May this strengthen your Spirits and cause your Souls some laughter.
1. Grace, grace, grace! Everything we do is in God’s grace. Everything! Every good thing I have done, am doing, or will do, has been, is, and will be through His grace. If I have a talent or skill it has been through His grace. Or any good deed I have ever done for His glory has been through His grace. May I never forget that and foolishly believe any of my good qualities or actions are by my own doing.
1. If you are in need of some good and interesting conversation, coed bathrooms are where they are at.
2. We should have so much love for our brothers and sisters in Christ that we would rather throw ourselves in between them and an Enemy attack, rather than sit back, pray, and hope for the best. Our love should be so strong that we would rather sacrifice our own safety rather than allow harm to come to one another, whether physical or spiritual.
2. Having a conversation while on the toilet with a girl in another stall isn’t as awkward as you’d think.
3. Trials, temptations, and tribulations, though from the Enemy, are allowed by God for our own benefit to bring our relationship closer to God through our perserverance (James 1: 2-4). Start getting excited whenever the 3T’s come because you know that God is desiring to teach you something that will bring you closer to Him! Try and Trial’s Gain.
3. The reason you put the seat back down is because women can and will fall in.
4. Me– I have spent my life since I learned who the Holy Spirit was, pursuing and loving only the Holy Spirit while trying to ignore God the Father and mildly understanding Jesus. I have been afraid to get to know my Father and so have run to His Spirit (which is still God, but different) and allowed myself to hide from God the Father. May my Daddy forgive me for trying to block Him out and reduce His significance in the pursuit of my walk. I thank my Dad for forgiving me right away and showing me my faults. Now my eyes are on Him. Now, I no longer have a fear of man because my eyes are completely focused on my Father.
4. If you take a shower after a girl there will always be a mini-chewbaca of hair left in the drain.
5. You either feed the flesh or feed the Spirit with everything you do. You can not feed both at the same time! If you are constantly feeding the flesh then when you try to step into the Spirit, you will be pulled back into the flesh. In the same way, when you constantly feed the Spirit, then when you try to step into the flesh, you will be pulled back into the Spirit. When you live in the flesh, the things of the Spirit seem strange and awkward but when you live in the Spirit, the things of the flesh seem strange and awkward.
5. Girls poop does stink.
6. Marriage was solely created to bring two people into a closer relationship with God by exemplifying how Christ is to the bride. How dare we allow it to be only a relationship between a man and a woman. Also, if I looked at my relationship with my wife as I saw Christ’s relationship with me how could I ever cheat on her? Christ will never leave me for another. How could I not constantly forgive her? Christ will forever forgive me for my faults. What would a marriage look like if we truly tried to exemplify how Christ cares for us?
6. Men are no longer allowed to leave the stall door open when urinating.
7. God is tired of only the handfuls of people like Billy Graham or great famous missionaries like Shane Clairbourne that everyone looks up to, reads their books and emphasizes their work. Those people are so blessed for what they are doing but we should all be running with them. It is time to bring everyone together to move as one body of the Church. How dare we allow single people to bring the Kingdom of God down to Earth and give them reverence for it but then do not do anything to reach where they are at? God moves the whole flock of sheep as one. Yes, you may move on to the green pastures of His presence on your own, but it is lonely without the other sheep with you. Also, the sheep who choose to stay back and rest but do not receive the greener pastures are going to miss out on the glory of God that they are able to obtain. Imagine if the whole flock moved together as one into green pastures. What nations would change through their power in Christ as one body!
7. Multiply time to wait for the sink and mirror by five if you’re behind a woman, rather than a man. (Not a problem, ladies. Just an observation.)
8. If your full identity is in Christ and the goal of your life is to become closer to Him, then no matter what is taken out of your life or what happens, you can continue on. Too often parents can put their identities in their children because they have not focused their identities or their families on God. Then when their children move away they become lost because the person they have lived through vicariously is no longer there. If your identity and desire is to seek Christ in everything, even over your wife and your children, then your identity will never change depending on other’s circumstances because it will be set firm in Christ.
8. Explosive diarrhea does not have a gender preference.
9. Me- The Lord held up a mirror to my face and showed me the critical spirit I have had my whole life. I had always known about it but never put a name to it. Since He showed it to me I have been disgusted by my own sin in that stature and have had pure Holy discontent. However, the Lord is freeing me from that completely and it is all through His glory and strength and not through mine! Praise God!
9. Tampons. Enough said.
10. If you have sin that you are carrying in your character such as pride, impatience, or anger, you will not be able to rid yourself of it on your own. No class, method, or book will truly rid you of it. The only thing that can truly remove those sins is the grace of Jesus Christ! Take joy in your weakness for He is the only person who can take that away from you, but first you must recognize that sin and desire to change whole-heartedly for His glory. Only then can He cure you and release you from your sin. Again, you can not do it on your own! Praise Him for His constant desire to bring you closer to Him! For your good!
10. There are things I do not want to know about girls.
11. My God is bigger than your god! Nowhere I can find in the Bible does any person try to disprove an enemy god by arguing against their existence. Actually, in every situation the prophets would only try to show how much greater their God was then the other false gods. Sometimes even ridiculing the other god’s lack of power or appearance. (Examples: Elisha; 1 Kings 18: 16-45/ Moses; Exodus 7: 8-13/ Paul; Acts 13: 8-12 & 17: 22-34) Maybe we should stop trying to disprove other religions and beliefs and start allowing God to prove Himself and His truths!
11. Everything you need to learn about living with your future spouse can be learned through sharing a coed bathroom.
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