Born for a Purpose

Why doesn't God answer my prayers? Does God really mean it when He says He will give us what we ask for? Bible texts come to our minds, such as Matthew 7:7, "Ask, and it will be given to you"...  Will He really answer when we call?   Isaiah 65:24: "Before you call I will answer, while you are still speaking, I will hear." Why at times does it appear that God ignores us when we pray to Him, asking Him to help when we have a serious problem? Many have prayed for God to intervene and solve a problem that they are struggling with, but sometimes God‘s apparent answer is silence. God knows what’s best Even when we feel that God is not answering our prayers, you can always know God is a God of love. The Bible tells us He loves us: John 3:16. '"For God so LOVED the world"....... Jeremiah 31:3, "I have loved thee with an everlasting love.".... God created us and knows infinitely more than we know. He knows what is best for us, and what w...

Biblical Sexuality 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.  In the movie Vanilla Sky a couple has been sleeping together and now the guy wants out of the relationship. He’s ready to move on to a new partner. The woman is hurt and angry. In her response she makes a great theological statement. She says to her boyfriend, “Don’t you know that when you sleep with someone your body makes a promise whether you do or not.” Sex is physical . It is something we do with our bodies, the bodies that God graciously gave us to serve him. Our bodies are a special gift from God. Believers have been bought from sin’s slavery by the death of Jesus. We were bought with a pric...

9 Things I Hate About Everyone 1. People who point at their wrist asking for the time... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is? 2. People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually. 3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn Right! What good is cake if you can't eat it? 4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? 5. When people say while watching a film, "did ya see that?" No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor! 6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?"... Didn't give me a choice there, did ya sunshine? 7. When something is 'new and improved'. W...

Empty Pockets and Bare Cupboards Mark this down: God does not save us because of what we've done. Only a puny god could be bought with tithes. Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain. Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices. Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidders. And only a great God does for his children what they can't do for themselves. That is the message of Paul: "For what the law was powerless to do ... God did." ( Romans 8:3 ) And that is the message of the first beatitude. "Blessed are the poor in spirit ... " ( Matthew 5:3 ) The jewel of joy is given to the impoverished spirits, not the affluent. God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest. The first step to joy is a plea for help, an acknowledgment of moral destitution, an admission of inward paucity. Those who taste God's presence have declared spiritual bankruptcy and are aware of their spiritual cris...

Integrating Faith at Work   | Genesis 2:4-5 | After today the summer and vacations are officially over. Let’s spend this “Labor Day week” thinking about how we can integrate our faith at school and work.   Labor Day is set aside to celebrate the American worker. According to the United States Department of Labor, this first Monday in September is a “yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.” However, long before Matthew Maguire or Peter McGuire (Labor Day’s creator is debated) founded Labor Day, work has been honored by God. Before sin entered the world in Genesis 3, work was already established as a God-given privilege. Genesis 2:4-5  This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the eart...