God is faithfull

Tonight it happened! I got my loan, I can stay at school. Praise God, he is faithfull. I am so blessed, I love God so much... more on this later.

desperation time

I am so desperate for a move of God to happen with me. I have no way to pay for college now. no loan company will give me a loan and there is no way I can stay here if I dont have a loan or the money in place. I have untill monday to get this straightened out. Guys once again I need your prayers, even more though this time. I dont know what God is doing here but I know he is doing something. ive been praying non stop for him to somehow provide for me. Im believing for a miracle and pray that it come in the next four days. so please join in with me to pray. im desperate for this to happen.

I need help

hey all even if you dont know me or you know me quite well I need help. something went bad with my loan for NCU and now I dont know if I am going to be able to stay here. please I ask of you to just pray for this situation and for God to provide somehow... all I am asking for is your prayer. please. I am doing some hard core praying right now that somehow, somewhere God will provide for me... I need about 8700 dollars or Im out of here. please just say a quick prayer thats all I need.

"God I know you will provide for me, I know that I am called to NCU and I know you have exciting things for me over here. Lord I know that that no amount is to much for you and I ask that somehow someway the money is provided. If not I know you have something else way better in store for me. amen"

thanks in advance for your prayers.

offense or defense

how awesome is this scripture... 2 Samuel 23:20 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, who performed great exploits. He struck down two of Moab's best men. He also chased a lion down into a pit on a snowy day and killed it.

what did it just say? he chased a lion down into a pit and killed it... wow talk about having courage or just being really stupid. Earl Creps was in our chapel today and he talked about this passage, it was amazing just like he is. he talked about your defining day, about how when it comes to life sometimes we all have a day where we can run away from the lion or chase it. it was inspiring.

he also talked about us as christians are playing defense against each other while were on offense. and we need to play offense all the time against the enemy. I am really encouraged with todays message, I need to have the courage to chase my lion and kill it. just a thought

update on life

have you ever had an empty feeling and you feel like nothing can help you? Ive been feeling that way for a while now... pretty much since I got here. I have no friends, and more importantly no mentor. I lost all of that when I came here. I have noone I can sit down to a great cup of coffee with and talk to face to face and spill my guts. so much is happening inside of me and I have noone to talk to about it.

was this a mistake?

Is all this making me a stronger person?

God is changing me. I just wish I had a spiritual friend to go to.

the chapel service today was about freedom yet I dont feel free. I feel im in bondage. I miss california, my freinds, my church, my car and so on... I just dont know what to do... I cant wait till summer when im back home and I can think everything through and get positive feedback. oh what I wouldnt give for a coffee cat meeting with one of my pastors.

I guess I may just be homesick... I dont know what I am anymore.

wow! what a week

God is amazing!!! I cant say it enough.

ever since I took moved here purely by faith God has been changing and forming me.

all I want to do these days with my spare time is read the bible, pray and meditate.

I have amazing friends here that understand im crazy, odd and a little on the wierd side.

im really being set on fire here, this is something ive never experienced before in my life. ive been giving God one straight un-interrupted hour a day and it has really been paying off. God and me is tight now. tighter than ever before.

he asked me to give him every area of my life and I didnt want to. I told him I have been hurt to many times to give him my love life area. but he said untill I give that to him I will never see his true glory for my life. so after a week or so of fighting him and praying about it, its his now.

Im really glda I made this step of faith and came here. it was the hardest thing ive ever done. I left all that I knew, everyone i loved, my church, freinds, and youth group. but God has provided so much for me here and I praise him for that.

He has given me a renewed passion for youth again. every single youth kid I love, whether I know them or not.

how is everyone else doing? I want to know. I miss all my cali peeps. oh and I have a new cell phone number since I moved to minneapolis so if you dont have it email me and ill give it to you. dodge16_12@yahoo.com

I was thinking about the superbowl the other day and that the patriots went from an ok team to a superior team pretty much over night and I came to this conclusion.

"The suggestions that the Pats are "so superior" to the rest of the league warrants the cheating to be swept under the rug are forgetting the point. Superior? How does a team of nobodies get to be "superior"? By signing Moss and Welker? Thomas? Or...by using video, espionage, and wire-tapping in ways unheard of in the league? When the "spygatye" episode occurred, several columnists from around the country began describing a whole list of "naughty" things the Pats do on a regular basis. They finally had reason to discuss them. From bugging opposing locker rooms to intercepting the radio signals. Kinda funny that the NFL found it necessary to "monitor" the radio frequencies in the AFC Title game. Kinda funny that at the same time the "superior" Patriots struggled against a hobbled Chargers team. Coincidence?

Add to that the Harrison HGH bust (and how their grandpa LBs manage to play like 24-year-olds) and their "creative" salary cap circumvention...well , then, you have a team that simply doesn't play by the rules all the way around. But when faced with these issues Pats fans resort to: "Everyone does it."

NO...they don't. That's why more talented teams (like Indy) aren't going 18-0"