Monday, July 13, 2009 – Week 5
…Of the Weeks:
Song: “Do-Re-Mi” –The Sound of Music
Video: http://www.youtube.com/
Verses: Psalm 116:1-7
Hello lovelies!!
Happy Monday!
Hope your weekend was restful and that you enjoyed all the beautiful weather!!
It has been a good week of renewal and rejuvenation for me.
God has definitely answered some prayers and has shown me that some of my struggles haven’t been in vain.
Take time to really listen to what God has in store for you this week.
Here we go:
1. Prayer
2. Prayer request- Jessica Eubanks (Jack-Jack)
3. Speaker
4. What is love?
5. me
6. you
1. I would really like us to spend this week praying for how God wants us to shape this week. We need to keep surrendering our plans to His will to make sure we are going in the right direction. Pray that God would give us a deeper understanding of what He wants us to say to the students.
2. Here’s Jack-Jack’s prayer request:
May I ask for prayer for my grandparents? My grandmother was in the hospital early last week with severe chest pains. She was released, then my grandfather had a accident on the farm...he went to check water levels (they were flood conditions) in the woods and slipped and fell onto the concrete spillway. God's grace was over him, the docs said there is no logical reason he should be alive. He was laying in standing water but the place he had fallen was shallow- stopping at his ears and not reaching his air passageways. Praise God for that! However, he did fracture 3 vertebrae and his spinal chord is swollen causing paralysis on his right side. He has made it through 2 surgeries- he has a plate that will fuse his neck with his body and he has what they call a halo- a big metal thing that is screwed into his skull keeping his head in place. He may possibly never be able to move his neck again...... But...I believe He can in the name of Jesus! I believe in a God that is greater than physical injuries and old age. I believe in a God that has no limits!
3. Do you guys have any suggestions of a professor/administrator on campus that you would like to hear share about Loving God?
4. So God has really given me a lot to think about in the area of love as an action. I was reading I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Josh Harris this week (a great book to challenge your view of purity and love and to see it in God’s eyes…even for those who are dating right now). It’s funny because I got this book in high school but I never finished it because I just couldn’t relate to the content. God happened to bring the book back to my attention this week through a friend and I haven’t been able put it down! I love the way God works like that…it definitely shows how His timing is always unexpected, yet is always the best remedy for us. Anyway, there was a passage from the book that I’d like to share with you.
When dating we represent God’s love, not only to the other person in the relationship, but also to the people watching us. As Christians, we need to remember that God’s perfect love is not only for our benefit. A model wears clothing to attract attention to the designer’s creativity. The model displays the designer’s work, but the designer’s reputation is on the line, not the model’s. In the same way, as Christians, we model God’s love whether or not we realize it. People watch us, and what they see affects God’s reputation for loving His creation.
Even if you’re not in a relationship, the way you love those around you is crucial to your witness to others. God showed this to me in the way I treated some of the kids at the day camp where I work. There are these two sisters in this camp that stir up so much trouble. They love to gossip and create drama all the time, pulling the other girls in-- and they’re only in elementary school! All the counselors have a tired, annoyed attitude towards these girls because it’s feels like we’re always asking, “What did they do now?” Well, these girls are being moved to another day camp in the park district and when they were picked up on Friday, some of the kids started cheering and yelling some mean farewells. As I scolded the kids and told them to keep quiet, I realized my attitude towards these girls was just as bad. Sure I wasn’t as vocal about my dislike for them, but I know I have talked about them behind their backs with the other counselors, I have been less willing to play with them than the other kids and I know there were times when I was just plain mean back to them.
But they are God’s children just as much as the most well-behaved child, or even me. Needless to say, I felt convicted about my actions towards them. I wish I could go back and change the way I loved them, but honestly, they were SO hard to love! Yet God asks us to do the difficult, nonetheless, because He has always loved us even when we have betrayed Him and ignored Him and saddened Him. And we do it all the time.
So, loving unconditionally is truly a harrowing task, but we weren’t meant to do it alone. Ask God for help because He is the one who “designed” the concept and we are challenged as Christians to “model” it well.
5. So God has really blessed me so much this week. I pray that I will be able to give it back to Him with praise this week and in prayer over Love Revolution. I need to up the ante in how I bathe this event in prayer because I really have been slacking since I left school. So that’s what I’m going to try to do this next week.
6. I ask that you do the same-really pray for Love Revolution this week. Ask God to inspire you with ideas or just give you a heart and passion for the ministry. Ask Him to show you how to live out the revolution of love in your life. And never forget that He is always there to help you and that He wants you to go to Him.
Oh, and if you have time to email me back, please let me know how you are doing and how I can pray for you. J
That is all for this week.
Thanks for reading!
Have a good one!
lovelovelove,
Jeanette
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