Passage of the Day

FAITH

So God told me to go to the city today and sit so I could see the city square, so I did. I went and sat down with a drink and read some things from Psalms. We just hung out for a bit and then I started to pray for people that were walking past. Whatever popped into my head I prayed about.. for individuals, types of people, genders, ages, children, adults, a lady that was feeding sea gulls... etc. The last few days have been super rough for me and I'm learning to push and rely on God. While I was sitting in the city I was thinking to myself about where my faith had gone. I just wanted to believe in it all again and just know that it was going to okay. Then I read this:

Mark 11:12 > 26

The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry.Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

Then he said to the tree, "May no one ever eat fruit from you again." And his disciples heard him say it. On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. And as he taught them, he said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have made it 'a den of robbers.' "
The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching. When evening came, Jesus and his disciples went out of the city. In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. Peter remembered and said to Jesus, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!"
"Have faith in God," Jesus answered. "Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and do not doubt in your heart but believe that what you say will happen, it will be done for you. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins."

I dunno. I guess I've read this a lot.. but for some reason this time it was just different.

Hope you're encouraged.

Peace and Love

Whoops

Okay, so the reason I haven't been blogging lately is because I'm a slacker so I want to say I'm sorry for those of you that are keeping posted via .. well this.
I'm doing really well right now. We only have about 2 weeks left of lecture phase before we start prepping for Summer of Service, the 3 week missions trip we lead during summer break with high schoolers. Cecily and I are going to Darwin (northern territory in Australia).
We're very excited, I'm a little wearing about the heat. It's gunna be pretty intense.. like 50s probably so who knows what that entails.
I'd like to continue to ask for your prayer support as the finances were due last Wednesay and commissoining is coming up this week. I still need about $5830.45 which means I only have $330.45 left of lecture phase and then $5500.00 for outreach. As you may or may not have known I started off needing over $2000 for lecture phase and it's come down so much so it's pretty awesome to see how faithful God is in finances. It's cool too that on both sides of the track, me going and those that are financially supporting and making it possible that God sees both people the same. Both individuals are being obedient and letting God use them .. it just looks different. So thank you for being in on it with me.
It's been a great 10 weeks - still can't believe it's been 10 weeks. I still have about 7 months to go which is shocking when I think about it. I started thinking about how by the time I get home next June I would have been in Canada for just over 2 months in a year and like 4 months. SO weird.
Anyways keep the prayers coming, they are very needed and they do make a difference.
Much love.