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Name: Gavin
Country: United States
State: Washington
Metro: Spokane
Birthday: 12/9/1986
Gender: Male
Interests: Jesus Christ, my girlfriend Becka, snowboarding, basketball, ice skating, music (I like punk, alternative and some hard: Reliant K, Simple Plan, Yellowcard, Green Day, Bowling for Soup, 3 Doors Down, Kutless, Jars of Clay, Thousand Foot Krutch, FM Static, POD, Pillar, Tool, Disturbed, Linkin' Park, Chevelle, Avril LaVign(yeah, you can kill me for that one ;-), Evanescence, Mercyme Nickelback, Switchfoot, Earshot, Falling Up), volleyball, woodworking, weight-lifting, dogs(mine to be exact...lil' black lab), Egyptian rat-screw (it's a card game...don't you even ask where the name came from), playing with fire, playing with gas, playing with fire and gas, guitar, um...jokes, bowling, practical jokes, miniture golf.
Expertise: Furniture building/designing, Construction, and you can look at the interests column.
Occupation: Other
Industry: Construction
Message: message meEmail: email me
Website: visit my website
AIM:  FallenUp18
Member Since:
12/25/2004
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| Bitter/Sweet Hey everyone! Been awhile since I have actually posted a blog or update or whatever you call these and I usually don’t have the time or concentration to actually keep up with these, but due to current circumstances, I’ve sat down to write, for a couple reasons. 1st, just to organize my thoughts down on paper where I don’t lose track and no one can twist them for their own agenda. 2nd, Becka and I, Becka’s family, and Becka’s dad all need your daily prayer for God’s plans and leading in life. 3rd, Craig, If by some chance you read this, I pray with everything in my being that God will get your heart back. That he will bring you to the point in your life where absolutely nothing in this world will bring you joy except the Lord Jesus Christ. That God will take you to that place of complete humility and repentance so that He can make for himself a brand new Craig for Himself. Craig, let me tell you that God WILL bring you to your knees before Him, whether today by your choice, or at the end, by His choice. I pray you would listen to his call, before that “tap-tapping” on your shoulder turns into a “TWAP-BANG” of God’s spiritual 2x4 over your head. Craig, I write this as a man that has experienced the 2x4 over the forehead, and the bruise is still there as a reminder of my crippling sin nature. Trust me, it’s easier to come now while you still have something to come back to. Friday, for those who wish to know, we (Becka and I) decided to go to Tri-cities for 2 reasons. First, was to visit her family, which is always a great and fun time and once again proved to be so. Second, we wanted to follow up on a letter Becka wrote to her dad (Craig) about how we can’t be supportive of him and his sin of divorcing his wife and pursuing an extra-marital affair. Willfully, rejecting God, God’s law and his commitments before God (husband, father, leader, protector, provider, mentor, and the list goes on), and (even though he won’t admit it) rejecting his family. BTW, Becka wrote this letter all by herself and wrote it lovingly, yet firmly. Telling how she felt, yet at the same time, telling how God felt. Let me just say right now that she did an excellent job and I’m so proud of her for standing up like that for God. Anyways, Becka calls her dad to set up a time to meet on sat. and that’s where the trouble started. For some reason, Craig was willing to meet with Becka, but didn’t want me there. I still have no idea why, even though I have my suspicions. He claimed it was because “this” was between him and her. Becka once again refused (people, I can’t tell you enough of how proud I’ve been of this woman lately . She told him that we (Becka and I) don’t operate as individuals, but as a team (you know, “they shall become one flesh” under God). Also, if there is something that he has to say that I couldn’t hear, she told him that she shouldn’t hear it. Also, the last several times Craig has talked to Becka bout all of this, he has argued her to the point of tears, then talked over her ending the conversation with this air of superiority and “victory”, and since I don’t cry for bullies, she thought I might be good for back-up  . Anyways, Craig wouldn’t hear any of it and finally, Becka, after being brought to tears AGAIN, finally said, “Dad, when you leave Danette (the adulteress) you can give me call.” She was done with his verbal abuse. Once again, I can’t say how much I’m proud of her, now she stood up for herself. Anyways, her dad said that he would never leave Danette, which is basically saying, “I WILL NEVER COME BACK TO GOD, MY FAMILY, TO PURITY, TO MY OWN SELF RESPECT OR RESPECT FOR MY FAMILY, GOD, OR EVEN DANETTE! MY SIN IS TOO SWEET. I WILL SIT HERE IN MY OWN DUNG AND RELISH MY FREEDOM IN DOING SO! I WILL…hmmm, I’m getting a little carried away, huh?!? Everybody please pray for him, Danette and pray for us, because there is a hard road ahead for all of us. Once again, Craig, if you happen to read this, WE LOVE YOU!!! We love you enough to pray that God breaks you of your sin. We love you enough to be the consequences of your sin by letting you choose: Sin vs. God and us. Craig, we will always be here for you WHEN you turn from your sin, but we cannot in no way endorse your sin. Farwell, to all cause my fingers hurt from typing Gavin P.S. If any body thinks I am being to harsh, read the Bible. It’ll make what I said seem soft and fruity. P.S.S. I didn’t use scripture because it’s pretty clear to all of us, adultery is sin. | | |
| It has been raining alot the last couple of days. I wish it would snow for two reasons: 1. Snow won't penatrate my work clothing, hence causing a soaked to the bone feeling, therefore, by the end of the day, causing a frozen to the bone feeling. 2. SNOWBOARDING SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEEEE-AAAAAAAH-AHHHHH-AHHHHHYAAAYAAAYAAAYAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gonna be a sick season on that soft, white, frosty, slippery stuff. And that about as deep as I'm feeling today, so peace out, adios, saranoia(or something like that), aloha, later and all those sweet goodbyes dude. Rain rain on my face
It hasn't stopped
Raining for days
My world is a flood
Slowly I become
One with the mud
But if I can't swim after 40 days
And my mind is crushed
By the crashing waves
Lift me up so high
That I cannot fall
Lift me up
Lift me up-when I'm falling
Lift me up-I'm weak and I'm dying
Lift me up-I need you to hold me
Lift me up-and keep me from drowning again
Down pour on my soul
Splashing in the ocean
I'm losing control
Dark sky all around
Can't feel my feet
Touching the ground
But if I can't swim after 40 days
And my mind is crushed
By the crashing waves
Lift me up so high
That I cannot fall
Lift me up
Lift me up-when I'm falling
Lift me up-I'm weak and I'm dying
Lift me up-I need you to hold me
Lift me up-and keep me from drowning again
Calm the storms that drench my eyes
And dry the streams still flowing
Casting down all waves of sin
And guilt that overthrow me
But if I can't swim after 40 days
And my mind is crushed
By the crashing waves
Lift me up so high
That I cannot fall
Lift me up
Lift me up-when I'm falling
Lift me up-I'm weak and I'm dying
Lift me up-I need you to hold me
Lift me up-and keep me from drowning again
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| Stein's Theme by Project 86
Rising up above this wickedness
And unfazed by your endless myths
Hands all around reach to slow him down
He's all about this sound
We aren't playing by your rules
We'll never play the fools
So, no, you can't take what's inside of me
All about the sound from way out
He's got the scars just to prove he's "down"
No apologies to confuse his brain
His argument is sustained
He's walking, non-stopping out of the shadows
Sounds of the new-he's got a look in his eye
(that says) There's something more than you're feeding him
He's not afraid to say...no
You're talking, non-stopping echoing voices
But nothing you said made a dent in my head
I'm hearing you fearing him 'cause he's not afraid
He's not about bowing down to what you say
You hate us 'cause we'll never go away
And like some sort of fungus we're growing everyday
And our knuckles aren't dragging so I guess that leaves to say
Our message isn't stopping until you drag us all away
Hear the silent ignorant voices spew:
"You're all a pack of disoriented youth"
He lives to see the day those vices end
But until then I'll send this...
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"If God so clothe the grass of the field . . . shall He not much more clothe you?" Matthew 6:30
A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us if we are not simple. How are we going to be simple with the simplicity of Jesus? By receiving His Spirit, recognizing and relying on Him, obeying Him as He brings the word of God, and life will become amazingly simple. "Consider," says Jesus, "how much more your Father Who clothes the grass of the field will clothe you, if you keep your relationship right with Him." Every time we have gone back in spiritual communion it has been because we have impertinently known better than Jesus Christ. We have allowed the cares of the world to come in, and have forgotten the "much more" of our Heavenly Father.
"Behold the fowls of the air" - their main aim is to obey the principle of life that is in them and God looks after them. Jesus says that if you are rightly related to Him and obey His Spirit that is in you, God will look after your 'feathers.'
"Consider the lilies of the field" - they grow where they are put. Many of us refuse to grow where we are put, consequently we take root nowhere. Jesus says that if we obey the life God has given us, He will look after all the other things. Has Jesus Christ told us a lie? If we are not experiencing the "much more," it is because we are not obeying the life God has given us, we are taken up with confusing considerations. How much time have we taken up worrying God with questions when we should have been absolutely free to concentrate on His work? Consecration means the continual separating of myself to one particular thing. We cannot consecrate once and for all. Am I continually separating myself to consider God every day of my life? |
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"Take no thought for your life." Matthew 6:25
A warning which needs to be reiterated is that the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things entering in, will choke all that God puts in. We are never free from the recurring tides of this encroachment. If it does not come on the line of clothes and food, it will come on the line of money or lack of money; of friends or lack of friends; or on the line of difficult circumstances. It is one steady encroachment all the time, and unless we allow the Spirit of God to raise up the standard against it, these things will come in like a flood.
"Take no thought for your life." "Be careful about one thing only," says our Lord - "your relationship to Me." Common sense shouts loud and says - "That is absurd, I must consider how I am going to live, I must consider what I am going to eat and drink." Jesus says you must not. Beware of allowing the thought that this statement is made by One Who does not understand our particular circumstances. Jesus Christ knows our circumstances better than we do, and He says we must not think about these things so as to make them the one concern of our life. Whenever there is competition, be sure that you put your relationship to God first.
"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." How much evil has begun to threaten you to-day? What kind of mean little imps have been looking in and saying - Now what are you going to do next month - this summer? "Be anxious for nothing," Jesus says. Look again and think. Keep your mind on the "much more" of your heavenly Father. |
I hate to do this to you again, but I have nothing else to really share...so, here is something else God has been trying to teach me the last couple weeks. I hope it speaks to you like it spoke to me.
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WHAT MY OBEDIENCE TO GOD COSTS OTHER PEOPLE |
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"They laid hold upon one Simon . . . and on him they laid the cross." Luke 23:26
If we obey God it is going to cost other people more than it costs us, and that is where the sting comes in. If we are in love with our Lord, obedience does not cost us anything, it is a delight, but it costs those who do not love Him a good deal. If we obey God it will mean that other people's plans are upset, and they will gibe us with it - "You call this Christianity?" We can prevent the suffering; but if we are going to obey God, we must not prevent it, we must let the cost be paid.
Our human pride entrenches itself on this point, and we say - I will never accept anything from anyone. We shall have to, or disobey God. We have no right to expect to be in any other relation than our Lord Himself was in (see Luke 8:2-3).
Stagnation in spiritual life comes when we say we will bear the whole thing ourselves. We cannot. We are so involved in the universal purposes of God that immediately we obey God, others are affected. Are we going to remain loyal in our obedience to God and go through the humiliation of refusing to be independent, or are we going to take the other line and say - I will not cost other people suffering? We can disobey God if we choose, and it will bring immediate relief to the situation, but we shall be a grief to our Lord. Whereas if we obey God, He will look after those who have been pressed into the consequences of our obedience. We have simply to obey and to leave all consequences with Him.
Beware of the inclination to dictate to God as to what you will allow to happen if you obey Him.
~Jan. 11, My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers |
This kinda jumped out at me the other day....thought I might share.
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