Uncontainable JOY

"I'm ecstatic, and these thoughts are uncontrollably speratic, but their all centered around one center... Joy..."

Oh God how great are your mercies, and the love that you show your servant. I am so underservant of this love, this grace that you have poured over me! The family and friends that surround me, I am underservant of their love. The gift of music and of words, how can I not share Your WORD.

In all reality, all views, and all thoughts of life... I should not be here, you should not be here. We are a damned people, headed for eternal condemnation from an eternally perfect God. I don't deserve any better, cause every day I do things that are so wrong, so against the God that not only created me, but gave Himself for me. I feel so often like Paul, doing the things I don't want to do, and not doing what I so desperately desire!

But God is a God of grace and love... That does not mean I continue on in sin. But I STRIVE to overcome it, because HE is greater than satan. He is in me, therefore I have the power to overcome. That is what brings joy, the fact that GOD, the Creator of the universe... Is also the lover of a little speck of a living being, on a small planet called earth in the milky way galaxy. What a God I serve.

This is home!

So, to give you an update I am living in Glendive, MT! We have been here for about a week now, and are slowly getting to know the people here and the area. Sam had an interview yesterday at Albertsons and got the job, and I have an interview tomorrow for K-Mart, so excited to get the job. I also am going to join into the band "Heavy Laden" as a bass player. Tyler Nash and the guys here are actually really fun to play with, and have an amazing testimony. This coming weekend I go to hang out with Jordy, Janae, and play Mini Golf as well. :)
God has taken me quite a long ways to land me here in a small town on the eastern end of Montana.
May God be glorified in my time here, and guide me as Sam and I look to reach this community for Christ.

Sunday, Fun Day!

I am headed to Glendive, MT!!! Sunday, Scott and I head out from my parents in Wisconsin, and begin the journey south. It is weird to think that exactly a year ago I was doing the same thing! On the way we stop near Princeton,WI to pick up some stuff for a girl at school. Then when we hit Fargo I will be picking up Spilch! He will be moving to Glendive with me, which is just amazing! Then we will stay in Bismark sunday night and go the rest of the way Monday. :)
Anyways, I am so excited for this new adventure! Spilch and I were joined at the hip all year at MWSB, so this is awesome that we can go and just live life, and grow in Christ. This will be such a good thing for me, we have planned that we will keep each other in the Word, and do it as a group.

God is so good, sending things, and people into my life that are so challenging to me! Spilch knows me well, and will know how to challenge me and get on my case. Please pray for us as we go into a new area, and that we will continue to serve Christ no matter what the circumstance. :)

Eternity Matters

"I am a flower quickly fading,
Here today and gone tomorrow,
A wave tossed in the ocean,
A vapor in the wind.
Still you hear me when I'm calling,
Lord, you catch me when I'm falling,
And you've told me who I am.
I am yours.
I am yours." - Casting Crowns 


We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on
our lives and our days long and often before the face of God
and on the edge of eternity.  For we are made for eternity as
certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible
moral beings we must deal with both.

A.W. Tozer

John 11:25-26 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

This has come to me more and more lately... The fact that I am going to die. I am going to die, and when I do what will people remember of me? That I was lazy, never risked anything, did only the expected, that Christ wasn't important? What will it be when that time comes? Did I go to those in need and share Christ with them?

Preach the GOSPEL to YOURSELF, DAILY! Just recently am I getting what that really means. When I do NOT do that, when I am NOT in the GOSPEL daily... I suffer. I do things I do not want to do, my day goes poorly, and my mind is not focused on that day, and what HE has for me at that moment.

Paul talks about running the race, but doing so that it will not have been in vain(Phil. 2). How am I running, half heartedly, or with a passion that no one can question!?

I want to be the prayer warrior that I see Paul is in his letters. Do you notice in every letter he has EVERYONE in his prayers!? He thanks God for all of them, why... Because they are fellow heirs in Christ! He is the drive, He creates the bond, HE changes Everything!!!

Eternity... Where am I headed? Heaven! Where is my neighbor headed? Or my friends?
I often don't think of it, it isn't the first thing that comes to mind... but shouldn't it be?
Where I go matters... Where they go matters just as much. I need to think about it, I need to preach the gospel to myself daily. Christ deserves my all! And because Christ loves everyone, I need to be His servant, as He made the biggest sacrifice for me!

Matthew 28 - Go and(on your way) make disciples!!!