Bible Verses

Hey Ya'll im extremely bored. Im in 5th period and we have to stay in here for 2 hours. We had our exam today for this class, and i already have finished it now i have a hour and 30 minutes to do nothing. So im really bored. So I'd figure i would tell you some of my favorite bible verses.

FAVORITE BIBLE VERSES:

2 Corinthians 12:9-12
But he said to me, My grace is sufficient, for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Isaiah 40: 28-31
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary, and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.
That verse always helps me before i run a race! =D

James 1:2-4
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trails of many kinds. Because you know that the testing of your faith develops persevance. Perservance must finish its work sothat you be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

James 2:17
In the same way, Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a
Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

1 Corinthian 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Pslams 7:10
My shield is God, most high, who saves the upright in heart.

Psalms 9:9-10
The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. Those who know your name will trust you, for you Lord have never forsaken those who seek you.

Pslams 9:17-18
The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God. But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.

Pslams18:28
You, O Lord, keep my lamp burning, My God turns darkness into light.

Pslams 18:3
I call to the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.

Pslams 16:9-11
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, my body also will rest secure. because you will not abandom me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay. You have made known to me the path of life, you will fill me with joy in your prescence, with eternal pleasures of your right hand.

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs.

1 John 2:2
He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world!

1 John 2:6
But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him. Whoever claims to live in him, must walk as Jesus did.

1 John 2:17
the world and its desires pass away, but the man who does teh will of God lives forever.

1 John 3:16
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 4:8-9
Whoever does not love, does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his only son into the world that we might live through him.

1 John 4:11-12
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1 John 4:15-16
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the Love God has for us. God is love, whoever lives in love, lives in God, and God in him.

1 John 4:19
We Love because he first loved us.

1 John 5: 4-5
For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. who is it that over comes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the son of God.

Matthew 6:33-34
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow willworry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Titus 2:11-13
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say no to ungodliness, and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Philippians 2:3
do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as mroe important than yourselves.

1 Peter 4:16
but if anyone suffers as a Christian, he should not be ashamed but should glorify God with that name.

John 3:3
In reply Jesus declared. " I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Romans 5:8
God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

Matthew 5:14-16
You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on a stand and it gives light to everyone in the house.l In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see Good deeds and praise your father in heaven.

Ephesians 5:8
for you were once darkness, But now you are light in the Lord.

Acts 4:12
Salvation is found in one one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.

Isn't God awesome, every time i read these verses i just get such a hope, and these aren't even all of them!! I have so many more, but I have to go! I hope all of you have an awesome week, and weekend! We are going to the beach on saturday so pray for traveling and safety! thank you!! Ya'll have a terrfic day!
love ya,
Rach-o-matic

EXCITED ABOUT....

I am so looking forward to Sunday morning!! It is going to be so awesome!! I am so excited! I can't wait to hear Pastor Chad's sermon, and the Praise Band! Make sure all of yall can come, it shall be awesome!!
well have a great weekend!
love ya,
Rach

SUMMER!!

Hey everyone! Well we only have 5 more days left of school!! i am so excited about summer!! we got our calendars from Mr. Allan last night!! This summer looks like its going to be awesome!! Im looking forward to all the things that are planned! I'm especially looking forward to Godstock, i think that is going to flippin awesome!! im pretty much pumped! This summer should be very busy, not only with church stuff but i have cross country practice at 6:30 in the morning, and I hope to get a job! Ashley and I hope to get a job at A.S.K, a daycare center across the street from my grandparents. Our old youth leader, Mrs. Audra, mother-n-law is the person who owns it, and I love Mrs. Audra's children so i really hope that we get a job there! please pray that that is what God wants! thanks! Also this summer, we will be in a class taught by Kim! I am excited about that, I love Kim and i dont doubt that she won't do a great job! Well I gotta get back to work!! Hope everyone has a great day, and a great week!!
Love ya,
Rach

Random Thoughts

Yo peps! Whats krackin? Not much here, just kinda bored in 5th period, so i thought i would post! So this blog is probably going to be very random (nothing unusual)! This week has gone by so quickly, it feels like it should be Monday but its Wednesday!! That makes me extremely happy because its church night!! I love Wednesdays and Sundays, they are so much fun and there is nothing i rather do then go to church and worship my Lord and Savior!! I love how they made Wednesday a church night, because its in the middle of the week, and if u are feeling down and lonely, you can just go to church and it will turn your week around! so im really excited about church =P

Tomorrow me, ashley, crystal, chelsea, katie, and many others have to be at school at 7:30 tomorrow morning! Can u believe it, thats when i usually get up! goodness i am going to be very tired tomorrow! your probably wondering why we have to be at school that early, well we have our AP World History exam, which i know im going to completely fail because yea. If i even studied for that exam, i think that my brain would explode. It covers material from like the beginning to time until now, and in other parts of the world! but luckly, this exam doesn't count against us or anything. if we pass it, we get college credit if we dont then, yea its all good. So im not really stressing over it or anything, but tomorrow I think im going to go insane after taking the test! so please pray for me and everyone else!

Monday we started cross country practice! I am so happy!! I love coach bell he is so awesome! Anyways, we haven't had any really hard practices, just like 3 miles, pretty easy, and just showed the new kids on the block where the course is and things like that. Its pretty kool! We currently have 9 girls on our team, which is way better than last year, we only had 5 girls, so yea im excited!

Have you ever wondered who came up with the song, Jesus Loves Me? I sure have, i mean i wonder if it was a disciple or something, I hope it was because no kid should of gone without singing that song! its like my favorite song of all time! =P

My family and me went to go see Spiderman 3 on saturday, it was a very good movie and it had a very good moral to it! I think its going to be like one of my top hero movies, for sure! along with all the other spider-man movies!

okay well i think im gonna go email and bug candace! hope ya'll didnt get to bored with my blog, couldn't say i would blame ya if ya did though! well see ya'll tonight! Have a terrific day and rest of the week!
Love,
Rach-o-matic

God's Painting

Hey everyone!! Well yesterday was mothers day, and we went to go visit my mom's mom and well she is not doing very well. She has to use oxygen now, she can hardly speak, and her arms and hands are all swolen. The swoleness really scares my mom, because two weeks before her dad died, his arms and hands got all swolen, so my mom is really scared. Yesterday was so sad, my mom would tell her she loved her, but get nothing in response. I know that my grandmother loves my mommy, she always tries to smile when my mom walks in the room, but its really hard my mom, seeing her like this. So please pray for my grandma and my mom! Thank You so much!

On Thursday, we have our AP World History exam, we have 70 multiple choice questions(they are not easy either!) and 3 essays to do, Im going to pass out at the end of it. And when you are done, you can't draw, or anything! I am going to go insane for sure! so please pray for the sanity of classroom! Thank you!

I can't wait till Wednesday!! We get to go Sonic and i get to see all of my friends at church, I cant wait! I love our youth group!

Have you ever looked at the clouds, and you might see a heart, or a dinosaur, or even fish in the clouds? I have and i just think it is so amazing. Its like God is painting a picture for us, and i have to say that God is greatest artist of all time. I mean he created this entire world, everyone, everything, i dont see how people can't believe in him. When I just look at the clouds and the bright shining stars, I know God is there! He is so amazing! I can just get a feeling of peace, just by looking at the sky and knowing what an awesome God he is! God continues to amaze me and I love him so much!

Have a great week, and just look at the clouds during the day, see what God has painted for us! Its amazing!
Love ya'll,
Rach

There Will be Beauty from Pain

Hey Everyone!! Our God is so amazing, and he makes me so happy!! I can't find the words to say how happy I am. You see, I was struggling with this issue, a while back and didn't know how to handle it. Well I prayed, and I just got this strong feeling that God was telling me just to wait. So I did, and now things are just awesome and I owe it all to God. Everything has worked out better then I could ever imagine!! Now I'm not saying that through every struggle things are going to come out my way, but things will turn out for the best, even if you don't think so. God knows the plans he has for our lives so their is no reason to doubt him! Thats what is so amazing about our God, even when we sin and disappoint our Lord and Savior, he always forgives us and always still wants the best for us! My God is just so incredibly amazing!! I love him so much!! In a world full of dissappointment, God is always there, no matter what! That gives me such a peaceful feeling, and a everlasting hope!! I can't wait to praise his name and see him face to face in Heaven!! Now that will be AMAZING!

During this struggle, I listened to this song by Superchick called Beauty from Pain, here are the lyrics, it could help if you are going through a struggle and don't think things will ever be good again...
The lights go out all around me
One last candle to keep out the night
And then the darkness surrounds me
I know I’m alive
But I feel I like I died
And all that’s left is to accept that it’s over
My dreams ran like sand
through the face that I made
I try to keep on but I just grow colder
I feel like I’m slipping away
CHORUS:
After all this has passed
I still will remain
After I’ve cried my last
There’ll be beauty from pain
Though it won’t be today
Someday I’ll hope again
And I’ll be beauty from pain
You will bring beauty from my pain

My whole world is the pain inside me
The best I can do is just get through the day
When life before is only a memory
I wonder why God lets me walk through this place
And though I can’t understand why this happened
I know I will when I look back someday
And see how You’ve brought beauty from ashes
And made me as gold purified through these flames…
CHORUS
Here I am at the end of me
Trying to hold to what I can’t see
I forgot how to hope
This night’s been so long
I cling to your promise there will be a dawn…
CHORUS

its a really good song, and I love the band Superchick, they are very very good!!! Well just remember if you are going through a difficult time, God will help you, Just hold on to his word and dont lose the Faith, cause even when you have nothing else, you will always have the Faith, Hope and Love that God gives us each and every day! I hope you have a blessed week!! Love ya'll!!
Rach

Yearbooks all around!

Today has been a great day, actually, this week has been an awesome week!! on Tuesday me and Candace went walking, it was so much fun!! We got some weird looks though, I guess its weird that we enjoy being active and that we eat oranges while doing it. o well!! Today is year book day, and i dont like the cover to much, but i haven't had to do like any work all day....yea its pretty sweet!! Im so amazed, school is almost over, this year flew by!! I can't believe we will be juniors, upper class men, wow thats pretty kool, Im excited, but Im not looking foward to all the hard work though. But you have to do it.
I am so looking forward to the summer, I cant wait to find out what our youth group will be doing!! I really hope we do a lock-in again, those things are so much fun and i really wanna go to carowinds!!! that would be pretty awesome!! I can't wait, even if we don't do anything like that, I know we will still have fun!!!
I dont know what else to write, but if i think of something to write then I will later!! Have a fabulous day!!
Love ya,
Rach