5 Reasons I dig Jesus
I have been tagged by Susan at Faithwalk so I get to tag 5 other people!
Rules
Those Tagged will share 5 things they dig about Jesus. Those tagged will tag 5 other bloggers. Those tagged will provide a link in the comments section here with their name so that others can read them.
Here goes:
1. Jesus loves me with an everlasting love
2. He rescued me because He delights in me
3. He has incredible plans for me
4. He gave me my wacky sense of humor proving that being a Christian can be a blast
5. I am forgiven, loved, redeemed, adored and chosen (ok, so I threw in a few extra!)
Here are my 5 taggies:
Diana at Daddy’s Little Girl
Maggie at Magnanimity
Tim at Grace County
Dan at The Pursuit
Mark at My Life as a Christian
26 more days!!!
The Call
Massive, United Fasting and Prayer Can Shift a Nation…
On 07.07.07, tens of thousands from across America will gather in Nashville to fast, pray and cry out to God for another Great Awakening! It’s time for a new generation to step forward and return to the Lord and to renew our covenant vows of love with Him. Click here to watch the promo video.
This is going to be awesome! I am driving 2 teens to Tennessee to attend this event and we are getting excited! Who says young people are not fired up for Jesus! I wish I could take our whole youth group to this but I can’t. Hopefully they will be fasting and praying for the nation from home. It will take about 10 hours to drive there so pray for us! Half the fun is getting there. I plan on talking with them about sexual purity and boys and stuff. I know they both have godly parents but it’s different to be able to talk to someone else, especially someone like me who did not come to know Christ until I was much older. I am going to share some of the hurts I had to go through and hopefully they will listen. They both respect my opinion and think I am “cool” for a grown up. One of them is also going to Africa with me so it will be a great bonding time for us. She has a heart for Africa and wants to be a missionary there and she is only 16! It is amazing. This is what The Call is all about. Sparking this young generation to do something. They have declared themselves worldchangers and I am so very proud of both of them
Countdown to Africa!
I can’t believe I am going in only 29 more days! It seems like I have been trying to get to Africa for the last 2 years. What a incredible summer it’s turning out to be and it’s just beginning! God is so amazing and it always leave me speechless that He, Creator of the Universe, can take someone like me and use me for His glory and His purposes. I am proof that He has a sense of humor.
I was also just asked to share my testimony at the annual Christ on the Mall event in DC on the fourth of July!! What an honor. Me, sharing what the Lord has done in my life in front of thousands of people, yikes! How cool is that? The nation’s capitol! God keeps opening the doors for me to share His message and I am so privileged.
I am not freaking out yet but I am sure that in a few days I will be!
I am also getting ready to go to Tennesee for a few days for The Call. I am driving 2 teens and we are going to have a blast. All day prayer, fasting and worshipping God! Woohoo!
After that, it’s off to Africa. I am already planning my next mission trip!! We are sending a team from church to the Czech Republic in October to help minister with our missionary friends who are there. I am praying that I will get to go but if not, I am going to go to Louisianna to help out Operation Blessing with the Hurricane Katrina clean up.
Daddy’s Little Girl
As I was driving to church this morning, I remembered it was Father’s Day. At first I was saddened by the fact that although I had 3 dads (my mom married 3 times) I never really had a father. I never grew up knowing I was daddy’s little girl or his sweet little princess. I can’t ever remember sitting on my father’s lap or even being hugged or held by any of them.
Not until I gave my heart to the Lord did I realize that He is the best Daddy I could ever want or imagine. As I was driving, instead of feeling sorrow, I started to feel joy. I started to thank Him for all they ways that He is an awesome Father and I wanted to jot a few of them here. I shared this in my Bible study this morning and all the ladies liked it. I could write forever and a day about all the ways He loves me and shows me on a daily basis, but I will stick with just a few…
I am created in His image
I am fearfully and wonderfully made
I am the apple of His eye
He sings songs over me and delights in me
His love for me is as high as the heavens
His compassion and mercies are new for me everyday
He knows how many hairs are on my head
He knows what I need before I even ask
My name is written on His heart
No one can snatch me from His hand
He upholds me with His righteous right hand
He rescues me because He delights in me
He redeems my life from the pit
He restores to me what the locusts have eaten
He gave me a new heart
He put a new song in my mouth
He loves me with an everlasting love
He is close to me when I am broken hearted
He always watches over me and does not sleep
He is always with me
He is the lover of my soul
I am His beloved
I am His Bride!
Something to Ponder
I haven’t been able to get something out of my head all weekend so I am going to share it with you! We had a blood drive on Friday at church and some of us were hanging out and helping the Red Cross. When we have an event at church, we usually have a police officer there with us. It was a slow day so we talked with the officer quite a bit. He shared some really funny stories but I am regressing here. The point I wanted to make was that he shared he carries his gun 24/7, even when he is not working. He said no matter what he does or where he goes, he is always aware of what’s going on around him. He was running errands on his day off last week and actually witnessed a robbery! He was able to catch the robber and everything worked out and no one was hurt.
This man is an officer of the law. It is bred into him that he is to serve and protect. He is cop 100 % of the time. Not from 9-5, Monday thru Friday. That’s because it is who he is. He doesn’t flip a switch after work then he doesn’t care about protecting people anymore. I thought of how this compares to us Christians and I was honestly convicted of my attitude. Can you imagine if all Christians all the time went about life looking for the hurting, the lost, the sad, the broken and we were always aware of the pain around us, can you imagine what we could accomplish! If we were like the police officer always looking to see how we could be available and actually looking to bless someone? It blows my mind to think of the impact we could have.
I pray that today, I would be aware. Aware of anyone who needs the life-saving message of Christ. Aware of anyone who may just need a smile or a hug.
Countdown to Africa
I am getting so excited! I leave for South Africa in 41 days. It seems like it has been forever in coming and now it seems like it’s so soon. I am getting my shots next week and need to get cleared by my surgeon who gave me my new knee. It seems like there are a million little details to take care of. I booked my airfare to Texas for myself and the youth pastor. We leave a day before the other leaders. We have to go through team leader training with Teen Mania and it is going to be awesome. Then the teens come and train for a few days then we are off! We are going to be ministering in a squatter camp and doing lots of evangelism. I can’t wait. I am praying that the Lord prepares our hearts so that we can do what He wants in and through us. I am especially praying for the teens, they looked a little bewildered at our team meeting the other day. I may have scared them!
H-A-L-E-L-L-U-J-A-H!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just finished my last final and I feel like crying I am so happy!!! No school for the summer! It means I will graduate a little later but I think my sanity is worth it! Woohoo!!!
What a week! Yesterday we had our first team meeting with the teens and leaders who are going to South Africa on a mission trip this summer. It was so much fun. We did all the fun team-building activities and I love watching the different personalities meshing together. We got a good feel for who the leaders and who the followers are and that is always fun. During the team building activities it was fun for me (torture for them) to blind fold the leaders and make them not be able to talk! If only we could do that while in Africa!
I had to meet with the parents as well and make them feel comfortable with sending their kids with me. At the beginning of the meeting I was explaining to the parents that their kids will come back changed and they all clapped! It was hysterical! They said they couldn’t wait.
Now is the fun part of all the details. Shots and plane tickets and insurance, woohoo!
One of the things we did is ask each of the teens going what they thought their biggest challenge would be and most of them answered not having their IPods or video games. Amazing! They are not used to the quiet and I am grateful that after a few hours, all the batteries will be dead! One teen looked at me and smirked and told me he had a port so he could recharge the battery and it was all I could do to not laugh. I asked him where he was going to plug it in and he looked at me with absolute shock on his face! You should have seen the girls when we told them Teen Mania’s rules about no makeup, blow dryers or curling irons. It was so funny! I haev to admit when I read that we couldn’t take any makeup, I twitched a little too!
Anyways-The Lord is going to do mighty things in and through these teens. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that they will never be the same after going. I know my life won’t be!
