Mr. Know-It-All

If you have ever been around me or are friends with me, you will say I am a Know-It-All. This blog will be very short, no verses, no big topic, just me wanting to publicly repent.
It's about time for me to repent of this sin. Wanting to know everything under the sun will never be possible. It has been very selfish of me to always wanting to be right. I do not want to go another day of this. Pride, I believe causes the most destruction. Wanting to know it all is a pride issue. With any sin we deal with, we can blame it on pride.I want you to pray for me, to lift me up, to keep me in check. I can not do this on my own. I pray we can all become increasingly humble.

Spiritual Growth

No where in the bible does is say "Spiritual Growth." Why did Christians come up with this concept? Before I go any further let's break down the words.

Spiritual- of, relating to, or reflecting the human spirit

Growth - the process of developing or maturing

So we can say that Spiritual Growth is the human spirit in the process of maturing. So the question today is, "How can we become Spiritually Mature?"

God's will for everyone is to become Spiritually Mature.

1. Age does not make you Spiritually Mature

Luke 2:52

52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

1 Timothy 4:12

12 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.

Yes, to grow in your relationship with Christ takes time, some are faster then others. Like Paul, he was one day a person that hated Christians, and in a few days he was preaching. You see in the verse above with Jesus, that it took time, but as he grew in stature he grew in wisdom.

Some young people are afraid to step up and set the example for the older. This includes me, I feel like that everyone that is older, is wiser then me, and most are. We need to get back to thinking about our relationship with God instead of comparing our relationship with everyone else's. Everybody's relationship is different.

2. Appearance doesn't make you Spiritually Mature

You know how some people just look Spiritually Mature? Now I am guilty of judging people's faith from the outside. It true, sometimes you can notice people body language.   Body language is the action of there faith. You can say there deeds. Now there is the other body language, it's the language you notice when people talk, like there hand motions, and facial expressions.

Now appearance has nothing to do with Spiritually Mature but your faith and deeds do.

3. Faith and Deeds make you Spiritually Mature

James 2:17

17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

You may never grow spiritually without having action/deeds. I am not saying it is impossible. From experience it is impossible, for my relationship with God. It may be different with you. I look at it this way. How i love God is by my Actions. Praying for God to open doors to be a Action-Christian. This will improve your prayer life.

James 2:22

22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did.

The person they are talking about is Abraham and his son Isaac. Abraham was instructed by God to sacrifice his son. So Abraham took(action) his son to sacrifice him, then right as he is about to, God stops him. This shows how Abraham's faith and action were working together. What he did made his faith complete with God making him Spiritually Mature.

Another blog about how I grow more spiritual mature click the link Getting Back to Basics

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GOD WITHOUT RELIGION (PART 3 OF 3)

This is going to be a long blog so I hope you can stay with me on this one. So this is the third blog in the (GOD WITHOUT RELIGION SERIES). If you missed the first two I will put the links at the bottom. We are answering the question, "Can it be this simple?" being this simple to live with God without religion. I pray that this series has reached your heart.

In this short story the author takes us back to the time that he was a teenager. When the  author Andrew was a teenager he was like most teenagers a speeder. Well he and his dad went to Indianapolis Motor Speedway some time after he was a teenager for the Richard Petty Driving Experience. Where they were at on the Indy 500 track they said they can go as fast as they can. No tickets, no limits. He was driving and he thought to himself that he should be careful, and he should play it safe and have a good time. The fastest speed that day was over 160mph. His fastest was 132mph. Andrew the author said, "That was slower than a lot of the other drivers. And ironically, it was slower than same speeds I'd reached as a teenager out on America's highways!" The point is when we have strict laws in place and rules. We often find ourselves wanting to push the limits and break them. He saids, "Laws and rules actually cause sin to increase, not decrease." God saids, "You are not under the law, but under grace."(Rom. 8:14) If you have not read Roman 8, I highly, highly, recommend that chap. When sky's the limit, we discover what we really want. So God made the choice to let us get out of the law and be under grace. That choice changes the way I live my life and how many other Christians live theirs.

So through this book it has changed the way that I view religion. Those stories are just practical easy ways that we can have God without religion, downhill slopes, rats, and the law. So the question asked, "Can it really be this simple?" I say yes, it really can be this simple we as Christians,  just go out and live it!!
On another blog talks about Holy Living. Click link to check it out.

If you want to read this book, I will let you borrow it, just send me a text. Phone number is below.

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God Without Religion (1) --->GOD WUTOUT RELIGION 1 <-----

God Without Religion (2) ---> GOD WITHOUT RELIGON 2 <-----

GOD WITHOUT RELIGION (PART 2 OF 3)

This is the second blog of the "God Without Religion Series." We are trying to answer the question that the author asked me at the beginning at the book. Can it really be this simple?  This simple to live God without having religion? Here is a story that is about sinful nature. (If you missed the 1st here's the link, ---> GOD WITHOUT RELIGION (PART 1 OF 3)<---

In this story the author draws a picture of sinful nature as a rat in you house. He talks about how the rat destroys stuff in your house, like wires or pipes just anything you can think a rat can do to your house. You get things fix in your house but you don't know where it is coming from. Just like us there is sin in our life's that we don't know where it is coming from and we don't know how to fix it. The sinful nature is not us but it is us all. We have the choice to let our sinful nature get the best of us or have the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). God wants us to think of ourselves as a new creation and we have the Holy Spirit living in us. The more we trust in God and see that he is all that we need we will become Spirit lead our thoughts.

The two things that are in my house is worrying and staying humble. If you have the same troubles I would check out (WORRYING) and (BEING HUMBLE)

If you want to read this book, I will let you borrow it, just send me a text. Phone number is below.

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GOD WITHOUT RELIGION (PART 1 OF 3)

This is the 1st blog in the "God Without Religion Series." This series will take parts of the book God Without Religion - Andrew Farly, and I will break it down and show you how blessed we really are.

There are a lot of choices that we can make. The question the author asked the reader is this, "Can it really really be this simple?" This question is asking can we have God without religion. He points points out how we can have God without religion and he shows how simple this really is. In this book there are a lot of short stories and how some choices are going to change our life.

This is the first short story and it is placed in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics. In this story the author points out how we are all on the downhill slalom. He saids that it is a rocky road down the hill. But instead of us on the starting line, Jesus is. He doesn't just go down the hill and make it, but he goes down the hill perfectly. Jesus will earn the medal, set an Olympic record, and then he will turn to us the people that would crash, and fail. Not even making it down the hill. Jesus would say, "This is your medal, your record." We should thank Jesus for taking our place on the mountain as he took our place on the cross. The author said, "We should respect the mountain, but have no business trying to survive its treacherous slopes."

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Uplifting Conversation

This is a conversation I had with a friend about stress and teens. I am "A" and "B" is my

friend. They didn't want their name in the blog so their "B". Thanks for viewing my blog, it really means a lot.

A:Where is the fun in life?

B:Weekends..Christmas and other breaks haha.

A:No wander kids turn to drugs and crap, that don't have anything to do.

B:For real

A:Makes complete sense now if we didn't have such a boring time at school kids would

be drug free. "GET RID OF SCHOOL" haha lol

A:Hahaha so true!

B:We just need to help kids stay more relaxed and not have drama and we are drugfree.

A:Yeah..they do it when they're stressed and just wanna party

B:I was taking to a girl today and she said she parties to celebrate life. Which is not bad

just wrong the ways they celebrate life.

A:Really? Yeah it's good to celebrate..just not like that

B:Need a different way to celebrate

A:Yeah like worship or prayer.

B: Yeah love worship. Or even just hanging with friends..better than drinking or doing

drugs.

A: Yeah well we have the solution we need to life it and put it to practice.

B:Yeah..like how you worded that

A:Thanks. I told my teachers to take it easy, because they stress us out so much.

B:That's good!

A:They say stuff to motivate us but it stresses us and makes us turn to other things, sin

is just stress being released.

B:Yeah, yeah things teachers say make me think a lot and stresses me out. Nothing

good comes from stress

A:Like stressing does not do anything for you.

B:Oh yeah..definitely agree

A:So the teachers are the cause of the drugs and we are the effect.

B:But is it really right to blame the teachers they are just doing their job and teaching us

A:Yeah, but put less stress on the kids.

B:Yeah, you're right.

A:We will see, I am going to see what one of my teachers thinks about it. To see if they

believe the same thing as you and me.

B:You should, that would be awesome

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3 Way Relationship (PART 3 OF 3)

            This is the third part of the "3 Way Relationship Series." We talked about loving with your heart, and soul; what that looks like with your relationship with God and also your earthly relationships.  Today/tonight we are going to look at the way with love with our minds and what that looks like.

Matthew 22:36-40

36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

3. Mind

How mentally do we love God, and man?

Ephesians 5:15-16

 15 Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.

            This is one of my favorite verses because of how much it rings true in my life. Anything we think, do, or say comes from our mind. Let's break the verse down, be careful how you live. This is watching how you act, stepping back, thinking how you live your life, knowing what is the right thing and the wrong thing. Not as unwise but as wise, this is hard to understand but I will share with you how I use this verse and apply it to my life. Being wise is always asking yourself in every opportunity this question, "What it the wise thing to do?" If I do this how will it affect the outcome, will it be good or bad. Everything you think, do, or say is going to affect the outcome. Living wise is a great way to love the Lord and your friends with your mind.

What does this change about the way I love God and love in my relationships?

Ephesians 4:29

 29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.    

              Most of the time our mind is negative base, meaning that we degrade people and speak down to them; this is our sinful nature. Controlling your mind in thinking in positive, uplifting ways, to bring people up is hard. It has a lot to do with being humble and putting yourself below people. If you want to learn how to be more humble here's a link "TO PURSUE HUMILITY ". Positive thinking and lifting up people is a way to love your friends with your mind.

            With God, I see us loving him through, keeping a pure heart, staying sexually pure, how you study his word, and how you treat his people through your words and actions. Loving people how you want to be loved.

I hope you learned more on how to love with your heart, soul and mind!!!

Thanks for reading through this series, I learned a lot and I hope you did to!! If you have any questions or comments, or you want to give me a topic or a verse to write about. Contact me: jman1424@gmail.com or on Facebook, Twitter @JonSAdams, by phone/text: (770) 533-2582

3 Way Relationship (PART 2 OF 3)

            So this is part 2 of 3 in the "3 Way Relationship Series." Monday I covered on how we love with our heart. Also how loving with your heart will affect every other relationship.  Today we will cover how to love with your soul. How loving with your soul brings out the best out of relationships.

Matthew 22:36-40

36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

2. Soul

Soul: the spiritual part of the body.

How do we love God with all of our soul?

            We love God with all our soul by our worship. True worship is being led by spirit and truth. This is how I know the worship is being led by the spirit and truth, it's when the worship leader and band members are passionate about the music and you see it in there body language and this makes for a spirit led worship. We love God with all of our soul through prayer another spiritual part. This is praying with all your soul,

Acts 1:14

They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

            Asking God to be led by the spirit can also be a way of loving with your heart. Pray for the Holy Spirit.

How do we love with our soul with our relationships?

Acts 1:14

They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

            I put the same verse because this will help with loving with your soul with your friends. Praying together is a way to love by the soul. Worshiping together is another way to love by the spirit. You notice that the same way you love God by yourself is the same with your friends. Praying for your relationships is loving with your soul.

            Everyone loves with there soul.

How are you going to love with your soul?

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3 Way Relationship (PART 1 OF 3)

            I have been thinking about relationships a lately; how we interact, and how we treat each other. I have told a couple people about this idea that I have. I had something I call a, "Paul Moment," this is the moment you have a great idea from God (Sydney and Kendall, think this is a inside joke with myself). When I said relationship earlier I mean friendship, boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife, father, son, pretty much any relationship you ever have, and even the most important relationship you will ever have. I am going to have one supporting verse and 3 additional points talking about the verse you are going to know exactly what I mean when I say, "3 Way Relationship." I am going to make this a 3 part series.  

Matthew 22:36-40

36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

1.    Heart

So from this verse we notice that you love God with all your heart. What does this mean?

Your relationship with God affects every other relationship you have.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalms 139:23–24)

Loving God with all your heart starts with putting God first. I look at putting first like this, like a house there are many things to doing just like in life there is a lot of things to do. If you make God the house, it controls the many things that you do. Loving God with all your heart is more than just putting him first, it putting him first in everything.

 As Christ Followers this is very hard to do, I still and will always have the problem with not letting Jesus into a room I do not what him in. Meaning letting Jesus into every part of my life. I am trying hard to uncover the things that I don't see.

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