Be Real.
God has truly been working miracles in my marriage and in this pregnancy. I'm excited about the future, and I've come to realize that our prayers do matter and what we say and how we act must connect. Tina and I have recently receive great news about her being pregnant and about the possibility of seeing a mid-wife as we intended last year.
Ever since the news of the pregnancy... life has seemed to take on a new status, and what I mean by this is that the small stuff, the work stuff doesn't affect me as it used to. I'm starting to live with an understanding that just about all things are expendable... except for my Faith, my marriage and this child. That if we are to truly live we must live with both wisdom and reliance. Life is a risk, and living out risks creates opportunity and potential. Of course we must assume responsibility when taking risks and seek God in prayer and hold counsel with those in our community... and yet we must risk or suffer becoming stagnant and part of a system that wants nothing to do with God.
I have 3 weeks of school left, and I'm truly revved up for this spring and summer. When you are involved in what Gods doing, your life and everyone in it take on a new flavor and feel. In my understanding of things... Words matter and prayer matters. What we say and who we say it to can spell out life and can just as easily lead to death. In our culture today words have become watered down, we seek to look around and above and beyond what is said to us.
I love you - may just not mean that exactly.
I miss you - may just mean something altogether different.
I'm pregnant -can bring out a million different emotions, some close and some far from one another.
I will - this can mean everything and nothing all at the same time.
Words have weight, and power and conviction. Words bring about presidents and rulers. Words bring about hope, courage and anticipation for something amazing and yet words can bring about doom, fear, tragedy and death.
If we say one thing and do another- we face become liars.
If we say one thing and our actions resemble something different - we are 1. absolutely human
and 2. already liars.
As a Christian, as a child of God... I believe that what I say matters. I believe in speaking to the source of all creation. I believe that as a finite being I can speak to the infinite. I believe that as a flesh and body individual I can speak to a personal, all consuming power. I'm in love with the idea that I'm a child still learning to walk, that I have a Father who continues to teach, lead and love me through out all of my falls and bruised knees.
So if I tell you that my God, my Jesus lives, and reigns and has defeated sin and death.
I mean it. Because my words matter.
If I tell you that my God, my Jesus provides, heals and sustains lives and completes pregnancies.
I mean that to. Because I'm willing to bet that you will call me out on my words.
Do I understand that things can go wrong?
Of course because I've lived in this world for 26 years.
Do I believe that things are different with Jesus?
Yes. I absolutely believe things are different with Jesus. My life is different now, not because I do not sin, or suffer, or fall into tragedy... no my life is different now because I know who to lean on and grow from. I have very little to say about tragedy, because I'm immersed in hope, and love, and life.
God is Good and yet is he able to be trusted?
Absolutely.
God is Good, he is solid, and loving, and encouraging, and believable, and passionate, and a creator, and sustainer, and Father, and Lord, and friend, and more than able to accommodate for my inadequacies.
I believe in this pregnancy, because I believe in my Faith. Yet my Faith is only believable because it is Christs Faith and not my own.
Words matter, and so do prayers. Be organic, talk with God and converse with Him anywhere and everywhere. Pray, scream, cry, grow, live and love.
Be romantic, but be real.
Peace be with You.
- Lance
-Thank you Father for this child, thank you Lord that we can dependant on you. I speak life into this baby, I speak life into my wife and this babies mother. Lord we commit our lives to you, and Father we pray for sustained life, for blood flow, organ growth and health in the powerful name of Jesus. We claim these things in Jesus name and through the Holy Spirit we pray.
Amen.
Ever since the news of the pregnancy... life has seemed to take on a new status, and what I mean by this is that the small stuff, the work stuff doesn't affect me as it used to. I'm starting to live with an understanding that just about all things are expendable... except for my Faith, my marriage and this child. That if we are to truly live we must live with both wisdom and reliance. Life is a risk, and living out risks creates opportunity and potential. Of course we must assume responsibility when taking risks and seek God in prayer and hold counsel with those in our community... and yet we must risk or suffer becoming stagnant and part of a system that wants nothing to do with God.
I have 3 weeks of school left, and I'm truly revved up for this spring and summer. When you are involved in what Gods doing, your life and everyone in it take on a new flavor and feel. In my understanding of things... Words matter and prayer matters. What we say and who we say it to can spell out life and can just as easily lead to death. In our culture today words have become watered down, we seek to look around and above and beyond what is said to us.
I love you - may just not mean that exactly.
I miss you - may just mean something altogether different.
I'm pregnant -can bring out a million different emotions, some close and some far from one another.
I will - this can mean everything and nothing all at the same time.
Words have weight, and power and conviction. Words bring about presidents and rulers. Words bring about hope, courage and anticipation for something amazing and yet words can bring about doom, fear, tragedy and death.
If we say one thing and do another- we face become liars.
If we say one thing and our actions resemble something different - we are 1. absolutely human
and 2. already liars.
As a Christian, as a child of God... I believe that what I say matters. I believe in speaking to the source of all creation. I believe that as a finite being I can speak to the infinite. I believe that as a flesh and body individual I can speak to a personal, all consuming power. I'm in love with the idea that I'm a child still learning to walk, that I have a Father who continues to teach, lead and love me through out all of my falls and bruised knees.
So if I tell you that my God, my Jesus lives, and reigns and has defeated sin and death.
I mean it. Because my words matter.
If I tell you that my God, my Jesus provides, heals and sustains lives and completes pregnancies.
I mean that to. Because I'm willing to bet that you will call me out on my words.
Do I understand that things can go wrong?
Of course because I've lived in this world for 26 years.
Do I believe that things are different with Jesus?
Yes. I absolutely believe things are different with Jesus. My life is different now, not because I do not sin, or suffer, or fall into tragedy... no my life is different now because I know who to lean on and grow from. I have very little to say about tragedy, because I'm immersed in hope, and love, and life.
God is Good and yet is he able to be trusted?
Absolutely.
God is Good, he is solid, and loving, and encouraging, and believable, and passionate, and a creator, and sustainer, and Father, and Lord, and friend, and more than able to accommodate for my inadequacies.
I believe in this pregnancy, because I believe in my Faith. Yet my Faith is only believable because it is Christs Faith and not my own.
Words matter, and so do prayers. Be organic, talk with God and converse with Him anywhere and everywhere. Pray, scream, cry, grow, live and love.
Be romantic, but be real.
Peace be with You.
- Lance
-Thank you Father for this child, thank you Lord that we can dependant on you. I speak life into this baby, I speak life into my wife and this babies mother. Lord we commit our lives to you, and Father we pray for sustained life, for blood flow, organ growth and health in the powerful name of Jesus. We claim these things in Jesus name and through the Holy Spirit we pray.
Amen.
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