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from Sharon ...
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07 November 2009
my email updates are failing. haha i am really bad at this. i'm sorry.
but some of the blame does go on the unreliable internet here.
maybe there are too many trees?
so ANYWAYS!
i don't know what to write; i feel like my mind has just gone blank. uh oh...
but i am well and things are well.
ah, today i will not talk about myself, which i do all the time, and ask that you pray for the seminary, the students and the missionaries.
PLEASE PRAY:
for the safety of the students and the seminary. apparently there are robbers and conspirators trying to get into the seminary and steal... whatever they can find. it's scary for the students because these robbers try to recruit them and make them work for them. one 1st year student, dimilson, was offered 4000 reias (brasilian money) to steal the school's laptops for them! he got caught and sent back home to his village. but it's not only because he tried to steal the laptops, but because it was dangerous for him to stay in the city. since he got caught and told the pastor about the robbers' plans, they could kill him for that... that's scary. therefore, every night a couple of guys take turns watching/guarding the school. the missionary said he drove in one time and saw someone hiding behind a tree and got scared. but realized it was a student guarding the school.... holding a gun. haha this is serious business.
for the missionaries to not be discouraged and trust in God. a new law has come into town and that is: only 10 people are allowed in a boat to travel to the villages (or something like that). but the medical boat is the MAIN ministry push the missionaries have to go out to the villages and they need at least 23 people on board to cover the expenses. so please pray that things will work out on that end, and that the missionaries will be able to trust in God- that He knows what He's doing even though we don't.
the end.
on that note, something i've been thinking over lately:
when we ask God for something, let's say like to mend a broken relationship or something, it's our first instinct to see HOW He's going to answer. it's very difficult to pray and trust it in God's hands FULLY without trying to work it out in our heads how He would go about doing that. does this make sense?
because we think in this manner, we start doubting God and we start thinking, "Oh dear, He can't do it. it's just not possible. the relationship is beyond repair and there is nothing that can be done about it and it's over."
in that process, we forget that our God is GOD. what does that mean. however you see God is how you will see His power and how you will determine your faith. i think... that's what pastor jimmy said in one of his sermons... hahaha. i think. but our view of God and our view of us needs to change.
God's ways and thoughts are higher and better than ours and with Him all things are possible, even the things that seem impossible to us.
isn't it a comfort knowing that what we can't solve, God can? it is, but we tend to find less comfort in that. go figure.
there are a lot of things to think about and mull over and understand.
that's when i am most thankful to God that i am here. God's given me such a wonderful opportunity to be here and think these things through and learn and grow and i am excited to go back and share with all of you. man. God is so good. as cliche as that can sound, it will never fail to be true.
Jonathan Edwards' Resolution #29:
Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I can not hope God will accept.
today at the PC bang, they are selling chocolate cake for the first time! i've been wanting to eat some chocolate cake. i was hoping for the one my sister and brother baked for me for my bday, but this will do for now. yay. yum. praise God. (did i mention i think i'm getting fat here...... hahaha and i wonder why~)
hope everyone is doing well. and i hope, i really hope, that today you will love God more than you did yesterday.
keep on, press on, fight on!
-sharon
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