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madeinheaven413
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Country: United States
Gender: Female
Interests: knowing God and becoming more deeply acquainted with Him, drama, acting, getting to know people, and making every day count. MISSIONS! I love missions. And Italy... I want to live there someday.
Expertise: Well, I'm an expert at needing God's grace, that's for sure! Otherwise... acting. I'm pretty stinkin good at that. :)
Occupation: Student
Industry: Government
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Member Since:
1/30/2004
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| Ok... so check out this awesome quote that I found...
"Faith is the audacity that rejoices in the fact that God cannot break His own Word."
Smith Wigglesworth
Is that not just awesome??? I love it! I don't think I'll elaborate on it further... I'm sure it speaks for itself...
Well... maybe not. :*smile* I love this. Trusting God... it's so awesome, really. Yeah, it's probably the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, but then again it does get easier each time I trust Him... and He just brings me further into knowing Him... and that's been my goal all along. Just to know God more. I want to know as much as I can. And part of knowing Him is having a revelation of His love... knowing His power... trusting Him with absolutely everything. And I don't even know the half of it. What I do know is that I am totally willing to lay everything I am, everything I have, and every part of my life down before Him so He can do whatever He wants with it.
And I don't really care what the cost is - I want to live my life by taking the word of God literally. You know? The just shall live by faith... that verse is mentioned 3 times in the Bible... and without faith it is impossible to please God... faith. This part of my life has really been where the rubber meets to road... and I must say that the only way that I can live like this is to completely have everything surrendered to God. That's the only way to not worry about stuff... to realize that no matter what God will direct my steps and take care of me if I am willing to trust Him and do what His Word says to do...
I mean, when the Bible says that nothing is impossible to him that believes... Is that really true? Really. NOTHING impossible? That's a pretty bold statement. And an even bolder life if one chooses to live it. Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"
In Matthew 17:19-20 Jesus said, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
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Luke 1:37, "For nothing is impossible with God."
Nothing impossible.
Think about that... NOTHING is impossible. Nothing. Not just what you can think of as impossible... your craziest dreams of what could be impossible are possible with God and so much more... if you choose to put your faith out there to recieve it and unequivocally trust God with all that you have. And OBEY what He tells you to do. My goodness. Obedience... that's another thing. How many times has God told you (me included) to do something and you didn't do it??? It seems like such an easy decision to decide to obey God right now, but then in a situation where God tells you to do something... the heat comes and at least for me... I know I don't obey as much as I should.
-God forgive me. Help me and give me the grace to obey you everytime...-
I mean, seriously - what's the big risk? There really isn't one... especially if God tells you to go talk to someone you don't know or do something for someone, or it may be something small like tell them Jesus loves them... and really... what's the huge risk? You probably won't ever see the person again. Especially if they don't go to Heaven. I wish I wasn't so guilty of the things I am typing right now... but thank God for His grace...
Psalm 37:25, "I have been young and now am old, yet have I not seen the [uncompromisingly] righteous forsaken or their seed begging bread." | | |
| Wow. It's been a long time.
Anyone who feels led... please pray over my tuition. I need another miracle for this semester! God is taking care of it, I know He is. So, I ask that if you feel led to pray - pray that the miracle will come uninterrupted. I know the miracle is on its way and God has things taken care of. God is never wrong. If something doesn't happen it's not His fault, it's mine or something that happened along the way. So, if you would just pray that all attempts to destroy that miracle would be stopped that would be awesome. I have already asked God for the miracle and I am done asking. It is in God's hands and I am fully persuaded and completely content that He is WILLING AND ABLE to take care of me and do what He has promised.  Thank you for your prayers. | | |
| Alright. This is a MUST READ. I haven't posted in well... a long while. And this is worth your time.
Today I saw in the natural a miracle that God has been planning for a long time.
Thursday, October 13th I recieved a letter from Oral Roberts University informing me that if I did not turn in $4,232.50 within 10 days I would be de-enrolled. Now let me tell you - I have known ever since the beginning of the summer that this year at ORU was going to HAVE to be a complete miracle. I came here totally on faith, knowing that in the natural paying for college was not possible.
My dad recieved a word from God - supernatural. God spoke to my father and told Him that He was going to pay for it supernaturally.
When I recieved that letter I honestly felt that I did not know what else to do. I felt like I hit a brick wall because I came to school on faith, I gave whenever the devil would turn up the pressure on my tuitition. I gave whenever and to whomever the Lord directed me. I called my dad and asked him what I should do. He said rest. Rest and thank God for your miracle. And then I asked my dad if I should tell anyone and he said, "The Holy Spirit will tell whoever needs to know and you only tell people that God tells you to tell." Within the next two weeks God only insructed me to tell 4 people. And it all happened very supernaturally. I'm saying I would not have even seen these people to tell them if God did not work supernaturally. Even my closest friend at school did not know my situation! No one had any idea! And it was two days before the money was due!
THEN, midnight Wednesday night God spoke and my fellow students decided to raise the money that I needed. Between midnight that night and about noon on Friday (TODAY) ALL OF THE MONEY CAME IN. And it was GOD.
I cannot even begin to tell everything that has happened. People have been calling me nonstop wanting to hear the story and it roughly takes about 45 min. to explain the extent of how God worked this miracle and all of the preparation that He did in me to be able to stand and trust Him through all of this. AND IT'S NOT OVER. I still have two more payments to make this semester and next semester I am also completely relying on the Lord to bring the funds to keep me at school. I KNOW HE IS. He already has the miracle in progress. Thank you, God that it is done.
SO, rejoice with me. Be encouraged because GOD IS FAITHFUL. Fearlessly go forth and do WHATEVER He has called you to do. | | |
| Gosh, where does the time go?
Sorry... nothing super wonderfully interesting to post about, I guess that would explain the lack of posting... I went trail jogging today. That was pretty fun. I really liked it. I was supposed to go mountain biking, but it was too wet. Jogging was great though.
Fall Break is coming up in about two weeks. Crazy! This semester is going by so fast. But it's awesome. I love it.
Well, that's all for now, I have stuff I have to get done! | | |
| Alright... my brother Peter called it - it IS time for another post!
I formally apologize for not keeping up with my xanga! Life is busy as of late... lots of ministry, school, and work.
ANYWAYS... I am EXCITED!!!!!! Excited, excited, excited!!!! The Lord just dropped this in my heart on Sunday morning in church... I hope that it blesses all of you like it has blessed me.
Hebrews 12:27... get ready...
ok... start in the last part of verse 26...
"Yet once more I will shake and make tremble not only the earth but also the heavens. Now this expression, Yet once more, indicates the final removal and transformation of all that can be SHAKEN - that is, of that which has been created - IN ORDER THAT WHAT CANNOT BE SHAKEN MAY REMAIN and continue."
WOW. The FINAL removal of all things that can be shaken so that only what cannot be shaken will remain. My goodness gracious, that is powerful. God is shaking things, I know He is shaking me and refining me right now - and that is exciting! Shaking me so that all of the shakable things are removed and only the unshaken will remain in my life! Praise the Lord.
I do believe that this is also happening worldwide. In light of the recent events in the south. Things are being shaken. Judgement is happening. With judgement comes refining, with judgement comes reward as well as punishment. WATER speaks of judgement, but it also speaks of cleansing!
Shaken. Don't be afraid to be shaken. It takes faith to stand in the midst of shaking, in the midst of chaos, but in the words of David - I have been young and I have been old and I have never seen the righteous forsaken. | | |
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