Sunday, May 30, 2010
3 days!
Sorry about my recent absence from the blogging world. Life has been crazy. I am trying to get ready for my trip but I don't even know where to begin packing for 2 weeks in Asia. Summer has started off pretty great. I worked for a bit in the doctors office. This week I have been hanging out with my family a lot- laying out by the pool, catching my mother up on Grey's, and of course watching the LOST series finale. My friends and I are doing Beth Moore's Bible study, A Woman's Heart, God's Dwelling Place. I highly recommend it. I am learning so much about my sweet creator. Tomorrow is High Meadows Camps all staff training day. I'm kind of sad that I won't be around for the beginning of camp, but I have a feeling that it will be totally worth it : ) Please pray that I can get everything that I need to get done completed before I leave on Thursday!
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Stand Strong
Be humble under God's powerful hand so he will lift you up when the right time comes. Give all your worries to him, because he cares about you. Control yourselves and be careful! The devil, your enemy, goes around like a roaring lion looking for someone to eat. Refuse to give in to him, by standing strong in your faith. You know that your Christian family all over the world is having the same kinds of suffering.
1 Pete 5:6-9
18 more days. Trying to stand strong against the enemy. Can't wait to see what the Lord has planned.
1 Pete 5:6-9
18 more days. Trying to stand strong against the enemy. Can't wait to see what the Lord has planned.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
don't focus on the plan. focus on the creator of the plan.
People may make plans in their minds,
but only the Lord can make them come true.
You may believe you are doing right,
but the Lord will judge your reasons.
Depend on the Lord in whatever you do,
and your plans will succeed.
The Lord makes everything go as he pleases.
He has even prepared a day of disaster for evil people.
The Lord hates those who are proud.
They will surely be punished.
Love and truth bring forgiveness of sin.
By respecting the Lord you will avoid evil.
When people live so that they please the Lord,
even their enemies will make peace with them.
Proverbs 16:1-7
Over the past few days, I have discovered something key about by relationship with my Creator. I have known for 2 years now that God wants me to be a nurse. He revealed that to me through a long, sometimes painful, but very interesting process. During the last 2 years, I have put all of my energy into focusing on God's plan for me. Seriously, ask my friends, nursing is all I do. In my head, I thought I was doing right. I mean, I was focusing on what God wanted me to do, what could be wrong with that? Well, it seems that in all that focusing on God's plan, I have forgotten to focus on God. I haven't been leaning on him completely. I haven't been trusting him fully. I thought I was, but really I have been putting some of that on myself and there lies my problem. I can't do this on my own. I will surely fail. If I depend on God, however, everything will work out for his glory. What a weight lifted off my shoulders. I have someone ensuring that I will succeed!
but only the Lord can make them come true.
You may believe you are doing right,
but the Lord will judge your reasons.
Depend on the Lord in whatever you do,
and your plans will succeed.
The Lord makes everything go as he pleases.
He has even prepared a day of disaster for evil people.
The Lord hates those who are proud.
They will surely be punished.
Love and truth bring forgiveness of sin.
By respecting the Lord you will avoid evil.
When people live so that they please the Lord,
even their enemies will make peace with them.
Proverbs 16:1-7
Over the past few days, I have discovered something key about by relationship with my Creator. I have known for 2 years now that God wants me to be a nurse. He revealed that to me through a long, sometimes painful, but very interesting process. During the last 2 years, I have put all of my energy into focusing on God's plan for me. Seriously, ask my friends, nursing is all I do. In my head, I thought I was doing right. I mean, I was focusing on what God wanted me to do, what could be wrong with that? Well, it seems that in all that focusing on God's plan, I have forgotten to focus on God. I haven't been leaning on him completely. I haven't been trusting him fully. I thought I was, but really I have been putting some of that on myself and there lies my problem. I can't do this on my own. I will surely fail. If I depend on God, however, everything will work out for his glory. What a weight lifted off my shoulders. I have someone ensuring that I will succeed!
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Hakuna Matata: It means no worries.
I can't believe that I am leaving in one month! I am still in shock that God has provided me with this incredible opportunity to go to China this summer. There is one thing still standing in my way though. I still have a significant amount of money to raise and I have to have it by Friday. I know that God will provide the money, but I am human and have an incredible tendency to worry. For the past few years, I am often drawn to this passage in the Bible:
"So I tell you, don't worry about the food or drink you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. Look at the birds in the air. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds. You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.
"And why do you worry about clothes? Look at how the lilies in the field grow. They don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So you can be even more sure that God will clothe you. Don't have so little faith! Don't worry and say, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' The people who don't know God keep trying to get these things, and your Father in heaven knows you need them. Seek first God's kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well. So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34
I spend so much of my time worrying, in fact over the past few weeks, I have made my self physically sick with worry. I try so desperately to have control over everything in my life that I can barely handle it when things don't go as I planned. This is so not the life that God has destined for me. He wants me to lay all of this worry on him because he has a way better plan for me than I do. Never in my life would I have guessed that God would put a fire in my heart for the orphans in China. I would have never told you that I would have a desperate desire to travel there. There is no other explanation but God. This is why I am confident that He will get me there. No amount of money is bigger than God! He provides for all of my needs.
Please pray for me and the rest of our team as we are raising our last support dollars. Pray that we don't let any worries get in the way of what God has in store.
"So I tell you, don't worry about the food or drink you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. Look at the birds in the air. They don't plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds. You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.
"And why do you worry about clothes? Look at how the lilies in the field grow. They don't work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So you can be even more sure that God will clothe you. Don't have so little faith! Don't worry and say, 'What will we eat?' or 'What will we drink?' or 'What will we wear?' The people who don't know God keep trying to get these things, and your Father in heaven knows you need them. Seek first God's kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well. So don't worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:25-34
I spend so much of my time worrying, in fact over the past few weeks, I have made my self physically sick with worry. I try so desperately to have control over everything in my life that I can barely handle it when things don't go as I planned. This is so not the life that God has destined for me. He wants me to lay all of this worry on him because he has a way better plan for me than I do. Never in my life would I have guessed that God would put a fire in my heart for the orphans in China. I would have never told you that I would have a desperate desire to travel there. There is no other explanation but God. This is why I am confident that He will get me there. No amount of money is bigger than God! He provides for all of my needs.
Please pray for me and the rest of our team as we are raising our last support dollars. Pray that we don't let any worries get in the way of what God has in store.
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