Chasing You....Jenn Johnson..Bethel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCGJUcor30M

Love this song, and great to work out to..... We take time in other relationships, to see if this is the one. Why not try the lasting One first?   God is exciting, fun. Discover for yourself, the trill, the rush, everything about Him leaves you wanting more!!!

Some people tell me that a relationship with God isn't chasing after Him. I disagree, and here's why. The thrill, the rush, the more I see of Him in all my struggles, the more He leaves me wanting more of Him. I just can't get enough! I love seeing and feeling His heart in all things. The struggles are real, and so is He! He is bigger than anything I will ever face, and death being the last thing. We all will face it. Question is are you ready? If you aren't ready to die, you can't really live. My pastor always says that, and it is so true.

This life is truly a wild crazy adventure. But with Jesus, it is so exciting! There are things that I will never have the answers to. But as long as I have Christ, I don't need to know everything. One thing I am sure of is His promises. I trust Him with the life He gave me. His promises have been true for me for all the years I have been in a relationship with Him. He hasn't let me down, and I know He never will. Do I get mad at Him sometimes? Yes! But don't you get mad and question your earthly parents as well? His shoulders are much bigger. You may leave Him. But He will never leave you.

Things won't always be alright in this life. They certainly weren't for Jesus, or any of His followers then, or now. So why should it be any different for me. Jesus can't make everything alright. The struggles of life are real. All we have  to do is bring Jesus into our struggles. That's what makes everything alright. Even if things don't go away, there is a peace, there is a strength, there is a joy, because Jesus is with you. Isaiah 40: 31, "But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength."...... Isaiah 41: 10, "Don't be afraid, for I am with you...I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand."

What great promises I don't ever want to live without! So I think I will continue "Chasing You" Jesus. You've won me heart and soul. I'm after Your heart in all things. I love being Your child.

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What a Beautiful Name.....Hillsong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQWFzMvCfLE

What a Beautiful song for the most Beautiful Name... Jesus!!!!

I don't know if you have ever experienced the Living God of the Bible, but I can tell you that He is SO MUCH MORE than just a story in those pages. He's Beautiful, He's Wonderful, HE'S POWERFUL!!! He's alive in me today, and you, if only you would invite Him in. This surrender of my life to Him has been the most wonderful exciting journey. The great thing about it is, even when I die here, it really just begins for ALL ETERNITY! Praise You Jesus, and thank you my love.

Acts 2: 24, "It was impossible for death to keep it's hold on Him."....John 1: 1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."   (The Word was Jesus) Revelations 1: 8, "I Am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord, "Who is, and Who was, and Who is to come, the Almighty."

That's all the truth I need to know. Yet I will continue to always seek to know Him more.

I know without a shadow of a doubt that nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand against the Name of Jesus. It can't, because nothing has that much power. Not even death! I know that I am in the land of the dying. We are all going to die and that is a fact. Luke 24: 5, ..."Why are you looking for the living among the dead?" I love this whole chapter!! I feel for you if you don't believe these beautiful words of life. Jesus is Who He said He is. John 8: 58, "before Abraham was born, I Am!" Meaning He was, and still is, and is to come again. Believe it or not, but I hope you choose to believe by faith.

If you ask Him to show Himself to you, He will in many ways. It may not be in the way you expect Him to, but you will know it was Him. I pray you have a lifetime of experiences after that.

You will see for yourself....... "What a Beautiful Name it is" whenever you say it... JESUS

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Miracles....Jesus Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-auXYdMSGM

Well football season is over till next season. What a great Super Bowl! It was one heck of a game. But it wasn't a miracle that the Patriots won. They are just a great team, and Brady is an unbelievable quarterback. I always seem to go for the underdog. But this time I was really hoping someone else would get a turn instead of Brady's 5th. Oh well, it is what it is.

I talked to a lot of Patriot fans at my job, and I asked them if they got worried in the first half. They said... "No way!" I said, "your kidding me?" They said, "If you watched and followed Brady as much as I do, you would have complete faith in him."

Wow!!! I walked away and said, "I am writing a blog on this one." A lot of people today think followers of Jesus are being defeated. It may look that way to unbelievers, but true followers know the end of the story.

Football is just a game. Life is for real, and I play it seriously! I've experienced the God of "Miracles" many times in my life, and I know I will continue to, because I follow Him VERY CLOSELY. I have COMPLETE faith in Him. Maybe you as an unbeliever have never experienced the God of miracles. One day you might find yourself calling out to Him. I pray it's not to late. Most of us don't really build on this love relationship until we are desperate, and that's O.K with God. He just desires us to come. Revelations 1:7, "Look, He is coming with the clouds," and "every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him"; and all people on earth "will mourn for Him.".... I love this whole chapter. So powerful! Look at verses 17 and 18.

I don't know what to tell you if you don't believe. Or if you don't have this love relationship, and just have religion. There is a big difference in a love relationship. You can't get enough. I can only pray that one day you will choose to follow Him closer, and seek Him deeper than anything else in your life. You will NEVER be the same. Like I said once before.... I don't claim to know it all. I didn't come to this love relationship till my late thirties, and I do know the difference it's made in my life.

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What would I have done.....Bethel Church

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HaQ2zpourE

I hope you find comfort and strength in these verses: John 15: 56.... Colossians 2: 7.... Revelations 22: 16..... Jeremiah 17: 7-8

Sweet Jesus, "What would I have done" if it wasn't for Your love? The love that tore the veil inside my heart. What would I have become if it wasn't for Your blood?"

I was reading a devotional the other day about a dome built in Arizona, where they were growing trees inside a huge windless bubble called, Biosphere 2. The grew faster than normal until suddenly they collapsed under their own weight. The researchers came up with this explanation: These trees needed wind stress to grow strong in their rooting. Wow!!!

Just like us. Can you imagine living in a protective bubble? How would we grow? How would our faith and trust become strong if there was nothing that came our way to have faith and trust.

We live in a real world, not a protective bubble. It is filled with the winds of life that are going to blow. Sometimes more than we can stand, understand, or have the answers to. What are you rooted in? Or better said: When no one else has the answers for you, and your situation hasn't changed, who do you go to then?

Even if I don't have all the answers to everything that is allowed to come my way, I stand firm in what I believe of this world, 1 Corinthians 16: 13. Jesus has gone before me, and I keep my trust in Him to bring me through. Even if it is the end of my story here. I pray I brought Him glory, and led more people to this hope I have. His love has won my heart and trust. No matter what happens, victory is mine in Jesus!

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