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.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The past few weeks!
SO i am a skier! yes that is right...pics are coming if not already up. Resonate went on a ski retreat, this was my second time up to the mountain and i completed a few greens! Road the ski lift four times an my goal was only to ride it twice i was proud of myself!
There is an 80's prom coming up! pray that it goes well!
and most important of all
RACHEL GETS HERE IN TWO DAYS!!!!!! yes you read that right my life long best friend is coming for a visit, to see my life and what it is that i am doing and she gets in on Thursday! It is going to be great having her here to live life with for a few days and shell get to meet all the people i have been talking about!
LOVE IT!
ill write more later but life is going good
Ps. Big decisions are coming my way so please keep me in you prayers
There is an 80's prom coming up! pray that it goes well!
and most important of all
RACHEL GETS HERE IN TWO DAYS!!!!!! yes you read that right my life long best friend is coming for a visit, to see my life and what it is that i am doing and she gets in on Thursday! It is going to be great having her here to live life with for a few days and shell get to meet all the people i have been talking about!
LOVE IT!
ill write more later but life is going good
Ps. Big decisions are coming my way so please keep me in you prayers
Friday, February 13, 2009
LOOK TO THE RIGHT!!
There are some new photos up from this past weekend! Enjoy some are artsy and to be honest i took none of them! haha
A run down of the last few weeks!
I am sorry it has been so long...My life has been crazy and for some reason writing is the first to go, sadly it should prob. be the first to stay (I am working on that)
SO MUCH TO SAY!! ARE YOU READY
Coffee Shops
LAst Saturday i sat with good friends and listen to a guy playing the guitar and watched as my artsy friends pulled out crayons and cameras and did what they do best...So I pulled out my journal and reflected on the moment at hand...here it is
Sitting face down at a table with Africa and coffee beans looking back up at me...Life...friends, coffee shop but no coffee and live muscic.
Good and peace - Life and love
Meaning - life has so many meanings but i do believe this type of experience is one of them, heart being shown through string on a guitar and words from the heart, friends some i have seen all day, one not since coffee yesterday and last one who gave up a few remaining hours of snowboarding to listen and hang to a familiar voice - meaning
it is not edited just raw writing...kinda of random but where i was right then
LOVE
This word has been my life these past few weeks. I was reading in my bible study and beth (moore that is but at times i fell like we are true friends so we are on a first name bases) was asking us to read Phil 4:13...now i know that all scripture is important but man talk about a verse that is mis quoted and over used. So with hesitation i read the verse that i know by heart but just to make sure i read and then thought. That is what beth asked us to do this day...read and reflect. So as i sat having just read about love and how through pain love is still there, we dont love on our own and that love is from the LOrd, i pondered on these words
"I can do everything through him who gives me strength"
And this is what i came up with -- all these years i have given that verse to sports, to hard times, to trails i thought i could never get through but never to the fact that the God who created this world who made me and created me just the way he wanted gives me strength in all situations. As i thought through that i thought...man that means all the people i think i can not love or the ones who have hurt me and i run from (bc if you know i have a tenancy to run instead of working through) I can LOVE and not because i am so great and have so much love to offer but rather because GOd is so great and allowing him to love me allows me to love others and through his love I can LOVE everyone that enters my path I call life. WHy because I can do everything through him who gives me strength,so as long as I rely on God for strength and not myself i can love people!
freedom was found in this thgouht process.
I know it has been some crazy weeks...some fun facts
1. i went to a WSU basketball game and will be going to another one on saturday!! (THANK YOU RONNIE FOR FREE TICKETS)
2. Rachel is coming in town in two weeks
3. I handed out pb-n-j and now fell like a pro at passing things out to people who may or may not want them
4. I filled out an application to work with lifeway this summer...i really hope that works out..it is for womans ministry (which is where my heart is), i am waiting for a reply, i know God is up to something good so please keep that in mind when you pray for me
5. Resonate is going well, i am meeting knew people and the two small groups i help with are doing well. GOd is moving up here and i am glad to be apart of it.
6. Me and kristin (one of the interns) have started to hang out on campus on tuesdays and meeting random people and hoping to make connections with people as well as hanging out with friends that i see on sunday night! It is going well so far, please pray that our hours are fruitful.
SO MUCH TO SAY!! ARE YOU READY
Coffee Shops
LAst Saturday i sat with good friends and listen to a guy playing the guitar and watched as my artsy friends pulled out crayons and cameras and did what they do best...So I pulled out my journal and reflected on the moment at hand...here it is
Sitting face down at a table with Africa and coffee beans looking back up at me...Life...friends, coffee shop but no coffee and live muscic.
Good and peace - Life and love
Meaning - life has so many meanings but i do believe this type of experience is one of them, heart being shown through string on a guitar and words from the heart, friends some i have seen all day, one not since coffee yesterday and last one who gave up a few remaining hours of snowboarding to listen and hang to a familiar voice - meaning
it is not edited just raw writing...kinda of random but where i was right then
LOVE
This word has been my life these past few weeks. I was reading in my bible study and beth (moore that is but at times i fell like we are true friends so we are on a first name bases) was asking us to read Phil 4:13...now i know that all scripture is important but man talk about a verse that is mis quoted and over used. So with hesitation i read the verse that i know by heart but just to make sure i read and then thought. That is what beth asked us to do this day...read and reflect. So as i sat having just read about love and how through pain love is still there, we dont love on our own and that love is from the LOrd, i pondered on these words
"I can do everything through him who gives me strength"
And this is what i came up with -- all these years i have given that verse to sports, to hard times, to trails i thought i could never get through but never to the fact that the God who created this world who made me and created me just the way he wanted gives me strength in all situations. As i thought through that i thought...man that means all the people i think i can not love or the ones who have hurt me and i run from (bc if you know i have a tenancy to run instead of working through) I can LOVE and not because i am so great and have so much love to offer but rather because GOd is so great and allowing him to love me allows me to love others and through his love I can LOVE everyone that enters my path I call life. WHy because I can do everything through him who gives me strength,so as long as I rely on God for strength and not myself i can love people!
freedom was found in this thgouht process.
I know it has been some crazy weeks...some fun facts
1. i went to a WSU basketball game and will be going to another one on saturday!! (THANK YOU RONNIE FOR FREE TICKETS)
2. Rachel is coming in town in two weeks
3. I handed out pb-n-j and now fell like a pro at passing things out to people who may or may not want them
4. I filled out an application to work with lifeway this summer...i really hope that works out..it is for womans ministry (which is where my heart is), i am waiting for a reply, i know God is up to something good so please keep that in mind when you pray for me
5. Resonate is going well, i am meeting knew people and the two small groups i help with are doing well. GOd is moving up here and i am glad to be apart of it.
6. Me and kristin (one of the interns) have started to hang out on campus on tuesdays and meeting random people and hoping to make connections with people as well as hanging out with friends that i see on sunday night! It is going well so far, please pray that our hours are fruitful.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Life in the fast Lane
who knew time could go by so fast. I think back and the week is just a blur in time. As I sit in a coffee shop my pray is that I completed the task at hand for last week, that my time here is being used to the fullest and you know I can actually say YES! I am doing what God is calling me to.
Last night Matthew talked on discovering GOd and self and how it is this on going process of learning who God is which opens doors to who you are and then back to God and this never ending cycle.
What joy is found in this cycle. what a wonderful journey to be apart of.
COFFEE
Tall White mocha with Whip (extra hot...depending on when i am going to drink it)
Chi...Black...I Like caffeine
WHO knew that those small words could hold so much weight in the world. Well, to today i will say them about three times, or at least have the opportunity to say them (self control means not getting coffee at every coffee date).
I am in awe of God right now. I had breakfast with two amazing girls and watching God use them in their sorority. I then went to coffee with April and God just speaks to me when we meet. April is the wife of the moscow site pastor and she is also my personal mentor! God is teaching me so much in our time together. Right now we are working on allowing me to be loved and loving others. GOd is up to something good! Then went instead of a coffe house went to an apartment and wrote down goals, i am about to go meet with a girl just to talk about life!
All this before 400! MAN OH MAN, keep praying, GOd is using the people he has placed here and i know he is working in the lives of those around me. Pray that i be used to bring him glory.
JUst thought i would give yall a little insight into my life right now! hope your week is going well. let me know!!
Last night Matthew talked on discovering GOd and self and how it is this on going process of learning who God is which opens doors to who you are and then back to God and this never ending cycle.
What joy is found in this cycle. what a wonderful journey to be apart of.
COFFEE
Tall White mocha with Whip (extra hot...depending on when i am going to drink it)
Chi...Black...I Like caffeine
WHO knew that those small words could hold so much weight in the world. Well, to today i will say them about three times, or at least have the opportunity to say them (self control means not getting coffee at every coffee date).
I am in awe of God right now. I had breakfast with two amazing girls and watching God use them in their sorority. I then went to coffee with April and God just speaks to me when we meet. April is the wife of the moscow site pastor and she is also my personal mentor! God is teaching me so much in our time together. Right now we are working on allowing me to be loved and loving others. GOd is up to something good! Then went instead of a coffe house went to an apartment and wrote down goals, i am about to go meet with a girl just to talk about life!
All this before 400! MAN OH MAN, keep praying, GOd is using the people he has placed here and i know he is working in the lives of those around me. Pray that i be used to bring him glory.
JUst thought i would give yall a little insight into my life right now! hope your week is going well. let me know!!
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