how is my mind...?

so once in a while i am here to give advice to my friends... and usually they listen. but then again, sometimes i need to stop and give the advice to myself as well, because i am not following what i have been saying. since i am convicted by the things people say in response to my comments, i am encouraged, but at the same time am wondering what to be continuing on in. thus forth from this day, i will not be discuraged when someone says "well yeah, but here's what i think on this topic." because the purpose of encouragement and exortation is so that you can refresh your view on things and find perhaps a different view on some things.

ponderings for the quarter..... James.

wow. so things never stop, only continue to add up and progress and end....including what i am learning in the Word.
thursday biblestudies are super great.... James is AMAZING!!!! but to take these things that i am learning is really hard. application can be the hardest thing to ever do. i don't know why......

notes from James 1:19-22
Receiving the Word
1) Quick to hear.
2) Slow to speak
3) Slow to anger
4) Put away all evil
5) Doer of the Word


Notes from James 1:23-27
Characteristics of doers.
1) know what should be corrected.
2) Take action and fix errors.
3) Working to keep unstained from the world.

these are the things i am working on this week/ month/ year. constant rededication and revival in my mind and spirit everyday is needed sometimes/most, in order to have what is needed in my life to walk the right way, the straight and narrow.... the long and weary thin foot trail that leads to eternal glory.....

my life....

so who am i going to be accountable this week? i am so secluded, there is no one around me who can listen... i am sinking into sin and need to be brought up from the murky water.....

it's march already????

holey computers, it's march... well, i guess i'm ready for easter then, except am i really?
the end of the month is fast approaching, and with it baptism. now normally i am really excited to go and see my friends up there getting wet and proclaiming their faith. but now it's me. i am the one to proclaim my faith and tell everyone that "yeah, i'm a jesus freak!"
there is knowledge of faith and then there is actual faith, which i do truely believe i have.
but still there is this butterfly that goes in circles around my stomake, not the most pleasant feeling on earth.
well i guess the only way to feel truely sure about this is to pray and ask for wisdom and peace.

easter music....

i love easter music, so when there was an open invite to join easter choir, guess who was there the second week?
here's the list of songs...
*Easter song
*Of Palms and praise
*There is a green hill far away
*Hear the music, Jesus is risen
*God's holy Lamb
*The bread is broken
*Christ arose (He's alive)
we perform on both palm sunday and on easter sunday. i'm super excited!

what about me?

what really motivates and drives me? because i know it's not always my God and Savior like it should be. when i am able to be truely open, i know that the only reason i am even on this earth is to gorify and praise my Aba God and serve him with all of my life. but then i forget and get sidetracked and where is my focus at then? i am reminded of how small and meaningless i am everyday, but when i think about how God loved me so much and sent His son to die for my life, i am truely amazed! how blessed am i to be chosen.