Welcome to 2013 where by now you have survived at least 3 Apocalypses. The first being Y2K, the second the calculated 2011 predictions, the third and most recent Mayan prediction of 2012. I know who would of thought we would of made it to this year. I am was pretty sure at young age that I would of been raptured by now but am so glad I haven't been. I know that you thought I might of been because of my lack of staying up on this but the last few months have been different with a lot of transition. It is exciting transition and I am enjoying it all but I have recently been on a journey with God that I wasn't expecting.
After leading a team to Japan, going back home to Alaska for a bit and then out to Kansas City, where I did the Circuit Riders school, I went back to Kona, HI. There I was preparing to actually move out to Pasadena, California I know it is a shock! You maybe saying, why did this girl move out there? I thought you were doing DTS's all your life. hahahaha... Well, God has a funny things about journeys and he is always will to take you on them if you are wanting to go. So after being asked by my dear friend Amy Sollars to come out to Pasadena, I simply asked God if I was to go and with an unshakeable, undeniable YES, I went and am now here. You maybe asking, What?, Where?, When?, and Why?. All of those question valuable and to answer them all specifically would take lots of time so I will try and hit the basic points. Why, well because I felt like God said go. When did I decided, well in June but I didn't know of all the particulars so in faith I said, yes and waited. Where, well that one is kind of obvious Pasadena. What are you doing?, well a combination of things. We (there is seven of us five girls and two guys) are here to serve and to listen to what God wants to do in this area. We are working with several groups of people in this areas. So we are here because we felt like God said Go and see what I will do. I know it sounds crazy and maybe it is. Its not what I am use to but I love that about it. Its stretching, unsure at times but I really do feel God in it. Our house in Pasadena have a motto we say and live by, Simple Obedience Changes History. I am here because I feel like God is going to do some thing in this area and he wanted me to be apart of it.
In thinking of these past few months from the journey after Circuit Riders where I spent about four months in Kona, HI and then coming out to Pasadena, CA in November. I have been realizing something really significant. Its this. God is more committed to you as a person then he is about the mission of doing everything. I realize he wants us to be so secure in who he is and who he created us to be more then anything. He began to show me this in Kona and thinking it was a concept I was grasping He, at the perfect moment brought me to Pasadena. Where he had took me from all my securities to show me even more that He wants me to know more then anything in this world is He is my security. We tend to get comfortable in the securities of this world, that could be people, money and fmaily and really you just can't be secure in it because it could all change but onething I have really been meditating on is the Steadfast love God. That means he is never changing and in the end means you can lean into him and not worry because tomorrow even if the world economy falls, anarchy rises up that God will not change. He will not change in the way he thinks about me, he will not change in the things that he has told me I will do, he will not change just in general. Even now that thought is blowing my mind. Do we truly realize that. He is STEADFAST. I could be saving the masses or talking to one person but unless I know Him, know who He made me to be it means nothing. My security is flat. I am only secure in my acts. I feel like the cry is to know him. You could everything but not know him and not love and you will have nothing. I want to know him and I want to love like him. I want to share his love and I want people to genuinely encounter him. Not just accept him because they fear Hell but because they want to feel accepted, know their purpose and to feel a love that never changes.
At the end of the day I want to be transformed by love and see others changed by this radical love.
If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:1-8
Let this be what transforms us everyday. He loves us and so let us love others with a love that could change their lives.
Always kateland
Love you, miss you ;) keep on keeping on
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