Hello, How are yoou?

 If only there were someone to mediate between us,
   someone to bring us together,  

someone to remove God’s rod from me,
   so that his terror would frighten me no more.

Job 9:33-34

I had a tea date today with the lovely Leah Glover and we were discussing the book of Job. So often it is written off as quite a dark book but there is so much glorious truth in there. So I decided to have a wee read and I came across Job9.

I've never really thought about my sin in its fullness, never have I thought I would be an enemy of God but in my persistent sinful state I have am the reason for the wrath of God. Because of my sinfulness I can not be in the presence of a Holy God. Instead I am guilty and totally deserving of his wrath.

When we fully understand what we deserve, which is Nothing more than the wrath of God we can no longer stand proud and tall instead we should be filled with fear and trembling knowing that even death would be a lighter punishment.

You see Job knows that who God is, is better than any earthly thing he could every want and need while also realising that he is totally sinful, and totally not in reach of the gloriously life that God offers. So he pleads for a mediator someone that could connect him to God together. Someone that could pay the debt of his sin because he will always be in debt to God for his sin is constant.

God in his mercy and grace provides a way, he sends a mediator in the form of a man, a man so unique that only he could pay the debt of sin. But this was no ordinary man this was the son of God, no sacrifice would cover the sin of the world greater than the blood of the son of the almighty.

Thank God that he sent a mediator in Jesus, that he heard the prayer of Job and that he is a gracious God

So when people ask how I am?
I will say Better than I deserve

Much Love

Ignoring Grace

I have just started reading “Living the Cross centred life” by C.J Mahaney. As I read the first few chapters I couldn’t take my mind off one of the points made In the Introduction

What is my life centred on or around?

 My Church? My Friends? My Relationship 

I knew that if I were to say Jesus It would be a lie

As I read on it talked about the possible reasons why we feel living a Cross centred life is so hard or not Important.

But out of all the points there was one that stood out:

“Being focused on our sin rather than on God’s grace”

I do this! I focus on myself all the time. I know I am a wretched sinner but do I believe God’s Grace Is bigger, stronger and more powerful than my sin? 

If I believed this I would not count my sin, I would not look at it as such a barrier to God. If I fully understood God’s Grace I would see that his love is not conditional not based on what I say or do and in some cases what I don’t say or do. 

Instead I would look at God’s grace as the beautiful gift that it is. I would learn that love was never meant to be conditional, life with God is not bound by my sin but because of my sin I can fully comprehend the enormity of this gift.

Instead of looking at my sin, instead of making it greater than God’s grace, I thank God my eyes have been opened that his grace bought with the precious blood of his son. Who is the centre of life and will continue to be the centre of my life.

In the words of John Scott

The cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for it sparks to fall on us

What a God we have!

What a God we have! And how fortunate we are to have him, this Father of our Master Jesus! Because Jesus was raised from the dead, we've been given a brand-new life and have everything to live for, including a future in heaven—and the future starts now!

1 Peter 1: 3&4

Waiting Room

I had such a strange experience today.

My mum had an appointment at the hospital, just a little check up nothing serious.

As I sat in the waiting room, I couldn’t help but look around, everyone was so on edge  waiting on results and comforting their sick loved ones. For some the results where not good and their hard northern Irish front couldn’t hold it in and they just fell apart.

In the corner of the room there was this lady, she seemed so at peace. The longer I waited the more I seen her move round the room from couple to couple she chatted, made them laugh and made them feel more at ease. Nurses would come in and out and every time they would say hello to her and asking how had she been. They seemed to know her more than any other person in the waiting room. The closer she came to me I could see that she was not just there to comfort a loved one but she was a patient. I recognised those fake hairpieces, her lack of eyebrows and eyelashes. 

I couldn’t take my eyes off her and could help but listen to what she was saying. The closer she came, the more I was drawn to her, then I recognised what she was saying. The lady sick with cancer was spending her day telling people in that hospital waiting room about her saviour. When I started to put it together in my head, it occurred to me that this was not a one off this little lady came here often, often enough that the nurses knew her by name.

She worked her way around the room telling people about her wonderful father and her glorious saviour, she prayed with them and she loved them, she served them getting them tea, tissues and even bringing a chocolate cake.

I felt so encouraged and also guilty. This lady who was sick, was going through treatment herself, but she was in the waiting room of the cancer ward looking after people, telling them the truth and the greatest love story she knew.

It made me think of all opportunities I have had to share my faith, to love people and to serve people, but I don’t I sit back and wait for others to pick up the slack. 

So encouraged by this little lady today

Lord please increase my faith

Make me Bold and Strong

Much love

I Will Wait

I always find myself so out of time.

Always too busy with other things

Always managing to meet with other people

But so easily forgetting the most important part of who I am

I can spend two hours easy taking the time to get ready

Enough makeup to cover up what’s really going on.

Put on my Christian face and clothes

So that no one will question my motives

Ready to go out and play the Christian card

When I haven’t even spoke to my Christ

Saying what feels Right

Doing what looks good

When inside I am hurting

How I want to know you intimately

How I want to understand your ways

How I NEED to know your love.

But it’s just too much to ask that I would seek you every day.

Do you not know I’m busy?

With my plans, my time, my life

Your way and mine is that so crazy?

But now the speed of life has slowed down

I just don’t understand

There is no one here

Expect you holding my hand

It’s you and only you who is standing around

Because only you saved me from myself

I can see that everything else is dead

And it’s only you giving me life

So now I understand

Now I finally see

How could I be so stupid?

How could I not want to be so gloriously free?

So I will wait for you

Daily I will seek

For you alone can rescue

You alone can save

So I will wait here at the cross

I will wait here at the cross

I will wait here at the cross

Unending Love

For I do not understand my own actions.

For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.

So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh.

For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

Romans 7 -15-19

I Find myself in Paul’s position so often

I want to do good But I end up doing bad

I want to serve God with ALL I have

But I end up giving him what is left at the end of the day.

I want to serve with a pure heart but my mind wonders.

I feel recently God has been holding a up a looking glass and letting me watch myself as I go about my daily routine. How I start with Good intentions but I let me sinful self lead the way.  How the devil shows me my idea of love and how it actually hurts people. I am so easily lead by my sinful nature and the devil loves it. he give me a thought (never a loving encouraging thought) and as soon I think it he turns to me and says

 “HEY! Your meant to be a Christian you Can’t think that”

“You’re so sinful how could God love YOOU” –

this statement is true I am so sinful

but

God is there too and he is shouting in the hope I will just stop and listen to him

"Because of my Son, You are covered your sin is Gone! I love yoou!"

(Which is just Amazing)

A Good friend of mine posted on her blog recently about God’s love and our sin and it has encouraged me so much. She says that if we view our relationship with God like a set of weighing scales, on one side we have our sin, on the other side we have God’s Love.

Now in our humanness we sin daily millions of times, whether it be with our actions thoughts or words. We also have our original sin, the sin that cut us off from God at the beginning with Adam and Eve . So on the sin side of the scale there is a lot of weight. So God comes along and places his weight on the scale and there is no comparison his is so much heavier. So even though we continue sinning but his love never change. It never moves it always heavier bigger and stronger than our sin.

Thankyou Lord for your Never Changing Love

Does Anybody Know You're a Christian....?

I have been thinking about this topic for a couple of days

It has become too easy for us to hide that Christ is our own and personal savior

We hide behind our Christian quotes and catchy phrases

We hide behind our Church programs and Worship songs But do people outside of church know that we are children of God, do they see God in us…

Not by what we say but by what we do!

This poem has challenged me a lot today, It’s by a group of Christians in America who share the gospel in poetry.. Its pretty awesome

Does anybody even know that you're a Christian... ?

Does anybody even know that you're a Christian?

When you go to your school and your job can anybody tell by your actions that you believe in God? Or can they not tell the difference between what you believe and how you act?

Because you're always at the club with a drink or talking about somebody else behind their back and then when they finally figure out you're a Christian they're talking behind yours

and you wonder why when people look at you, they can't even respect the fact that you're a Christian anymore...

You may be the only example they have. And if they can't tell the difference between your walk, and their walk, then they're not gonna follow God's Path. Does ANYBODY, even know that you're a Christian?

Do people even know that the God in you is there? When somebody who doesn't believe in God loses somebody their family, do they even think to go to you in prayer, because they don't know where else to go?

And if not, then since when did Christ become you're own personal secret for no one else to know?

Are you serious???

Jesus Christ didn't get stretched out on the cross for no testimony to be mysterious because, solid testimonies have never saved souls?

Yet our testimonies lay low, and we wondering why the world is raising hell?

Alot of Christians are too worried about other people's opinions, and too busy try to save ourselves.

I don't know what's worse. Nobody knowing I'm a Christian, or the only people knowing that I'm a Christian are the people in my church

Does anybody know that you are a Christian?

Are you letting his life shine through?

And if not, then how many times will you continue to deny Jesus, before he DENIES YOU!

K. Turner

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Psalm 63

O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you , my soul thirsts for you
my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

So I will bless you as long as I live ,in your name I will lift up my hands.

Psalm63:1-4


                 :: I <3 This sooo much !! ::

                        :: His LOVE is ::
                        :: BETTER than LIFE ::


                      ::: Thankyou!! :::

Judgment & Forgiveness

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Luke 23: 34

Some of the Last words that Jesus said and I can’t get them out of my head. All week when I have become angry and frustrated with certain things, which often happens and usually never has anything to do with me, these words have been ringing in my hears.

As Jesus is on the cross beaten, bruised and dying he says this prayer for the people that have done this too him. As they continue to mock him he say “father forgive them”.

How many times has Jesus had to say that on my behalf as I judge, as I gossip, as I hurt people? For some reason I think that if I am being honest and open that this is me loving people but it isn’t because my nature is sinful. It does not naturally want to love, encourage and build up. It wants to find fault, it points out that I am better than my brothers and sisters, that there are people far worse than me out there. I listen to my own lies that I am a good person, that people should live the way i live. In the presence of God I see the real me.

The more I let the spirit lead instead of me, the more I see that I am a bad person, sinful to the core, totally unworthy to know God, to be saved by his grace and to be covered with the blood of his son.

And when I see who I really am I have no other option but rest in his grace.

Who am I to judge those around me?

Why does it take me so long to forgive for even the littlest thing?

God has definitely shown me how wrong I am in my idea of love but instead of showing me the wrath I deserve he comes along side me and he LOVES me, with real love. A love I don’t even understand but it completely covers me.

So instead of judge I will Love

Instead of gossip I will Pray

Instead of it being about me let it everyday be about Jesus

Instead of Loving God for what he has done for me I will Love God for WHO he is!

Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide  never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother  Romans 14:13

Much love

Daily Devotion

For the next thirty days I have decided to do a daily devotion .

So often we talk about our friends, our family , the many nights we have laughed until the early hours of the morning and the plans we have for the future  but we never talk about the adventure that God takes us on.

So this is a little glimpse into my God adventure

Much love 

K