tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83647279347899241842011-08-15T16:45:27.524-04:00This blog is my honest thoughts and feelings on whatever I happen to think/wonder aboutsurrenderedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06915822324019259006noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8364727934789924184.post-11637853805576551122009-11-03T08:58:00.004-05:002009-11-03T09:24:42.124-05:00

I was preparing to teach about David: A man after God's own heart and I learned some interesting things. David was hiding away in a cave after being anointed to be king, after killing Goliath. I had just gone on my first interview since graduating but now I was still without a job and without any other prospects of getting a jobDavid was moping and mourning and wondering why God had allowed this

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So in jrhigh we're doing a series on the armor of God and I was asked to teach on the sandals of peace. I had just come back from vacation and was a little "out of it". I hadn't seen the kids in three weeks and I had no idea what was going on in jrhigh. Now I have to teach. All week I prepared and I was ready. I had been going through some things and I was praying that God's spirit would be

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So for some reason I've been finding myself in leadership positions lately. It's almost like people seek me out...almost. I find that some one would ask me to do something and somehow I'll end up leading the group. I don't seek it out, in fact, I try very, very hard to stand in the background. I don't like being the center of attentions. It makes me uncomfortable. However, that seemed to recently

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So I went to see the movie "Knowing" with Nicholas Cage. I was a little apprehensive to see it because I wasn't sure if the movie was "appropriate". However, I did see it because I needed to release some anxiety. I was pleasantly surprised and I liked it very much. I should say, if you want to see the movie, you probably shouldn't read on. So here goes...The movie opens with this little girl and

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Okay, so I'm not Greek, I don't think I'm fat (well at the writing of this I don't think so) and I didn't have a wedding but I was watching the movie as I spent some endless time chatting on facebook and Tula's brother say "Don't let your past dictate who you are but let it be a part of who you will become". I've watched this movie countless times and this finally stuck out to me.If the things

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I've learned a very important lesson over my very short lived lifetime - be kind to the people you meet because you never know when you'll meet them again. I've met some very interesting people over my lifetime that have left impressions on my life. It is sad to say that some of them have a bad impression because of their behavior, attitude or pure selfishness but it goes without saying that I

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So the new year has begun with a bang. A good bang. I graduated officially and I'm realizing that there's nothing that's going to stop me from running toward the promises of God; the things that I'm supposed to be doing for Him. It's amazing that there are times when things seem so impossible, so unlikely and there is no way that you can grasp it. Now, here I am and those same things haven't

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So this year has been so rough for me. I feel as if I've seen more valleys than I've seen mountain tops YET, I am so very grateful for every valley I've seen. At the beginning of the semester last year God gave me one promise concerning school - you will never be put to shame. I've held on to that promise like you wouldn't believe. I'd already failed a class and it was such a struggle to go back.

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So, I named the blog "Battle Cries" because when I wrote my first entry, may be even long before then, there was this cry that rose up in me. It was a cry for God to change me, change the people that I talk to and change the world. It was cry of war. The kind that you yell as you run toward the enemy; the kind that felt like you were screaming at the top of your lungs but it sounded like a sweet

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I was watching a commercial for a movie on Hallmark. I've got to say that I admittingly love the Hallmark channel. The movies are clean and such tearjerkers but anyways, I"m watching the commercial and the lady asks the guy "What is your purpose in life?" and his reply: "to be happy" then she said: "It's to make a difference" Then I thought about it and realized...that's MY purpose; that's what

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So about a month ago I came back with an awesome, renewed passion for God and then WHAM! I became overwhelmed with fear that I was not going to pass my class; I was not going to graduate. After all the time I spent, including a failed class, this was it. I would have nothing to show for it. It was almost crippling me to the point where I was messing up in my clinical rotation. I just saw myself

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So I’ve been pretty sure that once I graduate, I will go to work in a hospital, in pediatrics, for a year and then go to the mission field. Now, I’m not so sure. Now I think the hospital is not even an option for me anymore. I feel as if God is saying to me that I need to be a part of on call missions. Okay that’s not a problem BUT I think that means be in the office as the medical person on

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I have been challenged and stretched by God so much this year. I've been pulled out of my comfort zone and place in situations where I know that had it not been for God, I would not have been able to do it. Two days before I received an email to volunteer for Intervarsity's Big Event weekend, I was praying and asking God what I was suppose to do with all the information/revelations that He was

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Wow. It's definately been a while since I've been on here. I think I forgot I had a blog..oops...well here's what I've written over the past few months..few being like 2. I was going to wait until the new year to begin again, that would put me at about a 2 year gap, but I figured that what I've experienced in the last two months, is worth sharing...so read on with the blogs I posted tonight. Hope

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1 Peter tells us that we are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a Holy nation...this generation is the biggest generation to date. I remember when I was at St. John's and it was voting time, for the president I think, and the Professor asked how many of us were voting, not too many people raised their hand, actually it was 4 if I could remember correctly. Anywho, he then says, "Do you know

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So I am reading Exodus and I am wondering - how ungrateful were the Israelites?? they get out of Egypt and they're happy but then they hit a road bump and all of a sudden, they're complaining. "Why'd you bring us out of Egypt to die?" They get across the Red Sea, they're hungry so what do they do? Complain. "We had better food in Egypt and you bring us out here to die of starvation" So I was

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When God swept through Egypt to kill the first born, He required blood to be placed on the door posts for protection to the Israelites. When Christ died, it was the shedding of the blood that brought salvation to our doorsteps. I wonder if we realize that? The blood of Christ was not only shed for our sins but with it comes such power! If we as Christians would ever realize how much God has given

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