JP

What a sad world we live in. It's clear why we're here... just listen to lost people talk about their personal opinions. God's design has been clouded and wrecked by his own creation. Humans. People turned off because of other 'christians' they've seen, and have been 'hypocrites'. 'Don't try and cram your beliefs down my throat.' They're clearly always watching. They place us 'religious' people high on a mantel and hope that we fall and when they do, they see no faith. They see no faith while we stand, they just look with anticipation that you'll fall and left with the question as to when that will happen.

We simply don't see our beliefs as some phony, religious way of thinking. 'Religion' to me is not the same 'religion' you speak of. The word 'religion' rubs off with a whole multitude of ideas and ways of doing certain activities that seem to have no significance with legitimate reasoning. Yet we try and communicate with these people and defend our beliefs when it's pointless to do so. If you won't listen to them, why will they listen to you?
I am fully convinced people need to be 'loved' to Jesus and not 'spoken' to Him. Everyone would be christians if speaking saved people. Everyone longs to be loved. It's the way we're wired. True love will put someone on their knees. True love can soften a deep, coloused heart. It may rerquire much more attention and care, but it will still begin to soften. So the only question then, is 'how'? Because love is an action word, we need figure out how we can love people; with action. Practical ways. If they want to know about my Jesus, then they'll ask me. I won't defend my beliefs. I'll just share what I do and why I do it. But I need to listen to them. If they have questions, they'll ask. Until those moments, should I just not do what I can to make someone know that when they see me, they'll see something positive about me?
Does it not feel much better to leave something you can't change in the hands of the Father? God is not afraid of the unbeliever. God is not intimidated as we may be of someone's lack of faith. They are of no threat to him, whatsoever. We do not need to defend God. Let God defend Himself. Simply do as you're called to do, pray, and let God take care of the rest.

1. I was given another day to live
2. I could breathe freely
3. I had legs to get out of bed
4.I had arms to help my legs out of bed
5. I had eyes to see so I could get to the bathroom
6. I had a bed to sleep in and a house to wake up to
7. I had a shower, with hot, clean water to use
8. I had soap to clean myself with
9. I had a nice towel to dry myself off with
10. a toothbrush and paste to keep my teeth clean
11.clothes in good condition I could wear
12. food to eat
13. God's word to eat
14. God to talk to throughout the day
15. I could play guitar for Jesus
16. God has purpose for me today
17. I have a way to get myself around where I want to go
18. free will
19. a job
20. opportunity to grow today
21. God loves me
22. I'm healthy
23. God is bigger than my mistakes I'll make today
24. God can forgive those mistakes
25. I got a lunch break
26. I got to eat my parents' food for free
27. family to see at lunch that love me and I love in return
28. I know I am loved
29. My car runs good
30. God's teaching me things today
31. I have goals to strive for
33. That I'm not the best at what I do
34. Other people are bigger and better than me
35. I'm also not the worst
36. I have enough money to survive today
37. a circle of friends
38. God's preparing me and my wife further today
39. That he'll give me a wife
40. I'm not alone
41. I live in Canada
42. I don't need to worry about being mugged on the way out to my car after work
43. I don't need to worry about tomorrow
44. an opporunity to fix the mistakes I made yesterday
45. opportunity to grow today
46. fellowship
47. gum
48. cell phones
49. dream & vision
50. I can pray whenever and wherever I want to
51. I don't have many enemies
52. God protects me
53. I can connect with him
54. blessing in every and any way.
55. food to eat tonight
56. I have extra clothes to change into after work
57. I can wash those clothes and keep them clean
58. my brain and my body functions properly
59. I have the opportunity to speak into someone's life in various ways
60. through Christ, I can make a difference
61. favor
62. The Dreamcentre
63. Mentors
64. People who are closer to God than I
65. People who are bigger than me spiritually and physically
66. People that I am bigger than spiritually and physically
67. Humbleness
68. the warmer weather
69. sunrises/sunsets
70. I cannot exhaust the love of God
71. fun activities to do
72. People who trust me
73. people who can be trusted
74. quality friends
75. God made women
76. animals
77. beauty of the outdoors
78. people who follow their dreams
79. my dad
80. my mom
81. Zac
82. Jer
83. My dog
84. the choices my parents have made in their lives
85. that someone believes in me
86. someone else will be attracted to me more than anyone else (wife)
87. I could inspire someone
88. someone could inspire me
89. I can enjoy today, pain free
90. people who know more than I do on any given subject
91. people to help me when I need it the most
92. I'll be warm and comfortable when I go to bed tonight
93. I have peace today
94. Medicine Hat
95. The internet
96. technology
97. people who didn't give up
98. people who don't settle for second best
99.I get to rest for the next day
100. For the day and everything it entailed

Life tends to busy itself. I'm not a large fan of 'busy' but I am a fan of 'progress' and I suppose progress is busy at times.

I forgot the difficulty of learning mass amounts of things, yet at the same time, I have no sympathy. When bigger and better things come to your doorstop, bigger responsibility comes right along side as a packaged deal too. Amazing how much we forget in life.
Amazing that we forget what it's like at times, to be a teenager.
We forget what is was lke to be a child, until we're reminded by another's actions.
It's rather funny to feel at the low end of everything you're doing in life. Work, night activities, even the things which I'm involved with at church, I feel least of all the people involved. Humbleness is a crappy lesson to experience, but well worth it in the end. Just pray that you don't require it all the time! It's also interesting to see the support of friends, or lackthereof, all at the same time.
It's funny how God can use them to remind me to completely rely on Him for everything.
It's like walking through a heavily tree infested area, with shrub and brush covering your path to extent that you can't even see 2 feet infront of you. So you cut through it all and go slow and carefully and when you're through you look back from where you come from and see surpirsing result. It's interesting when we do brand new things we've never done before you can't see God anywhere to be found, but afterwards, you see that He was everywhere to be found.

Funny how our dreams which stand so tall before us are easily shattered by a tiny amount of doubt. Yet, if you don't wait too long to pick up the pieces, you can remember how to put it back together. If you can't picture the final product, opposition defeats, but vision will enable one to continue on, regardless of the situation. Especially if you know you're suppose to be there.
Sometimes is it not hard to see around your siutation whatever it may be? I believe faith is the answer to making it through a hurricane. When the Bible says a mustard seed is enough, it means it. Wait till that's all you have; a mustard seed... It sure goes a long ways. I'm thankful for revelation.

Ask yourself these questions and only if you want, write them in the comments. If you don't want to, or there's some that are personal, don't feel like you need to write about those ones. Some were personal to me and I'll keep it that way, but for the most part, I'm pretty open about it.
This is good stuff though, seriously. Read these questions all at once, think about them for a second, and go through and answer each one. I didn't make these up, but they were shown to me and I was told to answer them. And I did.