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Name: Seth
Country: United States
State: Ohio
Metro: Bryan
Birthday: 9/5/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: worshipping my creator, its a lifestyle people!....... guitar, piano, drums, listening to music, leading worship, sports, traveling, mission trips, hanging with friends ,eating, sleeping...monkeys that are brown
Expertise: planning weddings
Occupation: Other
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message meEmail: email me
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AIM:  seth abram22
MSN: sethabram@hotmail.com
Member Since:
10/4/2005
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| My Everything Savior that died for me, died so that I’d be free
Gave up Your everything that I might truly live
King above every king, let all creation sing
How beautiful is Your name, I’ll tell the whole world
This is my existence, this is my song
To bring You praise my whole life long For You are my Salvation
The One who lifts my head, who lifts my head up high
You are my Glory Lord, You satisfy my every need
My Life, my All, my King, my Everything Awesome in majesty, wonderful grace for me
Greater than anything this world could give
All glory and honor Yours, sovereign and holy Lord
Your what I’m living for everyday Here I am, all of me at Your service
Take my life, it’s You I need, You’re my purpose | | |
| Todays Prayer I need You now God. Open my mind and my heart to where i am in life, with everything, i'm lost without you, completely lost, i am nothing with You my God. Open my eyes to all the things i can learn from and give me wisdom and understanding in how to change and live out the new found learned experiences. Give me understanding, clarity of mind, discernmentin what to do. Take me, lead me in the next step of life, lead me deeper in You, becoming more like You. I long to identify completely with You. Living as You would live, thinking like You would think, loving like You would love. Take me deeper in understanding this world and how to relate and infuse You w/ culture. Continue to teach me how to live, how to love. Keep me mindful of all the things You have taught me the past few months, keep me mindful of You, in every decision i make, cause every decision is life or death, choosing You or my selfishness. May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart please You and bless Your name. Teach me more of Your ways and how to worship You more fully, stretch me, take me to a new level, despite how i feel about things or if i may feel awkward or apposed in any way, Lord if its Your will and honoring to You, then i want it bad! Strengthen my faith. Give me passion for Your Word and understanding of it and memory of it and of the books i read. As is says in Psalm, "You have made me wiser than my enemies and elders." Lord i long for that....that i may better glorify Your name and cause people to see You and how truly awesome You are! Lead my thoughts. Teach me how to live out the truth. Open my eyes, break me of my selfishness. Take me deeper in the knowledge of You and what You've done for me. I long to be fully in tune with Your Holy Spirit. Immerse me now Holy Spirit, swallow me up. Rage within me supernatural power for the Fathers honor. Burn away all that is not of You. Fill me up, overflow out of me Your goodness. Lead me, take my heart. May Your beating heart live through me. Holy Spirit live through me. Consume me. Take me farther into You, more in love. I want what You want. Lord teach me how to pray. Continue to enhance the talents You have given me that i may better glorify You. May my every intention be to glorify You. Burn such a mighty fire within me. Fan the flames. Speak through me with power and authority and innovation and creativity that pierces hearts and opens eyes. Empower me, equip meto live wholly sold out to You. Take my desires away for earthly belongings. I just want the disire to live for You and others and live You out in every moment. I just want You and what You want. Your will be done, Your kingdom come in my life and in this earth. May Your glory fill the earth. I want to live by the same power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Take captive my every thought. Lead me in every way. May i see this world and every circumstance through Your eyes. Humble me. Break me of my pride. Make me nothing. I must decrease and You must increase. Less of me and so much more of You. Make me a bold lover. May i not be able to contain You. May i overflow with joy because of You. I love You more than life Lord! You are my reason for living. My soul cries out for more of You! To know You so much more, to glorify You, to know Your heart, to know Your will. I live to bring You praise. You are my purpose, my very hope of life. My everything. My God! You are all i need! I am in total surrender to You. I depend on You for life. I dont want to live if i cant have You. I just want You. Write Your truths on my heart. I love You with all my heart, mind, soul and strength! Here am i, all of me, use me for Your glory. May my every intention, all my actions, my every breath and movement be to bring You glory. For You oh Lord are my life! I am Yours. "May all who fear You find in me a cause for joy, for i have out my hope in Your Word!" | | |
| So lately i have been learning about being like Christ...loving people..really loving people..ive always known its what im supposed to do, but recently it really just clicked inside my heart and in my head....But it really makes sense now, that in order to truly love someone, we have to be seeking Christ to become more like Him so that we can love like He loved, Christ is the one with the perfect love. The Bible says perfect love casts out fear...perfect love has power, on our own strength i don't think we can truly love. So in order to truly love someone we have to be seeking Jesus Christ with all our hearts so that we may becomes more like Him and learn how to love like Him...And if we really love people, we will ache inside for them if they have not yet chosen Christ, we will ache for their lost souls and not be afraid, actually too selfish, to share Jesus Christ. Romans 1 says to just tell them what God has done for them!.....That and just lots of other things have clicked inside my head the past year or more...along with that, something ive realized is this: that life is about worshipping God and loving others, and when your loving others, you are also loving God....but also its about seeking God with all of your heart, with everything you've got, and when your seeking Him, He says that you will find Him. For me in the past year i know i have really learned alot and grown in Godly wisdom all because i have been seeking His face. You see when we are seeking God with all we've got, He makes things inside our head click,, come together. Like we've known the truth for years cause we have been taught it, but now it just really makes sense...we understand it in the truest sense. It's like we've got all these wires inside of our heads that represent what we have been taught and have learned about, but they are still not connected to what they are supposed to be connected to in order for us to really make sense of what we have learned. And when we are seeking God with all we have, He starts connecting a few of those wires every now and then. We grow in Godly wisdom, we learn more about Him. And because we finally get it, we start to live it out instead of just knowing it and talking about it. It reminds me of the pharisees in the Bible who knew the law, they knew the Bible, but Jesus said their hearts were far from Him. Matthew 26:16 says: "What good is it then if a man gains the whole world but looses His soul." This verse is talking about gaining all the materia things and whatever else in this world that really doesn't matter if we haven't found God. But it also makes me think this: that we can go to school and learn and learn so much about God, or read the Bible for years and years, but what good is what we have learned if we dont live it, if we just know it. I think that it may quiet possibly be pointless. We've been blessed to be a blessing...as God has blessed us with His Awesome love, so we are called to love others in the same way. In James 2 is says that faith without deeds is dead, its useless. Romans 2:13 talks about being a doer of the word not just a hearer. Jesus says in Luke 11:28 " But even more blessed are all who hear the Word of God and put it into practice" Its one thing to know God and live an ordinary mundane life, but to really understand Him and fully understand what He has done for us makes us want to live our lives all out for Him, to truly live the life He says we can have thats more abundant. You see, Christians who are just believers are a dime a dozen.....but how many of us really live out our faith? How many of us really live differently than the world. Look at Jesus, nothing in this world looked like Him. When we become Christians, we use a term called "conversion" but conversion is not just believing God died for us and saved us! The word conversion means that we have been converted, our lives look totally different than the ones we used to lead. We have to model our lives after the One that Christianity was started because of. The Bible says that the Demons believe in Jesus,,,satan believes in Jesus. All of this made me think of a verse that i think ties in. Luke 11:34-35"Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. Make sure that the light you think you have is not really darkness. If you are filled with light, with no dark corners, then your whole life will be radiant, as though a floodlight is shining on You." And that verse reminds me of the one that Jesus says that He doesnt know you...even though you say that you healed in His name and casted out demons in His name. I dunno if that relates to what i've been talking about or not, but its what came to mind.
So anyways, its about seeking Christ, getting past yourself and seeking Him, searching and searching, seeking Christ with all the strength we possibly can muster and letting Him transform us into lovers, better lovers of people and of God. Transforming us into people who look different, who act a little bit more like Christ.
So let us seek His face and live out what is in His word. These have been my thoughts lately, and what Christ has been teaching me and doing in me.
Please comment and let me know your thoughts!
grace, peace, and love,
trying to truly live,
SAB | | |
| "Faithfulness"
2nd Thessalonians 3:3 - " But the Lord is faithful; He will make you strong and guard you from the evil one" With so much emphasis placed on the Christian's faithfulness to Christ and living a holy lifestyle, we sometimes forget that Christianity is based upon God's faithfulness, not our own. We can get so caught up in "doing" because we think we have to or its what we know we are supposed to do cause we have been taught that we are to read our bible, go to church and be the best person we can be, all these guidelines we have to follow. And then we fall once again and feel pathetic cause we can't seem to keep up with is expected from us, these seemingly impossible weekly guidelines. I think this is a big reason for why so many people walk away from God because we feel like we just can;t do it, we just keep on sinning and messing up and feel so bad. But i think we have to realize that its just life....we are going to sin....if we didn't sin, we wouldnt need Jesus. But because of what Jesus did for us and by choosing Him, we now have the choice of dying to ourself because of the strength of the Holy Spirit inside us and choosing Christ over our selfishness. Life is about living in Gods grace. We are are saved not by works, but by our faith, but it also says in James 2: 17 - " So you see, it isn't enough just to have faith. Faith that doesn't show itself by good deeds is no faith at all, it is dead and useless." Our faith and all the good works and spiritual fruit it produces is our repsonse to Gods amazing love and faithfulness, what He has done for us and who He is. The faith of the Thessalonian believers was being tried by persecution. Undoubtedly some of them were wavering, even failing, as the surrounding evil put them to the test. This was an important time for Paul to remind them that no matter what happened, Gods Faithfulness would prevail over evil and strengthen them so that they could endure. As is for us now; holy cow life can be so amazing difficult, wierd and hard, but no matter what happens,,God is still God and is still worthy of all we have, and He will always remain faithful. All praise and honor and glory to Him!!! much peace and love, sab | | |
| Ecclesiastes12:13 -
"Here is my final conclusion: fear God and obey His commands, for this is the duty of every person." "Accomplishments" "He's missing the forest for the trees" is a sort of well known saying, meaning that a person can get so caught up in the details of life that he misses the main point, the purpose of why we live. Most of us fall into this trap when it comes to planing our daily life. What is our purpose here on earth? To honor and obey God, doing our best to follow the commands and ways He has set forth for us in His word. But what do we do instead? We put way too much of our focus on the details at hand; climbing the corporate ladder, accumulating material things, participating in this or that event. We've lost the big picture. Take a hard look at your to-do list. Is there anything on it that is going to develop your relationship with God? Is there something on it that might not be pleasing to Him? What have you filled your life up with that is keeping God from making you the person He wants you to be? How can you get rid of it to make more room for His Holy Spirit to transform You and make you more like Him. What can you cross off the list and exchange for something of real and lasting significance? I think this world is sooo full of distaction and we don't even see it so often, and we get so caught up in it, when those things are pointless. They are gaining us nothing. When we put so much of our focus and time and energy into the meaningless things of this world, we will start to feel that meaninglessness in our lives and we will get this empty feeling.....i know i've done this so often. I've gotta get back to the whole thing of that there is really nothing in this world that can truly satisfy me but Jesus Christ. I can really only find contentment in Him. This world is not my home. But we do have a purpose...a high calling that God has placed on our lives to make Him known and bring Him the most glory possible. Ecclesiastes 11:9-10 says: "Young man, it's wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it! (Live life to the fullest) Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do. So banish grief and pain, but remember that youth, with a whole life before it, still faces the threat of meaninglessness."
I think we seriously really only need 3 things 1:God Himself, prayer, talking to Him...our personal time with Him, 2: His Word which He has given us with all the answers and wisdom we could ever need, and 3: accountability from other Christian friends.
And with those 3 things, God empowers us to reach out to the world with such a fire that can't be contained. | | |
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