Sep 4, 2012
I often forget about God’s love for me. I know God’s love for me goes beyond the width and depths of the seas. He knows the hairs on my head, He understands me better than any person in the entire world does. I’ve seen His love displayed in my life, and His promises in the Word.
So, why do I struggle so much with really believing it? It’s because I simply forget!
Recently, I have been having a hard time understanding and accepting God’s love for me. My mind has been under spiritual attack. “No one really loves you, not even God.” It seemed that for half of my life I believed in these lies.
I was writing a prayer to the Lord in my journal this morning before heading to Gospel For Asia and I asked the Lord “Please show me your love today.”
As I went to prayer this morning, I saw a beautiful butterfly necklace on one of the staff members here at Gospel For Asia. I just marveled at it. I love butterflies so much! They are one of my favorite things I enjoy here on this earth. I Heidi, “I really love your necklace! It’s beautiful!” She thanked me and continued praying.
When morning prayer was finished I went to my desk, and she came up to me with tears welling in her eyes and said, “The Holy Spirit is prompting me to give you this necklace.” Immediately I remembered the prayer I had asked the Lord, “please show me your love today.” Then, I heard God’s voice LOUD. “Ani, I am showing you my love through giving you this gift. I desire to fulfill the desires of your heart. I LOVE YOU.” I had told Heidi that I have been struggling with accepting and believing God’s love for me, and how the Lord through her reminded me how much He loved me. We both cried and I felt extremely cared for and adored by the King of the Universe.
The Lord is showing me how often I forget that He LOVES me. He desires to give us the beautiful heavenly desires of our hearts. My desire was for God to show His love for me and He did. And guess what? After that I forgot the Lord’s love! I am constantly in need to remember His love daily. Every single day it is important we take time to remember He loves us. So, each day I ask the Lord to remind me He loves me and that’s exactly what He is does.
I do not want to die with these lies that He doesn’t love me. With God’s promises found in His word, I want to dance with them, run with them, and I want them to be tucked away in my heart. When we are feeling alone or unloved we need to check with God and see what He says about His love for us in the Word. I am blessed to be loved by the Living God. He loves us so much more than anyone else in the entire world.
“He who calls you is Faithful; He will surely do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:24
Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies (Psalm 36:5).
How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings (Psalm 36:7).
The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness” (Jeremiah 31:3).
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Nov 29, 2011
When you pray for the Lord to answer your requests… Do you realize He will answer them at what ever cost He chooses to? Are you willing to go through the answer to that prayer, no matter what it is? We have a choice to respond in a Godly submission, or respond to our flesh.
God has a sense of humor to answer prayer (Of course you probably knew that)
As you can see in the picture there is one of my friends. I just got this picture not that long ago. I thought “What in world? Why does he have “MY” cup and why is it in he HIS department room?” I really thought he took it just for a joke to see if I would go pick it up. With thinking that I went to his department and there I see “MY” cup and in the inside… it has remnants of coffee inside. “He drank from “MY” cup with out asking me! How could he, and how rude!” Is what I thought. I was a little bit offended and upset. Isaac then starts to tell me how he had no idea that cup was mine but he always saw me drink out of it and thought I’d appreciate the picture of him and that cup. RIGHT!
I then remembered a prayer I said to our dad last night. I asked the Lord to help me to be like Fred (one of the Gospel For Asia Staff) and not to become offended in situations but to respond to offense by choosing to let go and yield to God. I then started to laugh and praised God for this. Though it may seem very silly… God used this funny situation to open up my eyes. Sure, there will be more to come but I love how our Father has a sense of humor and how he loves us SOOOO much that he answers are prayers because we cry out to Him to have him respond to us.
Be encouraged to see that when we pray He HEARS and ANSWERS. Let us all not make the wrong choice to respond in a selfish way to our prayers being answered even if they are not the way we would want them to have them answered.
Have a beautiful blessed day brothers and sisters!
Do not loose heart and KEEP on praying!
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of him” (1 John 5:14-15).
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Oct 6, 2011
Words are powerful. We have the power to use our words to be used to speak boldy about the Truth of God. We can yell, sing, whisper, scream and worship the Lord through our voices. For others they have no voice, they cannot speak, or scream but they can communicate just the same as people who can speak. They are Deaf.
I’ve been signing for many years now. It started with my hunger to know different languages in my Sophomore year in high school. I took a class and didn’t learn how to sign but I learned the alphabet and about the deaf culture. What intrigued me about sign was how expressive you could be. At my school there was a deaf girl who was in the marching band and played the cymbals. This girl amazed me how she pushed herself to not let her being deaf stop her. Little did I know that God was going to use her to be a big and important part of my Life in Him. I had a class with her and was eager to learn her language. Often I would pass notes to her and ask her questions. I found out that she was a believer! I then started to hang out with her and through fellowshipping with her I started to learn sign language very quickly and started to hang out with a lot of the deaf community. I then expanded my education of sign language and took ASL classes and kept going on to the next level. I was a little fustrated because I thought that I was waisiting my time taking so many ASL classes and I didn’t know what I really wanted to do in college.
God lead me to join Gospel for Asia- School of Discipleship for this year and He has shown me that everything that we have learned, skills he uses for HIS Glory! When our class goes evangelizing I have had oppurtunities to share with them Jesus and the Gospel in sign language. One of the times are class went out there were two ladies sitting together and the Spirit urged and tugged my heart to go pass out tracts to these two ladies. I walked up to them and started to speak and they signed to me ” We are deaf.” I smiled at signed to them “Good,because I know how to sign.” The ladies were so happy that I could communicate to them. Then, the Spirit started to move through me and I sharing my testimony on how the Lord changed my life and how He has redeemed from darkness. One of the ladies eye lit up and she was saying how weird it was that I was telling her that because she wanted to change her life but didn’tknow how. I told her how only Jesus Christ could only bring true change because of what He did for us on the cross and gave her a tract. After she was telling me that her bus came suddenly and she waved bye and left on her bus. I was awestruck that the Lord used me as a vessel through my hands and ASL to be able to touch her heart with what He wanted me to communicate to her.
And I thought I was never going to use my sign language here at Gospel for Asia. Please pray for those ladies. They are in my heart as I type this. And you may never know when your skills may be used for the Lord. He let us learn it for a reason.
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