Sunday, December 11, 2011
Saturday, December 10, 2011
big o jet airliner... don't carry me too far away.
or do.
yes please.
as of monday, i:
yes please.
as of monday, i:
- am M.I.A.
- gone for 2 months.
- won't exist in the blogging world.
i can't wait to get back and tell you what i've been doing.
email me if you want updates!
adios amigos.
love,
me.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
pride and fear
as usual, God has been working so much. i preached this week.
yes, you read that correctly, i PREACHED yesterday. it was only about 10 minutes, but it was a message, and it was from God.
so. intense.
David Gava gave us the assignment to prepare a 10 minute message on the Kingdom of God and he told us that he would sporadically call on people. of course, he never did and on friday morning before he left he picked my friend Jessica. i was supposed to go second, but luckily he couldn't find me. so i've just been biding my time, thinking the leaders wouldn't keep calling on me, but wednesday they opened up the floor for anyone who felt they should go.
nobody went.
then caleb and lucy were pointing at me, and i knew that if someone didn't volunteer i would be on the chopping block.
so i stood up. and then thought to myself, what the hell did i just do?!
i prayed that the holy spirit would fill me up with the message and that i would just flow without thinking about what was going on. boy, did the holy spirit flow. i wasn't scared at all, and it was kind of an adrenaline rush! here's what i spoke about:
Matthew 13:44-46 the parable of the hidden treasure and the pearl. i read this, and new exactly what i wanted to say. both parables talk about selling all your possessions to obtain something really great. if the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure that it worth selling on all your belongings to buy it, why am i too afraid to get up in front of my peers to talk about the love of Jesus? we should be willing to lay down everything we have to obey God and do the work of the kingdom. not laying down my fears is just a form of pride, that i am too proud to swallow my fear an go for it. it's like saying God isn't good enough. we should be willing to follow Christ with reckless abandon.
this is the condensed version, but you get the drift. God has really been breaking me of my pride. James 4:10 - Humble yourself before the Lord and He will lift you up.
i ended the whole she-bang with "...and that's all i have to say." it was weird because, i had one more point to make, but i was just done.
so. intense.
David Gava gave us the assignment to prepare a 10 minute message on the Kingdom of God and he told us that he would sporadically call on people. of course, he never did and on friday morning before he left he picked my friend Jessica. i was supposed to go second, but luckily he couldn't find me. so i've just been biding my time, thinking the leaders wouldn't keep calling on me, but wednesday they opened up the floor for anyone who felt they should go.
nobody went.
then caleb and lucy were pointing at me, and i knew that if someone didn't volunteer i would be on the chopping block.
so i stood up. and then thought to myself, what the hell did i just do?!
i prayed that the holy spirit would fill me up with the message and that i would just flow without thinking about what was going on. boy, did the holy spirit flow. i wasn't scared at all, and it was kind of an adrenaline rush! here's what i spoke about:
Matthew 13:44-46 the parable of the hidden treasure and the pearl. i read this, and new exactly what i wanted to say. both parables talk about selling all your possessions to obtain something really great. if the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure that it worth selling on all your belongings to buy it, why am i too afraid to get up in front of my peers to talk about the love of Jesus? we should be willing to lay down everything we have to obey God and do the work of the kingdom. not laying down my fears is just a form of pride, that i am too proud to swallow my fear an go for it. it's like saying God isn't good enough. we should be willing to follow Christ with reckless abandon.
this is the condensed version, but you get the drift. God has really been breaking me of my pride. James 4:10 - Humble yourself before the Lord and He will lift you up.
i ended the whole she-bang with "...and that's all i have to say." it was weird because, i had one more point to make, but i was just done.
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