Well, it is good that I have been in the Word like no bodies business... so I can tell you that the Lord is moving everyday all day! He is so GOOD guys and we do not deserve it because we are such sinful people but He still gives it freely, no strings attached!
The Lord has really been teaching me more and more about the next generation and the importance of community! However, He has also been teaching me things that I do not get warm fuzzies about like praying through the times that are the hardest because that is when your Faith really comes to the floor and when "the rubber meets the road"!
Psalm 38
1 LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger
or discipline me in your wrath.
2 Your arrows have pierced me,
and your hand has come down on me.
3 Because of your wrath there is no health in my body;
there is no soundness in my bones because of my sin.
4 My guilt has overwhelmed me
like a burden too heavy to bear.
5 My wounds fester and are loathsome
because of my sinful folly.
6 I am bowed down and brought very low;
all day long I go about mourning.
7 My back is filled with searing pain;
there is no health in my body.
8 I am feeble and utterly crushed;
I groan in anguish of heart.
9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
10 My heart pounds, my strength fails me;
even the light has gone from my eyes.
11 My friends and companions avoid me because of my wounds;
my neighbors stay far away.
12 Those who want to kill me set their traps,
those who would harm me talk of my ruin;
all day long they scheme and lie.
13 I am like the deaf, who cannot hear,
like the mute, who cannot speak;
14 I have become like one who does not hear,
whose mouth can offer no reply.
15 LORD, I wait for you;
you will answer, Lord my God.
16 For I said, “Do not let them gloat
or exalt themselves over me when my feet slip.”
17 For I am about to fall,
and my pain is ever with me.
18 I confess my iniquity;
I am troubled by my sin.
19 Many have become my enemies without cause[b];
those who hate me without reason are numerous.
20 Those who repay my good with evil
lodge accusations against me,
though I seek only to do what is good.
21 LORD, do not forsake me;
do not be far from me, my God.
22 Come quickly to help me,
my Lord and my Savior.
When things are the hardest they have ever been and you do not feel the Lord at all and your health is being attacked, will you still stand firm? Will you know that the Lord is still the Lord and you are His? I feel like the Lord is teaching me o stand firm in Him even when I let my human/ sinful heart and emotions define our relationship! Man this is hard but it is GOOD STUFF!
Be Blessed to Bless OTHERS,
Char!
Thursday June 16th
I think that I am going to change Thrifty Thursdays to Try This Thursdays...! I want to change it because I just realized that I do not have that many ways to save every week at camp. I could just combine them both? I think that I will do that! I t will be "Thrifty/ Try This Thursdays" I like that! Trying this could be anything from food to a video I think you should watch! So today is a Try This and you should try this video called the "Lifehouse- Everything Skit" if you are a YoungLife leader you will want this to be at the next camp and if not you will still love this and may see a way that you could use it in your ministry. This is a great video that shows our struggles in the World and how the LORD never leaves us! Here you go:
Be Blessed to Bless OTHERS,
Char!
Friday June 17th
I have been very convected about the way that I have been ragging on people because of the way they chose to dress... so I am going to give that up and create a new day called "Freedom Friday", on this day I will be writing about whatever I want to because it will be a free day, so it might be about something great that happened to me that day or that week, it could even be something that the Lord is teaching me and it might help you!?!
So today I am going to write what I just wrote to a friend of mine Nathan Wood about what the Lord is doing through me and in me at camp right now!
"I LOVE Camp it is so great because the Lord is here and MOVING! I had a camper come to Christ after lights out on the porch during a full moon while we listened to the waves crash on the shore!, it was GREAT! The Lord has given me a girl to mentor that will be a freshmen at Anderson next year she is great and so hungry her name is Sarah White! The Lord allowed me to speak to the high school counselors about their value as the next generation and how they must be firmly planted in the Lord as their foundation when they leave for college! It was great because the girl that asked me to speak asked me super late and I had no time to prepare so the HOLY SPIRIT just had to move! All this the Lord did when I was coming out of the valley and desert place! WOW!"
Saturday June 18th
I LOVE MUSIC! It is the way I Worship the most... because I can really see the Lord move in me through my bodies reaction and the visions that I get when I close my eyes, and something that has been happening recently is see people in a way were I can see what their needs are or the Love of God on them! I Love It! Here is a music video that I got major convection from just by seeing the homeless old man! I don't know what the Lord wants from me when it comes to the homeless, but he is really breaking my heart for them!
Here you Go:
Sunday June 19th
So one of the ways that I love to relax is by watching a movie... now I am not one to spend a ton of money on a movie so I do not normally go to the movies, but every now and then I like to support a good movie and relax with my family by go to a good one and this is a trailer to a good one that is for sure! I know some of you might think it is cheese but it is totally not it is the best ever you just have to look past some things and see the meaning behind it! I hope that you enjoy it as much as me and Benjamin Murray did!
Here You Go:
Be Blessed to Bless OTHERS,
Char!
Monday June 20th
Time flies that is for sure... because I thought it was just yesterday that I was a cool person but that is not true because the kids here at camp keep calling me Ma'am and that is super weird! But anyways I just wanted to hit you with a blast from the past Steven Curtis Chapman song that touches my soul! I want to dance to it with my dad one day... I thinkg at my wedding? Unless I find a better one! Well I hope that you like it a little and don't hold my cheesiness against me as a friend!
Here you Go:
Be Blessed to Bless Others,
Char!
Tuesday June 21st
OK so technically I am not suppose to tell this story... but I am going to tell it anyways because I can't remember who I promised I would not tell, and that definitely makes a promise void!
So here is the deal at camp we have to monitor the kids in the multi- purpose building for an hour during the time when the Chaplain talks to most of the other staff and counselors who are not on duty. So there is like 6 staff/ counselors and then all the kids during that session. And last week when they were in there they were just letting the kids throw balls around and a staff member saw another staff that they wanted to hit (typically guys). Well, the guy that throw the ball was a guy named Ben Thompson, who is a great guy, very nice and would never purposefully hit someone or really throw a ball at someone else, but day he decided to and that was not a good idea. Ben throw the ball with all his might and it hit the wall bounced off and smashed right into a little girls face. He never even noticed and still does not know that he did it and caused a girl to cry and weep saying, "why did he hit me?". Man, Ben I am sorry that I just told it but, it was hilarious!
Be Blessed to Bless Others (and don't throw things at people, they could hit the innocent! That could be a good talk one day.),
Char!
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