts.
5/10 11:52 - wearevessels - 53 notes
"He must become greater; I must become less."
- John 3:30 (via screamtheprayer)
5/7 23:37 - screamtheprayer - 208 notes
"Sometimes He offends our mind to reveal our heart."
- Heidi Baker
5/7 14:27 - unafraidunashamed - 276 notes
"How sweet it was for me to rid myself of those fruitless pleasures that I once feared so much to lose…You drove them from me. You the true, the sovereign joy. You drove them from me and took their place. You who are sweeter than all pleasure."
- Augustine
5/5 23:46 - solideogloriaa - 218 notes
