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Sunday, December 23, 2012

What Jesus means to me

In honor of this Christmas season I a writing a special blog post.  This post will entail what my relationship with Jesus Christ, the Son of God, means to me.
I am doing this because God sent his Son, born of a humble virgin birth so we could have life in him;1:34-35.  Jesus lived a perfect sinless life and died on the cross for our sins.  Isaiah 53:6 says "We all are like sheep that have gone astray, each of us has turned to turned our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquities of us all."  Chris Tomlin says in his song Jesus Messiah that he is the Lord of over all things.  He reigns in and over all of our lives.  Jesus is our Messiah; the King of Kings, Immanuel.
Jesus became flesh and lived among us so God could have a relationship with us.  John 10:10 says in Jesus we have life and life abundant.
Jesus has been my rock in some of the hardest times of my life. He brought me through a the time in my life my junior year of high school after a car wreck.  He helped me re-dedicate my life to him at the beginning of my senior year of high school.  Jesus also brought me through that time in my life after I graduated from college when what I thought I was going to do didn't work out.  I depended on him, presented my situation to him, then he gave me his direction in my life and showed me he is sovereign over all things.
He also changed my circumstances from a year long internship program I was going to do and led me to D-focus.  Jesus used this changing of circumstance for my good; he used that summer to help me become mature in my walk with him.  I developed a daily, desperate, abiding, relationship with God through that summer at D-focus.  I also grew in him through that next year of my life when I was unsure about the future.
This is what Jesus means and to me and my life.  What does Jesus mean to you my readers.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Snoop's life: What God has been showing me in the past year

Snoop's life: What God has been showing me in the past year: In this blog post I will discuss what God has been showing me in the past year.  These things God has been showing me are important to my Ch...

What God has been showing me in the past year

In this blog post I will discuss what God has been showing me in the past year.  These things God has been showing me are important to my Christian growth in my relationship with God.
The first thing God has been showing me in the past year has centered on God's desire for me to have more of a burden for those that don't know Christ.  This desire started in God leading me to a mission trip in Thailand this past summer.
 In the first week I was there God broke down language barriers and used myself and another girl that was there with us to lead a Thai university student in Changmai to knowledge of Jesus Christ.  The gospel presentation that we used centered on discussing that God created the heavens and earth, then we shared the gospel with our new friend Noom.  The day that we shared with Noom was a Wednesday, in which they had the day off school.  We were able to share with Noom for about two hours.  Noom and I were both Journalism majors in college.
God also used a seminary class to give me the desire to have more of a burden for the lost.  In Contemporary Evangelism class, I was challenged to be more bold in sharing the gospel with those that don't know Christ.  We learned about different forms of evangelism from: Personal evangelism, to Direct evangelism, Servant evangelism, Door-to-Door- Evangelism, and Church Evangelism.  We read books about these different forms of evangelism that described how each is useful in it's own context.  In this class, we also learned about different movements of revival and Christian growth in America throughout the years.
Overall, this class gave me a great background for future ministry and gave me more of a desire to share the gospel everyone I come in contact with.  Our teacher challenged us to boldly share to gospel on a regular basis.  People in the class shared their stories of their evangelism efforts throughout the semester.  God sent this class in my life for me to grow in my desire to become a better evangelist.  I have seen my teacher's heart for his students and other people that don't know Jesus this semester.
I also did something I had never done before in my life this semester I shared the gospel doing Door-to-Door Evangelism.  We knocked on doors and shared the gospel to those that wanted to hear.  This method worked at times while at other times it did not.  Some people answered the door while others didn't.  In conclusion, this method challenged me in my walk with Christ and ability to share with others about him.
The last thing God has been showing me in this past year is that I need to be more centered on him.  One of the ways this is parlayed is asking God for forgiveness of my sins and for me to pull me away from all temptations that this world throws at me.  If I do this, then it will cause me to become humbled and centered on what Christ wants for me and my life.  I will be able to abide in him more if I am centered on him in all my thoughts, actions, and words.  It will cause me to present/surrender things to God daily and become more totally dependent on God for everything.
Another thing that being centered on Christ will allow me to do is that it will lead me to a woman.  The girl that I marry will see that Christ is in me and is flowing through my life.  The person that becomes my wife/life partner will come to know that Christ is the center of my life in all that I do and I have developed an abiding, daily desperate dependence on God.
As I end this blog post, I hope God will show me more even more amazing things in this next year as I hope to graduate from seminary in December of 2013 and go onto future ministry service.  What is God showing you today my fellow readers?


Sunday, December 9, 2012

God can do more than ask if we let him

The theme of this blog entry is the greatness of God.  God is greater than we ask or imagine if we let him work through us.   This theme is from Ephesians 3:20 that discusses how God can do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine according the power at work within us.
An example of this is God's working in the Old Testament for the commitment to the people of Israel's good.  God is always faithful to the people of Israel.  God is able and faithful but the people are not.  God still cares for his people after all their sin after he brings them out the exile.
Two verses that also talk of God's greatness in relation to Ephesians 3:20 passage are Matthew 1:17 and Luke 1:35-37.  Matthew 1:17 says, "Thus there were fourteen generations in all from Abraham to David, fourteen from David to the exile to Babylon, and fourteen from the exile to Christ."  This verse in Matthew discusses God's movement through his people and what he can do through us.
 Luke 1:35-37 when the angel Gabriel answers Mary's questioning of Jesus' birth says, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.  So the holy one to be born will be called Son of God.  Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God." This last verse describes how God moves in mighty ways.  God cannot be underestimated with his power,glory, and ability to move in our life.
In our ministries and life, we have to surrender the sins that weigh us down so that God can move in our life.  God is mighty, powerful, and has the ability to save us from anything that hold us down.  For God is able to to more than we can ever ask or imagine in our life; Ephesians 3:20.



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