The reading of Job
1. Job has all he needs plus more, God has blessed him abundantly.
2. Satan goes to God telling him that Job has what he needs but If it were All taken away from him he certainly wouldn't keep praising God. God said go ahead and test him, Job kept praising God.
3. Satan goes back to God and says well surely if his health was failing he wouldn't praise God. God said go ahead and test him just don't kill him.
4. Job broke out in sores his health went downhill but he was confused because he hadn't sinned and thought God was punishing him. 3 of his friends came to encourage God to him that he must have sinned.
5. At the end of many debates between Job and his 3 friends a by stander young guy noticed they were all exhausted and decided it was his time to speak up he started encoraging Job to just praise God and no matter what he was going through he should still thank and praise God.
6. Finally God spoke up and started questioning Job, by the end Job was apologizing and asking God for forgiveness. God forgave! He told the other men to get sacrifices to have Job offer in intercession on behalf of their sin.
7. Job did as God said and God instantly blessed him again with everything plus more then what he had before God restored his family and blessed him into old age up to 140 years longer then he was.
8. God restores, no matter what your going through KEEP your eyes on Jesus! And God will always be there for you.
Relevent scriptures:
Isaiah 40:27-31
It says in Job [a promise God just made to me] That God blesses us with much, and sometimes we have to lay things down and suffer health/trials to be humbled and remember God again if he just let our lifes run perfect then we wouldn't really need God all that much and wouldn't cry out to Him on guidence and He wouldn't be able to build/grow our trust and faith in Him! BUT after these times of trials and testing God usually fills the harvest double and more then you had before this time, weather it be family, money, just blesses us hugely! God wouldnt have allowed Satan to test Job by taking away all his land, family, ox's, animals, house AND health when he broke out in sores and disease If God didnt know the whole time Job was strong enough to handel it and would never curse God's name. And because Job remained faithful God blessed him Double what he had before AND restored his family.
Basically the last 4 years I've suffered trails with school, family, friends, partying, life as a teenager, and it was hard for me, Satan tried to get my eyes off God in all sorts of ways! And in the end last year he failed, I finally called out to God and decided to follow him. It lead me to Australia. There were hard times here as well, times where I've had no money, had to suffer pain being brought back up to be healed from it, attacks on my relationship with friends and family. But He prevailed, He provided in the times I needed it! He Blessed me abundantly in everything here, and when I finished YWAM I went through a few silent weeks trying to see what the next stage was, and when the doors were shut and finally I opened up my scheduale to God and asked Him what He wanted me to do, God said He wants me home.
When I looked into the possibilty He offered me a Youth Pastor Internship, my old job back, a place to live, all my family and friends, to get more involved with Boarders for Christ. The door flew Open. When Chris Twinn saids in His Blessing sermons "When God wants the door shut its SHUT, when God wants the door open Boy It's OPEN!" Now that I'm following God's voice, It says in His word! "Let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No." God is a yes or no God if he has plans for you he'll do what he needs to get you there and things are going to work out. He is going to come through for me and provide. He is going to allow me tests and I will always try to pass them, Worship in the Days I don't feel like it. It also says He will Bless those who Bless you, and Curse those who Curse you, So God I thank you that you are going to Bless everyone who has Blessed and supported me while I've been in Uni, here in a different Country without any of my family, That you have always provided and that you always will :) Not a day will go by where a child of yours has no food we are to always be Full of you and Your word. I thank you that you bless us when we are persecuted, for our blessing is in Heaven.
I'm still so excited to see what God has for me back home and up until I get there the Miracles He is going to provide. Because God loves blessing His children.
peace and love
lolo
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Processing 1st Kings
SO Basically I was talking with Papa and He has been silent for the last week because I was blantanly pushing it aside. It allll started almot 2 sundays ago. Nikki woke me up before church around 5:30 am and said Oi wana go surfing? My body and head shouted NO! but God shouted louder GO! We went out, had fun, dolphins have been out with me surfing for the last month everytime and everywhere I go surfing theres my army I prayed for and God promised me to keep me safe from any sharks or animals in the sea, they swam right under our boards and right up to us :) It was beautiful.
As I got out of the water God said "Now don't go surfing for the rest of the day." Im thinking humm ok God? Nikki asked me to go out after church said no, that night We went to church again and Pastor Nev [our surf pastor] comes up to us and was like "Today they saw a huge great white in the bay!" Well theres my answer Papa was protecting me.
Anyways Tuesday comes go for a surf, God says again Don't surf or skate tomorrow [wed] focus on Me, well wed me and Nikki end up discussing further plans for missions this year, Getting resumes sent out and meeting with managers for job, kinda just getting errands done that I felt God was telling me to do. Thursday Morning, He says spend 2 hours reading the bible and dwelling in my word this morning. I want you to read 1 Kings, Matthew, and James. Dont surf or skate untilyou've finished.
Me I start 1st Kings, and within 30 mins already had arranged to surf for a break, So I disobeyed and went for a surf. the first half was crap surf, so I went to get out, and then I loked back and it all of a sudden went form messy to clean and more consistant. So we went back out. My ear [the one I had an infection in a few weeks back] had started plugging with water here and there and by the end of the surf it was fully plugged.
Friday morning woke up with horrible ear pain, loss of all hearing in my right ear, swollen ear and face. Went to the doctor he said I had an outter ear infection to just gave me drops. The drops over night made it worse, Saturday excrusiating pain, Doctor said go to hospital. The ER saw that not only did the infection get worse but I had torn my ear drum as well. Started me on pill antibiotics and strong pain killers.
This whole time I'd read a chapter of Kings a day but couldnt focus. What I had learned in this process Was that King David had gone through many wars, He had always wanted to build a temple for God but as I understood it he had too much bloodshed on his hands to fulfil it. He had delt with many wars and hardships in his lifetime, that when Solomon became King, God said He would have a reign of Peace and He would be the one to obey God and be able to build the temple. So He spent years building the temple, so much Gold, and huge, and just this glorious amazingly beautiful Temple to worship God in.
And in this God said to me, look you have to endure trials to get to the peace period.
You have to endure pain, and trails in order to learn and grow and get the amazing gifts He has for us after we go through these tests and trails. God also asked Solomon out of anything what did He want, and Solomon asked for Wisdom and because of this selfless act, the act of not asking for more riches and honor God blessed him with His Wisdom but also with everything else he could imagine! Heaps of Gold, and wealth and took care of every need plus heaps more.
The Message//remix 1 Kings 9:1-9 "After Solomon had completed building The Temple of God and his own palace, all the projects he had set his heart on doing, God appeared to Solomon again, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. And God said to him, 'I've listened to and received all your prayers, your ever-so-passionate prayers. I've sanctified this Temple that you have built; My Name is stamped on it forever, my eyes are on it and my heart in it always. As for you, if you live in my presence as your father David lived, pure in heart and action, living the life I've set out for you attentively obedient to my guidance and judgements, then I'll back your kingly rule over Israel, make sure thing on a solid foundation....But if you or your sons betray me, ignoring my guidance and judgements, taking up with alien gods by serving and worshiping them, then the guarantee is off:...'"
Well tonight I finished chapter 8 to the end of 1st Kings and I learned this...God told Solomon He warned him about the women, and if Solomon fell his children would therefore fall after him. Solomon in the end fell after the women and their gods and rejected God, and because of the the kingdom fell apart afterwards. But after what Gods been telling me and Nikki and working on us in our sacrificial fasts the last couple months [me with veganism] [Our Temple] We are rebuilding our temples [bodys] and as long as we make them new, and healthy and obey God He will bless us abundantly with everything we need plus more, even though fasting and exersizing and sacrificing is HARD work and not fun it's to better our temples continuously. If we're going to strive for sponserships in skating/surfing/snowboarding, we have to also remember that its NOT about us, its about bringing Gods light into an otherwise lost industry, Taking the light off the partying and bringing it back to Gods blessing of performance.
But if we get caught up and lost in anything we do, God will turn away from us, and itll all fall apart, and He will end His blessing over us, we have to continually be reminding ourselves that in Everything we do we do it for the Glory of God.
Anyways the next chapters were of the fall of Israel and how king after king would fall more and more away from God and get worse and worse and God would redeem him self and a new king would reign and then that same king got caught up again and fell away, and so the children kept getting cursed, and there was drought in the land for 3 years and Elijah the prophet Kept sharing Gods word until it hurt, and was on the way to costing him his life. But in 1st Kings 18:30-46 God is redeeming Himself showing He is the true God over baal, they tried everything to get the god baal to light their alter, and it doesnt, they even cut themselves and stomp around. Then here comes Elijah does his preperation has them pour 3 buckets of water on his alter, then He askes God to light it and in an instant God lights it plus the water in the bucket even! then He brought the end of the drought.
But this was such a great lesson from Papa, and After I finished God ended his silence to me and quietly just praised me saying "Good job for reading all of that, your going to have a blessed skate sesh in the morning, I'm so proud of you." God is not only my surf coach, my skate coach, but he's my Papa, My Daddy, He praises me just as I praise Him. Man I love my relationship with God. Its just so real. So much more real to me then there being water to drink or a taste to it.
Verses of the month
"Dwell in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart"
Luke 18:27 "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
As I got out of the water God said "Now don't go surfing for the rest of the day." Im thinking humm ok God? Nikki asked me to go out after church said no, that night We went to church again and Pastor Nev [our surf pastor] comes up to us and was like "Today they saw a huge great white in the bay!" Well theres my answer Papa was protecting me.
Anyways Tuesday comes go for a surf, God says again Don't surf or skate tomorrow [wed] focus on Me, well wed me and Nikki end up discussing further plans for missions this year, Getting resumes sent out and meeting with managers for job, kinda just getting errands done that I felt God was telling me to do. Thursday Morning, He says spend 2 hours reading the bible and dwelling in my word this morning. I want you to read 1 Kings, Matthew, and James. Dont surf or skate untilyou've finished.
Me I start 1st Kings, and within 30 mins already had arranged to surf for a break, So I disobeyed and went for a surf. the first half was crap surf, so I went to get out, and then I loked back and it all of a sudden went form messy to clean and more consistant. So we went back out. My ear [the one I had an infection in a few weeks back] had started plugging with water here and there and by the end of the surf it was fully plugged.
Friday morning woke up with horrible ear pain, loss of all hearing in my right ear, swollen ear and face. Went to the doctor he said I had an outter ear infection to just gave me drops. The drops over night made it worse, Saturday excrusiating pain, Doctor said go to hospital. The ER saw that not only did the infection get worse but I had torn my ear drum as well. Started me on pill antibiotics and strong pain killers.
This whole time I'd read a chapter of Kings a day but couldnt focus. What I had learned in this process Was that King David had gone through many wars, He had always wanted to build a temple for God but as I understood it he had too much bloodshed on his hands to fulfil it. He had delt with many wars and hardships in his lifetime, that when Solomon became King, God said He would have a reign of Peace and He would be the one to obey God and be able to build the temple. So He spent years building the temple, so much Gold, and huge, and just this glorious amazingly beautiful Temple to worship God in.
And in this God said to me, look you have to endure trials to get to the peace period.
You have to endure pain, and trails in order to learn and grow and get the amazing gifts He has for us after we go through these tests and trails. God also asked Solomon out of anything what did He want, and Solomon asked for Wisdom and because of this selfless act, the act of not asking for more riches and honor God blessed him with His Wisdom but also with everything else he could imagine! Heaps of Gold, and wealth and took care of every need plus heaps more.
The Message//remix 1 Kings 9:1-9 "After Solomon had completed building The Temple of God and his own palace, all the projects he had set his heart on doing, God appeared to Solomon again, just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon. And God said to him, 'I've listened to and received all your prayers, your ever-so-passionate prayers. I've sanctified this Temple that you have built; My Name is stamped on it forever, my eyes are on it and my heart in it always. As for you, if you live in my presence as your father David lived, pure in heart and action, living the life I've set out for you attentively obedient to my guidance and judgements, then I'll back your kingly rule over Israel, make sure thing on a solid foundation....But if you or your sons betray me, ignoring my guidance and judgements, taking up with alien gods by serving and worshiping them, then the guarantee is off:...'"
Well tonight I finished chapter 8 to the end of 1st Kings and I learned this...God told Solomon He warned him about the women, and if Solomon fell his children would therefore fall after him. Solomon in the end fell after the women and their gods and rejected God, and because of the the kingdom fell apart afterwards. But after what Gods been telling me and Nikki and working on us in our sacrificial fasts the last couple months [me with veganism] [Our Temple] We are rebuilding our temples [bodys] and as long as we make them new, and healthy and obey God He will bless us abundantly with everything we need plus more, even though fasting and exersizing and sacrificing is HARD work and not fun it's to better our temples continuously. If we're going to strive for sponserships in skating/surfing/snowboarding, we have to also remember that its NOT about us, its about bringing Gods light into an otherwise lost industry, Taking the light off the partying and bringing it back to Gods blessing of performance.
But if we get caught up and lost in anything we do, God will turn away from us, and itll all fall apart, and He will end His blessing over us, we have to continually be reminding ourselves that in Everything we do we do it for the Glory of God.
Anyways the next chapters were of the fall of Israel and how king after king would fall more and more away from God and get worse and worse and God would redeem him self and a new king would reign and then that same king got caught up again and fell away, and so the children kept getting cursed, and there was drought in the land for 3 years and Elijah the prophet Kept sharing Gods word until it hurt, and was on the way to costing him his life. But in 1st Kings 18:30-46 God is redeeming Himself showing He is the true God over baal, they tried everything to get the god baal to light their alter, and it doesnt, they even cut themselves and stomp around. Then here comes Elijah does his preperation has them pour 3 buckets of water on his alter, then He askes God to light it and in an instant God lights it plus the water in the bucket even! then He brought the end of the drought.
But this was such a great lesson from Papa, and After I finished God ended his silence to me and quietly just praised me saying "Good job for reading all of that, your going to have a blessed skate sesh in the morning, I'm so proud of you." God is not only my surf coach, my skate coach, but he's my Papa, My Daddy, He praises me just as I praise Him. Man I love my relationship with God. Its just so real. So much more real to me then there being water to drink or a taste to it.
Verses of the month
"Dwell in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart"
Luke 18:27 "What is impossible with man is possible with God."
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Papa is so Good :)
So today our roomie called me and Nikki up, turns out there were two free beds at the neighbors house a couple blocks away, we carried them down the street hahaha it was so funny walking with bed frames haha people laughed. Anyways here was the confermation we are exactly where God wants us for right now. :) He blessed us with two beds :)
so yeah Dwell in the Lord and He'll give you the desires of your heart :) or just Bless you abundantly :)
Papa is good to his children yeeeow!
Skatings good,
surfings good
life is good :)
Sydney next month! Renew my passport and see Sky and Pam all in one trip thats another blessing :)
<333
lolo
so yeah Dwell in the Lord and He'll give you the desires of your heart :) or just Bless you abundantly :)
Papa is good to his children yeeeow!
Skatings good,
surfings good
life is good :)
Sydney next month! Renew my passport and see Sky and Pam all in one trip thats another blessing :)
<333
lolo
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