February 2012
3 posts
““Is He mighty? He will show Himself strong on the behalf of them that...”
– CH Spurgeon
“The meek man is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of his own inferiority....”
In Secret
Over the past few months, I have been discovering the Spirit of God in ways I’ve never known Him before. Or maybe it’s just that I’m finally actually discovering HIM. Not His plans for me. Not His answers to my questions. But HIM. It’s so easy to seek His will, to seek His wisdom, and to seek His guidance.
But we so often forget to seek Him.
To come into His presence...
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
4 posts
More than watchmen wait for the morning
Patience. Most people’s least favorite word. A dangerous thing to pray for. And one of the hardest things to practice.
The dictionary defines patience as “the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation or the like.”
In II Peter 3, it is talking about all the evil in the world and how wonderful the day will be when the...
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In Your great mercy You have given me new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade - kept in heaven for me, who through faith am shielded by Your power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last...
picture of my heart
“But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple that I have built? Yet give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy, O Lord my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence this day. May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which...
“I am sure He would not have loved me so long if He had not been a changeless...”
– C.H. Spurgeon
November 2011
4 posts
"You, my brothers, were called to be free." - Gal....
“See how she leaps at once to Him; there are no prefatory words; she does not even mention His name; she is in the heart of her theme at once, for she speaks of Him who was the only Him in the world to her. How bold is her love!” - CH Spurgeon
Love Him boldly today.
By walking about of the ashes of who you used to be and leaping into the infinite love that sent the fire to burn...
"If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of...
“Rather as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way:
in great endurance;
in troubles, hardships and distresses;
in beatings, imprisonments and riots;
in hard work
sleepless nights
and hunger;
in purity, understanding, patience and kindness;
in the Holy Spirit
and in sincere love;
in truthful speech
and in the power of God;
with weapons of righteousness in the...
Threshing Floor.
A threshing floor is a circle of land that has been cleared and flattened for the purpose of threshing wheat. To avoid water running into the threshing floor, there is usually a small wall built around it. Threshing floors are usually located on top of a hill or a mountain. Somewhere high enough that the wind can aid in the winnowing process. The winnowing process is the process in which the...
October 2011
1 post
August 2011
3 posts
“My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.” - John 4:34
Missing Thailand, but finishing the work God has sent me to do in Boone while He finishes part of a work in me.
“Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart my fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my...
“When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed....”
– Psalm 126
July 2011
1 post
A Love Letter
Last night my team felt like the Lord wanted us to just intercede. So instead of going into the bars on Bangla, we sat in a Starbucks on Bangla and prayed. After a while, I got my ipod and my journal and went and sat at one of the tables outside. I turned up worship music really loud on my ipod and began to just pray for all the people that were walking by. Bangla Road looked like a totally...
June 2011
4 posts
For Sale
Sitting in a bar Wednesday night, drinking coffee, and talking to one of my new beautiful Thai friends, I noticed the two cutest little girls sitting off to the side. They were talking and laughing as two older girls braided their hair. They couldn’t have been more than 5 years old, so I assumed they were either daughters or sisters of one of the bar girls. I asked my friend who they were,...
Now.
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time...
Suffocating
Lord, Pour out Your Spirit. Let it rain until the bars are flooded with Your presence. Until the darkness that’s suffocating us right now is eliminated by Your light and your love. Drown every lie that tries to creep into the minds of the girls dancing and the men watching. Let your all consuming fire fall down. You are calling us to call these people out of the ashes of their broken...
May 2011
3 posts
Move.
If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to to this mountain, “Move from here to there” and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. - Matthew 17:20
Leaving for Thailand in 4 days.
Praying for faith to move mountains.
“Forsake me not, for without Thee I am weak, but with Thee I am strong. Forsake...”
– C.H. Spurgeon
houses of prayer
“It is written,” he said to them, “My house will be called a house of prayer,” but you are making it a den of robbers.” - Matthew 21:31
The church is God’s house
but we are God’s church.
We need to become houses of prayer.
April 2011
5 posts
safe.
” God blesses us all up to the full measure and extremity of what it is safe for Him to do. If you do not get a blessing, it is because it is not safe for you to have one. If our heavenly Father were to let your unhumbled spirit win a victory in His holy war, you would pilfer the crown for yourself, & meeting with a fresh enemy you would fall a victim; so that you are kept low for your...
“You did not come down from the cross when they shouted to you, mocking and...”
– Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov; The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
March 2011
2 posts
wall me in.
Therefore I will block her path with thornbushes; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them.
- Hosea 2:6-7
February 2011
6 posts
The truth that conquers you also sets you free
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert -...
Raise Your Eyes
You will be driven away from people and will live with wild animals; you will eat grass like cattle. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes. Immediately what had been said about Nebechadnezzar was fullfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like cattle. His body was drenched...
God is in control.
that’s all.
January 2011
6 posts
Burnt.
Shall I think of sinners perishing, and yet not be awakened? Will not heaven quicken me? Can I think of the reward that awaiteth the righteous, and yet be cold? Will not death quicken me? Can I think of dying, and standing before my God, and yet be slothful in my Master’s service? Will not Christ’s love constrain me? Can I think of His dear wounds, can I sit at the foot of His cross,...
“How encouraging is the thought of the Redeemer’s never-ceasing...”
– C.H. Spurgeon
Brokenness
Brokenness is a beautiful thing.
I think that I might even like it better than being whole, because it shows progress and makes room for new beginnings. Being broken allows you to feel things and discover things you never would have found if it weren’t for the new view that comes with the cracks formed as you begin to break.
We are constantly being broken and restored.
While it is a...
All I Need Is You
When I am in need, You are my provider.
When I am anxious, You are my peace.
When I am afraid, You are my comfort.
When I am surrounded by darkness, You are my light.
When I am ashamed, You are my confidence.
When I am lost, You are my purpose.
When I am confused, You are my guide.
When I am broken, You are my healer.
When I am drowning in sorrow, You are my joy.
When I am attacked,...
Specks of Light
Such memories can be remembered (everyone knows this) even from an earlier age, even from the age of two, but they only emerge throughout one’s life as specks of light, as it were, against the darkness, as a corner torn from a huge picture, which has all faded and disappeared except for that little corner.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Memories are one of my favorite...
December 2010
1 post
Beautiful
So for my first post, I figured I would explain what the meaning of the title of this blog is. End Of Beauty. In the quote I posted, Oscar Wilde is talking about how real beauty is lost when we as humans try to express it; that really, the most beautiful things can not be expressed by us as humans;
that some things are so beautiful, that it is beyond human ability to express them.
If a person...