God is Omnipotent

I once heard that people come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we can learn, and we are lead to those who help us most to grow if we let them, and we help them in return.
Well I don't know if I believe that's true, but I know I'm who I am today because I knew you.

When I was told this I melted. It is the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long time. It's so true, God puts people in our Lives for reasons. Whether its your siblings you fight with or the friend thats always heckling or if its your spouse or future spouse(as most of my friends have begun or taken the leap as of late!) I'm terrible about seeing the good in everything, I'm so quick to just say well look at that or did you hear what they said? While God is trying to teach me patience and more about love and selflessness. At some points He has to hit me with an iron fist and say Hey! It's not about you Cody! How small I feel when this realization hits me hard. God Bless you for your time.
codymo

I don't even know how to start anymore

I can't remember the last time I actually posted. This is the first of the new year. I was just sitting here thinking a little bit (scary I know) and I went to www.biblegateway.com and took in account the verses of the day. Now, I generally just pull up the whole chapter and just read it and see what I can definately work on. Tonight it was Romans 8. This chapter is just outstanding.

Romans 8 1THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.(A)
2For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.
3For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [[a]the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit]. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [[b]subdued, overcame, [c]deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice],(B)
4So that the righteous and just requirement of the Law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Spirit [our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates of the flesh, but controlled by the Holy Spirit].
5For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and [d]pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and [e]seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.
6Now the mind of the flesh [which is sense and reason without the Holy Spirit] is death [death that [f]comprises all the miseries arising from sin, both here and hereafter]. But the mind of the [Holy] Spirit is life and [soul] peace [both now and forever].
7[That is] because the mind of the flesh [with its carnal thoughts and purposes] is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law; indeed it cannot.
8So then those who are living the life of the flesh [catering to the appetites and impulses of their carnal nature] cannot please or satisfy God, or be acceptable to Him.
9But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the life of the Spirit, if the [Holy] Spirit of God [really] dwells within you [directs and controls you]. But if anyone does not possess the [Holy] Spirit of Christ, he is none of His [he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God].(C)
10But if Christ lives in you, [then although] your [natural] body is dead by reason of sin and guilt, the spirit is alive because of [the] righteousness [that He imputes to you].
11And if the Spirit of Him Who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, [then] He Who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also restore to life your mortal (short-lived, perishable) bodies through His Spirit Who dwells in you.
12So then, brethren, we are debtors, but not to the flesh [we are not obligated to our carnal nature], to live [a life ruled by the standards set up by the dictates] of the flesh.
13For if you live according to [the dictates of] the flesh, you will surely die. But if through the power of the [Holy] Spirit you are [habitually] putting to death (making extinct, deadening) the [evil] deeds prompted by the body, you shall [really and genuinely] live forever.
14For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
15For [the Spirit which] you have now received [is] not a spirit of slavery to put you once more in bondage to fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption [the Spirit producing sonship] in [the bliss of] which we cry, Abba (Father)! Father!
16The Spirit Himself [thus] testifies together with our own spirit, [assuring us] that we are children of God.
17And if we are [His] children, then we are [His] heirs also: heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ [sharing His inheritance with Him]; only we must share His suffering if we are to share His glory.
18[But what of that?] For I consider that the sufferings of this present time (this present life) are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and [g]for us and [h]conferred on us!
19For [even the whole] creation (all nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the disclosing of their sonship].
20For the creation (nature) was subjected to [i]frailty (to futility, condemned to frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it--[yet] with the hope(D)
21That nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God's children.
22We know that the whole creation [of irrational creatures] has been moaning together in the pains of labor until now.(E)
23And not only the creation, but we ourselves too, who have and enjoy the firstfruits of the [Holy] Spirit [a foretaste of the blissful things to come] groan inwardly as we wait for the redemption of our bodies [from sensuality and the grave, which will reveal] our adoption (our manifestation as God's sons).
24For in [this] hope we were saved. But hope [the object of] which is seen is not hope. For how can one hope for what he already sees?
25But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure.
26So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.
27And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God's will.(F)
28We are assured and know that [[j]God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.
29For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was [k]aware and [l]loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.
30And those whom He thus foreordained, He also called; and those whom He called, He also justified (acquitted, made righteous, putting them into right standing with Himself). And those whom He justified, He also glorified [raising them to a heavenly dignity and condition or state of being].
31What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?](G)
32He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things?
33Who shall bring any charge against God's elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?]
34Who is there to condemn [us]? Will Christ Jesus (the Messiah), Who died, or rather Who was raised from the dead, Who is at the right hand of God actually pleading as He intercedes for us?
35Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or hunger or destitution or peril or sword?
36Even as it is written, For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted as sheep for the slaughter.(H)
37Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors [m]and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
38For I am persuaded beyond doubt (am sure) that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things [n]impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers,
39Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


What really sticks out in my mind about this chapter is 6-11. Verse 8 namely pierces my soul. Makes me really think who am I serving truly in my heart. Because Jesus has no part in sin, BOLD STATEMENT. WE cannot be acceptable to HIM if we continually be in sin! It doesn't get any clearer then that my brothers and sisters. God first, self-second............................easy to say, so bad in following that. He doesn't say he'll leave us hanging though, His Grace is Enough, He has shared that with us! praise God for so much of it. I've talked enough so I hope you all can pray for grace to continue to flow like rain and hold us up. I would covet your prayers as I will surely pray for all of you! God Bless the Broken Road

here's something quick I read.

Psalm 103
[A Psalm] of David. 1BLESS (AFFECTIONATELY, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul; and all that is [deepest] within me, bless His holy name!
2Bless (affectionately, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul, and forget not [one of] all His benefits--

One thing that really struck me about verse one was that it says to bless the Lord with "deepest" within me. It really hits me hard. Bless him with the deepest part of my being. Even the parts that I hide deep down. Give Him everything I have because it is not mine to begin with. As the new year comes, one of my biggest committments that i want to make is to stay pure constantly, remembering God is always there. Everywhere. Helps me to remember to think before I think before I think before I talk and really be a Christ-like example to others. So hope that you all remembered the reason for the season and that you have a safe and happy new years and set new Christ-centered goals for this new year of 2007! Love you all!

I am Back!

So here I am posting for the first time in a long time. God has been faithful. The Lord has shown me that He will never leave nor forsake me. I don't deserve His amazing Favor or help. I've kinda been out of the social loop the past two weeks, due to large volume of "work". But, its been good. Its given me an opportunity to hang out with some new people that are a little closer then morton and really just step back from the social realm that I was so much a part of. Recently, I've been able to play with my brother Daniel quite a bit more. The boy is crazy and I love him so much. He brings me so much joy. When he graduates i will be mid thirties!! We were talking about that at the dinner table tonight, its so weird to think about!! Anyway, I'm blessed to have family, more then I will ever truly show. I know once I myself settle down I too will realize what they have. God has supplied. All I can do is praise and constantly strive for higher ground in everything that I do. Though I stumble, though I fall, though I make little progress, He is there. He will always Be. I pray that I may follow the narrow path in a more consistent basis. I hope you all may have life more abundantly thru Jesus Christ



John 10:7-10 (King James Version)

7Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
8All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
10The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

I love to sing and sing and sing

So, tonight I went to ISU bible Study. Wayne Leman gave it. It was very good, a very different approach to many things. It was refreshing. I learned what it meant to have good character and have others love me because of my "name". I also learned that they were drawn to my cologne or strong fragrance!!! that wasn't exactly what the scripture meant, but close=) But it was a blessing to be at ISU. Then, we sang under the viaduct, it was such a perfect night. I could have sang for another two hours. It is such a big part of my worship. I love it! We sang "it is well" really slowly and normally it bugs me when we get slow and its really hard to sing, and i fought it at first and tried to speed it up, but then something came over us all and we sang slow and it was so meaningful. It was great just to sing at the top of our lungs and feel God reaching down. It was amazing. So. yeah. heres the verses of the day from biblegateway.com. enjoy, and have a nice day.
love you all,
Cod
Job 37:5-6 (King James Version)

5God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
6For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Maintain the focus, oh look a deer!, CODY..... maintain the focus....

Psalm 119
10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
12Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
13With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
14I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
15I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
17Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
18Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
19I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

I just really like these many verses. Really a constant reminder. Sometimes, I just feel like what is going on in my life? What do I really want for my life? Knowing that deep down I want God to be the center. These verses convict and tell me that I need to declare His Greatness and remember His word. Sometimes I just want to Cry Out and just have Him take control of me. For it gets to be too great. Its because I want to carry the load. Call it pride call it manliness, but I so often want to just handle things my way.
For instance, this weekend. My brain should never be left away from my good guy friends for more then a couple days. I go wacko and my brain can't control its thoughts. ...........I needed to rely on my Best Guy Friend, the Lord and lean not on my own understanding!!!!!! this post is a little weird and everywhere. If you all can make sense of it. You're better then me. All I can say is........Praise Jesus for Grace!

No title comes to mind.........wait...........be someone's strong arm

Constant nothingness comes to mind when I try to focus on what to blog about. Work has been very busy. That tends to take a toll on the body and the spirit. Sometimes seeing others suffer is so hard. It really makes you thank God for what you do have. Sometimes its just a little more then I care to bear alone. The things I see.........this past weekend two dear souls did not wake up. One took her own life at the ripe age of 25, a month after her wedding. Another soul was hit riding a motorcycle by a truck. He was in his late forties. Things like that were not meant to happen. I pray for their souls. I pray for their families. That they may find comfort where none may be found, that through it all somehow, God will be glorified and magnified. What do you say to those left behind to comfort them? The truth of the matter is that there is little you can truly say. Spiritual wounds and matters of the hearts can only be healed by the one who created both the heart and the spirit. Where do we take cars when they break down? Hopefully my dad's shop or a dealership! So when we are broken and can't go on. That is when we call out to God and beg for His repairs. We don't even have to go somewhere special. He just says call out to Me. Sometimes it feels, I could go for a full body restoration!!!! Lord, just fix it all. And He will. It's just that in His time, He fixes it and helps us to learn from our breakdowns. At the time we just want us back to normal and fixed again. God wants to soop us up. Not just make us how we used to work, He wants us to turn into a powerful vessel for Him. It's so hard to remember that it's not about me getting sooped up. It never has been. I may have thought it was. It's about reaching out to others and when we start focusing on others, God fixes us and helps us continue running the race. Then why Cody, is it so hard to remember others and keep them the focus? I know the right words to say, but continually doing it is another thing, I'm working on. When we turn our attention from Me to Them, we have let go of our issues and given them to someone who can handle them much better than you or I. I've talked long enough. Pray for me and I'll pray for you. Read the verse that goes along so perfectly with the post and reflect(= be someone's stronghold.

Galatians 6:2 (Amplified Bible)
2Bear (endure, carry) one another's burdens and [a]troublesome moral faults, and in this way fulfill and observe perfectly the law of Christ (the Messiah) and complete [b]what is lacking [in your obedience to it].