Life Stories

God has given us 66 books full of the life stories of His people.

These stories have taught us what we know about God. I believe that when we here other peoples stories, where they are in there lives, where they have come from, what they are doing now, we have the opportunity to get more inspiration from God and find out a little more about Him and ourselves.

So please share with us a little piece of your life’s story, tell us what God has done in your life. Tell us about the last time you felt his presence.

Tell us how he changed your life.

Remain anonymous if you want. It’s the story of your life that matters here.

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Tubu…What Jesus Said #2

So Jesus enters into the full swing of his ministry at thirty years old  and he starts telling everyone:

“Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand” Matthew 4:17.

I imagine everyone looking at him with raised eyebrows.  Elbowing each other in sarcasm- “Look at this guy!”  This Jesus the Nazarene is going around telling people to “repent”.  Actually he’s saying something in Aramaic…a word scholars believe sounds like

Tubu

We get the word repent from the greek translation which uses the word

Metanoeo

Tubu = Metanoeo = Repent

Someone once explained to me that repentance is asking forgiveness of your sins and never doing them again.  Sound familiar?

The problem with this is not that it is a lie, it’s just incomplete. The most important part of repentance actually makes the asking forgiveness easier.  It makes the “never doing them again” possible.

If you take the word Metanoeo and break it down you have two parts:  Meta and Noeo,
Meta derives from the Greek language meaning “among, with, after, change.”
Noeo derives also from the Greek Language and means to “think, understand”
If we do this we see that Metanoeo means – to change your thoughts or understanding.

Change the way you think for the Kingdom of God is at hand.

What does changing your thoughts have to do with sin?
You have to think about an action before you do it right? If only for a split second?

Naturally, If we change our thoughts we change our actions.

Maybe in order to repent we need to change the way we think about ourselves and God. I know from experience that the process of changing my thoughts is a continual duty. Maybe the process of repentance is also continual. I believe that once we change our thoughts about God and look toward Him for help it gives God the room he needs to give us His Spirit to mold us into the people he has always wanted us to be.

Maybe the first thing we should do is to change our thoughts about God.
Believe that He just might be who He says he is.
Believe that He just might be able to change everything about us.
Believe that He loves us for who we are.

Then we will want to apologize for our sin and

we just might mean it.

Believe in Him because His kingdom is right at your fingertips…

“Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand”

 

How willing are we to change?

How willing are we to change?

I find it very hard to make changes, big or small. We find it more comfortable, easier, doing the things that we have always done and are very quick to say no to anything that might take us away from our “normal”.

I once heard someone say “Every second is a chance to turn your whole life around”.

I woke up at 7 am EST today. It is now 1:45 pm EST.
That is 6 hours and 45 minutes. 405 minutes I’ve been awake.

24,300 seconds.

So far I have passed up 24,300 chances, today, to make changes in my life that would      benefit not just myself but everyone around me.

We have 86,400 chances per 24 hour day to change.

Eighty Six Thousand, Four Hundred CHANCES to turn it all around!

Think about your life for a few moments…

Is there anything you believe needs to change?

Will you join me in making the necessary changes to better our lives?

15 more chances have passed…

What are you going to do?