God speaks aloud to you. Its amazing and truely incredible! I love when He affirms us of the work we have done, and when He tells you He is proud of you : )
…for that matter, I love that we have a God who DOES speak to us, and DOES desire to have an intimate relationship with Him!
Confirmed,
Jenny
I have to share this with all of you because sometimes, I just have to make fun of me and my cheer faces!
; )
Jenny
I have mentioned Kan of here quite a few times, we and another friend, Bethany, all had dinner tonight… as always, a good time with lots of laughs!
Toward the end of dinner, Kan reminds Beth and I that she will be leaving for Camp Ealge in about a month… bitter sweet moments were what filled my mind at that point.
We went to Camp Eagle last summer for camp… it was awesome! And while we were there, Kan knew God was calling her to be a counselor there over the summer of 2009. She applied, and God opened the doors… all that to say she leaves in a little more than a month.
I am going to miss her more than she will ever know, its pretty rare that we go a day without talking, and with the busyness of life, we try to see each other as often as possible. But at the same time, I know she is going to have an amazing time up there! She is going to learn so much and be stretched further than she thought she could be. I am excited to hear about her adventures when we get to talk and see how her life changes!!!
So, for the next month or so, I pray that God would continue preparing her and for her and I to have divine appointments and cherished time together!
the two of us this past summer up there : )
Proud & Excited!
Jenny
My life is such a blessing, in the past couple of weeks God has blessed me with some very fun an rewarding trips and I am so incredibly thankful for that…
(No excuse for me to make, only honesty can be brought to my table.) Because of my blessing trips, and busyness leading up to these trips, my daily Bible time was put off. (Although my daily Bible time was put off, I heard God and certainly felt God, I have found that He reveals Himself to me in insignificant moments, and at that time, those moments become significant…)
God fed me in ways I can’t explain and I am so grateful for that, He lead me to confess sins that, at the time, I was not ready to confess… That now, I have overcome, beat, and conquered. Praise God!
But Sunday night, I sat down on my big comfy bed to spend some Bible time with Him, I was reminded of how truly important it is for myself and I believe all of us, as Christ followers, to open God’s Word daily. I was reminded how much He feeds me when I run whole-heartidly toward Him and His word. I opened my journal and poured my heart onto paper. I wrote paragraphs of prayers, lists of thankfulness. As I searched the words of the paper for more hope, God lead me to a popular verse that is not uncommon to my mind. Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you, not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”
In my Bible, this verse is highlighted all the way through verse 14. So naturally I was interested in why at one point verses 12,13,14 caught my heart… as I continued to read, it talked about us coming to God, praying to Him, and He will listen, for us to seek God with our whole hearts and when we do that, God will find us!
Today, as I sit here, I have noticed God’s presence during lectures. Odd to me. I don’t normally hear God’s alive, very real voice in boring, dead lectures… I can’t help but know that hearing God’s voice during those lectures was because I dove into God’s Word last night, I seeked God with my whole heart; and today He found me!
Thank You Lord!
“you’ve taken my brokenness and made me whole once again and all my life is found in you. Oh God of beauty and grace, you are my resting place and all my life is found in you.”
-Spur58-
Found,
Jenny
“preach the Gospel, when nescessary, use words.”
God is continually calling me a bit out of my comfort zone and calling me beyond the norms of this world. I love it. At points, it hurts, its hard, it breaks my heart, I feel hopeless, I question what to do, I am unsure of what my next step is, I am unsure of what my next words should be.
And it’s in a moment of stillness and quietness; God speaks to my heart, quiets my soul, removes all insecurities, takes the questions away from my thoughts, and whispers, “My child, love them, love them as I have loved you, love them, and in loving them, I will bring hope, I will restore their soul and heal their heart… love them.”
The Gospel of Jesus is LOVE. When it comes down to it the ministry of Jesus Christ was love. He stepped down off of High into this lonely, messy, dirty world; because He loved us. He loved us during His life and ministry here on earth and His greatest example of love was when He obeyed His Father and died on the cross for our sins, so we could be saved, have salvation, and live in relationship with His Father who is now our Father. And today, His love is still very much alive in our hearts and in our lives.
So when this quote by Mother Teresa says to “preach the Gospel,” I beleive she ( and God) are saying LOVE. “when necessary, use words,” loving does not always mean tell people you love them, does not always mean speak to them… it means, by your actions, show people you love them.
Living the Gospel,
Jenny
