God is able.: April 2010

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small;
Child of weakness, watch and pray,
Find in Me thine all in all.”

Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

For nothing good have I
Whereby Thy grace to claim,
I’ll wash my garments white
In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.

And now complete in Him
My robe His righteousness,
Close sheltered ’neath His side,
I am divinely blest.

Lord, now indeed I find
Thy power and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots
And melt the heart of stone.

When from my dying bed
My ransomed soul shall rise,
“Jesus died my soul to save,”
Shall rend the vaulted skies.

And when before the throne
I stand in Him complete,
I’ll lay my trophies down
All down at Jesus’ feet.

- Elvina M. Hall

Monday, April 5, 2010

Give thanks always in everything...

Recently we had a lady speak about the 'always' and 'everything's in the Bible. She reminded us that no one has any power that God has not allowed them to have. Everything that God allows in our lives, He is using to make us more like Christ. Therefore, in every situation that comes our way, we should give thanks to God for that situation and what He wants to teach us through it. Also, we can have peace in all circumstances, knowing that God has all power and is over all. No one can have more power than God allows and they can go no further than God allows them. It was good to be reminded to give thanks to God always, I often find myself feeling sorry for myself and whatever circumstance I find myself in. But rather, I should be thanking God for that situation and thanking Him for using that to make me more like His Son.

Here in Durham we are just about done with our Biblical Foundation classes and we will move on to a few practical training classes for the rest of this semester. We will have a tech tips class and learn a couple of things that will be helpful in jungle camp. Jungle camp building begins the 31st of May and we have two weeks to get our place livable. My roommate and I have just finished getting a month worth of meals planned out for our time in jungle camp. We have to stay up in jungle camp for the whole month, so we need to plan carefully. The majority of our class of sixteen are interested in planting a few things in the greenhouse and garden in order to have a few fresh vegetables while we are up there. The other day some friends of mine helped clean out the greenhouse, but the garden still needs cleared out and tilled before it will be ready. I guess we have a little while before it will be warm enough to plant! Although, this past weekend was gorgeous, warm and sunny! As you can tell, jungle camp is what is on the brain these days, it is coming up pretty fast!

Thank you for praying for me, I cannot thank you enough!

"What a privilege we have to go for a walk with God today so that His Son's life will be seen in us." - B. Challinor

"in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you." - 1 thessalonians 5.18

Ephesians 4.1-16

As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. This is why it says: When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men." (What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.