New Discoveries

Greetings :)

I wish you could be here to really experience how much God is moving! Words cannot do it justice! I absolutely LOVE hearing God's voice and knowing its him. My relationship with him has grown so much since I have been here and I couldn't be happier about it! Knowing I'm walking in his will is SO UNBELIEVABLY comforting! I can honestly say that I'm in love with my heavenly daddy now more than ever before.
I have been praying about what will happen after DTS because I know it will fly by. There are so many amazing people here and I love getting to know them but in the back of my mind I know that I will be going home eventually alone. I have been praying about my faith and how I can stay obedient and in his will when I get home. I know at home the pressure is to go to college but I feel God is leading me a different direction right now. So please be praying for me about that. :)
I wanted to share some of the little things I have been learning that I thought were interesting! I know I have heard a lot of messages about tithing that I did not agree with but this one hit it spot on. In 2 Corinthians 9:7 it says that "Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver". I don't know about you but I always felt obligated to give to the church I was in but I am almost always cheerful when I get the opportunity to bless the poor or the needy. When It talks about tithing in the Bible in Malachi 3:10 it says "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in his house." The storehouse back in the day was a place that they filled up to give ALL of the tithes to the poor and the needy. Now when most of us tithe in church it goes towards maintenance of the churches. Very little of the offerings go to missions or poor that I know of. Don't get me wrong giving to the church is wonderful but tithes were meant to go to the needy. That just stuck out to me because I had always felt bad about not being cheerful when I gave to the church. Baffling, I know but God set me free of that because I AM cheerful when I give to the needy. I thought that was cool!
This weeks speaker was Corey Stark from International House of Prayer In Kansas City. Whoop!! (side note: since I have been here I have heard more about IHOP then I did when I lived 10 minutes away from it. Weird stuff.) Corey has been my favorite speaker so far. He took us through the end times and the book of Revelation and it makes a lot more sense to me now! I still have a ways to go but he set a great foundation for me to continue learning on. I wish I could share with ya'll but I'm still pondering it.
He did also speak about praying. God LOVES it when we pray from his word. It's a new thing to me cause I was always like "God wrote the Bible so I shouldn't have to repeat it to him." But the Bible is his will and when we pray the Bible our prayers will ALWAYS be answered. Many of us are praying against God's will and those are the prayers that aren't answered because you are not in unity with him.

"Delight yourself in the Lord, and he shall give you the desires of you heart. "  - Psalm 37:4 


This verse is taken out of context a TON. God wont just give you what YOU want. That's called taking advantage of him. No can do.  When you delight yourself in the Lord, spend time with him daily, really chase after him, HIS WILL becomes what YOUR HEART DESIRES MOST.

That's all I got. :)