So it would seem as though I lost my password, my computer crashed, or I was abducted by aliens given the length of time there has been in between the last [first] update. So I finished my last Spring semester as a student at NC State University, huge relief! Mixed in with school work and ministry I also videogrophied [filmed] three weddings and attended a fourth in these past few months. Add in some finals and a couple of days at home and that will quickly catch you up till now.
So I am currently taking summer school at State to be able to graduate in August in hopes of being on campus in the fall. I have to take three classes each session this summer to finish up with school, work a part time job, and find time to work on my support raising.
Well after that life update, let me give you a little perspective. Recently I was looking at
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
When I read this, it clicked. Over these past few months I had been trying to raise my support on my own. Which is exactly why I have been in such poor, comparative spirits about my support raising process. If I try to do this on my own, I WILL FAIL, but if I rely on the freely given, eternal, sovereign GRACE of God I can never loose.
Over these next two months pray with me...
1. That I would believe and preach myself the gospel
2. That I would remain in fervent prayer over support
3. That I would believe that no matter the outcome, God is God, and God is Good!
Also, please be in prayer for our three summer mission projects through our ministry
1. Summer Orlando Project
2. Cross-cultural Project in Malaysia
3. City Project- internships and mission trips done through the Summit Church
Sorry about the length, Ill try to keep updates more frequent from now on.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
So the journey begins
Tonight I am writing my support letter to send out this weekend. With this comes much reflection on life and particularly this past four years of college. I came into college knowing about Christ and the price He paid for me on the cross, but it didn't have a relationship with Him. I met two Campus Outreach staff guys playing basketball in the gym at the end of my freshmen year. In coming back to school my sophomore year I got involved in a bible study which God used to show me that I had not completely surrendered my life to Jesus. Reflecting back on these years I have seen ups and downs in life but it is clearly evident that there has been one thing that has stood firm, the love that has been so freely given to me through the work on the cross.
Throughout these next few months of support raising and transitioning from a student on the college campus to a missionary on the campus, I pray that I can continue to cling to this rock. In Matthew 7:24-27 Jesus says,
"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."
I pray that throughout this journey I will remember that just as Christ saved me from my sins and constantly covers me with grace, He too never leaves and His love never fails. To be able to look back on my life and clearly see times in which I had my house built on the sand, and now know the beautiful, secure feeling of a house built upon the rock, Christ Jesus; I want to give my life away to lost people in hopes that they too will experience this perfect love. I pray through faith, that the fruit in this season of my life would have no other explanation than the works of Christ alone.
Throughout these next few months of support raising and transitioning from a student on the college campus to a missionary on the campus, I pray that I can continue to cling to this rock. In Matthew 7:24-27 Jesus says,
"Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it."
I pray that throughout this journey I will remember that just as Christ saved me from my sins and constantly covers me with grace, He too never leaves and His love never fails. To be able to look back on my life and clearly see times in which I had my house built on the sand, and now know the beautiful, secure feeling of a house built upon the rock, Christ Jesus; I want to give my life away to lost people in hopes that they too will experience this perfect love. I pray through faith, that the fruit in this season of my life would have no other explanation than the works of Christ alone.
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