Through a Servant's Heart: July 2009

7.14.2009

3 days to Wales!

Today, I had to go to Mobile and get some stuff ready for the mission trip to Wales. I had lunch with Ashley and had a great day! I came home and started preparing for the trip. I can not wait! I am praying that God will begin to soften the hearts of the people that we will be going to minister to in Wales! May God Bless and Keep you!

7.13.2009

A day of preparation!

Today, I prepared for my Youth Minister position interview at Marlow United Methodist Church by completing all the necessary paperwork. I am praying that God would direct my steps in this and all areas of my life, serving God through everything that has came about. I hope that I can reach people with the gospel daily and not be a sideline Christian. I want to present my life a living and holy sacrifice to God. I will be going to Wales in 4 days! I am super excited about the experience! God is truly amazing! Blessed the Lord, Oh my soul and all that is within me, bless His holy name. How spectacular is our God! May God Bless and Keep you!

It is the Day that the Lord has made, Let's Rejoice and Be Glad in it!!

Good evening, I did not get to post anything yesterday, but it was a great day none the less. I was able to speak God's Word at Peniel Baptist Church last night. I spoke on the life of Jeremiah and how that throughout his entire prophetic career of roughly 40 years, he declared God's judgements to the nations, and he never saw even one soul turn for their other gods or the works of their own hands. The faithfulness of such a man that stood for God even when the world was laughing at him and persecuting him for following and doing what God told him to do. Jeremiah 1:4-10,16-17 were the scripture references I used. God knew everything about Jeremiah even before he was born and God set his life apart for Christian service as a prophet. After God revealed this to Jeremiah, Jeremiah doubted like many of us when we are called to Christian service or another vocation. Jeremiah said that He was too young and did not know how to speak. God then went on to tell Him not to say that he was too young and that to all the people that He would send Jeremiah to, he was to go. God then told Jeremiah that He had set him over the nations and that His words would be in Jeremiah's mouth and basically pronounce His judgement that would come to the nations if they didn't turn from their gods and the works of their hands. In the end, no one turned back to God, Jeremiah faithfully spoke the word of God, time after time. Even though no one listened and the prophesies came true in the end, Jews were scattered and all that Jeremiah had told these people came true. Jeremiah even grieved for these people. Remember to be faithful through any situation that you are faced with. Follow what God tells you to do, even if it seems to produce no change! What a mighty God we serve! God Bless and Keep you!

7.11.2009

Blogging start!

I have come into the blogging world. I am truly blessed and have awesome God that loves and watches over me daily. Today, I went to work that He provided me with. I had a fun day preparing for my Sunday evening sermon. I believe that God has huge plans in store for my life and I can't let anything get in the way of me becoming exactly who He wants me to be currently, as well as in the future. God, give me direction in this life that I live and reveal to me what You would have me to do to follow Your plan wholly. I love You God. Help me to overcome the power of the world, by Your power that lives in me. Amen. May God Bless and Keep you!

Words to Live By

None is righteous, no, not one, no one understands, no one seeks God. All have turned aside.... (Romans 3:10-11a)

For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6)

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. (Romans 8:1)

So if the Son sets you free , you will be free indeed. (John 8:36)

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is a gift of God. (Ephesians 2:8)

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. (1 Timothy 6:12)

Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. (2 Timothy 4:2)

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:6)

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit. (Hebrews 4:12)

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)

Thus says the Lord: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord." (Jeremiah 9:23-24)

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2-4)

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13)

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. (Psalm 1:1-2)

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:58)

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:1-2)

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." (John 16:33)

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. (Philippians 4:8)

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)

because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. (Romans 10:9-10)

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. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:1-3)

All scripture is from the English Standard Version, Holy Bible.