10 great music videos

Remember when music videos used to tell a story...well these kind of resemble those. Sort of.

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Love

Love is something that cannot be seen. It is an emotion that surpasses all other emotions by name alone. Love is perfect, and kind and just. Love cannot be written out completely in a book or acted out in a movie. It is not something that you happen upon either, no love is a gift. Many gifts come from some sort of love. Love must have a source, where does it come from? Is it born or created or thought up in your head? Does it dwell in the existing relationship between husband & wife, Father and Son? Is it an emotion that springs forth from certain holidays? No. Can you see love just by looking at hearts or sweet things? No. Is Love tangible....Some would say yes. Well maybe love did not originate from a man & woman's relationship. Maybe love has always been. Yes. God created us out of love, we weren't created because He needed help gardening. The Lord loves us so much that He is continually blessing us with our next breath! God is Love. So if we are truly trying to figure out what love is we must go before the source, God, and ask. But this still doesn't seem tangible I know. God however did not stop at the creation of those he loves, he walked with them day by day in the garden continually showing them true love. And he continues to walk with mankind throughout the pages of the Bible and the very reports of men and women today, listen to stories of how God walks with us:

He Guides us. Since man turned its back on God there had to be death as a payment. This payment was  Ultimate Love: a love that surpasses any existing notion of love in your mind. God came and lowered himself becoming a servant and suffering the most horrific, painful, gruesome, humiliating death. All this because He love me. He wanted me to have life so bad that he gave his own, that love, that's tangible. Paying what we owed, death. A King He is indeed, The King High above all. What is Love you may ask? One word, Jesus

Something to live by

We all try to find something to live our life by. Whether it is our morals, or some code of ethics, or a relationship, maybe even a certain style of life is our ultimate goal and therefore our driving force.

Recently I have really been striving to live by this one thing that holds hundreds of questions within the statement:

"Seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness" (Matt 6:33)

....WHAT?....
How can we seek a Kingdom that we can't see or some character trait of a man who lived 2000+ years ago? Well in Philippians we see that Paul writes "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication" (if your like me you have no clue what supplication means so i'll tell you: Asking for something humbly)
So a good start would be to:
    1) Be in Prayer about everything
Also, we know that we need to love. Obviously because the Greatest command is LOVE GOD LOVE OTHERS, but also because Jesus did so much for us how could we not. So in order to love Jesus he says this in John 14, "If you love me, obey my commandments," Sounds pretty much spelled out there
    2) Obey Jesus' Commands
Also when we remain in constant prayer Paul prays for us that we may KNOW the PEACE OF CHRIST which surpasses ALL UNDERSTANDING, and that it will guard our hearts. Let the peace of Christ, the peace in his presence be that thing that keeps us pure and draws us closer to him! In Romans it says if you live according to the flesh your mind will be set on the flesh therefore live by the spirit.
    3) Set Your Mind on the Spirit
You are slaves to the one whom you obey. If we are obeying sin and sinning then we have become slaves to sin, giving into that lifestyle; BUT we do not have to be slaves to sin we have been set free. Now we can be bondslaves to righteousness.
    4) Bind Yourself to Righteousness

Corporately we win and wage war

The power of anything corporate usually seems to be more effective that doing things on your own. The saying, "two heads are better than one" is used all the time when thinking corporately. This holds true when you stop to think about it...How many times have you been doing something and then you get some help and it was so much easier, examples: Homework...Installing a light bulb...moving...planting a tree. These are examples but something that is not thought of much but that which works incredibly together like a perfect symphony is Corporate Prayer and Worship.

Coming together to worship and lift up the name of Jesus! There is nothing more beautiful than the sound of those who are in love singing to the one that they love! Jesus tells us in the word, "Where two or three come together in my name, there I am with them" Matt 18:20. This is so true its like the Holy Spirit becomes so evident in the context of Corporate worship. And also Corporate Prayer, coming together to lift requests up to the Lord! Jesus hears our cry to him, REV. 8:4 "The smoke of the incense, mixed with the prayers of God's holy people, ascended up to God from the altar where the angel had poured them out." The Lord hears our prayer so lets gather together in our communities and seek first the Lord worshipping Him in Spirit and in Truth, TOGETHER and pray for our communities and the hurting world! Praise the Lord for the BODY!

The beauty of His Majesty

have you ever stopped to think about how beautiful little things around you can be. Like the taste of coffee or a sunrise, pretty much anywhere, or the flowers of a cherry blossom tree when they begin to bloom, or any tree. Weather really makes people really happy and really mad. Beauty comes from the creator, but we have brought in sin, sin is what brought all of the thorns and things that choke out the beauty of this world.

"Weeping may tarry for the night, but JOY comes with the MORNING" Psalm 30:5

LETS HEAR IT:

What is the most beautiful sunrise you have seen???

How did I do that?

What is truth...is truth something that you can hold on to? Is it something concrete or real? Maybe for you truth is a context or situation in which you can always return to when everything else seems to fail. According to my Mac's dictionary truth is fact and fact is something that is indisputably the case. So the saying "the truth hurts" really hold itself to be true...or do we make it more that way that it need be.  Think about this when someone loses a parent there is fact that they are no longer there, that fact is a truth and this truth hurts...ok it holds up here. Another scenario...you get a new iPhone 4 and this phone was free due to the lack of responsibility of At&t and some kind of contract void, regardless you have a new free iPhone. You have fact because you can hold it see and touch it. You know this is a truth and this truth makes you happy. So do things that are tangibly true make us more happy? Or is it maybe that society is trying to convince us that material tangible things make us happier. None-the-less, we seem to be happier and accept things as truth when we have physical evidence to support that truth. What is physical evidence did not exist...what if someone told you that oxygen was not real...could you prove them wrong? Sure maybe through a series of deep scientific tests. OK so what if someone told you God was not real. Or that he was real. Could you prove them wrong...or right. If this question was the case what would you do to support your answer what kind of fact could you have. Or is it possible that everything around you is one fact that leads to another. If someone asks you if God is real, a valid response could also be is oxygen real, and if oxygen is real do we know that it really is what we breathe in to live. If this is the case the fact that it regulates through our body to keep us alive when we are not even conscience of it has to be amazing. If it really does the when we cannot control it then how is it controlled? OK by your brain. Your brain is sending messages to deliver that oxygen throughout your bloodstream, GREAT I know now that I am alive because of my brain. What is a brain, why does it function like that, how did it become that why, what to I need oxygen to help keep my brain alive when it is the very thing that is telling my brain to be alive, and when did my brain get so smart that even when I was a little kid it worked the same way??? No one taught my brain to work...or did they? Did someone possibly design the brain so that humans could live not having to forcibly perform every bodily function? Why? How do I know this is true? How do I know I wasn't just made that way? You were. Every single operating part of you was made to perfection. Don't Forget, you weren't made to.

Showers and songs

Why do people choose to sing in the shower? Does it make you more relaxed? Does the song you sing dictate your mood and how your day will be? If there is no singing can you garuntee a slow start to your day and possibly maybe even a bad day? I know for me I love singing in the shower and I believe that singing is just such a great way to release positive endorphins. Why be happy in the morning? Well let me tell you why. YOUR ALIVE! we take for such granted that we can wake up in the morning and live for another day. The next breath you have it's a gift. You have no way of forcing yourself to breath your body simply knows how to breath. Your body knows how to fight! The inside of you is fighting against bacteria and toner foreign enemies! That is so great! So what does song choice have to do with any of this. Well I am a firm believer that when ones finds themselves singing in the shower it is because they truly are happy to be alive, whether they are thinking that or not. Because when you are happy it Will come out no matter how hard you try to hide it. So you might find yourself singing something like, a classic rock song, I.e. "welcome to the jungle," or a techno song, I.e. Anything by cher. These songs make you sing quick and fast and be energetic in the shower. Remember what you sing in the shower is what you feel in your heart and it will find it's way out! Don't worry be happy!

Captivating Love

There is a type of Love is goes beyond the normal knowledge of all love. This Love is a love that surpasses all knowledge and understanding. This love wraps you up and covers you like a thick warm blanket on a cold winters day. It covers your soul and overwhelms your heart it takes you to new depths. This love is not any kind of regular love. It defeats death, it conquers all, yet is open to all men. LOVE.

"I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 8:38-39