WE ARE CHRIST'S FRAGRANCE...

The Bible says we are the aroma (fragrance) of Christ. Let's spread that fragrance around!

2 Corinthians 2:15, : For we are to God the aroma of Christ, among those who are being saved and those who are perishing.




Friday, March 13, 2009

~Without You I Am Nothing~ (Author Unknown)

The most humbling statement we can say is, 
“I am nothing without God.”
Our most powerful statement is, 
“With God, I can do anything.”

Dearest Father
I am writing this poem
With thoughts of ONLY You
You are my Heart
My Spirit, my Soul
And praising You
Is my everyday goal
It’s hard in this world
With the devil around
But my Almighty God
Won’t let me fall to the ground
You comfort me
And hold close to Your Heart
You whisper in my ear
I am your God
You listen very closely
To all my sorrow and my needs
To all my joys and my confessions,
You are ALL that my soul seeks
Without You I am nothing
Like a seed without the rain,
Like a sheep without a shepherd
Oh God! You are my Main!
Please hold me in Your Embrace
And NEVER let me go
Because of You I am living
My God, my Savior, and my Lord.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Say "NO" to Pornography...


Hi ....
It's said...
"What we tolerate we cannot change."
Pornography is something we should not tolerate.
It's sad to see soo many young and old alike are hooked on to pornography.
Each soul is precious to our Lord.
Our Lord said we are the 'light'.
Ephesians 5 : 8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10and find out what pleases the Lord. 11Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13But everything exposed by the light becomes visible.
We just can't sit back and say, 'It's not my concern'.
We can't change it if we tolerate it.
  We got to stand up and speak against things that are not right and also pray about it. We got to do something about it.
We got to help people struggling in this area, to break free from this addiction.
We got to say "NO" to pornography.
Because it...
It's addictive...
Distorts one's thinking...
Degrades ones mind...
Dominates one and makes him a slave to it (Rom 6:16)
Destroys individuals, homes, communities.
Defiles relationships, body, mind, heart.
Can we pray against this and do something to change this?
Can we help people we know struggling with this addiction?
If someone out there is watching pornography in secret, know that it's time to say NO.
Reach out for help and prayer and resist this temptation.
With God's help you can...
YSIC,
Julie
Testimony of a former porn actress.
I am a former porn actress and prostitute from the 90's who was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Impulse Control Disorder and substance abuse due to years of trauma from the sex industry, although while I was in the sex industry I had no idea I had these disorders. I was prescribed anti-depressants, Lithium, and sleeping pills and recommended counseling for the next twenty years!
The doctor's diagnosis only sent me into deeper depression and I knew there was nowhere to turn except to a God who loved me and had the power to heal me.
After finding God and going through eight years of recovery at the Champion's center, I conquered the horrible effects of my past and became a Champion in life through the power of Jesus Christ. Ten years later I am on a passionate mission to help people transform their lives by offering love, acceptance and powerful resources to equip people to live Champion lives.
I'm also on a mission to smash the illusion of porn so people will stop viewing porn and stop contributing to the destruction of the lives of men and women in the adult industry.
I also want to protect children from accessing pornography online, to rescue sex workers from human trafficking and to expose the truth that many men and women are forced to work in hazardous working conditions in the unregulated and unsanitary adult film industry.  My heart is to be an advocate for those who work in the adult industry by educating them with the truth and protecting them from sexually transmitted diseases and other harmful risks.
FACTS ABOUT PORN:
People pay more money for pornography in America in a year than they do on movie and performing arts tickets. There were 11,000 porn video titles released last year verses 400 movie releases from Hollywood. The porn industry employs over 12,000 people in California and pays over $36 million in taxes every year. According to Web sense, a company that tracks Internet content, the number of porn sites is 17 times greater than it was four years ago, growing from about 88,000 sites in 2000 to nearly 1.6 million in 2004. THE LARGEST GROUP FOR VIEWING PORN IS AGES 12 - 17. We've got to protect children!
Pornography is big business.
It is estimated that there are 4.2 million porn Web sites — 12 percent of the total amount of sites — allowing access to 72 million worldwide visitors monthly. One-quarter of total daily search engine requests, or 68 million, are for pornographic material, where 40 million Americans are regular visitors. Porn is the number one mental health issue in America. Men are losing their families and jobs. Wives are totally devastated their husbands are addicted to porn. Teenagers are learning sexuality from porn and practicing hardcore sex acts on each other. Porn stars are addicted to drugs and infected with sexually transmitted diseases. In 2007, there were nine deaths of porn industry workers directly related to AIDS, suicide and drug overdoses. 66% of porn stars are infected with Herpes although some porn stars blatantly admit it's more like 90%. Other porn stars admit that 90% of porn performers use drugs. Young girls dream of becoming porn stars and living the "glamorous" life. But the truth is...
Porn is Not Glamorous.
I should know.
After surviving several suicide attempts, alcoholism, drug addiction and eight hard years of recovery from the porn industry and prostitution, God restored my life through His amazing love! After learning the truth about Jesus Christ and being restored emotionally, spiritually and physically, God sent me out to share my story of transformation in prisons and rescue missions.
Two years after I began sharing my story, God told me to put up a web site in 2004. I had NO idea that thousands of people would actually find it and that my story would touch so many lives. I am humbled and amazed that
God even uses someone like me.
 I truly hope my web site and this myspace inspires every single one of you to reach out to God and believe in Him to do the impossible in your life. Whether you're struggling with porn addiction, sexual trauma, depression or a broken heart, with God ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!
I also want you to know, no matter how far you've strayed or how deep in sin you are, God will pull you out if you want Him to! If He heard the prayers of a desperate porn actress and saved her, SURELY He will do the same for you! "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."
God loves you whether you're a porn star or a porn addict and He has an awesome destiny for your life. If only you will call on the name of Jesus, God's plan for your destiny, and ask Him to save you and help you, He will!
After turning back to God, He healed me completely of: Genital Herpes, Alcohol Addiction, Meth and Drug Addiction, Sex Addiction, Tormenting Images of Porn, Mental Disorders such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Severe Depression, Bi-Polar Disorder, sexual dysfunction and early Cervical Cancer caused by sexually transmitted disease.
Jeremiah 30:17 "For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an outcast."
He is the God that restores outcasts!
Shelley Lubben
(Ex-pornstar)

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Change our vain imaginations into intercession...


Hi.........
If we...
"Change our vain imaginations...into intercession..."
(A borrowed thought)
We will see miracles happen in our Nation, cities, neighborhood, families & in our lives too...!
2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
Ezekiel 22: 30
"I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none."
God Bless each of you....
Good Night from India...
Julie
Here below is a nice song by casting crowns. You can watch this video here..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF-lXgjEHo0
CASTING CROWNS LYRICS
"What If His People Prayed"
What if the armies of the Lord
Picked up and dusted off their swords
Vowed to set the captives free
And not let Satan have one more

What if the church for heaven's sake
Finally stepped up to the plate
Took and stand upon God's promise
And stormed hell's rusty gates

What if His people prayed
And those who bear His name
Would humbly seek His face
And turn from their own way

And what would happen if we prayed
For those raised up to lead the way
Then maybe kids in school could pray
And unborn children see light of day

What if the life that we pursue
Came from a hunger for the truth
What if the family turned to Jesus
Stopped asking Oprah what to do

What if His people prayed
And those who bear His name
Would humbly seek His face
And turn from their own way

He said that they would hear
His promise has been made
He's answered loud and clear, Yeah
If only we would pray

If My people called by My name
If they'll humble themselves and pray
If My people called by My name
If they'll humble themselves and pray

What if His people prayed
And those who bear His name
Would humbly seek His face, Yeah
And turn from their own way

He said that they would hear
His promise has been made
He's answered loud and clear, Yeah
If only we would pray

What if His people prayed

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS



STRANGE BUT TRUE FACTS

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321  Try It. . .
 The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.  ! !
 "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
 A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
 The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
 A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
 Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
 More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
 Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
 If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
 Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
 The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
 The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
 TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.  CoOL
 If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction
 The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
 A snail can sleep for 3 years.
 China has more English speakers than the United States.
 The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
 Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world. 
The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
 Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
 Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
 Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank 1 for animal having the most taste buds.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Elephants are the only animals
that can't jump.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish haven't got brains.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Almonds are members of the peach family.