Since... 1 person i planned to call is busy, another refuses to answer, another one didnt reply and 3 of them i'm taking a break off, and 1 has been given to another person, and 1 i'm calling later and another i'm calling tomorrow.... I shall take some time off to share the good stuff i learnt today. This is the first time in a week i havent felt tired after doing qt but totally awake, which is what i'm supposed to feel, hurrrrray!
Faith is different from hope.
Faith is for the present, hope is for the future.
your faith is at your core, not your mind
like a tree trunk, even if you chop of a leaf or branch or two, it will still survive. but if you chop it at its trunk cross-section, you cut through the core and leave the stump, it will die for sure.
to believe with the heart is to believe in your spirit!!!
head-faith is just intellectual mental acceptance, real faith is built on spiritual truth and acceptance.
faith produces a substance.
just like in chemistry, you are the test tube of ... blabla... then you add in sodium carbonate (faith), and a white ppt is formed.
the white ppt is SOLID. just as your faith is solid.
Genuine faith always produces feelings of faith. I want that faith feeling!
'If you dont have the feeling of faith,
you will surely fall when you
attempt something bigger than your abilities' -pastor phil
and a verse i liked today (:
9 That You may say to the prisoners, ‘Go forth,’
To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
“ They shall feed along the roads,
And their pastures shall be on all desolate heights.
10 They shall neither hunger nor thirst,
Neither heat nor sun shall strike them;
For He who has mercy on them will lead them,
Even by the springs of water He will guide them.
11 I will make each of My mountains a road,
And My highways shall be elevated.
If you've got that real faith, and God is truly your center then like the verse says, you can be homeless, living on the roads... meaning lonely, out in the wilderness, alone, and you'll still be filled to the fullest. If God is your centre, you can be desolate, you can be experiencing ups and downs, but your soul will always be living in the pastures. Cos God says you wont hunger or thirst, He says He'll give you everything you need, He says nothing can harm you. And He says He'll make every mountain, every onstacle, a road to the running towards the finish line of meeting Jesus :)