10/30/2017 0 Comments I know i believethere is a difference between faith and knowledge. I need faith to believe, but when i know, i know.
Walking with God there were times where i didn’t know him so i needed faith. And now i know him and i believe and trust him. im still scared and i doubt. But in those places i pray i can have faith to know, to trust, to believe that he is faithful so i can know him even more. i know i believe and i believe because i know
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2/2/2016 0 Comments Post Missions" I'm struggling.
I miss missions. I have been in the States for a few years now and life just isn't the same. It's predictable, measurable, and safe. It's too comfortable. I could complain and say my house isn't nice enough, my job doesn't pay enough, my car isn't fast enough, but the truth is I have it so good. Yet, something lacks in my spirit. Maybe it's that adventure missions brings. The unknown. The unpredictable. The danger. Maybe it's not having a house, a job or a car. I went without those for many years overseas and I was fine - even happy. I feel like I'm am often in a place now where I don't need anything. I can provide for myself. In missions, I often needed. It actually was a frustrating feeling back then but it put me in this place of having to exercise my faith. I needed to trust God to provide finances, a place to sleep for a few months, or to get me out of whatever crazy situation I was in. I trusted Him though and He ALWAYS came through. He was so good and it was so obvious. It's not that He isn't good now, it's that my faith atrophy has made it not so obvious. The comfort numbs it. The easiness of life makes it a memory instead of a confident fact that I can depend on. I feel like this is a common issue for many missionaries who come home. Maybe you can relate? We serve for a while overseas. Come home. Find ourselves living in the mission field in our heads, dreaming of the past, yet going through the motions of fulfilling our cultural expectations. Yet our hearts burn. We yearn for something our memory won't let us forget. " - Missions Academy https://missionsacademy.com/list 12/8/2015 0 Comments Im . mature"If Jesus is in me, and I get offended- I need to find out what part of Jesus got offended." - Darlene Cunningham
I'm finding out, that in the depths of my heart, soul, mind, emotions- I am still immature. I'm remembering that stupid phrase, "Sticks and stones break my bones, but words will never hurt me." I wonder how many people have chosen to believe that lie, as a way to harden their hearts and become defensive, the very same way I have. This season, sigh. I've come undone. again. to my old self- that one I thought I sacrificed, rid of, and surrendered to the Lord. I've realized there still is so much King Saul in me. That insecure, threatened, fearful me. The seeds of the past are starting to sprout out, and its high time to pull out the roots. So wash me, cleanse me, put a new spirit in me. So I can put the 'old' me to death, and live the 'new' me. The me that you said I can live by your Spirit. Changing from glory to greater glory. The 'new' me is the one that dies to self and let you live. I come to your cross Lord, seat you as King, and Victor over my mind, emotions, heart, soul, spirit, strength. And ask for forgiveness to love others as you have commanded- the way you love me. Create in me a pure heart, a clean heart. So I can put on that shield- that un-offendable Spirit of Christ in me. You are not offended. You see past the words, the actions, the hurt. You see mine, and I want it no more. So Lord, it is my confession, my desire to hand it all over to you. The very sins that have seeped into the cracks and crevices of my heart and I've let them bloom because I chose to be angry, resentful, bitter, and bound in hurt. Teach me Lord, how to love. How to serve. How to give. How to believe. How to understand. Even receive insults, and to show grace and mercy. Because I know you do it for me. And there have been plenty of times that your grace was extended to me through loving people in my life. Bless your sons and daughters who have allowed your heart to overtake their own emotions and pride, and love instead of standing up for their own rights. Teach me oh Lord, what it means to overcome evil with good. And to do it in your strength, your love, your ways. This heart is yours God! Use mine to steward the ones you have placed in my life. Amen. 12/5/2015 0 Comments Chad Dedmon" Your greatest call is to be the greatest follower. "
I'm wrecked right there. 12/1/2015 0 Comments on earth as it is in heaven."Everything Jesus did was to release Heaven on Earth. Everywhere he went, people were astonished, they were amazed, they were astounded, they marveled, why? because he was releasing something they had never seen. He was living in their dimension releasing something from another dimension into their midst. And the only people who really got mad about that... were the people of God. How on earth can somebody get mad because somebody's being healed? And how can you get so religiously twisted that you could get annoyed at people healing somebody on the sabbath like that it is work. How can it be work if you are not doing it? That's the hypocrisy of religion." Graham Cooke
view "The Church has left the building Graham Cooke here : https://youtu.be/KvVe6Wd84l8 10/20/2015 0 Comments I love youWhen you speak i brace myself because i know those three words are coming sometime in the near minute or so, and i hold back tears- tears that mean i long for that person and the depth of that simple phrase holds more than what i can bear. I love you too mommy. Because I know its not easy leaving the world you knew behind to a future that is uncertain. "I love you" means sacrifice- and it means it can be hard and it can take some time, and it means to hope and to forgive and give up and gain. And when i hear your "i love you" i hear his "I love you.... more. So all this pain, longing, and lonliness I can forfeit for this love, this love i am consumed by- even to let go and surrender my own thoughts and emotions and say goodbye. Knowing and not knowing when i can see your face again. Because seeing your face couldn't be as good as the reward you look forward to- the reward of the harvest, the reward of looking at Jesus and the many faces he so loves looking at him too through your life. "I love you" means forfeiting the ones I love in order to go and love the ones he loves. At the end, its always love. So whatever i choose- will be love, for love, from love, because of love. "I love you" such sweet simple words, with your voice and your heart all wrapped up- "I miss you" -yeap. I do too. 9/24/2015 0 Comments My so called LifeOnly, let each one live the life which the Lord has assigned him, and to which God has called him [for each person is unique and is accountable for his choices and conduct, let him walk in this way]. This is the rule I make in all the churches. 1 Corinthians 7:17 I will do, be, know, and walk in the way you have formed me. For you are my God, my love, my good good Father who have destined, prepared, anointed, and blessed me to be yours and live each day from that place- of knowing, being rooted deeply, so secure in who you are. Thank you Lord! Lead me, and I will follow. Open the floodgates, and I will enter. Show me your face, and I will be like your glory. Enrich my spirit, and I will walk in your power. Bless me oh Lord because you are faithful. And may my life reflect you... Your Joy, Your Life, Your Love... because that is who you are, and who I was made to be like. Amen.
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