10 Day Challenge - Day #5

It's day #5!! We're half way there!! :) 

Day #5. Answer Without Arguing:

Proverbs 17:1  "Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife." 

This is a big one for me. I have trouble a lot with arguing when there is no need. It hurts relationships you have with whoever your arguing with, especially your siblings and parents. This challenge is another one to teach us to keep our mouths shut, and think before we speak. Take a breath, count to ten, pray, sing, do whatever it is to calm down. For me that's hard because I have a temper and will say stuff I don't mean, and regret it later. If you are like me and fail all the time with this one, the thing we need to do is humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness, and then go to that person and do the same. It's harder than it sounds, but it's worth it. Ephesians 4:26 says,  "Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:".  So, let's try answering without arguing. :) 

~Beautifully Created 4 Christ~  

10 Day Challenge - Day #4

Day #4!! We're almost have way there! Remember to add this challenge to the other 3 days. :)

Day #4 Pray Without Ceasing:
Colossians 1:9  "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;"
I love this challenge, because prayer is our communicating with our heavenly Father! I've written about not ceasing to pray before, (click here to go to that post). Always find time to have a time of prayer. I find it helps the day go smoother, even in the midst of a storm. Pray without ceasing, never ending, non stop. When life is rough PRAY, and when life is going awesome PRAY. God can see the big picture, and He's always faithful, even when we're not.  When we have a burden the only way to have peace is to lay it at the feet of Jesus. And remember we have not, because we ask not.

Have fun!

~Beautifully Created 4 Christ~
~Isaiah 1:6~

10 Day Challenge Day #3

It's day #3!! Have you seen an improvement yet?? If not you need to stop and make sure your heart is in the right place and pray for God's help. We can't do this on our own. :) My point of doing this challenge is to challenge us to love deeper, to love our families, and everyone else no matter how they treat us.

Day #3 Give Without Sparing:
Proverbs 21:26 "...But the righteous give without sparing."

Luke 6:29-30  "And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again."
Everyone can be selfish, especially me. A lot of times I can be selfish when with me family but not with others. I'm not sure why that is, but our families are the ones who love us and will be there through thick and thin.

So, now we have Listen Without Interrupting, Speak Without Accusing, and now Give Without Sparing.
This has really been helping me. I hope it is helping you also. I'll be praying for ya'll.

~Beautifully Created 4 Christ~
 ~Philippians 1:6~

10 Day Challenge Day #2

10 Day Challenge day two for 1-7-13. Remember each day we ADD the new challenge to the one's before. And by the way, I love this picture. It perfectly pictures tomorrow's challenge!

Day #2. Speak Without Accusing:

James 1:9 "...Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry."

This goes right along with day #1, Speak Without Interrupting . We first speak without interrupting, and when we've done totally awesome not interrupting whoever it is we are talking too, weather it be you mom, your dad, one of your siblings, a telephone sales person (we all know how aggravating those can be), or just some random person you meet, we then start accusing them. We may not realize it, I know most of the time I don't realize it when I'm doing it because I'm in the habit of it. I'm in need to learn how to keep my mouth shut, take a deep breath, and think about what I'm fixing to say and how it's going to sound. Is it going to sound like I'm accusing the person of murder? I have to remember, would Jesus be talking to a person like this? So, my challenge is speak without accusing. Pray and ask God to help you think before you speak. Have fun and God bless!

~Beautifully Created 4 Christ~

10 Day Challenge

Okay, I'm turning a pin on Pinterest into a 10 day challenge.
Why am I doing this you may ask? Well, I'm home schooled and I love being with my family all the time. I also have some friends I spend a lot of time with too. But sometimes it gets tense and stressful. Sometime I tend to say stuff I don't mean or just get ticked off for no reason, cut people off when they are trying to speak to me, and just get down right moody and irritable. This Challenge is to help us remember that we love our families and friends and that we're suppose to be slow to anger. I have a temper and a lot of times it gets the better of me, and to change that, it starts with the little stuff. So, if you would like to prayerfully join me on this 10 day challenge that would be awesome! Love as Jesus loves. It's a life long journey of living for Christ, showing His love, and it's harder than it sounds. Believe me. Each day we'll add a new challenge. So, let's get started. :)

Day #1 Listen Without Interrupting:
Proverbs 18:24 "...But there is a friends that sticks closer than a brother."
Listen first before you go off on what you think they are going to say. I do this all the time, and usually they are going to say something other than what I thought they were going to say. It's a hard habit to break, but with God ALL things are possible. So, pray and ask God to help you. That's why I said to prayerfully join me in this challenge!

Radical

I've been called a “Radical Christian”, or “Jesus Freak”, some think all I do is serve God and never fail. They say I’m a good person. I listen to this and try to explain, but usually they don’t listen and think I’m trying to be modest. If only they could see my heart as God see’s it. He see’s every dark corner of my heart. Every bad thought, every attitude towards my parents, every lie, every gossip, every lust. He knows everything I do when no one is looking, every word out of my mouth towards someone, every joke I laugh at, every person I don’t stand up for, and every time I don’t stand up for Him. 

I hear them say, I’m doing good stuff for God, and you’re a “Radical Christian”, but they don’t see what God see’s. I fail. I’m a sinner. I don’t deserve to be called a “Radical Christian”.

God sent His Son to die for sinners. 1 Timothy 1:15b says, “…That Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.” I'm SO thankful God loved a sinner like to enough to die for me. I will never understand how much love He has for us.

God has called me to serve Him. He died for me, God made manifest in the flesh, was nailed to a tree, the least I can do is live my life for Him.

 I want to hear God say to me, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.” 

God given me a burden for ministry that I’m not qualified for, that’s I’m not worthy of, and that I can’t do. But God does NOT call the qualified, He qualifies the called. His strength is made perfect in my weakness. 

I've been saved by grace through faith, and it’s not by any works that I have done. But though the perfect blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. It’s through Him, and ONLY Him, that I have eternal life. This life I will live for Him, I will fall, but God will be there to pick me up again.

Not Just A Man

This is something God has placed on my heart recently to write, so I hope you are encouraged and blessed by it as much as I was when I was writing it. :)

Looking down and watching all the sad, lonely, and sinful people, there was a pain in His heart. A pain, dull ache, a growing sorrow that had been there since the beginning. He knew that day would come, though he wished there was another way, and didn't want to endure such pain. He followed His Father’s will through pain, torture, mocking, betrayal, and death. (John 15:13, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”) He loved these people more than they would ever know. They would have to wait to get to heaven to truly understand how much love His Father and He had for the world. (John 3:16, “John 3:16-18,  For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”)

He looks back at what had been like to become all man, but still be all God.

Standing in the clouds, looking down, He felt the sorrow for the world and of how He wanted all of them to know His love. He would be leaving soon. Leaving this throne above, His Father who loved Him so deeply, and His home in heaven. Leaving to be born of a virgin, in a lowly manger, in the city of David. (Luke 2) He could have been born in a palace, born to be on a throne like He deserved, but He humbled Himself for us. He grew up learning his step Father’s trade, learning how to read, how to play, learning how to be a little boy. Never back talking, never fighting, because He was PERFECT.  He knew, that someday He would be betrayed by one of the men who said they would always follow Him, He would be denied by one of the men who said He could never deny Him. 

He became a man, a perfect man, preformed miracles, followed His Father’s will no matter what. He stood in front of the angry people, and beside Him stood a criminal. He knew that this cup could not pass away from Him. The crowd was angrier now, they were screaming, “Crucify Him, Crucify Him!” The soldiers released the criminal, and took the perfect Son of God to where he would be crucified. But on His face was not anger or condemnation, but sorrow and unconditional love for the ones He came to save. Crying out in pain as He was beaten, mocked, tortured, spit on, and humiliated. This was too much for His disciples to bare. This humble, perfect, and holy man, who was all man and all God was taking the sin of the world on His shoulders so we wouldn’t have to be separated from God(John 1:29, “next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away sin world.”) This man wasn’t just a man dying on a cross. He is Jesus Christ who died on a cross and busted the grave wide open three days later. He is the Holy and perfect son of God. John 14:6  “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” He is the only way to heaven, and He’s not just a man. 

Invite Christ into your heart and life today. Pray and ask Forgiveness of your sins and become a child of God.  1 John 1:9,  “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 

~Beautifully Created 4 Christ~

~Philippians 1:6~