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Name: Daniel
Country: United States
State: Minnesota
Metro: St. Paul
Birthday: 5/9/1983
Gender: Male
Interests: Motorcycles, God being hardcore!, History
Expertise: Motorcyles, cleaning, pwning noobs.
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AIM:  pyroboyx42
Member Since:
12/5/2003
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| So tonight we had our college meeting, and had a discussion about wellness. During the meeting i just didnt quite have the utterance to share, so instead ill do it here, mainly just so I dont forget it again. So we went over the verses that talked about setting your mind on the spirit rather than the flesh, Romans 8:6 i believe, which we're the main verses used. In the past this passage has in many ways tricked me into looking for wellness in the wrong ways. I saw the way to oneness as setting my mind on my spirit, which meant thinking about spiritual things, and the more spiritual the better. It was interesting because tonight the leader of the discussion asked what is it to set our minds on the spirit, and there we'rent really any answers. Over i dunno the past two years, my view on these verses has changed. Now what seems aparent to me is that faith is the key to peace. The more faith in God we have, the more peace we will have through larger and larger trials. Faith is not a doctrine, it is not something you can learn. What faith really comes down to being is spiritual trurth, from the Bible, experienced in our lives. To see spiritual truths from the Bible, such as God's love for us, not just as an idea, but something that i can tell a story about, something that I experienced. Coming back to Romans, this seems to offer an additional insight on "setting your mind on the things of the spirit". It is not merely thinking about spiritual things, such as praying or reading the Bible, but thinking about our lives, and seeing God in it all. Anyways i am really excited for this semester, I love how we're covering topics rather than just doing a boring old Bible study. So to all out there, keep it well!
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| So today I finished Thread of Gold, and it was hardcore! One thing it reminded me of was of a a thing last year that God showed me concerning my view of how we contact our spirit. For a long time I was under the impression that in order to contact my spirit i had to get out of my mind, out of my soul. Yet this idea is completely wrong. The only thing that happens from getting out of my mind is I'll need to go to an insane asylum. That was a big thing to realize in my christian life, that I dont need to always be wondering am I in my spirit or not. One big thing that this helped me to do, is to in relation to singing. Before there was always the threat that I would be singing out of my mind, and not getting into my spirit. This was especially my thought with regards to modern christian music. Now I don't worry about if im in my mind or spirit singing, I just enjoy Christ. Its actually increadibly freeing to not have to worry about this, which is hardcore!! Well peace out all, i'll see alot of you guys at Ignite! Hardcore!!
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| Hmm so I am being called to update, so i might at well. I have been readin a book lately called Thread of Gold, and it is really very good. It is a sister's testimony who came into the church-life, and experienced amazing things. During the time she was in the Church she went through many trials, and yet through all of them was able to find the Lord in a real way. It seemed that in every situation when she went to the Lord and found his leading for her things turned out amazingly, where as when she just went along with what other people in the Church where doing, there were periods of tribulation that occured. She later was read a poem that explained God's work in us as a weaving, it goes:
The Plan of the Master Weaver
My life is but a weaving
Between the Lord and me,
I may not choose the colors,
he knows what they should be;
For He can view the pattern
Upon the upper side
While I can see it only
On this, the under side.
Sometimes He weaveth sorrows,
Which seemeth strange to me;
But I will trust his judgement,
And work on faithfully,
'Tis He who fills the shuttle,
And He who knows what's best,
So I shall weave in earnest,
And leave to him the rest.
Not til the loom is silent
And shuttles cease to fly
Shall God unroll the canvas,
Explain the reason why
The dark threads are as needed
In the skilled Weaver's hand
As threads of gold and silver
The pattern he has planned
-Author unknown
In my experience this poem says many things that ring true to many events that have happened in my life. It kinda reminds me of this summer, right after crashing my motorcycle. So I crashed my motorcycle, and skinned my knee down to the bone. I was off work for almost a month, and couldn't drive or do anything I was just stuck at home. Everyday I had to change the bandage and would just pass out on my bed in pain afterwards. In addition to this the girl i liked made out with someone else, and that just sucked. At one point after that I basically just screamed, "Why are you doing this to me? I wouldn't put this on my worst enemy." Yet my immediate response to this was, "Do you know what He did? He died for me, and He is here for me." Thats what he did for me, and is his answer to get through this. That is really the main reason I like this poem, it embraces Christ in everything, even the dark times. Well I gotta sleep. Peace.
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| So I went and saw Apocalypto last night. It definitely was an interesting experience. Everything was just so different than our normal culture. Its easy to see how the conqistadors could have been so against such a culture and basically tried after their conquests to remove any of it from them. It was also interesting to see how morally wicked the Aztecs were. Even the their disregard for nature, in compasison to smaller tribes who still were simple and appreciated nature. It was definitely a good experience, but definitely not for those with weak stomachs. Yea its pretty grusome in many ways.
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| So we had an awesome meeting on wednesday. A fellow resident with Esther had been a missionary in a Central Asian country for a year. Aparently it is nearly the poorest country in the world, with basically no resources or money because of the Aral Sea environmental disaster that happened over the past 50 years. The government is increadibly controlling, especually religiously. A family can own only one bible, and to speak of religion outside of a designated area carries the same punishment as first degree murder. This family was left, for over 10 years before they went that they wanted to share the gospel somewhere. Seeing how poor the country was they felt that the gospel and helping improve people's lives had to go hand in hand. So he was a certified ESL teacher and was over there in a school teaching fellow teachers english that would than go to other areas and teach. By implementing a scheme to teach several teachers and than have them teach others, they were able to greatly increase the number of graduates, and make a significant impact on their fellow teachers lives. His wife has a medical degree and volenteered at an orphanage. Her presence there helped to increase their medical care and practice proper medicine. Through their time there they were able to reach many who were open and in fact had a bible study covering genesis to acts with about 7 sisters. It was just amazing to see that despite being in a country where there is no religious freedom they could go and bring people to Christ. Even their planning for this involved their careers and everything, they based their whole life on preparing for being effective missionaries. He said that for many closed countries in order to be able to go you must be able to provide a service, and charged us that if we do try and be missionaries in this way, we must be good at the service. The whole testimony in general was just about people being led by Christ for a specific thing, and them diligently following that, through hardship and tons of opposition. May we all be faithful to the Lord's calling for us, and be open to the plans that God has arranged for us. | | |
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