In the account of Noah's Ark, found in Genesis 5-10, God gives Noah a sign; a rainbow, His covenant to all men that he would never again flood the entire earth. The word covenant is used in scripture over 270 times, the word promise is used over 100 times. When we are in the midst of a trial in our lives, sometimes it is the hardest time to recall the promises of God; however, this is the time when it is most important to remember what God has promised to us, especially if you are His child.

Something I have found to be a huge blessing to me, is really studying the message of hymns or biblicaly inspired songs that we sing, or hear on the radio on a daily/weekly basis. It is my hope to use this blog as a way of sharing the lyrics to songs that have been a blessing to me, and how they have blessed me and reminded me of a promise given by God, and in turn be a blessing to others.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

New Week, New Major, New Desires!!!

It's the end of the 2nd week of school here at Northland, we just finished Heart Conference which was AMAZING, but I am looking forward to being back in my normal class schedule. I went to some incredible sessions during Heart Conference, and the speakers in the morning & evening services were amazing too! It seemed like the Lord was pointing out stuff in my morning devotions, then again in the sessions I went to, I just have to say it was awesome!!

The Lord has done amazing things in my life already, but I am super excited about what I know He will do over the next 11 months!! Over the last two weeks, the one thing that has been running through my mind is Psalm 37:4-5 'Delight thyself also in the Lord, and He will give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and He shall bring it to pass.' This is something that God has been showing me the meaning of more & more over the last four months, since I started thinking about studying abroad. Right now I am working on getting a 'religious activities' visa, the paperwork involved in this is driving me CRAZY!! :P But I know that God will take care of all the details, and I just need to trust that everything will happen when it needs to happen, (in His timing, not mine) not a minute sooner!!

I was incredibly blessed this week when my amazing mom did my taxes & filled out my FAFSA for me. I found out that I'm getting a large tax return, and am eligible for a full Pell grant next year!! With the financial aid I had this year, I was able to pay off this semester this week and will put some of my other money toward next years school bill. I know that God had a purpose for my sitting out of school for three years, and have thought about it all and may have an idea of partially why, but I'm not even going to pretend to know why God does what He does. It's one of those things. I'll have to ask Him when I get to Heaven I guess!!! But I am SO excited to be looking at my future from where I am now; office administration major, counseling minor, studying abroad, possible graduation date of May 2013!!! God is so good at working out the details, and when I'm in a situation like this it makes me wonder why I ever doubt him when I start struggling. When we are living day to day with the purpose of glorifying God, his desires become our desires. And if we just trust that He will continue to show us what He wants to do through us, rather than going off to do our own thing, He will bless us exceeding abundantly (Eph 3:20) above all that we could ever imagine!!!!
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