The song is called Commission My Soul by Citipointe.
Chorus:
"Commission my soul with a fire uncontrollable for this great cause to save the lost. Open my eyes to the reason I'm alive. Oh Lord, I'm ready now I'll follow you."
Saturday, October 29, 2011
“God deliberately keeps some things secret so that you and I will stay humble and learn to trust Him, even when we don’t understand what he’s doing. He understands, and that’s all that matters.” –Warren Wiersbe, Real Worship
If you enjoy picking up a good book every now and again I highly recommend reading Real Worship by Warren Wiersbe. This book has provoked a huge transformation in my thought life. Actually most of the books I am reading this semester have impacted me in some way. Some days I feel like my brain and my heart are on overload mode trying to process and internalize all that I've been learning.
One thing I'm learning is that God desires so desperately to communicate with us and every day God uses books, people, nature and so much more to get our attention. I never realized how much of my life I walked around completely oblivious to everything around me. My life revolved around me and my own little world. Lately I have been trying my hardest to keep an eternal perspective on life and understand that my life is not my own, I was bought at a price. "Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies." 1 Corinthians 6:19,20
I want to challenge you all, in the same way I am challenging myself, to take time, stop and listen to what God is communicating to you. Don't limit him to just a Sunday morning service,Bible study or Christian book but try to see what he's saying in a traffic jam on the way to work, in a store or in the newspaper. God is faithful and his word promises that if you seek him you will find him. I believe with all of my heart that if you listen for him he will speak.
If you enjoy picking up a good book every now and again I highly recommend reading Real Worship by Warren Wiersbe. This book has provoked a huge transformation in my thought life. Actually most of the books I am reading this semester have impacted me in some way. Some days I feel like my brain and my heart are on overload mode trying to process and internalize all that I've been learning.
One thing I'm learning is that God desires so desperately to communicate with us and every day God uses books, people, nature and so much more to get our attention. I never realized how much of my life I walked around completely oblivious to everything around me. My life revolved around me and my own little world. Lately I have been trying my hardest to keep an eternal perspective on life and understand that my life is not my own, I was bought at a price. "Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies." 1 Corinthians 6:19,20
I want to challenge you all, in the same way I am challenging myself, to take time, stop and listen to what God is communicating to you. Don't limit him to just a Sunday morning service,Bible study or Christian book but try to see what he's saying in a traffic jam on the way to work, in a store or in the newspaper. God is faithful and his word promises that if you seek him you will find him. I believe with all of my heart that if you listen for him he will speak.
Monday, October 10, 2011
I Got a Job!...
Praise Report!
This Wednesday I start at Bath & Body Works just five minutes down the road from my school. They can only promise me 1 day a week right now but they are hoping when the Holiday season picks up I'll be able to get more hours. God is faithful and I have no doubt in my mind that He will work everything out.
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose...What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:26 - 28, 31
Thank you for your prayers! We serve a faithful loving God who is the beginning and knows the end. Our lives are in His loving hands and that is the best place they could be. He knows our needs better than we do and He knows how to fulfill them greater then we can even imagine.
This Wednesday I start at Bath & Body Works just five minutes down the road from my school. They can only promise me 1 day a week right now but they are hoping when the Holiday season picks up I'll be able to get more hours. God is faithful and I have no doubt in my mind that He will work everything out.
"In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose...What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?" Romans 8:26 - 28, 31
Thank you for your prayers! We serve a faithful loving God who is the beginning and knows the end. Our lives are in His loving hands and that is the best place they could be. He knows our needs better than we do and He knows how to fulfill them greater then we can even imagine.
Monday, October 3, 2011
A Quick Hello...
Hello from the big CO! I’m sure most of you have heard me say this a million times but Colorado is so beautiful and I’m feeling very blessed to be out here. If you haven’t been out to Colorado I would highly suggest doing so. It’s one thing to see pictures of the mountains but when you’re here you can fully appreciate Gods majesty in His creation. I’ve decided I need to pay more attention to the road and less attention to Pike’s Peak while driving or I’m going to be able to thank God for His beautiful creation face to face very soon.
I’m trying to figure out how to give a quick update without completely boring all of you with too many details. So here goes…I arrived in Colorado Friday September 2 and enjoyed a wonderful weekend with my parents and sister. We were able to caravan the 17 hour drive together. After saying tearful good-byes I stood in the door way with the realization that “I’m in Colorado for the next 9 months!” I had a quick panic attack and then went back to bed. Everything is better after a nap. Later that day my Uncle and my cousin’s decided to take me shooting on a mountain which resulted in a near death truck ride down the mountain and a bruise the size of an orange on my arm. That was the guys way of saying “Welcome to Colorado.” I am so thankful for the warm embrace of my family out here. My Aunt, Uncle and cousin’s have made me feel like a part of their home and it’s making all the difference in the world. I pretty much spend most of my free time bothering them and eating their wonderful home cooked meals. Maybe by the time I come back to Wisconsin I’ll be able to cook something and not destroy it. Sorry again to my beautiful college roommates who ate my completely destroyed version of rice-a-roni. I love you girls.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been on a job hunt. I’m realizing how hard it is to move to a new place and try to jump into their job market. I’ve had some interviews but no job offers. The first two weeks were my hardest because I just didn’t understand why God would bring me all the way out to Colorado and leave me jobless. Our society is very fast paced and we expect everything now. So naturally I expected a job immediately upon arrival. When that didn’t happen my world was turned upside down and I pretty much fell apart. I think a majority of my new classmates have seen me in tears already, in the bathroom, during worship, and on the phone in the lobby. I realized that my trust in God and His will for my life was very minimal. Sure I packed up and moved out to Colorado but with the first little wave I was ready to turn my row boat around and head back to shore.
“However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him,’ but God has revealed it to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” 1 Corinthians 2:9-12. When I read that verse I saw that I was not seeing through the eyes of the Spirit of God but through the eyes of the spirit of the world. I looked at my circumstances and decided that there was nothing that I could do and I was doomed. The difference now is that I realize that I still can do nothing but God can do all things. Needless to say God has provided financially and I will be ok for another month and now I know that I have nothing to fear in the months to come. Our God is a faithful God. He doesn’t promise an easy life but he does promise that “no mind has conceived what He has prepared for those who love him.”
I’m so excited to see what God has planned for this year in all of our lives. Trial or triumph His plans are always perfect. I have continued to fill out applications and I ask that you would continue to pray that God opens the right doors and provides the right job in His perfect timing. Each of you has played a very important role in my being out here and I want to thank you all for your support. Thank you for investing in me with your time, prayers, money and kind words of encouragement. My prayer is that God is glorified through this entire experience. That we can all look back on this time in our lives and see God’s hand moving and remember what a mighty God we serve.
I miss all of you deeply and love you even more!
I’m trying to figure out how to give a quick update without completely boring all of you with too many details. So here goes…I arrived in Colorado Friday September 2 and enjoyed a wonderful weekend with my parents and sister. We were able to caravan the 17 hour drive together. After saying tearful good-byes I stood in the door way with the realization that “I’m in Colorado for the next 9 months!” I had a quick panic attack and then went back to bed. Everything is better after a nap. Later that day my Uncle and my cousin’s decided to take me shooting on a mountain which resulted in a near death truck ride down the mountain and a bruise the size of an orange on my arm. That was the guys way of saying “Welcome to Colorado.” I am so thankful for the warm embrace of my family out here. My Aunt, Uncle and cousin’s have made me feel like a part of their home and it’s making all the difference in the world. I pretty much spend most of my free time bothering them and eating their wonderful home cooked meals. Maybe by the time I come back to Wisconsin I’ll be able to cook something and not destroy it. Sorry again to my beautiful college roommates who ate my completely destroyed version of rice-a-roni. I love you girls.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been on a job hunt. I’m realizing how hard it is to move to a new place and try to jump into their job market. I’ve had some interviews but no job offers. The first two weeks were my hardest because I just didn’t understand why God would bring me all the way out to Colorado and leave me jobless. Our society is very fast paced and we expect everything now. So naturally I expected a job immediately upon arrival. When that didn’t happen my world was turned upside down and I pretty much fell apart. I think a majority of my new classmates have seen me in tears already, in the bathroom, during worship, and on the phone in the lobby. I realized that my trust in God and His will for my life was very minimal. Sure I packed up and moved out to Colorado but with the first little wave I was ready to turn my row boat around and head back to shore.
“However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him,’ but God has revealed it to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.” 1 Corinthians 2:9-12. When I read that verse I saw that I was not seeing through the eyes of the Spirit of God but through the eyes of the spirit of the world. I looked at my circumstances and decided that there was nothing that I could do and I was doomed. The difference now is that I realize that I still can do nothing but God can do all things. Needless to say God has provided financially and I will be ok for another month and now I know that I have nothing to fear in the months to come. Our God is a faithful God. He doesn’t promise an easy life but he does promise that “no mind has conceived what He has prepared for those who love him.”
I’m so excited to see what God has planned for this year in all of our lives. Trial or triumph His plans are always perfect. I have continued to fill out applications and I ask that you would continue to pray that God opens the right doors and provides the right job in His perfect timing. Each of you has played a very important role in my being out here and I want to thank you all for your support. Thank you for investing in me with your time, prayers, money and kind words of encouragement. My prayer is that God is glorified through this entire experience. That we can all look back on this time in our lives and see God’s hand moving and remember what a mighty God we serve.
I miss all of you deeply and love you even more!
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