I need prayer. For encouragement. & for joy. For revival at my school. For passion.

Sometimes i feel like worship songs become to memorized and we begin to look past the power in the words were saying..

so blessed by this video.. everytime

http://crazylovebook.com/videos_stop.html

just stop and think.
God is so amazing.

ask me why.

I could try and convince you with facts, stories, my testimony on how I believe in my God, but in the end the only thing that matters is this..

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that who ever believes in Him shall not perish but have Everlasting life."

John 3:16


We are so small and this world is so big and we are all here for one purpose.
To share about Jesus Christ and John 3:16.
It is all about Jesus, The Creator, and the Author and Finisher.
Maker of the Universe.

Princess

I wake up and its time to get ready.
I take a shower.
I brush my teeth.
I brush my hair.
Then, I pick out the most beautiful dress I own.
I put on my tiara, my silk white gloves, and my diamond ring.
As I finish up I smile in the mirror.
"He's coming."
I get on my knees and begin to talk to my Father.
He greets me with overwhelming love and the feeling of complete safety and comfort.
He takes me into His arms and give me direction and peace.
All of a sudden I feel tears run down my face as I embrace Him and His amazing love.
I grasp His hands and we begin to move across the room.
We dance and dance and I never want to stop.
Its a time of complete surrender.
A time of grace, faith, gentleness, motive, happiness, and most of all... LOVE.

i dont need a sign, i need you

We were made to need a God.
People like to say that we just want to believe that there is a God but the thing is is yeah, we do want that because we were not made to live on our own understandings; we are sinners and we desire a relationship with our Father who is big and powerful to SAVE us from the sin that easily entangles us.

"I dont believe in unicorns. I believe they arent real but im not going to dedicate my life to proving how they arent real."

I laughed when my pastor said that but its so true! Its so funny to see athiest try and prove that God isnt real. If He isnt real why are you dedicating your life trying to convince people?

Science can only take us so far. People who believe in science need to realize that science can only take us so far. They cant answer the questions like: Why are we alive? What are we supposed to live for? Where do we go after death?

Another question non-believers ask is "If God exist why does He let bad things happen to good people." But people need to understand that God puts things in our lives bad and good to mature us. To allow us to have faith in God and let Him show himself. This life isnt about what most people think. Its about living for God every moment and finding a meaning to your life. Its about not living for ourselves but realizing that God is what we are living for. We are so small and our time is so short, GOD is just waiting to use us so that people can be saved! and used by the power of God. The God who has the powers to raise himself from the dead! The God who parted the Red Sea! The God who is in heaven knocking on your heart right now and wants you to let Him in and transform you. Because once your experience the Love of God you have no other choice but to be changed.

Whats life about?
ITS ABOUT EXPERIENCING GOD - DAY BY DAY, MOMENT BY MOMENT.
LETTING EVERY SECOND, EVERY MINUTE A CHANCE FOR GOD TO SPEAK TO YOU THROUGH ANYTHING YOUR DOING AND NOT BEING A LIGHT HIDDEN BY A BASKET. ITS ABOUT LETTING OUR LIGHTS SHINE AND LEADING PEOPLE TO JESUS CHRIST! OUR DIVINE LOVING SAVIOR.

INDESCRIBABLE

the heavens proclaim the glory of god!



watch these videos please please please.
if you have the slightest doubt of God or just want to worship Him with more passion then ever before just take the time for a teaching by Louis Giglio and you will be overwhelmed with Gods amazing power and glory. Just be in awe of how the heavens declare Gods creation and just how HUGE it is.



Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewKtSKbWZUI&feature=related

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlroUGiihx8&feature=related

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpCR-mvzCNs&feature=related

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cxEThPNtlQ&feature=related

Part 5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIoBCgRC7Uo&feature=related



Patiently just watch these and afterward share with everyone you know (:

A Lifestyle of Worship

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sikZ6PIgvPI

watch this and just totally soak it in.



Worship is so much more than singing and lifting up our hands.
Its a surrender to God and praise to his overall amazing love.
We give him everything and worship him for freeing us from our sin.

The Songs.
In worship I feel that the songs played are a prayer we lift to God.
Anything you add in to the song is the fire of your heart expressing itself through lyrics, prayer, and worship.

I love when the worship leaders shout praises that aren't necessarily written in the song but they are made of pure truth and self sacrifice.
When the worship leaders are connected its like a contagious feeling and the whole congregation just feels God overwhelming presence.
Let our singing be shouts of our love for Jesus!


Kim Walker talks about something truly amazing.
If we all were to go the whole week staying connected to God and praising him with every step how amazing would worship be when we got to church. If we walked in not NEEDING the worship leaders to get us connected after a busy week but already being connected and ready to say i have been fighting for this worship all week, this is all i want, i want to praise Jesus. She also talks about not needing to sing to worship. You could be walking around anywhere and just totally be in the presence of God and just praising him right then and there and thanking him for EVERYTHING.


watch the video ( :

psalmmm 63

Psalm 63 NIV

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.
O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.

I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.

Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.

I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.

My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods;
with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

death is life

i started thinking to myself.. after we DIE people believe we just die. Like we are done and dont go to a heaven or a hell but the thing is.. can you imagine just dying and thats it. this is hard to explain but sit back and just think about this. when our time is up and we die people think were DONE. Nothing else is supposed to happen after being terminated. But to me after we die we have to know that we do continue to live just not on this earth but instead we can spend ETERNITY. let me stop there and just define eternity.

eternity- forever
synonyms- afterlife, ages, endless time, endless, everlasting, future, infinity, time with out an end, kingdom come, WORLD without END.


Now in the bible it says we will live ETERNALLY with Jesus Christ in HEAVEN!
thats what happens after a christian dies; the christian doesnt die but lives in a place where we are rewarded for our time on earth. Earth, a place of sin, the people who learned that Jesus is the only way and that he SAVED us from the sin of the earth. to me the reward of heaven and eternal life is something to look forward to. As christians we arent afraid to die because we know we will be in heaven with our bestfriend, father, JESUS CHRIST! THE KING AND MESSIAH! JEHOVAH JIRAH!

its sad to think that people dont believe in hell either. hell may not seem fair to some people but in the bible it says God gives EVERYONE a chance to go to heaven. after we die its heaven or hell. and the thing is JESUS IS COMING SO SOON! Are you going to start spending your time on earth glorifying Jesus and living for something more than yourself or are you going to stay a part of this world and live for yourself and the glory of doing 'good deeds' goes to yourself.?


death.. where will you be?

i found this in my life journal.

People just do not realize how amazing it is that were LIVING and BREATHING right now. when im laying down at night and im one with my heart beat, one with my breath, and all i can feel is my body working and keeping itself alive i seriously trip out....
-Hope Rishovd

watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMe1lgFJwAw&feature=related

the bible never changes, God got it right the first time

ive had some questions about astronomy and the bible, so i looked it up and checked everything and it answered alot my questions! (: GOD IS GOOD.

It has been said that the Bible is not a science textbook. This is true, of course, and it’s actually a good thing. After all, our science textbooks are based on the ideas of human beings who do not know everything and who often make mistakes. That’s why science textbooks change from time to time, as people discover new evidence and realize that they were wrong about certain things.

The Bible, though, never changes because it never needs to. God got it right the first time! The Bible is the infallible Word of God. So when it touches on a particular topic, it’s right. When the Bible talks about geology, it’s correct. When Scripture addresses biology or anthropology, it’s also right.

What does the Bible teach about astronomy? Let's take a look at some of the things the Bible has to say about the universe. We will see that the Bible is absolutely correct when it deals with astronomy.

Another verse to consider is Job 26:10, where it teaches that God has “inscribed” a circle on the surface of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness. This boundary between light and darkness is where evening and morning occur. The boundary is a circle since the earth is round.

The Bible indicates in several places that the universe has been “stretched out” or expanded. For example, Isaiah 40:22 teaches that God stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. This would suggest that the universe has actually increased in size since its creation. God is stretching it out, causing it to expand.

You can think of this like points on a balloon. As the balloon is inflated, all the points move farther away from each other. If the entire universe was being stretched out, the galaxies would all be moving away; and that is what they actually appear to be doing.

It is fascinating that the Bible recorded the idea of an expanding universe thousands of years before secular science came to accept the idea.

The moon is slowly moving away from the earth. As the moon orbits the earth, its gravity pulls on the earth’s oceans, which causes tides. The tides actually “pull forward” on the moon, causing the moon to gradually spiral outward. So the moon moves about an inch and a half away from the earth every year. That means that the moon would have been closer to the earth in the past.

For example, six thousand years ago, the moon would have been about 800 feet closer to the earth (which is not much of a change, considering the moon is a quarter of a million miles away). So this “spiraling away” of the moon is not a problem over the biblical timescale of 6,000 years. But if the earth and moon were over four billion years old (as evolutionists teach), then we would have big problems. In this case, the moon would have been so close that it would actually have been touching the earth only 1.4 billion years ago. This problem suggests that the moon can’t possibly be as old as secular astronomers claim.

im never alone

It amazes me how some people dont look further than living at this moment.
that maybe we are supposed to live for a much larger purpose in the thing called life. LIFE.. what is life? a life. other lives. human lives. and we are given DAYS. a morning, afternoon, night time. we are given TIME.

Some of us truly have passions for different things.
the thing is though, what passions will fufill your true lifes meaning.
while you were on earth what did your life mean and how did you spend your TIME to help effect others in a good or bad way.

did it benefit only yourself or did you make an impact on those around you.
it truly is an overwhelming joy when you give and serve and just love on the people around you.


when you love someone just as a friend or as a brother or sister, you feel a joy that is addictive. and that joy and overwhelming passion is everything God talks about.

It says in Romans that Love itself fufills Gods requirements.
in our life what fufills your requirements.
what is satisfying your life to a point that you know if you were to die tomorrow it was worth living for.
are you interested in salvation. are you interested in not necessarily believing in a significant being but having FAITH in a God who gives us grace.
you have too think. we are living! right now! too me that is overwhelming and overall amazing! it makes me want to wake up everyday and just take it all in and be stoked on this life.

it puts the biggest smile on my face to know i was created to serve a PURPOSE.

that i was chosen and annointed by God to truly live my life not alone but with him.

when you just think about how we can think it totally blows me away.
we do not verbally have to speak out but in our minds we can THINK.
and thinking creates a knowledge right?
what else can you do in your head.
you can PRAY.
you can talk to the LORD in complete silence.
its just between you and GOD.
no outside people who can just jump into the conversation.
no one to comment or anything its a relationship between you and your Lord and Savior. and just small things like that just help my faith so much more. i love being able to live and go through trials and NOT HAVING TO DO IT ALONE.

simple.

We are all so altered and unique.

Humans are all made differently in our speech, in our style, in our lifestyles, everything.

We are all made to do specific colorful things in life; things that will not only make us happy but help those around us, but most importantly glorify God, our Righteous King.

We are all given very distinct talents and professions that we are entirely capable and savvy of. Even though we are all so divergent, one thing that makes us the comparable is our walk in love, and our strides in Jesus Christ. Our love for what he inspires us to do in life..

Its so awesome in Romans 12:6-8 (New Living Translation)it says:

"In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly."

and its so sick how God gave us a law and a covenant to try and live by. If it were not for his law we would not know what is bad from good, good from bad. He is like our dad watching out for us. And everything he says makes perfect sense. Do not lie, cheat, kill, etc. these things are common sense yet people still do them and the thing is, is makes bad fruit. When you plant bad fruit your going to get MORE bad fruit like it says in Matthew 12:33

"A tree is identified by its fruit. Make a tree good, and its fruit will be good. Make a tree bad, and its fruit will be bad."

simple.

"Behold, for i am coming quickly." -Jesus Christ

these are some notes i took sunday during our last church service, checkkit:

On February 27th we had in earthquake in Chili, it was said to be an 8.8. Our pastor was talking about how this earthquake moved the earth of its axis and shortened our normal 24 hour day.

Richard Gross, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and colleagues calculated that Saturday's quake shortened the day by 1.26 microseconds. A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.


In the bible it talks about Jesus's coming in Isaiah 13:13 and it says:
Isaiah 13:13 (New International Version)

"Therefore I will make the heavens tremble;
and the earth will shake from its place
at the wrath of the LORD Almighty,
in the day of his burning anger."

It also says in matthew:
Matthew 24:4-8 (New International Version)

Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.


When it says birth pains its like a woman and her contractions before the baby comes. Just like these earthquakes are contracting the earth; and Jesus the Messiah is coming.

Are you saved and know that when he comes your going to heaven?
Are you ready to see the King!?

:)

God the Goldsmith

more notes

A Goldsmiths Job is to first take a piece of gold and put in water or some kind of oil so they can clean it. The point of this is so that all the impure things and dirt rise too the top for the goldsmith to take out and make the gold clean. Its like the same thing with God.

He takes us and cleanses us from our sins when we repent and give up our earthly desires. Gods grace is so significant that he just takes our sins, our impurities and dirt, and throws them away. Allowing us to be his treasures, his pieces of gold. See when God puts us through the cleansing process its too see if our faith is genuine gold or false (fools gold).

Exodus 19:5-6 (New King James Version)

"Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine."


One pastor once said "Christians are like tea bags, to see what flavor they are you have to put them in hot water". When God puts us through storms and hard times its a testing of our faith. Will you turn out with a genuine and stronger faith or are you a fake. Are you going to trust God? Or rely on the worldy things to heal the pain; which really makes things worst.

What flavor tea bag are you as a christian? Are you fools gold or a genuine gold?

live love die

"we do not live, love, or die for practice" -Pope John Paul II

i sometimes take advantage of my home in beautiful maui...

"We take advantage of the things that become too familiar too us."

the rhythm of my heart beats next too my soul in unison.

sometimes when your most alone, your not alone at all.
its almost as if spending time with your self, helps strengthen the heart muscles.
the rhythm of my heart beats next too my soul in unison.
as if the whole body is at rest and gives the brain a chance too talk.
being sufficient with yourself and being in awe of being alive, and breathing.
.in and out.
.inhaling and gently exhaling.
it feels as if a balmy comfort envelops me and my surroundings turn too a mute.
its as if the world takes a moment of silence for me too hear myself.
the questions i hold in my heart start too overflow and drain them selves as i answer.
as each one is answered a new success over comes me knowing im learning about life.
its as if my age is giving me time too figure out as much as possible while im on earth.
i feel like a body of water is beneath me and im just floating, and barely touching the surface, as if im drifting.
i feel as if im being held in the arms of a significant being.


..sometimes you just have too turn down the worlds volume and turn up the volume of your soul. you will amaze yourself.

-hope rishovd

Annointed

The bible is like poetry too me. And almost like history from when the world first began. All the prophecy's, miracles, and all the scriptures that talk about our world today is so correct. Its not like the bible was written in 2010 ya know and just happened to make sense. All the verses that talk about having idols and so on, was talking about our world today. People today praise famous people because they are the "Stars". They have their faces on posters; people pay way too much money too meet them and take their picture with them. These famous people are idols. How could you stalk someone you DONT know.. They are just PEOPLE. They are looking for satisfaction through being known. Because for some reason everyone wants to be KNOWN. why? We are meant to serve a bigger purpose with our talents rather than just becoming famous. we should be out there making Jesus Christ FAMOUS. The creator of the STARS, SPACE, A GALAXY AND TIME.


He will fill you with overflowing joy and make use of the talents and professions he has gifted you with.

Everyone, we are annointed.

breaaathing.

if you ever listen too a pure christian song and just listen too the lyrics you will see how much love and compassion and just a full impacted relationship we christians have with Jesus. How could we have so much love for something thats not real? We have faith that he is there and we feel it; We can just feel him in our hearts. Theres not a greater love then the relationship you have with God. And just think about it. WE ARE LIVING AND BREATHING HUMANS. ITS SO AMAAAZING TOO EVEN BE ALIVE, WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR PEOPLE TOO BELIEVE IN SOMETHING LIKE JESUS WHO IS SO AMAZING? why cant people just have faith... Some people think were crazy too believe in God; I think its crazy that they dont. Then what do they believe. How were we made? What do they live for?


I mean you gotta have a a baker too make the cupcake; the cupcake cant just appear.

ima' believer

Its amazing too me how people can believe that we were made just by 'science'. As humans we are so refined. We have so much detail and feeling, were full of emotions and knowledge. We can not be compared too animals because of our use of conscience and just pure common sense. We have such amazing brains too, look what we have accomplished in this world. I always laugh when i hear about THE BIG BANG THEORY. hahahaha. like really? People believe that we were just ya know put here on earth. We have no creator; we scientifically were produced. Has science ever been able too make a human being? i mean like a legit, living, breathing, intelligent human.

Humans; all we crave are relationships. everywhere we go. you think thats science? love? love is science? All God wants with us is a relationship; he wants too love us and be loved back. He created each and everyone of us with a future in mind. He created each and everyone of us too look diffrent and be diffrent. You think thats science?

As humans we have hearts. living, pumping hearts, we would die with out them. Love is what we are living for. Gods my creator, my father in heaven.

ROMANS

in the book of Romans it talks about how God made a new law or covenant so that us as humans could see that we are sinners. Without a law we couldnt tell apart good from bad; we wouldnt know the diffrence. Last night i was kinda thinking about how we meet people who do drugs, drink alchohol, party, get in trouble n stuff, its normal in this world right? for me seeing these people in a way shows me how wrong it is; i mean how could you live for yourself just sinning all the time? All these sinful things all lead too bad; even death. This world have nothing to offer us except false idols such as material items, vanity, drugs, alcohol, and sex. All these things have nothing too offer us. I know i have said this alot but, we are supposed too live for such a Bigger purpose; dont they think so? I couldnt imagine my life without God unless i wanted too be empty and living for myself, im living for God; im living for his love.

new camera

Psalm 103:12 "as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us."

flowaa

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all.

-Emily Dickinson

New Days Revolution

I love too go over what i wrote like back in July. Ive come along way. 2009 was an eye-opener fursure. Back in September i asked my future self if it was better now, its BETTER then ever. Its fascinating too see how much my life has changed, how much i changed. Things i now plan on doing: getting a tattoo of a butterfly with my future husband, get baptized a day after my 15th bday, start praying longer prayers, be wise with my money, understand what i read and help change peoples lives with the help of Jesus Christ, my bestfriend oh and start writing songs again. Those are my "New years Resolutions, you could say. I dislike how we have a NEW YEARS, its just another day and yet its the day that people say yes a fresh new start; EVERYDAYS a new start. And how do they want too change when all they do if go parting and get drunk. One things totally sure too me, I dont have too drink or do drugs too have fun, I go too church and fellowship with my friends that care about me and want me too succeed and get too heaven.

whats your "New Days Resolution?"



-hope 1/3/10