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Name: Colie
Birthday: 4/7/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: My life goal is to waste my life loving the Lord and loving His people. I desire to hold the faces of the broken and cry with them. I don't want to settle and sit back wishing i was out there making a difference...I want to make a difference even if that is only for one person. I want to get my hands dirty...clothing those who need clothes, feeding those who are hungry, giving those a drink that are thirsty, but more than that bringing the Truth through LOVE to those whom need it.
If i could choose any song to describe it, it would have to be..."And Now My Lifesong Sings" by Casting Crowns...(there are more songs, but this is one that burns in my heart). : )
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MSN: colie_phillips13@hotmail.com
Member Since:
10/5/2004
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| Hello almost 7 months later : )
The Lord has been doing a lot in me lately ... seems even on a newer level over the past couple of days. The closer I am to the Lord it seems as if it happens more that He hit me with reality of life. This life doesn't last forever. Most of us would say, "duh" to that statement, but most of us, while knowing that statement, do not live life with it in mind.
The closer I am in pursuit of God and Heaven when He hits me with that reality the more I have to shake my head and remind myself that I am living life on this earth right now and I am not with Jesus physically yet - though I feel as if i am living life with Him. Those are good moments -
Now there doesn't have to be this dramatic moment that happens in life for this reality to set in - It's simply a reminder from Heaven that checks our hearts..."Where is your heart right now - are you living for life on this earth or are you living for eternity?"
When I am hit with the thought and my heart isn't tied up in Heaven, and I am more reminded - "This life really will end one day" ... my heart drops and I become a bit sad.
I don't want to waste this life.
I was given a revelation from the Lord once that still rings inside of me - there are so many things in life that we get multiple chances at, but when it comes to life itself ... when it's over, it's over. No more chances.
Makes you want to make this one chance count, huh? So we think of these great big things that we want to do in our lives ... the people and places we want to visit, affect, invest in ... the good deeds we want do ... the things we desire to accomplish ... the joy we desire our lives to be filled with.
It makes me think of the things I don't feel are worth having a place in my life ... the things that have the option of consuming me or my time that, in the light of looking back on my life, are not worth it - laziness, gossip, bitterness, selfish anger, selfishness, impurity, hate pride ...
I don't want to look back on my life and wish it was better ... I don't want to look back on a year in regret, or month or a week or a day even.
How though? How are we able to not look back on our lives and feel disappointed?
John 5:19, 20,& 30 shows us how (looking at 19):
"19Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does."
One of the most valuable points that I learned in college at CLU was this verse - Jesus did NOTHING on His own, but He let the Father lead. I was taught from this verse to ask every day - "Ok, Lord, what would You have me do today?". I might FEEL like i have a million things to do, but He will be specific in leading of what is for that day only - then you can free your mind of the other things and ENJOY being burden less of the "demands of life". You will also find Him leading you to bless others or simply give an encouraging word.
Eternal differences are made here on earth when we let the Eternal God show us what needs to fill our 1,440 minutes each day.
God Bless.
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| I just read Romans 8:12-17, and sometimes as I read the Word of God I wonder why in the world do we need to write sermons to preach ... why do we not just read the letters and teachings written out in the Word with passion and zeal like if it were our own sermon from the Lord.
Don't get me wrong I understand exactly why we have sermons that are not just reading the Bible word for word and letting that be it ... it's just when I read It, It gets me more excited than any sermon I could ever here, and wonder what it would be like to have someone go to the pulpit and read one of Paul's letter with zeal and passion like they would have done any other Sunday with their own sermon and when the letter is finished end the sermon with no other words. That would be awesome :).
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| It's been a season this past month or so that it feels as though God is writing eternity on my heart more and more ... I am still learning and experiencing, and since it's so new it is hard to put into words what is happening inside of me. Today as I was going throughout my day God placed the chorus of a song on my heart (which does not happen often - and wished it happened more) that has seemed to collapse my heart into a mush of love for my Savior. He is so incredibly faithful, and He melts my heart - the thought of being with Him one day brings such a comfort.
I am also learning of the real power of the resurrection. I am still in the basics, but the learning has begun in going past the acknowledging and believing in it to understanding the power and full purpose.
What A Day That Will Be
Words and Music by Jim Hill
Mark 14:62
"And Jesus said, I AM:
and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power,
and coming in the clouds of heaven."
There is coming a day when no heartaches shall come
No more clouds in the sky, no more tears to dim the eye.
All is peace forevermore on that happy golden shore,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
Chorus
What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see,
And I look upon His face,
The One who saved me by His grace;
When He takes me by the hand
And leads me through the Promised Land,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
There'll be no sorrow there, no more burdens to bear,
No more sickness, no pain, no more parting over there;
And forever I will be with the One who died for me,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
Chorus
What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see,
And I look upon His face,
The One who saved me by His grace;
When He takes me by the hand
And leads me through the Promised Land,
What a day, glorious day that will be.
What a day, glorious day that will be!
http://www.my.homewithgod.com/heavenlymidis2/whataday.html
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| I just finished another final ... I was talking with Brittany and Tara today about the feeling that is inside of me when it comes to finishing school. It is an indescribable feeling.
The thought of being finished with school is breathtaking ... to have more time on my hands for investing into people, loving, and encourage. I do not know if I am going to know what to do with myself. This has consumed my life for so long ... especially the past year. It is going to be nice not to have to say no to people due to the demands of school. At the same time remembering what someone told me that this season of school was not a burden but instead a blessing. It has been a time of growth and building of character, a season of learning and receiving, and a season of being poured into and a season of pouring out. It has been a season that, though forgotten at times, has been a true blessing and privilege.
Pushing through to finish the last bit of reading and testing that has to be done. It looks like this will be my last weekend of college. : )
He has been SO faithful, and so have my family and friends that have been consistently encouraging. For that I am very, very thankful!
Romans 5:1-11
"Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace we in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, hope does not put us to shame, because God’s loveand has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation."
God has had me on this passage the past two days - stirring in my spirit.
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| "Thus Old Testament and New Testament alike agree in this vital fact: the true foundation of the Christian life is Jesus Christ Himself-nothing else, and no one else. It is not a creed, a church, a denomination, an ordinance, or a ceremony. It is Jesus Christ Himself-and 'no other foundation can anyone lay'."
-Foundational Truths for Christian Living
by Derek Prince
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