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(no subject) [Mar. 7th, 2005|07:29 pm]
[Current Music |lifehouse_everything]

there are so many people that need jesus. my huge flaw is that i don't take it into action. i face a problem that is so easy to fall under as a christian.

i don't have any non-christian friends.

i realize that is a good thing, i mean, we're not supposed to make non-christians our best friends, right? but i need to learn how to reach out better.

inside my heart i want EVERYONE to know jesus.

i want everyone in dutch fork high school to know him, and i want everyone in the world to know him. but i'm not doing a very good job of showing it. i mean, i've had this on my mind a lot lately and so i've asked god to show me some opportunities where i can talk to people who don't know him, and i think that i've passed them by. i hate to say it too. but it's true.
i just get so afraid. sometimes god is like 'hey laura, look at that girl sitting over there by herself, you should go talk to her' and i totally ignore it. then later that night i'll be praying and god makes me think about it again, and i really think about how much of a difference i could have made in that girl's life. she could have been a drug-addict-dog-smelling-abusive boyfriend victim-normal girl on the inside kind of person that was just looking for a way out. looking for an answer that I KNEW...and i did nothing. nothing. just the thought of that makes me want to cry. it makes me feel so...useless.

if every christian went to heaven as soon as they were baptized, who would there be left?

Find Me Here
Speak To Me
I want to feel you
I need to hear you
You are the light
That's leading me
To the place where I find peace again.

You are the strength, that keeps me walking.
You are the hope, that keeps me trusting.
You are the light to my soul.
You are my purpose...you're everything.

How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

You calm the storms, and you give me rest.
You hold me in your hands, you won't let me fall.
You steal my heart, and you take my breath away.
Would you take me in? Take me deeper now?

How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
And how can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?

Cause you're all I want, You're all I need
You're everything,everything

these aren't just lyrics. god calls us to do so much more than what we think about. while i'm sitting here getting ready to study some world history, there is a god that's watching over me. there's a god that is patiently waiting for me to listen to him, to follow him, to LOVE him with such a love that is greater than any words that i can give anyone.

How can I stand here with you and not be moved by you?
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(no subject) [Feb. 15th, 2005|09:04 pm]
[Current Mood | good]
[Current Music |Jars of Clay_Like a Child]

John 11:35

I encourage you to take the time to read this passage. This single verse is the shortest verse in the bible (in case you've heard of it before), and it shows so much. Just think about how much Jesus loved this woman in the story.
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Just another God song [Jan. 19th, 2005|04:24 pm]
[Current Mood | excited]
[Current Music |Come Thou Fount_David Crowder]

Your voice like the shadows, mysterious and ever blowing
wakes my mind to your love
Your ways, always showing-make me want to be like You
come show me the way, oh God and I will listen to You

You show me and you know me
Please make me hear
You hold me and you love me
Help me listen

My Jesus-you have power over me, make me be quiet,
this is my plea
God I need you to lead me through the stormy clouds-through the muddy waters, through the valley shadows
You have the power to creep up on me in the middle of my glorious self
As soon as I'm brought down I'm picked back up

God please save me from myself

I'm so sick of listening to me-
I'm tired of ignoring You
I can't erase the picture of Your death from my mind-
because I know you're guilty.
All the times I've brought you down, I've beat you up
were all on You-
were all killed with you-
all of them

My Glorious Lord, you know my lies,
you hear all my prayers-
God hear me
Take my stress, take my pain
save all my tears and screams
so that when I die, they become tears of joy and shouts of happiness

You show me and you know me
Please make me hear
You hold me and you love me
Help me listen
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(no subject) [Dec. 28th, 2004|04:39 pm]
[Current Mood | thoughtful]
[Current Music |Cool Hand Luke_Sequence #3]

Alright, take a look at my background. It's Jesus. Notice how disgusting and bloody he is. This is real. He suffered that much. Do you know why? For our stupidity. For our mistakes. For our secularism. For our sins. Every single drop of blood and piece of dirt on His skin symbolizes all the stupidness. All the mistakes are covered. Do you realize how incredible this is? All the blood that was spilled off his body on the ground on his way to die was for you. Was for me.

“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the BLOOD OF JESUS, His Son, purifies us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7

So when He died, he was completely guilty. All that blood that was spilled was OUR FAULT. But the awesome thing is He did it. He died. All the blood that was spilled (symbolizes our sins) died along with Him. We are pure because of the death of our sins. Because of the death of our mistakes, our secularism, our worldliness, our lies, we are PERFECT in HIS EYES. As long as Jesus' life is in your heart, His death is over your sins.

“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.” 1 John 1:7

"...we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all." Hebrews 10:10

I've realized how bad this world is, and that sometimes my innocent heart can't take it. I hate the fact that people so easily just mock Jesus' life, and even worse when they mock his death. His life was so sacred, so...well, I can't really explain it. But the problem with this world is that they don't really realize just how incredible Jesus' sacrifice was. If people would just...I don't know. And it makes me so sad. I can't imagine how it makes God feel. He just cries so long and hard when He sees people wronging Him. I wish there was something I could do. I wish I knew what I could do.
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answers [Dec. 27th, 2004|09:38 pm]
[Current Mood | creative]
[Current Music |Coldplay_the Scientist]

Sometimes I try to explain how awesome God is, and try to find words to describe him. But I can't. Noone can describe his Greatness. Sometimes I really wish I could though. If someone said,"Explain God in one word" I wouldn't be able to. I mean think about all the names Jesus has: Messiah, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Prince of Peace, Lord of All, Emmanuel, Alpha and Omega, Awesome One, Bridegroom, etc. etc. The truth is that no one can understand God enough to put it into words. He is SO much more than words. If you put words to His greatness, then it would loose it's meaning after a while. I mean, think about the word 'love.' Love is the thing that holds this world together, and it's thrown around like a frisbee on a really nice day in the horseshoe downtown.
So maybe I don't want to describe God. His awesomeness is in my heart whether or not I can put it in words.
When I find myself unable to feel it in my heart I just listen to the words of CHL:

I wish that there were just a word
For what you mean to me
I would only say it once
In hushed tones so it would not grow old
But all I have Is, "I love you"
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(no subject) [Dec. 27th, 2004|02:09 pm]
[Current Mood | geeky]
[Current Music |Cool Hand Luke_I'm Not Running]

Lately I've been listening to the cool hand luke CD, Fires of Life. Their songs have some of the greatest words. It's so awesome to listen to it. This is one of them:

Hey, it's me
I'm sorry it's so late
I can't sleep I knew you'd be awake
You're always home
Waiting by the phone
For nights like these When I'm feeling all alone
I wish it didn't always have to be this way
I wish that I could talk to you face to face
But nothing compares to the way You always listen
and know just what to say
Hold my hand
I can't stand alone
Here I am Waiting for you to take me home
Oh, I just want to sing
I wish that there were just a word
For what you mean to me
I would only say it once
In hushed tones so it would not grow old
But all I have Is, "I love you"
You're my Jesus, You're my hero
Everything I wish that I could be

You're the one who comforts me

When everyone has gone away

I can't stand alone
Here I am Waiting for you to take me home
I will keep on singing becaue you hear me
And I will keep on smiling because you're near me
I'll sleep well in a promise tonight
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This explains so much [Dec. 24th, 2004|01:26 pm]
[Current Music |Light Up Ahead_Further Seems Forever]

Take this heart of darkness
I give it up
and all the emptiness
you fill it up
the times that I feel nothing
you bring enough
SO I CAN LIVE FOR SOMETHING
YOU LIFT ME UP!

and all these bad dreams
I wake up to the light
and when I can't see
I wake up to your eyes

Wake me up
there's a light up ahead
there's a light up ahead
there's a light up ahead
wake me up
there's a light up ahead

Wake me up
it gets so complicated
if you live enough
turn in to what you hated
you're breaking up
The times I feel like nothing
you bring enough
So I can live for something
You lift me up!

and all these bad dreams
I wake up to the light
and when I can't see
I wake up to your eyes

Wake me up
there's a light up ahead
there's a light up ahead
there's a light up ahead
wake me up
there's a light up ahead
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? [Dec. 21st, 2004|03:15 pm]
[Current Mood | relaxed]
[Current Music |Te deum_Arvo Part]

some of my questions of life:
-why is it that people always want what they can't have?
-why is it so much easier to hate than it is to love?
-how come most of the redemption you find comes not from total forgiveness, but from time?
-how come people expect other ppl to keep their promises, but won't keep ones of their own?
-why is the term love both healing and destructive?
...think about it.


"Too many times to count i've been pushed aside, they go on living their lives i've been left behind, noone to run to noone says i love you anymore i need You desperately like the air that i breathe, no matter what's been done or what's been said You still love me as far as the east is from the west my sins are behind me"
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none [Dec. 13th, 2004|07:19 pm]
[Current Mood | creative]
[Current Music |A God song_me]

You know, it's funny how we get so caught up with ourselves in love. When it's really not love! Nope, it's not love, the only love that is real is the love of God. That love that makes you want to cry when you see your mom crying. That love that makes you smile when you see a new life come into the world. And the love that brings tears to your eyes at your grandmothers' funeral. That's real love.
"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still SINNERS, Christ DIED for us." << real love.
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What? [Dec. 4th, 2004|12:50 pm]
[Current Mood | accomplished]
[Current Music |Art in Me_Jars of Clay]

So...God must not exist because there's evil in the world, right? Well...think about this:
Cold is measured by how much heat is not there, it's the absence of heat, not how cold something is.
Darkness is never measured, the amount of light that's missing is what's measured.
Evil is measured by the absence of God.
So where's evil? Does it exist? Can ou measure evil? You can only see evil by taking God out of your life.
Thanks Albert Einstein.
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(no subject) [Nov. 23rd, 2004|04:49 pm]
[Current Mood | tired]
[Current Music |Jars of Clay_Boy on a String]

I broke my wrist this past week, and it really made me think. I mean, God really used it as a knock in the head for me. A broken wrist meant a broken heart when I first found out I broke it. Partly because I was half immoble, but mostly because I couldn't play guitar. Guitar is one thing that I can say God has definitely blessed me with. For a while now I've been using the talent for earthly reasons. God was like, 'I've got control' and He definitely proved it to me. When I realized that, I felt stupid. Sometimes God makes it so obvious and I don't try to listen. God is so awesome. He is so incredibly supreme, and PERFECT. NO OTHER GOD IS PERFECT AND LOVING LIKE HIM. NOONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can you live without Him? I wonder how in the world I could live without Him. Without Him in my life, I would be so lost. He's the one who wakes me up in the morning, who keeps me alive and lets me know everything is okay. I love that! He is SO LOVING!!!!!! He loves me! HE:S MY KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How awesome is the love of God?
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gobble...gobble. [Nov. 23rd, 2004|04:47 pm]
[Current Mood | sleepy]
[Current Music |Jars of Clay_Art in Me]

Thank you God!
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faith [Nov. 16th, 2004|08:22 pm]
[Current Mood | jubilant]
[Current Music |who needs music? God is good!]

So you've got this guy, right? And he is about to walk onto SUPER thin ice, that is sure to break if you step foot on it. And he says he's got the biggest faith, and he believes that the ice will not break with all his heart. So he walks on the ice, and even though he had really great faith, he still falls through. Then this other guy has got a tiny bit of faith, but he walks onto really thick ice that won't break. He walks onto the ice, and it doesn't break through. So why does the guy with little faith get the good outcome? Because it doesn't matter how much faith you have, it matters what you base your faith on.
"I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
Matthew 17:20
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AASDFH SUTUMN!! [Nov. 16th, 2004|04:38 pm]
[Current Mood | jubilant]
[Current Music |The Happy Birthday Song]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUTUMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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(no subject) [Nov. 14th, 2004|01:46 pm]
[Current Mood | ditzy]
[Current Music |Jars of Clay_Eleventh Hour]

Take courage, for I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
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