lukewarm love.

What do your extracurricular activities look 

like? A life set on God will yield fruit. 

Study of the Bible, yielding to His will, and 

serving as He commands. A life that is 

serving as He commands. A life that is

inward focused looks as self serving

activities: putting things you want first!

Whether your addiction is working out,

partying, or Facebook; whether your idols

are your friends, your things, or celebrities--

you are not focused on God. I am either

your everything or I am your nothing at all.

God doesn't want half of your heart, half of your

life, because He gave Jesus as your whole atonement

1 Corinthians 3:2 says by now we should

be eating solid food, but we are still drinking

milk; In Revelation 3:16, God says that 

if you are lukewarm he will spit you out of

His mouth, that he prefers you to be either for

Him or against Him. God is merciful, full

of grace, but He is just and there is a season

in your life where you have to grow up.

This morning's lecture basically wrecked my heart for Jesus, yet again. I've got to hate not just the things that are easy to hate, but also the things that are hard to hate and are accepted in our culture. Gossip, abortion, tattoos, piercings, jewelry.

**But, more than that I need to not confuse hate for sin as hatred of sinners.**

Keep your friendships, but hate sin.

Find a different environment to be around.

Call me if you want to watch football, call if you want to go to dinner, even to see a movie, but don't call me to come out and party because I will say no. Call me if you're drunk at 3 AM and need a ride, but don't call me to party, because I don't live that life anymore.

If you can be around it, then you don't hate it!

I hate clowns so you aren't going to find me around them, I hate Raclette cheese so you aren't going to find me eating it. You don't willingly decide to be around the things that you hate.

master. mission. mate.

1 john 2:15

"Do not love the world or anything in the world."

I know that my master is God. "...I chose you..." [John 15:16]

I know that my mission is to "suffer according to God's will..commit [myself] to the faithful Creator and continue to do good." [1 Peter 4:12-19]

And as far as the mate, it is clear that my heart does not desire that. [Matthew 19:9-12]

Jesus warns about it, God warns about it, the disciples warn about it, and now I am warning you about it. Do not be complacent and do not accept the watered down Gospel, because at judgement He will not be a watered down God. You are responsible for the truth that you know.

live it out.

you won't relent until you have it all.

I have started three different entries for this week and I am just now finally sitting down to really write it.

"I'll set you as a seal upon my heart, as a seal upon my arm"
There is no where that God looks and does not proclaim it as His.
I don't want to talk about you like you're not in the room. I want to look right at you, I want to sing right to you.
You won't relent until you have it all, my heart is yours.

I thank you, God, for being a God who does not relent. Who continues to pursue us, those He loves and cherishes. Wednesday, God released me from 17 years of oppression. I began to realize and understand the vastness and greatness of God's kingdom. He has always watched my soul, protected it, saved me from peril. I just serve an A-W-E-S-O-M-E God!

This week's speaker and I got to talking when he decided to help me wash dishes and I told him all about my life and he asked, "Have you had one person in your life who has been a positive constant?" and the answer is no. The look on his face was a mix: somewhere between sheer disbelief and deep sorrow, but for me it was the beginning of the second breakthrough of being here.

The first layer was repentance right before I came and when I got here, forgiveness.
This week, I learned about renouncing. Renouncing the enemy in your life, renouncing the stepping stones you give him to your heart, and truly letting those things go.

I have been holding on to 17 years of demonic oppression. Whether it was bitterness, anger, distrust, I mean there was a host of things. The enemy convincing me that I needed to be alone, to withdraw from people because they didn't like me, to have no faith in people. It's crazy what you let Satan do, how you yield your ways to him, and all the time your doubt grows in God's goodness.

It's crazy.

So, I've been released from that and PRAISE GOD.
Man, just praise God.
I wish I could have caught on film the presence of our good and gracious God this morning during worship. The Spirit will overwhelm and overflow your soul with thanksgiving and praise and that is just what He did this morning! Man, my brothers and sisters...just wow. Words are inadequate at His greatness.

Financially, I'm not there yet but God has his timing. The cost for the program and the outreach is 4000 euros and I'm confident in the Lord. So, I stand with arms high and heart abandoned...in awe of my Savior.

Please pray for my family.
Pray that God starts to peel back and release them from the hardness of their hearts, it's tough for them.
Pray Matthew 6:24 over them.
For this spirit of materialism to be bound and broken over their lives.

Pictures soon.
Sorry it isn't a very long update.
Je promis que prochain semaine sera mieux!