Well, in two days RESONATE head to chey-hey (i dont know the real name). We will be there for a week enjoying working hard by cleaning! and hanging out with the women. I ask for prayers and thoughts in the coming days.
THanks!!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Long time coming...Joshua 3
Joshua 3
Sometimes call for drastic faith…Encouragement comes fist.
In the start of three the people are learning that the direction they will be going is about to one of new unmarked territory for them. Their past may have help and hurt them at time BUT this new journey is one that only faith can get them through.
New places…what joy and fear comes with the quest of conquering a new place.
In the year after college God called me to a new place, a place where, yeah my feet had stepped before and my eyes had boar witness to a couple of times but it was new in the fact that I was to call it home, I was to look upon this new place and say YES GOD, I AM HERE FOR YOU…NOW WHERE AM I?
God will take us to places where we know no one and have never given thought to one day ending up. Asking to go and allowing God to move our hearts in the direction he desires come with chance of Satan creeping in and placing doubts and fears. Finding rest in God is the only location where peace can be found. The shelter God provides can and many times is the only thing that can wash away the ideas of not being ready for the next steps in life.
Looking at verse 5 allows for some huge encouragement to come. Joshua says “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”
What more do people need. The leader, the man they have come to know just said that the Lord was going to do amazing things. I think the definition that comes to mind in the word amazing just does not cut it for what is about to happen. I call things amazing all the time…a book, a tv show, an outfit or a new haircut but what the people where about to witness in their presence was unlike any thing that I can account for as being amazing.
It was going to be so awe inspiring that the people needed to prepare themselves. This was not going to be some light task. It was going to cost something and that cost would come personally, corporately and SPIRITUALLY.
The word CONSECRATED means to be set apart. God wanted these people to set apart their hearts and lives to fixed on the greatness that is God and the fact that he would move them into the promise land.
In lives where you have chosen to set apart you heart to the calling of God and lives to the actions needed to take that God will be seen as the center , you can not just make this decision one day and plan for all to work out great. This is a daily decision, a choice we should make every morning. By choosing to commit we are strengthening our faith and growing in the trust we have for the Lord.
In being consecrated the Lord will take us to new locations by using things that bring him all the glory.
HOWEVER, they are NOT new locations to him.
Joshua 3:14-17
Starting in verse 14 the people begin the route that the ark leads them on. They are taking steps towards the promise land.
While the Jordan was at Flood level.
I love that God does not make this easy on himself. These people were about to watch something AWEsome take place. This was not some river with a foot of water about to be parted. It was a flood level (ridiculously high) body of water about to be parted so that his people could walk through untouched.
I have been in situations where looking back pain should have been written all over it. Hurt should be stamped in red all over certain time periods of my life. And yet I think back and remember tears maybe but Joy comes in the overarching fact that God went where first and knew what was to come protected me from it all.
YOU?
God went first.
The ark was to be the first to go in line. The visual representation these people had of Christ and not only does it go first it also goes through the water. The Jordan was NOT divided until the carrier feet touched the water. God is not afraid of going through the hard times with us and before us.
The picture of God going first into all the situation we are in is one of unbelievable measures.
While the Lord will take us to place we have never been, he wont take to places he has never been. He can conquer all ad once you trust in the Lord you can believe the fact that God goes before us.
Trust can been established in these verses in Joshua. God is alive and doing things, it is our choice to daily stop believing the lies Satan is trying to feed us and to start trusting more and more.
REMEMBER you are never alone! God is with us, he is an interacting God, a God who longs to know your heart. And by knowing that he has gone before and by choosing to set apart your life to listen to his calling and his guidance in direction your heart shall be satisfied.
Sometimes call for drastic faith…Encouragement comes fist.
In the start of three the people are learning that the direction they will be going is about to one of new unmarked territory for them. Their past may have help and hurt them at time BUT this new journey is one that only faith can get them through.
New places…what joy and fear comes with the quest of conquering a new place.
In the year after college God called me to a new place, a place where, yeah my feet had stepped before and my eyes had boar witness to a couple of times but it was new in the fact that I was to call it home, I was to look upon this new place and say YES GOD, I AM HERE FOR YOU…NOW WHERE AM I?
God will take us to places where we know no one and have never given thought to one day ending up. Asking to go and allowing God to move our hearts in the direction he desires come with chance of Satan creeping in and placing doubts and fears. Finding rest in God is the only location where peace can be found. The shelter God provides can and many times is the only thing that can wash away the ideas of not being ready for the next steps in life.
Looking at verse 5 allows for some huge encouragement to come. Joshua says “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”
What more do people need. The leader, the man they have come to know just said that the Lord was going to do amazing things. I think the definition that comes to mind in the word amazing just does not cut it for what is about to happen. I call things amazing all the time…a book, a tv show, an outfit or a new haircut but what the people where about to witness in their presence was unlike any thing that I can account for as being amazing.
It was going to be so awe inspiring that the people needed to prepare themselves. This was not going to be some light task. It was going to cost something and that cost would come personally, corporately and SPIRITUALLY.
The word CONSECRATED means to be set apart. God wanted these people to set apart their hearts and lives to fixed on the greatness that is God and the fact that he would move them into the promise land.
In lives where you have chosen to set apart you heart to the calling of God and lives to the actions needed to take that God will be seen as the center , you can not just make this decision one day and plan for all to work out great. This is a daily decision, a choice we should make every morning. By choosing to commit we are strengthening our faith and growing in the trust we have for the Lord.
In being consecrated the Lord will take us to new locations by using things that bring him all the glory.
HOWEVER, they are NOT new locations to him.
Joshua 3:14-17
Starting in verse 14 the people begin the route that the ark leads them on. They are taking steps towards the promise land.
While the Jordan was at Flood level.
I love that God does not make this easy on himself. These people were about to watch something AWEsome take place. This was not some river with a foot of water about to be parted. It was a flood level (ridiculously high) body of water about to be parted so that his people could walk through untouched.
I have been in situations where looking back pain should have been written all over it. Hurt should be stamped in red all over certain time periods of my life. And yet I think back and remember tears maybe but Joy comes in the overarching fact that God went where first and knew what was to come protected me from it all.
YOU?
God went first.
The ark was to be the first to go in line. The visual representation these people had of Christ and not only does it go first it also goes through the water. The Jordan was NOT divided until the carrier feet touched the water. God is not afraid of going through the hard times with us and before us.
The picture of God going first into all the situation we are in is one of unbelievable measures.
While the Lord will take us to place we have never been, he wont take to places he has never been. He can conquer all ad once you trust in the Lord you can believe the fact that God goes before us.
Trust can been established in these verses in Joshua. God is alive and doing things, it is our choice to daily stop believing the lies Satan is trying to feed us and to start trusting more and more.
REMEMBER you are never alone! God is with us, he is an interacting God, a God who longs to know your heart. And by knowing that he has gone before and by choosing to set apart your life to listen to his calling and his guidance in direction your heart shall be satisfied.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
FLASHBACK!!
TO THE 80's!
I love it. even though i dont really remember any of the 80s but still the style was hot and to be honest i would still wear some of the pieces i saw tonight! haha
It was a total HIT! Watching women of all ages junior high to ladies that had authentic 80s gear, it was a blessing to my heart. If you know me at all you know that woman's ministry is my main calling in life and this night was such a delight and an answer to many prayers. (thank yall)
Here are some pics as well as the ones to side (Ill edit them soon)
Just an update...i am cutting my hair on friday! personally i am really excited. SPring break is only ONE week away. WE are to Chehay-hay (not the real name but the one i personally gave it...I know AWESOME). We are spending a week working with a women shelter, and one night we get to have an all exciting game night with the ladies!! This trip is so up my ally. I will let yall know how it goes.
Please pray that God uses the group of use in many ways to minister to these ladies. Pray that in the coming week their hearts will open to new friends. Also pray for the group going, I think there will be about 20 students going. Pray that our hearts be open as well and that this week God will grant us rest for the coming days.
I love it. even though i dont really remember any of the 80s but still the style was hot and to be honest i would still wear some of the pieces i saw tonight! haha
It was a total HIT! Watching women of all ages junior high to ladies that had authentic 80s gear, it was a blessing to my heart. If you know me at all you know that woman's ministry is my main calling in life and this night was such a delight and an answer to many prayers. (thank yall)
Here are some pics as well as the ones to side (Ill edit them soon)
Just an update...i am cutting my hair on friday! personally i am really excited. SPring break is only ONE week away. WE are to Chehay-hay (not the real name but the one i personally gave it...I know AWESOME). We are spending a week working with a women shelter, and one night we get to have an all exciting game night with the ladies!! This trip is so up my ally. I will let yall know how it goes.
Please pray that God uses the group of use in many ways to minister to these ladies. Pray that in the coming week their hearts will open to new friends. Also pray for the group going, I think there will be about 20 students going. Pray that our hearts be open as well and that this week God will grant us rest for the coming days.
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