Are you overwhelmed by what Jesus did on the cross for you? I know I fall short in understanding what really took place for my life. He died so that I may live. God sent Jesus to show us His faithfulness and character. He wanted to be in relationship with us. God knew that Jesus would be mocked, beaten and wounded. Jesus took on my sin, do I even understand the cost of my sin? I know that I can question if God knew what he was doing. Did He really know how many times I was going to fail? Does He really believe that I was worth the death of His son?
This song is God telling us that He knew what He was getting into when he created us.
Take time to just listen to the words and reflect on what God might want to tell you.
You have great worth and value. You are called by name. You were bought with a price.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God. who loved me and gave himself for me.
I want to take this time and encourage you. Take a second to
think about how you view God. The same God who created the sunsets, stars,
flowers and the air that we breathe created you! You have immense value to Him,
he knows you by name and His love will never change. You could spit in God’s
face and believe it or not His love for you wouldn’t change. He longs for you
to know Him and to call upon Him. You are fearfully and wonderfully made in HIS
IMAGE. You are the dwelling place of God. Do you really believe that you are a
Co-heir with Christ? Your Father is Holy, a King and He loves you in a way that
no one ever could.
I’m not sure about you but I have a hard time really
comprehending these truths. I’m so quick to fear the unknown. I need to put my
faith in God who is Faithful, Strong and Constant! Not only do I need to know
the truths of His character I need to live as I believe them. The Lord of all
has great plans for us and we need to start believing them.
I want to say thank you so much for your prayers and support.
It is such a different journey trusting in the Lord for finances and the funny
thing about them is I always need them. He however has been so faithful and I
haven’t gone hungry once. He is such a personal God and really knows the
desires of my heart and continues to bless me with random things I love like
ice creamJ.
I’m currently staffing a Discipleship Training School (DTS)
and although it looks different then what I expected the Lord has His hand on
this school. We have 2 very different students who are definitely in the right
place at the right time for this school. I’m so thankful that the Lord has
trusted me with 2 girls to encourage, teach and love.
We are running Mission Adventures again next week and we are
expecting 18 students. This program involves 4 days of teaching and allowing
time to get to know God and His character. Then the next 6 days we will be on
outreach. This time I’m going into an aboriginal community to share the love of
Christ and teach them practical life skills. I will be co leading a team of 8
students and I’m so excited to also be encouraging these students to really
pursue God.
Then my next adventure will be taking the DTS students to
Canberra for a 2 week training session. This will hopefully be a great time of
fellowship since we are such a small school. There will be around 1,000 people
gathering to meet for this meeting. Then when we return from that we pack our
bags and head out for our outreach phase. We will be going to Singapore for a
week for orientation and culture awareness training. Then we are in India for
11 weeks. While in India we will be working with women who have been rescued
from abuse. We will be working with orphans and just loving them along with
helping out with facilities. Then we will be doing some work in the slums of
India not sure what way we will be helping out with at this moment though.
Overall our goal is to show every single person we come in contact with the
love Christ has for them. Please keep us in your prayers and that hearts be
softened and that the Holy Spirit goes before us laying down the path.
Even though these last 7months have been challenging and
difficult, I do know the Lord is at work here. I’m so humbled to be his
beautiful daughter and that he has called me to make his name known here in
Australia. As soon as I feel like I’m not measuring up he prompts someone to encourage
me with how I’ve impacted them. He is so faithful and I can’t help but want to
tell everyone how much the Lord loves them. There is nothing we can do to earn
His love, He just does because we are His.
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Why do I worry? Why do I have fear of the unknown? Why do I
freak out?
If I really grasped how massive God is I wouldn’t struggle
with any of those things above. It never seems to fail that once God breaks the
box I put him in I then put him back in another slightly bigger one.
When has God ever failed? If he has never failed and never
changes why do I sometimes fail to trust His plan... it sounds ridiculous that I
fall so short in trusting in Him for the plan he created for ME?! What on earth
makes me believe that I can trust in myself for a plan I didn’t think of?
Take a minute to think about God.
God is Love:Just:Holy:Faithful:Jealous:Healer:Merciful:Patient:Provider:Comforter:Compassionate.
I have been finding it hard here in Darwin to not get caught
up in my expectations for things. Sometimes I get so frustrated because things
are falling short of what I want them to be. I get restless when I don’t
understand what the next step is. I fear when I think about how much things
cost here and wonder how God will provide. I become overwhelmed when I take on
too much. These things shouldn’t be consuming my thoughts God’s faithfulness
should be.
As I was sitting in church and the pastor was talking about
healings it hit me straight in the face about how selfish I was being. The massive
God of the universe wants to use me for His glory and all I can think about is
how much I’m missing “home” and my comforts of life. He choose to heal me
completely for His glory, I couldn’t be doing what I’m doing without that
healing. He gave me my strength back and showed himself to me in my most
desperate hour. It’s because of him I have life and to think that I have any
right to live for my comforts is crazy.
What is even more mind blowing is that even though I become
selfish He still extends His hands out asking me to surrender to Him. Every
time I fall short, He is there extending His grace and mercy ready to help me
again. The God we server is AMAZING!
The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of
who God is. I encourage you to spend some time with God asking Him to reveal
His character to you; sometimes we just pick and choose what we want to view
Him as and that doesn’t allow us to fully experience him.
So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how
can we lose? If God didn’t hesitate to put everything on the line for us,
embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own
Son, is there anything else he wouldn’t gladly and freely do for us? And who
would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God’s chosen? Who would dare
even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for
us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you
think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ’s love
for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger,
not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst
sins listed in Scripture:
They kill us in cold blood because they hate
you. We’re sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus
loves us. I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic
or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely
nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus
our Master has embraced us.
