Oh How He Loves Us!

It’s funny how we have such strict plans for some things then out of nowhere God points us in a completely different direction. For a couple days now I have been working on another note called “When will more be enough” and I am talking about contentment and finding peace with what we have, and I am still super excited about finishing it up but for the past couple of days I believe God has been really trying to get through to me about how serious He is about His love and How much He truly loves me. For the past couple of years my passion and love for helping people and talking with people has grown and has become a roaring fire for God’s ministry, in these years I have told so many different people how much God loves them and How is grace is enough and that there is absolutely nothing that can separate us from God and His love and His grace. But in these past couple years, something really depressing happened to my heart. I got so extremely into sharing with others Gods love for them; I started slowly forgetting that…God loves me too. This past week I had one of the most amazing and encouraging talks with a real close friend and it really sparked something within my heart. We talked about how they have gone through a lot of trails and a lot of different types of problems and through their problems they started thinking about how could God still love me? And hearing those words makes my heart sad, it makes my knees shake, it makes my soul cry out. It does this, because I have experienced Gods love in so many different ways and I know that I have been through so much in my life and I have too asked the question “How could God still love me?” and I am just reminded through Gods word that “Not life or death can separate us from the Love of God” and I told my friend to listen to a song called “How He Loves” by David Crowder that I really like but it never really struck a chord with me until today. I knew I could suggest it because I have heard it help and change so many people’s lives, and in that I had confidence in God that this could help change their life as well. After they had listened to it, they poured out all they had within themselves to me and said how much they needed to hear that song. And from that moment, it really hit me. I have been spending so long telling other people how much God loves them, that I completely forgot…that God loves me too. And at first I was really discouraged by myself for forgetting such an amazing thing, how I could be doing this ministry and completely forget that I am a part of it as well. But then an overwhelming feeling came over my whole being. And God pointed me to truly listen to “How He Loves” and here are the lyrics:

He is jealous for me,
Loves like a hurricane; I am a tree,
Bending beneath the weight of his wind and mercy.
When all of a sudden,
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory,
And I realize just how beautiful You are,
And how great Your affections are for me.

And oh, how He loves us so,
Oh how He loves us,
How He loves us all

Yeah, He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves.


We are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes,
If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking.
And Heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss,
And my heart turns violently inside of my chest,
I don’t have time to maintain these regrets,
When I think about, the way

He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves us,
Oh! how He loves.

It was made known to me tonight that I needed to hear this song, just as badly as my friend did. I think I got so caught up with my own sins and getting myself into having the mindset that there is no help for me when it comes to God’s love so maybe I can share it with others to fill this void in my life. But Gods love has and always will be exactly what I need. After listening to this song and being in complete awe of God’s love I couldn’t help but read John 3:16. And I know it sounds cliché and repetitive to mention this verse when it comes to God’s love but this will always be one of the best verses for displaying God’s love. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life”. Love is such an overused word that has unfortunately has lost close to all meaning. It is almost impossible to live in this world without hearing how someone loves this new song or loves pizza or whatever. I don’t think love was supposed to be thrown around so….carelessly as it is today. In John 3:16, Jesus talks about God’s genuine love for His people. This type of love is profound, life changing, eternal, and unending. Jesus doesn’t refer to God’s love as something common but as a love so strong where He was willing to send His Son, to die for us so that we could have eternal life! I am not a father yet, but I have a soon to be 4 year old nephew who is the closest thing I have to a son, and there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for him. And this type of love is the closest thing we have to comprehend God’s love for us. My love for Nathan is nothing more than genuine and real, he hasn’t done anything to earn my love. I just love him, no questions asked. I know when he grows up he is going to make decisions that I am not 100% proud of, but in no way could he do anything to make me love him less. And God’s love is exactly like that but with everyone, and not only just for everyone but to the point of death. I have been blessed with a lot of amazing friends and family who I wouldn’t think twice about dying for, but could I say I would die for someone I don’t even know? Probably not, and that’s what makes God’s love so truly amazing. One thing that I have come to learn about John 3:16 is that so many people read that and leave it but verse 17 just totally brings it home. “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved”. This verse completely does it for me when it comes to God’s love. It truly portrays how selfless God’s love is, that He sends His son not to condemn us, but to save us. For the rest of my life, I will sing praise to God and give all the glory to Him because His first and only intention with me is to love me and to save me; nothing else, not to condemn me or persecute me, but to save me from my sin; my deep, dark, ugly sin. And going back to the song, the very first line is one of the most profound things I have ever heard in my entire life. The words “He is jealous for me”, at first I didn’t really understand that statement but in the bible it states that we have a jealous God. When we hear jealousy, we automatically think of it as a negative term but when it comes to God it is a complete genuine jealously. He isn’t jealous of me, He is jealous for me, that He doesn’t want some of my love or some of my life; absolutely everything. All of my love, all of my heart, all of my mind, all of my strength, all of my life! God’s love changes people. His love is a love that has turned my life around. God offers us to embrace His grace for our sins, because we have all fallen short, we all deserve nothing but death. But God’s grace and God’s love has saved us from death. I believe that all He truly wants is for us to love Him the way He loves us. 100% committed, genuine, sincere love. And even in the worst of times when we think we have walked beyond God’s grace. In my life I know I have done way too many things that I know I shouldn’t have done and some day’s I sit and I wonder why I did it and I beat myself up over it but in this song, it reminds me to refocus on God’s true love for me and that His grace reaches me wherever I am. I don’t have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way He loves…Me. I could literally sit and talk about God’s love for days and days but praise God I can continue sharing my thoughts thru this small ministry God has me a part of right now.

Praise God! Thank you God for loving me, us, your children, the way you do!

Rediscover You

Rediscover You
by: Starfield

I need to just admit
my faith is paper thin
I'm feeling so burned out
On religion

I say an empty prayer
I sing a tired song
I need to just admit that the passion's gone

And I want to get it back

You told me
Look for You and I will find
So I'm here
Like I'm searching for the first time
Revive me, Jesus
Make this cold heart start to move
Help me rediscover You

I want to learn to pray
The way that David prayed
I want my soul to burn when I hear Your name
I want to feel like new
I want to hunger for you
Bring me back to life like only You can do
Cause I don't want to stay the same

You told me
Look for You and I will find
So I'm here
Like I'm searching for the first time
Revive me, Jesus
Make this cold heart start to move
Help me rediscover You

Lord, I want to be Yours today
I want to know the passion of the saints
And how they were changed

You told me
Look for You and I will find
So I'm here
Like I'm searching for the first time
Revive me, Jesus
Make this cold heart start to move

I want to burn for You
Bring me back to life, Jesus
Help me rediscover You


To truly understand what it means to ‘Rediscover’ God we must know what the word means. The word ‘Rediscover’ means to find out about, or to recognize or realize or to even become aware of something that has been there all along or to remember and find something good or valuable that had been forgotten or lost. Right now I just want us to forget about anything that is going on in our lives that is keeping us from genuinely worshiping God. May we rediscover that Our God is A God who is fully worthy of our praise and come to the table with all of our troubles and worries and remember that Jesus has taken our sins away and that He is holding us and taking care of us when we feel that the tough times are just too hard. And when we remember that may we step back and look in awe of a God of wonders, a God of Grace, and a God of Love. At this time when we partake of the bread and blood may we rediscover the true importance of this life, this ministry that Jesus calls us to be a part of. For us to realize that we are not perfect but we get to be a part of a ministry that leads imperfect people to the one and only divine perfect One. But also at this time may we rediscover the passion that we had when we first began this walk with God. I know for me that this life gets the best of me sometimes and all I can do is just fall to my knees at the feet of Jesus and rediscover who He is in my life. And may we rediscover that God has compassion for His people and that he loves us so very much. The Greek word for ‘Rediscover’ is Anagnorisis (an-ag-nawr-uh-sis) and it means ‘to know again’ so may we rediscover and come to know again that in the good times and bad. God forgives and He loves us.

From the song it says “I want to learn to pray the way that David prayed” this is one of the many lines in the song that jumps out at me. David is a man of true faith, a man after God's own heart. When I think of David, I think of his true, honest and deep prayers to God. Two prayers of David that have been really made known to me in these past couple of weeks are in Psalm 13 and in Psalm 51. In Psalm 13 David prays a prayer of desperation and pleading to God. David is making an honest cry of dependence upon God then finishes with an offering of thanksgiving and gratitude

Psalm 13
1 How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and every day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
3 Look on me and answer, O LORD my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;
4 my enemy will say, "I have overcome him,"
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6 I will sing to the LORD,
for he has been good to me.

In Psalm 51 David prayed this prayer of confession to God after the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba

1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is always before me.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are proved right when you speak
and justified when you judge.
5 Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts;
you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins
and blot out all my iniquity.
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me from your presence
or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

May we pray the way that David prays, being brutally honest and open with God about everything. God blesses us with the opportunity to talk to Him; Prayer, if anything is truth, it’s being honest with our maker. And for David, prayer is so much more than just words, it is David pouring out everything within him to God, may we learn to pray this way. May we rediscover today who God is in our lives today!

I hate saying ‘Good Bye'

I don’t believe saying good bye was ever intended to be easy to do. Obviously the words are quite simple to say but that’s clearly not what I am talking about. I am talking about how it is so emotionally tough to get the words good bye out. Today I just said good bye to my sister and brother-in-law as they move back up north. And they both know that I am a very emotional person but I kept my cool as we had our little good bye moment and when they left I got teary. But for me with these types of situations it is never just a sad feeling. It is a mixture of joy and sadness. Sadness because I really hate saying good bye to people I love so much but also I cried tears of joy because I am just so blessed to have them in my life. Lots of people hate saying good bye because it is something that is inevitable in our lives, it is something that like it or not happens. We all get that feeling inside, that sick feeling when we have to say good bye to the people we care most about. But I have made peace with saying good bye because even though it is sad to see the ones you love leave, I have hope and faith that I will see them again soon. From reading this I want you all to come to peace with the dreadful experience of saying good bye, which it is completely normal to feel the way you do. To be sad, angry or even happy, these emotions are a normal response. A couple of years ago a friend of mine and a lot of other people I know passed away. His name was Joey Merling. And though I may not of known him extremely well, his life has made a very large impact in my life. Other than Joey, I have only had 3 people close to me die. But I was much too young to understand anything about death and why I should be sad. I was so blessed to have known Joey, when I think of men of faith I always think of David in the bible who always prayed such deep and honest prayers to God. But I also think of Joey. He was very sick and he knew his fate and yet through all of this pain and sorrow. Joey still praised God and for me that is such an amazing act of faith. I mention this story just because for me it was really hard to say good bye to Joey. I mostly knew of him for most of his life but then he went to the same high school as I did and got to know him a lot more, but I got to truly experience what kind of person Joey was when he was in the hospital. Joey was in the same hospital that my sister-in-law was in at the time when she was very sick. For most people when they are so close to death they may not want to talk to anyone, but not Joey. Joey heard that Jaime (my sister-in-law) was in the same hospital as him, he made his way down to her room to visit with her. I believe that story will always be one of my favorites. I know that these two experiences of good bye’s are a lot different but for me….there really not. Even though I know I will be able to see Lindsay and Shane again physically. I have faith that I will see Lindsay and Shane and also Joey again one day. I know I am not the judge of who gets in to Heaven and Hell but I have faith that God has restored Joey and brought him home. I tell you these stories to provide comfort and peace to having to say good bye. For some it may be easy but I know for me I believe it will always be one of the toughest things for me to ever do. May we come to accept the inevitability of saying good bye and that we come to know that however we feel is normal. Whether your situation is saying good bye to a loved one for the time being or saying good bye to someone who has died, may we know that God is with us and restoring us, that we will never be the same but that we will recover and in that may we find hope.

Grace and Peace

J. Jones

What If....

It is crazy to think about all that we can do for others then out of no where...have it all taken away. What do I mean by this, I mean when we have a big idea of wanting to do something for someone then we think of the negative that may come with it. The way I see it is that we have to stop living this way, which way do I mean, I mean the ‘what if’ way. I may not make a lot of sense at first, but hopefully reading through more of this note, it will become clearer. When I say that a lot of us live the ‘what if’ way I mean for example; we have full intentions of doing something nice for someone then we may think of something negative that may come from it, so instead of doing something....we do nothing. I understand that I may be repeating myself a couple times throughout this note but it’s just my thoughts. One experience that has drawn me to thinking a lot about this is that we do a lot of this ‘what if’ thinking when it comes to giving money to homeless people. I don’t want to say we all do it, but I know a lot of people who don’t give because they don’t know what the person will do with that money. One of the many excuses that I hear from these people is this “I would give them some money, but what if they use it on booze or a pack of smokes” I do understand that, because lots of people don’t want to be that person who helps them get the booze or smokes that they ‘may’ want. Just because they’re homeless...doesn’t mean they automatically drink or smoke. They may genuinely need the money to get some food. So one thing I want everyone to think about is this: “what if they use the money for booze or smokes....but what if they don’t”. We put so much thought into wanting to help people at times, but let the smallest things get in the way. I hear the saying “we are blessed to bless others” I for one, completely agree with that, but one thing that I am seeing is that, yes we are blessed, but we want to bless others the way we want to and not the way we we’re made to. What do I mean by this, I mean that there are times when we will only give if it’s convenient to us, and not give when we don’t want to give something up? What is the meaning of ‘sacrifice’? Sacrifice- a giving up of some cherished or desired object. Jesus sacrificed His life so that we could be with Him in Heaven one day. But think about this...imagine if Jesus lived the ‘what if’ life. Think about this...if Jesus lived the ‘what if’ life would he of done all the things he did with serving and healing. All the people he served, what if he thought “what if they don’t care what I do for them” but he didn’t think that way. He served because he loved. I want to challenge all of us to respond first in love. So if you run into a ‘homeless’ person out on the street, and they ask you for some change, I’m not saying, give them everything you’ve got, if you do, then thats awesome, all I’m saying is that you think about how Jesus would respond to them. Don’t always jump to the negatives, give people the chance that Jesus gave them. There are a lot of different situations where the ‘what if’ way applies. One with the giving I just talked about, but another specific topic is with relationships. What I’m getting at is that there are some people who choose not to get into any relationships at all because they are afraid of getting hurt, within good reason because there are plenty of bad situations that people go through that make people this way. I completely understand and I don’t stress this at any one. I just want to say that we need to step outside of the boat and have some faith. With my all of my relationships I do not regret anything that may have happened. I think I might have seen a Facebook bumper sticker that says “no regrets, just lessons learned”. I couldn’t agree more with that statement, we can’t keep living our lives regretting each mistake we make. If we do this we will never be able to truly grow. You can’t grow and make progress if you keep stepping back into the boat. I know I may sound like a huge optimistic person but I just want everyone to know that there are always going to be a negative side of an opportunity but also a positive side. I just know from experience that if we always decide to not do something because we may be scared of the outcome. For example, we may want to help someone with something but maybe they don’t want help, but you would never know unless you asked. Even if they didn’t want your help it is a kind thing to do. One of the biggest experiences in my life that made God so evident in my life was at a dinner one night at Swiss Chalet. One night about a year ago my girlfriend and I went out for dinner at Swiss Chalet. We had been there for a good hour or so and we were just finishing up our meal and then a lady came into the restaurant and she went to sit down all by herself, at first I didn’t think anything of it because lots of people go to dinner waiting for someone else. So after about 20 minutes I just noticed that she was still alone, so I started thinking a lot and well...couldn’t stop. I thought...I would hate to spend my time at dinner all alone with a bunch of other people around me enjoying themselves with friends and family. There was something in me that wanted me to do something for her but I didn’t know what. It felt like there was something in me that was totally leaning me towards her. So it finally came to me, I was going to pay for her dinner. It wasn’t much but I wanted to do something that would let her have something to smile about. So I talked with the waiter and he informed her about 5 minutes later. She then came over to me and Jenna with smiles all around, she came and sat with us for a couple minutes and we started talking. She had then told us that she just came back from the hospital because her husband just had surgery and had to stay at the hospital for a couple more days. She told us that because I paid for her meal that it made her just so happy and it let her know that there are people out there that care about her. I tell you this story not to boast but to make clear that God gives us continuous opportunities to serve Him and the people that He loves. God loves us all so very much and He didn’t think about the What if, because He knew that we would sin and He knew that some would choose to not follow Him, but because He loved us so much He sent His one and only son to die on the cross for us. There has been a change in my life because of this controlling ‘what if’ way. I have changed a lot because I no longer listen to the ‘what if’ in the back of my head, I will do what I believe is right and I will go where God sends me. If you think you should do something for someone, why not doit.

On a complete different idea the whole ‘what if’ I never did this...we like to think of these things in specific situations for losing someone or something bad has happened to someone else. For example... “What if I did this though, this wouldn’t of never happened” we can’t keep living this way, everything happens for a reason, I believe it, but sometimes it’s hard to truly believe that. We want to know why God lets some things happen to us, to our friends, to our families. We have all been given the chance to come to know God. Sometimes a certain situation may be what someone needs to point the towards God. Another example from this idea is that someone may get into a car accident and may live, but may be paralyzed for the rest of their lives, may be the reason they were in the car in the first place was because they had to get a child who was in trouble, and then the child finds out that their parent got into an accident and they blame themselves for it. Usually saying “what if I only did what I was told, then they would’ve never had to get in the car in the first place” I want everyone to know...We can NOT live this way. Living our lives with ‘what if I only did this’ or ‘what if I only did that’ we can’t dwell on past situations because of mistakes that may of been made. Things happen, and us as human beings aren’t capable of understanding Gods wisdom and why some things happen and why some situations turn out the way they do, it may not seem fair to us but was it really fair for God to have to give up His sons life for those who He knew would never Love Him the way He does. It may hurt us so much and dwell inside us for the rest of our lives but we have two choices with this...choose to dwell with the pain or we can choose to move on and grow stronger in our relationship with our creator. The whole idea of “it hurts so much” when we lose someone is so common, and I totally understand. I am not saying that it is not normal to feel this way. If you are dealing with a loss in your life...I am so sorry for your loss and I pray that you and the ones who have been affected by it for strength and comfort. We can’t let ourselves be racked with guilt with certain situations that our compelled out of our control. I want to just say sorry for all of these random thoughts crunched into one note. I have so many thoughts in my head and I just want to get them all out.

I appreciate you taking the time to read this note, I have a lot of thoughts to share (unless you haven’t noticed) I hope and pray that you may have learned something from this note. I pray that you will let God into your life and let Him lead you where He wants you to go. I hope that you will come to know Jesus and all the love that He gives. That you will come to know that He came to serve and not be served.
“We must go, live to feed the hungry. Stand beside the broken; we must go. Stepping forward keep us from just singing, move us into action; we must go.”

We are so extremely blessed and we have so many opportunities to serve God and those He loves, may our first response be in love instead of jumping to the negative and trying to convince yourself that we don’t need to give and help those who are in need. I hope and pray that you will give with a genuine heart and not just do it to get it off your back. If you are giving just out of obligation then God doesn’t want it. He wants your true love what you really want to give not just a couple bucks that you gave because you felt like you had to. I hope and pray that we will all learn to love and forgive like Jesus. That we will never forget that God loves us all so much.
Grace and Peace Jordan Jones

Making Time for God?

As most of you may know this past year I took a year off to save up some money to attend college. I have learned so much in this past year about so many different aspects on life. I have learned that even though coffee is such a simple thing, it really bothers a lot of people if it is made wrong. I have also learned that people get mad over some of the strangest things. This year has been a blessing and a curse, it’s been a blessing so much more than a curse just to be clear. The blessing aspect of this past year is so incredible, my relationship with God has grown and strengthen in many ways; some good, some bad, some scary, some very emotional, and some very inspiring. The curse aspect of this past year is that I have learned a lot of things about myself that I really don’t like. I have grown to lose patience that I once had, I have a couple more things that I have developed but don’t want to make the focus negative. My job has really taught me a lot more then I once knew about people. I love to work/deal/talk/be with people. My self-control has been beaten and brutalized this past year, but because of that I am stronger with it then I have ever been. Now you might be wondering why I titled this note ‘making time for God?’ when in the first half I didn’t really touch on it at all. Time is very precious thing in life, it is what life is, time on earth. We schedule are time accordingly to things we have to do, or the things that are most important. For Example College, for the next two years I will be working very hard at doing my best in school, so I can get a good education and a good career.When people tell me that they are so busy with life, it makes me think about how much time we put into so many different things; work, school, sports, family, friends, and most importantly God. Think about God though, is God something we really need to make time for? To schedule Him in, in our busy lives. We really need to think about this concept of making time for God. God is the creator of us, of the world, and of time itself. What I say now sounds negative but when you read all of this, it is nothing but positive, eye-opening, and uplifting. The idea of making time for God really does blow my mind. Someone who loves me so much to give me all of this; Love, Grace, Life, Family, Friends, Music, and the most beautiful and precious thing ever, Jesus! I have been thinking of how we all schedule our time but we want to make sure that we have our personal time for God. I’m not saying that is bad at all, because it’s one of the best ideas in the world. Pure devotion with God is the most powerful and beautiful thing. It’s what other things we do in life that makes the big difference. I have heard that God should be the most important thing in our lives and our own personal schedules. I truly believe that God should be the most important aspect of our lives completely. Our lists of importance usually contains of this (not in any specific order): God, family, work, school, friends, and other small things we enjoy doing. I want us all to think about all the time we put into all of these things, I’m not saying that these aren’t important. They all have major importance in our lives. Work; we all need to money to make a living and to support our families. School; I can’t say for everyone but I know that is important for a lot of people to have a good education. Family and friends are very important in my life, a lot of my friends are my family, maybe not blood but I don’t think of them as just friends, but closer than just friends, anyways that’s a whole different topic. What I want to get to is that all of this we can have God in them. With all these things we do we can have God in them. This might be confusing or this might not make much sense at all, but let me explain. I will give you an example. In work, I don’t go in at 7 then when the end of my shift comes I don’t then try to be Jesus, I want to live like Jesus when I wake up until I go to bed. It might not be a specific time for God, like devos or “church” but it’s my life, and I’m going to live it all for Him. When I’m at work I’m going to strive to live like Jesus, to love like Him, to forgive like Him, to be able to see people for who they can be instead of by what they’ve done. I have done things in my past that I am not proud of but because of Jesus and his genuine love and grace, I am forgiven. I try not to judge anyone anymore because no one is perfect and it’s very wrong for me to judge someone because of what they have done. Anyways I’m getting off of the main point again, it’s funny because I try to write one note, and come out of it with about 6 more ideas for new notes. Where was I, Jesus should be a part of everything; work, school, home, family, friends, everything. One thing that I am encouraged and blown away by with Jesus was his devotion. Even though He was God in the flesh, He humbled himself and devoted time to God, waking up in the early morning, to go out and talk with God. He would go off alone any time in the day and just talk with God. It is so amazing, to me that with all the stuff that was going on at the time of His life, He made God apart of His life. I do want to apologize for this note, because it is really confusing and I jump around a lot, but I’m just typing while am thinking. So if you’re confused, I’m sorry, it wasn’t my intention to confuse anyone, I just wanted to share some of my thoughts (some as in a lot of my thoughts). I want everyone to know that we can make time for God, that’s not bad at all, it’s so awesome, but also we can strive to live each day like Jesus. We will have such more meaningful lives and a much deeper relationship with our Creator. I am going to try something new and I am going to type out a prayer in this message.Dear God Thank you for Jesus, thank you so much Jesus for your unending love and your amazing grace. Thank you so much God for setting us free from our sin. We know that we have so much sin in our lives but we thank you God for looking past that, we thank you so much for forgiving us of our sin. We know that we are not perfect people but God; you love us just the way we are, and you love us way to much to let us stay that way. It amazes me everyday Lord, the works that you do, that you want us; you want us to be with you. God you intrigue me more and more. Everything I learn about you I just want to learn more. The love that I feel from you is life changing. I don’t want to be who I used to be. I want to be who you want me to be, who you created me to be. To live with you in perfect harmony, show me God how to love like you, Love me Lord, because I can’t get enough of you. Fill me God with your spirit. God I know you’re there, I know that you hear me. Thank you for the relationship that we have. Thank you God for the Love that you have placed inside me, that I can talk to people so easily. Lord I pray that you will use me where ever you need me God. Give me the opportunities to Live and Love like you. Lord I want to be like you, I know that in this life I won’t ever make it but God, that’s what our faith is all about. Striving to be like your Son. Jesus you amaze me over and over again. Jesus you don’t hold our pasts against us, but you helps us to know that what we have done isn’t right, but we can move on to bigger and better things, to live in tune with you. God thank you so much for this life that I get to live. For the people in my life that help me every day. I used to be scared of the faith, I was scared because of my social acceptance but I’m realizing more and more that it just doesn’t matter. I love you Lord! I want the world to know. That I am not ashamed of whom I am, who you created me to be. Thank you Jesus for the cross and thank you for the Love and Grace that kept you there. In the name of Jesus Amen.Thank you for reading, I hope that you have been encouraged by this note, I know that I jump around a lot but know that we can make all the time for Jesus in our lives because He is more important than anything. Jesus we love you and we thank you for what you have done in our lives, but also what you have planned for us in our futures.

That We May All Be One!!

The Lord is praying for his Church, that they may all be One! That WE may all be one in Christ Jesus. For some of you that may not know there is a song that is called “That they may all be One” it is a song that talks about Unity in the Church and also in the World. Unity is something that I love in my life, it makes me feel like I know that there are so many other people that believe the same thing I do, and that is that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And that he came to this earth to be the greatest examples that the human race needed, but we were ignorant and ignored his greatness and his love and we nailed him to a cross. He didn’t have to die for us, but he did because he loves us so much. One thing that Jesus prayed to God for was that all of us would be one…John 17:20-2220"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one Jesus died for me, but not just for me, but for everyone in this world. I am a sinner, but the thing is, we are all sinners, like it or not, were all sinners, but Jesus gave us another chance to be with him for ever and ever. Jesus wants us all to be one and realize that we are all one, no one is better or greater then anyone else. One thing that I have seen in the church in the past couple years have been the arguments between the different denominations. For example instruments. I do understand that there is a big respect issue here and I don’t mean to offend anyone, but for me When Jesus prayed to his father, he prayed that We may all Be one, he wants all of us in this world to look to him and love him and to follow him. He didn’t pray for us to argue with one another on our point of views, I just don’t really feel the love at all between the churches when we talk about “how its wrong to use instruments in the church” and the other issues that have been brought up. Jesus wants us to Love Him and to Follow him and to Be Baptized. I don’t believe that Jesus would want his children to fight and argue over things that wouldn’t be a problem if people didn’t make them problems. Unity is Love and Being one with one another. Jesus Loves me, and Jesus Loves You, There is nothing that we can do as humans to make God Love us any less. We need to get rid of our differences we need to look past our past problems, and we need to start showing love to one another, not just our brothers and sisters in the church, but to our brothers and sisters in this World, we are all sons and daughters of God. We need to stop fighting and arguing about our differences and start acting like a family, not just any family, Gods Family, there is nothing I love more in this world then My Relationship with Jesus Christ, he has given me so much, and I do not deserve any of it, he provides me with all I Need in Life. I know once again I jump to topic to topic but the this jist of this note is that we need to start loving each other, we cannot keep making differences between the churches. Once again I apologize if I have offended anyone with this note, once again I am just speaking my mind, my intentions were not to offend but to show the love in my life that Jesus Christ has given me, and has worked through me, there is nothing I want more in this world, then for all of Gods children to just love him, look to him for guidance, and believe and have Faith in Jesus Christ, My Lord.The Lord is Praying for his Church that they may all be One, The Lord is praying for the WORLD, that WE may all be ONE. God Bless May Jesus work through you and in you for all the days of your life.In Him;Jordan Jones You Can't Spell 'Unity' without 'U'

What Do You Put Your Faith Into…?

So I was just trying to write another note before this one, but of course my stupid computer froze and the note didn’t post, so that was really annoying for me. But then it gave me another idea for another note. So I have been thinking a lot this past year, and I know that, that might come as a shock to you, but ya. Anyways I have been thinking a lot this past year about, well about lots of stuff, how to be a better person, how to build unity between not specific churches but the church in general, and a lot more stuff. But one thing that fits really well with what just happened to me with my computer is one thing that backs up my recent thoughts of…what do we as humans put our faith into? (hence the title ‘what do you put your faith into…?’) but ya I have been realizing more and more that we as humans put so much faith into technology and its unbelievable how much we do and don’t even think about it. Today I woke up went on the computer before I left to work, did I think about the computer not working for me…no because I had faith in the computer that it would work. But the thing is technology is truly brilliant, but it doesn’t always work. I had just finished writing that note and it took me about a good 20 minutes, and I was happy with the out come but then I clicked ‘Post’ and hey, what do you know, my computer froze. We put so much faith into technology it just amazes me. Another example a couple months ago I was visiting my brother and I went up the elevator to go to his room, I went in, clicked the floor number, and there I went, but the thing is I didn’t even stop to think that “this thing may not bring me to where I want to go”. That elevator could’ve stopped and I could’ve been stuck for a very long time. While I am writing this I really hope that my stupid computer doesn’t freeze again. One thing that I have thought about is that today’s technology it all costs money, and for faster and more convenience, it costs even more money. The things we buy, we have faith that it will work for us. The thing is we can spend so much money and put so much faith into having these things, but for me, I do know that I do depend to much on technology and I shouldn’t have to. With Jesus, I have faith in him that he will provide me with all I need in life, sometimes we doubt God because it feels like he doesn’t answer our prayers when we don’t get what we want, but that is us being impatient and us not realizing that God will provide in his time, not our rushing/impatient time. If we were to write down all the things that we Need in life and then another list of all the things we Want in life, it would come down to us having so many Wants and not as many Needs as we first thought. For me I have always though I needed a faster computer, but the thing is I don’t really need a fast computer, it would be nice, but I don’t need it, its more of a want in my life. For me I have never been as happy as I have been this past year, because I have chosen to let Jesus work in my life and take control of me, and I’m not here to try to make my self sound like such an amazing person and try to make it seem like I am better then you, because trust me…I’m not. We are all the same, we are all sinners. But Jesus still loves us all so very much. And my hope and prayer is that who ever actually takes time to read it down to this part, that I pray that you put your faith into Jesus, because trust me…you wont be sorry for it. My Relationship with Jesus is the best thing in my life. I know that I do jump around to subject to subject but that’s what just was on my mind, I hope that there was some sort of connection between this for you. I hope that you enjoyed what I had to say, if you didn’t like what I had to say or didn’t agree with what I had to say, I just want you to know that I didn’t mean for this to offend anyone, this was just one of the many thoughts that I have had, and things in my life that are important to me, so I am sorry incase I offended anyone from this. May you let God work in your lives and may you walk in the footsteps of Jesus.God Loves You In Him;Jordan Jones