Lead me Lord.

Gods good morning to me.

I woke up to a friend that needed encouragement this morning. So, I went to the bible just looking for how she could be comforted by God promises.

"Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanks, present your present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends tall understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

Philippians 4:4-7

There is a lot of depth to this versus.  "Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again: Rejoice!" 

I like how from the beginning it puts us where we need to be. Thanking and rejoicing that we have Christ. That rejoicing being in any circumstances, including suffering.

Foot note: Anxious: self-centered, counter productive worry not legitimate cares and concerns for the spread of the gospel.

I like.. "but in everything, by prayer and petition,"

Then it goes back to thanksgiving. I love how the Lord cares about what we think. So, much so that he listens to our requests and that we are even able to make requests to Him. Then at the end we see God giving peace that being totally opposite of anxious. 

I just getting really excited to know that God has a plan for my life and that nothing can stop what He has called me to.

Jeremiah 29:11 "I know the plans I have for you,"says the Lord,"Plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."

So, not even that bad great on a test will stop what God has called me or even you too. Be encouraged in knowing that God loves you and he makes the impossible, possible.

more to come.. off to class for now.

peace.

I have decided, I have resolved, To wait upon you Lord.

This past week I gave up my normal spring break to find something more. Before spring break God had been working on me with these few scriptures.

"If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me." Matthew 16:24

"So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple." Luke 12:33

I have been working through what does it really mean to forsake all? And what if it is totally literal and that is what we are to do. I want to be in a spot where I am always dependent upon Christ to get me through. Now, as I am going through college I want to learn to be a good steward of my money. 

God has been working on me in "my plans" for my future..

Before spring break if someone was to ask me, "Jessica, where do you see yourself after college?"

I would reply that I really don't know because God hasn't showed me. Although I would say this I would become filled with anxiety and panic at the fact that I don't know what God has for me after school. I would then try to figure out what "my plan" for my life would be..

 All I know is Cody and I are getting married and sometime in the future we are called to Latin America, which requires no debt.

Through weeks and weeks of learning and the many speakers that are doing radical things with there lives, I have finally been able to trust the Lord with my future. I might not always be able to do this, but at this point I have peace. I must die to my plans of my future and grab on to what Christ has in store. This has been a work in progress. I have realized that I have trouble trusting and with God it doesn't come easy, but with this past school year God has taken the challenge and proven himself trustworthy. He has slowly changed my anxiety so, when I was asked this spring break what I was going to do after college I had peace.  I know that I can put my trust in Him and no matter what he is calling me to He will get me there in a way in which I am ready for that adjustment in my life. Through the speakers I realized that sometimes things are like a puzzle where God gives us a piece at a time. This piece is what we work on before we are granted the next. 

I am so thankful for God patience with me when I am stubborn and don't want to submit.

Love.

Lately I have been pondering this thought: It breaks my heart when people walk away from Christ. I have been learning that sometimes people have to walk away in order to really find Christ. God's love is just so amazing that even when we sin or walk away His love for us is the same.  I just can't wrap my mind around His love.

"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:

For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered sheep to slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creations, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:35-39

I posted lyrics below. I think that if you think this is about a boy and a girl love you are missing the point.

Emery: Ten Talents.

Last night I had a dream, that you decided to leave me,

and no matter what I said, my persuasion fell upon your deaf ears.

Don't leave me here alone. I'm not so good on my own.

I'm not so good. I'm not so good on my own.

Is it too late? Am I too gone? Is there something I should know?

Am I working for nothing? WIll there ever be anything to show?

Is it true? I don't know what the storybooks have told.

Though I wouldn't be so bold to say so.

Will I do what I'm told? Will I play my hand or fold?

WIll I stand my ground and hold?  I would like to think so.

But if I just walked way, would you still save me?

Or would you take back all that you gave me?

Is it took late? Am I too gone? Is there something I should know?

Are we working for nothing? IS there anything to show for the service?

Is it worthless? All the waiting is the hardest part.

Come home my dear because I love you. I love you still.

It's a slap in the face when I fell my complacency grow. 

It's the thrill of the chase, when you catch it you just let it go.

I take for granted the grace that is given me daily I know.

How can you say that you love me  when all that I want.

All that I want is your blessing and then I am gone.

Nothing I do can make up for things I have done.

Your love is all we need. We're gonna make it.

So let's close our eye tonight and just believe.

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Thanks for reading. Peace.

I need to invest in an umbrella.

So, this morning at a bible study we studied faith. We are reading a book called True Discipleship. I highly recommend it. Here are some quotes and scripture that really stuck out to me. Some of this is opinion and a lot of these is taken from True Discipleship. I have labeled.

TD:"If God commands, He enables. If He bids Peter to walk on the water, Peter can be sure that the needed power will be give. If He commands us to preach the gospel to every creature, we can be sure of the needed grace." 

Me:So,  God tells us to go lib and do some thing. All trust is in Him that we will be able to fulfill the task that he has promised. I have been thinking this week about how what in our hearts is holding us back from going all the way with God. Are we afraid that God couldn't fulfill that need in our hearts??

TD:"Faith begins where man's power ends."--- "Humanly speaking, it was impossible for Abraham and Sarah to have a child, But God had promised, and to Abraham there was only one impossibility--- that God could lie."

"Faith claims His promise, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."

Me: All i have to do is believe, but yet so many times I hold myself back.

TD:"Actually, faith is most reasonable. What is more reasonable than that a creature should trust his Creator? Faith in the Lord involves no risk whatever."

Me: No risk?? My thoughts were that it does involve a risk for me because what if  I fail.. Then I was reminded that its not me it is Him. Lack of trust  on my end.

Lastly,

TD:"Faith truly glorifies God it gives HIm HIs proper place as the One who is completely trustworthy. On the other hand, unbelief dishonors God it charges Him with lying"(1John 5:10)

Me: We are such a culture that needs proof by sight. We need to take hold of what He is saying in the Word and trust in Him. Its not through us, but through him.

Thanks for reading.

Me: Good stuff..

random.

So, i created this blog.. for no real reason. I figured I could put down some cool thoughts maybe some cool pictures??

We'll see how this goes:)

Alive in Christ...

Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord,so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the faith just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Colossians 2:6-7