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.
Sunday, December 23, 2012
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?
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.
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.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Thankfulness
This past Thanksgiving I was reminded of the many blessings that God has given me in my life. I am thankful for God blessing me with best friends from high school, college, and D-focus.
I am thankful for the good and bad times God has brought me through in my life. I am thankful for D-focus and it's impact in my life. The last area I will talk about in this blog entry is that I was thankful TCU was able to put the beat down on UT on Thanksgiving night and I was able to hang out with my roommate from college.
The first area I will discuss is that I am thankful that God changed my circumstances from doing this Young Life year-long internship to doing Discipleship Focus that summer. God changed my plans because he had something bigger for my life. It was during this time in my life that I grow in maturity and faith in Christ. God showed me how much I need to depend on him in all circumstances and present things to him. God also revealed to him that he is sovereign over all things. I put all these things into practice during the next year when I was going through a hard time in my life after graduating from college when I wanted to do was not working out.
God helped me present and abide in him during this time in my life. He gave me faith in this time. He used this faith to give me the strength to be able to surrender more things to him and become mature in him.
God used an important time in my life during my sophomore year of high school when I met Christ at Frontier Ranch. It was during this time, I met some of my best friends from high school. These friends have been with me through all my life.
God has also blessed me with some good friends from college through BYX and Young Life. These include: Jim Douglas, George Cagle, Andrew Sullivan, Will Hopkins, and EJ Governator. These friends have also helped me grow in my faith and walk with God.
God used some hard times in my life to help me grow in him. One of these was hard times during my junior year of high school when I had to car wreck that took me down and path of doubt, frustration, and unbelief. During the next year of my life in my senior year of high school he helped me realize how much to depend on him. Other hard times include trying to figure out my life after I graduated from college and the frustrating time waiting on the petition to graduate in my senior year of college. In retrospect, I had to go through these hard times in order to be mature in Jesus Christ.
The last thing I am thankful for is that TCU was able to play and beat UT on Thanksgiving last Thursday. It was cool to be in the DKR and see the Frogs put the pounding on the Horns. I am so excited that the Frogs are finally in a big time conference. In a couple years Gary Patterson will take us to the national championship.
I will end this blog post by reminding all the readers of the many blessings of friends and family. Remember what God has done in your life today and what he will keep doing until the day of Christ Jesus; Phi 1:6.
I am thankful for the good and bad times God has brought me through in my life. I am thankful for D-focus and it's impact in my life. The last area I will talk about in this blog entry is that I was thankful TCU was able to put the beat down on UT on Thanksgiving night and I was able to hang out with my roommate from college.
The first area I will discuss is that I am thankful that God changed my circumstances from doing this Young Life year-long internship to doing Discipleship Focus that summer. God changed my plans because he had something bigger for my life. It was during this time in my life that I grow in maturity and faith in Christ. God showed me how much I need to depend on him in all circumstances and present things to him. God also revealed to him that he is sovereign over all things. I put all these things into practice during the next year when I was going through a hard time in my life after graduating from college when I wanted to do was not working out.
God helped me present and abide in him during this time in my life. He gave me faith in this time. He used this faith to give me the strength to be able to surrender more things to him and become mature in him.
God used an important time in my life during my sophomore year of high school when I met Christ at Frontier Ranch. It was during this time, I met some of my best friends from high school. These friends have been with me through all my life.
God has also blessed me with some good friends from college through BYX and Young Life. These include: Jim Douglas, George Cagle, Andrew Sullivan, Will Hopkins, and EJ Governator. These friends have also helped me grow in my faith and walk with God.
God used some hard times in my life to help me grow in him. One of these was hard times during my junior year of high school when I had to car wreck that took me down and path of doubt, frustration, and unbelief. During the next year of my life in my senior year of high school he helped me realize how much to depend on him. Other hard times include trying to figure out my life after I graduated from college and the frustrating time waiting on the petition to graduate in my senior year of college. In retrospect, I had to go through these hard times in order to be mature in Jesus Christ.
The last thing I am thankful for is that TCU was able to play and beat UT on Thanksgiving last Thursday. It was cool to be in the DKR and see the Frogs put the pounding on the Horns. I am so excited that the Frogs are finally in a big time conference. In a couple years Gary Patterson will take us to the national championship.
I will end this blog post by reminding all the readers of the many blessings of friends and family. Remember what God has done in your life today and what he will keep doing until the day of Christ Jesus; Phi 1:6.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
God's ability to produce Godliness
God has used different ways and things in my life to produce Godliness in me. He has used these things and ways to produce maturity in me as a believer.
One main way in which God has produced Godliness in my life is through his guidance. Proverbs 3:5-6, says that we should "trust in the Lord with all of our heart and lean not on your own understanding but in all ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight." Trusting in God's ways and not own will produce Godliness in our lives daily.
A time in my where this was evident was after I graduated from college when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I thought I wanted to go into Broadcast Journalism but God had other plans. God closed down that area of my life when the jobs I interviewed for did not work out.
God helped me trust and surrender this situation to him. He reminded me that his plans are greater than mine when I gave control to God. I presented this situation in an abiding nature of submission to God after what I wanted to do didn't work out. After I presented the situation, God gave me faith and also a peace of mind during that time in my life. It was during this time in my life that God really showed me what an abiding, maturing, relationship with him is and I truly became a friend of God.
God used the things I learned before that time in my life at D-focus to prepare me to be able to trust him. I gained a clear understanding of how to surrender/present things to God with an attitude of supplication. This study showed me how much God loves us and wants us in a daily desperate dependent relationship with him. If we are depending on God daily, then he will give us the strength to trust him with all of our life. We can't do anything our own, all we have in this life comes from Jesus, the Vine.
The last area of my life in which this was evident was during my junior year of high school. I was going through a hard time in my life at the time when I had just gotten into a car wreck. I was really doubting the meaning of life, my faith, and why this happened to me. God used some friends from high school that God put in my life that previous summer to help me trust in him again. During the beginning of my senior year, I rededicated my life to Jesus Christ. God used that time in my life of doubt and frustration to help me so that would be able to trust him in the future.
We as Christians cannot produce any Godliness on our own in our lives. We are the vine, and we are the branches. Depending on Jesus Christ in all that we do will produce lasting eternal Godliness in us.
One main way in which God has produced Godliness in my life is through his guidance. Proverbs 3:5-6, says that we should "trust in the Lord with all of our heart and lean not on your own understanding but in all ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight." Trusting in God's ways and not own will produce Godliness in our lives daily.
A time in my where this was evident was after I graduated from college when I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I thought I wanted to go into Broadcast Journalism but God had other plans. God closed down that area of my life when the jobs I interviewed for did not work out.
God helped me trust and surrender this situation to him. He reminded me that his plans are greater than mine when I gave control to God. I presented this situation in an abiding nature of submission to God after what I wanted to do didn't work out. After I presented the situation, God gave me faith and also a peace of mind during that time in my life. It was during this time in my life that God really showed me what an abiding, maturing, relationship with him is and I truly became a friend of God.
God used the things I learned before that time in my life at D-focus to prepare me to be able to trust him. I gained a clear understanding of how to surrender/present things to God with an attitude of supplication. This study showed me how much God loves us and wants us in a daily desperate dependent relationship with him. If we are depending on God daily, then he will give us the strength to trust him with all of our life. We can't do anything our own, all we have in this life comes from Jesus, the Vine.
The last area of my life in which this was evident was during my junior year of high school. I was going through a hard time in my life at the time when I had just gotten into a car wreck. I was really doubting the meaning of life, my faith, and why this happened to me. God used some friends from high school that God put in my life that previous summer to help me trust in him again. During the beginning of my senior year, I rededicated my life to Jesus Christ. God used that time in my life of doubt and frustration to help me so that would be able to trust him in the future.
We as Christians cannot produce any Godliness on our own in our lives. We are the vine, and we are the branches. Depending on Jesus Christ in all that we do will produce lasting eternal Godliness in us.
Thursday, October 25, 2012
God's grace
God's grace has been showered on me in the hardest times of my life. These are times when I was frustrated at God for what happened to me during that time. In the end I look back and realize in God was working during these times in my life.
The first time in my life where God's grace was over me was during my high school years when God led me to Frontier Ranch through the encouragement of Loren Jones, who was on Young Life staff. I don't know where I would be today if I didn't go to Frontier Ranch the summer of my sophomore year of high school. I gave my life to Jesus Christ during that week in July of 2004. I had gone to church all of my life, but it was then at that time that I finally came to realize the depth of my depravity, sinful nature, how much God loves me, who God is, and how to have a relationship with him. God also led me to my best friends from high school during that time in my life.
Another example of God's grace upon my life was during the middle of my junior year of high school. I was a month into my driving experience in during that time. I got into a car wreck while I was driving home from school that day. I was driving from Briarmeadow crossing to Cline Primary by my house. I was not able to judge the distance between the other person and myself before I hit a woman in the other vehicle. The woman went to the hospital but was not injured very bad.
God's grace was over me during the time in my life due to the fact that God sustained my health and had mercy, compassion over me. In hindsight, God kept me alive for a reason. I did not know what the reason was at the time because I was not a in good state mentally from the accident.
I found out during my senior year in high school that I have a disability that affects my ability to judge distances that are far away. This may have caused my fist wreck during my junior year of high school, as well as the one following at the beginning of my senior year.
God's grace is a gift and we need to cherish it. He gives us mercy in times of trouble and hardship. Our God is a compassionate God that shows his love to us even in the hardest times.
The first time in my life where God's grace was over me was during my high school years when God led me to Frontier Ranch through the encouragement of Loren Jones, who was on Young Life staff. I don't know where I would be today if I didn't go to Frontier Ranch the summer of my sophomore year of high school. I gave my life to Jesus Christ during that week in July of 2004. I had gone to church all of my life, but it was then at that time that I finally came to realize the depth of my depravity, sinful nature, how much God loves me, who God is, and how to have a relationship with him. God also led me to my best friends from high school during that time in my life.
Another example of God's grace upon my life was during the middle of my junior year of high school. I was a month into my driving experience in during that time. I got into a car wreck while I was driving home from school that day. I was driving from Briarmeadow crossing to Cline Primary by my house. I was not able to judge the distance between the other person and myself before I hit a woman in the other vehicle. The woman went to the hospital but was not injured very bad.
God's grace was over me during the time in my life due to the fact that God sustained my health and had mercy, compassion over me. In hindsight, God kept me alive for a reason. I did not know what the reason was at the time because I was not a in good state mentally from the accident.
I found out during my senior year in high school that I have a disability that affects my ability to judge distances that are far away. This may have caused my fist wreck during my junior year of high school, as well as the one following at the beginning of my senior year.
God's grace is a gift and we need to cherish it. He gives us mercy in times of trouble and hardship. Our God is a compassionate God that shows his love to us even in the hardest times.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Being Bold for God
I heard a message on Wednesday that talked about how we as Christians have to step out in faith and allow the Holy Spirit to do supernatural things through us. God can use in his power and grace if we step out boldly for him to use us. Our God is a big God and can do immeasurably more than all we can ask and imagine, according to the power that is at work within us it says in Ephesians 3:20.
The passage that illustrates this stepping out in boldness for God is in Matthew 14:22-33 when Jesus walks on the water. If we are going to step out in faith for God, we have to take courage in our boldness. Jesus tells Peter in verse 27, "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid." Jesus said this to the disciples when he was walking on water to not be afraid. They thought he was some kind of ghost. While in verse 30, Peter walked on the water in trying to go to Jesus he was afraid of the wind.
We cannot be scared about taking a risk for God, we just have to boldly step out in faith. God will use in when we step out in courage in our boldness.
God also calls us to take a step of faith in boldness when we allow God to us supernaturally. We as Christians have to step out of the boat like Peter did in verse 29. This stepping out of the boat, or leap of faith gives God a greater opportunity to use us for his kingdom.
We fall back into laziness and spiritual apathy if we don't make decisions to follow Christ boldly in faith. Only he can use us if we desire for him to use us.
My last point is that we have to be fixed on Jesus when stepping out in boldness for him in order for him to use us supernaturally. At the end of this passage in Matthew of Jesus walking on the water in verse 31 after Peter was sinking Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. Jesus can use any situation for his purpose whether it is good or bad. Jesus can do anything through us if we trust him in boldness, faith, and courage to use us in any and all times. Our God is trustworthy and in control of our life.
The passage that illustrates this stepping out in boldness for God is in Matthew 14:22-33 when Jesus walks on the water. If we are going to step out in faith for God, we have to take courage in our boldness. Jesus tells Peter in verse 27, "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid." Jesus said this to the disciples when he was walking on water to not be afraid. They thought he was some kind of ghost. While in verse 30, Peter walked on the water in trying to go to Jesus he was afraid of the wind.
We cannot be scared about taking a risk for God, we just have to boldly step out in faith. God will use in when we step out in courage in our boldness.
God also calls us to take a step of faith in boldness when we allow God to us supernaturally. We as Christians have to step out of the boat like Peter did in verse 29. This stepping out of the boat, or leap of faith gives God a greater opportunity to use us for his kingdom.
We fall back into laziness and spiritual apathy if we don't make decisions to follow Christ boldly in faith. Only he can use us if we desire for him to use us.
My last point is that we have to be fixed on Jesus when stepping out in boldness for him in order for him to use us supernaturally. At the end of this passage in Matthew of Jesus walking on the water in verse 31 after Peter was sinking Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. Jesus can use any situation for his purpose whether it is good or bad. Jesus can do anything through us if we trust him in boldness, faith, and courage to use us in any and all times. Our God is trustworthy and in control of our life.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Should TCU still play SMU annually?
Should TCU still play SMU annually? I will be discussing whether or not the TCU Horned Frogs should still play the SMU Mustangs every year.
My first argument will discuss why TCU and SMU should keep playing.TCU and SMU have been playing each other in non-conference action since 1915, a rivalry that spans 92 years. The series had so much history in the past when both teams had much success in the early Southwest Conference years through the years Dutch Meyer coached the Frogs.
During those years, both schools played games in which they battled for the Southwest Conference titles. These games as older fans would say where some of the greatest games of all-time. One of the greatest games of all-time between TCU and SMU was in 1935 when Sammy Baugh led the Frogs to tie the game in the fourth quarter on a long pass. The Frogs would go on to lose that game 20-14.
My second argument is to why TCU and SMU should not play again annually. The contract for the series expires in 2016. The series means more to SMU every year than it does to TCU. The Mustangs have more to gain than TCU in continuing to play the series. Both schools should continue to play again when SMU is actually competitive again.
This game is not even fun for the Frogs anymore. The players on SMU's side are always getting chippy, stepping on our players legs, playing dirty, therefore injuring our players. SMU's players took cheap shots against TCU QB Casey Pachall on Saturday night in the rain soaked game.
The players from TCU don't get fired about this game anymore. In 2011, the players weren't motivated about the game, leading to a big time upset for the Mustangs. Last Saturday, the Frogs pulled out the win 24-16.
I personally can handle both schools not playing each other when the contract is up in 2016. If SMU is actually winning consistently only then would I play them again.
My first argument will discuss why TCU and SMU should keep playing.TCU and SMU have been playing each other in non-conference action since 1915, a rivalry that spans 92 years. The series had so much history in the past when both teams had much success in the early Southwest Conference years through the years Dutch Meyer coached the Frogs.
During those years, both schools played games in which they battled for the Southwest Conference titles. These games as older fans would say where some of the greatest games of all-time. One of the greatest games of all-time between TCU and SMU was in 1935 when Sammy Baugh led the Frogs to tie the game in the fourth quarter on a long pass. The Frogs would go on to lose that game 20-14.
My second argument is to why TCU and SMU should not play again annually. The contract for the series expires in 2016. The series means more to SMU every year than it does to TCU. The Mustangs have more to gain than TCU in continuing to play the series. Both schools should continue to play again when SMU is actually competitive again.
This game is not even fun for the Frogs anymore. The players on SMU's side are always getting chippy, stepping on our players legs, playing dirty, therefore injuring our players. SMU's players took cheap shots against TCU QB Casey Pachall on Saturday night in the rain soaked game.
The players from TCU don't get fired about this game anymore. In 2011, the players weren't motivated about the game, leading to a big time upset for the Mustangs. Last Saturday, the Frogs pulled out the win 24-16.
I personally can handle both schools not playing each other when the contract is up in 2016. If SMU is actually winning consistently only then would I play them again.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
God directed wisdom vs the foolish
The past few weeks I have been going to a Bible study over Proverbs. The main theme we have been studying is examining the fool in us. We have been looking at the difference between those that seek wisdom and follow God vs the fools that turn their ways against God.
Proverbs brings out this comparison of the fool and those that seek wisdom in God in the beginning of Proverbs. Proverbs 1:7 says this in comparison between the fool and those that seek God for wisdom, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." Those that fear God seek him for wisdom in all their decisions. In comparison, the fools turn against God daily in their decisions that they make. The fools do not use wise discipline, discernment, and don't think about how their decisions may effect others in the future.
The things we do and the decisions we make should reflect God and we should go to him for every big decision we face. If we do not do this, then we will become the kind of fool Proverbs is talking about. After college, I tried to decide my future on my own without including God in it. I tried to make life and financial decisions without God's help. The summer after college, God led me to this discipleship program which helped me realize how much I need God and how foolish I am to not depend on him for life's biggest decisions.
Fearing God involves trusting him with our daily needs. It is realizing he is bigger than our concerns, frustrations, feelings, worries, sins, at the moment. Through this fear of the Lord, we are showing a certain level of reverence and awe in his power, glory, sovereignty, grace, and forgiveness in our life. It is shown through hatred of evil in Proverbs 8:6; and avoidance of sin in Proverbs 16:6.
To seek God's wisdom is realizing God directs our life in all that we do. Proverbs 20:24 NLT says, "The Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way?" Those who are seeking God in wisdom are surrendering to God all their decisions, cares, causes, and concerns for the day. God already knows what we are going ask before we ask him it says in the book of Matthew. Proverbs 16:9 NIV is very similar when it says, "In his heart a man plans his steps, but God determines his course." The last thing I want to mention is that though we try to do life on our own sometimes leading to our foolish nature, ultimately God is in control of our life.
I used be a fool, making decisions on my own without thinking about them, not recognizing their cause and effect, immature, but God has matured in me and helped me make wise decisions with him in mind. I used to be a fool despising wisdom, focusing on things that bring me joy, and going against God in everything I do. I was very foolish in the past, only doing things my way; becoming selfish and impatient with the world and everything in the world. Now, I have realized my foolish ways and have asked God for forgiveness for my past ways and now God is directing my life in all that I do.
Proverbs brings out this comparison of the fool and those that seek wisdom in God in the beginning of Proverbs. Proverbs 1:7 says this in comparison between the fool and those that seek God for wisdom, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline." Those that fear God seek him for wisdom in all their decisions. In comparison, the fools turn against God daily in their decisions that they make. The fools do not use wise discipline, discernment, and don't think about how their decisions may effect others in the future.
The things we do and the decisions we make should reflect God and we should go to him for every big decision we face. If we do not do this, then we will become the kind of fool Proverbs is talking about. After college, I tried to decide my future on my own without including God in it. I tried to make life and financial decisions without God's help. The summer after college, God led me to this discipleship program which helped me realize how much I need God and how foolish I am to not depend on him for life's biggest decisions.
Fearing God involves trusting him with our daily needs. It is realizing he is bigger than our concerns, frustrations, feelings, worries, sins, at the moment. Through this fear of the Lord, we are showing a certain level of reverence and awe in his power, glory, sovereignty, grace, and forgiveness in our life. It is shown through hatred of evil in Proverbs 8:6; and avoidance of sin in Proverbs 16:6.
To seek God's wisdom is realizing God directs our life in all that we do. Proverbs 20:24 NLT says, "The Lord directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way?" Those who are seeking God in wisdom are surrendering to God all their decisions, cares, causes, and concerns for the day. God already knows what we are going ask before we ask him it says in the book of Matthew. Proverbs 16:9 NIV is very similar when it says, "In his heart a man plans his steps, but God determines his course." The last thing I want to mention is that though we try to do life on our own sometimes leading to our foolish nature, ultimately God is in control of our life.
I used be a fool, making decisions on my own without thinking about them, not recognizing their cause and effect, immature, but God has matured in me and helped me make wise decisions with him in mind. I used to be a fool despising wisdom, focusing on things that bring me joy, and going against God in everything I do. I was very foolish in the past, only doing things my way; becoming selfish and impatient with the world and everything in the world. Now, I have realized my foolish ways and have asked God for forgiveness for my past ways and now God is directing my life in all that I do.
Thursday, September 20, 2012
God changed my circumstances and plans
This post I will be discussing certain times in my life in which God was at work but I didn't know it. During these times, God changed my circumstances for his good and purposes. He uses these times in my life to conform me to his image or likeness.
The first instance I am going to discuss is the time that God changed the my plans from doing a Young Life year long internship at Young Life camp to doing Discipleship Focus the summer after I graduated from college. I thought this year long internship was where God wanted me in that next year after I graduated college. I pursued this opportunity so diligently at the end of the spring of 2010. I did not know God had a different plan for me that summer and into the next year. God used one opportunity that didn't work and led to a greater one that summer.
At Discipleship Focus, I grew in my walk with Christ. I become able to trust God more quickly and with more things in the process of God revealing himself to me that summer. He made me aware that he is in control of my life despite what happens to me in certain situations. He helped me realize that his eternal good is to conform us to his image and have a deep, walk with his Son Jesus Christ. I went through a study called God's Answers to Our Deepest Questions that, throughout the study, helped me realize me spiritual bankruptcy without my relationship with Jesus Christ.
During the summer, I also grew in my walk with God in a small group of people that deeply cared me and my needs. We became like a family that summer united by what God was doing in our lives at the time. This constant community helped us push each other toward Christ in all that we did that summer. I also gained deep fellowship with the guys in my cabin since we eat together, hung out after work, and cleaned the cabin every week together. As my teacher in seminary Dr. Lee says, "we became a living, loving, and learning community."
In that next year, I thought I knew what I wanted to do with my life but God had other plans for me and my future. I thought I was going to do into broadcasting but God kept closing down those doors or opportunities with each job I didn't get. I was able to trust and depend on God during this time in my life through the these things I learned in that summer at D-focus. Even though this was a very hard time in my life, God helped me realize that he was in control of my life at the time and I just needed to trust him more. Through this circumstance in my life, God wanted me to realize that I need to be desperately dependent on him with everything in my life.
The first verse that illustrates God's uses circumstances to conform us to his image is in Romans 8:28-29. Paul says this, "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers." God was working throughout those times in my life and had a bigger plan than I could imagine; to conform me to the image of his Son Jesus Christ. Another verse that illustrates God using a circumstance is the example of Joseph, he says to his brothers in Exodus 50:19-20, "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." Joseph acknowledge that God was in control of his hard circumstance in his life and God was using it for his glory.
God used that circumstance in my life to lead me to seminary and back to ministry. I feel that God gave me a wake up call in my life during that year. He helped me realize what my real passions in life are and how he wants to use for in my future.
We need to remind ourselves how much we need to desperately depend on God daily for everything in our life and abide in him. God is in control of any and every circumstance in our life. He can use any circumstance to conform us to his image. I as a Christian in my sinful, depraved, state cannot produce Godliness on my own, our God in heaven and earth has to be the only thing we depend on make in this life. The only thing we will take with us when we go to heaven is the depth of our personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
September 11th
Yesterday was the anniversary of September 11 one of the most historic days in American history. A day which caused us to examine our freedoms as Americans. That day showed how Americans can come together in the midst of tragedy.
I am not specifically going to September 11 today. I will discussing how 9/11 showed us as Christians today.
Looking back on this event in our past it shows me how we are all sinful creatures. The suicide bombers at 9/11 didn't take into account they were killing numerous people that day. They only knew that they had to carry our their mission of bombing the World Trade Center. They thought they had to carry out the mission of bombing the buildings that day because Osama bin Laden ordered it. Bin Laden's kind of Islam was the very extreme form.
Bin Laden's terrorist group was called the Al-Qaeda. It was the highest form of extremism sect of Islam.
This event also causes us as Christians to remind us that we have to love all people despite they believe. In this way, we will be able to model Jesus Christ to other people of other religions. Georges Houssney, the author of Engaging Islam, says the if we shows other Muslims the authentic love of Jesus is the key to reaching Muslims. Through this they will see that our God is different than the God that Mohammad portrays in the Kor'an. If we as Christians can love and get to know Muslims Houssney says then they may open up eventually to want to know more about how to have a relationship with Christ.
This book taught me it is essential to get to know other people's religions in order to tells others about Jesus Christ. We also have to get to know who people are and what Muslims believe. Houssney emphasizes we have to be aware of the differences in Islam and Christianity. We have to use discrepancies in order to reach Muslims. The most important thing Houssney says is that God loves you my dear Muslims brother. This last sentence emphasizes that God loves everyone and wants all people to come to know him no matter race, religion, color or sect.
The mission trip I went on this summer reminded me that God wants everyone to come to know him deeply. God has a deep passion and concern for all those that have fallen away from him. He loves us all deeply no matter if we are steeped in sin or struggling with hard times. God is too big to be able to comprehend what he can do if we let him work through us. A verse that shows the bigness of God to do anything is Ephesians 3:20, "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us."
9/11 made me realize we are all sinful creatures in need of God redemption into right relationship with him.
I am not specifically going to September 11 today. I will discussing how 9/11 showed us as Christians today.
Looking back on this event in our past it shows me how we are all sinful creatures. The suicide bombers at 9/11 didn't take into account they were killing numerous people that day. They only knew that they had to carry our their mission of bombing the World Trade Center. They thought they had to carry out the mission of bombing the buildings that day because Osama bin Laden ordered it. Bin Laden's kind of Islam was the very extreme form.
Bin Laden's terrorist group was called the Al-Qaeda. It was the highest form of extremism sect of Islam.
This event also causes us as Christians to remind us that we have to love all people despite they believe. In this way, we will be able to model Jesus Christ to other people of other religions. Georges Houssney, the author of Engaging Islam, says the if we shows other Muslims the authentic love of Jesus is the key to reaching Muslims. Through this they will see that our God is different than the God that Mohammad portrays in the Kor'an. If we as Christians can love and get to know Muslims Houssney says then they may open up eventually to want to know more about how to have a relationship with Christ.
This book taught me it is essential to get to know other people's religions in order to tells others about Jesus Christ. We also have to get to know who people are and what Muslims believe. Houssney emphasizes we have to be aware of the differences in Islam and Christianity. We have to use discrepancies in order to reach Muslims. The most important thing Houssney says is that God loves you my dear Muslims brother. This last sentence emphasizes that God loves everyone and wants all people to come to know him no matter race, religion, color or sect.
The mission trip I went on this summer reminded me that God wants everyone to come to know him deeply. God has a deep passion and concern for all those that have fallen away from him. He loves us all deeply no matter if we are steeped in sin or struggling with hard times. God is too big to be able to comprehend what he can do if we let him work through us. A verse that shows the bigness of God to do anything is Ephesians 3:20, "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us."
9/11 made me realize we are all sinful creatures in need of God redemption into right relationship with him.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
One true God
For the past week and a half I have been in Chang Mai, Thailand. This trip has been a whirlwind of things that God has been teaching me lately. Some of these things I will discuss will help mold me in the future.
First, God has reminded me that he is the one true God in the midst a culture here that worships idols and uses meditation to gain perfection. God has imparted to me that he is bigger than Buddha and all these idols Buddhists worship. Christianity is a self less way of life while Buddhists only care about doing good for themselves. At monk chat yesterday, I got the impression that these monks only cared about themselves how one of the monks describes the process of doing good in gaining good karma for only themselves.
Second, God helped me become me patient with others in general. God gave me patience when discussing the frustrating things about Buddhism during monk chat yesterday. God also worked through me in giving me patience in sharing Jesus with the students at Chang Mai, University.
God has been using me in two ways: through my testimony and just telling the students about our sinful nature and, how Jesus had to die on the cross for us, was put in the tomb, rose on third day, and through believing in Jesus we have eternal life. We have also been using Christian Thai translators on the trip, which has been really helpful. One of the days we were out at Chang Mai University one of the translators told her testimony to one of the students.
As I end this blog remember that our God in heaven and earth in the one true God. We also have to let God give us patience when ministering to others that don't know him.
First, God has reminded me that he is the one true God in the midst a culture here that worships idols and uses meditation to gain perfection. God has imparted to me that he is bigger than Buddha and all these idols Buddhists worship. Christianity is a self less way of life while Buddhists only care about doing good for themselves. At monk chat yesterday, I got the impression that these monks only cared about themselves how one of the monks describes the process of doing good in gaining good karma for only themselves.
Second, God helped me become me patient with others in general. God gave me patience when discussing the frustrating things about Buddhism during monk chat yesterday. God also worked through me in giving me patience in sharing Jesus with the students at Chang Mai, University.
God has been using me in two ways: through my testimony and just telling the students about our sinful nature and, how Jesus had to die on the cross for us, was put in the tomb, rose on third day, and through believing in Jesus we have eternal life. We have also been using Christian Thai translators on the trip, which has been really helpful. One of the days we were out at Chang Mai University one of the translators told her testimony to one of the students.
As I end this blog remember that our God in heaven and earth in the one true God. We also have to let God give us patience when ministering to others that don't know him.
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Thailand trip
Today I will be blogging on the upcoming mission trip I will be going on to Chaing Mai, Thailand. I have always wanted to go to a Asia and Thailand ended up being a country in Asia.
I still one day have the desire to go to China. I was going to go after I graduated from college but it didn't work out, God had a different plan for me that summer. That summer he wanted me to go to D-focus so I could grow in him.
The Thailand trip this summer will be my first overseas mission trip. Also, my my first time in a long time to experience four flights in a day and a half. It will be a great experience in a new culture, new language, and new people, considering I haven't met most of the people that are going on the trip before. It will be interesting to see the Buddhist temples, the monks, and eat some spicy Thai food. On a random side note I am excited to show them my American musical instrument, the harmonica.
I have been working hard to try to learn and understand the Thai language. My friend from seminary, Rob, who was a missionary there for two years, taught me the Thai to English gospel presentation of leading them to Jesus Christ and a relationship with God. There will also be a translator there to help us along the way. It is a hard language to learn and to master. My best friend, Andrew Boone, who's a missionary in North Africa, has taught me some Arabic and I feel as if it is a bit easier than Thai.
Another thing about the trip that I will be discussing is how God will move this July during the mission trip. We will be working to minister to students from the college in Chaing Mai while in Thailand. One of the leaders of the mission trip said there is an outdoor basketball court by the college in Chaing Mai there. So, my plan is to start up some pickup basketball games and meet some Thai people that way. We will be using an Evang-a-cube in order to share the gospel with the Thai people. This presentation through the cube will lead them our sinful nature of how we are separated from God to how Jesus died on the cross for their sins and rose from the dead out of the tomb to give us life in him.
It will something totally new to be speaking a language that is not English. Thai seems like a really diverse language and I can't wait to experience their unique culture as well.
I hope all my friends online will be praying for my trip this summer. I am super excited about going to experience Thailand and what God will do on the trip. Have a legendary day everyone!
I still one day have the desire to go to China. I was going to go after I graduated from college but it didn't work out, God had a different plan for me that summer. That summer he wanted me to go to D-focus so I could grow in him.
The Thailand trip this summer will be my first overseas mission trip. Also, my my first time in a long time to experience four flights in a day and a half. It will be a great experience in a new culture, new language, and new people, considering I haven't met most of the people that are going on the trip before. It will be interesting to see the Buddhist temples, the monks, and eat some spicy Thai food. On a random side note I am excited to show them my American musical instrument, the harmonica.
I have been working hard to try to learn and understand the Thai language. My friend from seminary, Rob, who was a missionary there for two years, taught me the Thai to English gospel presentation of leading them to Jesus Christ and a relationship with God. There will also be a translator there to help us along the way. It is a hard language to learn and to master. My best friend, Andrew Boone, who's a missionary in North Africa, has taught me some Arabic and I feel as if it is a bit easier than Thai.
Another thing about the trip that I will be discussing is how God will move this July during the mission trip. We will be working to minister to students from the college in Chaing Mai while in Thailand. One of the leaders of the mission trip said there is an outdoor basketball court by the college in Chaing Mai there. So, my plan is to start up some pickup basketball games and meet some Thai people that way. We will be using an Evang-a-cube in order to share the gospel with the Thai people. This presentation through the cube will lead them our sinful nature of how we are separated from God to how Jesus died on the cross for their sins and rose from the dead out of the tomb to give us life in him.
It will something totally new to be speaking a language that is not English. Thai seems like a really diverse language and I can't wait to experience their unique culture as well.
I hope all my friends online will be praying for my trip this summer. I am super excited about going to experience Thailand and what God will do on the trip. Have a legendary day everyone!
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Psalm 40
"I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry." -Psalm 40:1ESV.
What kind of hard times does God bring people through? David describes how God brought him out of hard time in his own life. David waited on God patiently and trusted him. God then brought him out of this time in his life to a solid ground where he could rejoice. After he had brought David out of this time in his life, he praised God for his faithfulness.
God brought me out of two hard times in my life that have defined me. During my junior year of high school, I was in a car wreck. The wreck caused the other person to be hit and they were injured. I could not judge the distance in front of the car between me. From that time to through the summer of the year I went into a depression. I felt as if God was not on my side and there was nowhere to turn.
God spoke to me in the beginning of my senior year, and I started reading the Bible again. It was almost like he revived me from the pit of where I was in. It is also like the times where God revived David from the pit that he was in.
Another hard time in my life that God brought me out of was after I had graduated from college and was out in the world looking for a job. God used the past summer at Discipleship Focus to help me desperately depend on him for everything. I was able to present things and abide in Christ in this time. God was revealing to me that I needed to be more reliant on him. To use a cliche phrase God closed one area of my life that I thought would be my direction and God led me to another path in life.
David describes God's faithfulness in bringing him out of this time in his life by saying, "he lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord." Psalm 40:1-3 NIV.
We do not know exactly what event in David's life he is writing about at the moment. David saw God's faithfulness when God helped him defeat lions and bears tending his fathers sheep. He trusted God and he helped me through this time.
David describes this event when he says, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or bear came and carried off a sheep from its mouth, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the bear and lion; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the had of this Philistine." 1 Samuel 17:34-37
Another hard event in David's life was when he took on Goliath. He went out to fight David with just five stones and his sling in his hand. Goliath came out to battle with his huge sword, trying to intimidate him by yelling at him with insults upon insults. Goliath only cared about himself and trusted in himself to defeat little David, while David trusted that God would lead him through this time and defeat Goliath.
David describes his trust in God to bring him through this time by saying, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give you to the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves, for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands." 1 Samuel 17:45-47
The character is the Pursuit of Happyness struggled through a hard time in his life with trying to find a job and support his son. He knew what it what like to be stuck in a pit like I did and David. He did what he could to make it until he found job.
Another hard event in David's life that God brought him out of was when he was fleeing from Saul. God led him out of the hands of the King of Achish in Gath to the cave of Adullam. David fled to Gath a second time to get away from Saul and time it was for a year and four months.
Ted Williams, the homeless man, who was a radio announcer and did voice-overs for a while before falling prey to drug and alcohol problems. Somehow someone heard him on the street and record his voice. The person from the newspaper that recorded his voice put it on the internet. From that he gained instant fame across the world. Though he still struggles with his alcohol and drug problems, he has a job now as the official voice with the New England Cable News.
David heaps praise upon praise on God during Psalm 40. He praises him of his faithfulness in Psalm 40:10.
David says "I have not kept the good news of your justice hidden in my heart; I have talked about your faithfulness and saving power. I have told everyone in the great assembly of your unfailing love and faithfulness." Psalm 40:10 NLT
What has God has done in your life?
David told others of what God had done in his life because of the fact that he trusted God and he brought him through those times. David acknowledge that God was in control of all of his situations in his life despite what he was going through. After God had given David a peace after those troubled times, he praised God for his faithfulness in his life.
We have to consistently tell others about what he has done in our life on day to day basis. If we do this more people would want to come know what is different about us. David praised God in Psalm 40:16, saying,
May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout saying "The Lord is great!"
Will you tell others about what God has done in your life? This is what I ask you my readers wherever and whoever you are.
What kind of hard times does God bring people through? David describes how God brought him out of hard time in his own life. David waited on God patiently and trusted him. God then brought him out of this time in his life to a solid ground where he could rejoice. After he had brought David out of this time in his life, he praised God for his faithfulness.
God brought me out of two hard times in my life that have defined me. During my junior year of high school, I was in a car wreck. The wreck caused the other person to be hit and they were injured. I could not judge the distance in front of the car between me. From that time to through the summer of the year I went into a depression. I felt as if God was not on my side and there was nowhere to turn.
God spoke to me in the beginning of my senior year, and I started reading the Bible again. It was almost like he revived me from the pit of where I was in. It is also like the times where God revived David from the pit that he was in.
Another hard time in my life that God brought me out of was after I had graduated from college and was out in the world looking for a job. God used the past summer at Discipleship Focus to help me desperately depend on him for everything. I was able to present things and abide in Christ in this time. God was revealing to me that I needed to be more reliant on him. To use a cliche phrase God closed one area of my life that I thought would be my direction and God led me to another path in life.
David describes God's faithfulness in bringing him out of this time in his life by saying, "he lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord." Psalm 40:1-3 NIV.
We do not know exactly what event in David's life he is writing about at the moment. David saw God's faithfulness when God helped him defeat lions and bears tending his fathers sheep. He trusted God and he helped me through this time.
David describes this event when he says, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or bear came and carried off a sheep from its mouth, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the bear and lion; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the had of this Philistine." 1 Samuel 17:34-37
Another hard event in David's life was when he took on Goliath. He went out to fight David with just five stones and his sling in his hand. Goliath came out to battle with his huge sword, trying to intimidate him by yelling at him with insults upon insults. Goliath only cared about himself and trusted in himself to defeat little David, while David trusted that God would lead him through this time and defeat Goliath.
David describes his trust in God to bring him through this time by saying, "You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I'll strike you down and cut off your head. Today I will give you to the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves, for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands." 1 Samuel 17:45-47
The character is the Pursuit of Happyness struggled through a hard time in his life with trying to find a job and support his son. He knew what it what like to be stuck in a pit like I did and David. He did what he could to make it until he found job.
Another hard event in David's life that God brought him out of was when he was fleeing from Saul. God led him out of the hands of the King of Achish in Gath to the cave of Adullam. David fled to Gath a second time to get away from Saul and time it was for a year and four months.
Ted Williams, the homeless man, who was a radio announcer and did voice-overs for a while before falling prey to drug and alcohol problems. Somehow someone heard him on the street and record his voice. The person from the newspaper that recorded his voice put it on the internet. From that he gained instant fame across the world. Though he still struggles with his alcohol and drug problems, he has a job now as the official voice with the New England Cable News.
David heaps praise upon praise on God during Psalm 40. He praises him of his faithfulness in Psalm 40:10.
David says "I have not kept the good news of your justice hidden in my heart; I have talked about your faithfulness and saving power. I have told everyone in the great assembly of your unfailing love and faithfulness." Psalm 40:10 NLT
What has God has done in your life?
David told others of what God had done in his life because of the fact that he trusted God and he brought him through those times. David acknowledge that God was in control of all of his situations in his life despite what he was going through. After God had given David a peace after those troubled times, he praised God for his faithfulness in his life.
We have to consistently tell others about what he has done in our life on day to day basis. If we do this more people would want to come know what is different about us. David praised God in Psalm 40:16, saying,
May those who love your salvation repeatedly shout saying "The Lord is great!"
Will you tell others about what God has done in your life? This is what I ask you my readers wherever and whoever you are.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Free-Will and the concept the God's in control
The main topic I will be discussing is the topic of free will and the fact that God is in control of our daily life. This topic is very central to how we view life and God on a day to day basis. This topic was bright to my attention by the movie the Adjustment Bureau.
First, I will begin my discussion my discussing the main Scripture references I see in this topic. These verses help you distinguish and sort out this topic of of God's Free Will in our life. They also show how we do have free will in some aspects but God is in control of others.
The main verse about this topic is Ephesians 1:4-5. This verse deals with free will in how God chose us before the creation of the world. The verse says, "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ in accordance with his pleasure his pleasure and will."
This verse describes how God chose us before the creation of the world. He knew certain things about us before we would even be created. It also reveals we have some measure of free will in deciding to follow Jesus but ultimately God has the greater plan and purpose.
Another verse that deals with these concepts is Romans 8:29-30. It says this on this concept, "For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers." And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified." This verse also deals with the fact that God chose us before we had decided to follow him. It's almost like God knew what would happen in our life and what we would end up going through.
The last verse I will discuss in this post is Philemon 1:14. It says this on this topic, "but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be by compulsion but of free will." Paul was saying to Philemon that it was his willing desire to keep Onesimus with him. Paul inquires Philemon of his choice to give his slave Onesimus to him. He hopes that it is his desire to release Onesiumus to him.
The first chapter of Romans discusses how we did not choose God because of our sinful nature. Before we knew God we were consumed by our sinful nature and desires of our flesh. It says in verse 1:21, For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened." This shows how we do not have to capacity or desire to choose God before we entered our life with him. He always choose us even before time.
This movie describes Matt Damon, a politician, who sees this girl randomly in the bathroom before his concession speech after he had lost. They kiss in a very quick way and she is chased by some people we would later find out are the Adjustment Bureau. A short while after he makes his concessions speech he gets on a bus and randomly sees the same woman again. Some would call this chance while others call this coincidence. The Adjustment Bureau said that this random event that occurred did not follow Matt Damon (the character)'s plan for his life by seeing this woman again.
The Adjustment Bureau was place to make sure things that were supposed to be in order happened. The Bureau has this set plan that has to happen in order for each person's life to be in correct order. Sometimes they are right, while other times they can guess wrong. In some senses, the Bureau could be compared to God. God wants this specific plan for our lives and at times we turn away from it.
All throughout the movie, the Adjustment Bureau does things to make sure that David Norris would not see the girl he falls in love with early in the movie (Elise). They burn her number that they gave him. Years later, David Norris sees (Elise) on the street and ends up re-connecting with her.
David Norris leaves her in the hospital when she was hurt while dancing because the Bureau said that their relationship would hinder her future plans of dancing. The Bureau says that somewhere (Matt Damon's character and Elise) are not supposed to be together because she takes him away from what he's supposed to be. Thompson said they gave humanity free will after the height of the Roman Empire but humanity brought the Dark Ages down. This led to the Renaissance Thompson says. One of the people in the Bureau that helps Damon finds out that there is a change in the plan where they are supposed to be together.
At the end of the movie, David Norris finds out she is marrying her ex boyfriend. Harry from the Adjustment Bureau helps David Norris get to the courthouse where Elise is getting married through these doors that the Bureau uses. David Norris finds her in the restroom and they go through all sorts of mazes before they are at the top of this building. David Norris and Elise kiss then Harry and the chairman head guys from the Bureau shows up. Harry then says something that stood out to me, he says something to the tune that we all choose our path in life though we may stray sometime we are always lead back to our path in life. Harry concludes the movie saying that the Chairman has a bigger plan of restoration of humanity in the world.
God's in control of our daily life. 2 Chronicles 29:11, says "Yours O Lord is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all." God knows the paths we will take as evidenced by these verses above but he allows us some free will to choose our life if it lines up with his plans for our life. If it doesn't he will align us back to where to where he wants us to go.
First, I will begin my discussion my discussing the main Scripture references I see in this topic. These verses help you distinguish and sort out this topic of of God's Free Will in our life. They also show how we do have free will in some aspects but God is in control of others.
The main verse about this topic is Ephesians 1:4-5. This verse deals with free will in how God chose us before the creation of the world. The verse says, "For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ in accordance with his pleasure his pleasure and will."
This verse describes how God chose us before the creation of the world. He knew certain things about us before we would even be created. It also reveals we have some measure of free will in deciding to follow Jesus but ultimately God has the greater plan and purpose.
Another verse that deals with these concepts is Romans 8:29-30. It says this on this concept, "For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers." And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified." This verse also deals with the fact that God chose us before we had decided to follow him. It's almost like God knew what would happen in our life and what we would end up going through.
The last verse I will discuss in this post is Philemon 1:14. It says this on this topic, "but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be by compulsion but of free will." Paul was saying to Philemon that it was his willing desire to keep Onesimus with him. Paul inquires Philemon of his choice to give his slave Onesimus to him. He hopes that it is his desire to release Onesiumus to him.
The first chapter of Romans discusses how we did not choose God because of our sinful nature. Before we knew God we were consumed by our sinful nature and desires of our flesh. It says in verse 1:21, For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened." This shows how we do not have to capacity or desire to choose God before we entered our life with him. He always choose us even before time.
This movie describes Matt Damon, a politician, who sees this girl randomly in the bathroom before his concession speech after he had lost. They kiss in a very quick way and she is chased by some people we would later find out are the Adjustment Bureau. A short while after he makes his concessions speech he gets on a bus and randomly sees the same woman again. Some would call this chance while others call this coincidence. The Adjustment Bureau said that this random event that occurred did not follow Matt Damon (the character)'s plan for his life by seeing this woman again.
The Adjustment Bureau was place to make sure things that were supposed to be in order happened. The Bureau has this set plan that has to happen in order for each person's life to be in correct order. Sometimes they are right, while other times they can guess wrong. In some senses, the Bureau could be compared to God. God wants this specific plan for our lives and at times we turn away from it.
All throughout the movie, the Adjustment Bureau does things to make sure that David Norris would not see the girl he falls in love with early in the movie (Elise). They burn her number that they gave him. Years later, David Norris sees (Elise) on the street and ends up re-connecting with her.
David Norris leaves her in the hospital when she was hurt while dancing because the Bureau said that their relationship would hinder her future plans of dancing. The Bureau says that somewhere (Matt Damon's character and Elise) are not supposed to be together because she takes him away from what he's supposed to be. Thompson said they gave humanity free will after the height of the Roman Empire but humanity brought the Dark Ages down. This led to the Renaissance Thompson says. One of the people in the Bureau that helps Damon finds out that there is a change in the plan where they are supposed to be together.
At the end of the movie, David Norris finds out she is marrying her ex boyfriend. Harry from the Adjustment Bureau helps David Norris get to the courthouse where Elise is getting married through these doors that the Bureau uses. David Norris finds her in the restroom and they go through all sorts of mazes before they are at the top of this building. David Norris and Elise kiss then Harry and the chairman head guys from the Bureau shows up. Harry then says something that stood out to me, he says something to the tune that we all choose our path in life though we may stray sometime we are always lead back to our path in life. Harry concludes the movie saying that the Chairman has a bigger plan of restoration of humanity in the world.
God's in control of our daily life. 2 Chronicles 29:11, says "Yours O Lord is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all." God knows the paths we will take as evidenced by these verses above but he allows us some free will to choose our life if it lines up with his plans for our life. If it doesn't he will align us back to where to where he wants us to go.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Thorn in the flesh in my life
This blog post is about a frustration in my life that has been going on for quite some time. This frustration I will relate to a passage in the Bible when Paul discusses his Thorn in the flesh.
This Thorn/frustration in my life has plagued me since my high school years. It has been my Achilles heel wherever I go and whatever that I do. It is one of those where you just get so frustrated that you go crazy inside because it won't allow you do other things. Thorn in flesh is a very simple act but involves a lot of quick thinking. It takes a lot of reacting on the fly to things.
This Thorn in the flesh that I am describing is one of a problem dealing with my ability to drive myself. It has been a frustrating thing for me all of my life. It started my junior year in high school with a car wreck and then I had another wreck my senior year of high school. The wreck in the middle senior year of high school wasn't my self though. In between the first and second wreck I was really frustrated with my life though I ended up using my weakness as strength as Paul as in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10.
Scholars debate what Paul's thorn in the flesh was. Some believe it could be the result of physical conditions such as an epilepsy, convulsive attacks, malaria,and Malta fever. Paul's thorn in the flesh also may be the result of an something to do with bad vision. This is due to the reference to Paul's writing in large print in Galatians 6:1. It is also discussed that Paul wrote the salutation to 2 Thessalonians 3:17 and 1 Cor 16:21.
Paul says this thorn was put in place in order that he not be conceited. He believes that it was used as an instrument for his faith.
In verses nine and 10 shows how God uses him in his weakness,he says in verse 9, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." "For when I am weak, then I am strong."
The apostle Paul gives us an example of how God used this frustrating thing in his life to grow in faith. We are the delight in these hardships and frustrating things that are thrown at us in our life. Paul was able to trust God in any and all situations.
God helped me my my strength in my weakness after I went through a hard time in my life at the end of junior year of high school before my senior year. He gave me the strength to trust in him again when I was going through a hard time in my life. God gave me the ability to trust in his power in my life again when I couldn't trust in him from the end of the spring that year to the summer of that year. I was before that time in a mood of depression and despair of not knowing where life will take me anymore. I wanted to be left alone before this awakening in my life occurred.
I still battle this thorn in the flesh today. It still frustrates me that I am not able to drive by myself. I have tried everything and it still has not worked out for me. I drove with a police officer while attending Alvin Community College. I drove with this women from a driving school in the Fort Worth area and did well for a while before my bad reaction time came back to hunt me.
The only to do really is to try to trust in God's plan for the future. That, God will use my weakness to help me grow in some way though it is a frustrating thing for me right now.
This Thorn/frustration in my life has plagued me since my high school years. It has been my Achilles heel wherever I go and whatever that I do. It is one of those where you just get so frustrated that you go crazy inside because it won't allow you do other things. Thorn in flesh is a very simple act but involves a lot of quick thinking. It takes a lot of reacting on the fly to things.
This Thorn in the flesh that I am describing is one of a problem dealing with my ability to drive myself. It has been a frustrating thing for me all of my life. It started my junior year in high school with a car wreck and then I had another wreck my senior year of high school. The wreck in the middle senior year of high school wasn't my self though. In between the first and second wreck I was really frustrated with my life though I ended up using my weakness as strength as Paul as in 2 Corinthians 12:9-10.
Scholars debate what Paul's thorn in the flesh was. Some believe it could be the result of physical conditions such as an epilepsy, convulsive attacks, malaria,and Malta fever. Paul's thorn in the flesh also may be the result of an something to do with bad vision. This is due to the reference to Paul's writing in large print in Galatians 6:1. It is also discussed that Paul wrote the salutation to 2 Thessalonians 3:17 and 1 Cor 16:21.
Paul says this thorn was put in place in order that he not be conceited. He believes that it was used as an instrument for his faith.
In verses nine and 10 shows how God uses him in his weakness,he says in verse 9, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." "For when I am weak, then I am strong."
The apostle Paul gives us an example of how God used this frustrating thing in his life to grow in faith. We are the delight in these hardships and frustrating things that are thrown at us in our life. Paul was able to trust God in any and all situations.
God helped me my my strength in my weakness after I went through a hard time in my life at the end of junior year of high school before my senior year. He gave me the strength to trust in him again when I was going through a hard time in my life. God gave me the ability to trust in his power in my life again when I couldn't trust in him from the end of the spring that year to the summer of that year. I was before that time in a mood of depression and despair of not knowing where life will take me anymore. I wanted to be left alone before this awakening in my life occurred.
I still battle this thorn in the flesh today. It still frustrates me that I am not able to drive by myself. I have tried everything and it still has not worked out for me. I drove with a police officer while attending Alvin Community College. I drove with this women from a driving school in the Fort Worth area and did well for a while before my bad reaction time came back to hunt me.
The only to do really is to try to trust in God's plan for the future. That, God will use my weakness to help me grow in some way though it is a frustrating thing for me right now.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Psalm 19
Today I will be blogging about Psalm 19. It is one of my favorite Psalms that David wrote. It comes right after Psalm 18 where David praises God for bringing him out of the persecution of Saul.
In it, he praises God for his beauty and power throughout the universe. This powerful description that David uses goes on from about verses 1-6 of the Psalm. He never changes, he always stays the same throughout all of our days.
I first realized that God is this big and works in our life during my sophomore year in high school. God lead to me this Young Life camp during the summer of my sophomore year. One Thursday night, God revealed himself to me and helped me realize my sinful nature. Looking back, it was the first time I recognized God in my life I looked at the sky reveling in who he is and how small we are.
The verses I will be discussing mainly are Psalm 19:1-3.
Psalm 19 :1-2 says this, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands."Day after day they pour forth speech; night after they display knowledge."
There are a 100 billion galaxies that contain a 100 billion stars in the universe.
God is too big and grand for us to handle. His glory is too vast for us to comprehend and understand.
Psalm 19:3 3 describes God's depth and knowledge of us.
Psalm 19:3 says this, "There is no speech or knowledge where their voice is not heard."
In the same way when kids try to hide from their parents what they have done something wrong. We as Christians can't hide from God when we have sinned.
God knows everything about us. He knows when we fall into sin in life. He hears our cries for mercy when everything in life is falling apart.
We have to remind ourselves of God's greatness and power in our life. He works in us when we don't realize it.
In the New American Standard Bible 19:1 says, "The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of his hands."
How will you my readers realize God's greatness and movement in our life this week?
In it, he praises God for his beauty and power throughout the universe. This powerful description that David uses goes on from about verses 1-6 of the Psalm. He never changes, he always stays the same throughout all of our days.
I first realized that God is this big and works in our life during my sophomore year in high school. God lead to me this Young Life camp during the summer of my sophomore year. One Thursday night, God revealed himself to me and helped me realize my sinful nature. Looking back, it was the first time I recognized God in my life I looked at the sky reveling in who he is and how small we are.
The verses I will be discussing mainly are Psalm 19:1-3.
Psalm 19 :1-2 says this, "The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands."Day after day they pour forth speech; night after they display knowledge."
There are a 100 billion galaxies that contain a 100 billion stars in the universe.
God is too big and grand for us to handle. His glory is too vast for us to comprehend and understand.
Psalm 19:3 3 describes God's depth and knowledge of us.
Psalm 19:3 says this, "There is no speech or knowledge where their voice is not heard."
In the same way when kids try to hide from their parents what they have done something wrong. We as Christians can't hide from God when we have sinned.
God knows everything about us. He knows when we fall into sin in life. He hears our cries for mercy when everything in life is falling apart.
We have to remind ourselves of God's greatness and power in our life. He works in us when we don't realize it.
In the New American Standard Bible 19:1 says, "The heavens are telling of the glory of God; and their expanse is declaring the work of his hands."
How will you my readers realize God's greatness and movement in our life this week?
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Psalms 18
Today I will be blogging about a Psalm 18 in the Bible. This has become one of my favorite Psalms so far during this Mighty Men study I have been going through. Even though it is long, this Psalm is one I shall not forget when I have been delivered through certain struggles in my life.
This Psalm takes place right after David was delivered from the hands of Saul. This could also be written when David had been king and facing off against other nations. You can glean this assumption because David talks about how God saved him from his enemies.
He praises God for blessing him through when David obeying him through this time of persecution as well. David describes his ability to obey God through these hard times he faces in Psalm 18:20.
It says in Psalm 18:20, The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me."
David also praises God for hearing him in this struggle in his life. He recognizes in God's greatness that he hears his cries for help though God is so great and powerful. He lavishes God in how he saved him through hardship.
He describes how God saved him through hardship and heard his pleas for mercy in verse 18:6. In this verse great imagery and metaphor is given to God.
Psalm 18:6 says, "In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears."
David acknowledges that God is his rock through this time of persecution and hardship. In the psalm he also recognizes his trust in God after he gets him through this time in his life. In Psalm 18:2, David says, "The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, and my stronghold."
Throughout the middle half of the Psalm David praises God for his ability to take him through this situation. He using strong metaphors in this Psalm to get his point across of how great and glorious that God is in his life. God saved him from this hardship because he trusted in God's plans and ways not his own.
This is personified in verse 19 when David praises God saying, "He brought me into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me."
This opening verse shows David's trust in God's plan to get him through anything in life. He knows that he can depend in God in any and every situation. God is our rock upon which our foundation is centered in life.
God brought me through certain hard times in my life and helped me trust him. The first instance I can think of was the beginning of my senior year of high school after I had gone through a hard time in my life my junior year and the past summer.
Another instance occurred this past year when I was looking for a job in the Broadcast Journalism and God closed those paths in my life. He lead me to seminary in that situation because he wanted me to get back into ministry because that is where he wanted me to be. Looking back on the situation I could feel that God was moving in my life for me to go a different path than I wanted to go.
In both situations, God worked in my life helping me trust him more and more. He reminded me that I can trust him in any and every situation that I may face in my life.
A rock does not move at all. If we try to move a rock that is in place in the ground then it will stay there for a long period of time. In the same way, if we trust God in any and every situation then we can be our rock throughout all our life.
God is good and he is trustworthy throughout all our life. He reigns in and through our life though situation that we may face. Nothing is too big for God to overcome or pull us through in life.
This Psalm takes place right after David was delivered from the hands of Saul. This could also be written when David had been king and facing off against other nations. You can glean this assumption because David talks about how God saved him from his enemies.
He praises God for blessing him through when David obeying him through this time of persecution as well. David describes his ability to obey God through these hard times he faces in Psalm 18:20.
It says in Psalm 18:20, The Lord has dealt with me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands he has rewarded me."
David also praises God for hearing him in this struggle in his life. He recognizes in God's greatness that he hears his cries for help though God is so great and powerful. He lavishes God in how he saved him through hardship.
He describes how God saved him through hardship and heard his pleas for mercy in verse 18:6. In this verse great imagery and metaphor is given to God.
Psalm 18:6 says, "In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears."
David acknowledges that God is his rock through this time of persecution and hardship. In the psalm he also recognizes his trust in God after he gets him through this time in his life. In Psalm 18:2, David says, "The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, and my stronghold."
Throughout the middle half of the Psalm David praises God for his ability to take him through this situation. He using strong metaphors in this Psalm to get his point across of how great and glorious that God is in his life. God saved him from this hardship because he trusted in God's plans and ways not his own.
This is personified in verse 19 when David praises God saying, "He brought me into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me."
This opening verse shows David's trust in God's plan to get him through anything in life. He knows that he can depend in God in any and every situation. God is our rock upon which our foundation is centered in life.
God brought me through certain hard times in my life and helped me trust him. The first instance I can think of was the beginning of my senior year of high school after I had gone through a hard time in my life my junior year and the past summer.
Another instance occurred this past year when I was looking for a job in the Broadcast Journalism and God closed those paths in my life. He lead me to seminary in that situation because he wanted me to get back into ministry because that is where he wanted me to be. Looking back on the situation I could feel that God was moving in my life for me to go a different path than I wanted to go.
In both situations, God worked in my life helping me trust him more and more. He reminded me that I can trust him in any and every situation that I may face in my life.
A rock does not move at all. If we try to move a rock that is in place in the ground then it will stay there for a long period of time. In the same way, if we trust God in any and every situation then we can be our rock throughout all our life.
God is good and he is trustworthy throughout all our life. He reigns in and through our life though situation that we may face. Nothing is too big for God to overcome or pull us through in life.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Being apart of something bigger than us
Today I'm blogging about the chance to be apart of my best friend's advocacy team. This is a great honor for me as his best friend.
This team bands together to pray for my best friend and his team in their ministry. This prayer team will provide unity to the team as they go do ministry in North Africa.
I am blogging about this topic because I can't wait what God will do with this team I'm on. We will be meeting each other on skype every month or so to pray for their ministry there. We each have something we are praying for them about.
I will miss my best friend Andrew Boone a whole lot. I can't wait for what God will do over there in their time in North Africa. This prayer team I'm on is a reminder of how God can unite people together to pray for a common cause in ministry.
This prayer team of eclectic group of people banding together for the purposes of unity in God. This kind of team will only produce a fruitful ministry for my best friend and his team. This is the reason why I can't wait for what God will do over in North Africa for the next four years.
God is a bigger than us and our own desires or concerns. He desires for everyone across the world to know his name and his power in their lives. For he is God, ruler over all and he reigns in our life.
God reigns supreme everywhere despite persecution across the world. God in in control of rulers, kings, princes, and all things in our life.
This team bands together to pray for my best friend and his team in their ministry. This prayer team will provide unity to the team as they go do ministry in North Africa.
I am blogging about this topic because I can't wait what God will do with this team I'm on. We will be meeting each other on skype every month or so to pray for their ministry there. We each have something we are praying for them about.
I will miss my best friend Andrew Boone a whole lot. I can't wait for what God will do over there in their time in North Africa. This prayer team I'm on is a reminder of how God can unite people together to pray for a common cause in ministry.
This prayer team of eclectic group of people banding together for the purposes of unity in God. This kind of team will only produce a fruitful ministry for my best friend and his team. This is the reason why I can't wait for what God will do over in North Africa for the next four years.
God is a bigger than us and our own desires or concerns. He desires for everyone across the world to know his name and his power in their lives. For he is God, ruler over all and he reigns in our life.
God reigns supreme everywhere despite persecution across the world. God in in control of rulers, kings, princes, and all things in our life.
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