Here I am in Minnesota. I finally arrived for training week. Tomorrow is the last day, and I am grateful. I am tired, and drained. Lots of spiritual battles in my mind. Please pray for me. I need wisdom and discernment. I am learning to apply truth like crazy right now. Overall, I am grateful Annie is here with me, I am grateful for many prayers and loving friends, and I am grateful for a Moody education and amazing profs. I am finally catching up on blogging, emails and facebook messages and phone calls. Tonight, I find myself somewhat sick. This week has been rough, yet the Lord's strength has carried me. One more day of training, and then off to the real deal. I eating cherries and strawberries for dinner. yum.And cherries are my brain food. Good foods to eat when your sick. The walk to target was nice too. I must admit, Minnesota is a really pretty state. Evergreen trees are my second favorite next to the palm trees. Evergreens do not exist in Texas.
Col. 3:1-11.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
2 week countdown..
Its time for an update..
I apologize for the long overdue post. I am currently working on Systematic Theology in the library. Summer school and a fuller work schedule has made life quite busy. However, to briefly update, I leave for internship in less than two weeks! I have one week left of summer school, and work. I have over half of my support raised, with only about $700 left to go. I want to elaborate on this. I tend to be skeptical, stressed and cynical when it comes to support raising. That is the only thing I stress over. Sadly, money in general worries me. Past circumstances have shaped my views on money but I tend to not trust in the Lord with money. However, God has proved Himself faithful in the past few weeks. I have been in prayer over this, and I know its only a peace from God that has surpassed my full, human understanding that has come over me. I have never had such peace in awhile. Half of my support has come from people family, about a fourth from people I have not met or have chosen not to reveal themselves. I talked to a particular relative the other day, whom I have never met ( well I suppose we just did via phone) but I was very encouraged by her. Very. I am so blessed, and beyond grateful that God has been providing so faithfully for this. Words on this blog cannot fully express my feelings.
I have much reading to do before I leave, and I pray I can complete it before I reach my training.
Thank you all again for your prayers and support!
I apologize for the long overdue post. I am currently working on Systematic Theology in the library. Summer school and a fuller work schedule has made life quite busy. However, to briefly update, I leave for internship in less than two weeks! I have one week left of summer school, and work. I have over half of my support raised, with only about $700 left to go. I want to elaborate on this. I tend to be skeptical, stressed and cynical when it comes to support raising. That is the only thing I stress over. Sadly, money in general worries me. Past circumstances have shaped my views on money but I tend to not trust in the Lord with money. However, God has proved Himself faithful in the past few weeks. I have been in prayer over this, and I know its only a peace from God that has surpassed my full, human understanding that has come over me. I have never had such peace in awhile. Half of my support has come from people family, about a fourth from people I have not met or have chosen not to reveal themselves. I talked to a particular relative the other day, whom I have never met ( well I suppose we just did via phone) but I was very encouraged by her. Very. I am so blessed, and beyond grateful that God has been providing so faithfully for this. Words on this blog cannot fully express my feelings.
I have much reading to do before I leave, and I pray I can complete it before I reach my training.
Thank you all again for your prayers and support!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Humilty.
Greetings everyone!
This blog is for this upcoming summer, to keep you posted on my Internship. If you didn't know already, I will be teaching English to women and working amongst a Muslim culture in the Midwest. The area I will be in is the most populated Muslim area in the United States. Due to security reasons, I am not allowed to state where this is. There are over 400, 000 Muslims living in this area! I will begin my internship June 8th and end on July 31. My classes are four days a week, three and a half hours a day. I am working with the Navigators, and am currently working on support raising. I need to raise $1800 by May 15, and I am currently at $575. I would love your prayers and support in this! I am very excited for this opportunity, and I know this will be challenging, but I look forward to growing and learning. My biggest prayer requests are raising funds and preparing my heart to love this women. I feel very inadequate to be doing this, but God has called me and I know He has much to teach me! I desire to be a learner and a witness. I trust in the words of Psalm 37:6 "Delight yourself in the Lord; trust in Him and He will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday" My desire is to be humbled, learn to love the people I am teaching, and for souls to be won to Christ.
A quick update on my current spiritual life: I will be honest on here. I am far from perfect, a sinner saved by God's grace. I know it is only God's grace that saved and redeemed me. Recently, I have been praying daily for humility. I am wondering if there is a stopping point for that? I want to become like Christ, and honestly, humility starting to hurt. Physically, I feel like I am falling apart. broken finger, strained leg muscle, multiple food intolerance possibly leading to a chronic illness. Having to ask for help, and knowing that God is glorified in this? This is hard to take in. This is not at all what I asked for. I did not expect humility to look like this. I have to have help going to the grocery store, learning that I was wrong about alot of things and being corrected on those things..humility is more than just "doing things behind the scenes". If you want to read more on humility, John Piper has a great post on humility :http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/1999/1140_What_Is_Humility/. I also highly recommend C.J Mahaney's book "True Humility" its in my top ten. Of course, Philippians 2 gives us the perfect example of Christ's humility. I would love to expound on that, but to sum it up, Christ calls us to be humbled before Him. He was the ultimate servant.
Humility is oh so hard. I want it to stop, yet everyday my heart is pressed to pray for it. I will be honest, I am scared. However, to trust and know that God is good in all His doings, I should not fear. I truly want to be a humble servant. One who will endure whatever it takes for the sake of Christ and the gospel. Yes. That is the desire of my heart.
This blog is for this upcoming summer, to keep you posted on my Internship. If you didn't know already, I will be teaching English to women and working amongst a Muslim culture in the Midwest. The area I will be in is the most populated Muslim area in the United States. Due to security reasons, I am not allowed to state where this is. There are over 400, 000 Muslims living in this area! I will begin my internship June 8th and end on July 31. My classes are four days a week, three and a half hours a day. I am working with the Navigators, and am currently working on support raising. I need to raise $1800 by May 15, and I am currently at $575. I would love your prayers and support in this! I am very excited for this opportunity, and I know this will be challenging, but I look forward to growing and learning. My biggest prayer requests are raising funds and preparing my heart to love this women. I feel very inadequate to be doing this, but God has called me and I know He has much to teach me! I desire to be a learner and a witness. I trust in the words of Psalm 37:6 "Delight yourself in the Lord; trust in Him and He will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday" My desire is to be humbled, learn to love the people I am teaching, and for souls to be won to Christ.
A quick update on my current spiritual life: I will be honest on here. I am far from perfect, a sinner saved by God's grace. I know it is only God's grace that saved and redeemed me. Recently, I have been praying daily for humility. I am wondering if there is a stopping point for that? I want to become like Christ, and honestly, humility starting to hurt. Physically, I feel like I am falling apart. broken finger, strained leg muscle, multiple food intolerance possibly leading to a chronic illness. Having to ask for help, and knowing that God is glorified in this? This is hard to take in. This is not at all what I asked for. I did not expect humility to look like this. I have to have help going to the grocery store, learning that I was wrong about alot of things and being corrected on those things..humility is more than just "doing things behind the scenes". If you want to read more on humility, John Piper has a great post on humility :http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/1999/1140_What_Is_Humility/. I also highly recommend C.J Mahaney's book "True Humility" its in my top ten. Of course, Philippians 2 gives us the perfect example of Christ's humility. I would love to expound on that, but to sum it up, Christ calls us to be humbled before Him. He was the ultimate servant.
Humility is oh so hard. I want it to stop, yet everyday my heart is pressed to pray for it. I will be honest, I am scared. However, to trust and know that God is good in all His doings, I should not fear. I truly want to be a humble servant. One who will endure whatever it takes for the sake of Christ and the gospel. Yes. That is the desire of my heart.
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