- Wisdom: the God given knowledge of doing what's right or wrong.
- The real issue isn't knowledge - or lack of it! The problem lies in applying that knowledge, or another word for it would be wisdom. Solomon asked God to give him knowledge, and God most definitely did(2 Chronicles 1-9). Why did Solomon fall? Not because he wasn't smart enough - not because he didn't know better. He fell because he had wisdom, but failed to apply it. Solomon knew it was wrong to have so many wives, but he didn't apply that knowledge to himself.
- Why would God give you more wisdom if you're not putting the little you do have into practice?
- To be patient in your trials and sufferings... Patience is the level of endurance one can take before negativity. How patient are you?
- Restlessness and impatience rob us of our joy and peace. CHOOSE to be patient. God won't zap you with a spout of patience.. maybe he'll give you trials so you can learn to be patient! Or maybe he will give you trials to show how impatient you truly are.
- Mercy: not getting what you do deserve
- Grace: getting what you don't deserve
- Our words have more power than we realize. One word can change everything. Here's an example: if you want to test this, go into an airport and start yelling "BOMB"!
- Faith is acting on belief. Faith is an action. There is no faith without belief. Faith with no action is better classified as belief(James 1:6-8, 2:14-26)
- The best way to understand prayer, is just to pray!
- Godly motivation is eternal value! Motivation for work, or for anything you do. Why do you go to work? To get a paycheck? That's wrong motives! What we do is part of God's eternal plan, and we always need to have Christ at the center of our lives - even at the center of our motivation!
- Something totally off-topic, I'm reading a book called Christ for Real by Chris W. Price, and in it he says, "The day I married Hilary I was not making a statment about the good or bad in the other women of the world that I was not marrying. I was acknowledging that she would now hold a place in my life that would be beyond any other human relationship that I might have. Similarly, in our relationship with Jesus Christ, our surrender to him means that He's given a place of priority that is shared by no one else." This really caught my attention because I know how serious saying "I do" is, and how important it is to keep true to your promise... and it's the same thing in our walk with the Lord!
Besides classes, everything else is going great! I've adjusted really well and started making some really good friends. It's really funny, because one of my roommates lives only an hour away from where I live! It's a small world!
I'm on an outreach team, and my team does music. So every Tuesday we get together and practice music and play songs together - it's such a sweet time of worshiping together. Some Sundays we will go to different churches and lead worship and share a testimony. This week I am sharing my testimony in one of the only english speaking churches around! In a couple of weeks, we will be heading off to Quebec City for a weekend of leading worship and such things.
One thing you could pray for - as I just mentioned, there aren't very many english speaking churches around! As far as I know right now, the only english speaking churches that are available for me to go to on Sunday mornings are a Catholic church, and an Anglican church. The baptist church is in french... so pray that I will have wisdom and discernment as I don't know what to do with this situation at this point!
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing...blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test, he will recieve the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him."
April
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