My friend Lori's mother-in-law bought these videos when they first came out. We would go over to her house and watch them and nearly pee ourselves....When she sucks in her gut...phew..it is hilarious. The panting and the sucking in through the nose...now that is fitness waiting to happen! Ha!
This one profoundly affected my attitude this morning:
". . . the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me" Galatians 2:20
We should battle through our moods, feelings, and emotions into absolute devotion to the Lord Jesus. We must break out of our own little world of experience into abandoned devotion to Him. Think who the New Testament says Jesus Christ is, and then think of the despicable meagerness of the miserable faith we exhibit by saying, "I haven't had this experience or that experience"! Think what faith in Jesus Christ claims and provides! He can present us faultless before the throne of God, inexpressibly pure, absolutely righteous, and profoundly justified. Stand in absolute adoring faith "in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God--and righteousness and sanctification and redemption . . ." ( 1 Corinthians 1:30 ). How dare we talk of making a sacrifice for the Son of God! We are saved from hell and total destruction, and then we talk about making sacrifices!
We must continually focus and firmly place our faith in Jesus Christ--not a "prayer meeting" Jesus Christ, or a "book" Jesus Christ, but the New Testament Jesus Christ, who is God Incarnate, and who ought to strike us dead at His feet. Our faith must be in the One from whom our salvation springs. Jesus Christ wants our absolute, unrestrained devotion to Himself. We can never experience Jesus Christ, or selfishly bind Him in the confines of our own hearts. Our faith must be built on strong determined confidence in Him.
It is because of our trusting in experience that we see the steadfast impatience of the Holy Spirit against unbelief. All of our fears are sinful, and we create our own fears by refusing to nourish ourselves in our faith. How can anyone who is identified with Jesus Christ suffer from doubt or fear! Our lives should be an absolute hymn of praise resulting from perfect, irrepressible, triumphant belief.
Do you not think the Jesus understands that we are human and that we are fearful sometimes? He knows how to help us overcome our fear if we let Him. Not really disagreeing just trying to understand because I am fearful sometimes. Not so much for myself but for those I love.
I think he understands that we fear because we have such little faith. Like Peter walking on the water, what did he have to be fearful of? He had the Creator himself asking him to come, the very one who created the waves. I think the more faith we have the less fear we will have. I also fear losing my loved ones but I think that's because I love them more then God, because of my little faith. I have put my loved one on the thrown of my heart where only God should be, and that I have come to believe is idolatry. I am a fearful idolater.
Jeremiah 17:5-18
5.This is what the LORD says: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord.
6.He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.
7."But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.
8.He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."
9.The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
10."I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
11.Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay is the man who gains riches by unjust means. When his life is half gone, they will desert him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool.
12.A glorious throne, exalted from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.
13.O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn away from you will be written in the dust because they have forsaken the Lord, the spring of living water.
14.Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.
15.They keep saying to me, "Where is the word of the Lord? Let it now be fulfilled!"
16.I have not run away from being your shepherd; you know I have not desired the day of despair. What passes my lips is open before you.
17.Do not be a terror to me; you are my refuge in the day of disaster.
18.Let my persecutors be put to shame, but keep me from shame; let them be terrified, but keep me from terror. Bring on them the day of disaster; destroy them with double destruction.
