"I BELIEVED, AND SO I SPOKE"

I made a commitment a couple months back. I signed a lease on an apartment for one whole year. It's significant because not only does this mean that I'll be living in LA for the whole next year but that I will need to pay about $445.00 every month to live there. From August 2010 - August 2011. I am posting this on my blog as a sort of self-motivation to myself. Self-motivation to myself because I don't have a job. Which means I don't have any steady income. Jesus has provided for me graciously over the last couple months through short stints as an apartment manager and traveling cook. But now I'm wanting to pursue a job by faith. I'm asking God to provide a job that would somehow bring honor to the great Name of Jesus Christ. Also a job that I would enjoy doing, that would give me the satisfaction of laboring and earning my own living. Preferably I'd like to work at an organization that serves spanish speaking immigrants, or perhaps a job at an auto store, o...

“Those who cling to worthless idols forsake their hope of steadfast love. But I, with a song of thanksgiving, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. Salvation comes from the LORD." Jonah 2:8-9 Disaster was coming. The prophet had proclaimed that in yet 40 days and the city and its people would be destroyed. But this prophet wasn’t always so bold. At first when the Word of God came to him he ran away from the Lord! He clearly wasn’t as excited about the call given to Him as God was. Maybe it was selfishness, racism or fear that caused him to not want to save the people of Ninevah. One thing it definitely was is disobedience. Yet God used the prophet to turn a nation from evil to Himself and to be saved from certain death. This is the story of Jonah. I’ve been taught a powerful lesson from this tiny book in the Bible over the last year as my heart often persuades me me to run from doing what God wills rather than trusting Him and doing the har...

Only One Life – C.T. Studd By Charles Thomas Studd, Missionary to China, India, and Africa Two little lines I heard one day, Traveling along life’s busy way; Bringing conviction to my heart, And from my mind would not depart; Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last. Only one life, yes only one, Soon will its fleeting hours be done; Then, in ‘that day’ my Lord to meet, And stand before His Judgment seat; Only one life,’ twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last. Only one life, the still small voice, Gently pleads for a better choice Bidding me selfish aims to leave, And to God’s holy will to cleave; Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last. Only one life, a few brief years, Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears; Each with its clays I must fulfill, living for self or in His will; Only one life, ’twill soon be past, Only what’s done for Christ will last. When this bright world would tempt me s...