A Love Story

Ministry

I thought about the subject a lot while I was stick the past 2 weeks. Its been the core of how Jesus has been working in my heart recently. Today in my Bible reading I came across a verse.

"But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions,

do the work of an evangelist,

make full proof of thy ministry."

2Timothy 4:5

Questions started echoing in my mind.

~Whats my ministry?

~ Where is my ministry?

To whom am I ministering?

Where should I be?

God do you want me to go on a missions trip?

as I sat and pondered some things- I started to recall a conversation that I had with my dad quite awhile ago. The words of a book I recently read drifted into my thoughts. Parts of a verse formed in my mind. All answeres to my own questions.

my Daddy has so much insight and wisdome! a few months ago, I was sitting in the dinning room talking with my dad about this very subject. (more correctly my dad was guiding me and giving me counsel!) but I still recall the message of his words. His wisdome brought me to realize

ministry is right here!

I want to go on a missions trip, I want to go be apart of a ranch in OR. that ministers to hurting kids... nothing wrong with that... maybe someday I will get the chance to! but my dad pointed out to me - that there are hurting kids right here in small town NE! sure im in the cornfeilds... but Ministering is having a personal relationship with the individual! even though its all great... but I really dont have to go across the world/country to reach out to kids and people. the fact is they are right here- I know them, I know that they are hurting, struggling. and I know that they need Jesus.

the answer to my question about "what IS my ministry?" -

my ministry is Luke 4:18.

my ministry is to stand up and fight for the cause of Christ

my ministry is to bring hope to those that have none

to encourage those that are falling

to share the gosple

to light MY world

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hat anointed me to

preach the gospel to the poor

he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted,

to preach deliverance to teh captives,

and recovering of sight to the blind,

to set at liberty them that are bruised,

YOU can make a difference for Christ exactly where God has put you. weather your in small town USA, the middle of a bean patch, or some big city -doesnt matter. God has you where he has you for a reason. Im so thankful for the place where I am,

Im so thankful for how God is changing me

I want to BE more, I want to DO more. how could we possible say.... "iv done enough for God" we cant.

I WANT TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God

I will strengthen Thee; yea

I will help thee; yea

I will uphold thee with the right hand of my rightesouness.

A Bow

"When we choose to answer the call of our Lord,

we become like a bow in His hands, A bow is useful only when it's drawn.

It's the drawing, the ability to handle tension, that gives a bow its value.

With a little draw, there is little release. Yet each time we submit to God,

we expand our trust and faith and grow more flexible, resilient, and strong.

Over time we are able to flex into a full draw and know His full release.

The bigger the draw, the farther our arrows fly for him.

The farther they fly, the greater the impact we make on the hearts of

those around us who need help."

~Kim Meeder~

overwhelmed

My heart is so moved. As I set the table and finished preparing supper my brothers had an episode of Oddesey playing. While I was going in and out of the dining room, I caught a few glitches of the story. It was about Connie and Eugene going in the imagine nation station back to the story of Jesus. At the very end 2 statements were made during the story that brought tears to my eyes.

The first statement was made by one of the wise men as they seen baby Jesus he said “is this the one brings hope to the whole world” just imagine! JESUS Christ! Even as a little new born baby—brought hope to the world… He IS the hope of the world!! I am so humbled. I just can’t find words to describe how grateful I am that Jesus has given me hope. Without Him I would be nothing.

The ending statement was simply this “we have a reason to live, that’s worth dying for” wow! The end times have been on my mind often. And honestly sometimes it scares me! Will I be able to stand for Christ like the brave ones who have done so before? Even at the cost of life? But “we have a reason to live, that’s worth dying for” Jesus Christ is so fulfilling! He is everything we need! He is on the throne! Im so thankful that I can completely trust in Him! I am completly overwhelmed with how amazing God is, and how undeserving I am of the hope, love, mercy, grace, and forgiveness that is so freely given me!

Whew. Well I just had to jot that down! My heart is so full! And I have a very limited about of words to try to describe that! Thank You Jesus!

Harvest

There are so many things that come to my mind when I think of harvest. I picture eating supper on a tailgait, climbing into some good quality John Deere equpiment spending hours with my dad. collecting tickets at the grain elavator (along with hot coco, and suckers) roling the tarps on and off of the grain trucks each time we made a trip to the elavator. those are just a few of the reasons why harvest is my favorite time of year! I love every bit of it!

obviously we are smack dab in the middle of my favorite season! combines are driving back and forth across feilds all day long. trucks and semi's make trips to and from the grain bins, the grain cart keeps the combine empty, and the other trucks scootin along! I tell ya, farmers dont dink around when the crops are ready... now im confronted with the question.... why do we??? are we not called by Jesus Christ to be farmers? we are told that the fields are ready to be harvested, why is that not taken seirously? once the beans, and corn are ready; farmers dont just sit around and wait another 3 months before they finally decide to go start doing something about it! we need to be ready to gather in the crop as soon as its ready. crops dont stay ripe forever. theres a window of oppertunity that opens..... then closes.

are we taking seirously the fact that people need the Lord? the crops are ready to be brought in, but nobody wants to do the work. we need to stand up and be the labourers that God needs!

Luke 10:2 Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

John 4:35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

Revelation 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

Psalms 126:5-6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Ga 6:7-9 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

(btw I did take the combine pictures one evening! it was a TON of fun! perfect sky, and a perfect subject!)

Straight To Hell

Those Words have been on my mind so much; "Straight To Hell". When I lay down to sleep each night they ring in my thoughts, As I pray they bounce back and forth in my mind. So many people are heading STRAIGHT TO HELL. It's so bothersom, because its people that I know. I dare say each one of us wouldnt have to think more than a few seconds - to spit out 10 of our friends/relatives that we KNOW are going to Hell when they die. The worst thing; is that it doesnt bother us! it doesnt make us weep, and we dont go out of our way to try to pull them out of the fire. It aggravates me that I dont do enough.

Last weekend we had a rodeo, and during one of the events a young gal that I knew got bucked off her horse and trampled. I stood by the edge of the arena shocked. I watched a bunch of dads huddle over her, and I was so sickened at my self that I hadnt told her about heaven and Hell, or the fact that Jesus Christ is our ONLY hope. The question "what if she dies" kept bouncing through my head and made me just want to cry my eyes out. minutes later I watched the EMT's load her up and pull out. So I prayed, not only that she would be ok, but that I, and we as Christians would be roused to pull people out of the Fire.

People in this world have 1 shot at life. Hebrews 11:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: How is it that we are so comfortable with this life, that we dont go out and try to win sould like Jesus is comin tomorrow? I dont think we even PRAY enough, because I know that I dont :( We shouldnt be ashamed because we have the power of God. -- but we have not, because we ask not. so I just pray that we ... that I... would be so charged to not give up, and to share the gosple to those dear to us. I dont want to have to watch people that I know and love be cast into hell because I didnt tell them. God help me.

♥ Koda Girl ♥

Gods Love

Proverbs 10:12 ¶ Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

We read over this verse in our family bible reading time the other day, and 2 things about this verse stuck out to me.

1 Is the fact that in our life... in our relationships, we should not dwell on peoples faults, but that we should let Love cover a multitude of sins. Its an action that we have to take. It can be so easy to pick out our friends' faults, and a sin of all people... is gossip of course. And what does gossip do? It tares apart the downside of someone. But ya know, we should never focus on that! Because God asks us to love, because he first loved us....... which brought me to my second thought

2 why do we/should we let love cover peoples sins? …. because Jesus did it for us! And this is the part I love the most.... man I just cant get over it! The Lord looked down on us, and he knows that we are simply filled with sin. But Jesus loves us so much! He came and died for us! I know that to many of us this is not a new fact. But I still cant comprehend! Im just amazed by his love! And so ya know... when we accept Christs love- when we accept his gift of salvation, his love covers ALL of our sins! He doesnt look at us and pick out our faults- He looks at as and see's our redemption! A wicked heart made white as snow. Im just astounded. WOW!!!!!