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Name: Kimberly
Birthday: 4/27/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: First and foremost God is the only fulfilling desire of my heart. Everything else is small, minute details: Going to shows, mostly Field Theory and The 7 Method, and other local christian heavy bands. I am currently attending 2 churches, New Horizon Church in Durham sunday mornings, and eXpedition: on sunday nights, and I love both so much. I love caffiene a lot, maybe too much, i love music that glorifies God, I love taking walks, watching sunsets, photography, poetry, being with those I consider close friends, all things star wars, and I have a soft spot for monkeys and squirrels.
Expertise: Christian music fanatic since 2001 i think?
I'm really big on the local NC christian music scene.
And I seem to have a knack for making people give me strange looks for my random and bizarre sense of humor.oh yeah... uh.. I have ADHD... i like fluffy squirrels.. and... yeah really i have ADHD!
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AIM:  AllianceRaven777
Member Since:
8/14/2004
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| Go ahead, revel in your so-called victory
As I lie face first bleeding and defeated by you
But your abuses will soon be erased from my story
From the ashes of this death I will rise anew
You once held a tight grip on me
But soon God will see me through
When He returns I will cry no more
When He returns I will bleed no more
My chains will lie on the ground broken
But my soul will never again be broken
I will die to sin tonight
I will die to self tonight
I will find a Love so true
I will begin life anew
I'm pulling myself back up slowly
As my eyes are now fixed on the Son
I'm getting up from the ground
As unfailing mercy begins to surround
Can't you see you have lost?
The grave won't hold me forever
This death called sin is an empty grave
This death called sin is no more
I will die to sin tonight
I will die to self tonight
I will find a Love so true
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| I know you guys probably dont like reading, most of you don't. But I
really recommend Job 38-42 because this really spoke to me today. I was
just flipping through this morning before church and I ran across this.
God's telling Job all the things He's done and He's questioning Job if
he ever did the things that God did. God goes on and on asking Job
questions like "Where were you when I created the earth" and "who
decided its size" and so on so forth. After a rather big line of
questions, God finally asks Job in chapter 40, vs 2 "Now what do you
have to say for yourself? Are you going to haul me, The Mighty One,
into court and press charges?"
What got me was Job's response. He hardly could say anything. This is what he came up with, chapter 40 vs 3-5.
"I'm speechless, in awe-- words fail me. I should have never opened my
mouth! I've talked too much, way too much. I'm ready to shut up and
listen."
You think it ends there? It doesnt. The rest of chapter 40 and all of
41 God continues to question Job about who is in charge. In chapter 40
vs 8 He asks Job "Do you presume to tell me what I'm doing wrong? Are
you calling me a sinner so you can be a saint?"
Job in the end realizes that God is way beyond him in wonders and that
he isnt in control: God is. This is a perfect story of surrender to God
and how we tend to sometimes think we can get through life and our own
messes on our own and we tend to just ignore the One who can get us
through anything because we're too busy trying to save ourselves. We
don't shut up and listen for God. And when we dont get through our
troubles on our own then we cry and complain to God as if it is all His
fault. In truth, we're the ones losing control. Not God. And we don't
listen enough.
Moral of this? Shut up and listen. You are not God. God is God. And He is in control!
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| Sorry I havent written in a while on
here... just havent gotten around to it. But I've been working on this
one for a few days. I guess it's inspired by three things cause it
seems a lot of stuff I am coming across deals with how great God loves
us and how big His creation is and how He loves us more than we can
ever know. If you're curious, my influences on this one are Donald
Miller's book "Through Painted Deserts", several chapters in Psalms
which I am currently reading through, and the "Indescribable" series at
New Horizon Church.
Weakened and hungered I am
I fall limp into Your arms
Your embrace gives me strength
It feeds my empty heart
What, O' God, am I
That You loved me like this
I'm filled with questions why
In awe of unfailing love from You
My atrocities and lies are many
As countless as leaves in the forest
You erased each blemish from my story
Replacing the memories with peaceful rest
What, O' God, am I
That You loved me like this
I'm filled with questions why
In awe of unfailing love from You
My head was down, You lifted it high
My hands were stained, You washed them clean
My feet were bound, You broke my chains
My life was gone, You gave me new life
What, O' God, am I
That You loved me like this
I'm filled with questions why
In awe of unfailing love from You
You know all the stars in the evening sky
You know every one of them by name
You made billions of other people like me
Yet You know every inch of my own being
What, O' God, am I
That You loved me like this
I'm filled with questions why
In awe of unfailing love from You
I thought I was small and insignificant
Yet You show me I am loved by You
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| You were once a mighty tree
Standing so tall, so free
Yet you became hollow and limp
Your branches are thin as twigs
They snap when the wind blows
You once stood unshaken by the wind
Now you're unsightly like slopping pigs
Thinking you could get by on your own
You rejected the Living Water of Life
Now they come with the broad axe
Ready to cut you down to pieces
Nothing remaining but the stump
Reminders of a life once known
You were once a mighty tree
Standing so tall, so free
You were once something great
You could've changed but now it's too late.
I thought I should explain what I
wrote. The tree represents a person who grew up around church and
christianity, but decides to reject God, and lives a life in sin, going
completely down the wrong path. The 4th and 5th lines mean without God,
you don't have that assurance things will turn out ok. You don't have
that peace that comes from knowing Him, and when things go awry, you're
likely to crack under pressure. The axe represents sin, which destroys
us, or cuts us down. If we reject God's Word, we're just asking for sin
to cut us down to pieces.
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I
took a walk a couple days ago to go to work. It was cloudy, and it seemed as
though it were about to rain. The walk from work is usually about 35
minutes, and I was more than halfway there, and I was already gonna be
very early as it was. I was hungry so I stopped for breakfast at
Hardees. As I got my food and found a spot to sit, it started to
downpour. Had I not had the urge for a couple frisco breakfast
sandwiches, I would've continued walking, and would have been caught in
the rain and gotten soaked. As it continued to rain, I was wondering if
it was going to let up before I finished eating. Sure enough, once I
finished and went outside, the rain went into a slight drizzle, not
enough to even make wet spots on my clothes. I made it to work
perfectly dry.
I suppose this was a reminder from God that His
timing is perfect, and He's looking out for me. I sometimes tend to
think God works slow or I know what's best for me or that I'm not even
a glimpse of God's thoughts. But God uses something like this to
totally change my perspective. His power just amazes me. He loves me so
much and cares about me enough to look out for me even in small
instances like this.
I just thought this was something awesome that happened to me and I had to share it.
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