Comments on: How Has One Verse Changed Your Life? http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/ Thu, 23 May 2013 16:07:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Admin http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-852 Admin Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:06:20 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-852 That’s wonderful, Dirk! May God bless you in this season of training. May you marvel at the ways He continues to mold you for His purposes. Thanks for stopping by.

]]> By: Dirk http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-847 Dirk Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:04:44 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-847 I’m not too sure how I got to this site, but as I believe that things don’t “just happen,” I’ll post my story…I pray that God will use it to bless someone out there!! My verses are Jeremiah 18:1-6…
When I started college in 2004, I had no doubt in my mind that I wanted to be a Navy Chaplain. I even majored in psychology mainly thinking this would help with the many of counseling sessions that come with being a Chaplain. Knowing that I wanted to go into the Navy, I sought to earn a Navy ROTC scholarship, and by God’s divine grace I received one. It was only after I received the scholarship that I realized that I could not become a Chaplain (Navy rules…there’s only certain jobs you can do when you get a scholarship). So I rolled with the punches and started looking forward to my new career in the Navy…it wasn’t too hard to be excited, my Dad retired from the Navy, it’s all I knew growing up.
Well if anyone’s every been in the military, they will know that it is not the most “Godly place.” Things are different and curse words fly…the phrase “cuss like a sailor” is just a metaphor, it’s the truth. I did well for a while (well as in my walk with the Lord)…but soon the lifestyle started to “rub-off” on me! I started to become bitter at nothing, curse words were every other word out of my mouth, and yelling became my thing. Let me pause to say that this is not how EVERY sailor acts. I am very proud of our military, and I am proud of what I do…but I did fall into some bad habits. I do not blame this on the Navy, I simply blame it on the fact that I started to rely too much on myself and started to fall further away from God. So after 4 years of this, bitterness had become my way of living!
After one eventful month-long at sea time (a regular training period for the Navy), I was down more than usual…that is just feeling like I was wasting my life and living for nothing. I started to think “what am I really here for” (mind you I’ve been a Christian since High School…I had the answers, I just wasn’t listening). Then on February 12th 2012, I went to church after this long at sea period. I watched my pastor preach with such passion and love and devotion. And it reminded me of how much I once longed and desired to do that!!
Being the doubting person I had become, I couldn’t believe that God was really calling me into the ministry…had He seen the way I lived my life?? Really God, it can’t be me. So I started to read a couple books, and the verses of the Potters House in Jeremiah kept coming up. I didn’t think too much of it at the time. The day’s continued, and in my ultimate search for answers, I went to speak to my Chaplain. He told me that when he thought he was called to ministry, his pastor told him to look for a piece of scripture that would be the “calling scripture.” I thought about it, I prayed maybe that night for it, but never thought much about it after that. On the 28th of February, I decided that the scripture that I would read for studying that day would be Jeremiah 18:1-6 since it had come up in the book I was reading. Then the next day during a Wednesday Lenten service (a common thing in the Methodist Church), the person speaking decided last minute to get rid of his prepared sermon and speak on…can you guess it…Jeremiah 18:1-11. I’m pretty sure that’s not just sheer coincidence…God’s truly does like to use other’s for His glory!!
I am now in the process to applying to seminaries. And I am more excited about the future than I ever have been before. It’s funny how happy you can be when you rely on his great power and love instead of living on your own merit!
So in addition to the fact that I call this my “calling scripture,” it is also a passage that tells us that just because we may be led astray at times (or marred as the clay is in the verse), God can mold us just as the Potter does when his clay is marred. You see, just as the potter can shape his clay “as it seems best to him,” so can God! I don’t doubt that my trials I’ve faced were allowed so that I may learn and that I may teach others through my mistakes…as I hope it helps someone here.
Jeremiah 18:1-6 actually applies to the nation of Israel and their fallings from the Lord, but it can be applied into our everyday lives. God knows we’re not perfect and He doesn’t expect us to be. When we come running back saying “I messed up,” God says it’s ok, and He shapes us “as it seems best to Him.” Praise be to God for His love, His mercy, and His grace.

]]> By: Vicki http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-787 Vicki Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:20:21 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-787 Good on you Hannah! that’s Tremendous! God Bless you .:P
Love that scripture it is so powerful, and l do hope l can also make a difference in some other peoples lives,sharing the word of God to them. :)

]]> By: Johanna Fenton http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-786 Johanna Fenton Mon, 11 Jun 2012 06:34:00 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-786 That’s a powerful testimony. Gave me goosebumps! Glory to God that He calls us through His Word into a magnificent mission.

]]> By: Johanna Fenton http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-785 Johanna Fenton Mon, 11 Jun 2012 06:32:47 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-785 Thanks Kate – I’m curious to know your story of how that verse changed your life.

]]> By: Hannah http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-784 Hannah Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:47:08 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-784 I had always been interested in missions. After all, I grew up on the mission field in Uganda, Africa. But I never knew for sure hat God wanted me to do with my life… until one vers.
We were reading Colossians during family devotions when we came to chapter 1, verses 25-26: “I have become it’s servant by the commission God gave me to present to you the word of God in its fullness – the mystery which has been hidden for generations, but has now been revealed.”
Suddenly, it hit me deeply that for so many people the mystery of Christ’s love is STILL hidden! I thought about all the things I knew about God and all the ways He’d changed my life, and I realized that so many people just don’t know Him!
It was then I knew that God was commissioning ME to “present the word of God in it’s fullness” to those who had never heard. It was then I knew I’d be a missionary.
Yes, I had always been interested in being a missionary. But now, at 15, I know from the depths of my heart that I can do nothing else but give my life to bring His gospel to those who don’t know Him.

It was with one verse that God called me to be a missionary.

]]> By: Kate Gladstone http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-776 Kate Gladstone Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:46:39 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-776 I meant: “can change a mind” …

]]> By: Kate Gladstone http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-775 Kate Gladstone Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:45:55 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-775 Ezekel 20:25 cancangr a mind in VERY powerful ways … Read it, and see fit yourself …

]]> By: Pam Webber http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-772 Pam Webber Wed, 30 May 2012 14:35:22 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-772 “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Romans 15:13, NIV).

As a child I remember singing a simple chorus: Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy, Down in my Heart. It comprised of those words and a few other phrases sung several times with, of course, a catchy tune and hand motions. Perhaps that is why as a teenager my heart questioned what joy of the Lord meant. God answered those questions through Scripture study and prayer when I searched for it. His joy and peace became more than words of a chorus for me.

Joy and peace by the power of the Holy Spirit defines the longing of my heart. God has graciously given me many opportunities to experience his joy and peace throughout the years. As my trust in God grows, I not only experience his deep abiding joy and peace but am able to overflow with hope. Tough times come, I fall down and become discouraged but this verse and a simple chorus from childhood are planted deep. They remind me of the joy and peace available so that I may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

]]> By: Mary Borsch http://blog.theseedcompany.org/power-of-the-word/one-verse/#comment-755 Mary Borsch Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:32:11 +0000 http://blog.theseedcompany.org/?p=2560#comment-755 Isaiah 50:4,5 New Living Translation
4 The Sovereign LORD has given me his words of wisdom,
so that I know how to comfort the weary.
Morning by morning he wakens me
and opens my understanding to his will. a
5 The Sovereign LORD has spoken to me,
and I have listened.
I have not rebelled or turned away.

The reason this is important to me is that is shows me how intentional the LORD is about imparting His instructions to us/me. He wants my awareness that ‘morning by morning’ He has things to teach me and as a student I need to be alert. The LORD has used this attention to
listening as a way of ordering my steps. He wants to prepare me to reflect Him in my daily interactions.

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