He Changes Us!

The Lord is so good! It's amazing that all of the things He puts us through are all for a purpose to change us to become more like Him! God is more concerned with changing your character than He is interested in your ministry for Him. Wow! Ya... He'd rather be close to you than see you "leave your mark" on this world for Him. He is just in love with you!

God has been showing us so much over these past three weeks since our last blog entree. He is shaping us and showing us more of Him.

There truly is nothing better than when you get a revelation of God! NOTHING better! When you really get it ALL YOU WANT IS MORE... ya!! So true. When you don't have it all you think is "what is so cool about getting a revelation from God?" You think this because you probably haven't experienced it ... or not in a while!

I (bethany) was spending time with Jesus yesterday feeling super bummed on myself and just not feeling in awe of God, not feeling that "revelation" that I wanted to feel, like so many of the other students were talking about ... and I was beginning to feel like I was "broken" or that I just can't feel God like that any more... WHAT A LIE!!! uhhh I hate when Satan does that! Just condemns us!

I learned that the way you tell the difference between condemnation and conviction is that condemnation is always general, like " you'll always be like that" or "you'll never be able to get rid of that addiction" or "no one likes you" etc. And conviction is specific, like "when you said that to your husband you hurt his feelings and you'd better go back and say sorry or it'll ruin the day for both of you."

Ya so when I was feeling like "I'll NEVER be able to get a revelation from God again" um YA CONDEMNATION... But I was totally just wallowing in it and started to cry... Luke gave me a huge hug and just held me and all of a sudden the Lord just started to touch my heart... and more ... and more... and all of a sudden I found myself just in His presence! I began to pray to him but I couldn't even formulate words to say... all I could do was receive His love! It just made me cry more and more... it was so amazing. Once quite a few minutes went by I began to read my Bible... and EVERY WORD jumped out with some sort of new revelation!! Man it was intense. It was like when I used to get revelations from God... I couldn't believe that it was happening... I LOVE when that happens.

There were so many revelations that I began to see this picture of the galaxies and I was seeing the earth and that represented the revelations I was getting at that moment... but then in my peripheral vision I was seeing stars upon stars heading toward me.. and they represented the revelations about God that were coming my way that hadn't hit me yet but were about to... but then I realized that they weren't stars.. they were galaxies full of BILLIONS of stars which each represent a revelation of God and who his is.... and I saw billions of these galaxies with billions of stars in each one... and then I got scared... like "WOA....that is too much for my little mind to handle..."... I didn't know what to do with all that.... But God was so gracious to just show me as much as my little mind could handle at that moment... and that was my Daily Bread.

Man I want to eat like that EVERY DAY! I love you Jesus!!


Anyhow ya things are good! I got to lead worship a few days ago and it was SO COOL cuz I was able to do it with more of a full band. I've never really done that before and I feel like God is more and more leading me into some sort of leading role in worship. It just made me come alive! My girlfriend Hanne from Norway played the piano, I sang and played guitar and my friend Brian played the bongos and my other friend Aaron played the violin. So fun! I realized how much I LOVE playing with others and just to worship God! His presence totally came! Thanks Lord!

On a lighter note we went to this valley called POLOLU and camped out! Its a valley on the most north side of the island. When you drive there, the road you are on just STOPS! Ya it just ends and there you are left at this GORGEOUS expanse of God's creation! So we all hiked in and camped out! Such a blast... It's amazing how God's creation just screams his Majesty! You cannot help but be in AWE when you see it no matter who you are!!

Here are some pics!!

Packing the Truck!! Thanks again Dad!!

When you arrive it is SO worth it!!
















These are all the girls! 7 of us.. what a perfect number =)




God is awesome! There truly isn't anything better than getting a revelation of Him.

Have you had one today?