Monday, July 29, 2013

Keeping Convictions part 2!

So I told you all in the previous post below, scroll down if you haven't read it, how I wanted to write down God-given convictions with whomever I marry before we get married. Buuuuut I've also decided that I want to do this right now in my own life, before i'm married. When God talks to about something that I need to change, I want to write it down so that later on down the road when I'm not feeling like its a big deal anymore, I want to pull that out and say, NO LOOK MARY!!! Remember WHEN GOD delt with you about that?!
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I mean, I honestly remember the night God delt with me about Facebook. I was at my church praying about it, cuz I was always feeling guilty about being on, so I was on, off, on, off, on off....sooooo I was PRAYING aaaaaaaaand GOD talked to me about it!!! It was soooo real...soooo profound...I KNEW I had to get off! And I did!!! I couldn't NOT obey God...
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and everyone would tell me oh just have self-control about it, I'm like you guys understand SOCIALIZING is like my biggest lurrr in life!!! I LOVE talking to people! And lets face it, there was NO WAY I could NOT, NOT talk to guys...sorrrry maybe maybe your able to...I'm NOT you!!! :) I had like over 700 "friends" LOL...buuuuut you know, after being off it for 6-months, I began to FORGET the night God had delt with me about it so profoundly. You have to understand that I have distant family members and just lotsa people in general practically begging me to get back on...Mary WE MISS YOU!!! Annnnd HONESTLY, I can understand WHY they wanted me back on!!! If I was them, I would be begging for ME to get back on too!!! AHAHAHA!!! ;)
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Mary we LOOOOOOVE reading your statuses!!! You brighten my day! I'm like awwwww...and my conviction began to waver...weeeeelllll...maybe...you know...IF i'm helping people...AHAHHA!!! Yeah, cuz instead of praying first thing in the morning they were reading my updates...NOT A GOOD IDEA!!! Plus you know, i'm ALWAYS talking about God on there sooooo this is a way of ME being a WITNESS....LOL...Sooooooo I got back on for another I don't even know how long...buuuut you know, there was that nagging feeling and God kept reminding me...I TOLD YOU MARY!!! I tried to ignore it buuuuut I couldn't...FINALLY I was like FIIIIIIIIINE...LOL...Its been like a year now, and I know in my heart that I'll never be back on...NEVERRRR!!!
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This post is NOT about weather or NOT your on facebook. This is about keeping your convictions. Any conviction, from internet use to how you dress or places you go or things you listen to...Facebook is just an example that I am using in my own personal life...BUUUUUUUT...I'm ALLOWED to be on facebook, its just that GOD told me to get off. I NEVER should have gotten back on in the first place if God had TOLD me in the beginning that I needed to get myself off. Thats WHY when God tells me to do something, I want to write it down, JUUUUUUST in case I forget...I want to make myself a memorial...sooooo that 6 months down the road...I can be reminded! I think its important that we build memorials in our lives soooo that we NEVER forget!!!
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".. a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ Then you shall answer them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.” And the children of Israel did so, just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there..." (Joshua 4)
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To me this passage is just saying, that sometimes when God speaks to us about something, no matter how wonderful, or how miraculous it is, as HUMANS, the amazement of what we felt in that very moment can start to waver. Why not build ourselves a MEMORIAL, so that when we are questioned by others or EVEN by ourselves, we can pull out our written memorial and
REMEMBER!!!
♥Mary Frances :)