Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Well I haven't written in a while... as you can tell. Sorry! Not too much to say, so I'll just give you the regular, an update on life!

School is long. Tuesdays especially! 8am-4:30pm
Everyone is healthy!
Mom has been going like crazy all day putting books on Amazon and making lots of money at that!
Dad, continuing to serve the family as hard as ever... :)
Jimmy is currently at TCC doing classes and working at Bike Beat. He comes home tired a lot.
I am working at Old-Navy and I LOVE my job!!! :) It's the perfect place for me and I am truly blessed! On an average I work anywhere from 18-25 hours a week (pretty reasonable). I enjoy getting to meet new people there everyday, great them with a smile :D, and do whatever I can to make them feel special!

Something new at school... the second Tuesday of every month at lunch time the women teachers and us "women":) are having a Bible study! Neat huh?! Today they were encouraging us about the "purposes" or benefits of God's word. "LISTEN TO ME, and EAT WHAT IS GOOD, and DELIGHT yourselves in the richest of foods. INCLINE YOUR EAR, AND COME TO ME; HEAR THAT YOUR SOUL MAY LIVE; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant... seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon his name while he is near..." Nothing will benefit you as much as God's word.
" For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord..."
"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there but water the earth, making it spring forth and spout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOES OUT FROM MY MOUTH; IT SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME EMPTY, BUT IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH I PURPOSE, AND SHALL SUCCEED IN THE THING FOR WHICH I SEND." Isaiah 55;1-3,6,8-11
"Man does not live by bread alone but on every word that proceeds from the mouth of the father." (Mt 4:4)
This was mainly what they were encouraging us about and it was really provoking. Knowing that Jesus longs to have fellowship with me and wants to teach me through his word is unfathomable!
This was so needed for me to realize the importance of God's word in my life, and mainly Jesus in my life!! If God wants to speak to me and teach me then I should be doing nothing else except reading his word. Now reading his word isn't the only way he speaks to you, but through sermons, encouragements, worship and prayers. By the way, all the scripture that was written here was given to us on paper to encourage us for devotions... I just wanted to share it!

"Your words came to me I ate them, they were my joy and my hearts delight." Jeremiah 15:16

But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Phil 3:13-14