Smith files: January 2013

Monday, January 21, 2013

Unnecessary

Have you ever been caught off guard when you read a story and it related to your life?

Well I have, every single day! I am fine with it because I know that it is a message from God. Today my message was to stop letting things use my time when it is unnecessary. I do this all the time too, guilt as charge and the sad part is I always tell myself I will get better. You know what it never gets to that point, maybe I shouldn't lie to myself like most people do everyday to make their self feel good or to make others happy. Never thought of it that way, well as our flesh begin to have a taste of something bad it chooses to continue to do (occupying your time). When will we ever stop wasting time and doing what we suppose to do? Don't you wish we had more time in the day, well we do have twelve hours, don't you think that enough. Just image walking with Jesus or being one of His followers every minute, second, and hour was used to help others or feed the hungry. Lets stop wasting our time and be more like Jesus. Pray that I stop lying to myself and be real. Have a blessed night!

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Pray for the world

I have been hit on the head again last night but not literally, what I mean is that my friend brought to my attention that we need to start praying for the world because we are going through tough times and we need our "body if Christ" to start praying if haven't started yet. When I say "Body if Christ" I mean Christians, followers of Christ. This world is going through a lot, and that mean for us that we need to start praying for families that are sick or going through family loss, they need our prayers and don't forget to pray for your family too. So after this being brought to my attention, I want to put in action that we start praying for a different country each week starting off with Afghanistan.
Their land is always being destroy because of bombs and war and majority of their religion is IsIam, they are not free to talk about any other religion that is not theirs. Pray for the Christians that goes over there to speak the truth.
Have a blessed day!
Let's put our best foot forward

Monday, January 14, 2013

Discipline

"To learn you must love discipline". (Proverbs 12:1)

When I read this scripture it hit me really hard because these few words are so powerful. When you look at them you think this is it, but do you see the words. Discipline stuck out to me like a sore thumb because I need discipline in my life. I need discipline on eating, sleeping, getting in the word, goals and other things because I am losing control. That not a bad thing to lose control and to let God take the wheel but I need to step up too if I want to change for the better. I want to be like Jesus I say to myself because He was discipline and had self-control on everything. We should all model after Him, but we don't because the way the world has our mind twisted. Think about and have a blessed day!!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

WWJD?

What does WWJD stand for to you? It means " WHAT WOULD JESUS DO?". I remember when I first saw this and I was like what is the meaning of this. When I was taught the meaning, I was not shock about it but it also didn't sink in for me to understand. I didn't understand it completely because I didn't know Jesus. Jesus was so far from because of the things I was going through at the time. I didn't give Him a second or first thought because I was so lost.

If you are a believer you know that "WWJD" is a powerful saying if you think about. If we all lived by this saying than we would make better decisions. When I look or hear this phase I think to myself what would Jesus do, He would not curse, fight, lie, cheat, or say things He don't mean to say. So when you see this phrase don't just bypass it stop and think about the meaning behind it. Have a blessed day.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Polyvore Mistake

Lately you have noticed other post that I have on my blog that are just pictures, well I don't know how to take them off, so enjoy the fashionable pictures also. Have a blessed night!

Sinner

Have you had a sin that was so bad to you that you wanted to get rid of it, but could not.
When I came closer to Christ almost five years ago Whooohooo! (could not have done this without God), I was lost on the whole sinner thing. I went to church almost everyday when I was younger but I still did not pick it up. The reason why I didn't understand sin because to me it was another home from home, but I would rather be at church than at my real house at times. So all those years seating at church I did not get one ounce of knowledge about God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit because I was too busy sleeping in church.

I got baptized when I was twelve years old and didn't know why, all I know was that I ended up in a chair in front of the church asking for my name and the next thing I was being prep for baptism. After baptism I saw how everyone looked at me like it was the best thing to do which was but I did't know, all I knew was after being baptize you could not sin anymore to my knowledge anyway. When I was twelve I thought sin was killing someone, fighting, cursing, and etc. The thing that I didn't know was I forgot my "mind" which sin too because of my thoughts of others when I was mad or sad and I had lots of angry thoughts because I was picked on when I was in elementary and middle school. I always thought that I was a good girl until my second freshmen year in college and I prayed to God while I was in church because as usually I was falling asleep again in church.

My prayer:

Father please help me because I am not getting your message like I want to.

When I prayed that prayer God sent so many people in my life that it was crazy, now I fast forward and after reading a chapter out of a book my friend gave me call "God is in the small stuff for the Graduate", and I realized I really can't get rid of a sin unless I give it over to God. I need to stop controlling cause when I do it never work out for the best. If you are controlling your life now stop and give it over to God, it will change your life..