Perspective!

I have been thinking long and hard about this post and I just deleted about an hour of typing and cmae up with this... Hope you like it!

So I have two eyes and two ears and one mouth. I live in a far off place with one man (Justin) and I don't have any kids yet. Well I got to thinking about what kind of perspective do I really have and I came up with not much! All that I think and all that I do are because of my own perception, what I think is right or wrong. What I feel and how I see it? Not much!

I do how ever have many friends who are going through so many diferant things and I am starting to realize that I can learn from their prespective too if I just listen! And more importantly I have a Father in heaven who has the widest perspective. I must look to him and his word to find Truth.

Well I got this idea from a book I read, by the way you all should read it!!! The Shack. Well I got this from the book so don't go thinking I am smart or anything like that OK!

"Paradigms power perception and perceptions power emotions. Most emotions are responses to preceptions-what you think is true about a given situation. If your perception is false, then your emotional responce to it will be false too. So check your perceptions, and beyond that check the truthfulness of your paradigms- what you believe. Just because you believe something firmly doesn't make it true. Be willing to reexamine what you believe. The more you live in the truth, the more your emotions will help you see clearly. But even then, you don't want to trust them more than me " - Holy Spirit

I hope this helps you as much as it helped me realize that I am not always right and I need to cling to Jesus and HIS TRUTH! That is the best prespective to have!

A call to pray

I am here in the Philippines writing to you my friends and family in the US and I am asking for your help. We are in this world that loves the EVIL one. We are a chosen people. We are here for such a time as this. We are to be lights to the world. We are to fight a good fight. We are in the Lord's army as my Sunday school class loves to sing. And we are in a battle! Not against flesh and blood but against spirits and demons. We as believers must stand for truth. We need to stop bending and compromising. We need to PRAY!

Being on the mission field was supposed to be hard and I knew the Devil would attack but I didn't see this coming. I thought we would be facing spiritual warfare in our back yards but at this point and time I only see the battle being in the US. Now I know we have difficulties here but as i sit here I have found so many things to be praying for back in the US. I have friends having babies and getting married and now I am in a season I had never dreamed I would be. I am seeing the evil one tear apart so many of my friend's marriages. And I am here so far away and I can't baby sit for them or offer a helping hand, comfort them or cry with them. I feel so very far away! I want to see these new babies and hold them and I want to hug the neck of these friends who are hurting inside and yet I can't. So as I sit here at 1:30 in the morning praying for these whom are in the midst of joy and pain, I lay on the floor prostrate before our most gracious heavenly father and pray for these who are in life changing situations. And I ask you also to join with me as I cry out to God for mercy, for strength, for wisdom, and for his love that endures all things!
Please pray with for...
Our President, and our Government.
Our Husbands and Wives
Our Children
Our families
Our friends
Our neighbors
Our co-workers

We must spend time with our God so that in these dark days we will be able to stand firm in His Word and in His Love against the Evil one. We need to be on our knees Worshiping our Maker and confessing our sins, Thanking him for his goodness, and for others who are around us, instead of worrying about lame things, I could list a few but you know what they are. If we commit to set time aside with him our relationship with him will grow stronger and His spirit will over flow into our relationships with others! Thank you for praying with me in this. I know God has all power and is mighty to save!