I hate

death and cancer and pain.

THE LEASE OF THESE PT.2

From When Helping Hurts.

Pray to see people created in the image of God, with self-worth and dignity.

North Americans need to overcome the materialism of Western culture and see poverty in more relational terms.

It is important to work from a perspective that we are all created in the image of God, that we are all broken, and that we can experience Christ's reconciliation.

We do have much to share out of our knowledge and experiences, but oftentimes the materially poor have an even deeper walk with God and have insights and experiences that they can share with us, if we would just stop talking and listen.

LUKE 24

I am so close to finishing reading the entire bible. A few more OT books and I'm golden. Finished Luke today. Liked this the most:

"Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?' And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself." Luke 24:26-27

I love this so much. I loved my Bible classes and to think of what it would be/will be like to sit down with Jesus as my own private tutor, of His book, showing me from the beginning all the ways in which he has fulfilled prophecy. Shoot. Dang. That. Is. Good. Jesus come quick please.

a call to specific prayers.

There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.

-Charles Spurgeon

Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

-Martin Luther

i want to pray like this.

pray for my prayers to be big, specific, and full of faith.

THE LEAST OF THESE

What is the task of the church? We are to embody Jesus Christ by doing what He did and what He continues to do through us: declare-using both words and deeds- that Jesus is the King of kings and Lord of lords who is bringing in a kingdom of righteousness, justice, and peace. And the church needs to do this where Jesus did it, among the blind, the lame, the sick and outcast, and the poor.

From When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett.

lamentations 3: 22-26

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. "The Lord is my portion, " says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him." The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.


.today's mercies.
*best friend date. coffee, breakfast, talking for hours in person! :)
*sunshine and a swimming pool. California, you are good to me.
*celebrating spontaneity with the last of the roommates by going to the city in the middle of the night (hence the late update).
*Jesus being sweeter to me today than he was yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that.




right now there are 15 days until i will be home to: have coffee dates, struggle to hold my dogs and kiss them, spend hours with grandma, sing along to bieber and eminem with cousins, go to a real beach, see my favorite teenagers, and enjoy the art of doing nothing.

Jesus take the wheel.

LUKE 5: 27-28

After this he (Jesus) went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, "Follow me." And leaving everything, he rose and followed him.