Jesus, thank You for Your faithfulness, thank You for guiding me, thank You for teaching me the truths so that I'll not be lost even when I stray...Jesus, thank You for giving me strength when I'm frustrated and depressed. Jesus I love You, thank You for reminding me that, not only do I need to have intimacy with You, but that I also need to work for the sake of the gospel. Not only do I have an inheritance in You, but You have an inheritance in me as well. Because I love You, I will go out there and tell the nonbelievers about You. I'm going to make detailed plans and strategies on how to reach out to my friends and set weekly goals for myself because Jesus, You are a Saviour who wants none to perish, but all to be saved. Hallelujah!
"I love You, O LORD, my strength." (Psalms18:1)
Today Jeniffer shared about cultivating extravagant love for Jesus. I learned that it takes eternity to grasp God's love, and that we need to work hard to nurture a passionate love for God. But we need the knowledge of who God is to love Him. How can we love someone we don't even know? If we do not have full understanding of Jesus' personality, we will be subject to the enemy's lies and become incapable of having a loving relationship with our Saviour. Since God already made the first move by giving His all to us and making Himself fully available to us, it is our responsibility to reach out to Him. In the end, it all comes down to this: just how much intimacy do we want with Jesus?
Man, Jeniffer was so full of passion and her words were really speaking life to me, that I was jotting down notes like crazy. Jeniffer YOU ROCK! AWESOME JOB TODAY!!
Jack's topic was "Holy Spirit the Counselor", and he encouraged us to read Psalms 90 and 91. God's name is the Shepherd (Psalms 23), His rod protects us and His staff guides us. In John14: 15~16, Jesus promised to give believers the Counselor from God. Our Lord is a promise keeper, His faithfulness will never allow Him to take back His own promises. We can always call upon the name of the Lord, and He will answer our cry.
Last night Jack said that Sunday services are for saints; they equip the believers and give glory to God. Jesus, help me to never forget the purpose of going to church, and help me to love my church even more.
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loving your devotion to Christ!
Hard time, yes. Focusing on God and school, I am. More than I thought I would. There's not a day where I'd worry for a test or whatnot and there's not a day where I don't take refugee under his wing. Also, I have some personal life business to take care of aka the thanksgiving skit. I love my life, don't get me wrong. I can finally open a bit of my heart to my family (mom & dad), but it's that little worry of you know who that I just can't really.. measure, I suppose. Trust me, I don't worry about "that" all too often. Seldomly I do. It's ok if you don't understand. But one day you will. Hopefully not though. haha cause it's not a good feeling. But if you do, you then might understand. It's some complicated feelings, I assure you. If I can't actually handle it as of right now, you and I both still have God. I know that. Anyway, when Jennifer preached to us about the cultivating extravagent love yesterday, I just had a mess of thoughts. When she said that the people that loves us hurts us the most.. is that correct? x_x omgosh. anyway, something like that, I just thought "man.. a part of me knows that's true, but another part of me says that there are exceptions" ahhh bad jas! x_x grr. anyways. I'm not being emo or anything, but what can I say? I'm a girl. hahaha, right sista? x)
Oh yeah, I love you too, Alice. :]
Thank you for the encouraging and beautiful words. Reminds me how we need to prophecy Life into others and I thank you. The reason I enjoy reading your blog so much is because of your worshipful and thankful heart. I guess thats one of the things I have to learn eh? To get the true revelation of God goodness and be joyful and with hearts of thanksgiving. Glad you received something but I just stole words from Mike Bickle. XD And I wonder where he gets his words from? :B You go!
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