My prayer/worship (For Today - Talmidim [The Servants])
Lord of glory, make us worthy to possess your name. Lord of glory, make us worthy to possess your name. And give us a new name. And call us your people, God. And give us a new name.
Ezekiel 36:26-28 – “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. You will live in the land I gave to your forefathers; you will be my people and I will be your God.”
And through all of this, there is nothing, absolutely nothing. No fear, no insecurity, no doubt, no hesitation, that will ever ever stop us, because we are the sons and daughters of the Living God. Because we are the children of the Almighty. Because we are the residents of the Kingdom of Heaven. And we are soldiers, and an army of the Immortal. And when we speak life, life happens. And when we speak healing, healing happens. And when we speak truth, truth happens. And when we go and take what we have found to a dead world, we will see it come to life again. And when we take what we have found to a hopeless world, we will see hope come back. We'll see the heart of our world start beating again, and we'll see the color come back to people's faces. And there's absolutely nothing that can stop us. Mountains will move before us, and oceans will part before us, and the dead will raise before us. And the world will know that our God is the God that heals, and our God is the God that lives, and our God is the God that loves unlike anything anyone has ever felt before. Because we are fearless, because we are His hands, and because we are His feet...Forever and Ever!!
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
re⋅jec⋅tion [ri-jek-shuhn]
–noun
1. the act or process of rejecting.
2. the state of being rejected.
3. something that is rejected.
Rejection is something we all deal with. From our first boyfriend/girlfriend, to the dog growling at us and not our sister/brother. For me, rejection runs deep. I grew up in a broken home, full of depression. My father left me when I was one year old (because I was a 'mistake' and he wanted nothing to do with me), and my mother had to raise my sister and I alone. I don't want to spend this blog talking about my life story, but I do want people to understand that I have lived rejection. I was rejected first by my father, and then my mother rejected me by giving me up to the Foster Care system when I was 12 years of age.
I forgave my mother (we have an amazing relationship now) fully about four years ago, but the emotion of ejection still runs in the back of my mind. It took me a long time to realize that God is not about rejection. A question I always wondered about is, 'If God is neither male nor female, why does He portray Himself as a father, or a groom?'.
You see, like myself, many people have felt rejection from their father. God portrays Himself as Father because He wants the world to trust Him. He's not like my father, or yours perhaps. Scriptural speaking, God has shown Himself true. Hebrews 13:5, Deuteronomy 31:6, 8, and Joshua 1:5 are all amazing examples of the infamous "I will never leave you not forsake you.".
In the end, rejection is a tough cat to part ways with. It's a cancer lurking deep within, but God is greater than that. He will never reject you.
–noun
1. the act or process of rejecting.
2. the state of being rejected.
3. something that is rejected.
Rejection is something we all deal with. From our first boyfriend/girlfriend, to the dog growling at us and not our sister/brother. For me, rejection runs deep. I grew up in a broken home, full of depression. My father left me when I was one year old (because I was a 'mistake' and he wanted nothing to do with me), and my mother had to raise my sister and I alone. I don't want to spend this blog talking about my life story, but I do want people to understand that I have lived rejection. I was rejected first by my father, and then my mother rejected me by giving me up to the Foster Care system when I was 12 years of age.
I forgave my mother (we have an amazing relationship now) fully about four years ago, but the emotion of ejection still runs in the back of my mind. It took me a long time to realize that God is not about rejection. A question I always wondered about is, 'If God is neither male nor female, why does He portray Himself as a father, or a groom?'.
You see, like myself, many people have felt rejection from their father. God portrays Himself as Father because He wants the world to trust Him. He's not like my father, or yours perhaps. Scriptural speaking, God has shown Himself true. Hebrews 13:5, Deuteronomy 31:6, 8, and Joshua 1:5 are all amazing examples of the infamous "I will never leave you not forsake you.".
In the end, rejection is a tough cat to part ways with. It's a cancer lurking deep within, but God is greater than that. He will never reject you.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
As an independent missionary it's hard to get people to understand my passion to reach the lost. I'm not affiliated with any church group, organization, or other ministry. As a result of this, my supports are limited to people willing to sponsor me without any tax deductions. Currently, I'm working on creating my own nonprofit ministry, known as 'Pray Asia Ministries'. My heart is for Asia, and I long to have the world know about that.
I'm in the process of making my way to the Dominican Republic as a teacher at a private school. I know it isn't Asia, but it's what I feel like God has on my agenda for the current season in my life. It hard, in the sense of Taiwan being on my heart, but I know God's plans are much more amazing than anything i could possible imagine. Pray I continue to seek God, and my passion for Asia doesn't 'go south for the winter'...
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