Well, it's been awhile sense I've written, life has been so crazy!
But I want to let you all know about how our trip to Utah went!
God used our team in incredible ways, He FAR exceeded my expectations, thats forsure.
Our first day of the trip we were given and hour and a half service for kids pulled out of gangs. They were all court ordered to go, there was about 10 of them, they have this meeting once a week at Caiti's home church, and we were not allowed to preach the gospel. So we talked with them about injustices of the world the whole time! We had videos, facts, a really great powerpoint, and the coolest part, our own personal testimonies of injustices we have seen and experianced. It was a tough group, but you could tell God was opening up their eyes and showing them what they could me doing with their lives.
For our other bookings we spoke and did presenatations of missions, ywam, and injustices in youth groups, chapels at Christian schools, and young adults groups all over Salt Lake City. They all went fantastic! God spoke through us in awesome ways and alot of people said they want to get into missions and quite a few signed up to do a DTS!
Another really cool thing we got to do was go to a house where they are trying to start a YWAM base. It's amazing because they have tried to start a Ywam base in Utah 3 times and it always fails. Just goes to show how deep the strongholds of mormonism run there. But yeah we went and prayed over this new base and the people who are starting it, it was very cool.
The other thing we did while we were there was prayer walks. Salt Lake City is the Mormon capitol of the world, and the main Mormon temple was there. We got into the temple court yard, walked around it 7 times and prayed=] it was so cool! We went and saw the major landmarks, the temple, the tabernacle, the visitors center, Joseph Smiths house, temple square. All these different things. It was insane, I felt like I was overseas again, in another country or another culture.The enemies deception looks so good there, it's very sneaky, it all looks "not so bad" but it so is. It was a very eye opening experiance, but also very inspireing for prayer. We even got to talk to some mormon missionaries, it was very interesting comparing our life, veiw, and motives for missions, they are so vastly different. We asked God to pour out His truth and light over salt lake city.
All in all our mobile trip was FANTASTIC. God used us in HUGE ways!! Plus he really blessed out time. We got closer together as a team, had FUN, no car trouble, no money trouble, no drama, no conflict, we made new friends and had a blast! thank you sooo much for your prayers. I know this trip wouldn't have been such a success without them !
I love you all! Thank you!
Friday, November 13, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
The GO Conference
Wow you guys, this week was amazing!
Sorry it's been so long sense I've blogged, life has been so crazy busy!
Last weekend my leadership school and the DTS drove to Colorado to go
to a YWAM conference called the GO conference. They had it in the mountains in a little town called Estes Park on a YMCA campus tucked in the middle of the mountains!!! It was an incredibly beautiful place to stay, it snowed alot too! Even though it was cold, it was a perfect week. Being in this quite little tucked away mountainous place with God was exactly what I've been needing. Especially sense I'm going overseas in a few weeks!!!
The conference was fabulous, we had intense times of group intercession with hundreds of other ywamers from all over the country and the world, we had beautiful worship times, a time of sacrificial generous giving, workshops, lectures, and of course much needed times of rest, recouperation, and fun. Our speakers were phenomenal to say the least and I have come out of this week with alot of vision, strategy, inspiration, a greater revelation of God's love and of His plan for my life, and of what God wants me to be doing right now. There were even some really incredible anwsers to prayer! For example, one intercession time we prayed for the city of Jaurez, Mexico. They are a really violent city, 7 people at least are murdered there every day of the year. So some ywamers down there have been fasting at praying for God to give at least 4 days of no murder, of no violence, which so far, has been unheard of. So we prayed for this too! Then today, the last day of the conference, we got news from Jaurez, there was NO killings, NO murders yesterday!!!!!!!!!!Our God is SOOOO good!!! and so powerful!!! Wow!!! There are lots of other cool stories I could tell too, but I think I'm just gonna list some of the things God showed me this week. It was so awesome.
-I'm already prepared for missions. God is telling me to JUST GO. There is literally NOTHING holding me back, not excess preperation. He wants me to just go to the nations. The "need" to be "fully" prepared is an unnessesary obstacle. He's giving me the freedom to just go and I know I really can. I feel my fears, worries, and insecurities have been lifted off my shoulders by the holy spirit.
-God will ALWAYS be with me. I feel this week that God has been showing me more and more how I will be initially going into the nations single. By myself. Inititally. Don't know how long. And it is well with my soul! I only need Jesus! I only want him!!! As hard as times will be, he will ALWAYS be with me, and I feel for once in mym life I can honestly say to myself that he is all I want, he is all I need, he's my everything. I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me.
-I really feel equipped this week.
I learned alot from longtermers, about church planting, effective strategies for reaching unreached people groups, ideas for creative evanglism, how to battle the enemy when you are here and on the mission feild. How to disciple people as Jesus did, what it looks like to plant churchs that are like the Acts 2. How to simplify, we make things so complicated. What it looks like to be the Acts 2 church, the church that Christ intended us to be. Man, there is seriously SOOOO much this week..I could just go on and on, but i wont. anyways, learning from longtermers helped give me vision for what I could do overseas and what it really looks like. SOOOO helpful!!!!!!!
- I got a greater revelation of God's crazzzy love for me.
-He renewed my hope in him and gave me new confidence in myself and my capability with him to go to the nations.
-I also got to see alot of our DTSers commit to long term missions and commit to going overseas long term in the next year, It SOOO amazing what things God can do through a ready and willing spirit. These guys are going to change the WORLD!!!!!! I really believe we are going to see revival. I want to see our generation rise up and take a stand.It's time. Our world is LONG overdue for the response of the full body of Christ in bringing God's kingdom to this fallen world.
Anyways, this week was fantastic! Thank you sooooooo much to everyone who gave money to help us get here! This next week we will be traveling around Salt Lake City, Utah speaking in churchs and youth groups trying to mobilize people into the mission feild! Please keep our 2 teams in your prayers as the roads are snowy, and we don't really know what we are doing. God WILL use us, pray that we will be lead by him to make a huge impact on Utah and the world!!!
I love you guys and keep you in my prayers=]
God Bless!!!! <3
Sorry it's been so long sense I've blogged, life has been so crazy busy!
Last weekend my leadership school and the DTS drove to Colorado to go
to a YWAM conference called the GO conference. They had it in the mountains in a little town called Estes Park on a YMCA campus tucked in the middle of the mountains!!! It was an incredibly beautiful place to stay, it snowed alot too! Even though it was cold, it was a perfect week. Being in this quite little tucked away mountainous place with God was exactly what I've been needing. Especially sense I'm going overseas in a few weeks!!!
The conference was fabulous, we had intense times of group intercession with hundreds of other ywamers from all over the country and the world, we had beautiful worship times, a time of sacrificial generous giving, workshops, lectures, and of course much needed times of rest, recouperation, and fun. Our speakers were phenomenal to say the least and I have come out of this week with alot of vision, strategy, inspiration, a greater revelation of God's love and of His plan for my life, and of what God wants me to be doing right now. There were even some really incredible anwsers to prayer! For example, one intercession time we prayed for the city of Jaurez, Mexico. They are a really violent city, 7 people at least are murdered there every day of the year. So some ywamers down there have been fasting at praying for God to give at least 4 days of no murder, of no violence, which so far, has been unheard of. So we prayed for this too! Then today, the last day of the conference, we got news from Jaurez, there was NO killings, NO murders yesterday!!!!!!!!!!Our God is SOOOO good!!! and so powerful!!! Wow!!! There are lots of other cool stories I could tell too, but I think I'm just gonna list some of the things God showed me this week. It was so awesome.
-I'm already prepared for missions. God is telling me to JUST GO. There is literally NOTHING holding me back, not excess preperation. He wants me to just go to the nations. The "need" to be "fully" prepared is an unnessesary obstacle. He's giving me the freedom to just go and I know I really can. I feel my fears, worries, and insecurities have been lifted off my shoulders by the holy spirit.
-God will ALWAYS be with me. I feel this week that God has been showing me more and more how I will be initially going into the nations single. By myself. Inititally. Don't know how long. And it is well with my soul! I only need Jesus! I only want him!!! As hard as times will be, he will ALWAYS be with me, and I feel for once in mym life I can honestly say to myself that he is all I want, he is all I need, he's my everything. I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me.
-I really feel equipped this week.
I learned alot from longtermers, about church planting, effective strategies for reaching unreached people groups, ideas for creative evanglism, how to battle the enemy when you are here and on the mission feild. How to disciple people as Jesus did, what it looks like to plant churchs that are like the Acts 2. How to simplify, we make things so complicated. What it looks like to be the Acts 2 church, the church that Christ intended us to be. Man, there is seriously SOOOO much this week..I could just go on and on, but i wont. anyways, learning from longtermers helped give me vision for what I could do overseas and what it really looks like. SOOOO helpful!!!!!!!
- I got a greater revelation of God's crazzzy love for me.
-He renewed my hope in him and gave me new confidence in myself and my capability with him to go to the nations.
-I also got to see alot of our DTSers commit to long term missions and commit to going overseas long term in the next year, It SOOO amazing what things God can do through a ready and willing spirit. These guys are going to change the WORLD!!!!!! I really believe we are going to see revival. I want to see our generation rise up and take a stand.It's time. Our world is LONG overdue for the response of the full body of Christ in bringing God's kingdom to this fallen world.
Anyways, this week was fantastic! Thank you sooooooo much to everyone who gave money to help us get here! This next week we will be traveling around Salt Lake City, Utah speaking in churchs and youth groups trying to mobilize people into the mission feild! Please keep our 2 teams in your prayers as the roads are snowy, and we don't really know what we are doing. God WILL use us, pray that we will be lead by him to make a huge impact on Utah and the world!!!
I love you guys and keep you in my prayers=]
God Bless!!!! <3
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Week 6 was an AWESOME week :]
Wow, I can definitly tell that you guys have been praying for me! This was like night and day compared to last week! I can't wait to tell you about it =]
Well this week in lecture we had Ken Helser, he spoke in my D-school as well, he's that prohetic guy who gave me that spot on word, idk if you guys remember that. But anyways, he was a blessing this week, he makes class alot of fun. But besides that God refocused mem on him. So these last 5 weeks of GP I've been son focused on doing what I gotta do, trying to find a balance, very task oriented rather than God oriented. So I layed that all aside, came to the root of why I'm here, because he is worthy. Its amazing how easily I can forget such important things God has told me. I spent alot of time getting back to initmacy with God this week, just spending more time with him, and during those times just getting to know him more rather than seeking to get things out of him. Also I felt alot more connected with the holy spirit this week. We had this day where we did 24 hour prayer, and I did it at 8am in the prayer chapel and it was an incredible time with God!!! I got my homework done crazzzy early and have had extra time to just go have fun with my friends, which i havnt got to do in quite awhile!! it's incredible how when you truely give our time to God and out him first, put him as the center, he REALLY DOES work everything out. In ways I can't even explain!! man...he is SO good!
Anyways, it's been a wonderful week!
Hopefully I will be able to blog some more soon about exciting southwast Asia trip details =]
Here are some things you could pray for!
-Money to come in for our mobile trip, we leave saturday for colorado!!!
-Money to come in for the boys in the team to Asia
- Spiritual warfare on the base
-Complications with our contacts overseas
-Health for team utah
-That the brakes on my car wouldn't really cost me 288 dollars!!!!!!
i love tou guys! thanks so much for reading and for supporting me!!!
always remember you are in my prayers too =]
Well this week in lecture we had Ken Helser, he spoke in my D-school as well, he's that prohetic guy who gave me that spot on word, idk if you guys remember that. But anyways, he was a blessing this week, he makes class alot of fun. But besides that God refocused mem on him. So these last 5 weeks of GP I've been son focused on doing what I gotta do, trying to find a balance, very task oriented rather than God oriented. So I layed that all aside, came to the root of why I'm here, because he is worthy. Its amazing how easily I can forget such important things God has told me. I spent alot of time getting back to initmacy with God this week, just spending more time with him, and during those times just getting to know him more rather than seeking to get things out of him. Also I felt alot more connected with the holy spirit this week. We had this day where we did 24 hour prayer, and I did it at 8am in the prayer chapel and it was an incredible time with God!!! I got my homework done crazzzy early and have had extra time to just go have fun with my friends, which i havnt got to do in quite awhile!! it's incredible how when you truely give our time to God and out him first, put him as the center, he REALLY DOES work everything out. In ways I can't even explain!! man...he is SO good!
Anyways, it's been a wonderful week!
Hopefully I will be able to blog some more soon about exciting southwast Asia trip details =]
Here are some things you could pray for!
-Money to come in for our mobile trip, we leave saturday for colorado!!!
-Money to come in for the boys in the team to Asia
- Spiritual warfare on the base
-Complications with our contacts overseas
-Health for team utah
-That the brakes on my car wouldn't really cost me 288 dollars!!!!!!
i love tou guys! thanks so much for reading and for supporting me!!!
always remember you are in my prayers too =]
Friday, October 16, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
BUSY BuSy busy
Well I'm sorry this one is a late!
Life has been ridiculously busy. I think in this blog I'll tell you a bit about whats been going on and then list a few prayer requests!
Well last week, we had a crazy busy week of lecture and homework, mixed with my extra busy schdule trying to plan this trip. I'm taking the most challenging school at this base, GP, is hard, forsure, then I'm trying to balance that with this trip, which is a HUGE task, as well as balancing in relationships with people here and back home, as well as my most important relationship, with Jesus!
I'm going to honest, last week was REALLY a struggle. There so incredibly much going on and on top of it all there was some problems with our "dorm life" that had to get sorted out and caused more burdens for myself. I won't get into detail on that, it mostly got sorted out. But it was a hard week. Theres also been some complications concerning the trip to Asia as well as the mobile trip we have coming up to Utah.
Speaking of which we leave next saturday for a confernce in Colorado, and then the week after that we will be in Utah for a week.
OOOHHHHH SOOOO much going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah....so theres a little glipse of whats going on. This week is going better than last week in some ways. God has been showing me not to balance everything in my life. I need to put Him as the center and let everything else fall into place. I've been letting my dailying tasks run me, rather than my relationship with Christ. It's been rough!
But he's been showing me alot today. I think the main focus of this week for me wil be that everything I do for God needs to be the overflow of intimacy with Him.
After all, I'm here for HIM, not for myself or my daily tasks!
I also REALLY want to thank all of you who have been supporting me financially and with prayer as well. I appreciate it SO much and I brag about the abundent love of my church family and supporters often =] you guys are amazing! And I've been hearing that there has been lots of prayer lifted up for me and my team lately. Thank you SOO much!!!! I most definitly see the effects!!!!
Well, here are a few practical things to pray for if you could=]Thanks so much! I love you guys!
- That the $500 dollars needed for team utah and the $500 for team idaho would come in
- That my fellow Gpers school tuition would come in so they can go on the mobile trip
-That the remaining Asia trip money would come in for the boys on my team, and for Carrie and I.
- That God would show me how to be the servant leader he wants me to be
- That I would stay fully connected in intamacy to God throughout the busy days
- For peace and love to reign in our GP class and our dorm
- There has been alot of attacks on base staff lately including me and Carrie
please pray against the enemy, he is coming down HARD!!!
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Life has been ridiculously busy. I think in this blog I'll tell you a bit about whats been going on and then list a few prayer requests!
Well last week, we had a crazy busy week of lecture and homework, mixed with my extra busy schdule trying to plan this trip. I'm taking the most challenging school at this base, GP, is hard, forsure, then I'm trying to balance that with this trip, which is a HUGE task, as well as balancing in relationships with people here and back home, as well as my most important relationship, with Jesus!
I'm going to honest, last week was REALLY a struggle. There so incredibly much going on and on top of it all there was some problems with our "dorm life" that had to get sorted out and caused more burdens for myself. I won't get into detail on that, it mostly got sorted out. But it was a hard week. Theres also been some complications concerning the trip to Asia as well as the mobile trip we have coming up to Utah.
Speaking of which we leave next saturday for a confernce in Colorado, and then the week after that we will be in Utah for a week.
OOOHHHHH SOOOO much going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah....so theres a little glipse of whats going on. This week is going better than last week in some ways. God has been showing me not to balance everything in my life. I need to put Him as the center and let everything else fall into place. I've been letting my dailying tasks run me, rather than my relationship with Christ. It's been rough!
But he's been showing me alot today. I think the main focus of this week for me wil be that everything I do for God needs to be the overflow of intimacy with Him.
After all, I'm here for HIM, not for myself or my daily tasks!
I also REALLY want to thank all of you who have been supporting me financially and with prayer as well. I appreciate it SO much and I brag about the abundent love of my church family and supporters often =] you guys are amazing! And I've been hearing that there has been lots of prayer lifted up for me and my team lately. Thank you SOO much!!!! I most definitly see the effects!!!!
Well, here are a few practical things to pray for if you could=]Thanks so much! I love you guys!
- That the $500 dollars needed for team utah and the $500 for team idaho would come in
- That my fellow Gpers school tuition would come in so they can go on the mobile trip
-That the remaining Asia trip money would come in for the boys on my team, and for Carrie and I.
- That God would show me how to be the servant leader he wants me to be
- That I would stay fully connected in intamacy to God throughout the busy days
- For peace and love to reign in our GP class and our dorm
- There has been alot of attacks on base staff lately including me and Carrie
please pray against the enemy, he is coming down HARD!!!
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Saturday, October 3, 2009
Yet another good week
So, we finally come to the end of another good week.
It's been extremely busy as usual, but I've been havin a blast.
Thursday was my teams first team time and it went really well.
We talked all about the trip, did intercesh, watched a video, told testimonies,
it was awesome!
I'm really loving getting to know everybody on me team.
Besides Thailand stuff, lecture has been pretty cool. The speaker was
the north west director of ywam, pete Iliyin, he had alot of really good stuff to
say on biblical qualifcations of leadership. plus he shared alot of his own stories with us
which was really inspiring.
God has been teaching me alot this week about going above and beyond in everything I do.
He has also been showing me how far he has brought me. Comparing my life this time last year to now. There has been such a complete transformation in my life! God is so good=]
Tomorrow downtown theres going to be an anti human trafficking event called Sex + Money and a bunch of my friends on base are going to be preforming songs, dances, and displaying their art work. I'm really excited for it, it should be realy incredible. Some Hollywood filmakers are going to be there to add this to a documentry they are making on Human Trafficking in america. It's going to be awesome!
Well anyways I better be off, you guys are all in my thoughts and prayers!
God Bless!
It's been extremely busy as usual, but I've been havin a blast.
Thursday was my teams first team time and it went really well.
We talked all about the trip, did intercesh, watched a video, told testimonies,
it was awesome!
I'm really loving getting to know everybody on me team.
Besides Thailand stuff, lecture has been pretty cool. The speaker was
the north west director of ywam, pete Iliyin, he had alot of really good stuff to
say on biblical qualifcations of leadership. plus he shared alot of his own stories with us
which was really inspiring.
God has been teaching me alot this week about going above and beyond in everything I do.
He has also been showing me how far he has brought me. Comparing my life this time last year to now. There has been such a complete transformation in my life! God is so good=]
Tomorrow downtown theres going to be an anti human trafficking event called Sex + Money and a bunch of my friends on base are going to be preforming songs, dances, and displaying their art work. I'm really excited for it, it should be realy incredible. Some Hollywood filmakers are going to be there to add this to a documentry they are making on Human Trafficking in america. It's going to be awesome!
Well anyways I better be off, you guys are all in my thoughts and prayers!
God Bless!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
GPgpGPgpGPgpGPgpGPgpGP
hello my faithful readers!
This past week has been craaazzyy busy in GP, but I've been having a really great time.
We had a lot of good speakers during our lecture times, we did 3 local outreachs, worked with the Salem houes of Prayers, lots of homework and bible study, and I've been doing lots of planning for the Southern Asia O.R. Life is very busy but very good. It's been a really beautiful week here too, in th 70's and 80's all week, there were even 2 days where it got up into the 90's! I loooved all that sunshine. Anyways, coming into this next week I have lots more assignments ahead of me, and our first "team time" or the Thailand group. I'm really excited! God has been putting lots of ministry opportunites on our hearts and I'm really excited. It's looking like we are going to be following up on alot of the stuff my team did last time, and we will be harvesting alot of the previously planted seeds God planted. It sounds like it's going to be an incredible trip=]
For those of you who don't know, once, sometimes twice a week I work in the Project Revelation 5:9 office. The ministry on the base focused on reaching the unreached. I will most likely be working in there when I come back from this trip. Right now I am working with them to develop ministry material like dramas, and just helping with things they need help with. It's alot of fun.
But yeah, all in all I'm having a terrific time here. I has been such a blessing to bond with my fellow GPers but also with the DTS students. They are a really terrific group,a really open, sweet, and passionate bunch. I really can't wait to work with them more, and to see God breack their hearts for the nations, and also for them to come to know Him more.
It's gonna be good.=]
thank you for continueing to keep me in your prayers, you are in mine!
with much love,
Tina =]
This past week has been craaazzyy busy in GP, but I've been having a really great time.
We had a lot of good speakers during our lecture times, we did 3 local outreachs, worked with the Salem houes of Prayers, lots of homework and bible study, and I've been doing lots of planning for the Southern Asia O.R. Life is very busy but very good. It's been a really beautiful week here too, in th 70's and 80's all week, there were even 2 days where it got up into the 90's! I loooved all that sunshine. Anyways, coming into this next week I have lots more assignments ahead of me, and our first "team time" or the Thailand group. I'm really excited! God has been putting lots of ministry opportunites on our hearts and I'm really excited. It's looking like we are going to be following up on alot of the stuff my team did last time, and we will be harvesting alot of the previously planted seeds God planted. It sounds like it's going to be an incredible trip=]
For those of you who don't know, once, sometimes twice a week I work in the Project Revelation 5:9 office. The ministry on the base focused on reaching the unreached. I will most likely be working in there when I come back from this trip. Right now I am working with them to develop ministry material like dramas, and just helping with things they need help with. It's alot of fun.
But yeah, all in all I'm having a terrific time here. I has been such a blessing to bond with my fellow GPers but also with the DTS students. They are a really terrific group,a really open, sweet, and passionate bunch. I really can't wait to work with them more, and to see God breack their hearts for the nations, and also for them to come to know Him more.
It's gonna be good.=]
thank you for continueing to keep me in your prayers, you are in mine!
with much love,
Tina =]
Saturday, September 19, 2009
life with God is crazzzzyyy
Well everyone, I'm sorry it's been so long sense I last wrote! But I'm only going to
be able to write blogs once a week, probably just on sundays. My school is going FANTASTIC, but my schedule is extremely packed, I'm busy all day everyday, it's very intense. Kind of a spiritual boot camp. But I've made a ton of new friends, already been shaken by God, learned tons of new things, and already seen so many new aspects of God's character.
I guess I never really bloged about Niko, the leadership training program I did last weekend, but it went really well. It was honestly the hardest thing I've ever done, ever. I'm not really supposed to tell you all the details of Niko, because if any of you ever do a Niko, it will be TOTALLY ruined for you if I tell you the details. But basically its all out in the wilderness, theres alot of physical challenges, and the program is meant to stretch you. Afterall the word Niko means "to overcome". yeah but anyways God just showed me what it really meanas to love him with all the heart, sould, and STRENGTH. I've never given all my physical strength to something until now. I also had no choice but to fully rely on God and trust him alone through some of the challenges. it was a really awesome experiance. as difficult as it was I'm sooo grateful that they had us do this.
Okay, now I want to end up telling you guys more about my school, maybe I'll blog again today or tomorrow, BUT i have REALLLLLY big news to share with you guys......
but I'm gonna tell you in story form=]
So tuesday morning me and my peers were praying out some missionaries at the base staff meeting. After the prayer time I was talking to my friend Jamie, me and her were both getting pictures in our heads about us being in that position some day...being sent out as missionaries to the unreached. As I walked back to class I started praying, asking God to send me back overseas to the 2 countries I went to last spring, to open up doors, to somehow send me back soon , and to show me how i can do it. I then just started thinking of ideas, like maybe I could go after GP, or maybe I could go next year, etc.Then I just left it in God's hands. Then a few hours later I was approachd by the leader of my school and the leader of the Fall D-school. They asked if I could pray and consider going to the countries I went to during my school! they needed a 2nd person to lead the team!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Right after that bomb was dropped I went into class and I started thinking, "I'm too young, i have no experiance, etc" and as i started thinking these thoughts, the speaker in class started talking about everything I had just been thinking!!!! about fear of failure and stuff. crazzyy!! then i stepped out of class anad my friend gave me a tee shirt that had just come in from when i went overseas last spring! then that night I prayed alot and asked God about it and he kept saying yes =] then the next morning during my quiet time I prayed again and asked God and I got a vision of me running and jumping off a cliff and flying with God. A little while later I went class and the speaker played a video of a group of kids running and jumping off a cliff and flying!!!! I was like "NNOOOOOO WAYYYYY!!!!!" GO God=]
so yeah, I'm going=] Going to Thailand, i'm sure you guys know what I'm saying in between the lines. Anyways, this is a huge task to take on and a huge gift. I'm soooo excited!!!!
God is sooo good!!!!! man....this is beyond awesome, PLUS my team is a bunch of really awesome students.
yeah, so I've got quite the adventure ahead of me!!! =]
be able to write blogs once a week, probably just on sundays. My school is going FANTASTIC, but my schedule is extremely packed, I'm busy all day everyday, it's very intense. Kind of a spiritual boot camp. But I've made a ton of new friends, already been shaken by God, learned tons of new things, and already seen so many new aspects of God's character.
I guess I never really bloged about Niko, the leadership training program I did last weekend, but it went really well. It was honestly the hardest thing I've ever done, ever. I'm not really supposed to tell you all the details of Niko, because if any of you ever do a Niko, it will be TOTALLY ruined for you if I tell you the details. But basically its all out in the wilderness, theres alot of physical challenges, and the program is meant to stretch you. Afterall the word Niko means "to overcome". yeah but anyways God just showed me what it really meanas to love him with all the heart, sould, and STRENGTH. I've never given all my physical strength to something until now. I also had no choice but to fully rely on God and trust him alone through some of the challenges. it was a really awesome experiance. as difficult as it was I'm sooo grateful that they had us do this.
Okay, now I want to end up telling you guys more about my school, maybe I'll blog again today or tomorrow, BUT i have REALLLLLY big news to share with you guys......
but I'm gonna tell you in story form=]
So tuesday morning me and my peers were praying out some missionaries at the base staff meeting. After the prayer time I was talking to my friend Jamie, me and her were both getting pictures in our heads about us being in that position some day...being sent out as missionaries to the unreached. As I walked back to class I started praying, asking God to send me back overseas to the 2 countries I went to last spring, to open up doors, to somehow send me back soon , and to show me how i can do it. I then just started thinking of ideas, like maybe I could go after GP, or maybe I could go next year, etc.Then I just left it in God's hands. Then a few hours later I was approachd by the leader of my school and the leader of the Fall D-school. They asked if I could pray and consider going to the countries I went to during my school! they needed a 2nd person to lead the team!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Right after that bomb was dropped I went into class and I started thinking, "I'm too young, i have no experiance, etc" and as i started thinking these thoughts, the speaker in class started talking about everything I had just been thinking!!!! about fear of failure and stuff. crazzyy!! then i stepped out of class anad my friend gave me a tee shirt that had just come in from when i went overseas last spring! then that night I prayed alot and asked God about it and he kept saying yes =] then the next morning during my quiet time I prayed again and asked God and I got a vision of me running and jumping off a cliff and flying with God. A little while later I went class and the speaker played a video of a group of kids running and jumping off a cliff and flying!!!! I was like "NNOOOOOO WAYYYYY!!!!!" GO God=]
so yeah, I'm going=] Going to Thailand, i'm sure you guys know what I'm saying in between the lines. Anyways, this is a huge task to take on and a huge gift. I'm soooo excited!!!!
God is sooo good!!!!! man....this is beyond awesome, PLUS my team is a bunch of really awesome students.
yeah, so I've got quite the adventure ahead of me!!! =]
Saturday, September 5, 2009
hello hello
hey everybody! i made it to salem=] the Lord blessed me with a wonderful car ride down
and i can feel my sickness going away. still have a steady cough, but im getting better.
this fall my school is living in the same dorms as the fall DTS students, and its crazy!!
25 girls in one big room of bunks! (these are different dorms then last time) But I've been meeting alot of the new students, and reuniting with old friends. Its been alot of fun so far =]
Our first day of class is monday, and then wednesday night we leave for the wilderness leadership course (NIKO) thats only about 4 days long though.
it should be an insane week! dont know what to expect, but i will keep ya'll updated!
thanks SOOO much for all your prayers God has been helping me so much! and the continued fiancial support thats been coming in!
i love you guys so much, you are HUGE blessing to me=]
God bless!
<3
and i can feel my sickness going away. still have a steady cough, but im getting better.
this fall my school is living in the same dorms as the fall DTS students, and its crazy!!
25 girls in one big room of bunks! (these are different dorms then last time) But I've been meeting alot of the new students, and reuniting with old friends. Its been alot of fun so far =]
Our first day of class is monday, and then wednesday night we leave for the wilderness leadership course (NIKO) thats only about 4 days long though.
it should be an insane week! dont know what to expect, but i will keep ya'll updated!
thanks SOOO much for all your prayers God has been helping me so much! and the continued fiancial support thats been coming in!
i love you guys so much, you are HUGE blessing to me=]
God bless!
<3
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
its been a long time...but I WILL restart my blog this fall
but I'm just gonna start a little bit now.... :]
Always thinking in the dark
praying in the dark
dreaming in the dark
wake up my friend
to the bright light of day
Soak in the infinity of this moment
you have been blinded for far too long
Drink up this fresh cup of regeneration
Life is new
embrace this day
Christ had shined on you
so take His hand and run!
Run with all you've got
You're free so fly
with reckless abandon
this is your new chance at life
If you trip and you fall
get back up and spread those wings again
Getting stuck in a rut is a choice that you make
not a way of life to abuse
you choose
He gave you that choice
So don't dare break His heart
Let it all go and lose control
this life isn't really yours
Life isn't give and take.....
////just a thought....
Always thinking in the dark
praying in the dark
dreaming in the dark
wake up my friend
to the bright light of day
Soak in the infinity of this moment
you have been blinded for far too long
Drink up this fresh cup of regeneration
Life is new
embrace this day
Christ had shined on you
so take His hand and run!
Run with all you've got
You're free so fly
with reckless abandon
this is your new chance at life
If you trip and you fall
get back up and spread those wings again
Getting stuck in a rut is a choice that you make
not a way of life to abuse
you choose
He gave you that choice
So don't dare break His heart
Let it all go and lose control
this life isn't really yours
Life isn't give and take.....
////just a thought....
Saturday, April 4, 2009
GOODBYE!!!!!
WELL, the time has come. I'm leaving tomorrow. Leavin the base no later then 2pm. Flight leaves at 6! I wont be blogging the first month of outreach, but I may be able to the 2nd month. This is SOOOO CRAZY!!!!!!!! ahhhhh!!!! can you believe this?!?!?! i hardly can!!!! gahhh!!! I'm finally living out God's call on my life and I'm finally doing what I have always wanted to do! I'm seriously a missionary now. This is crazy. I'm so stoked!!! wow! well, I just wanna thank all you faithful blog readers, and anybody who has given my blog even a moment of your time=] I love you and you are in my prayers. See you guys in two months! Always remember that God love you, no matter what you have done or who you are. His love for you is unfathomably deep and will never stop. NO MATTER WHAT. He will always be there for you, He will never let you go. If you dont have a relationship with God, if you don't know Him, and if your wondering why I talk about God like I do...give Him a chance. Ask Him to be the ruler of your life, give Him your time and your love. Let Him change you from the inside out, and rest in the joy and peace that comes from knowing Him. You can have a real relationship with the creator of the universe. THAT is amazing. THAT is worth living for. If you already have one...dont take it for granted, live each day for Him because He is worth it. HE IS WORTHY. Love Him with EVERYTHING you've got, give Him your all, dont underestimate Him, don't neglect Him for other things. Love Him on a level you never have before, seek after Him, get to know the depths of His character! Ask Him for a greater revelation of Himself! Live each day for Him!!!! I promise with all my heart you won't regret it. =]
With LOTS of love- Kristina K.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Last week
Last week our speaker was Carrie Manning. She talked about the character and nature of God and little bit on identity and destiny. Here are some of the main points from her lecture...
-To be effective in life and outreach you have to do it with God.
-Those who fear God, lack nothing.
-God is ALWAYS up to something.
-God may not always give you what you want, but you should want what you get.
-Where humility exists the enemy can't do anything.
-Connecting with God is primary, getting in secondary.
-Don't let your life pass you by while you wait for your dreams to be fulfilled. D o more then just exist.
-God's dreams will be fulfilled for you but you have to fulfill the stuff in the middle to get the end result.
So yeah,, I leave for outreach in 3 days!!! headin to Southeast Asia!!! Can't WAIT!!!!!
In thailand we are going to be working in a Burmese refugee camp, teaching english, doing open air ministry, going between Bangkok and Mae Sot, I'm sooooo excited!!!!!!!
-To be effective in life and outreach you have to do it with God.
-Those who fear God, lack nothing.
-God is ALWAYS up to something.
-God may not always give you what you want, but you should want what you get.
-Where humility exists the enemy can't do anything.
-Connecting with God is primary, getting in secondary.
-Don't let your life pass you by while you wait for your dreams to be fulfilled. D o more then just exist.
-God's dreams will be fulfilled for you but you have to fulfill the stuff in the middle to get the end result.
So yeah,, I leave for outreach in 3 days!!! headin to Southeast Asia!!! Can't WAIT!!!!!
In thailand we are going to be working in a Burmese refugee camp, teaching english, doing open air ministry, going between Bangkok and Mae Sot, I'm sooooo excited!!!!!!!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
My heart is bursting at the seems
This week our speaker has been Colleen Milstein. She currently works at a YWAM base in Switzerland, but she does alot of mission work in Africa. oh, and she's from South Africa. So basically...shes REALLY cool. haha. I'm gonna probably cover the main points of her lecture later. But in this blog I want to tell you about what God has been doing in my heart the past 2 weeks.
All of last week and this week God has been specifying His call on my life. Which is obviously really huge, but in that call He has been breaking my heart for the unreached. I know what I'm supposed to do with the rest of my life. And I can't wait to tell you guys a bit about it in this blog.
The concept of reaching the unreached, every tribe, every tounge, every nation has been the main thing that has captured my heart. But also serving God, and reaching the unreached because God is holy and He is worthy. Going to the suckiest places to preach the gospel is the LEAST I could do for Jesus. "Worthy is the lamb who was slain" has been the driving force of the past 2 weeks and I want it to be the driving force of my entire life. I don't know specifically what nations God will send me to throughout my life. I'm sure there will be many. But I know I'm more willing to go now then I've ever been. And I don't wanna go where everybody else is going! I wanna go where people have never even heard the name Jesus! And now I'm gonna give you guys some information on the unreached. The people I'm gonna be serving the rest of my life. Theres alot more to this call I'm not gonna talk about right now. But heres some things you need to know....
There are 16,000 people groups in the world. 9,500 have the gospel, 6,500 do not have the gospel.
A people group is any group of people that have in common language, race, and religion. A people group is not a nation.
The most unreached people in the world are in the 10/40 window which includes Asia, the middle east and northern Africa, and parts of Europe. 60% of the worlds people live in the 10/40 window. 3.2 billion people. About 80,000 of them die each day without hearing about Jesus.
Only 2% of missionaries go to the unreached. Thats insane! Only 2% go to 60% of the world!!! And those 60% are 110 more times more responsive to the gospel then any other part of the world. That 60% comprises the most neglected, least evangelized, and poorest people in the world.
This is the worlds biggest injustice!!!!!!! And it's not non believers commiting it. It's the church!!!!! Why arn't we going????
Is it because these places are the hardest to go to? yeah... thats part of it. They are they suckiest places weather wise, the most difficult to go to, and have the most demonic opression. So what? Is God not worthy of us going?? Of course He is! Is it about us? Or about Him? We are all called. Where is the church?
This is what God is calling me to. And I'm more then thrilled. I can't wait to talk to you all about it more =]
Lots of love to all my readers!! I really appreiate your care and love for me!!!
You are in my prayers!!1
All of last week and this week God has been specifying His call on my life. Which is obviously really huge, but in that call He has been breaking my heart for the unreached. I know what I'm supposed to do with the rest of my life. And I can't wait to tell you guys a bit about it in this blog.
The concept of reaching the unreached, every tribe, every tounge, every nation has been the main thing that has captured my heart. But also serving God, and reaching the unreached because God is holy and He is worthy. Going to the suckiest places to preach the gospel is the LEAST I could do for Jesus. "Worthy is the lamb who was slain" has been the driving force of the past 2 weeks and I want it to be the driving force of my entire life. I don't know specifically what nations God will send me to throughout my life. I'm sure there will be many. But I know I'm more willing to go now then I've ever been. And I don't wanna go where everybody else is going! I wanna go where people have never even heard the name Jesus! And now I'm gonna give you guys some information on the unreached. The people I'm gonna be serving the rest of my life. Theres alot more to this call I'm not gonna talk about right now. But heres some things you need to know....
There are 16,000 people groups in the world. 9,500 have the gospel, 6,500 do not have the gospel.
A people group is any group of people that have in common language, race, and religion. A people group is not a nation.
The most unreached people in the world are in the 10/40 window which includes Asia, the middle east and northern Africa, and parts of Europe. 60% of the worlds people live in the 10/40 window. 3.2 billion people. About 80,000 of them die each day without hearing about Jesus.
Only 2% of missionaries go to the unreached. Thats insane! Only 2% go to 60% of the world!!! And those 60% are 110 more times more responsive to the gospel then any other part of the world. That 60% comprises the most neglected, least evangelized, and poorest people in the world.
This is the worlds biggest injustice!!!!!!! And it's not non believers commiting it. It's the church!!!!! Why arn't we going????
Is it because these places are the hardest to go to? yeah... thats part of it. They are they suckiest places weather wise, the most difficult to go to, and have the most demonic opression. So what? Is God not worthy of us going?? Of course He is! Is it about us? Or about Him? We are all called. Where is the church?
This is what God is calling me to. And I'm more then thrilled. I can't wait to talk to you all about it more =]
Lots of love to all my readers!! I really appreiate your care and love for me!!!
You are in my prayers!!1
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
last week...
our speaker was Fred Allen. He is a professor at George Fox University here in Oregon.
Oh, and to Paul Radford, Fred says hello =]
Anyways here are some of the main points from Fred's lecture. The whole he went through the 6 mission statements of Jesus.
-We can't reduce Jesus to a description
- The cost of following Jesus is everything but the call itself dying.
-We are never willing to give up EVERYTHING. but Jesus didn't beat around the bush. He said we have to give up everything. Yet we always ask God for exceptions, specifics, and to define "everything". Everything means everything.
-discipleship is being bound to the person that is Jesus AND His mission.
-if you're ashamed of the gospel and don't speak, nobody gets saved.
- If YOU don't go tell them about Jesus, they will never hear. if you don't go, then who will?!?!
Oh, and to Paul Radford, Fred says hello =]
Anyways here are some of the main points from Fred's lecture. The whole he went through the 6 mission statements of Jesus.
-We can't reduce Jesus to a description
- The cost of following Jesus is everything but the call itself dying.
-We are never willing to give up EVERYTHING. but Jesus didn't beat around the bush. He said we have to give up everything. Yet we always ask God for exceptions, specifics, and to define "everything". Everything means everything.
-discipleship is being bound to the person that is Jesus AND His mission.
-if you're ashamed of the gospel and don't speak, nobody gets saved.
- If YOU don't go tell them about Jesus, they will never hear. if you don't go, then who will?!?!
Monday, March 9, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
ohhh Ken
*Just so everybody knows I wont be using the internet this whole week. So please don't freak out if I don't write back to you =]
Anyways our speaker this week was Ken Helser, he's prophetic, and really cool. Some of the main points from lecture were as follows...
-God wants to speak to you even more then you want to listen.
-The only way to keep from getting old is to always be willing to learn something new, and realizing theres SO much more left to learn.
-So many Christians have a relationship with doctrine rather then Jesus.
-When you compare yourself to others..you always lose.
-You can't give what you ain't got.
-We can't let religion and tradition hold us back. We can't fit into the churchs box. We as Christians are supposed to be different, but in a radical way. Our generation needs to be as exuberant as we are and make an indent on the church.
So it was really cool, Ken came with his intern David. And 3 weeks ago our staff members sent them pictures of each of us. They have been praying over each one of us ever since. And all they gave them was a picture of us and where we are each from. But God gave them both a word for each of us. The words for me were SPOT ON. seriously. God mightly spoke through both of them into my life. It was REALLY cool =] Kens word for me was this-
"Kristina, a daffodil...radiant with spring. Why is it so hard for all of us to let go of the past?
TRUST! Trust Him for the NEW. What a glorious time in your life. Now to let Him recreate your whole world. You love God, but the next step for you is eeing how much He loves you, and truely letting Him make "ALL THINGS NEW".
This is exactly how Ken had it typed up on the screen. I was just in awe. This is exactly, EXACTLY the cry of my heart. It's exactly what I had been begging the Lord to tell me. After plumbline week I felt I was a new person, totally. But I felt life didnt totaly feel all new. And all of us were under alot of attack last weekend after plumbline which made things worse. And I had been hearing from speakers and my one on one and from my devotions that the next step in my walk with God was gonna be discovering deeper depths of God's love for me. and oh my gosh, all this is EXACTLY what the word said1 Plus Ken got this word for me 3 weeks ago! And it came the EXACT day I needed it most!!! =] praise the Lord! And then throughout the week the Lord kept revealing alot more stuff to me throughout the week during my quite times. And later in the week I got this little vision of a bird in a cage, but the cage was open, the bird was teetering on the open ledge of the cage door. Free but not letting go of the cage. That bird was me and God just kept telling me to fly!! All week He just kept saying to let go and FLY in the freedom he's given me. The cage door is open, it's time to fly and close the door behind me. Amen.
Anyways our speaker this week was Ken Helser, he's prophetic, and really cool. Some of the main points from lecture were as follows...
-God wants to speak to you even more then you want to listen.
-The only way to keep from getting old is to always be willing to learn something new, and realizing theres SO much more left to learn.
-So many Christians have a relationship with doctrine rather then Jesus.
-When you compare yourself to others..you always lose.
-You can't give what you ain't got.
-We can't let religion and tradition hold us back. We can't fit into the churchs box. We as Christians are supposed to be different, but in a radical way. Our generation needs to be as exuberant as we are and make an indent on the church.
So it was really cool, Ken came with his intern David. And 3 weeks ago our staff members sent them pictures of each of us. They have been praying over each one of us ever since. And all they gave them was a picture of us and where we are each from. But God gave them both a word for each of us. The words for me were SPOT ON. seriously. God mightly spoke through both of them into my life. It was REALLY cool =] Kens word for me was this-
"Kristina, a daffodil...radiant with spring. Why is it so hard for all of us to let go of the past?
TRUST! Trust Him for the NEW. What a glorious time in your life. Now to let Him recreate your whole world. You love God, but the next step for you is eeing how much He loves you, and truely letting Him make "ALL THINGS NEW".
This is exactly how Ken had it typed up on the screen. I was just in awe. This is exactly, EXACTLY the cry of my heart. It's exactly what I had been begging the Lord to tell me. After plumbline week I felt I was a new person, totally. But I felt life didnt totaly feel all new. And all of us were under alot of attack last weekend after plumbline which made things worse. And I had been hearing from speakers and my one on one and from my devotions that the next step in my walk with God was gonna be discovering deeper depths of God's love for me. and oh my gosh, all this is EXACTLY what the word said1 Plus Ken got this word for me 3 weeks ago! And it came the EXACT day I needed it most!!! =] praise the Lord! And then throughout the week the Lord kept revealing alot more stuff to me throughout the week during my quite times. And later in the week I got this little vision of a bird in a cage, but the cage was open, the bird was teetering on the open ledge of the cage door. Free but not letting go of the cage. That bird was me and God just kept telling me to fly!! All week He just kept saying to let go and FLY in the freedom he's given me. The cage door is open, it's time to fly and close the door behind me. Amen.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Plumbline Week
This week has been the most life changing week of my life so far. Our speaker was Jerry Praetzel and we did something the whole week called plumbline. It's a week of repentence, forgiveness, and redemption. But before I get into the life changing stuff I'm gonna list some of the main points from lecture....
-What we bury, we don't bury it dead, we bury it alive.
- Forgetting doesn't heal. The pain is alive inside.
- You can kill the thing inside that wants to come to life by just forgiving instead of meditating on it.
-Theres nothing you have been though that Jesus didnt die for to bring you back.
-You can only extend freedom to the extent you are free.
-I am a lousy redeemer.
-You live your life on what you percieve to be truth.
-You bury hurts but God redeems them. Give them to Him.
-God uses storms to try and break down the walls we put up.
So he uses this illustration of a plumbline to symbolize our lives and how situations affect us. We either swing to one side of the plumbline or the other. Either the rejection side or the rebellion side. (i was on the rejection side). But anyways we started the week but prayingn for God to reveal to us stuff in our lives that we need to forgive people for. The Spirit really dug to the depths of our souls and the roots of our deepest problems.
So the next one by one almost everybody in the class went infront of the class, told everybody their deepest hurts and publically forgave everyonen whos ever hurt them. I felt SO AMAZINGLY free afterwards!!!!!
As the week went by everybody who was led by the spirit went up there, forgave, and Jerry helped us and prayed for us.
But then at the end of the week we came to the 2nd part. We each individually(everybody who was led by the spirit) went in front of the class and publically confessed our greatest sins and shame. We also cut of generational curses, and through this God broke ALOT of strongholds. its really hard to even describe this week. its was so completely led by the spirit. it was INCREDIBLE. all of our lives were changed forever because we literally cut off strongholds anad soul ties, and God COMPLETELY took away the regret and shame of our sins. I have NEVER felt so light. I have NEVER felt so free. I am literally a new person now. I've never been changed so deep in my soul. This week was amazing.....wow.
-What we bury, we don't bury it dead, we bury it alive.
- Forgetting doesn't heal. The pain is alive inside.
- You can kill the thing inside that wants to come to life by just forgiving instead of meditating on it.
-Theres nothing you have been though that Jesus didnt die for to bring you back.
-You can only extend freedom to the extent you are free.
-I am a lousy redeemer.
-You live your life on what you percieve to be truth.
-You bury hurts but God redeems them. Give them to Him.
-God uses storms to try and break down the walls we put up.
So he uses this illustration of a plumbline to symbolize our lives and how situations affect us. We either swing to one side of the plumbline or the other. Either the rejection side or the rebellion side. (i was on the rejection side). But anyways we started the week but prayingn for God to reveal to us stuff in our lives that we need to forgive people for. The Spirit really dug to the depths of our souls and the roots of our deepest problems.
So the next one by one almost everybody in the class went infront of the class, told everybody their deepest hurts and publically forgave everyonen whos ever hurt them. I felt SO AMAZINGLY free afterwards!!!!!
As the week went by everybody who was led by the spirit went up there, forgave, and Jerry helped us and prayed for us.
But then at the end of the week we came to the 2nd part. We each individually(everybody who was led by the spirit) went in front of the class and publically confessed our greatest sins and shame. We also cut of generational curses, and through this God broke ALOT of strongholds. its really hard to even describe this week. its was so completely led by the spirit. it was INCREDIBLE. all of our lives were changed forever because we literally cut off strongholds anad soul ties, and God COMPLETELY took away the regret and shame of our sins. I have NEVER felt so light. I have NEVER felt so free. I am literally a new person now. I've never been changed so deep in my soul. This week was amazing.....wow.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
last week
sorry i didnt blog last week guys! Well last week our speaker was Bruce Stephanik. He's a really awesome guy whos an associate pastor at the church I go to here in Salem. He used to be in YWAM and he pioneered the YWAM bases in Mexico. For me personally I felt God was talking to me alot about living with totally authentic faith and living a completely authentic/honest life. But throughout the week here are a couple main points that really stuck out from the weeks lectures.
-I cannot become who I am destined to be by remaining what I am.
-We need to BE the message.
-Freedom is divine empowerment to do and to be what we're originally designed for.
-As soon as you set yourself in a place of judgement, you have eliminated your chance of being the anwser.
-Our job is to speak into the world prophetically and redemptively.
-God is after authentic love
-Don't give your life to lesser things
-The most dangerous people in the world are those who have nothing left to lose.
-Sin narrows your world and how you view it
-If comfort is the governing value of your life then discipleship ends at that point.
Then Bruce gave us 4 questions to ask God. I got some pretty amazing anwsers form God=] They're personal, so I'm not really gonna type it out I don't think. But heres the questions. I wanna challenge ya'll to ask God these questions!
1. What does God want to do with my character at this point in my life?
2.What does God want to do in the way you've done relationship up to this point?
3.What does God wanna do in relationship to the structure of your life?
4. What does God wanna to with the mission of your life??
well, I love ya'll and hope all is well back in Washington. You are in my thoughts and prayers!!!
-I cannot become who I am destined to be by remaining what I am.
-We need to BE the message.
-Freedom is divine empowerment to do and to be what we're originally designed for.
-As soon as you set yourself in a place of judgement, you have eliminated your chance of being the anwser.
-Our job is to speak into the world prophetically and redemptively.
-God is after authentic love
-Don't give your life to lesser things
-The most dangerous people in the world are those who have nothing left to lose.
-Sin narrows your world and how you view it
-If comfort is the governing value of your life then discipleship ends at that point.
Then Bruce gave us 4 questions to ask God. I got some pretty amazing anwsers form God=] They're personal, so I'm not really gonna type it out I don't think. But heres the questions. I wanna challenge ya'll to ask God these questions!
1. What does God want to do with my character at this point in my life?
2.What does God want to do in the way you've done relationship up to this point?
3.What does God wanna do in relationship to the structure of your life?
4. What does God wanna to with the mission of your life??
well, I love ya'll and hope all is well back in Washington. You are in my thoughts and prayers!!!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Last week
Last week our speaker was world renowned Dean Sherman. The whole topic of the week was relationships, it was an amazing week, and here are some of the points that God taught me.
-Love is about choosing what is highest and best.
-Whenever you make ANY decsion in life you need to ask..is it loving?? is it wise??
-Everything is a choice. One thing does NOT lead to another. Everything in life is a choice.
-Discipleship is being changed into the image of God.
- You can't know God if you arn't activily loving people. But having love doesnt mean you know God.
-You want more of God? love more!
- You are never more like God then when you are loving people.
-Dying to ourselves is about laying down our rights, cuz in reality we don't have any. Laying down selfishness, and serving others in love.
- love is a choice more then a feeling.
- Your knowledge of value brings responsibility.
- Lusting after people is de valueing them
-We are all equal. See everyone as having equal value.
-Knowing isn't just what our brains holds. Knowing in an intimate experience.
-Love is greater when it jumps over more boundries
-God's intention had always been relationship
-Relationships are all about value. Including valueing yourself. You have to see yourself as equal with others.
-Love is about choosing what is highest and best.
-Whenever you make ANY decsion in life you need to ask..is it loving?? is it wise??
-Everything is a choice. One thing does NOT lead to another. Everything in life is a choice.
-Discipleship is being changed into the image of God.
- You can't know God if you arn't activily loving people. But having love doesnt mean you know God.
-You want more of God? love more!
- You are never more like God then when you are loving people.
-Dying to ourselves is about laying down our rights, cuz in reality we don't have any. Laying down selfishness, and serving others in love.
- love is a choice more then a feeling.
- Your knowledge of value brings responsibility.
- Lusting after people is de valueing them
-We are all equal. See everyone as having equal value.
-Knowing isn't just what our brains holds. Knowing in an intimate experience.
-Love is greater when it jumps over more boundries
-God's intention had always been relationship
-Relationships are all about value. Including valueing yourself. You have to see yourself as equal with others.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Valentines Day
Well this years valentines day was the best I've ever had!!!
The boys in my class surspised all 17 of us girls in my class with a super special dinner!! It was really fancy!! And super delicious!!! We had such a blast getting dresses at Goodwill before hand and we had so much fun getting all dressed up. It was such a blessing and a really fun time! And the night before we had a girls night (that i planned) we made a bunch of yummy food stuffs. Watched "The Secret Life of Bees" cuz mom sent it to me in the mail. (thanks mom!!) and then we had a dance party/sleepover in the prayer chapel!!! it was sooo much fun =] wooo for all the single ladies!!!!
The boys in my class surspised all 17 of us girls in my class with a super special dinner!! It was really fancy!! And super delicious!!! We had such a blast getting dresses at Goodwill before hand and we had so much fun getting all dressed up. It was such a blessing and a really fun time! And the night before we had a girls night (that i planned) we made a bunch of yummy food stuffs. Watched "The Secret Life of Bees" cuz mom sent it to me in the mail. (thanks mom!!) and then we had a dance party/sleepover in the prayer chapel!!! it was sooo much fun =] wooo for all the single ladies!!!!
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Go God
This past week has been really amazing. Our speaker was Dan Baumann. He works on a YWAM base in Kona, Hawaii and has written 2 books. "Imprisoned in Iran" and "A Beautiful Way". Anyways, Dan is REALLY cool. He was pretty different from our other speakers, although they have all been totally different...Dan is really chill. He's a total beach guy, says "yeah" alot. And he's always sayin "Go God, go God.." He basically shared his life story with us, along with alot of other things. And I just wanna share with you some pieces of his lecture that really impacted me.
- EVERYTHING is all about Jesus. Start and end your days with Him.
-our vision of God is SO small. We can;t put God in a box! Once we ask God to give us a greater revelation of Himself, everything changes.
-Live right now. Alot of the time we are waiting on confirmation from God to go out and do something or make a decision and he wont say anything. Alot of the time He did respond but we either ignore it or don't listen. So often He is just waiting for us to respond in obedience!
- We can't always just wait for God to change our hearts about somthing. We need to trust and obey and trust that over time He will change our hearts.
-Remember the day you experianced God's love the most??? He's still the same today.
- So often we say our passion has died down or is gone. But it's still there! We are just letting our emotions rule over our passion. The passion is there even if you dont feel it.
-God wants to surprise us. He delights in us!
- Jesus called the disciples on ordinary, average days. Embrace the ordinary. Dont take ordinary days for granted. God loves to surprise us with Himself.
-It's no the "why" God is doing something that matters. it's about fully relying on Him.
- He will give you "special grace" when needed.
-Everything you ever wanna do for God, will be the overflow of intamacy with God.
-Life is discovering over and over again that God loves me =]
God wants to be apart of everything we do. We don't have to be doing something "spiritual" but just inviting God in and doing things with him makes it spiritual. Hangout with God.
- We cant make "feeling ready" our God
-All you have is today. The future doesnt even exist yet.
LIVE RIGHT NOW. DREAM BIG. LIFE IS ALL ABOUT DISCOVERING WHO GOD IS.
Everything in this life is about loving God and loving people. When you don't know what got wants you to do...you do know! love God and love people.
- EVERYTHING is all about Jesus. Start and end your days with Him.
-our vision of God is SO small. We can;t put God in a box! Once we ask God to give us a greater revelation of Himself, everything changes.
-Live right now. Alot of the time we are waiting on confirmation from God to go out and do something or make a decision and he wont say anything. Alot of the time He did respond but we either ignore it or don't listen. So often He is just waiting for us to respond in obedience!
- We can't always just wait for God to change our hearts about somthing. We need to trust and obey and trust that over time He will change our hearts.
-Remember the day you experianced God's love the most??? He's still the same today.
- So often we say our passion has died down or is gone. But it's still there! We are just letting our emotions rule over our passion. The passion is there even if you dont feel it.
-God wants to surprise us. He delights in us!
- Jesus called the disciples on ordinary, average days. Embrace the ordinary. Dont take ordinary days for granted. God loves to surprise us with Himself.
-It's no the "why" God is doing something that matters. it's about fully relying on Him.
- He will give you "special grace" when needed.
-Everything you ever wanna do for God, will be the overflow of intamacy with God.
-Life is discovering over and over again that God loves me =]
God wants to be apart of everything we do. We don't have to be doing something "spiritual" but just inviting God in and doing things with him makes it spiritual. Hangout with God.
- We cant make "feeling ready" our God
-All you have is today. The future doesnt even exist yet.
LIVE RIGHT NOW. DREAM BIG. LIFE IS ALL ABOUT DISCOVERING WHO GOD IS.
Everything in this life is about loving God and loving people. When you don't know what got wants you to do...you do know! love God and love people.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Please pray for this
Incase you guys didn't know, 60,000 people have died from cholera in Zimbabwe as of January 31st. This epidemic has been spreading rapidly all over the southern portion of Africa. Everyone is dying because you need clean water to heal from cholera. The whole reason they are getting cholera is because they don't have clean water! Pray about this. But also be willing to be the answer to that prayer. Don't ask God to send other people the anwser or to send other people to be the answer. Be willing to be the answer to your own prayers. Whether it's raising money, going to Zimbabwe, or something else. Be willing. Let God use you!
Sunday, February 1, 2009
I have a question.
When will we defeat this present darkness of social injustice that blankets our world in such unbearable misery?
Friday night I was walking out of one of the lecture halls after one of my classes ended. Me and six of my peers had just walked out the door into the cold winter night when four armed men started yelling at us. They pointed their guns at us and shouted "Get on your knees! Get on your knees NOW!". After recovering from a dizzying moment of shock and confusion I realized I needed to obey their orders. But I realized to slowly. After a moment of clarity I was shoved to the ground by one of these men. I was shocked to see they were dressed in camo...they looked like soldiers. After we were all on our knees these men forced us to put on bandanas. I knew what was going on. This was a classic sceanario of human trafficking.
As if I were reading it straight from a book on child soldiers...the night unfolded into my worst nightmare, something I never imagined would happen to me. "Why God?..why?!?!" I kept asking. After being blindfolded we were all poked and prodded by their guns and shoved into the back of a van. The confusion was was almost incapacitating. As soon as we were in the van I grabbed the arm of my whimpering friend, asking who it was I was grabbing ahold of. I didn't dare take that blindfold off. It was Marina...sweet,caring Marina. Scared out of her mind. But as soon as I started whispering to her, what sounded like the head soldier in charge yelled at me, saying "shut up or I'll shoot you!!!". The rest of the van ride was filled with a terrifying silence, except for the continuing jeering remarks from the soldiers. The ride was bumpy and uncomfortable but it was a cake walk compared to the hell we had to endure next....
The van soon came to an abrupt hault. And the seven of us were this time forced to exit the van. Still blindfolded and utterly confused. It's difficult to even begin to describe what happened next.
We were standing in some kind of open feild, I got the tinest bit of a peek from behind my blindfold. We were then all shoved to our knees and found oursleves sitting in mud. All of a sudden there was a blood curdiling scream, but it wasn't from any of the girls in our group. I recognized the voice. It was one of our DTS leaders, Megan. She was screaming
"no!...no..please NO!!! Don't shoot!...no please NO!!!!"
Then I heard the shot of a gun...and complete silence.
As soon as the silence came, it was gone. Replaced with the cheering from the blood thirsty soldiers lips. "You're one of us now! Welcome to the club."
"Oh my God." I begun to realize exactly what was going on. They were recruiting us as soldiers of their rebel army. I am going to die.
I frantically prayed to God begging Him "Please God! Please end this! Don't let them chose me! Don't let them even notice me!"
It seemed as soon as I prayed that prayer there was already a soldier picking me up, forcing me to my feet.
I was the next victim.
I resisted at first but then realized I didn't stand a chance. I succumbed to the soldiers grip on me and followed after him. I was led to the center of the feild and there the screaming started again. "NO!!! NOOO!! please no! Don't shoot me!! noooo!!!" These cries from whatever innocent girl was up next sent chills down my spine. One of soldiers then put a gun in my hand. I instantly had the reflex to elbow him in the stomach. I refused to hold it. Once I started to resist he started yelling at me. Forcing it into my arms, coaxing my fingers over the trigger. I still couldn't do. He screamed in my ear with the ferocity of a lion. "SHOOT!!! SHOOT HER NOW!!! Shoot her or I will kill both of you!!!!!! SHOOT!!!"
I still resisted. They were sick of playing games. Another soldier came behind me and held a gun to the back of my head. Thats when I knew it was time to give up. I had lost this battle. The poor girl screamed out in despersation one last time....and then I pulled the trigger. They patted me on the back and said "YEAH! Welcome to the club!"
I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. What. Just. Happened....
Now this reall did happen on Friday night. Although it was a pretend sceanario used to teach me and my classmates about human trafficking. It was acted out by our DTS staff members and we really did go through all of that. It was beyond difficult to go through, but incredibly eye opening. Oh and I got the idea to write this is story form from a girl named Kristi in my class by the way.
Alright so now here are some things you need to know.
Real facts everybody.
There are more slaves in the world today then there were during the times of the African slave trade.
-27 Million people in the world are living in some form of slavery.
-Human Trafficking is the 2nd largest criminal industry in the entire world.
and it's a 39 billion dollar industry.
-4 Million of them are sex slaves,
- One million of those are children.
- 70% of Russian orphans are trafficked.
-Almost all internet porn with the exception of Playboy, is actually trafficked women. Women forced to do it.
-Nearly 200,000 people lived enslaved at this moment in the U.S. and an additional 17,500 new victims are trafficked across our borders each year.
-50% in the U.S. is sex trade, the other half is trafficked into forced labor.
This is slavery....
You WILL be hearing more about this later.....
When will we defeat this present darkness of social injustice that blankets our world in such unbearable misery?
Friday night I was walking out of one of the lecture halls after one of my classes ended. Me and six of my peers had just walked out the door into the cold winter night when four armed men started yelling at us. They pointed their guns at us and shouted "Get on your knees! Get on your knees NOW!". After recovering from a dizzying moment of shock and confusion I realized I needed to obey their orders. But I realized to slowly. After a moment of clarity I was shoved to the ground by one of these men. I was shocked to see they were dressed in camo...they looked like soldiers. After we were all on our knees these men forced us to put on bandanas. I knew what was going on. This was a classic sceanario of human trafficking.
As if I were reading it straight from a book on child soldiers...the night unfolded into my worst nightmare, something I never imagined would happen to me. "Why God?..why?!?!" I kept asking. After being blindfolded we were all poked and prodded by their guns and shoved into the back of a van. The confusion was was almost incapacitating. As soon as we were in the van I grabbed the arm of my whimpering friend, asking who it was I was grabbing ahold of. I didn't dare take that blindfold off. It was Marina...sweet,caring Marina. Scared out of her mind. But as soon as I started whispering to her, what sounded like the head soldier in charge yelled at me, saying "shut up or I'll shoot you!!!". The rest of the van ride was filled with a terrifying silence, except for the continuing jeering remarks from the soldiers. The ride was bumpy and uncomfortable but it was a cake walk compared to the hell we had to endure next....
The van soon came to an abrupt hault. And the seven of us were this time forced to exit the van. Still blindfolded and utterly confused. It's difficult to even begin to describe what happened next.
We were standing in some kind of open feild, I got the tinest bit of a peek from behind my blindfold. We were then all shoved to our knees and found oursleves sitting in mud. All of a sudden there was a blood curdiling scream, but it wasn't from any of the girls in our group. I recognized the voice. It was one of our DTS leaders, Megan. She was screaming
"no!...no..please NO!!! Don't shoot!...no please NO!!!!"
Then I heard the shot of a gun...and complete silence.
As soon as the silence came, it was gone. Replaced with the cheering from the blood thirsty soldiers lips. "You're one of us now! Welcome to the club."
"Oh my God." I begun to realize exactly what was going on. They were recruiting us as soldiers of their rebel army. I am going to die.
I frantically prayed to God begging Him "Please God! Please end this! Don't let them chose me! Don't let them even notice me!"
It seemed as soon as I prayed that prayer there was already a soldier picking me up, forcing me to my feet.
I was the next victim.
I resisted at first but then realized I didn't stand a chance. I succumbed to the soldiers grip on me and followed after him. I was led to the center of the feild and there the screaming started again. "NO!!! NOOO!! please no! Don't shoot me!! noooo!!!" These cries from whatever innocent girl was up next sent chills down my spine. One of soldiers then put a gun in my hand. I instantly had the reflex to elbow him in the stomach. I refused to hold it. Once I started to resist he started yelling at me. Forcing it into my arms, coaxing my fingers over the trigger. I still couldn't do. He screamed in my ear with the ferocity of a lion. "SHOOT!!! SHOOT HER NOW!!! Shoot her or I will kill both of you!!!!!! SHOOT!!!"
I still resisted. They were sick of playing games. Another soldier came behind me and held a gun to the back of my head. Thats when I knew it was time to give up. I had lost this battle. The poor girl screamed out in despersation one last time....and then I pulled the trigger. They patted me on the back and said "YEAH! Welcome to the club!"
I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. What. Just. Happened....
Now this reall did happen on Friday night. Although it was a pretend sceanario used to teach me and my classmates about human trafficking. It was acted out by our DTS staff members and we really did go through all of that. It was beyond difficult to go through, but incredibly eye opening. Oh and I got the idea to write this is story form from a girl named Kristi in my class by the way.
Alright so now here are some things you need to know.
Real facts everybody.
There are more slaves in the world today then there were during the times of the African slave trade.
-27 Million people in the world are living in some form of slavery.
-Human Trafficking is the 2nd largest criminal industry in the entire world.
and it's a 39 billion dollar industry.
-4 Million of them are sex slaves,
- One million of those are children.
- 70% of Russian orphans are trafficked.
-Almost all internet porn with the exception of Playboy, is actually trafficked women. Women forced to do it.
-Nearly 200,000 people lived enslaved at this moment in the U.S. and an additional 17,500 new victims are trafficked across our borders each year.
-50% in the U.S. is sex trade, the other half is trafficked into forced labor.
This is slavery....
You WILL be hearing more about this later.....
Friday, January 30, 2009
just a few notes on this week...
- The knowledge and wisdom and love of God and God himself is infinite. We may only know 1% of all who God is. But 1% of infinite is still infinite.
-Theres nothing you can do to make God love you anymore then He already does.
-it's a daily process moving from one side of the road to the other.
-Allow God to define yur story. Your mistakes and the things that happen in your life don't define your story.
- Your not gonna get anything out of this DTS but what you want out of it.
-DTS doesn't change anybodys life, God does. Discipleship is applied outside of the classroom. It's about living out the information, not just keeping it as head knowledge.
- Grief is porportional to intamacy. Nothing hurts more then being hurt by someone your actually intimate with. God is hurt so much when we reject Him. His love is so great but so is His sadness.
-Theres nothing you can do to make God love you anymore then He already does.
-it's a daily process moving from one side of the road to the other.
-Allow God to define yur story. Your mistakes and the things that happen in your life don't define your story.
- Your not gonna get anything out of this DTS but what you want out of it.
-DTS doesn't change anybodys life, God does. Discipleship is applied outside of the classroom. It's about living out the information, not just keeping it as head knowledge.
- Grief is porportional to intamacy. Nothing hurts more then being hurt by someone your actually intimate with. God is hurt so much when we reject Him. His love is so great but so is His sadness.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Outreach..
I AM GOING TO THAILAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
just puttin that out there :]
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
just puttin that out there :]
Sunday, January 25, 2009
convicted
One thing Mekeisha told us this week was this-
There was a lady she knew who had a vision during a prayer time of a little girl who was huddled in a corner crying and Jesus was standing beside her with His arms around her yelling "can I get some help over here?!?"- God is always always first on the scene trying to help and comfort those in need. But he does call for back up. WE are his back up. God has put us in charge to help those in need and to be His body here on earth. We are the body of Christ, so why are we ignoring the tragedies of the world? We are constantly stuck in the monotony of our usually complacent lives. When will we wake up and respond to God's call? He has called us to SO much more then what we're doing. And we are ALL called. If you don't believe that..READ your Bible. We are all called. We say we are giving Him our lives but how much are we really giving??? We need to be willing to respond to His call and do His will. Not out of obligation, but out of love. -"Can I get some help over here?!?!?" - respond!!! There is a great big world out there who NEEDS the body of Christ to respond! They need help and WE are the tools, WE are the anwser to God's call. Don't ignore it.
There was a lady she knew who had a vision during a prayer time of a little girl who was huddled in a corner crying and Jesus was standing beside her with His arms around her yelling "can I get some help over here?!?"- God is always always first on the scene trying to help and comfort those in need. But he does call for back up. WE are his back up. God has put us in charge to help those in need and to be His body here on earth. We are the body of Christ, so why are we ignoring the tragedies of the world? We are constantly stuck in the monotony of our usually complacent lives. When will we wake up and respond to God's call? He has called us to SO much more then what we're doing. And we are ALL called. If you don't believe that..READ your Bible. We are all called. We say we are giving Him our lives but how much are we really giving??? We need to be willing to respond to His call and do His will. Not out of obligation, but out of love. -"Can I get some help over here?!?!?" - respond!!! There is a great big world out there who NEEDS the body of Christ to respond! They need help and WE are the tools, WE are the anwser to God's call. Don't ignore it.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Today....
I'm ecstatic!!!
and my thoughts are UNCONTROLLABLY sporadic!
Yet centered around one center... JOY. =]
In plush ripe tones joy is rushing through my bones!!!
If joy were a color it would be purple pastel pretty
Like old women and young childrem where on easter.
Smiling while having deviled eggs and drinking kool-aid
chasing blown bubbles in the background in the backyard
the young ones' distracting hats fly off...
And the old ones laugh a contagious laughter
that is to be shared my everyone there.
The suns shines down upon them as all of their physical
imperfections gleam beautifully
and inside
INSIDE i feel like this!
and i look out my window and imagine the
future pirple pastel pretty moments of joy
that i will one day have with my wife.
my children. my friends. my family.
I REALLY look forward to hose moments
but i am thankful for the one that i am
having right now.
This morning.
alone.
on my couch.
OVERwhelmed by joy.
=]
thats a poem by sir BRADLEY Hathaway.
ahhhhhhhh.
one hour till i find out the out reach locations!!!
and my thoughts are UNCONTROLLABLY sporadic!
Yet centered around one center... JOY. =]
In plush ripe tones joy is rushing through my bones!!!
If joy were a color it would be purple pastel pretty
Like old women and young childrem where on easter.
Smiling while having deviled eggs and drinking kool-aid
chasing blown bubbles in the background in the backyard
the young ones' distracting hats fly off...
And the old ones laugh a contagious laughter
that is to be shared my everyone there.
The suns shines down upon them as all of their physical
imperfections gleam beautifully
and inside
INSIDE i feel like this!
and i look out my window and imagine the
future pirple pastel pretty moments of joy
that i will one day have with my wife.
my children. my friends. my family.
I REALLY look forward to hose moments
but i am thankful for the one that i am
having right now.
This morning.
alone.
on my couch.
OVERwhelmed by joy.
=]
thats a poem by sir BRADLEY Hathaway.
ahhhhhhhh.
one hour till i find out the out reach locations!!!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
I'm writing you a symphony of sound
So my first week of DTS was incredibly AMAZING. =] Instead of going in to detail about everything that happened, I'm just going to post some of the points and topics from the lectures in class this week. God is so beyond amazing. I'm still in awe that he brought me here. It's so perfect for me :D. ok heres some of those points of interest :
-It's time to let go of everything you know.
-We won't experiance more of the fullness of God till we realize we hardly know anything about Him.
- God loves me for me.
- It's not the bucket you carry or what gifts you bring, it's wanting to be a blessing that matters.
- He can't direct a ship thats not moving.
- We have to take a risk, erroring trying to please Him is often times better then sitting around and doing nothing.
- It's who you will love while your alive that matters, serving Him with your all that matters, giving your entire life to God and loving him to the fullest extent of your love that matters, not where you will go when you die.
- When we pray for something, we have to be willing to be the anwser to that prayer or we're basically just being a hypocrite.
- Life is all about connecting with God's heart.
- All the change you want to see in ourself is going to come out of loving God.
- You can't serve God or love God half heartedly. You have to give Him 110%. It's what he deserves, any less then that is ripping him off.
Another thing Mikeisha focused on was how much God desires obedience when he speaks to us. Obedience in our relationship with Him is an ABSOLUTE must. She talked ALOT about obedience and how it should spring out of love. Because God doesn't want to be appeased. He wants to have a love relationship with you and he knows whats best for you.
- She also painted this really convicting picture for us. That imagine when we get to heaven, we get a price tag. Jesus already gave us His price tag, by saying he loves us enough to give up EVERYTHING he had, his all, His very life. So when we get to heaven, whats our price tag for God gonna say? It should say priceless. But whats it gonna say he was worth to you??? "2% of my time" spent praying before i fall asleep at night??? "Worth sunday mornings and saturday nights", "Worth 30 minutes of devotion time every other day"????? What would your price tag for the all powerful, everlasting, loving creating of the universe say????????
-It's time to let go of everything you know.
-We won't experiance more of the fullness of God till we realize we hardly know anything about Him.
- God loves me for me.
- It's not the bucket you carry or what gifts you bring, it's wanting to be a blessing that matters.
- He can't direct a ship thats not moving.
- We have to take a risk, erroring trying to please Him is often times better then sitting around and doing nothing.
- It's who you will love while your alive that matters, serving Him with your all that matters, giving your entire life to God and loving him to the fullest extent of your love that matters, not where you will go when you die.
- When we pray for something, we have to be willing to be the anwser to that prayer or we're basically just being a hypocrite.
- Life is all about connecting with God's heart.
- All the change you want to see in ourself is going to come out of loving God.
- You can't serve God or love God half heartedly. You have to give Him 110%. It's what he deserves, any less then that is ripping him off.
Another thing Mikeisha focused on was how much God desires obedience when he speaks to us. Obedience in our relationship with Him is an ABSOLUTE must. She talked ALOT about obedience and how it should spring out of love. Because God doesn't want to be appeased. He wants to have a love relationship with you and he knows whats best for you.
- She also painted this really convicting picture for us. That imagine when we get to heaven, we get a price tag. Jesus already gave us His price tag, by saying he loves us enough to give up EVERYTHING he had, his all, His very life. So when we get to heaven, whats our price tag for God gonna say? It should say priceless. But whats it gonna say he was worth to you??? "2% of my time" spent praying before i fall asleep at night??? "Worth sunday mornings and saturday nights", "Worth 30 minutes of devotion time every other day"????? What would your price tag for the all powerful, everlasting, loving creating of the universe say????????
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
what a fun day
we did part of the ropes course today! I was worried it was gonna suck but it was actually really fun!!! We all had to work together as teams and do alot of serving and helping others. I was really impressed by our group, but then again thats how we christians should always be. We all served one another and it was really cool. Its amazing how I already see God transforming my heart. Like in serving others and doing acts of service and stuff, I've always been really lazy when it comes to doing work and stuff but now I feel like I'm really doing it out of love and having fun rather then being a grumply brat. haha. anyways the street evanglism thing was kinda cool but pretty uneventful. We have a amazing speaker for the week leading class time. Not sure how to spell it but her name is Mikeasha. She is a truely amazing woman of God and I am REALLY excited to learn from her for the rest of this week and next week. Things are goin excellant as usual. I;m seriously having the time of my life! I hope ya'll back home are doing well! I love all you family people and my church family and friends! I love it here =]Hope things in Washington are good!!!
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
alright
just so you guys know, I'm going to start posting blogs only once a week unless something major happens or I get extra free time. But my schdule is really busy (in a good way). And I need to put 100% of my focus on God and this program rather then blogging every single day. But just so you know I am having an absolute BLAST!!!!!! We got assigned our "acts of service" today. Which is kind of like chores. and im assigned breakfast duty1 (which is SUPER easy, just early)
But I'm having the time of my life and i LOVE LOVE LOVE it here =] tonight were going to town to do street evanglism so that should be intersesting!its just passing out papers and tracks. YWAM doesnt do that street "preaching" stuff haha. so I guess we'll see how that goes!!!!! lol
But I'm having the time of my life and i LOVE LOVE LOVE it here =] tonight were going to town to do street evanglism so that should be intersesting!its just passing out papers and tracks. YWAM doesnt do that street "preaching" stuff haha. so I guess we'll see how that goes!!!!! lol
Monday, January 12, 2009
orientation day
well day was the first day in class and I REALLY liked it. After everything they said in class I am just so crazy excited now! More than ever! The staff here are really incredible people. Their genuine love and sincerity in caring for us and discipling us amazes me. I mean, they pay to work here lol. They are totally volunteers called by God, and thats just so cool to me. I could absolutely see myself staying in YWAM, but we will see where God calls me. lol. The directors of my DTS, Troy and Amos are really cool guys too. And the schdule is awesome. They seriously have us busy almost every hour of the day!! But I think thats a pretty good thing =] and weekends we pretty much have off except on some saturdays we will go and do serivce projects liek feeding the homeless and stuff. Theres an opportunity to street evanglism friday night. ahaha. I'm maybe considering it. lol .Just because it's something I've never done and I wanna continue to stretch myself all the time. Anyways, I am still having a blast. I love it here. It just keeps getting better everyday =]
Sunday, January 11, 2009
The 2nd day
hmmm. I really love this place. I love the campus, the dorms, and people. =] I really am happy and content. I was just overcome with purpose last night. I felt God's blessed reassurance that this is exactly where I am supposed to be. Smack dab in the center of his will. And theres seriously no where better then that. I am having SUCH a blast! We road the zip line tonight. It was so insanely fun! You climb up like 50 feet in a tree and just jump off into thin air! With a harness on of course. But it was an amazing start to the school. I felt like I conquered any insecurities or fears of the unknown. It was awesome. Seriously. I'm excited for tomorrow, first day of classes! Dont exactly know what to expect. Bbut I'm stoked!!! yayy for having fun and only being slightly homesick! I was afraid I would like be crying every night but I've already made so many friends and I'm having a blast =]
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Day One
So today was my first official day moving into YWAM Salem.
I share a room with 2 other girls...which might end up only being 1 other girl. But she
hasn't even arrived yet. Then the 3 of us share one bathroom with 3 girls across the hall. (crazzzzy..right?) So hopefully all will go well with that! haha
But tonight I'm all alone in my room. The roomies havn't arrived yet =[ I have been enjoying myself though. Just trying to settle in. I have already begun to feel a but homesick...but then I think about how incredible this truely is and I feel better.
Plus the campus is awesome, the staff are so nice! Really kind, loving, genuine people.
It turns out there is also a 2nd DTS going on right now, a Korean DTS. So we have students from Korea dorming with us to. It's pretty cool.
Honestly I'm not super motivated to blog right now sense I've been journaling all day. haha
But YWAM Salem really is a wonderful place. And I'm excited to see how the next week will unfold!
loveLOVElove- Double K
I share a room with 2 other girls...which might end up only being 1 other girl. But she
hasn't even arrived yet. Then the 3 of us share one bathroom with 3 girls across the hall. (crazzzzy..right?) So hopefully all will go well with that! haha
But tonight I'm all alone in my room. The roomies havn't arrived yet =[ I have been enjoying myself though. Just trying to settle in. I have already begun to feel a but homesick...but then I think about how incredible this truely is and I feel better.
Plus the campus is awesome, the staff are so nice! Really kind, loving, genuine people.
It turns out there is also a 2nd DTS going on right now, a Korean DTS. So we have students from Korea dorming with us to. It's pretty cool.
Honestly I'm not super motivated to blog right now sense I've been journaling all day. haha
But YWAM Salem really is a wonderful place. And I'm excited to see how the next week will unfold!
loveLOVElove- Double K
Friday, January 9, 2009
Last day
I'm leaving Washington!!!!!! This is CRAZYYYYYY!!!!
I will of course post more later.
Alot more.
ahaha
I will of course post more later.
Alot more.
ahaha
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