"His Way is Perfect"

Sometimes I feel as though my heart is broken into a million pieces. I feel as though the devil has grabbed hold of my heart, tore it out of me, chewed it, spit it back out, and then put it back into my soul. It is then that I have to come before the Lord, and ask Him to heal my broken heart; give my heart to Him knowing He will fix it, and fill me up again with His wonderful love and joy, and that peace that passes all understanding. Then, from then on, I must remember and try hard to not get discouraged, or down, knowing that the devil likes when that happens, cause it is another chance for him to do that same terrible thing he did to me before. I must resist the devil, knowing he will flee from me if I do, and draw nigh to God, knowing that when I do, He will draw nigh to me! (James 4:7-8). There are some things I don't understand why God allows to happen, but the one thing I do know, is that His way is perfect, and will always work for His honor and glory... And I must give Him the glory, honor and praise no matter what. These are the words to a song that pretty much sums it up for me. I love this song, and it is pretty much how I feel (the whole way through). It is from the Wilds book... I hope it encourages you like it has me.

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This is James 4, which I memorized a couple years back. I don't know if I would be able to say it straight through for memory for you right now, but I could do some. Anyways, this is the chapter with the verses I mentioned above, and the whole chapter is really good, so I looked it up on Christ notes, and it was good. It can be found here: http://www.christnotes.org/bible.php?q=James+4&ver=kjv

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Friendship with the World:

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1. From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2. Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5. Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6. But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

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Judging a Brother:

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11. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. 12. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

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Boast Not of Tomorrow:

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13. Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Makeover

Well, as you can tell, I have done a lot of things to my blog! I am still working on it though, and doing some more. So keep watching. I am still looking for a background that is just totally me, and will work for me as well! :) I am adding pages (at the top), and about page, I am going to add a photo album, Quotes I love, and also blogs and websites that I like to visit. So.... Keep watching cause I am still going to be doing lots more! I think I am also going to change the name of my blogspot... It is going to be http://www.setapartgirl4christ2.blogspot.com/ But I am not going to change it just yet, so that people will be able to see what it is, so they don't have any trouble finding it. :)

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Have a wonderful day! :)

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Karissa

Eric Ludy - Depraved Indifference

His Hands and Feet...Amazing! God calls us to be the Hands and Feet of Jesus Christ! Just think about that for a moment. It deeply impacts me in a great way! It is so amazing! A tear rolls down my cheek as I watch the little boy (in the video below) flash across the screen, knowing that he has no clothes, food, house, or anyone to love and care for him; realizing that there are many more (more than I probably even know) children out there with no hope for the future!

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It makes me want to run to them, tell them I love them and will take care of them, if no one else will, not caring what anyone else thinks of me, and plant a seed of hope in their heart (the hope only found in Jesus Christ), and watch it grow into something beautiful, something only the hand of God-The God that made heaven and earth, that made everything else beautiful, The one and only true God, MY God-could create!

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Brothers and Sisters, when you share the gospel with other people, there are some that will not take your advice, they will have a hardened heart, and despise and reject you and the truth. But do not be discouraged in the face of ridicule, my friends... Be encouraged by God and His Word which says, Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. (Matthew 5:10-11)

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He also says in that same chapter, later on, Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. (Matthew 5:43-45)

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So when you are faced with persecution, rejection, and are despised, do not give up hope! Continue sharing Christ's love with them, and most of all pray for them. Pray that Christ will work to soften their hearts, so that they may accept the truth of God's Word. Cause ultimately, He is the One that does the convicting. You would never get through to them by yourself. Jesus Christ is the only One who will soften their hearts, and give them salvation! This video is what made me say all this, even though I did get a little off of where I was going... But I just wanted to share all that with you anyways. This video touched me deeply, and I hope it touches and encourages you to share His Word with people, and bring glory to Jesus Christ with all that you do and say. Have a wonderful day, my Brothers and Sister, Friends and Family, and whoever else may be reading this. :) Enjoy! :)

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~Karissa~

P.S. I am in the process of redoing my blog, as you maybe can tell, so bare with me as I get it all set up to how I want it to be! :) I couldn't decide on a verse, so I did all three. :)

1 Peter 4:11

If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Psalm 115:1

Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake.

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

My "speech" :)

This was my "speech" that I said in front of everyone at Church a couple of weeks ago. I thought I would share it with you. I hope you all have a great night! :)

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My memory verse for 2010 was Mark 16:15 which says: And He said unto them, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. This verse was a good one for me this year, and after I picked it out, I kept hearing messages from various people that were talking about sharing the gospel with people around the world! I felt like God was telling me something… This is something I should be doing… Bringing the gospel to every creature… Just like the verse says! I felt like I kept on hearing time after time of how we should be spreading the gospel and sharing the love of Christ. We watched a couple movies that really touched me as well, and made me realize how many people are out there that need to hear the message of Christ, and who need the Saviour’s forgiveness. And I just think how great it would be, and how happy it would make me feel to lead someone to Christ! I just feel like there would be no greater joy than knowing that I lead someone to Him. I should go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature!!!! I don’t know exactly what God has in store for my future just yet, but I know it includes some great things done for the glory and honor of His name, and also bringing the gospel to people for the furthering of His Kingdom!

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~Karissa~

Picnik

Hey there! -- I have some pictures up... Not many but a couple to tide you over 'til I have more time to post some more. :) They are pictures that I picniked, which I love doing! So fun! I hope you enjoy...

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(If you can't see these well enough, click on them to make them bigger) :)

Well, that's it for now, and I hope you all have a great day!

With His Love,

Karissa :)

Hey y'all! Wow! I know I say it every time, but I haven't really done a post in a long time. I really hope that I will be able to now that we are getting internet on the laptop! :) And again, I don't have pictures, but I will soon, again now that we have the laptop with internet (which is where most of my pictures are anyways)! Well, first of all I am going to tell you about last Sunday night. On Sunday night we went to the annual "verse of the year service" at our Church. I wrote a 100 word essay for the verse I picked last year, and said that in front of everyone. I was nervous, but I got through it! Haha. I will put my essay on here sometime too. (I also picked a new verse.... What they do is print out a bunchof verses and put them on a table in front and everyone goes up and picks one, and that is your "verse of the year"). The one that I got last year that I did an essay on was Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. The one that I picked out for this year (well you don't really pick it out, cause the paper is turned over so you can't see the verse, you just pick a random piece of paper) was Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. I really like that verse and I also like the second verse of that chapter which says: looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. They are very encouragin verses to me, and I hope they can be in some way an encouragement to you as well! :) Then Susanna, my dad and I as well as a bunch of other people went up front to say the "chapter of the year." They pick one out every year, and whoever wants to can memorize it throughout the year and then at the service you go up front and say it. It was 1 Thessalonians 4 for 2010 and this year it is 1 Corinthians 5. I also at the service signed up to read the Bible through this year since that was one of my "resolutions for 2011" (they have a paper, and whoever wants to can sign up to do it, and then if you do it, at the "verse of the year service" you can get a prize). Obviously I didn't do it just for that... Lol I wanted to do it anyways, and have been wanting to for a while!!! I hope I am not sounding too confusing. :P -- Well, we are going to a teen activity tonight, so that should be fun! I am sooo looking forward to Winter Carnival. I hope it will be tons of fun! I can't wait to go sledding, snowboarding, and all that other good stuff! We are ALL sooo lookin forward to it! Well, that is all I have for now, and I hope to have some pictures up soon! :) Have a wonderful day!

-- With warmth and blessings,

-- Karissa -- P.S. We got about 20 inches of snow!! The first big snowstorm we had was the day after Christmas when we got about 8 inches... But it was all gone by the next week. And then we had a couple flurries here and there but nothing real big until the snowstorm a couple days ago! So excited! I have yet to go out and play in it, but I'm hoping to soon! :)

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