getting from here to there...

What does it take for me to get from point A to point B? I'm serious. This seems a silly question, but not for me. You see, I tend to be more of a dreamer. I have great ideas about things, but to get beyond "go" isn't always easy for me. Maybe it's because I allow fear to hold me back. Maybe I don't believe these things can really become a reality...at least by my own strength. That is true to a certain extent, for when we try to do things on our own outside of God, we have a tendancy to fall flat on our faces. Even still, it seems like some people have this natural tendancy to rise up as leader and make things happen. That's not my gifting I guess, though maybe it's an area that God wants me to grow in. I know God's Spirit lives in me to, and it's not like He is unable to use me. It's just that perhaps it is in a different means than we tend to place high up as far as imortance go. If we don't have the balance of having those people behind the scenes, it wouldn't work either. That's how I know that God's design is so good. How can we complain when the way He created it to be is so that it would work? He thought of all of it, of the well-rounded, balanced body of Christ.
With those thoughts in mind, I know that if God ever chooses to bless me with a husband, that man will probably be a good leader, because I'm not. I do great at following, and ideas, and all the detail work, but going from here to there is the hardest part for me. Lord have grace on me! Use me in a way that would honor You! I love you....

Unique!

Today I was reminded of how we were created uniquely. A duck may be a great swimmer, but it doesn't mean he'd be more than adverage at running or flying. A rabbit was given great ability to run, but swimming to him would perhaps prove to be too hard, and he would in fact find the water to overwhelm him. My point? God created each of as individual as we are to perform a specific task or duty, to be who we are before Him, for His glory. Does not His Word say that we were created by Him and for Him? Whether we live or die it is all for Him! What an honor! If we are so uniquely created, that means that we are something beautiful in who we are for we came from the Hands of our Maker who lovingly formed us exactly the way He wanted us to be! May we be found to be living in the skin we were given, rejoicing in who we are because of God, and who He transforms us to be in His presence!

Canada in style! 

God's heart in me.

Ever since I was a little girl, the nations have been a part of my heart. How is that? God loves the nations, and when we become His, He places His Spirit in our hearts and makes us new. When we have God in us, He gives us His heart. God loves the nations, and has put on my heart a desire to love the nations that have never heard the good news about what Jesus has done.
Perhaps one day He will send me out as it has been my desire. I think that day is coming fairly soon. Until then, He has given me work to do here in Portland, for which I am incredibly thankful. He loves the people in the United States the same as He loves those of the world. God moves and directs us according to His will, and for His glory. Let us make the most of ever opportunity!
This week is mission conference week at Multnomah. Three speakers from other countries have come here to Portland to share of what God is doing around the world and in the countries where they serve. One is a man from the Philippines who was saved through a missionary coming to their village where their fathers were head hunters to share about Jesus. He now works with Wycliffe. The second is a lady from Australia who has been working in Jordan for the last 40-50 years. The last is a man from Angola Africa who now works with SIM. Both the man from the Philippines and the man from Africa have English as their forth language! The theme of the mission conference was "Let the Nations be Heard"! What a joy it is to hear them speak!
God wants us to be courageous, to be all that He has called us to be, surrendering to His will. That is my desire! What joy is found in being in Christ, and being used by Him...wherever that might be! My heart is to be like these men and women, these brothers and sisters around the world, who love with God's love those they come in contact with! I want to know more than one language and share Christ by being a part of another culture. My heart is also to see the following generations of young people be genereations that seek His face. May it be so! Whatever the case may be, may God be honored!