Hey Everyone,
As many of you know I have a fair amount of knowledge and experience in web and graphic design. Over the past years I've wanted to do some sort of Christian website that stood out. Since I'm at home 99% of my time, I'm rather limited in how I can work for the LORD in witnessing to others. However, I don't know nearly enough of my Bible to do one of the standard sites out there that preaches to people. I had attempted an SDA site last fall sometime, but it fell kinda flat. It just wasn't right. It wasn't that little something I knew could be different.
I always felt that I'd know it when God showed me it, that I needed to be patient. With everything going on the past months I was getting very depressed, feeling useless. Never really getting the chance to even fellowship about God, since I'm never around anyone with like-mind on certain issues. Even CF didn't work for me, as a large amount of it has been negative in the SDA area. So much fighting and debating and such, I rarely left feeling uplifted. (Nothing personal, just follow along with me a second)
Then today happened.
I've been forcing myself to read Steps to Christ (even though I have many reservations about E.G.White), and have been enjoying it actually for the most part. Keep coming away enlightened. While reading today for a bit, I came across the following paragraph which stood out:
"If Christians would associate together, speaking to each other of the love of God and of the precious truths of redemption, their own hearts would be refreshed and they would refresh one another. We may be daily learning more of our heavenly Father, gaining a fresh experience of His grace; then we shall desire to speak of His love; and as we do this, our own hearts will be warmed and encouraged. If we thought and talked more of Jesus, and less of self, we should have far more of His presence." - E.G. White - Steps to Christ
After reading it a few times my head started to swim with ideas. I knew God was speaking to me about it, and I went with Him. Even ended up writing a bunch down in my journal that very moment.
You see, one of my biggest problems with people today is their complaining. 99% of conversations seem to revolve around what's wrong and rarely about the little blessings we all have. We've been trained to focus on the negativity which surrounds us, almost feeding off of it. It's not healthy and often can lead to hate, revenge, discontent...basically things that are ungodly.
I once heard a Pastor say (probably Pastor Doug Batchelor, considering I mostly listen to him) that we can make a better witness for Christ is we respond to the question "How are you?" with positivity, rather than complaining. Especially in cases where people know we have a lot to complain about!
So, how can this be done I asked myself? I could start a thread in CF, I thought. Something simple, maybe get a couple people to join in. Untill it clicked that it's got the potential to be bigger! So much bigger...
What if I could come up with something aimed at re-training the thoughts into positivity? Even just a tiny bit! There's a verse somewhere that says praising God is glorifying Him, so it's killing two birds with one stone.
I don't know any real details yet, there's so much to consider! Nonetheless, I know He's calling me to this...and I want your help, guys. In the next post I'll talk about some of my brainstorming on it, and I want suggestions, ideas, feelings, anything you can think of! No promises that all will be used..but more brains are better than one.
Hehe. Excited.
As many of you know I have a fair amount of knowledge and experience in web and graphic design. Over the past years I've wanted to do some sort of Christian website that stood out. Since I'm at home 99% of my time, I'm rather limited in how I can work for the LORD in witnessing to others. However, I don't know nearly enough of my Bible to do one of the standard sites out there that preaches to people. I had attempted an SDA site last fall sometime, but it fell kinda flat. It just wasn't right. It wasn't that little something I knew could be different.
I always felt that I'd know it when God showed me it, that I needed to be patient. With everything going on the past months I was getting very depressed, feeling useless. Never really getting the chance to even fellowship about God, since I'm never around anyone with like-mind on certain issues. Even CF didn't work for me, as a large amount of it has been negative in the SDA area. So much fighting and debating and such, I rarely left feeling uplifted. (Nothing personal, just follow along with me a second)
Then today happened.
I've been forcing myself to read Steps to Christ (even though I have many reservations about E.G.White), and have been enjoying it actually for the most part. Keep coming away enlightened. While reading today for a bit, I came across the following paragraph which stood out:"If Christians would associate together, speaking to each other of the love of God and of the precious truths of redemption, their own hearts would be refreshed and they would refresh one another. We may be daily learning more of our heavenly Father, gaining a fresh experience of His grace; then we shall desire to speak of His love; and as we do this, our own hearts will be warmed and encouraged. If we thought and talked more of Jesus, and less of self, we should have far more of His presence." - E.G. White - Steps to Christ
After reading it a few times my head started to swim with ideas. I knew God was speaking to me about it, and I went with Him. Even ended up writing a bunch down in my journal that very moment.
You see, one of my biggest problems with people today is their complaining. 99% of conversations seem to revolve around what's wrong and rarely about the little blessings we all have. We've been trained to focus on the negativity which surrounds us, almost feeding off of it. It's not healthy and often can lead to hate, revenge, discontent...basically things that are ungodly.
I once heard a Pastor say (probably Pastor Doug Batchelor, considering I mostly listen to him) that we can make a better witness for Christ is we respond to the question "How are you?" with positivity, rather than complaining. Especially in cases where people know we have a lot to complain about!
So, how can this be done I asked myself? I could start a thread in CF, I thought. Something simple, maybe get a couple people to join in. Untill it clicked that it's got the potential to be bigger! So much bigger...
What if I could come up with something aimed at re-training the thoughts into positivity? Even just a tiny bit! There's a verse somewhere that says praising God is glorifying Him, so it's killing two birds with one stone.
I don't know any real details yet, there's so much to consider! Nonetheless, I know He's calling me to this...and I want your help, guys. In the next post I'll talk about some of my brainstorming on it, and I want suggestions, ideas, feelings, anything you can think of! No promises that all will be used..but more brains are better than one.
Hehe. Excited.
It really feels so good when you just know He's speaking to you about something, regardless of where it's coming from too!
