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Name: Andrea
Country: United States
State: Pennsylvania
Birthday: 12/17/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Jesus, music, worship, mime, flags, reading, friends, star bucks, cats, and my doggy
Expertise: Drinking starbucks!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Nonprofit
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Member Since:
2/26/2004
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| Its been a long time since I have written anything on here. I am still living in MN, I was working as a PCA for a while but things changed. Now I am looking for employment and trusting that the Lord will open the doors somewheres soon! I have been living in Rosevile, I really like this area! The Lord blessed me with a apartment off of a lake. I love it! I have just recently found a church, its all the way in Eden Praie but I just love it there! Such awesome people there! Every Tuesday I go to Communitass, I am really getting to know a lot more people they are starting to become like another family to me. Thursdays is bible study. Its great! The Lord seems to be surrounding me with wonderful people. He has provided for me in such miraculous ways. These past 6 months.. Have definitly had its ups and downs. The Lord has been there with me ever step of the way! I just have to say God is so good! Praise his name! Thats all for now) everyone be blessed! | | |
| I really wonder if people still read these things. I was going to write on Facebook but there Notes don't work as well as they do here. So here goes. I have been reading this book called Shatterd Dream by Larry Crabb. Really good, exspecially if you have had dreams that may have not happend... Here is a Piece of what he wrote.. Luke 18:27 Anyone ;who will not receive the kingdom of god like a little child will never enter it. The word childern that Jesus is using in this passage refers to very little childern infants. When he said that he wasn't saying look at these little ones they are so cute.. It wasn't a sentimental thing. He rubuked his diciples for telling the parents to go away, to not bother Jesus with the little Childern. Nobody is more needy and has less to give than a little baby. They dont give anything of value intentionally to anyone, they don't look for ways to bless people. They are takers. Not because they are selfish, (but because they are babies they are selfish) but because they are helpless. Be like that.. Your are helpless so admit it.. Learn to recieve what you cannot provide for yourself. The Lord was recomending brokeness which it something that we try to avoid. Frederick Buechner -- Its not only more blessed to give than to recieve its also a whole lot easier.. Its easier to councel than to be councled., easier to reach out to a friend in a small group who is feeling insecure than to reveal your own insecurity. The truth is we dont really like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how desperately we long fro someones kindness and involvement. Its so humbling. Which Is why Jesus said what he did. He wants us to humble ourselves and let someone know that we need a hug, or to spend some time with them. Let the spirit know we need him to change our hearts and confess to a community of close friends the wasknesses we should of resolved by now. Stop negotiating with Jesus, stop thinking that you need to offer something up to him in order to recieve a blessing. Your diapers are full. All youve done since you were born is waddle around and break things and now your a mess. All you can do is recieve what you need from someone who has what you dont. When you admit your emptiness, I will see to it that your filled..-Jesus_When I hurd Jesus tell me be like an infant I was more aware of how needy and selfish I was. I won't let anyone see true neediness. I will whine about how people treat me, about the pressures I face and how lonely I feel but but I won't simply say that I really hurt. Would you listen as I share my heart. Suppose no one responds? The primary concern it to make sure that no one will hurt us Protectiveness. The best way is to not fully open up. There is more that I would like to write but I have to run for now. This is some good stuff. | | |
| I wanted to share with everyone a AWESOME experience that happened while I was in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago!
But this story actually starts back at Teen Mania. One day while I was
at Teen Mania I had seen theses small little bibles with a leather
backing and there were different impressions on the front of the
different bibles, it was small and had silver lining on the edges of
the pages so nice. When I saw this bible I said Lord it would be so
wonderful if I could get one of these bible its small enough to fit in
my purse and I could take it where ever I went, so I could always have
it on me. Then I looked that the price 45 dollars. Of course everyone
knows how finances are when your at Teen Mania.
So I prayed Lord I would really love to have one of these bibles....
A couple weeks later I was walked out side of missions control and
there was James Hescock. He had just gotten done gift certificate from
TM for Christmas. And purchased a couple of these little bibles.
As I was walking by he asked me if I would like a bible? He explained
that he had just gotten a gift certificate and went and got a couple of
bibles and said that he already had one and asked me if I would like
one.
It brought tears to my eyes. I said are you serious? He said yes sure. Which one would you like.
I was so blessed! I took that bible everywhere with me. It was just
perfect! It met even more to me because the Lord had blessed me with
it.
Well on my way to Minneapolis... I was on a plane and there were
delays.. My goodness were there delays. We sat on the plane for about 2
hrs before we took off. So after they mad the announcement that we would
be there for a while I thought.
Ok Lord this will give me some time to spend with you. So I pulled out my bible from my purse and started to read.
There was a lady sitting next to me her name was Denise. She was
talking on her cell phone making plans with some guy to go to the bar
and have drinks when she landed where she was going.
After she got off the phone she looked at me and said... I haven't ever
read the bible.. I said you haven't? She said no.. Actually I haven't
ever even owned a bible.
Then she started talking some about her family and god..
As she was talking the Lord kept saying to me GIVE HER YOUR BIBLE!!
Then I would say hmm. I fought with it for a while. GIVE HER YOUR
BIBLE!! He just kept saying. I said but Lord this bible means so much
to me.. Then we took off and I closed my eyes. GIVE HER YOUR BIBLE! Ok
Lord! You have blessed me with this bible and I will bless her with it
too!
At this point she was asleep.
So I opened up the bible crossed out my name wrote hers in it and wrote
her a note telling her what chapter would be best to start in and
encouraging her.
At the end of the flight I said to her Denise, I want to give you
something. and i handed her my bible. She said Oh no you don't have to
do that! I said I want to and your name is already in it! Its yours.
She started to cry. She said this is the best present that I have ever
gotten before! Then she told me that she was just coming back from home
which was in Greece and that she had just had a massive heart attack.
She almost didn't survive. So she went home to try and get new
direction and see what her life was suppose to mean.
She said that she wouldn't ever forget this. Praise the Lord! Then she
said that she was going to go to the hotel and read her bible! Her
first time ever reading the bible!! Instead of going to have drinks she
went to read her bible!!
It was such a blessing to be able to do something like that! That bible is quite a treasure.
God is good!! | | |
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My Child…
You may not know me, but I know everything about you… Psalm 139:1 I know when you sit down and when you rise up… Psalm 139:2 I am familiar with all you ways… Psalm 139:3 Even the very hairs on your head are numbered… Matthew 10:29-31 For you were made in my image… Genesis 1:27 In me you live and move and have you being… Acts 17:28 I knew you even before you were conceived… Jeremiah 1:4-5 I chose you when I planned creation… Ephesians 1:11-12 You were not a mistake… Psalm 139:15-16 For all your days are written in my book… Psalm 139:15-16 I determined the exact time of your birth and where you would live… Acts 17:26 You are fearfully and wonderfully made… Psalm 139:14 I knit you together in your mothers womb… Psalm 139:13 And brought you forth on the day you were born… Psalm 71:6 I have been misrepresented by those who don’t know me. John 8:41-44 I am not distant and angry, but the complete expression of love… 1 John 4:16 And it is my desire to lavish my love on you… John 3:1 I offer you more than your earthly father ever could… Matthew 7:11 For I am the perfect Father… Matthew 5:38 Every good gift that you see comes from my hand… James 1:17 For I am your provider and I meet all your needs… Matthew 5:31 -33 My plan for your future has always been filled with hope… Jeremiah 29:11 Because I love you with an everlasting love… Jeremiah 31:30 My thoughts toward you are countless as the sand on the seashore… Psalm 139:17-18 And I rejoice over you with singing… Zephaniah 3:17 I will never stop doing good to you… Jeremiah 32:40 For you are my treasured possession… Exodus 19:5 I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul… Jeremiah 32:41 And I want to show you great and marvelous things… Jeremiah 33:3 If you seek me with all your heart, you will find me… Deuteronomy 4:29 Delight in me and I will give you the desires of your heart… Psalm 37:4 For it is I who gave you those desires… Philippians 2:13 I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine… Ephesians 3:20 For I am your greatest encourager… 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 I am also the father who comforts you in all your troubles… 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you… Psalm 34:18 As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart… Isaiah 40:11 One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes… Revelation 21:3-4 And I’ll take away all the pain you have suffered on this earth… Revelation 21:4 I am your Father and I love you even as I love my son, Jesus… John 17:23 For in Jesus my love for you is revealed… John 17:26 He is the exact representation of my being… Hebrews 1:3 And he came to demonstrate that I am for you, not against you… Romans 8:32 If you receive the gift of my son Jesus, you receive me. 1 John 2:23 And nothing will ever separate you from my love again… Romans 9:38-39 Come home and Ill throw the biggest party heaven has ever seen… Luke 15:7 I have always been Father and will always be Father… Ephesians 3:14-15 My question is … Will you be my child?… John 1:12-13 I am waiting for you… Luke 15:11-32
…Love your Dad
Almighty God
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| The other day a friend reminded me of a vision that they had a few years ago. It was a vision of me speaking into a congeration with a purple back drop. After that vision I went to my church, and I spoke. That Sunday my pastor made a compliment. He wasn't one to make compliments. He said that when I spoke, he was completly focused like he was straining to hear what I had to say. About 5 others came up and said the same thing to me. Sometime along the way I had a nightmare of this evil looking thing covering up my mouth so I couldn't speak. For a long time since then I have had a hard time speaking in front of people.
1 Peter 4:12 If anyone speaks he should do it as speaking the very words of god.
These past couple of weeks the lord has been doing such a work on my heart. I can't explain it, I feel so much at peace. I have been speaking into the lives of people at work and its been amazing. The Lord is opening doors, doors, some of them that have been closed for a long time. In the past when I first met somone new I was pretty quiet around them for a long time till I get to know them. The Lord has just changed something. I have been having deep converstions with people and I have only known them very shortly. I can see the Lord working! And I absolutly love it! | | |
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