Truth or lie?

Truth will stay for a long time but lies are soon discovered. Nobody likes to be lied about. It hurts really badly. Plus it's not fair to them. It is like being talked about behing your back or it feels like your best friends has back-stabbed you. What do you do when you hear these lies? SPEAK UP! Don't be mean about it or hurt them back with more gossip but instead talk to them, tell them the truth, and then change the subject. It is a very good way to get the truth about someone goin! Same thing goes if it's one of your friends and not you. Stand up for them and be a leader. God wants us to be the head and not the tail. So be known for your truthfulness. It will come a time when you have friends cause they trust you. It's worth it!

Proverbs 12:19 Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.

The tounge

Don't you just love to share a secret, other wise, known as gossip? If you do, you need to tame that tounge! Don't get me wrong, it is okay to tell secrets to your best friends about yourself but it is wrong to be spreading things about other people. Proverbs 17:9 says " He who covers and forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats or harps on a matter seperates even close friends." So see? Think about this....how would you feel if someone was talking behind your back? Say that you just got into a fight with a friend and all kinds of people are talking about it. How would you react to that? Next time you are tempted to share something about someone else, put yourself in the other persons shoes. Prevent from even hearing gossip that way you won't be sinning when you spread it. And if you have sinned by doing that, God is a forgiving God. Just ask him.

Proverbs 16:28
A troublemaker plants a seed of strife; gossip seperates the best of friends.

How Much He Cares

It says in the bible that even God cares for the sparrows that are only worth a couple pennies.....so just think about that. Then think about how much more he cares for you. God says you are precious and priceless and of great worth. He even knows the amount of hairs on your head! WOW! Sometimes life gets you down....you feel like your unloved and not cared for anymore. Like when you get a new baby sister and you feel like she is replacing you and that your parents love her more. Or if your an adult, you don't have a good relationship with a family member and they are always letting you down. These are ways that you feel neglected at times. So here is the answer to your problems. Talk to God. Tell him you feel uncared for. He knows you feel that way and in his special ways he will tell and show you that he loves and cares for you. He will never leave your side and he is always there for you. So when you get let down, turn to him. He is always there.

Luke 12:6-7
What is the price of five sparrows? A couple of pennies? Yet god does not forget a single one of them. And the very hairs on your head are all numbered. So don't be afraid; you are more valuable to him than a flock of sparrows.

Sorry

On the bottom post i forgot to put a scripture. Here it is.

Proverbs 14:30
A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

The green-eyed monster

A peaceful heart is easy and not very tense. Sometimes when you have envy and jeaulousy inside, you don't have a peaceful heart. Envy and jealously can take you totally by suprise! The bible says it can even rot your bones! NOT HEALTHY! The stab of jealousy can jab hard. There is different types of jealously, and when i think about it, for adults and kids. ADULTS: Say a fellow colleauge got a better pay-check than you or you see the beautiful 2-3 story houses and look at your own in disgust. KIDS: You see other people wearing the latest fashions while you are stuck in hand-me-downs. Or you see that one of your peers got a brand new toy while you still play with your old ones.
These are all forms of envy. Some are large and some are mild. It depends on what it is. Anyway, on of the commandments in the bible says not to covet anything that belongs to your neighbor. So when you see your friends or family getting blessings, be glad for them...and then think of the wonderful things God has blessed you with. It will put that envy in its place, out of your life!

Healing

God can heal. It is just a fact. There are many stories in the bible where it talks about Jesus healing people of his time. Like the man of leprosy story......(Matthew 8:3) " Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing ", he said. "Be clean!" Immediately he was cured of his leprosy."
There is also a story where it says Jesus came to Peter's house and found his mother-in-law lying in the bed with a fever. Jesus touched her hand and the fever left her. He also drove out the spirits of the demon-possed that were brought to him.
All these stories prove that Jesus can heal both you and me. So just ask him. Nothing is too big or small for Jesus.

Matthew 8:17 This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: He took our infirmaties and carried our diseases.

"The narrow and wide gates"

The bible says, in Matthew chapter 7, there are two gates: The narrow and wide gates. It says to enter the narrow one for it leads to life. That means it is the gate to heaven and you will have eternal life there. Also the bible says not to enter the wide gate with broad roads for it leads to destruction. That means it is the gate to hell and if you enter that one you will burn in fire forever. This is talking about something very simple actually....it talks about how we need to accept Christ as Savior. That is the defition of the narrow gate. If we ask the Lord to come into our hearts and forgive us of our sins....we enter through the narrow gate, the gate to heaven. If we do not ask him this and live for our own ways, we enter through the wide gate, the gate to hell. It is your choice. Simple.

Matthew 7:13-14
Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.