hey there, friends!
the way that Discipleship Training School (DTS) works, is that they have a different topic and a different speaker each week. this week's subject is relationships. just relationships in general.
wow. it's been a good one. funny, because i feel that god is re-surfacing some things i thought i'd dealt with over this past year... they kicked the week off talking about how in order to have any type of healthy relationship, we have to understand and know WHO WE ARE. this has to be our foundation. which is also funny, because the past year has been a year of God telling me around every corner that i turn that I am complete in Christ alone. how many times have you guys heard me say this in the past year?! haha. for real! but still, God is speaking this to me. over and over and over. it's something i can't get tired of hearing. it's something i will always need to believe, that i always need to learn.
much has happened since my last post, but i'll keep it short and sweet.
last week was pretty much all introductions and orientation type stuff. a good week!
i went to a church this past sunday- cool church. it reminds me a lot of my church back home. I felt at home there.
the way that Discipleship Training School (DTS) works, is that they have a different topic and a different speaker each week. this week's subject is relationships. just relationships in general.
wow. it's been a good one. funny, because i feel that god is re-surfacing some things i thought i'd dealt with over this past year... they kicked the week off talking about how in order to have any type of healthy relationship, we have to understand and know WHO WE ARE. this has to be our foundation. which is also funny, because the past year has been a year of God telling me around every corner that i turn that I am complete in Christ alone. how many times have you guys heard me say this in the past year?! haha. for real! but still, God is speaking this to me. over and over and over. it's something i can't get tired of hearing. it's something i will always need to believe, that i always need to learn.
i think this is the beginning of something. i really believe that God wants me to be free from this. some days i wake up and think that i'm still the same girl i was a year ago, even though i know i'm completely different. god is renewing my heart. reviving me. he's showing me the ways i've let my past hurts affect my life today. i'm sure it's affecting me in ways I still don't know yet. but PRAISE GOD. because i AM His. i AM complete in Him. no matter what happens with people or circumstances, that still remains. He adores me. & i am His girl. i'm worth something to Him. He won't use me. He won't manipulate me. He loves me. i'm believing this today.
that's what's on my heart today.
learning to forgive daily. not only others, but also myself.
praise god.
The Lord is compassionate & gracious, slow to anger, abounding in Love.
He will not always accuse, nor will He harbor His anger forever;
He does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities.
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him;
as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.
psalm 103
Oh my... How you can put into writing the thoughts of my own heart is beyond me :) you're such a blessing. And I am SO thankfully to have gotten to know you the past few months. Deuteronomy 7:7-9 kept coming to my mind while reading this:
ReplyDelete"The Lord did not set his heart on you because you were more numerous than other nations, for you were the smallest of all nations! Rather, it was simply that the Lord loves you, and he was keeping the oath he had sworn to your ancestors. That is why the Lord rescued you with such a strong hand from your slavery and from the oppressive hand of Pharoah, king of Egypt. Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps his covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes his unfailing love on those who love him and obey his commands."
- Deuteronomy 7:7-9