Purpose for Silence

It has been awhile since I have written a blog. There has been a purpose for my silence. When I started Bro. Michael's Thoughts I told you that I would write what the Lord gave me. Since my last post many things have changed in my life both good and bad. There have been great gains and some hard losses. Through it all I just simply kept walking along trusting God to do whatever He saw right. Through this time I heard silence.

Many things are absent during time of silence. Obviously noise and voices. Yet, during silence there are no distractions. You are forces to view things as they are and not how you want them or even desire them. In silence, you must face reality. Here is when it gets scary. Reality lets us know that we deserve nothing at all, and apart from God's grace there is nothing for us to enjoy. Reality says that we can lose everything we have and still have a whole lot more than we deserve. Reality also shows us that Someone really does care and His love sometimes puts us where we cannot hear Him.

I believe that there are specific times that God places us in these quiet times to enable us to get a fresh view, of Him. During these months, God has given me so many desires and such purpose to achieve them. Placing people in my life to keep me within the "boundaries" so there would be no way to miss what He has provided. Purpose for silence is that we are placed specifically in position to receive from God everything He has for us, and never miss seeing Him. I love His voice. I treasure the times He has touched me. The greatest gift is the time he did not say anything.

Hope you got some help and encouragement. Thats the purpose in this blog. May God Bless you.

Why I Have Personal Standards

The first thing I must address, from the beginning, is I know the difference between standards and convictions. A standard is a specific way that I practice my personal relationship with God. A conviction is a truth that I am willing to give my life over. Although, these two are different in definition and reality they are still joined together. It is fundamentally no way to have either and not both. This is not a soap box session I am sharing my heart with whoever wants to read my thoughts.

I have the Conviction that the Bible is the Word of God. Therefore my Personal Standard of living is that I put into practice the doctrines and teaches that are brought out through the revelation of the Word by the Spirit. I have the the Conviction that Jesus was God in the Flesh. Therefore, my personal standard is to be like God, I must live my life after the way Christ lived His. This will lead me to a life that will please God, always.

I have standards in my life for only one main reason. I have Personal Standards because I desire Personal Holiness. That desire means that there are things that I both must and must not do to achieve this goal. To me what it takes to make this a reality differs from situation to situation. To truly get in on this is to pursue the way we live, through His personal standard of holiness. This is not to say that I am a god myself, rather I am striving my daily living to mimic my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

I hope that this has helped you the reader. My prayer is that we strive together to live as our Standard lived for us. That in living like He did may we accept His changes He makes, in our lives. May God Bless you.

I Refuse to Do It!

We are leaving in changing times, which I am very aware. Though for me to be Christ-like means I must be like Christ. The Bible says "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever." That means that being like Christ means, though everything around me changes I do not change.

This is not a post of arrogance, rather it is a statement of faith and a vow to my heritage. There have been many areas of my life that change has occurred. Many of those changes have came with Spiritual growth. Those changes have rooted me in my faith in the Lord Jesus. This is not the changes that I mean. I hope that many things that are, in my life, that by the grace of God I will not change.

I refuse to change my stand on the Scriptures. I believe that the most pure Word of God is found in the King James Version. This was not given to me by a preacher or an higher education institution. This truth was settled, in my heart, by the Holy Spirit. I am not in any way saying you have to share this view, nor wanting to start a fight. I am saying I refuse to Ccompromise my stand that God has placed, in my heart, concerning His Word.

I refuse to change my stand on Biblical Seperation. I hink Seperation means that I live my life conforming myself daily into the image of God. That means whatever is not like Him is unholy. Whether it is dress, music, appetites or affections. Whatever would draw me away from my standing, in the purpose, of my personal holiness. This is what my responsibilty is. To live seperate from those that laim not His name to show forth a difference. To live an unBiblical lifestyle is to live as there is no difference between life and death, light and darkness, and faith and unbelief. To say there is no difference is to dishonor Christ.

I refuse to change my stand on Salvation. I believe that it is only a working of God, in the heart of man. It is initiated and completed by God, of His own choosing. This mean that we cannot cause God to come to us or love us or deserve this gift of grace. This is how we got in and He keeps us in, through His power and purpose that He has for us. This purpose is created in His Will and then placed in Our Wills. Never the other way around. This is the foundation of our life in Christ Jesus.

My prayer in this is not just for 2012, rather it is for the rest of my days, Hope you received help and maybe you have found things you want to refuse to lose, in your lives, no matter the cost. God bless you.