Kissing under water

I was thinking about Worship recently, and i was remembering that one discription for worship is to Kiss...I love this discription, because it talks about intimacy with God, and that is deep worship. We're not called to sing a few songs, but we're called to make a connection, and intimate connection. Jesus commands us to worship in Spirit also, so our worship is a Spiritual kiss. And when i was thinking about this i started seeing people kissing under water. water in scripture is a symbol for the holy Spirit, the means in which we worship a Spiritual God. So kissing under water seems a fitting analogy for worshiping in the Spirit. i also like the fact that there are many people who try and break a world record for kissing under water. they way they stay under water for so long is that while they kiss, they are constantly exchanging oxygen to one another, and it seems a natural way to say what jesus meant when he asked us to abide in him and he will abide in us. breath into him and he will breath into us. We are sustained and held up by our constant Spirit filled worship; and realy, is there any other way to worship a living loving God?
So go find a pool, or a river, or an ocean, and go and kiss underwater with God.

Writing, on the bathroom stall

I was in a local shop the other day and i went to the bathroom and on one of the bathroom stalls there was a phrase written by an unknown, and i found it quite beautiful. For reference sake, the store i was in is soon to be demolished and torn down.
'i don't normally vandalize these kind of places
but i suppose being as this store is closing
i'll make my mark
like writing in the sand
at low tide.'

wonderful.

van gogh

I had a good chat with a painter friend of mine about van Gogh. he was so good, his paintings umistakable, yet he was such a depressed man. in his suicide note he wrote; the sadness will never go away.
However i can totally understand the misery that comes with such talent. I believe that these painters, writers, and other creative people go to such places of beuty in life that it is as though they are knocking on the doors of heaven, yet they can't seem to get in. they experience God's beauty but they have no idea about him. this is why i can sympathize with artist sadness. Its like traveling all your life to reach a destination only to find that the vanishing point keeps on moving away with each step closer that you take. As a writer (like i am) it can be truly frustrating, but as a Christian it is rewarding to know the one whom inspires all things and makes them beauiful in their time and place.
So dont look at artists with disdain and contempt, but consider that their work is an image of God painted or drawn by strangers.

Macho Macho Man (of God)

Get this, God made you Strong!!
Psalm 148;14 - GOD MAKES HIS PEOPLE STRONG
not Wimpy or whiny, not shriveling away from their enemies, not lying in bed ill, looking for sympathy, not cowards or shy like hedghogs.
I'm not saying that we are impervious to the things of this world, such as fear, or anxiety, sickness, or sadness. I feel all those symptoms from time to time, but i have to remember and encourage myself in the LORD, that he made me STRONG. He did not create his people weak and flimsy, but Strong. This is where the word will do battle to your emotions and your soul, you may not feel like this person, but that is your Spiritual DNA. So say it loud and say it proud; I AM STRONG.
When the preasures of the world seemt o want to buckle you under its preausre, you are STRONG. When you are facing a temptation to great; you are STRONG. Its not a matter of discourse or theology, the word is clear, God's view on you is set in stone" God makes his people STRONG.

Psalm 112 -

I always look to the psalms when i am feeling a little anxious; like today.
Psalm 112 is a wonderful passage, please read -
112; 6b-8 -
Those who are righteous will be long remembered
They do not FEAR bad news;
They CONFIDENTLY trust in the LORD to care for them.
They are CONFIDENT and FEARLESS and
They can face their foes TRIUMPHANTLY.

Only Believe

When in Doubt, quote Smith Wigglesworth - December 2 1922 -
When one dares to trust God on his bare word, then peace flows freely, wavering is passed, there is nothing to be done, all is finished and you enter into possessions that cannot come in any other way. So keep the test before you and be still and see the salvation of God. Nothing but love counts, so be full of this all prevailing charity that knows not fear and is blind to everything but the object of this perfect choice.Christ and him alone.
To have faith like this...