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Rev's Adam & Elizabeth Larson's Blog – February 2009 Archive (4)

Trust, Love, and Walls

To truly love you have to give up control and risk getting hurt. This is a scary thing; however, those who won’t take the risk will not get to truly know what love is or how great it feels. To truly love God, you have to give up yourself. You give up control of your life, and you place it in God’s hands. Then and only then will you begin to receive all the love God has for you.

Lack of trust is a wall between you and God. That wall must be broken down before true relationship can… Continue

Added by Rev's Adam & Elizabeth Larson on February 12, 2009 at 12:31am — No Comments

Are you having a hard time spending time with the Lord?

Do you sometimes find it difficult to motivate yourself to spend time with the Lord? When we think about that, it really doesn't make sense. God has all the power and all the wisdom that we could ever need. Why do we go and ask other people what to do about a situation when we should be asking the one who knows everything. I think some of it is because when we talk to another person, they are right in front of us. We can see them, hear them, and touch them. It doesn't take any faith to talk… Continue

Added by Rev's Adam & Elizabeth Larson on February 12, 2009 at 12:29am — 1 Comment

Trusting God for Everything!

To live by faith means to "Totally Trust God for Everything!" Now really think about that. "Everything". Your job, your spouse, your relationships, your money, your car, your positions, and every situation. Everything! It means when things don't make sense in the natural that you have the belief that God is working everything out, even when it looks like things are falling apart. It is knowing that things are actually falling "together". It means trusting that everything will be ok. How hard… Continue

Added by Rev's Adam & Elizabeth Larson on February 12, 2009 at 12:27am — 1 Comment

The Power of Your Words.

Have you ever really listened to the words you speak? When I was first learning how important my thoughts and words were to my life, I started listening to what I was speaking. At the time I was working on my thoughts trying not to allow any negative ones in my mind, but while I was working on that I started noticing all the negative things I was speaking.

The words didn't seem like much, but as I kept track it really accumulated. They were just small things like "traffic is going… Continue

Added by Rev's Adam & Elizabeth Larson on February 9, 2009 at 12:16am — 5 Comments