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I'm Engaged!!!!!!!!!!
To the man of my life....To the man of my dreams that I love so much!!!!!!
God is so good! I am sooo thrilled to share with you all that I am engaged! I was totally caught off guard and not expecting it...espcially since I thought it would be a couple months if anything...and not this soon! So it was sure perfect timing for Daniel to surprise me with that very speical question. What a day! What a moment! Its quite a story...I'll post it up here soon!
Btw: We got engaged the last day of February(which was this Wednesday the 28th)
I am sooooooooooooooo thrilled and really diving in to wedding plans! I'll tell more of the wedding plans and date! (which we are thinking will be middle May)...Daniel thinks that is soooo far away...and I am here thinking 2 1/2 months! Thats pretty crazy! But it will be fine perfect timing!
Your prayers would be apprciated! Love you all!
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| A fun excurtion..... |
[Dec. 14th, 2006|11:36 am] |
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So last night I went shopping at walmart and an idea popped in my head and I bought some glass chalk (you know that writes on car windows). So today I drove by my sweeties college and stopped by his car and wrote all over it....since its his last day of school for this semster and he's doing his finals. So I was busily engaged in writing things all over his car...like a bible verse and little notes...and in the back window I wrote "Superman : I'm not driving fast, I'm just flying low." etc etc....and I was hurrying as fast as I could so I wouldn't get caught...when all of a sudden I hear a "BOO!" and I jerked around to find Daniel standing there! He scared me soooo bad! He said that a guy at the school had come in and said to him (Daniel) "Hey man, I think your girlfriends writing on your car"....Goodness, What kind of person woulld go and tell someone a surprise thats for them! Arrgggg, I'm mad at that guy. But oh well, atleast I got to see Daniel! And he felt pretty special!
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| Hello there! Long time no talk...... |
[Dec. 13th, 2006|11:01 pm] |
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I sit here and the hinges on my live journal are having a hard time working...pretty rusty and dusty. I guess its because I haven't used it for so long! Hello Everybody! I don't even know if you remember me...I do actually get on live journal to read posts....but I haven't posted or commented for so long. I guess I just have gotten the urge to get back on for the simple reason of wanting to journal a bit again....more for my own enjoyment, I guess. Its just so nice to write about things...i bet you can relate!
But how is everybody!!!? Anything intresting and exciting happening in your lives? Its amazing how many times I have gotten that question alot recently...and normally I wouldn't have an answer or I would give the normal "not really" reply. But as of late....I do have something intresting and exciting going on in my life! And I am sooo happy to share it with you all (I know some have already heard)....but I AM COURTING!!!!!! I will have courted 2 months come Christmas. The wonderful godly young man is Daniel David Creed Winter!( nice name, don't ya think...I find it absolutely enchanting) And let me tell you he is a true blessing from God! The whole way God worked it out its just so amazing to me...its more that I would have dreamed of!...and something I never thought would be possible (but I guess the in-depth "Hannah's side of the story" is for another time) I have so enjoyed the past 2 months immensely...growing closer to my guy. He is such a wonderful godly enouragement to me and is all the time leaving me little notes with Bible verses, and things God has been encourging and showing him lately and things he would like to spur me on in. And I always enjoy our times to pray together and just grow closer to our wonderful Savior as we grow closer together! Daniel David is so amazing! And I am so excited! I could never have imagined a year ago that all this would be coming about! That I would be enjoying my Christmas with my Quarter (thats what I call him) And I just really praise God for way He has blessed our courtship. The blessing of no things to regret or big mistakes (like alot of stories I have heard)...but through it we have gotten alot of encouragement and wisdom for older godly people in our lives and alot of people praying for us. I really enjoyed reading the Joshua Harris book called "Boy meets Girl....say hello to courtship". That has really applied and helped both Daniel and I so much! (we are reading through it together right now)
Ahhhh and my Daniel sure knows how to win a girls heart...or should I say "my" heart! Last week I went on a 2 day trip and when I got back I found the most beautiful rose (its the rose in my icon) and a lovely letter from him waiting for me in my room....and then I went into the bathroom and he had written lovely notes all over my mirror....and then later that evening as I was getting ready for bed I found another note from him under my pillow! And then just yesterday he told me to drop by his car at college to pick somthing up (he ususally leaves notes) and there I found in his car a dozen roses!!! For me!!!!! Awwww. I just like him soo much. But you know...its not just the notes and the roses that makes me like him (though that does help:-)....its his love and passion for God...its his desire to encourage me to walk the walk....its him and I drawing closer to our God! And Daniel has such a wonderful sweet sensitive heart! He's also very manly....ahhhhh....I just swoon! LOL He is so much fun to be around and I so have enjoyed our times...though I miss him so much when I don't get to see him! But we always find fun things to do together (ok...maybe they arent the most exciting...but with him anything is exciting!...like doing dishes....making french toast.... grocery shopping....changing the oil in the car....sitting on "our" bench and reading a book...going to burger king to wear the cardboard crowns....playing in the rain....learning card tricks together....etc etc
The other neat thing I so admire about Daniel is his true desire to honor me....to honor me in purity and not try to do anything that would be inappropriate or something we would regret if we ended up just staying friends. And I really admire his heart to honor me.
Ok is this post getting too long...I think so. So yes, this post was all about Daniel...and it probably won't be the last. But of course there are other things going on in my life other then Daniel.....right? ha ha.....no.....he's pretty much is it. :) Ahhhh, its kinda hard to write down all the delightful, amazing and cheery things that have been wonderfully overwhelming me.... when there are more words to speak than would overflow a whole dictionary...but don't worry I don't plan too write all that down. But God has been very good! And I just wanted to say that I am very thankful for my Quarter, Daniel David! He never ceases to amaze me with his kind servant heart, enjoyable company, sweet nature, godly encouragemnt, and the list would go on. I am one thankful girl! And I am just continuing to pray for the Lord's direction in our relationship...and that he would guide us in His will for our lives.
The day after tomarrow (friday) he will be traveling up with us to Iowa for a couple days to visit my mom's side fo the family. I am so looking forward to it...and of course being with my guy. Lots of time too! I'm so excited!
Well I guess I will sign out! I hope all of you are having a good Christmas season! I am really enjoying all the beautiful Christmas lights!
God Bless
Hannah Grace
p.s I don't know if you all are wondering who Daniel is...how long I have known him....or how it all came about....so if you would like me to post more about that just let me know...cause I don't want to bore you if you don't want too. ;-) |
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| Africa Update |
[Aug. 9th, 2005|12:34 pm] |
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Well how have all my LJ friends been? I haven't really posted here lately. Things have just been so busy and the past few months have been packed full with things.
I have been doing great (save for a minor cold and acquiring an infection of pink eye in both eyes.) But other than getting over that I have been doing wonderful. Praise the Lord! I enjoyed the 2 camps I have attended this month very much. I had alot of opportunity to encourage and be encouraged in the things of the Lord. It has been great and refreshing!
Well, I went and picked my parents up from the airport yesterday morning. They just arrived back from their trip to Africa. They had a marvelous time! The Lord truly blessed them with a wonderful, safe, encouraging and enjoyable trip. They said the weather was perfect and they got to do so many things, travel so many places, meet so many neat missionary families and stayed healthy through the whole trip! Praise the Lord! We enjoyed our time yesterday afternoon going through the 6 rolls of pictures they took. It looks so beautiful there! And I was amazed to see that it looks really really African, just like what you would see in a magazine with mud huts and straw thatched roofs and palm trees. And of course all the African people with their bright African clothes...especially the women with their capalaunas (a bright colored wrap-around skirt) and their headdresses.....and the cute African babies on their mother’s backs. It really hasn’t been modernized in most areas as I thought it would be (its more modern in the big cities). But Dad and Mom got to travel to lots of different villages in the rural parts up in North Mozambique....and meet the different tribal people. Dad was able to do some Bible teaching there (with a translator translating it into Makua (the main language they speak). And mom got a chance to have some Bible teaching with some of the African women. It was very funny because as mom spoke in English, another missionary lady translated what she said into Portuguese so that another African woman could translate it into the Makua language so the african women could understand!. LOL I thought that was pretty interesting! It kinda reminded me of the game “Telephone”. :)
My mom and dad also went snorkeling on the coastal coral reefs in Mozambique to celebrate their 20th Anniversary. The water is so clear and blue like the Caribbean waters. They said it was beautiful...and in the pictures it looked sooo pretty.
Anyways....If you all are wondering....we are planning (Lord willing) to go be missionaries in Africa if we can raise the support. Its pretty exciting, and we are sorting through lots of ideas and plans right now. Dad said that there is alot of opportunity for Chloe and I to reach out to the younger girls there in Mozambique. And dad plans on working to train african men, who have come to the Lord, and really start teaching them things in scriptures and what God calls us to be as Christians. Because alot of things are messed up in their mindset in Africa. Things on marriage, rituals (such as witch doctors, or when anything bad happens they think that their anscestors have come back to haunt them) So there is really a big need for men to come in and really teach them what the Scripture says. So that they can go out and teach their own people. And dad also is really wanting to visit villages and share the gospel with them. And Mom has lots of opprotunity to help the women there.
So it really looks like the Lord is leading us, we just need to get some more training in the makua language and the language of Portuguese (that is spoken there as well). We sure need lots of prayer.... that the Lord would direct us in all this, because there are lots of important decisions that will need to be made here soon.
I am just so thankful for such an opportunity God has brought to us, to actually bring the gospel to people who haven't ever heard it. This wonderful love story that God has done in my live and in lives of Christians should not be hidden.......such a story should be spread all over! And its nothing that we have done or work for, its all His work on the cross and His love and grace He has shown us that we are saved! Halleluiah
2Ti 1:8-10 "Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works , but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, but now has been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel."
That is the greatest love story!
And really, you don't just have to go to Africa to proclaim that. Here in America we can do the same.....there are lost people who need to hear that saving truth just as much. Though we are going to Africa because we feel a calling that God is leading us there and there lots of people who haven't even heard the name of Jesus. There is a big need there, and I am really looking forward to this opportunity in Mozambique. :)
So if you all could pray for us I would really really appreciate it. There sure is lots that needs to be done! We really need the Lord’s guidance as we are going to be making lots of decisions here soon. And pray for us, that we wouldn’t depend on our own strength as there is lots to be done and it would be easy to get tired out and discouraged, but that we would rely on the Lord and His strength, and would trust Him in everything.
Psalm 28:7 ”The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to Him in song.”
There is soooo much more to say, but of course I can’t say it all here, and it really is hard to explain when typing. (please excuse the dire post, I am kinda just letting it all spurt out as it comes and its probably all mixed and cut short....but I just had to get this up here and update you all.)
But I will be sure to keep you all updated on whats going on.....and give you some more information. We hope to put up a website soon and I hope to get pictures us here too.
God Bless you all!
Have a wonderful day!
Blessings in Christ,
Hannah
Matthew 28:19&20 ”Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age” |
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[Jul. 15th, 2005|04:07 pm] |
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My, time has flown by so fast. Seems like a few days ago since we first considered about Dad and Mom going to Mozambique..... and now is the day they are actually going! It has just come so fast! They will actually be leaving late tonight (or early morning I should say)...I am going to have to drive them to the airport at two o'clock in the morning. And hopefully don't go to sleep while carrying out my duty!
I bet my parents will have a hard time getting some sleep this evening. I am thrilled for them and I am not even going! I just can't wait for there return.... even though they haven't even left! :)
After I drop them off and get back around 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, I am going to crash in bed and try to get a few hours of sleep before I have to drag myself back out of bed to get packed and ready for the Girls camp I am going to. I am going to be driving up to the camp with 2 close friends of mine. We'll be staying the night at another friends house on the way and then heading up to the camp on Sunday. I'll be there a week and then I'll have one day at home before my sister Chloe and I go to be counslers at a camp called 'Del Haven' (its a camp for inner city kids who have one or both parents in jail or in gangs) Its a christian camp that teaches young kids about God and gives them a chance to see Jesus's love for them. I think it will be a wonderful experience and I am really looking forward to it.\
I appriciate all your prayers for my Dad and Moms trip to Africa. If you could continue to pray for their safety and well-being as they travel around the country and that they would have a smooth travel without any major difficulties or problems in the airports or with their flights. Thank you!
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| major news! |
[Jun. 29th, 2005|12:03 pm] |
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Well I have some big and exciting news to tell you all. I will try to keep it brief even though there is quite a bit of detail to it. We have been praying about this for a long time and belief it is the Lord's will for us....first of all to say....on July 16 my dad and mom are going to be flying to Mozambique, Africa !!! Hmmmm, I wonder what for? :) Well actually to answer your question they are going over there for a 3 week trip to check out the area, meet the fellow christian missionaries....and see if it would be the Lord's will for us as a family to go be missionaries in Mozambique! This is pretty exciting for us...and we really do believe the Lord is leading us to go there.
Well you might be asking yourself "Why Africa?" and "Why the Mozambique area". Well in Mozambique one of the main languages is Portuguese (believe it or not....it was taken over by the Portuguese in around 1600 a.d ) They also do speak the main Mozambique African language, but a big percentage do speak Portuguese which gives us an advantage since dad already knows it and we (the family) are learning it. Of course if we went we would have to learn the native African language (which is Makua)....but Portuguese will give us a start. Secondly, Mozambique is the poorest country in Africa and is also one of the least places in the world that have not been touched with the gospel. We just really had a heart to reach the people like that. My grandma is studying to be a nurse and is really considering going to africa to give some medical help to the people there.(it has been her life long dream to be a nurse in Africa) And if she did she would probably live with us there, or have a hut (house :) near by.
You can look up on a map and find Mozambique on the south-east coast of Africa to the right. Its right acoss from the island of Madagascar. They have pretty tropical temperatures and have some neat animals including Zebras, elephants, tigers ect.
This is definitely a big step for us! So if you could please be praying for us and that if its the Lords will....and if nothing majorly goes wrong....or Jesus doesn't come back.....that we would be going to Africa. Lots of change.....please pray for us and the decisions that we will be making. I have no idea if we will or not....but big chances are that we will. Prayer would be appreciated.....and I will hopefully be posting pictures when mom and dad get back from Africa. :) I will be sure to keep you all updated
I am so excited about what the Lord is doing in our lives and its so amazing to see the way He has been preparing us! He is truely a wonderful and amazing God! And there are lots of lost people out there who haven't heard about this amazing Creator....we need to be a light and get the message out! Amen?
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| A birthday! |
[Jun. 3rd, 2005|05:21 pm] |
Hey yal!
Just wanted to let you know that today is my sister Chloe's 18th Birthday!!!!!!
So if you all could go to the link below...and post a comment on the entry I put in ...that would be great! (I posted on her journal so when you commented she would see it)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/avoyage/30895.html
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[Jun. 1st, 2005|04:27 pm] |
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We just arrived back from 'Turkey Ranch Family Bible camp' the day before yesterday. It was a total blast and we plan to go again in September.
I and my family had such a wonderful time being together in the rustic woodland setting of osark Missouri....we enjoyed our 4 day stay packed with fun activites including: going tubing down a big river, playing games like raket ball, carpet ball, basketball, and we had a big volleyball tournament (lots of balls, huh? :)air hockey, tennis, and other types of fun games in the gym they have there at the camp. We also canoed and paddle boated down at the lake they have there and one of the nights we roasted marshmellows by a huge bonfire down by the lake and made smores. MMmmmmmm It was such a wonderful setting, and we also enjoyed our time with other great Christian families....we had such wonderful fellowship and bible teaching while there aswell.....a great place to spend time with family, enjoy the outdoors, and have your focus on God.
It was really fun, because we arrived there Friday night and some friends we know who were also coming had not arrived yet.....so after we upacked all the things in our cabin and got settled in....we headed over to their cabin and saw they still weren't there so we got into there room and tee-peed their room, moved the beds in front of the doors, and propped a broom on the door so when they opended it, the broom would fall. When they arrived it was so hilarious to see them shout "Some one tee-peed our room"!
But we would never have expected to have the rest of the weekent filled with pranks they did back on us! :)
We took pictures, so hopefully when I get them developed I will get some time to post them up here.
Well no sooner have I unpacked from camp...but now I am packing up again for the 1 1/2 week stay at a ladies house that we(my sister and I) will be taking care of while she is in France....we leave tommarrow. Should be fun! :)
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[May. 6th, 2005|11:40 am] |
I PASSED!!! I passed my drivers test the first time! And actually got a really good score of 91. I went in to get my drivers test and had no idea what it would be like or how I would do. I pretty much counted on flunking the first time, but I was so surprised I passed....and got a really good score too (I only did like 2 minor things wrong) And I did my parallel parking perfect! I was so happy! :) I took my sisters up to town for the first time (by myself) and we got some snacks for a treat! ....don't worry we came back alive. ;)
You know what I relize, today we as Christians don't always take the time to thank the Lord for all that He has done. So many times we go through difficult situations and all we want to do is complain (or atleast I have the tendecy to do that) and feel sorry for ourselves for what we are going through....and we always ask God to help with this and that. But if you look in the scriptures you see so many verses talking about being thankful, and as my sister pointed out to me, in psalms David tells all about his troubles, what he is going through, the enemies coming after him, all the bad stuff that has befallen him....but in the end he says ,'but I will not forget to thank and praise the Lord for what he has done!' In all the midst of that David praises and thanks the Lord. And I think that they would really help us more in the midst of our troubles if we just took moment to stop and thank the Lord, we would have such a turn in attitude when we relized all we have to be thankful for. :) So my encouragement to you all is, when you reach a tough situation...take a moment and thank the Lord for somthing...anything. And lets be thankful for all the Lord has given us!
"Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" 2 Thess 5:16-18
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"Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His love endures forever"< Psalm 136:1
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"Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name; make known among the nations what He has done. Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; tell of His wonderful acts. Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek Him rejoice" Psalm 105:1-3
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"Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say: Rejoice!" Philippians4:4
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"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God" Philippians 4:6
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| A chance for you to finally catch up on some sleep...... |
[Apr. 25th, 2005|09:18 pm] |
::Warning::::Warning:::Boring::: If you find the material contained in this post to be boring...feel free to skip over it.....the writer was very tired and obviously didn't know what she was typing. :) ::Warning:::Warning
Wow! You were brave to continue reading....I honor you. ;)
I had a tiring but wonderful weekend vollenteering at the MPE (midwest parent educators) home-schooling conference. I got a chance to work most of the time at a merchindise table for the childrens conference being put on at the MPE (to take care of all the children while parents are gone at sessions) There were 250 kids to be entertained and it was really alot of fun!
They had lots of booths with really cool things being sold...so I did get a couple times to steal away and look at all the stuff!
They also had two pizza parties for the vollenteers...one on Thursday and Saturday. Now, that was fun and the pizza was sooo good (I love pizza...if you can't tell)
I had a chance to see and meet so many people....including people I hadn't seen in a long time! It was so great to get connected with old friends and of course make lots of new friends!
It was really lots of fun and I can't wait till next year's homescooling conference!
One thing I also can't wait till....is when I can finally get my licence! I can go to take the test starting May 1st! But I don't think I will be quite ready by then....I still need to practice parallel parking. Anybody have any tips on that? I need all the help I can get!
The end of May my family and I will be going to a christian family camp, that has cabins we will stay in and all sorts of fun (tennis, volleyball, swimming, games, fellowship, etc) I can't wait! It should be lots of fun!
And then in June, my sister and I will be staying to take care of a lady's house (while she is gone to France for 12 days) Party Time! Almost, only that in the middle of that Chloe and I will be going to take our ACT Test.....not fun.....and I will probably be worrying about that the whole time, and not enjoying myself! Oh dear! Please be praying for me....and the ACT Test....a little nerve-racking I should say!
But God is good and He is taking care of me! There is nothing to complain about. I will just do my best and God will take care of the rest. :)
Have a wonderful day!
::Are you still awake? Amazing....you should go in the guiness book of world records for surviving "hannah's long dull posts"....or you should recive an award for your durability :: I should really start giving those out. :) |
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[Mar. 10th, 2005|11:36 am] |
Hello All!
An update once again. I had a great time at TeenPact! It was truely a wonderful experience. I learned so much and had such a wonderful, fun and encouraging time there. I hope to go back again next year. :)
We leave for Holland this Monday (the 14th)! Wow! seems like its come so quickly! I am getting really excited!
A couple prayer requests if you all. If could please be praying for Chloe and I as we are in Holland. The lady that is taking us to Holland is not a Christian, so we have been praying that we could be a light and witness to her and that maybe the Lord would open up a conversation for us to share the gospel with her. That would be so wonderful!
And another thing, I have been having some muscular problems for a while. And we are thinking that I might have Fibromyalgia (pronouced: fiber-my-al-jia). I like wake up every morning with some place in my body hurting (mostly my joint areas) like arms, legs, ankles, feet, shoulders, back, elbows, knees, hip ect and now my knuckles on my fingers are really swollen and sore. When I get the pains, I get them really bad and like when I get them in my knees I can barely walk or get up from sitting. And when my shoulder or elbows start hurting I can barely lift up anything. So its gotten pretty bad and I have it all the time atleast in one of the areas I named. So we have done some reaserch and I am going to start taking some medicine we ordered and pray that it works. So if you all could be praying for me I would really appricate it. :)
Thanks so much!
God bless!
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[Jan. 5th, 2005|09:52 pm] |
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Just got finshed making 3 large loaves of banana bread. They are so delicous…..thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) missjuliamarie who inspired and motivated me to get some of my own baking done. We also went ahead and tried a new recipe of a certain candy/taffy mixture called ‘divinity’. They taste really good and I think are going to be a hit around our house. :)
I was just reading in 2 Timothy and came across a really neat passage in chapter 2 verses 3&4.
“Endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs----he wants to please his commanding officer”
I just thought that was a really neat picture of us as christians living this life as soldiers of the Lord (our commanding officer) and how sometimes we can get distracted and off track of what our Commander wants us to do……we can get distracted by the things of this world, the business of life, and an earthly desire to do our own things. And we really need to see and understand what Paul was trying to say to Timothy in that verse “Stay strong, keep with the commands from your Officer, don’t get distracted by other things” We need to keep our focus on God and have a desire to please Him and do whatever He asks of us……and though it may be difficult at times and we will have to die give up our earthly pleasures……we have a reward and crown waiting for us in eternity……and it won’t be very long until we will we see our Lord and Savior face to face.....so.......
“Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain”
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[Jan. 3rd, 2005|03:11 pm] |
I had a great time on our 4 day New Years trip to Iowa to spend time with our family on my moms side! I had lots of fun spending alot of time with the girl cousins my age. We basically had a slumber party each night and stayed up til 2 to 3 in the morning (that may explain why I got my cold...since I didn't get alot of sleep) but it was fun and I had some wonderful opprotunites to share God's truths with them.
I had one wonderful talk in paticular on the last night with one of my catholic cousins (they are all catholic). She was talking about how her dad isn't really good (religious) because he doesn't go to church and do good works like their family does. And I just started to share with her that doing good works, going to church a certain amount of times, not doing this or that, etc is not what makes us "good" or what is going to get us to heaven. I went on to explain how we are sinners and that we can't do anything good that will make God accept us or that will get us to heaven....we are totally unable,"There is no one righteous no not one" and that we need to relize that we can try to do good and try to do things, but that is not what gets us to heaven. That is not Gods way. And I went on to say that the only thing we need to see is that we are sinful and can't do any of it on our own. But Christ died for us and took our place for the punishment. And we need to repent and trust that God paid the punishment for us and not on the basis that if we do so much he will accept us. It is paid for....He said...."It is finished" And he covered me in is blood! I don't have to live as if I need to try to do things to win Gods love.....he gave it freely.....though I do have a desire to please Him" and told her that I have the assurance that I will be with Him for eternity and quoted the verse "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life"........anyways I explained alot more and basically was trying to make the point that "We can't do it on our own and work for our salvation by doing good workds etc. Only by the blood of Jesus are we paid for and clean"
She was listening and I hope I planted a seed....and that she would be thinking about that....or maybe somtime in the future.
It was really wonderful and I thank God for opening the door there and letting me be a light! He really blessed me!
I hope you all had a wonderful New Year! Its so exciting to think of what God has in store and will doing in 2005!
Ephesians 5:8
"For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of the light, find out what pleases the Lord." |
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| Giving it unconditionally to Him.......... |
[Dec. 29th, 2004|08:49 am] |
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I was just pondering this morning, thinking how important it is to give everything to God. So many times christians only give 60% to God and say "Here Lord, you can have this part of my life, but I want to keep this 40% because its kind of important to me and you might mess it up" And even just giving 95%. And I easily find myself doing this, its really hard to give my life and everything in it fully to God. But God has been tapping on my heart and saying "Give me everything. trust me....I know what I am doing....I am the God who made you, who knows everything about you....don't you think I would know...trust me"
And I have really relized how I have been holding back some things, so I gave everything completely to God and trust that He can do whatever he desires in me.....I am willing. :)
You know, the Lord wants us to fully surrender everything to him. Because if we don't , He can't accomplish everything that he desires to do in us to the fullest. We need Christ to be first place in everything! Otherwise we are basically running most of our life and Christ isn't Lord of all our life. God wants to take everything we have and change us fully, make us a tool for a great purpose and for a great use.
2 Timothy 2:20-21
"In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for noble purposes and some for ignoble. If a man cleanses himself from the latter, he will be an
instrument for noble purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work.
Somtimes we ask "Lord why don't I see a big change in me?" Maybe its because you are holding back the areas God wants to change. You won't find great change if you are holding a great amount back. He wants all of you.....and you can trust that he will accomlish more that you can fathom.
Hebrews 10:22
Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith......let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful."
1 Cor 2:9
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has concived what God has prepared for those who love Him" |
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| LotR Christmas |
[Dec. 25th, 2004|02:35 pm] |
Here is a rendition of a song I made up, having to do with LotR.....
Frodo the Blue Eyed Hobbit
(rendition of "Rudolf the red nose Reeindeer"
Frodo the big eyed hobbit
Had very big blue eyes
And if you ever saw them
You would even say they shined
All of the other Hobbits
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Frodo
Join in any hobbit games
Then one warm summers eve
Gandalf came to say
Frodo with your eyes so bright
Won't you distroy the ring tonight
Then all the hobbits loved him
As they shouted out with glee
Frodo the blue eyed hobbit
You'll go down in History (like the movies!) :)
Wadda ya think? :) Merry Christmas |
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[Dec. 25th, 2004|01:32 pm] |
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| | "We wish you a Hobbit Christmas...oh I mean "merry christmas | ] |
Merry Christmas!!!!
Hope everyone has a blessed Christmas!!!.
be sure not to eat too much :) |
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[Dec. 23rd, 2004|10:55 pm] |
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It's In the Valley I Grow
Sometimes life seems hard to bear,
Full of sorrow, trouble and woe
It's then I have to remember
That it's in the valleys I grow.
If I always stayed on the mountain top
And never experienced pain,
I would never appreciate God's love
And would be living in vain.
I have so much to learn
And my growth is very slow,
Sometimes I need the mountain tops,
But it's in the valleys I grow.
I do not always understand
Why things happen as they do,
But I am very sure of one thing.
My Lord will see me through.
My little valleys are nothing
When I picture Christ on the cross
He went through the valley of death;
His victory was Satan's loss.
Forgive me Lord, for complaining
When I'm feeling so very low.
Just give me a gentle reminder
That it's in the valleys I grow.
Continue to strengthen me, Lord
And use my life each day
To share your love with others
And help them find their way.
Thank you for valleys, Lord
For this one thing I know
The mountain tops are glorious
But it's in the valleys I grow!
Author: Jane Eggleston |
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| LotR Craze |
[Dec. 23rd, 2004|02:24 pm] |
Well this december as come (and is almost gone) with no LotR movie……..wahhhhhhhh ::sniff:: yep, not another great movie to look forward to this year. Lets just hope PJ (peter jackson) does ‘The Hobbit’. But still, as a major ringer (for you who aren’t as crazy as I am and don’t understand that statement.....it means I am a major Lotr Fan ;).....looking forward to each year when one comes out, I can feel kind of sad that there isn’t one this year. Ahhhh the memories of dressing up as an elf, wearing my LotR t-shirt, heading to the theater for the 12:00 a.m (midnight) showing. With the wonderful smell of buttered popcorn and the excitement and anticipatioin of what I am about to see (after months of waiting and watching the trailer tons of times) And then being overly satified when I leave, relizing it was even greater than I expected. :) But you know, LotR isn’t everything. And of course I don’t want to get an earthly mindset on things that are only going to be gone in a matter of time.
But I do love the movies and am a major fan…..and still wish there was yet another movie.......
But I was cheered up today when a friend said I reminded her of Samwise Gamgee (of being a good friend) Which I should say is the best compliment one could give me :)
Frodo:Go back, Sam. I'm going to Mordor alone.
Sam: Of course you are. And I'm coming with you!! |
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[Dec. 21st, 2004|09:30 am] |
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"When your looking at yourself, your destined to be discouraged. For your self is weak and wicked. But if you look to Christ, you shall be encouraged for His Holiness and Love are perfect and there is no true point in Him that is not altogether beautiful." |
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[Dec. 21st, 2004|09:46 am] |
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| | Hold on to Jesus ....humming in my head | ] |
At times I find myself getting discouraged, feeling tired, and drained. And I relize that I am looking too much to my own strength…….looking too much to myself and not to Christ. Relizing that I am not giving all my worries and cares to Him, but trying to figure out and do it myself…… And then finding that I am weak and without strength, knowing I can’t do it on my own ablity, like a little child trying to do a big person's job. Striving to accomplish something or climb a great feat on my own….dicovering I can’t get far. But when I fall in Jesus arms and let Him carry me I see how much He can accomplish through me. And how light my load and burden are when I rest in Him. Letting him climb the mountains and steep ways for me that I can’t do. Just letting it all go to Him, and He can show me and guide me in what I need to do and all I need to do is listen, trust and obey. Being filled and renewed with His wonderful words of Life……getting His directions for me........and oh how joyful and content I feel when I know I am not alone and trying to figure out everything on my own, but that I have a powerful and loving God who is willing to take my life (along with its not so good things) and make it His own.....growing, changing, loving, caring, molding, and tranforming it. :) And I have that promise! Phillipians 1:6
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. |
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