My Break

So we had the month of April off of school and now it's almost over, just a couple of days left. It's been a good break, practically I've learned more than most months of my life. I got to share my faith more than ever before just by being around secular folk all the time. They ask me what I'm doing this year and as soon as I tell them it almost always brings up the topic of God. The most interesting response was by a guy who had just gotten out of jail a week earlier, he was in there for armed robbery and I said I'm training to become a missionary he said "f--in missionaries, I hate them. My brother was cool, until he became an f---in born again christian" Now his brother is a missionary in Thailand. It's so interesting how the world sees things so differently, his brother is helping and loving the poor and uneducated and this guy sees that as taking advantage of those who don't know any better so that they will become christians. It's a completely different mentality, I watched some people on tv talking about the movie "Jesus Camp" and it was the same thing. Because they have such a different mindset the only thing that they can see is brainwashing and indoctrination whearas it's really raising up a child in the way he should go so that when he is older he will not depart from it.

On a sidenote, thanks Steve for suggesting just working with temp labour agencies this break. I did that for the last two weeks and have had more than enough work, plus got a lot of different experiences. I guess you don't have a computer for awhile so you probably won't ever read this but if you do, I appreciate it.

I was just thinking about Christmas today, this morning I took apart a restaurant with a few guys and then tonight I worked a baguette plant. Just standing by a conveyor belt nudging baguettes for four hours making sure they don't stick to the pan gives you a lot of time to think. Jesus said a lot of things without qualifiers, like ask and you will recieve, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened and just all sorts of things (of course at other points he said "in my name, if my words remain in you and you remain in me"). But basically these are really open promises for us to present all our requests to God. It reminded me a lot of Christmas where we present all our requests to our parents. Anyways I was thinking about if I was to just "selfishly" ask for what I want from God for myself what would I ask for? Here are five things that I want from God and I think I will ask him each day for them. I was in the mood for big words when I was thinking of them

1.Indefatiguable Joy
2.Deep Humility
3.Hardcore Prayer Life
4.Indominatable Confidence aka Holy Spirit Boldness.
5. Provision.

I definitely am far from that point now but those are things that I think God would love to give and I just need to seek and recieve it and then live it out. What have your requests been lately? I better go to sleep now. Have a beautiful weekend everyone!