Friday, January 27, 2012

Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, phrase or sentence that reads the same forward and backward. I learned this in my English course I am taking.
They are pretty cool!
Here are some examples:
Civic
Level
Kayak
A Santa at NASA; Dad; Dee saw a seed; Never odd or even; Rise to vote, sir; Was it a cat I saw?

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

Madam in Eden, I'm Adam


So there they are! Enjoy!

By Faith :Keith and Kristy Getty

By faith we see the hand of God
In the light of creation's grand design
In the lives of those who prove His faithfulness
Who walk by faith and not by sight

By faith our fathers roamed the earth
With the power of His promise in their hearts
Of a holy city built by God's own hand
A place where peace and justice reign

We will stand as children of the promise
We will fix our eyes on Him our soul's reward
Till the race is finished and the work is done
We'll walk by faith and not by sight

By faith the prophets saw a day
When the longed-for Messiah would appear
With the power to break the chains of sin and death
And rise triumphant from the grave

By faith the church was called to go
In the power of the Spirit to the lost
To deliver captives and to preach good news
In every corner of the earth

We will stand as children of the promise
We will fix our eyes on Him our soul's reward
Till the race is finished and the work is done
We'll walk by faith and not by sight

By faith this mountain shall be moved
And the power of the gospel shall prevail
For we know in Christ all things are possible
For all who call upon His name

We will stand as children of the promise
We will fix our eyes on Him our soul's reward
Till the race is finished and the work is done
We'll walk by faith and not by sight

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

God Got My Back!

Last night I came home form work.
I was exhausted. My mind was running 100 miles an hour. My back was tense.
I took a shower to unwind, but that did not really help. I was so tense my back was sore, so I prayed and asked God to ease the tension.
As soon as I started to pray my back begun to twitch. I could feel the loosening of the muscles. A gentle heat spread up and down my back. Immediately my mind quit racing and I begun to fall asleep. As I began to drift off I felt two small hands knead my shoulders. I got around 6 hours of sleep that night (due to getting home so late from work) and I feel completely rested!

God hears our prayers! He cares about our needs, even if it is just a back rub!
Ask and you will receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door shall be open to you.
Amen!

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Happy Moments!

I just found out I have offically raised all of the money I need for Thailand! Thank you to all of you who have given to me! God has provided over and above! God, is one sneaky God! Lets lift our hands in worship to him.
Thank you God.

God is in the dream business. Guy's dream BIG! He wants to answer them! I am so excited to see what the future brings! We have good times coming... and are here!

I Am

I AM God; nothing is too hard for me.
"Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Id there anything too hard for me?"
-Jeremiah 32:27
I AM God who made all My wonderful works to be remembered.
"He has made His wonderful works to be remembered; the Lord is gracious and full of compassion." -Psalm 111:4

I AM worthy of worship, glorious and incomparable.
"Give to the Lord the glory due due His name; bring an offering, and come before Him. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness!" - 1 Chronicles 16:29

These are some of my favorite names of God! God is so cool! Last week my room mate moved out to fallow one of her dreams. My eyes turned to myself and I became sad and lonely. Then one night my friend and I had a worship time, where our eye's were turned back to this super wonderful God. And my sadness and loneliness lifted.
I wonder why I am so easily swayed away from my God. He never looses sight of us, he never turns his head, he always watches out for us. God knows the desires of our hearts and wants to fill those empty places. He turned those feelings of fear and loneliness to a closeness and knowledge that God will never leave me. We have a pretty sweet God.

Take time to just wonder at God and how cool he is!

Saturday, December 31, 2011

New eyes for Christmas

Here is my journal entry the day after my family celebrated Christmas.

We did our Christmas last night. It was pretty cool. I appreciate so much that we read the Christmas story before opening presents. It is an awesome Christmas tradition! I feel really blessed by everything I received! I feel like these are all things I will use! I love them all! I think this Christmas has been one of the best! I think it is mostly because of a change of heart. I would rather give and bless people then receive. Don't get me wrong I like to receive and honestly every time someone has given me something I have been extremely blessed. But to bless people is lots of fun.
For the first time in my life it is not about receiving but about giving.

I am so blessed! Everyone in my family has supported me in going to Thailand. How lucky am I to have a family who supports me in fallowing my dreams and God's calling!

I just wanted to share this with everyone. I can only say that I love Christmas. This year God showed me how to love and be loved! Isn't this so cool! God gave us the best blessing of all! It is just a plus that he came as a baby. Lets think about our savior and reflect him to others. Blessings and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

That Terribly Awkward Wonderful Day

Ever have one of those days where everything seems to go wrong and it just keeps getting worse and you just want to go to bed and cry but you still have one more thing to do. And that thing just blesses you beyond imagine? Well a couple of weeks ago I had one of those days.
Here is the short of it.
I went to work. Work was ok. I found out one of my ear piercings was infected. I simply look up. Great, I think to my self. I go home. I check my email. I find out that there was a technological issue and i still need to raise 60% of my funds. I was literary in shock. What? That means that I have a long road ahead of me to raise funds. Great. I have already told a bunch of people i am almost done fundraising. Awkward. On top of all that I had nothing to care the infection. And now I have to go hang out with a friend, when I would rather be praying about all this stuff.

I can honestly say God was totally there with me in that time with my friend. She took me out to eat. It was free cookie night! And it was great to connect with her. She took me to the store to get stuff to care for my infection. That night God just loved on me.

After I told my support team the news they rallied to arms! My finical adviser looked into the paper work and within a couple of days I had a good bit less to raise.

Looking back on this day and time I could see that I was shaken. But I witnessed the love of God and his power! My ear is healed and money is coming in! During this time Psalm 23 was a great comfort. I want to live and trust in this psalm.

Psalm 23

A psalm of David.

1 The LORD is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
for his name’s sake.
4 Even though I walk
through the darkest valley,[a]
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
6 Surely your goodness and love will follow me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the LORD
forever.


May we choose to live and believe these verses! They are truth!