the best is yet to come.

well, good news folks. this girl is officially employed! hallelujah, praise the Lord.

i will start my new job a week from tomorrow as the administrative and executive assistant for H.I.S. bridge builders. so excited!! the Lord is moving in dallas in more ways than one. to be cheesy and quote high school musical, this is the start of something new. the Lord has given me the verses in jeremiah 17:7-8...

          “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
           whose trust is the Lord.
           He is like a tree planted by water,
           that sends out its roots by the stream,
           and does not fear when heat comes,
           for its leaves remain green,
           and is not anxious in the year of drought,
           for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

also, this has been a season of learning so so much! this week commenced the new devotionals for table groups. this week focused on evangelism. the Lord always has a way of taking the confident proud me [thinking i know everything there is to know already about evangelism] and completely rocking my world! 
first of all, evangelism doesn't start on the street. it begins with believing what you will evangelize. we have to believe in what we are taking to the lost. we have to love and invest in the One we say we put our faith in. if we don't believe in the Father we worship, anyone we try to talk to will see that and not want what we say we are "all about". loving and investing looks like service to the church, discipleship, monetary offerings, a DAILY time with the Lord, worship, etc. 

"And the Spirit said to Philip, 'Go over and join this chariot.^' So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, 'Do you understand what you are reading?' And he said, 'How can I, unless someone guides me?' And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him."
acts 8:29-31

i encourage everyone to go back and read this whole story about philip. the story of such obedience and trust in the Lord. you see in the passages how keenly the relationship between philip and the Lord must have been for philip to hear the things the Spirit told him to do. oh Lord, i pray for such heartful obedience and such an apt sense of what your will is in my life and DO IT.

on that note, this was an exercise i did with my freshman girls this morning. i love this and encourage everyone in some quiet time this week to do this as well. in perspectives this week, we wrote down one word we want our year to be summarized as. my word this year will be eager. 
eager to be at the Lord's feet.
eager to listen.
eager to be a good steward with canaan and i's money & give generously.
eager to spend quality time with high school girls.
eager to work hard for the Lord's kingdom.
eager to stay in touch with friends.
eager to be a good friend.
eager to make new memories. 
eager to treat my body respectfully [eat healthier and exercise 3-4x a week].
eager to love. 

^"Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him."  
hebrews 9:25-28 

 

what will your word be? 

 




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