June 30, 2009

Angela's Celebrating Another Year!

Happy Birthday Angela! Thanks for your sweet smile, encouragement and involvement in the youth group. We've watched your love for the Lord increase as you've spent time getting to know Him. Keep growing and may this next year be one where you draw even closer to our precious Savior. Hope you hd a great day!

June 22, 2009

SEVENTEEN AND COUNTING...

Happy 17th Birthday Jessica Knocke! Thanks for your part in the youth group. Its been neat to see you grow in the Lord. Keep spending time in the Word and in prayer and let others see God through your life. Many blessings and wishes for a happy day!

June 21, 2009

How God Has Been Showing Himself Real...

Now that school is out and summer is officially underway its been so refreshing to be able to spend time in God's Word and in prayer without being pressed down by the thoughts of more books and classes. I've needed this "spiritual boost" and have been enjoying every minute of it. We serve an incredible God! I've been taking walks mostly every day and for some reason I have been drawn to God this week through the skies. I keep finding myself marvelling at them. How could a God who is powerful enough to create the vast amount of sky, with its fluffy clouds and splashes of color, be tender enough to love someone like me? The thought overwhelms me at times. Call me sentimental if you wish, but God really does deserve so much more than we could ever give Him.

"Each time I touch a rose petal and breathe the sweet fragrance it brings, I know theres a God up in heaven. No human could create these things!

The sunset in its golden splendor, such colors no artist can do! I know when I look on its beauty, each page in the Bible is true.

No picture or painting can capture the beauty of any of these. The handiwork of God is revealed in the flowers, the sunset, the trees."


Have a God-focused week,
Chrystal

p.s. If you're reading this, know that you were prayed for today. Keep pressing foward. Its hard at times, but it's always worth it.

June 11, 2009

happy birthday a day late!



Happy Birthday Zach Read!
hope you had a great one! We will all be praying for you as you continue to seek God's will for your life.

June 5, 2009

Another look at the sowing-reaping lesson

Micah 7:13: Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.
We read this verse in family devotions today, and that last part of the verse struck me hard; it was "for the fruit of their doings." The land was desolate, with nothing good or healthy in it, because, as the verse says, the fruit of their doings wasn't very good either. You know, you do reap what you sow, but you also eat what you reap, and if you're not sowing anything good, then you're not reaping anything good, and if you're not reaping anything good, then you're not eating anything good, and if you're not eating anything good, you're going to die.

June 3, 2009

Where Are You Getting Your Water From?

Jeremiah 2:13- "For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water."

Ouch. Its almost like Jeremiah is looking at the people and asking "Are you stupid?! Everything you ever really wanted or needed is found in God. He's supplied it for you and its right in front of your face! Yet, you are determined to look in every other place imagineable. You are searching for happiness and fulfillment in places that hold no satisfaction. You're wasting your time digging wells that will never yield anything with which you can quench your thirst. Return to God and know that He will give you the life you are seeking."

Shortly after thinking about all that I was listening to a cd and came across this song. I connected it to the verse in Jeremiah and God really used it to convict me at a time when I needed it most. I hope it does the same for you.

Chrystal

June 2, 2009

#1 Refute to the Big Bang Theory

Bangs have never created life; only destroyed it.