This earth is so unstable. Just like life itself.
There has been several earthquakes these past few days, here in Taiwan. They range from 3-4, but one was a 5.5. Though in Hualien, we can feel them here.
What if there is an even bigger one? Will my 13 Floor building collapses?
Is this my time? Will I be brave enough to think of what to do with my kids?
I worship the Lord and look to Him. He is solid ground. He is my ROCK and my Foundation. He is stable. Even if the earth and life itself isn't...I am because I am found in Him.
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
ReNEW my Mind God!
Wow! I have been saying, "Lord I need You", over and over again for so many years, and though this may be true in one sense, a revelation I just received is actually, Wow, Lord, I HAVE You! I HAVE You! I HAVE YOU!!!!
I have Him LIVING in me!!!
2 Cor 5: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
I am in Christ, I AM a new creation. Wow, God, thank You Lord!!!!
Renew my mind to have this kind of thinking, where I realize I already Have You! And no longer need the thing that I already have :) And that's amazing!!!
I have Him LIVING in me!!!
2 Cor 5: 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
I am in Christ, I AM a new creation. Wow, God, thank You Lord!!!!
Renew my mind to have this kind of thinking, where I realize I already Have You! And no longer need the thing that I already have :) And that's amazing!!!
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Perfect LOVE
"When we become a Christian, we don't learn to love, we become love" - Todd White
Holy Spirit, perfect love, lives in us...wow, how amazing is that?
But do we really believe that? Everywhere we take a step, to work, in our house, to a restaurant, or the store...this perfect love is in us...WOW!
I don't think we truly understand that and that's why we are constantly in this phase of trying to learn to love...only those moments that we can understand that we have this perfect love in us, dwelling in our bodies, can we walk out that we have become love..."we have become light of the world, a city on a hill, a light not under a basket, but on the stand for the whole house to see" Mt 5:14-15.
I'm so convicted. I haven't represented this perfect love...everywhere I go. I'm sorry Lord.
Good-bye to road rage. Good-bye to attitudes to rude service. Good-bye to being hurt at hurtful and offensive comments.
Hello to perfect love that doesn't get offended. that forgives. that loves no matter what.
Jesus, You are amazing. I praise you. I thank you for dying on the cross for my sins and taking them away and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Let me always remember Your perfect love in me everywhere I walk.
Holy Spirit, perfect love, lives in us...wow, how amazing is that?
But do we really believe that? Everywhere we take a step, to work, in our house, to a restaurant, or the store...this perfect love is in us...WOW!
I don't think we truly understand that and that's why we are constantly in this phase of trying to learn to love...only those moments that we can understand that we have this perfect love in us, dwelling in our bodies, can we walk out that we have become love..."we have become light of the world, a city on a hill, a light not under a basket, but on the stand for the whole house to see" Mt 5:14-15.
I'm so convicted. I haven't represented this perfect love...everywhere I go. I'm sorry Lord.
Good-bye to road rage. Good-bye to attitudes to rude service. Good-bye to being hurt at hurtful and offensive comments.
Hello to perfect love that doesn't get offended. that forgives. that loves no matter what.
Jesus, You are amazing. I praise you. I thank you for dying on the cross for my sins and taking them away and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Let me always remember Your perfect love in me everywhere I walk.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Rocked! I'm not the SAME!!!
This past week God has been using messages on youtube to rock our world. Absolutely rocked and ruined for the ordinary.
This video is about 2 hours long, but its better than any movie I have seen in a long time, so if you have time to watch a movie...you have time to watch this. And if you are someone hungry for the Lord and the things of the Lord....you will be rocked too:
Todd White - Set your mind on things above
If you Click above, its part 1...make sure you watch part 2 too because its awesome.
After my husband and I watched this, the Lord has been convicting our hearts...cleansing us, really. We've been confessing sin...even the little ones. We've been just more joyful, in love...with Jesus and with each other. We've been excited to do God's work and to see how He wants to use us, whenever, wherever.
I've personally been able to see that I truly am a new creation...gosh I almost feel like when I was born again! Where I am understanding God's amazing love for me and for others...letting the Lord melt the fear of man off of me so that I can have eternal perspective...loving others even if they are spitting in my face...which has never happened to me, but has happened to the one I love. And He loved back.
On top of watching this, we watched:
Francis Chan - Living with JOY
Rejoicing is a command. Not to worry or be anxious is also a command. and Yes, all the time...its possible. I felt it this past week. I haven't worried about anything...the moment it creeps in, I remember the Lord and how and why He commanded this. Wow, God! Yay, God! And I'm not writing this with my life perfect right now...I'm writing in the midst of some trials....and Paul wrote in prison!! Its possible to have joy and no worries with Jesus, no matter what.
How big is your God? Because My God is Awesome and SO SO BIG! One true encounter with Him and you will be transformed. I've been praying for more of Him...seeking Him. Praying for Him to be my one thing. And He's truly answered my prayers by allowing me to watch these messages and hear these stories...they might seem random 2 videos, but they're not. It's pretty much where do you set your mind and your heart? If it's totally on Him, you will live a totally awesome and rocked life, full of joy and no worries. Who wouldn't want that?
How much do you seek Him? How bad do you want the things of Him...not this earthly stuff.
Colossians 3:1-3 says, "If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God."
This video is about 2 hours long, but its better than any movie I have seen in a long time, so if you have time to watch a movie...you have time to watch this. And if you are someone hungry for the Lord and the things of the Lord....you will be rocked too:
Todd White - Set your mind on things above
If you Click above, its part 1...make sure you watch part 2 too because its awesome.
After my husband and I watched this, the Lord has been convicting our hearts...cleansing us, really. We've been confessing sin...even the little ones. We've been just more joyful, in love...with Jesus and with each other. We've been excited to do God's work and to see how He wants to use us, whenever, wherever.
I've personally been able to see that I truly am a new creation...gosh I almost feel like when I was born again! Where I am understanding God's amazing love for me and for others...letting the Lord melt the fear of man off of me so that I can have eternal perspective...loving others even if they are spitting in my face...which has never happened to me, but has happened to the one I love. And He loved back.
On top of watching this, we watched:
Francis Chan - Living with JOY
Rejoicing is a command. Not to worry or be anxious is also a command. and Yes, all the time...its possible. I felt it this past week. I haven't worried about anything...the moment it creeps in, I remember the Lord and how and why He commanded this. Wow, God! Yay, God! And I'm not writing this with my life perfect right now...I'm writing in the midst of some trials....and Paul wrote in prison!! Its possible to have joy and no worries with Jesus, no matter what.
How big is your God? Because My God is Awesome and SO SO BIG! One true encounter with Him and you will be transformed. I've been praying for more of Him...seeking Him. Praying for Him to be my one thing. And He's truly answered my prayers by allowing me to watch these messages and hear these stories...they might seem random 2 videos, but they're not. It's pretty much where do you set your mind and your heart? If it's totally on Him, you will live a totally awesome and rocked life, full of joy and no worries. Who wouldn't want that?
How much do you seek Him? How bad do you want the things of Him...not this earthly stuff.
Colossians 3:1-3 says, "If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God."
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
This One Thing
I want to get a tattoo of this verse, this is how much I love it! Lord, may it be so!!!
Psalms 27:4
"One thing I ask from the Lord,
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple."
this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple."
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
My Father, the Potter
Before I was a Christian I was a mess. Broken pieces, really. But Christ has made me whole again. All New and Shiny!!!
I was running one morning and realized that when I complain, doubt, or talk negative, it comes out of this broken mess and I realized that its just not true who I am. I don't need to complain about anything because thru Christ, I am learning to be content with everything. I don't need to doubt because I can trust the Lord for the impossible. What is too hard for him? I don't have to be negative, well sinfully angry, because no matter what I'm going through, Chris is my joy. I'm no longer broken so why am I speaking or acting like I still am? Christ has made me whole and I love this verse in Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
And our Father doesn't make anything ugly, nor broken!
I so appreciate my husband because when he sees me, he sees me as Christ does. Whole. Thank you to my rock star husband!
And thank you Jesus that you made me clean and new. And Father thank you that your works are beautiful. Help me to live a life that reflects who I am through and in You. Help my speech to reflect Your amazing goodness and my thoughts to meditate on Your Truths.
I was running one morning and realized that when I complain, doubt, or talk negative, it comes out of this broken mess and I realized that its just not true who I am. I don't need to complain about anything because thru Christ, I am learning to be content with everything. I don't need to doubt because I can trust the Lord for the impossible. What is too hard for him? I don't have to be negative, well sinfully angry, because no matter what I'm going through, Chris is my joy. I'm no longer broken so why am I speaking or acting like I still am? Christ has made me whole and I love this verse in Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.
And our Father doesn't make anything ugly, nor broken!
I so appreciate my husband because when he sees me, he sees me as Christ does. Whole. Thank you to my rock star husband!
And thank you Jesus that you made me clean and new. And Father thank you that your works are beautiful. Help me to live a life that reflects who I am through and in You. Help my speech to reflect Your amazing goodness and my thoughts to meditate on Your Truths.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
The Process
Recently, I got shot down by some one (not saying who), who made comments that made me realize, this person doesn't believe in what I'm doing with my life. Wow, it shook me hard. Because of who they are in my life. This made me re-evaluate everything, I mean EVERY thing in my life. Especially the fact that I live in Taiwan and am doing mission work that looks "different".
I'm not writing this to prove anything to anyone, because I know this person would never read this blog...it's more just sharing what God has shown me through this process.
Here are 3 things that I feel like God has been showing me and I feel like all of us need in order to not be led astray because our very hearts are deceptive (Jeremiah 17:9)...AND the enemy is constantly lying to us!
1. Continual and daily study in the Word: In 2 Tim 3:16 "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness".
Through out this time the Lord put Prov 16:9 heavy on my heart.
"We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps." And I just believe that I am where God meant to put me. It's not a mistake. We are being led by Him. This leads to #2
2. We have the Holy Spirit to guide us. He is our helper and lives inside of us. Romans 8:14 "For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God". I don't need to doubt that God is with me and speaks to me.
3. Having the right kind of accountability. We live in a YWAM community where the SBS (Biblical School) is solid. The study is of the entire Bible, going through each book inductively. Which means, going through the Historical background, putting your shoes in the Authors shoes of WHY they even wrote the book or letter and also learning about the Original Readers/Hearers of that book. Amazing school, teachings are sound, people here would be quickly confronted if living and or teaching something not biblically sound. Why do I share this? Because, this is our community. I think if we were to be living "off" we would be people of concern. But instead, our leaders encourage us and believe in us. In fact they do so much that my husband is also in a leadership position.
Like I said, I am not trying to show off or defend myself...and I apoligize if it seems that way. Honestly this was a hard process for me to go through and I cried a lot. At one point I felt like maybe some big decisions in my life was a mistake. I'm just trying to show you how I processed what happened when someone very close to me (but doesn't live near me to see my day to day), doubted me and my life. I went to the Word and have been Inductively studying it over the years. I seeked the Lord and prayed for the Holy Spirit to lead me. And I looked at those who know us best, who work beside us day to day and know our character, to see what kind of things they would say about us. And maybe, just maybe, this 3 step process could help you if you were ever at a point where you wanted to evaluate where you are in your life.
We're not perfect. We need Jesus. But I do think we are where God has us. I do believe we are living a life that glories Him and not ourselves.
I'm not writing this to prove anything to anyone, because I know this person would never read this blog...it's more just sharing what God has shown me through this process.
Here are 3 things that I feel like God has been showing me and I feel like all of us need in order to not be led astray because our very hearts are deceptive (Jeremiah 17:9)...AND the enemy is constantly lying to us!
1. Continual and daily study in the Word: In 2 Tim 3:16 "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness".
Through out this time the Lord put Prov 16:9 heavy on my heart.
"We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps." And I just believe that I am where God meant to put me. It's not a mistake. We are being led by Him. This leads to #2
2. We have the Holy Spirit to guide us. He is our helper and lives inside of us. Romans 8:14 "For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God". I don't need to doubt that God is with me and speaks to me.
3. Having the right kind of accountability. We live in a YWAM community where the SBS (Biblical School) is solid. The study is of the entire Bible, going through each book inductively. Which means, going through the Historical background, putting your shoes in the Authors shoes of WHY they even wrote the book or letter and also learning about the Original Readers/Hearers of that book. Amazing school, teachings are sound, people here would be quickly confronted if living and or teaching something not biblically sound. Why do I share this? Because, this is our community. I think if we were to be living "off" we would be people of concern. But instead, our leaders encourage us and believe in us. In fact they do so much that my husband is also in a leadership position.
Like I said, I am not trying to show off or defend myself...and I apoligize if it seems that way. Honestly this was a hard process for me to go through and I cried a lot. At one point I felt like maybe some big decisions in my life was a mistake. I'm just trying to show you how I processed what happened when someone very close to me (but doesn't live near me to see my day to day), doubted me and my life. I went to the Word and have been Inductively studying it over the years. I seeked the Lord and prayed for the Holy Spirit to lead me. And I looked at those who know us best, who work beside us day to day and know our character, to see what kind of things they would say about us. And maybe, just maybe, this 3 step process could help you if you were ever at a point where you wanted to evaluate where you are in your life.
We're not perfect. We need Jesus. But I do think we are where God has us. I do believe we are living a life that glories Him and not ourselves.
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