Glorify God

What do you talk about?? What do you say. Are you glorifying God in everything you say and do?

1 Corinthians 6:20
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

In one of our soccer games last week, we played a team that wasn't very kind in their words. But you know what happened? Our team and I would talk back to them like they were talking to us, which was not glorifying to God. And you know what I noticed? We didn't play as well. But then the next day we had another game against them. This game there was less talking bad against them. And guess what happened? We all played better and worked better as a team. We weren't all focused on bringing the other team down. I believe that God was with us and helped us because we were glorifying His name and being a good example.

We need to glorify God in everything we do, even in a soccer game or in taking out the trash. God will bless us and be with us if we obey Him and glorify Him and do His will.

God is my Guide

“O the depth and the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!” Romans 11:33

It is a wonderful fact to know what God is all wise, and that He has a perfect plan for my life. I have had a tendency in the past (and still do sometimes!) to make up some really good plans of how my life should work out, and how I would like it to be. However, that is not what I should be doing!

“A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.” Proverbs 16:9

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.” – Isaiah 55:8

God’s ways are so much higher than mine! Whenever I’ve planned out how my life “should” be, God’s way always turned out to be so much better. He’s done things that I could have never thought of! I’m so thankful that He is always up to something good in my life, and I don’t have to worry about anything, or try to work out a cool plan, I just need to trust God and obey Him day by day. (Psalm 37 is a really good chapter about trusting/waiting/resting in the LORD.) I have no clue where I’ll be or what I’ll be doing a few years from now, but I’m glad that God does know. He has given me so many amazing promises in His word. I am excited to see what His plan is, and I’m glad that He promises to lead me and be with me wherever He takes me.

Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. Psalm 73:24-26, 28

Serving - Even When It's Hard

Pastor Schaal’s message Sunday night on service was very good. It is so easy to want to look out for myself first, but I need to be focused on serving Christ and others. I need to be able to say "no" to myself, and "yes" to God and others. I was just reminded that when I look at situations I shouldn't be looking to see what I can get out of them for myself, but what I can do in that situation to serve....I should leave a situation better than I found it. I want my mind to become so much like Christ's that I will think and act how He would (Philippians 2:5). That will only happen by spending a lot of time with Him.

I am also very thankful for God's grace to help me carry out the commands He gives. It's easy in a sermon like Sunday night to have a wave of inspiration pass over me and to decide I am going to be a servant from here on out. Right. It's another thing on Tuesday when I'm vacuuming, or when I'm perfectly cozy in my room and my parents ask me do to something. This is where it really gets tough (for me it seems hardest to serve at home). I'm so glad God doesn't ask me to do things that He doesn't promise to give me the strength to do.

I Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Cool Praise

Seeing that this blog is called "remember him now," i think I will do just that. At the beginning of this semester I was looking in to different ways of getting around campus and found that using a longboard was probably the best way by far. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's like an elongated skateboard, but they usually cost around $50-$100 for the cheap ones. I really couldn't spend that much, but I was praying that if God wanted me to get around campus faster that he would provide a way. This week, I was talking about longboards with a friend, and she said she had one if I could use if I wanted to. Isn't God awesome?! I had completely forgotten about that but God hadn't! Just thought I would share that.

Ministry at ASU

Thanks for praying for us as we had our week long meetings at ASU. Last night was our last night and we had a pizza party afterwards which was great because people would just stop by, and we had a chance to share the gospel with so many people that way. We had three visitors for the message as well, including one of my friends for whom I have been praying for a long time. He said he had a great time and wanted to do some more stuff with our group, which is such a great blessing! Please keep praying for ASU and i would appreciate it if you would pray for me there are some things that I am struggling with right now.