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As long as I've been a Christian, I've always been under the misconception that it was a lot easier to proclaim God's love to nonbelievers in the bible days. Moses, Abraham, David, I thought they all had it easier then us. Now I realize that there's proof it wasn't so easy, look at Moses, for example. Pharaoh did not go easy on him what so ever. Paul, he witnessed and witnessed time after time, even though he was put in jail time after time. My eyes weren't open to this until I came across…

As I was walking home from school today, I found myself singing the song You Won't Relent by Jesus Culture. (Not out loud though, I was much too cold to make my lips move :P) I'm sure you've all heard the song, as it's quite popular. But if you haven't, it's a pretty simple song. The courus is:

"Come be the fire inside of me

Come be the flame upon my heart

Come be the fire inside of me

Until you and I are one"

Today the bridge:…

I have a few things going on in my life right now, and I would really appreciate your prayers!!

I'm getting baptized on Sunday, so I pray that goes well. I invited my Dad (who isn't even my biological Dad) who left us last year to come; so I pray he doesn't cause any trouble or make things stressful.

On another note about my Dad, he's pushing for 50% custody. I don't wanna go into my whole story or anything, but I can't live with him. I just can't. He…

In my devotion book it talked about trusting God enough to know your every need and not always asking him for what we want. I love that idea but It's still a little fuzzy to me... Does that mean we don't present God with our desires? When we pray do we just t…