God gave me a word for the L.A. team this past week. So in the meeting I'm going to share it. But it was basically that we're not giving God what He deserves. Imagine one of your friends asking you for 200$, and you give it to them, but the deal was that they had to pay it all back, or atleast give back 10% of the money you gave them. Then months, even years go by. You're still waiting for your 200 dollars back, but would be so pleased with just the 10 percent. It never comes though. You never get it. Then you see your friend and they ask you for 500 dollars... You're not going to want to give it to them at all because they never even gave back the 20 dollars the first time.
What I'm saying is basically that unless we give God what he deserves, He wont give us what we don't deserve. Cause we don't deserve the money to go to L.A., but God will give it to us anyways. As long as we still tithe. Just because we are using our money for a mission trip doesn't mean that we can let the offering bucket pass by. In the bible it never said to give God ten percent, UNLESS were using it for a good purpose. I was praying and asking God why we didn't have our money cause we are all called to go on this trip. And He basically told me that we aren't getting enough because we aren't giving enough... Done&Done.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Update on Life lately! :)
This whole week I've been working up at the church for money to put towards my L.A. Dream Center mission trip. Up at the church working it's been Me, Shayna, Ashley L., Kerri and Kelli, Kirsten, A-Will, and Tiffany. It's been hard at some points, but none-the-less very fun being all together making memories.
The jobs that we've had to do have all been very random but necessary. So far we've done jobs like taking everything out of every drawer in the kitchen, then cleaning the inside surface of the drawer, putting everything where it needs to be/re-organizing it, then washing the outside of it. Then you do the exact same thing with the cabinets, and the pantry! It was a very time consuming task to get done. Then we did the exact same thing with the HotSpot. But in the drawer where they keep the ice cream scoops for milkshakes we had a discovery... 2 Dead Bugs!! One of the bugs was on top of the ice cream scoop!!! It was so disgusting!!! So when we cleaned the drawer we washed the scoops and put them in a bug-less location :P
Then we've stuffed all the bulletins, Laminated stuff for nursery and Kids on a Mission, Cut out curriculum materials, Cleaned out the upstairs storage closets, Did stuff to P.Nick and P.Tim's offices- Prank stuff, not helpful stuff :P, Re-organized the Church library and Pastor Brad's library- He has SO MANY amazing books!, cleaned the closet in the Fellowship Hall the the Deep and Royal Rangers uses. But i saved the best job for last.... We all went on "Cricket Patrol". It was so disgusting! We split into 2 teams and each team had a bucket, then we went around the whole church and had to pick up crickets- both dead and alive! So we turned it into a competition. The team with the most crickets won. My team got 130-ish crickets, and the other team cheated and went outside. But the highlight of that job was not only how funny Ashley was- Cause she hates bugs with a passion, she's also kind of scared of them, but it was that the team that went outside found a dead lil bunny!! So pastor Brad said that it counts as 1000 points! So my team didn't win, but it was still something that none of us will ever forget!
Then i went to Lillian Wiley's birthday party! It was awesome! And afterwards we went upstairs to watch So You Think You Can Dance.. It has been a pretty kick butt week..
And that's been my life lately :)
The jobs that we've had to do have all been very random but necessary. So far we've done jobs like taking everything out of every drawer in the kitchen, then cleaning the inside surface of the drawer, putting everything where it needs to be/re-organizing it, then washing the outside of it. Then you do the exact same thing with the cabinets, and the pantry! It was a very time consuming task to get done. Then we did the exact same thing with the HotSpot. But in the drawer where they keep the ice cream scoops for milkshakes we had a discovery... 2 Dead Bugs!! One of the bugs was on top of the ice cream scoop!!! It was so disgusting!!! So when we cleaned the drawer we washed the scoops and put them in a bug-less location :P
Then we've stuffed all the bulletins, Laminated stuff for nursery and Kids on a Mission, Cut out curriculum materials, Cleaned out the upstairs storage closets, Did stuff to P.Nick and P.Tim's offices- Prank stuff, not helpful stuff :P, Re-organized the Church library and Pastor Brad's library- He has SO MANY amazing books!, cleaned the closet in the Fellowship Hall the the Deep and Royal Rangers uses. But i saved the best job for last.... We all went on "Cricket Patrol". It was so disgusting! We split into 2 teams and each team had a bucket, then we went around the whole church and had to pick up crickets- both dead and alive! So we turned it into a competition. The team with the most crickets won. My team got 130-ish crickets, and the other team cheated and went outside. But the highlight of that job was not only how funny Ashley was- Cause she hates bugs with a passion, she's also kind of scared of them, but it was that the team that went outside found a dead lil bunny!! So pastor Brad said that it counts as 1000 points! So my team didn't win, but it was still something that none of us will ever forget!
Then i went to Lillian Wiley's birthday party! It was awesome! And afterwards we went upstairs to watch So You Think You Can Dance.. It has been a pretty kick butt week..
And that's been my life lately :)
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Sicklyness... :(
Earlier today my mom made me and both of my sisters go to the doctor.. ugh..
I was quite unhappy with her for that. But i got over it pretty quick, cause surely i wasn't sick. All i had was congestion, achy back and shoulders, and a headache. So i was rather confident in knowing that it was all going to be okay, i'd just get a test done and be on my way. But no, It turns out that I have the flu!! I was SOOO upset!! Cause the type of flu that i have is really contageous. So i can't come in contact with anyone for seven whole days after i started feeling sick. [which was Sunday morning]. But the big reason why i'm mad about it is cause this was going to be our first wednesday back to youth after YFN. & Everyone knows that the wednesday service following youth camp is always the best, cause everyone is still on their Jesus High from yfn. But God just showed how I shouldn't be upset that i'm sick and not going to youth, cause I should expect an amazing youth service EVERY week! Not just right after events. I also should be glad that I get the time to just sit around and chill with God while im sick- and miserable. It's not often that I get a week to just lay around, In fact, It's NEVER that i get a week to just lay around. So this week while i can't do much I'm going to not make it a week of laziness, but a week of kick butt God time. And next week when i come to youth i am going to keep my expectations high!! Cause one thing I've found out is that when i honestly expect God to move in a mighty way, He always does! God will not only meet any expectation that I have, but, He'll go above and beyond!!
So, please be praying for me and my sickly-ness. :)
Thank you.
I was quite unhappy with her for that. But i got over it pretty quick, cause surely i wasn't sick. All i had was congestion, achy back and shoulders, and a headache. So i was rather confident in knowing that it was all going to be okay, i'd just get a test done and be on my way. But no, It turns out that I have the flu!! I was SOOO upset!! Cause the type of flu that i have is really contageous. So i can't come in contact with anyone for seven whole days after i started feeling sick. [which was Sunday morning]. But the big reason why i'm mad about it is cause this was going to be our first wednesday back to youth after YFN. & Everyone knows that the wednesday service following youth camp is always the best, cause everyone is still on their Jesus High from yfn. But God just showed how I shouldn't be upset that i'm sick and not going to youth, cause I should expect an amazing youth service EVERY week! Not just right after events. I also should be glad that I get the time to just sit around and chill with God while im sick- and miserable. It's not often that I get a week to just lay around, In fact, It's NEVER that i get a week to just lay around. So this week while i can't do much I'm going to not make it a week of laziness, but a week of kick butt God time. And next week when i come to youth i am going to keep my expectations high!! Cause one thing I've found out is that when i honestly expect God to move in a mighty way, He always does! God will not only meet any expectation that I have, but, He'll go above and beyond!!
So, please be praying for me and my sickly-ness. :)
Thank you.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
So lately I've been listening to a lot of Phil Wickham music! Just because i love it when you can listen to a song and feel the annointing that God has placed on it. One song that has really been on my heart is the song I Will Wait for You There. It's such a powerful song!
The song says: I will wait for You there
Down on my knees where I met You
Give You all of my cares
Find a grace to hold onto now
I’m calling for You
I will wait for You there
far from the world and it’s violence
It left broken and bare
I need to hear You in the silence now
I’m calling for You
And with outstretched arms I will sing out melodies
And my beating heart Will pour out a symphony
Hallelujah’s in the morning Hallelujah’s in the night
I will wait for you as long as I have life
I will wait for You there
Down On my knees where I met you
Cause life is a war fought with tears
But You are the strength I hold onto now
I’m calling for you.
And something that I've realized through this song is that we are the ones who should wait on God. God should never have to wait on us. In this song Phil Wickham was talking about the times in his life where he desperately wanted to hear from God. So he was singing 'I will wait for you there down on my knees where i met you'. We need to have the endurance and the patience to be able to wait for God's voice speaking to us. We should never have our lives so full of stuff to where God is trying to speak to us, but He has to wait on us to listen to him. So that's just something that God has shown me this week through this song.
The~End(:
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