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I've been primarily writing in the blog 5,395 People.


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God Still Sees

Read what I wrote about in 5,395 People today.


It's pretty neat.


God Bless :)

Waiting

Waiting and still yet, I am waiting.


Then I end up waiting and after that I wait.


Finally, I've found myself... waiting.


Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!-Psalm 27:14


"Strengthen your heart"


Whoah, I need that.


I got hired on this new job, but they aren't quite ready for me.


I have to wait.


I feel like I've been waiting sense September 13th, 2010 when a computer fell on my foot and I injured myself. The journey has been crazy. I still can't make it through several hours without being in serious pain.


How long must I wait?


My soul, wait silently for God alone, For my expectation is from Him.-Psalm 62:5


I am not sure how long, but I do know that my expectation is from Him.


From God alone.


God Bless :)

Get Ready for It

I keep on thinking of people who don't know the Lord and then I end up crying.


I am not the only one, King David said:


"Rivers of water run down from my eyes, Because men do not keep Your law."-Psalms119:136


Well said, David. I've been coming across the gay movement, atheists, teenagers in terrible relationships and the confused in general lately. Oh, how my heart breaks.


David also said, "It is time for You to act, O LORD, For they have regarded Your law as void." (Psalms 119:126)


That verse hit me tonight and I wept thinking about it. My prayer tonight was that the Holy Spirit would come upon His people. That we would be delivered from hypocrisy and laziness and fear of sharing the gospel.


It's time for God to move and I want to be ready for it.


God Bless:)

Convictions on Convictions

Conviction: Being Fully Persuaded


All the time I hear, "Oh, those are my convictions." Or, "We all have our own convictions."


Yet, I have never really looked at the word.


Being fully persuaded...


Sometimes, I do things that I know are wrong. I wonder why I do these things. Could it be, that I am not fully convinced? I suppose, it comes down to my faith.


"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." -Hebrews 1:11


When a detective has evidence, hard, cold evidence. Then he is fully persuaded what the truth is. Maybe that truth is who the thief is, or the murderer. His conviction is that Tom Jones stole from the bank because of the bank video camera and several eye witnesses.


So then, how is faith built? because look at this verse:


"But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin."-Romans 14:23


How troubling.


Here! Read this:


"So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God."-Romans 10:17


How does faith come? By reading your Bible.


So, my conviction on convictions, is that reading my Bible will strengthen my convictions... How convicting.


Thank you, Jesus.


God Bless :)

People History

"It's not where we came from, it's where we are going."- Jennifer Fox


My roommate, Jennifer, said this a while back and I never forgot it. It's something I knew already, but sometimes things don't sink in right away.


"My will is so strong." I said this to my mom and she laughed.


It is though, so strong.


Sometimes I am standing all my by myself and I look at a chore or a responsibility that needs done and I have no idea why it's so hard to do. The problem is, is that I think that most of my generation has this problem too. That's why young people have such a bad reputation. A lot of us grew up in households where parents were 'sympathetic', because our parent's parents were cold and often too harsh.


So, what's a girl to do?


Jennifer also said this, "Rip it off like a band aid."


So, putting-it-off is out of the question. The solution, I think is...


Just doing it.


Not letting emotions and feelings rise up to hinder what needs done. Sure, I didn't grow up in the household where I was made to do much.


However, "It's not where you've been, it's where your going."


I am going into a life of excellence and working hard. I do it because I love people and I love God. It's the truth and the truth is what's sets us free.


God Bless :)

My Friend S (taught me a lesson)

I work with a few people with disabilities. I wrote about Z the other day.


Today I spent two hours working with a 43 year old woman, we'll call her 'S'. She has to walk with a walker because her legs have been permanently disfigured. It's a miracle she can walk.


When she was 14 years old a drunk driver hit her while she was on a moped. S told me her story the first day I met her and I remembering thinking- From 14 years and on, she has had to endure this?


S walks slower than a slug. I mean, it's really slow and sometimes awkward for people when we walk by tables. Today we were at Starbucks and I kept asking, "Are you doing okay? Feeling okay? Do you need anything?"


Over and over again she smiled and said, "I am fine." Actually, she talks pretty slow too and so it more like, "I... am... um... fine." Everything little thing I do for her she says, "Thank...you."


In the car on the way back, I asked her if the heater was okay and she again said, "It's fine."


Then I said, "You're not very high maintenance, are you?"


"I've got everything I need." She was mater-of-fact about it.


Wonder filled me.


She needs help getting into the car, falls down all the time, and has trouble with the simple tasks like washing her hands. Her hands shake (almost violently) if she lifts a glass of water and so she requires a straw every time.


I said, "You know what I like about you, [S]? Your thankfulness. It can change everything we look at in life."


She nodded and said, "Yep."


God Bless :)