His Love

Is a very personal look into my heart and my relationship with Jesus. This is mostly just for my own processing.

Your love is extravagant
Your friendship, it is intimate
I feel I'm moving to the rhythm of Your grace
Your fragrance is intoxicating in the secret place
Cause Your love is extravagant

As I started writing this the lyrics above starting playing on pandora. These are the things Jesus does :) His love is the thing that holds me together. His friendship is extremely intimate. He has known me in my mothers womb (Psalm 139:13-14) and He has a plan specifically for me (Eph. 2:10). He loves me in a way no one in this world ever can.

God has taken my life and made it beautiful. When I came to college, I had a very small view of the world. My main concern was me. What I was going to eat, how many hours of sleep I was going to get, and doing things that I was comfortable doing. By God's truly amazing grace, the last 2 1/2 years have been a years of great transformation. They have been filled with seasons of joy, trial, fear, prayer, confusion and triumph. I have learned that through every season in life, He is there to comfort and love you. He uses scripture, His own voice, and friends to love me and point me to Him. My heart is so overwhelmed by His unbelievable faithfulness.

Here is a short bulleted list of things He has taught me:

• I have learned about God's love for me and every single person on this earth. The way He desires me to love Him alone, is the same way He desires everyone to.

About Prayer:

• Prayer is great way to ask Him to move mountains and being dumb founded when He does :)
  
• Prayer can change lives if we let it
  
• Beware, praying a lot can lead to praying some scary, intense prayers
• It is worth waking up at the wee hours of the morning to talk with the Creator of the Universe, things will happen!
  

The world does not revolve around me:

• There is a bigger picture being painted than the one I can see.
• There is a world going on around me that I cannot see, but God wants me pray for it and be aware of it.
  
• I am part of a great big family, the Body of Christ. This means serving one another in a joyous and selfless way.
• Serving in a joyous selfless way is sometimes really hard.
• Everything I have is His. The reason that I have everything I have, is because of Him. Therefore, I am to use it to glorify Him.

Loving Jesus means :

• letting go of things you love very much
• crying so hard your whole body is tingling because your heart is so broken for children and orphans that you have never met.
• wanting to love children who have no one to love them and wrap your arms around them to share Jesus with them.
• being willing to give up everything here, just to be able to do the above statement

Trusting God means:

• not having all the answers (sometimes it seems like you have no answers at all), but being okay with it
• stepping out in faith not knowing what He has in store, but being excited about it anyway
• Changes come so that we continue to realize the blessings we have and to draw us nearer to God

I know there is more He has taught me, but this is what I have at the moment. I praise Him for wanting to teach me these things and wanting me to know His love for me.

He alone is King!