Sex & Intimacy

Any girl can give a guy what he "wants," but it takes a woman to give a guy what he needs.

I'm amazed at how many young "Christians" think it is ok to have sex outside of marriage these days.... We should be a holy people and should not stir those things up until we have given ourselves to a spouse in marriage! Then you have the rest of your life to enjoy those things with your spouse, in the beautiful and perfect way God designed it for! Young Christians, rise up and take your place as pure and holy people! If you've messed up in the past, repent and let the blood of Jesus wash that stain away and move on and live pure and holy from this day forward!

"Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you
by the gazelles and the wild does of the field:
do not stir up or awaken love
until the appropriate time." (Song of Solomon 2:7 HCSB)

"I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you never [again attempt to] stir up or awaken love until it pleases." (Song of Solomon 8:4 AMP)

Be Careful with Spiritual Things!

Thoughts for today:

Some people are granola Christians... Nuts, fruits, and flakes all tossed together! Some people mistake being fruity with being spiritual. A lot of what I see being exalted as the supernatural and spiritual maturity is nothing more than pseudo-christian witchcraft.

We must be very careful in desiring certain manifestations because there is such a thing as "familiar spirits." To an immature christian such voices and manifestations can seem like the Holy Spirit, when in reality they are nothing more than the enemy leading you astray.

Be VERY guarded with the things you open yourself up to! Be VERY careful who you allow to speak into your life! And just because someone claims to have heard the voice of God say some powerful word or revelation, doesn't mean it was actually God speaking! The Word should ALWAYS be your final authority! If what is spoken doesn't line up with the Word, cast it aside.... The Word and the Spirit will ALWAYS agree!

JRT

Finding God's Heart...

God's Number one interest is PEOPLE!!!
No matter what failures, shortcomings, sins they may carry... They are people just like you, and if you want to truly know the Father, and have His heart, you will get out and reach out to people with love!

Too many of us spend our time shut up in a room "studying" and "fellowshipping" with the Father, I am not negating those things by any means! BUT, if you want to truly and honestly get in tune with the Father's heart... You will do as he did! You will reach out and touch lives with love! I hear of many not wanting to associate with sinners or people on a lesser spiritual plane than themselves, what immature thinking that is indeed!!! God sent His son down to the earth... He walked among sinners, unrighteous wretches, and the like... And yet, he never stuck his nose up in the air because he was Holy, he never shut himself away all day long to spend time with His Father, He never chose to avoid those people for fear they would tait his image or reputation... Rather he dined with them, stooped down in the dirt to where they were and touched them with love and compassion, and it was such actions and character that made him stir something within the hearts of men and women that he came in contact with! Something that ignited a passion for change!

You want to know God's heart???
You want to turn your world upside down???
You want to start a revival that can't be stopped???
Then reach out and touch the lives of people by giving them your time! Reach out to them with love and compassion! Allow the Holy Spirit to correct and change their lifestyle, not your condemnation and judgement!

You want to really know God's heart? Look into the eyes of the next drug addict, alcoholic, or girl on the corner you see... Look deep into their eyes and see the hopelessness, hurt, pain, lack of self-worth... And then feel the compassion rise up inside of you wanting to take away that hurt... In that moment, you have found the heart of God!

Be Like the Nile!

Many times I find it interesting the drastic steps some believers will take to "sow seed." I have often seen where some people even manipulate others under the guise of helping them get some "seed" in the ground. I am all for the biblical examples of seedtime and harvest, but I am also for the examples of being a good steward with what God has given us! No, we shouldn't be stingy and hoard up the 

blessings, but at the same time we shouldn't give away what we don't have to give. Being a good steward and a good giver are both important aspects of successful christian living and living a life of victory. If your idea of being a good steward means being greedy and never giving out, you'll be like the Dead Sea... the blessings will just die and you won't make room for new blessings to come your way, you'll basically become steril. If your idea of being a good giver is just giving away stuff that you don't have to give (like "faith" checks or "faith" charges to your credit card) you'll dry out like a well in the desert that just gives and gives and never gets replenished. But if we are good stewards and biblical givers we will be like the Nile. In seasons of plenty it fertilizes the ground around it, carrying seed to it, and as it shrinks down in season of dryness, a harvest is reaped from the seed sown! It is always flowing giving of its abundance to the land, creating fertile ground, and reaping a harvest from that.

So anyway, just some thoughts I had today... :)

Good verses to read along these lines:

Luke 19:11-27

Matthew 25:14-30

Titus 1:7-9

Hebrews 13:5

1 Timothy 5:8

Acts 20:35

Luke 12:42-46

Proverbs 11:24

Ephesians 4:28

Luke 14:12-14

Luke 16:10

Deuteronomy 14:22-29

Romans 14:23

Til next Time, 

JRT

Think, Before You Speak or Act!

"The Girl you just called fat? She is overdosing on diet pills. The Girl you just called ugly? She spends hours putting makeup on just hoping people will like her. That man with the ugly scars? He fought for our country. The boy you just laughed at? He's already being abused at home.
This world tears down. This world promotes decay. This world cheats to get ahead. Jesus taught us to be different. To live different. To show compassion. To be salt and light."

We must be careful with how we talk about people, treat people, and the words we use! Every person has emotions and a heart that can feel love or pain. For us to be jerky and walk out of love is NOT being the image of Christ that we are called to be to this world! We are to exhibit God's love to BOTH sinners AND saints, not just the sinners. The Word tells us, "Those who hate other believers are in the dark and live in the dark. They don't know where they're going, because they can't see in the dark." (1 John 2:11 GWT), "Anyone who hates another brother or sister is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don't have eternal life within them." (1 John 3:15 NLT). "Whoever says, "I love God," but hates another believer is a liar. People who don't love other believers, whom they have seen, can't love God, whom they have not seen." (1 John 4:20 GWT).

Universalism is Trying to Cripple the Church!

Universalism is trying to cripple the church and satan is clever, he is using the most pure and amazing thing about the Gospel, God's Love and Grace, to do it! He is cleverly twisting scripture and people's beliefs, to turn the people of God away from truth and straight into error, under the guise of "the move of God"... Without them even realizing it!

What is a TRUE Friend??

The older I get the more I realize how truly expressive the traditional wedding vows are of true friendship. "For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health."
Many who say these vows are doing so with the person they call their best friend, their love, their spouse. It wasn't until recently I realized just how powerful those vows are in relation to friendship.

A marriage is one of the highest forms of covenant between two individuals in our modern society, but not only that, a marriage is a true expression of a true friendship! As I began thinking about wedding vows that I heard in a movie recently and also thinking about "friendships" in my own life... I realized how much we have missed. So often we focus on the negative circumstances in those vows, the "when things get rough and your world is falling apart you can count on me" times. But, there's a flip side to that. It should be just as important to be there in the "I'm on top of the world" times! That's a successful relationship, whether it be marriage or friendship, when you are there and committed in EVERY season of life.