September 2012
103 posts
11 hours. This is surreal.
August 2012
64 posts
Honestly, →
dannyphame:
even though we don’t talk, you will be someone/somebody that i’ll always check up on every now and then because i really do still care. I just want to look out for your safety and see how you been doing. If anything happens, i’ll know, and of course i’ll be there to reassure…
6.
The craziest thing you’ve done.
I’m reading Yoyo’s as I’m doing this along the way, and since he seems to have used my idea first I’ll have to go a bit deeper into my faith =P
The craziest thing I’ve done was for my “birthday present” last year with Grace, Jess, and Joshua. The four of us packed like 2 bags full of pb&j’s, hopped on a...
32 hours and counting.
“I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.”
– Billy Graham (via jesusiwillfollowyou)
Our God is a trolling God, he reigns from heaven above with loving humor our God is a trolling God…
5.
15 interesting facts about yourself… Hm. 15 seems a stretch.
I was born in and named after Louisiana
Whenever I am introduced as Louie one of the first questions people ask is if it’s a nickname
I have a rather consistent habit of leaving my Bible at church
I was saved in summer after 7th grade
I’m blessed enough to have received several visions from God
I fully intend to...
4.
Someone of the opposite gender that is important to you.
I’m uh not too sure how to answer this one because there would actually be quite a few who I consider very important in my life. But still, the point is, thank God for my fellow sisters in Christ who have taught me how to become a stronger man of God and how to treat girls as sisters in Christ. And thank God for even my nonChristian...
3.
Something you regret.
This might tie into some other stuff I’m going to have to write about for the other numbers. About 2 years ago I started to get really close to someone, something that shouldn’t have happened for someone in my situation and with my responsibilities. Now in a way I’m glad it happened because God taught me a lot through it. He taught me how to prioritize Him,...
A note.
This hitting me as I talk to a friend at 1:30 in the morning… I was just thinking back to my year here at Joywok and how it’s all played out in this great battle for God within the church and what it meant in terms of eras… As I think about it in the grand scheme of things, I have to face one amazing fact. God called my year, and so called me, to be a leader at one of the lowest...
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain...”
– Victor Hugo (via grace-notes)
2.
A song that has a memory attached to it:
You’ll Come
The first time I was at Camp Herald, God’s spirit broke out onto me during a counselor’s session. We were worshiping, and the amazing simplicity and truth of this song spoke to my heart and I broke down. The bridge went like “Chains be broken, lives be healed… Eyes be opened, Christ is revealed.” We sang...
The Wonderful Cross - Chris Tomlin and Matt Redman
Stay United
If you know these verses well enough, feel free to skip to my thoughts, if you read my thoughts at all =P Turn to Romans 12!
(v1) “For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the...
“He must increase, I must decrease.”
– John 3:30
“But it’s important to realize that the world’s always going to be broken....”
– Hank Green (via gonetothevisible)
Watchfreestyleandbutterflies:
moonthewolf:
trustmeimbella:
mythicality:
smilestation:
enasnivolz:
racethewind10:
cydoniahype:
etherialhannah526:
grassleaves:
boldinthebroken:
milesjai:
WHAT THE HELL BBC. DYING.
FOR.EVER.RE.BLOG.
Daytime nightime Daytime nightime
there are few things that make me enjoy being british but this is one of them omfg
what the actual fuck...
1.
10 things you’d say to 10 different people right now. I fail to condense. Bear with me.
TSH: You there. First off I truly wish you the best of luck at college, that you’ll end up successful and amazing as you have been called to. I’m going to miss having that one person there all the time who I can talk to and share anything with. I pray too that, as we said, who knows? One day...
Challenge
Going to be borrowing this from my good friend Yoyo. Perhaps it will help me explore into some dusty corners of my thoughts I haven’t visited in a while.
1. Ten things you’d say to ten different people right now.
2. A song that has a memory attached to it.
3. Something you regret.
4. Someone of the opposite gender that is important to you.
5. Fifteen interesting facts about yourself.
...
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live,...”
– G.K. Chesterton
“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that...”
– Proverbs 19:21
Steps
And… that was it. The last Joywok as a student at Joywok. Wow, just like that. Though I approve of the ending. Ending quite well, with praise and prayer. I’m gonna come back and visit definitely. As often as I can. How could I not? Without it I wouldn’t have been saved, wouldn’t have gone into business, most importantly wouldn’t have met the people who made me…...
24/7
You don’t exactly decide to give everything to the love of your life on only two days out of the week… why is it so different sometimes with us Christians and the King of Kings? Every single day, regardless if you set aside time exclusively for Him as some type of “God time” or something, a relationship should always be there throughout the entire day. When you love...
When I was a boy I used to think of Heaven as a glorious golden city, with jewelled walls, and gates of pearl, with nobody in it, but the angels, and they were all strangers to me. But after a while my brother died; then I thought of Heaven as that great city, full of angels, with just one little fellow in it that I was acquainted with. He was the only one I knew there, at that time. Then another...
“Such as do not grow in grace, decay in grace. There is no standing at a stay in...”
– Thomas Watson
“Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope...”
– Psalm 42:11
“He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not...”
– Romans 8:32
Obsession
I absolutely love David Crowder’s song “Obsession”. It’s not fast or upbeat or anything. This song is just a cry to God about our absolute obsession with him, and how our heart burns for Him. I feel it’s so relevant to our everyday walks because, like the lyrics say, sometimes he feels so far away but other times his presence is so much more real than even our own...
“What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new...”
– E.M. Bounds - Amen to this so much
Praise Praise Praise
God is good. All the time. Let’s just get that out of the way first, cuz it deserves to be at the top, and not always at the bottom of my posts.
Firstly praise God for what He’s done. Well that and also simply for being worthy of praise haha. Being here in Vegas is taking my faith to slightly beyond the church, and God’s lately been using the opportunity to show me where His...
“The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: “You [God] will make known to me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; in Your right hand there are pleasures forever.” Fullness of joy and eternal joy cannot be improved. Nothing is fuller than full, and nothing is longer than eternal. And this joy is owing to the presence of God, not the accomplishments...
“It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble...”
– Bernard of Clairvaux
“I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be...”
– Psalm 16:8
Isaiah 40 is beautiful.
Anonymous asked: hi louis
Some Devotions
“Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the...
“For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
– Philippians 1:21
“In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom...”
– Hebrews 2:10
A Prayer
Oh God, what is your plan for my life? It seems, at least in the moment, that before college has even started you’ve set me on a straight path with everything worked out. But I don’t know if it’s doubt or whatever, but I feel as if a part of it is me wanting to be confident that this is your plan because it’s so… secure. I pray Lord that in this plan there would be...
“If we live, we live for the Lord; and if we die, we die for the Lord. So,...”
– Romans 14:8
invinculis:
berlitz:
do you ever feel like you like someone a lot more than they like you and then start to feel like you’re just annoying them because while you always want to talk to them they probably don’t always want to talk to you and it stresses you out a lot and then you just start to feel really depressed about it
story of my social life. ):
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God...”
– Ephesians 2:10
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you,...”
– 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
“Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying...”
– Galatians 1:10
“Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by...”
– Luke 12:6-7
Praising God
Yesterday’s worship at Joywok was interesting for me. Lately I’ve come to thoroughly enjoy some of the slower hymns that, despite their constant tune, conveys a message of praise to God few other songs possibly can. I think that’s really the point of them. You end up focusing less on how to sing it well and more on understanding what you’re singing. While I was singing in...
Obsession by David Crowder Band. This song has...
“Those who know your name trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those...”
– Psalm 9:10 