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Monday, March 28, 2011

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Snoop's life: Thankfulness for people that have impacted my life...: "I thank God first for pursuing me and loving me when I was going through a hard time during my first two years in high school. For the..."

Thankfulness for people that have impacted my life

I thank God first for pursuing me and loving me when I was going through a hard time during my first two years in high school.  For then, leading me to Frontier Ranch the summer of my sophomore year of high school so I could meet some of my best friends from high school.  I thank him for being with me when I was going through I hard time in my life my life at the end junior year of high school after I had just accepted Christ into my life in the summer.  I thank Jesus for leading me back to him at the beginning of my senior year of high school when the summer and spring of my junior year I was going through doubts, depression, frustration, fears at the time.  I thank him for using work crew at Frontier Ranch the summer of my senior year to grow in me.
  I thank Jesus for leading me to the great school of TCU, so I could meet great friends through BYX and Young Life.  So, I could love and impact kids in Young Life and speak truth to kids that don't know Jesus.  For using me to be Christ to kids.  I thank for working in Jim Rayburn's life so he could start up the ministry called Young Life. For the chance to go on High school kids stomping grounds and hang out with them.  To be Jesus for hurting teens.  Also, for using Young Life club and campaigners to lead kids to closer to the Savior.
I thank Jesus for leading me to D-focus from last summer through Emily Sells, Katy Park, and Jace Thompson.  I thank the Lord for putting Emily Sells in my life mostly because she is one of the main people that told me about D-focus and the great summer that she had there.  I also had a great summer there last summer.
 In which, I grew in faith and maturity in Jesus Christ.  Jesus taught me things that I would need to use this fall and summer as I go on this journey with him.  I didn't realize how much we needed Jesus and how desperately dependent we have to be on him.  I still struggle with that as of right now and hope I can make it a lifestyle one day.  Though, it takes time and dedication for that to happen.  
This post is about thankfulness because today was my birthday and I am remembering the many blessings in my life up to this point.  I also read something in the Bible about remembering the thankfulness God had done in restoring the people of Israel when they were laying the foundation to build the temple of God back.  They were shouting in joy and morning of thankfulness praising God for what he had given them.  I thought I should give thanks for God and what he has done and blessed me with in my life today!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Making decisions

Lately, I have been real indecisive on where I want to go or want I want to do.  Sometimes it's really hard to pinpoint.  It's a mind boggling thing to figuire out sometimes when you think you should do this and nothing is working on in that area and then you think you are a better fit for something else.  Early in my college career in wanted to do TV broadcasting but I felt I got too stressed about it the last couple semesters before I was about to graduate college.  So, I applied for a radio internship with ESPN last spring that I didn't get.  I also have applied for many radio jobs since I have started looking for jobs in the fall.  Two of the jobs I interviewed for I didn't get and the other one I didn't hear back from yet.  Other times I think I could be a good fit for a career with Young Life since it was a passion of mine when I did Young Life in college.  I think by next fall I will just make decision and stick with it.  If God wants me to be somewhere else, then he'll lead be back to where he wants me to go.  I just need to remind myself to be desperately dependent on him for everything and keep presenting and abiding in Him.  I need to remind myself of the great truths from last summer that God showed me and helped me realize along the way.  He is in control and he is trustworthy.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Trusting in God part II- where God wills me

Here are some other thoughts I have had lately on trusting God in certain times of life.  I feel like to have an abiding relationship with Jesus with have to trust him with minute by minute day by day things.  Trusting will not happen overnight, it is one day at a time.  Some days when I think I have been trusting God with everything I realize looking back there are some things are hard to trust him with sometimes.  I trust him with my future but I worry a lot about which path is the right one to take or if I made the right decision on something in hindsight.
 Is this where you are leading Jesus? Or do you want me to move here? Should I choose this career path in ministry or should I go into the radio/TV career field? Should I take a chance with this girl and see where it will take us in the long run? Should I not pursue or take a chance on this girl right now? Should I interview at this place or take this job? Should I pursue a career in sports whether it's on the radio or TV area?
These are all questions I have asked myself since I have graduated the university of Texas Christian or TCU to alums out there.  This is a  matter of having to trust God with all future is complicated because of all the choices we have to make in our society today.  We are bogged down with all of these decisions to make one after the other and bombarded with all these things we have to get done.  There is just so much that is thrown at us in our society today that we have to sift through and decide if that's what we want to do.  I sometimes try to pinpoint his will or where he wants me to go in life.  I just need to say to him, I trust you with my questions of the future and make a decision of the future.
 I'm reading the book Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung and it pinpointed exactly what I have been doing a lot.  In some way, I tend to have a sort of indecision of where to go in the future sometimes.  I just need to remind myself that he is trustworthy with everything in life because of past experiences seeing his faith. I just need to focus on my growth in him and his conforming me to his image as seen in Romans 8:28-29.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Trusting

I have learned through this past year that I have to trust God with everything I have in my life.  I feel like it's so easy to trust him with our life and for some people it could be really hard to trust God with their life.
  In college, I think I knew about the process of trusting God but I don't know if I intentionally surrendered everything to Him.  I just feel like I was just so busy throughout the day with either Young Life or school that I didn't really think about how to give this or that situation to Him.
Through D-focus last summer and trying to find a job this past year, I've seen how easy or hard it is to trust God with everything in life.  Most days for me it has been easy because I try to look back on how God has been faithful in the past.  There are also other days when it is hard to trust God with the future because I doubt whether I should be pursuing this career in my life or should I pursue that career field.  Do I have more passion for that certain area or that certain area in my life? Does God want me to have a future in this or not?
 In the book of Jeremiah, the people went through an exile period of time that Jeremiah prophesied because of their sin and the fact that they turned their backs on God.  God had compassion on the people when he told the people that he would restore them to Isarel and Judah where they were before after this period of exile.  This is where the famous verse that we talk about Jeremiah 29:11 comes from.  I feel like God's using this trial like time in my life to help me grow in faith and trust in him.  He wants me to realize his bigger plan shown in Jeremiah 29:11.
 Also, Jeremiah trusted God through the when he was receiving the prophesy from God about the people of Israel and Judah's downfall into being exiled.  The leaders of those towns wouldn't believe Jeremiah and the people would persecute him for saying those things about what would happen to him.  I feel like God has shown me evidence of his past faithfulness by certain situations.  The most recent one would be God leading me to D-focus when I had no clue what I was doing last summer.
 Three people from Young Life in Fort Worth lead me to this awesome Dicipleship Program called D-focus.  Emily Sells, Katy Park, and Jace Thompson.  Katy Park was on Young Life staff for a while at TCU and one of my best friends since I got there.  She was also on my Young Life team.  Jace Thompson was also on Young Life staff in Fort Worth.  I have gone on many retreats and work weeks with him.  I wish I got to know Emily Sells more while as an undergraduate at TCU but the one thing I did know is that she has a great heart for Christ and for others.
  God lead me to an awesome small group at D-focus while I grew in Christ that summer.  That small group included: Ray Pettigrew, Dan Anderson, Carlyle Aguren, Keegan Evans, Marty Martens, me, and Jeremy Savage.  Tuesday nights will never be the same anymore! My last memory of faithfulness of God that God has shown me is from High school. While I was a senior leader in Young Life,  I prayed for a while for a friend who I had known for a while that didn't know Jesus to come to Young Life club.   He came to Young Life club one time my last semester in High School and that time.  I am still working to lead him to Jesus.
 I have seen that trusting in God like the Christian life takes one step at a time.  Examples in Scripture indicates we should walk not run.  I just need to trust in God's timing for what he wants me to do, where he wants me to go, and how he wants to use you.  Thank you to those that read this blog!

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Rambling rant

Lately, I've been real frustrated about life and the job situation.  Just when I think something will work out it doesn't.  I need to remind myself daily of what God taught me this summer that God is in control of my life and I can trust him with everything.  He is in control of our life.  He is trustworthy.  He has no needs therefore he is sovereign in our lives and loves abundantly.  I need to make abiding in Jesus a lifestyle.  Most of the times it is for me other times it's not in my life.  A couple days this week I didn't feel like I was abiding like I should be.  There's so many distractions in our world now.  I need to be thinking about Jesus constantly not facebook, sports, American Idol, and other worldly distractions.  I feel like I have to apologize to God for not thinking about him constantly because he is too big and too great not not be thought of constantly.  He loves us way too much for us to get lost in our own little world which is what I do sometimes.  I get frustrated with life sometimes when it doesn't work out the way I hoped it would.  Someone told me the other night I was being hard on myself.  I need to remind myself that truths that God taught me this summer that he is in control of my life.  I have to desperately depend on him for everything in my life.  He uses things in our lives to conform us to his image.  We can trust him with anything because of our past experiences he has shown us.  He has helped me trust him this far with the job/life situation.  I can't give up because he hasn't given up on me yet and never will in my life.

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