Thank you everyone for the encouragement regarding the last post, it was great to hear that someone was reading it.
Its been a crazy but wonderful week so far. I am truly exhausted however! On wednesday I was part of a photo shoot project ( project Story board) for breast cancer awareness. It was awesome and a great experience. Crazy weekend ahead but I am excited to see what the Lord has in store.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Friday, October 16, 2009
Sisters in Christ
Sorry that I haven't blogged in a while. Its been some busy days for me, and honestly I feel like no one is reading it either. But thats besides the point.
Have you ever been discouraged and the Lord flat lifts your heart by sending the family of God to encourage your life? Well that is what happened to me tonight. This week I have been discouraged, and honestly dealing with a lot of lies from the enemy. Tonight I went to a friends house for what I thought was a girls night, just to hang out with a bunch of new faces. When my friend Bekah and I got there, the host asked us if we read the book, we replied "What book? isn't this a girls hang out?" she replied with telling us that it is a book club, that she feels the Lord has laid on her heart so that she would be purposeful in reading and gleaning from books filled with truth and encouragement. We said well ok no problem, we will just hang out and listen. Boy did the Lord have another thing in mind. The book they were discussing was "Safely Home" by Randy Alcorn and it was about persecution, heaven etc. We had the sweetest discussion which ended in all of us ladies gathering around this globe and praying for specific countries, missionaries and what the Lord was doing, and lifting up each other as we grow in HIM. As one of the precious girls began to cry, I felt the spirit of God just come down in that room and meet with us. I walked away encouraged, SO challenged and convicted and just blessed by new friendships and refueled by their faith in King Jesus!
On the way home my friend and I had great conversation on how we could pray for each other and just began to lift each other up. Tonight was such an answer to prayer and a refresher to my spirit that was getting dry. Thank you Lord for the blessing of the body of Christ! It just shows that the Lord answers prayers and surrounds us with incredible people to lead us to HIM. This was a totally unexpected blessing of fellowship and feasting on the Lord. My prayer is that the Lord would use each one of us to bring nourishment and refreshment to other believers as we seek His face and will. Won't you join me in trying to intentionally encourage and refresh this week?
Have you ever been discouraged and the Lord flat lifts your heart by sending the family of God to encourage your life? Well that is what happened to me tonight. This week I have been discouraged, and honestly dealing with a lot of lies from the enemy. Tonight I went to a friends house for what I thought was a girls night, just to hang out with a bunch of new faces. When my friend Bekah and I got there, the host asked us if we read the book, we replied "What book? isn't this a girls hang out?" she replied with telling us that it is a book club, that she feels the Lord has laid on her heart so that she would be purposeful in reading and gleaning from books filled with truth and encouragement. We said well ok no problem, we will just hang out and listen. Boy did the Lord have another thing in mind. The book they were discussing was "Safely Home" by Randy Alcorn and it was about persecution, heaven etc. We had the sweetest discussion which ended in all of us ladies gathering around this globe and praying for specific countries, missionaries and what the Lord was doing, and lifting up each other as we grow in HIM. As one of the precious girls began to cry, I felt the spirit of God just come down in that room and meet with us. I walked away encouraged, SO challenged and convicted and just blessed by new friendships and refueled by their faith in King Jesus!
On the way home my friend and I had great conversation on how we could pray for each other and just began to lift each other up. Tonight was such an answer to prayer and a refresher to my spirit that was getting dry. Thank you Lord for the blessing of the body of Christ! It just shows that the Lord answers prayers and surrounds us with incredible people to lead us to HIM. This was a totally unexpected blessing of fellowship and feasting on the Lord. My prayer is that the Lord would use each one of us to bring nourishment and refreshment to other believers as we seek His face and will. Won't you join me in trying to intentionally encourage and refresh this week?
Monday, October 5, 2009
Finally the summary of the trip
Sorry I havent posted in a while! Its been kind of crazy over here and I have hardly been at home since arriving back in the USA.
Jordan was such an incredible experience. The Lord did so much in my heart and life and taught me a lot about what it means to be a servant. What a great example these servants of God are of giving up everything for the cause of Christ. They don't live in comfort zones, with great food and easy jobs but the sacrifice their home, safety and comfort so that people can taste what true life in CHRIST!
The first night we got there very late, but I awoke in a startle the next morning as I heard someone singing and chanting in a foreign language. I immediately jumped out of bed and attempted to close our cracked window. What I was hearing was the Muslims call to prayer at 5:00 AM!!! My spirt was quenched and an eery feeling swarmed into my room as my eyes were opened to the spiritual warfare at hand. My roommate ( Tori :) ) and I realizing that there was a battle at hand, started to claim victory in the war. We both began to pray out loud and lift up our voices in song singing " In the quiet, in the stillness I know that YOU are GOD.................There is no one else for me, None but JESUS, crucified to set me free, now I live to bring HIM praise" and speaking the name above all names over and over again. Feeling as if God had awoken us up for a reason, we got scripture out and just began to read it and pray it out loud. That was the sweetest time of praise to our Lord Jesus! After a while we went back to sleep, I just laid in my bed unable to sleep, silently crying out to God. As tears rolled down my cheek I asked the Lord for forgiveness of all of my selfishness, and worldliness when all that should matter is telling this lost world about true life in Jesus. I felt such conviction, of how so many times I place so many of my thoughts and actions on outward beauty and significance, God just came and touched my heart and told me that its not what I look like that matters but what I do with what I have been given. What a gift of life we have been given, and there is so many people who do not know HIM and are deceived by the ways of this world. What pride I am living in by keeping this gift inside! This is such a struggle for me.
God not only woke me up from my sleep that night but awoke my heart for the nations need for HIM!
More stories to come later: This picture is a view of what we were blessed with viewing each day where we stayed
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