The Story God Wrote For Me

Today has been an amazing day and I have a very blessed couple of days. Things that shouldn’t have worked ended up working out. With God all things are possible  The devil tries to convince us that we can’t do something and to give up. But I’m here to tell you there is nothing impossible when God is on your side. He gives us strength to do what he has called us to do. He gives us power to fight the devil and he gives us peace that the world can’t understand. I serve an AWESOME GOD! Hallelujah! I’m so very blessed to have Jesus as a constant companion, shepherd, friend, and Savior. I’ve learned to look past the present problems and look to the future and up to my victory! If we are following God’s will no matter what the circumstance everything will work out for his glory - we just have to have a mustard seed of faith. Is that hard? Yes at times but we must press through trials and toward the Lord. When unbelievable things happen that don’t make sense just keep looking up to Jesus. W...

The past week has been AWESOME. God has blessed me so much. I have been having a deeper more intense Bible study and have felt his presence so much more the past week. His power is AWESOME! I have been reading Song of Solomon and John. Two totally different books of the Bible but so much of the same meaning. I have tried to read Song of Solomon before but it didn't make sense. This week God has opened my eyes. The way Song of Solomon is written is exactly how my relationship with God has grown and developed. Oh Jesus is my beloved and is whom my soul loves! How precious is it that we have grace, salvation, redemption and love? AMAZING LOVE! I have also checked out a devotional from school called The Utmost for His Highest and my friend sent me a devotional called Streams in the Desert. Sunday I read both of these devotionals like normal but to my surprise they both said the same thing but in different ways. Both of them talked about "Waiting and Watching" but not for the ...

My roommate left to go back home to the US last night. I called my husband when she left to go for early check-in and started crying when I was telling him she was leaving. It is amazing how much I cry here in Africa. When I was back in the US I tried to just be tough all the time and I hated crying. Now I just cry because I know only the Lord sees it and he is the only one who gave give me peace here in this desert. I’m not saying I cry all the time I’m just saying now when I need to cry I just cry and am not so ashamed to cry. Crying shows humility and the need for my Jesus to help me because he catches my tears in his bottle :) Anyways the point of this blog is that after I got home last night I went and just talked to God about how I needed him to help with the upcoming days, to heal me of this malaria, and to help me with my loneliness. While in prayer God just revealed so much to me I just have to write about it. My 9 months in Africa everyone (and myself) always assumed t...

Running from God As I look back on my life I see many failures that could have been prevented, many times I should have said no and then I wouldn’t have gotten mad at myself later for not standing up for myself, and many times in the past I ran from God….what Ran from God? Why would anyone do that? Simple it seems easier. It is easier in a sense that the devil leaves you alone, you have no trials and you think you run your own life. Eventually the farther and harder you run from God the more life begins to seems pointless, the more depressed you feel and the more trapped you become with worldly things. Pretty soon you look around and wish you could go back to the way things were before but have no clue how to get back to that place. Where was that place? It was in the will of God, and the path God has laid out before you. How do you get back there? You get on your knees and with everything inside of you, you ask Jesus Christ for forgiveness, repent/confess all of your black and dirt...

The Muslims are in Ramadan, which means they are fasting from dawn till sunset around 8p.m. every day. Please pray that Jesus Christ will reveal himself to them. Please pray for all the missionaries in Niger, that God would be revealed through our actions and that we will be a light to the people of Niger. Please pray for the safety of our missionaries. Please pray for Jordan as she gets ready to leave to go back to the US on 8/31/10. Please pray for me as I will be moving into my own apartment and be living alone for the next 6 months. Pray for my physical, emotional and mental health. The past two weeks,  I have been physically drained and felt like I don't have enough energy to complete all that I must do and emotionally I'm exhausted. Pray that God will reach his hand down and give me strength, hope, peace, guidance, love and reassurance.

There are some things here that I normally wouldn't do in the USA but have begun doing while I'm here. 1. I've turned into one of those people. Yes the people I use to make fun of for drinking coffee every morning to get going.....yes I must have my coffee or I can't function...the ritual morning am shower just isn't cutting it anymore. 2. I make my coffee the night before and place it in the fridge. Some things don't change and me getting up an extra 15 minutes early just to make coffee is not happening. Improvising :) 3. I'm packing lunches for school. Something I haven't done since ummmmm forever. The lack of Mcdonald's, Taco Bell, Chickfila and Burger King has caused me to start planning ahead and making my lunch the night before....ha ha...tomorrow I will be feasting on whole potatoes covered with garlic and cheddar cheese, rice, kidney beans and possibly a piece of homemade white bread...yummy! 4. I'm having to use a daily planner whic...

Lovely title don't you think? For those of you who don't know the meaning of debridement it means "Surgical excision of dead, devitalized, or contaminated tissue and removal of foreign matter from a wound." Wounds are sometimes debrided with a wet-to-dry dressing. This means “A sterile Normal Saline saturated gauze is packed deep inside a wound and left for about 8 hours. After 8 hours the gauze is dry and the gauze is slowly pulled from the wound and debrides the wound by pulling out all of the pus and infection on the dried piece of gauze. Disgusting sometimes but necessary to promote healing. For those of you who don't know on August 3rd I got a motorcycle muffler burn and have been treating it myself. Last night I had to perform non-surgical debridement on the wound. Why? Because due to the thick burnt skin the wound was not healing properly and was delayed in being able to heal from the inside out. While it hurt extremely bad to do this myself, it was n...