a right response.

He created and we respond.
He calls and we respond.
He beckons and we respond.
He fills and we respond.
He protects and we respond.
He teaches and we respond.
Our father loves and we respond.
He holds us up in His victorious, right hand and we respond.
He gives life and we respond.
He gives us great joy and we respond.
He provides all we need and we respond.
He sees us with the clothes of Christ and we respond.
He forgives and we respond.
He stirs and we respond.
He stills and steadies and we respond.
He directs and we respond.
He causes growth and we respond.
He is gracious and we respond.


...The list goes on and on. Lately, its been so fresh in my heart that everything I do/have/live/feel/know is from of the Lord. Not only from him but caused solely by him. It is because of the cross. It is because of him, God in three: Father, Son, Spirit.
I have the opportunity to respond to God. TO GOD. what?
Every moment. I want to respond well every moment, and not only well but right. How do we righteously respond?
Another thing that baffles me is that God doesn't leave us forgiven, cared for, and loved. He gives us the opportunity to respond to him and to even be a part of what he is doing. We keep on going, we live it out, we respond to him. The chapter after forgiveness is responding to God with our lives. He keeps beckoning us to that. He loves our response and our desire to have relationship with him. I love God. I love that he is the Source of everything and that everything I possibly have/do/live/feel/know is from him. It's all from God. FROM GOD. what?
I have the privilege of responding. I want to have a right response. I want to respond well. I want to respond to him as Lord of my life.


"Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God's glory." ~Romans 5:2


"...apart from Me you can do nothing." ~John 15:5


"In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father." ~Matthew 5:16


"I am their Shepherd, they are my sheep. They know my voice and they do not respond to another." ~John 10:27


Psalm 103

the vow.

I went to see a movie with a friend on Valentines’ Day. The movie The Vow was about a couple getting in a car accident and the woman had a brain aneurism that caused her to forget who she was and everything about her current lifestyle. She remembered high school but nothing past that. When her husband approached her as she was waking up in the hospital she freaked out. She didn’t know him. He finally convinced her to at least try coming home with him to see if she would remember their life together. When she got up in the morning she would ask him what she usually did, what she ate, what she liked, what her hobbies were, who she talked to, how she liked her coffee.. He joyfully and intimately explained to her everything about her. This is how God is to us. We forget everything in the past; he wipes the slate clean and then intimately explains to us who we are in Him.

31verbs.

From Proverbs 31, A Worthy Woman of God.

This list is 31 verbs picked out from Proverbs 31:10-31.

Girls, as you read this think of those special women in your life that have shown you what it looks like to be a woman of God. Mmmm, I'm so thankful for them!

>Hebrews 13:7 Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.

1. be worthy
2. be trustworthy
3. do good
4. be pleasing to your husband
5. work with delight
6. gather resources
7. rise in the morning before day break
8. feed, be hospitable
9. make decisions
10. invest, be savvy with those resources
11. strengthen and prepare your mind, heart, and body to think, love, and do
12. take care of your own body
13. evaluate progress
14. work diligently
15. skill yourself
16. use skills to add to, provide for, and exalt others
17. give to those in need
18. clothe your household
19. produce and sell
20. cherish dignity
21. laugh
22. smile at the future
23. speak out wisdom and truth over others
24. teach kindness
25. meet the needs of your family
26. do not be idle
27. win the hearts of your children and husband
28. be plain
29. fear God
30. accept praise and thanks
31. be pleased, your work is your reward

oh, the places you'll go. part II

Dear Family and Friends,

Thank you for the support and prayers you’ve provided in my life so far. I am truly blessed to have a strong, constant support through family and friends. I am also writing to invite you to be a part of the next steps in my journey with the Lord. God has opened doors of opportunity in ministry and floodgates of grace for growth in my walk with Him. My passion is definitely burning for summer camping ministry, and my heart is all for what God is doing at Jonah Ministries this year.

This month I have started preparations for the summer as the Jonah Program Intern. This includes going to colleges, churches, youth groups, and schools to recruit summer staff and campers, being an aid to summer camp directors and any program related activities, and washing dishes on the weekend for our retreat groups of 100+. (Praise God for bringing in large groups!) My prayer is that in all of this is that campers will be shown Christ’s love and that the staff this summer would grow in life-long, Christ-based relationships as they work beside each other.

In writing to you, I am asking for support for Jonah. While I am here I would like to cover the amount of what Jonah will be paying me monthly. Here is my clever solution.  “20x20 vision” I believe this to be “perfect” and achievable. If 20 people could pledge twenty dollars per month this would total four hundred dollars and cover much of Jonah’s outlay to me as an intern. Is this perfect or what? Please pray about this opportunity to give to Jonah. Jonah’s website, www.campjonah.com , states the ministries history, mission statement, program, and plans. I hope this is helpful to you. Also, Jonah sends out an E-news email regularly that is informative on what is happening in all aspects of the ministry. If you would like to receive these updates please respond to me with your email address.

I will be living and working at Jonah until August of this year. I am fitting in schoolwork finishing up classes through Miles Community College online and will graduate in May with an A.S. in Business Management. In August, I will start in on classes at Multnomah Bible University in Portland. Working at Jonah is a huge opportunity to grow and build experience in camping ministry. This shows me how grand God’s provision is and His hand in where He is taking me with my passion for camp in the future. Thank you for being a part of it all!

Much Gratitude,

Kali

Prayer Requests:

-The staff application is available for staff applicants, Pray for the selection of obedient followers of Jesus as our summer staff.

-We are looking for a guy staff to complete our leadership team of three.

-Staff Training Planning.

-Summer Camps Planning.

-Christ’s love be poured out on our campers and our staff to grow in life-long, Christ-based relationships as they work beside each other this summer.

-Fundraising Banquet Coming Up in March.

-My homework schedule.

-Positioning my heart to be moldable and to walk humbly with God.

-Pray that I grow as a leader and develop skills only by God’s might that will make me suitable to serve.

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Jonah Ministries Summer 2012 Theme:

 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”

John 15:5

Connect to the Vine

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