Monday, December 27, 2010
prayers: answered
dear candice,
my prayers have been answered. my Father has heard my cry to go and serve. i may not be going back to talledaga, but God has provided 5 different trips over spring break for more students to go and do local ministries. 5 groups of around 15 students will be going to local cities in tennessee, alabama, kentucky, and georgia to be broken for the better because of how God will reveal Himself to us.
words cant describe how happy i am that God is allaowing me to go and serve people who need Him. who knows, maybe there will be a 9-year-old girl in the next city i go to who i will write letters that she wont receive. anything is possible. this has been such a reassuance that god is on my side and He answeres my prayers.
i will praise my Creator for what He has done for me. For how he heard me. for How he Gives. i will continue to call to Him in the good times and in the bad times, because He is faithful and on my side.
praise God.
stay inspired,
i love you.
love,
sara
sunday november 14 2010
{love}
dear candice,
love is such a beautiful thing. but the sad thing is, our society has pretty mch corrupted our minds when it comes to love. love is an action. when you you care about a person enough, you can love them by taking acrtion. i cant walk around saying that i love chocolate. it just doesnt work that way. i greatly enjoy eating chocolate, but i cant love it. true love leaves a mark on the person who is loved. love isnt saying, "im thinking about you." what good will thinking do? love isnt having a boyfriend that you like being around. but thats what the world has turned love into. love for someone can be expressed in so many different ways. it doesnt have to be outwardly expressed- simply praying for someone is loving them.
love never fails. in the words of Paul, "love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. it does not insist on its own way; it is not resentful; it does not rejoice in wrong doing, but it rejoices in truth. love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." thats love for you. i couldnt have put it better myself. love is true and true love leaves a mark.
i love you. this is me leaving a mark on you and the people reading this.
love,
sara.
dear candice,
love is such a beautiful thing. but the sad thing is, our society has pretty mch corrupted our minds when it comes to love. love is an action. when you you care about a person enough, you can love them by taking acrtion. i cant walk around saying that i love chocolate. it just doesnt work that way. i greatly enjoy eating chocolate, but i cant love it. true love leaves a mark on the person who is loved. love isnt saying, "im thinking about you." what good will thinking do? love isnt having a boyfriend that you like being around. but thats what the world has turned love into. love for someone can be expressed in so many different ways. it doesnt have to be outwardly expressed- simply praying for someone is loving them.
love never fails. in the words of Paul, "love is patient, love is kind, love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. it does not insist on its own way; it is not resentful; it does not rejoice in wrong doing, but it rejoices in truth. love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." thats love for you. i couldnt have put it better myself. love is true and true love leaves a mark.
i love you. this is me leaving a mark on you and the people reading this.
love,
sara.
sunday october 31 2010
{omni-good God}
dear candice,
God is so good. in all of the really crappy times in my life, God is so amazing.in all of the incredibly miraculous times in my life, God is so amazing. in all of the times that i have sinned, God is so amazing.no matter what im going through, God is always before me and behind me. i am never alone. God said that He would never leave us or forsake us- and He meant it.
candice, sometimes i feel like we cry out to God and surrender to Him in the times when we are desperate and we have no one else to turn to. if we really truly need Him with us, we will cry out to Him in the good times as well as the bad ones. the great thing about out god is that He will rescue is from the whenever we call on Him. He is our refuge and we always need Him even in the good times and the bad. we just get sidetracked sometimes and let our thoughts get the best of us.
candice, cry out to God in the good and the bad times and He will rescue you.
i love you.
love,
sara
dear candice,
God is so good. in all of the really crappy times in my life, God is so amazing.in all of the incredibly miraculous times in my life, God is so amazing. in all of the times that i have sinned, God is so amazing.no matter what im going through, God is always before me and behind me. i am never alone. God said that He would never leave us or forsake us- and He meant it.
candice, sometimes i feel like we cry out to God and surrender to Him in the times when we are desperate and we have no one else to turn to. if we really truly need Him with us, we will cry out to Him in the good times as well as the bad ones. the great thing about out god is that He will rescue is from the whenever we call on Him. He is our refuge and we always need Him even in the good times and the bad. we just get sidetracked sometimes and let our thoughts get the best of us.
candice, cry out to God in the good and the bad times and He will rescue you.
i love you.
love,
sara
friday october 29 2010
{count the cost}
dear candice,
i miss you so much. your big blue eyes, your carefree spirit in a sarcastic world. you are such a beautiful picture of God. you mean so much to me. i will never forget about you.
so in church, we have been talking about discipleship. for a few weeks, we have been talking about Gods cammand to us and what we need to go in order to be disciples. a few weeks ago, we talked about counting the cost of discipleship. Jesus tells us ing Matthew and Luke that we have to take up our cross and follow Jesus. wen the Gospels were writen, "taking up your cross" ment dragging a wodden cross through a city for public humiliation and then being crucified on it. so what does that look like today? we need to aknowledge God in front of our peers. in Matthew 10:32-33, Jesus says, "whoever aknowledges Me in front of men, I will aknowedge in front of My Father; but whoever denies Me in front of men, I will deny in front of My Father."
so taking up your cross today doesnt just mean not denying Him, but it means aknowledging Him. testifing the good hand of the Lord, sharing the Good News. if you were carrying your cross through town, its not like you could hide behind it or anything.
then you have to think about the fact that you are dragging a cross around town doesnt mean you are showing off how you stand up for what you believe, it means you are about to be killed because of what you believe. real death for real life. its a hard thing to think about, but its something we have to think about in order to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
if Jesus died for all of us, it only makes sense that we give up all of our stuff (including our lives), and give it all to God.
so here we go. lets go and give it all back to Him.
lets go take up our crosses.
i love you.
love,
sara
dear candice,
i miss you so much. your big blue eyes, your carefree spirit in a sarcastic world. you are such a beautiful picture of God. you mean so much to me. i will never forget about you.
so in church, we have been talking about discipleship. for a few weeks, we have been talking about Gods cammand to us and what we need to go in order to be disciples. a few weeks ago, we talked about counting the cost of discipleship. Jesus tells us ing Matthew and Luke that we have to take up our cross and follow Jesus. wen the Gospels were writen, "taking up your cross" ment dragging a wodden cross through a city for public humiliation and then being crucified on it. so what does that look like today? we need to aknowledge God in front of our peers. in Matthew 10:32-33, Jesus says, "whoever aknowledges Me in front of men, I will aknowedge in front of My Father; but whoever denies Me in front of men, I will deny in front of My Father."
so taking up your cross today doesnt just mean not denying Him, but it means aknowledging Him. testifing the good hand of the Lord, sharing the Good News. if you were carrying your cross through town, its not like you could hide behind it or anything.
then you have to think about the fact that you are dragging a cross around town doesnt mean you are showing off how you stand up for what you believe, it means you are about to be killed because of what you believe. real death for real life. its a hard thing to think about, but its something we have to think about in order to be a disciple of Jesus Christ.
if Jesus died for all of us, it only makes sense that we give up all of our stuff (including our lives), and give it all to God.
so here we go. lets go and give it all back to Him.
lets go take up our crosses.
i love you.
love,
sara
wednesday october 20 2010
{drop everything}
dear candice,
i miss you so much. i know i sound like a broken record but i really do miss you. and i WILL come back. you changed my life forever.
candice, im at a rough place in my life right now. im so confused about what God is doing in my life. trusting that Gods plan will work out and is a better plan than mine is soooooo much easier said than done. but still i find myself afraid. im ready to take up my cross and DIE for what i believe, but still there is something that im afraid of. my reputation and what other people think of me seems to be keeping me from doing what my Creator comanded me to do. i hate this feeling so much. i know that when Jesus said that we should drop everything to follow Him, He didnt mean to drop most things and keep more important things like our family or our friends. when Jesus said that we have to drop everything, he ment EVERYTHING. and it may be hard, but if He gave up His life because He loves us pittiful sinners so much, then i think that we should give up the "important" things to be able to obey the One who saved us from death. but Jesus said that whoever wants to save his or her life, must first lose it. im putting what other people think about me behind me and im ready to be laughed at while i take up my cross to die. im ready to be ridiculed because of what i believe. im ready to die in order to live.
so here and now im putting the past and what other people think of me behind me, and im taking up my cross to die.
i love you.
love,
sara
dear candice,
i miss you so much. i know i sound like a broken record but i really do miss you. and i WILL come back. you changed my life forever.
candice, im at a rough place in my life right now. im so confused about what God is doing in my life. trusting that Gods plan will work out and is a better plan than mine is soooooo much easier said than done. but still i find myself afraid. im ready to take up my cross and DIE for what i believe, but still there is something that im afraid of. my reputation and what other people think of me seems to be keeping me from doing what my Creator comanded me to do. i hate this feeling so much. i know that when Jesus said that we should drop everything to follow Him, He didnt mean to drop most things and keep more important things like our family or our friends. when Jesus said that we have to drop everything, he ment EVERYTHING. and it may be hard, but if He gave up His life because He loves us pittiful sinners so much, then i think that we should give up the "important" things to be able to obey the One who saved us from death. but Jesus said that whoever wants to save his or her life, must first lose it. im putting what other people think about me behind me and im ready to be laughed at while i take up my cross to die. im ready to be ridiculed because of what i believe. im ready to die in order to live.
so here and now im putting the past and what other people think of me behind me, and im taking up my cross to die.
i love you.
love,
sara
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