11/17/2008
Random Post-Just thoughts flowing through my mind
Rejoice in the Lord Always and again I say, again I say, REJOICE!!! I don't have much I want to say if anything at all, only that it is the Lord who has made me and because of HIM I will rejoice. His ways and timing are perfect and our desire to wrap our feeble minds around every intricate detail, is soo tiring and frustrating. He has made us and chosen us to be his children, which means that we are still His through the good and the bad and no matter how much we may not like it we are all still brothers and sisters in Christ. It is the Lord who has chosen to do this and it good. His ways and His desires are soo beautiful yet contrary to the norm and I choose to follow them through the good and the bad. So I thank you Christ, you are HOLY and Glorious, there is no one like you. All that is on my mind or may try to plaque my mind I leave it at your feet, because my heart rejoices and is glad that Jesus Christ lives and His spirit dwells in me. My hope is in the Lord, all that He has done is perfect and good. AMEN!!!!
11/12/2008
I´m in Love
So what are the signs of love. Your heart beats, you get butterflies in your stomach, every moment your thinking about this person, and you can´t wait to be with them. When you see them you get a huge smile on your face and you get all giddy. When you are away from them life isn´t as beautiful. You start to become dependent on being with this person, but in a good way. You desire to give yourself to them completely and not hold anything back, you desire to be theirs. The idea of not being with them makes you sick and sad and you can barely sleep. Well this is the way I feel for my Lord. Every moment of the day I am thinking about Him, there is nothing else I want more. Every free moment I get I´m talking to Him and I´m thinking about him. My heart is literally attached to God, and whether or not I spend time with him greatly affects my day. My first love, Jesus Christ. I wanted to post a poem that I wrote about God, but then I thought it´s not worthy or it´s not fitting. All that needs to be said is that I´m in Love. I love Him. I Love you God, wont you be mine forever, becasue I want to be yours forever. I love you, take me with you always because there isn´t any other place I would rather be.
11/06/2008
God's Help and his promise
Romans 8:16-17
16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 17Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
1 Peter 1:3-9
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 5who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
I didn't want to post much I just wanted to say that these few verses are getting me through a not so easy time. Yet when I read them I see the promise and I feel our Father's love. So I hope that they bless you as much as they have blessed me and kept me. The whole thing is jamm packed with so much truth and power. The Lord is amazing and he is not playing, he really wants us to be his. I just love that about him.
16The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 17Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
1 Peter 1:3-9
3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, 5who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 8Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
I didn't want to post much I just wanted to say that these few verses are getting me through a not so easy time. Yet when I read them I see the promise and I feel our Father's love. So I hope that they bless you as much as they have blessed me and kept me. The whole thing is jamm packed with so much truth and power. The Lord is amazing and he is not playing, he really wants us to be his. I just love that about him.
11/03/2008
God's Grace and Glory
It's amazing how you can start out one day and end up on the other side of the spectrum. Obviously from my previous entry you could tell that I was having a little melt down, just frustrated with many things and it came out through the breaking down of all of my technological products. Well I guess some good news is that I was right about the location of my cell phone and I got it today, which made me feel a lot better. Well any way on to the point of this entry.
I just realized how much of God's grace has been poured out on me lately, yes at times I complain and am fustrated becasue even though I have a great life it's not an easy one. Yet I am soooo blessed. Today I had the opportunity to praise God in the middle of a parking lot by myself. I was waiting for my friend to come and open up the house of prayer. I was just bawling, truly. Earlier that day before my class started the Lord was really talking to me through the scripture in Daniel 9, more specifically verse 18b "We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy." This verse just hit me sooo hard. It's sooo true. I don't ask the Lord for his help because I am righteous, for if I was I wouldn't need to ask the Lord, but I ask because of His mercy. It's his mercy that I am asking for Him to show me. His mercy so that I can get through the day, His mercy so that my mind is renewed every moment and His mercy so that I can walk this path he has chosen for me. Of course every moment of the day isn't amazing, but I pray that He might be merciful and shine his glory down upon me so that His glory would be reflected upon the earth through me. Yes I know that I am absolutely nothing but I know that out of his merciful nature I am seated in the heavenly realms with Christ Jesus, and I think how awesome is that. At the same time I think how silly am I that I can not have this revelation of the glory and mercy of God every moment of the day and instead it is a struggle. Literally a battle within my mind and in my heart to acknowledge the glory of the Lord in my life. I mean I see his hand in almost everything that I do and in the lives of those around me yet I miss the revelation of his glory shining through all of it. At times I catch it like a ray of lighting but it is quickly gone. I just want to be faithful and to see his glory and grace all the days of my life and not just for one moment. And maybe, just maybe I am selfish and I see the glory of God more in one day than people might see in a week, but for me that's not enough. And for this one thing I am okay about being selfish because I just want more and the more I get of Him the more I want. The blessings of yesterday are not enough for today. Show me your glory Lord I want to see your face and walk in your splendor.
Maybe this is all just me rambling and spewing out whats in my mind, but at the same time I hope it's a prayer to the Lord that he will hear and answer. I just want to be transformed and to be so different. I want to be a Daniel or John the Baptist or Elijah of this age, not for recognition (because that is the one thing I definitely don't want) but I want to be so dedicated to God like they were completely abandoned to Christ. What does that mean and what is the cost? Whatever it is I want to pay it, if that means that I get to see the heavens open up and see the glory of Christ Jesus.
Well I guess I will rap this up before it gets any longer, but I do want to say, thank you Christ for your Grace and Glory because without it I am nothing.
I just realized how much of God's grace has been poured out on me lately, yes at times I complain and am fustrated becasue even though I have a great life it's not an easy one. Yet I am soooo blessed. Today I had the opportunity to praise God in the middle of a parking lot by myself. I was waiting for my friend to come and open up the house of prayer. I was just bawling, truly. Earlier that day before my class started the Lord was really talking to me through the scripture in Daniel 9, more specifically verse 18b "We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy." This verse just hit me sooo hard. It's sooo true. I don't ask the Lord for his help because I am righteous, for if I was I wouldn't need to ask the Lord, but I ask because of His mercy. It's his mercy that I am asking for Him to show me. His mercy so that I can get through the day, His mercy so that my mind is renewed every moment and His mercy so that I can walk this path he has chosen for me. Of course every moment of the day isn't amazing, but I pray that He might be merciful and shine his glory down upon me so that His glory would be reflected upon the earth through me. Yes I know that I am absolutely nothing but I know that out of his merciful nature I am seated in the heavenly realms with Christ Jesus, and I think how awesome is that. At the same time I think how silly am I that I can not have this revelation of the glory and mercy of God every moment of the day and instead it is a struggle. Literally a battle within my mind and in my heart to acknowledge the glory of the Lord in my life. I mean I see his hand in almost everything that I do and in the lives of those around me yet I miss the revelation of his glory shining through all of it. At times I catch it like a ray of lighting but it is quickly gone. I just want to be faithful and to see his glory and grace all the days of my life and not just for one moment. And maybe, just maybe I am selfish and I see the glory of God more in one day than people might see in a week, but for me that's not enough. And for this one thing I am okay about being selfish because I just want more and the more I get of Him the more I want. The blessings of yesterday are not enough for today. Show me your glory Lord I want to see your face and walk in your splendor.
Maybe this is all just me rambling and spewing out whats in my mind, but at the same time I hope it's a prayer to the Lord that he will hear and answer. I just want to be transformed and to be so different. I want to be a Daniel or John the Baptist or Elijah of this age, not for recognition (because that is the one thing I definitely don't want) but I want to be so dedicated to God like they were completely abandoned to Christ. What does that mean and what is the cost? Whatever it is I want to pay it, if that means that I get to see the heavens open up and see the glory of Christ Jesus.
Well I guess I will rap this up before it gets any longer, but I do want to say, thank you Christ for your Grace and Glory because without it I am nothing.
11/02/2008
Technological Breakdown
So this post is 100 percent about all of the technological breakdowns I have had over the past two months. I think I will go in chronological order.
1.) When I was at the beach in Acapulco, I had the wonderful opportunity to bring my camera with me, early in the morning so that I could do my quiet time and take some photos. Well of course I was just a little to close to the sea and a large wave came which completely sumerged by fairly new pink camera. As quickly as possible I took all of the pieces apart and put it out to dry, but I must be honest and say that it hasn't worked properly ever since. I can turn it on, but the battery runs out of energy quickly and all I get is a black screen when I try to take pictures.
2.)For some odd reason I am just prone to losing cell phones, becasue I have lost another one. This one was my Mexican phone and I am 100 percent sure that it is located in the van of one of the families that I teach. There is no other place that it can be and that was the last location where I had it, unless it just disappeared. So of course I had to buy another just for my job which was fustrating becasue I'm really trying to save money for plane tickets, which are a pain in the but, and for Laura's wedding. At this point I really just want to complain but I will refrain from that and instead say, Praise be to God for He is faithful to the end and He will always be my friend.
3.) External hardrive, well basically they are meant to save your life when your computer has the nerve to die on you just to spite you. Well fortunately for me, my external hardrive has been acting very funny lately and not working as well as it should. If I keep it in a certain position it will stay on but otherwise it turns off on it's own. Oh what a wonderul machine!!!!!!!
4.) Lastly my LAPTOP, I think it just died on me. You may be wondering how I am typing this post and it is with the laptop of a friend. So yeah it kept saying that it was fixing problems, needing to shut down and reboot multiple times, and now I just get a black screen saying that one of the disks didn't load properly and to press, ctrl-alt-del, to restart. I think this was the climax of my non functioning gadgets. It's extremly fustrating, mostly becasue I don't have the money to just go out and buy a new one. What's worse is that I am living in another country so the only way to have contact with the USA is basically through a computer making communication a very difficult task right now.
Lastly I guess I should say that I am seeking the grace of God to help me to not worry so much about it and to remember that I am still alive and healthy, and non of these mishaps will prevent me from doing what I was called to do here in Mexico. It's just fustrating becasue I would like something to work. Glory be to God, becasue otherwise I'm going to freak out.
1.) When I was at the beach in Acapulco, I had the wonderful opportunity to bring my camera with me, early in the morning so that I could do my quiet time and take some photos. Well of course I was just a little to close to the sea and a large wave came which completely sumerged by fairly new pink camera. As quickly as possible I took all of the pieces apart and put it out to dry, but I must be honest and say that it hasn't worked properly ever since. I can turn it on, but the battery runs out of energy quickly and all I get is a black screen when I try to take pictures.
2.)For some odd reason I am just prone to losing cell phones, becasue I have lost another one. This one was my Mexican phone and I am 100 percent sure that it is located in the van of one of the families that I teach. There is no other place that it can be and that was the last location where I had it, unless it just disappeared. So of course I had to buy another just for my job which was fustrating becasue I'm really trying to save money for plane tickets, which are a pain in the but, and for Laura's wedding. At this point I really just want to complain but I will refrain from that and instead say, Praise be to God for He is faithful to the end and He will always be my friend.
3.) External hardrive, well basically they are meant to save your life when your computer has the nerve to die on you just to spite you. Well fortunately for me, my external hardrive has been acting very funny lately and not working as well as it should. If I keep it in a certain position it will stay on but otherwise it turns off on it's own. Oh what a wonderul machine!!!!!!!
4.) Lastly my LAPTOP, I think it just died on me. You may be wondering how I am typing this post and it is with the laptop of a friend. So yeah it kept saying that it was fixing problems, needing to shut down and reboot multiple times, and now I just get a black screen saying that one of the disks didn't load properly and to press, ctrl-alt-del, to restart. I think this was the climax of my non functioning gadgets. It's extremly fustrating, mostly becasue I don't have the money to just go out and buy a new one. What's worse is that I am living in another country so the only way to have contact with the USA is basically through a computer making communication a very difficult task right now.
Lastly I guess I should say that I am seeking the grace of God to help me to not worry so much about it and to remember that I am still alive and healthy, and non of these mishaps will prevent me from doing what I was called to do here in Mexico. It's just fustrating becasue I would like something to work. Glory be to God, becasue otherwise I'm going to freak out.
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