Psalms 34:17-18
The righteous cry out and the Lord hears them; He delivers them from their troubles. The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
The passage above was given to me a few years ago when I was short $60 rent money. I went to a prayer meeting and prayed with other believers trusting in God to help me. The next day, in a blank envelope, $60 and this verse was slipped under my door. This verse blessed me and gave me encouragement, but I forgot about it until recently. One of my friends was struggling with a problem unknown to me and this verse came to my head. I gave it to my friend but also left it on my desk at work so I could read this promise each day. Since then three different people have come to me saying that they needed that verse and through leaving a handwritten verse on my desk I was given the chance to spread God's word and love to an unbeliever. Please keep this person in your prayers. Its amazing how easy it can be to share Jesus with some one. Think about people you run into each day. The fellow students in your class, your coworkers, even the bum on the street who begs for money. Do you take the time to stop and think about their souls? Where they will spend eternity? People are dying inside all around us, they have no hope, they hunger and thirst for something they don't understand. My pastor spoke about the Harvest on Subday morning. Look around you and open your spiritual eyes... the harvest is ready. Lets pray about how God can use us in bringing the lost to Him. I'm guilty, as well.
Yes, I have finally updated my site. Things have been a bit crazy for me lately but all is well. Saturday pie making was great fun and it only took 3 hrs to make 15 pies, so I'm impressed. What impresses me more is the fact that the pies went over really well.Anyhow, life has been busy to say the least. If I'm not doing things with IV, I'm planning get togethers or getting ready for Leah's wedding. Soon, hopefully, I will get to have some time for myself. Here is something you can pray about, my dreams.
For the past two weeks I have been having very disturbing dreams of people trying to kill me and them killing people who I love dearly in front of me. Now I haven't been watching bad movies or eating before I go to bed, nor have I read any books that involve plots like that. I believe that they are all spiritually based. In my dreams those bad people have tried to make me denounce my God and made me a fugitive. None of my dreams are the same but I remember most of them completely. So much so that they plague me while I'm awake. I hate the fact that I wake up in the night with tears streaming down my face, then sleep is hard to find. I'm completely exhausted everyday. Except today that is. Last night before bed I prayed over my room and my bed then laid my dreams in the Lord's hands. I slept peacefully the whole night and had a good dream. But I've prayed before too. So I don't know whats going on. Please lift me up in your prayers.
On a positive note tonight should be lots of fun but I can't go into detail until later, like tomorrow.
Also, I would love to hear from you all. My email has been none existant so use the form on my home page and sent me a note. Have a great one!
Today is a cool day. Literally, but thats not what I mean. Once again God has shown his faithfullness and love to me. A great part time job has fallen in my lap. Amy told me about a woman who was in need of someone to stay at her house with a foreign exchange student while she was at work. Well, by the time I had actually gotten through to her she had already found someone but still needed me to fill in whenever the other girl couldn't be there. All I have to do is basically just sleep. I'll stay overnite with the student and leave around 6am. Which is perfect. Then she was like I know of a few other people who are looking for someone to do the same type of work and one who needs a babysitter for her baby. Cool beans! I love kids so this will work out perfect because I'm not committed to a job unless I want to. So I can still have a life and earn money at the same time. So today is a great day!
Now I have a little story about my most recent bruise, which is ugly and is the size of a large (really really big) potato. This morning some of my friends did a favor for me and brought over 6 gallons of ice cream to put in our freezer at work. After the ice cream was safely stored, I showed them around the warehouse main floor. They happen to notice our pallet jack. (you may or may not remember my earlier experience with the pallet jack look back in the archives around the beginning of Aug). Anyway I wouldn't let them drive it but I showed them that I could. Well this thing has a bar for a steering wheel with the controls on the top (it looks like a big T), I was driving around when one of the guys jumped off and decided to jump back on.But he had grabbed the steering T and pulled us sharply to the left which threw me into the steering thing. It hurt really bad but I didn't want them to feel bad so I covered it up. After they left I went to the restroom to check out my boo-boo. It covers the inside of leg above my left knee about 5inches long and 3inches wide and growing. Ouch! At any rate, what can I say, I'm accident prone.
Tomorrow I'll be making apple pies for an Intervarsity fundraiser. This has the potential to raise a large amount of cash for IV. So if you could keep us in your prayers that would be wonderful. Pray for good weather, good turn out to the concert "Many Nations One Voice," and for good food sales for everyone involved. God be with you today and may His blessings fall on us in abundence.