Looks Like Love To ME!!!!

If you know me you know my one true passion and gift straight from God is singing. I love to sing. I now sing on the 4th Sunday of the month at the nursing home. I choose a solo every month. Today I felt like God wanted me to use the song Looks Like Love To Me. It is one of my all time favorite songs to sing. I will post the song with this. I truely am amazed at how God works through this song. It talks about how the world just sees Jesus dieing on the cross as a cruel act that shows no love or anything. In the chorus it talks about though on that cross that us Christians we see Saviour, Redeemer, Sinless man dieing to set me free, Forgiveness, Grace, and Mercy is all things that we got from that day that Jesus gave up his life for us. I mean he died for each and every one of us!!! That is just amazing! He is nothing but love! I feel like I am just rambling here but what I am trying to get at is that he died to set each and everyone of us free from this world that pushes us down and tells as that we will never be anything. Just need to keep praying that everyone will realize they need God. Take care and have a great week! Thanks for reading!

An Investment Worth Making.

   “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them.  To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag,each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey.  The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more.  So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more.  But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
    “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.  The man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I have gained five more.’
  “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
“The man with two bags of gold also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two bags of gold; see, I have gained two more.’
   “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’
This is Matthew 25:14-23. Jesus used this story to explain how being with God is basically like being in a family business. He doesn't give us all exactly the same things to work with but he gives us what we need to succeed. Everyone has a different talent that God has given. Some are great speakers. Some are amazing with talking with people one on one to help them better understand God. Mine is singing and music. God gave us all unique talents to use to help him. He wants us to use these simple talents to bring other to him. Its making disciples who make disciples. God wants us to bring others closer to him. If you think about it, it should be simple but sometimes its not. That is when we have to keep him the closest and invest in our eternal investment and thats with God.
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True Friends.

Sorry that I haven't blogged in awhile. I have been under the weather and just not very well. I will try to be better about getting this updated more often. If you are anything like me friends mean a lot to you. They can almost decide who you are for you if you aren't careful. I am sure all of you have at least one very close friend that knows basically everything about you and your life. Nothing wrong with that at all. I do that too. I have a question for you though. Do you tend to turn to this friend for advice and comfort more than you turn to God? In the scripture God makes it so clear that he should be our number one friend that we turn to for ANYTHING!
You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. John 15:14-15.
Wow. God calls us friends. Not only are we his children but he thinks of us as so much we are his friends too. Everyone use to feel really distanced from God. But then he send Jesus for us. Jesus came to earth as human, the Son of God. The only perfect human that ever walked this Earth. He came to share the love of his Father. He wanted to give us a chance. Because of Adam and Eve we aren't in a perfect relationship with God. We sin. But now we have Jesus. Then Jesus died on the cross. He died so we could have a second chance. Through his death we can believe that Jesus is the son of God and died especially for US. He died so we could have this relationship with God. He doesn't ever want anything to seperate us from God. Including the world and other friends. I am not saying having a great friend to talk to is a bad thing either. Just make sure you are turning to God when you need to. He is the one that will get you through all of this and help you because life is gonna be tough. Friends usually tell each other everything. God has told us all that he has. It is right there in his word. We just have to read it and have understanding over it. Shouldn't we be telling him everything? Even though he already knows it he still wants to hear it from us. Just try to get into that awesome relationship with God were you know to always go to him first. Kailee Elaine