Crazy little thing called LovE

What exactly is love? Like what does it mean when we tell someone we love them? Is it saying we care for them a lot, that they are sweet? Yeah, sure that's part of it but there is just sooooo much more to love than people realize and this deep word, love, is taken so lightly now-a-days. So whats it's definition? What is love? I have come to the conclusion that it's unexplainable...like how can words describe love? They can't, that's why we have the word love to bring all those overpowering emotions, and unexplainable feelings into a single four letter word. It's that moment when you look at someone and realize you feel crazy feelings for them and you never want them to leave your life cause without them you'd never be able to embrace this feeling again...it usually hits you at a random moment as you look at them you discover that this incomprehensible feeling has hit you smack dap in your gushy heart and good thing for the word love cause without it you couldn't describe this indescribable feeling you have inside you towards this incredible person in your life. At this point you know you are head over heals and so you say those extremely powerful words "I love you" and (hopefully lol) they know exactly what you mean cause their heart is as gushy as yours. <3

Now that's what God wants us to feel for Him and longs to make our whole heart gushy and melting for Him because He loved us sooooo much that He died for us!! wait...Whattt!? That just proves that love is such a powerful thing that God would die for us cause He has an overwhelming, unexplainable, indescribable, everlasting, super powerful feeling inside His heart for US! It's so magnificent that He sacrificed His life and bore all of our sins and trouble cause He has an ultimate care for us and loves us so much that He never wants us to leave Him and longs to eternally be apart of our lives, never having to be separated from us again. And we feel this love pouring out over us and ask ourselves "нσω ωєяє ωє ℓινιηg вєƒσяє ωє ƒєℓℓ ιη ℓσνє ωιтн συя נєѕυѕ αη∂ ∂ιѕ¢σνєяє∂ тнιѕ ℓσνє؟!" And so, our love for God is 100x more powerful and 100x harder to put into words than the love we feel towards a person in our everyday life BUT we take this love we feel from God, understand its power and can't help but spread it to those we care about in our life. Oftentimes, God gives us a special someone who He desires for them to take the love He has shown towards us and run with it. To take hold of it's power and allow it to mold them as a couple and to show this feeling to each other so that Gods love is glorified through their life together. Now if someone has refused Gods love and doesn't allow it to impact them then they will never experience that true love one can have for another. Satan will define the word hate for you but love is not in his vocabulary. Our teacher needs to be Christ, cause He alone holds this indescribable love that we long for, and He alone will help us understand it and allow us to share it with others so that His name will be praised. If we don't have Gods love in our life then we can't have love at all because Gσ∂'ѕ lσνє, Dєƒιηєѕ lσνє. So next time you say I love you to someone, really embrace what that means and thank God for allowing you to spread this amazing feeling to others.

My Support Letter :)

Dear Friends and Family,

Hello! I hope all is going well with you. I have recently finished my last semester at Cayuga Community College and have a strong desire to go out into the world and be used by God and to declare salvation through Jesus Christ. He has been doing wonderful things in my life and I know he will continue to work in great ways . Recently, He put on my heart that I need to be willing to move and do things outside my comfort zone in order to be used. Youth With A Mission (YWAM) has provided me with this opportunity to grow closer to God and reach out to children in need. I will be attending a Discipleship Training School (Compassion DTS) this fall at a YWAM base in Kona, Hawaii. This will be approximately six months long. For twelve weeks they will train us and better our knowledge in God's Word. Then, for the remaining twelve weeks, I will be sent out on a field assignment. The outreach will focus on reaching poor, needy and children at-risk. This may take me to places in Cambodia, Rwanda or possibly other countries. We will be reaching out to those living in absolute poverty, the homeless, those struggling with life addictions, women and children at risk, and those who have been sexually abused, trafficked or enslaved. These issues need to be addressed in more places than we realize. Over the years, I have been desiring more and more to go out into the world and help people, mainly children, who are longing for hope that can only God can give. Compassion DTS is purposed to move it's students to acts of kindness and love toward children at risk, the poor and the oppressed. I have been praying and know God is calling me to do this and would greatly appreciate your prayers. I am currently working full time at a daycare and putting the money toward this trip. However, I am still a ways away from the amount I will need. While prayer is a vital aspect in supporting any missionary, finances are also a concern. I am asking that you would consider praying if the Lord would have you support me financially in this fight for children's freedom and safety. The following are my expenses and due dates: Lecture phase= $4,210 (Due September 29), Field Assignment= $5,000-$6,000 (Due October 16). The theme verse for Compassion DTS is from Micah 6:8 "He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." This DTS promises to be a place of growing deeper with God and an opportunity to make a difference for eternity. I am excited to see what God has in store and I pray He uses this to bless many in great ways.

Thank you and God Bless,

                        Mindy Meyers

(Find more info! www.uofnkona.edu) (While I'm there, follow me on my blog! (www.bloggingmelinda.blogspot.com)P.S. To mail your donation- my address is 9037 N.Main Street Port Byron, NY 13140 

Also an easy way to donate is online at www.gofundme.com/MindysMission

Thanks!

“And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:

'How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!' “ ~Romans 10:15~

“...telling to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength and His wonderful works that he has done.”

“That they may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.”

~Psalms 78:4&7~

(School in Cambodia)

My first blog, Hollaaa'!

Hello blogging world! Right now, I am sitting outside, getting my tan on, jammin to some good music while I write my first blog ever! woo. I created it for when i am in Hawaii, so i can keep y’all updated, So i probably won’t be updating it much until September. :P Meanwhile, I will be working my butt off trying to raise money for the trip. Oh..how rude of me, you have yet to know why i am going to Hawaii! Well, I am attending Compassion DTS (Discipleship Training School) through YWAM (Youth With A Mission) and I am totally stoked. Gods about to show Himself to me in crazy ways, I know it! It’s roughly 6months long (Sept-March), 12wks of training and then the remaining 12wks-ish is our field assignment which could be anywhere from Cambodia to Rwanda! I’m hoping I get to go to Africa :) While we are there we will be reaching out to children at risk and people who have lived a long life at rock bottom and are searching for hope that only God can provide. I am super excited to be able to introduce them to an everlasting hope in Jesus Christ. =] So yupp that’s that! I will try my best to update the blog weekly while I am there.

*Uck my sisters cat, Malachi, is laying next to me cleaning himself…can’t stand this cat*

ANYWAY, am I suppose to introduce myself or whatever cause this is my first blog and what not? I suppose I can give you my testimony since that’s pretty much a story about how my life started right? Okay so hear it is :) I have been brought up in a wonderful Christian home, my family has always been involved in the church and my mom and dad have always been there to encourage me to go to the Lord. At age 12 I began to teach Sunday school and loved it. I loved being at church and serving the Lord. When I grew older, the protective wings of ma and pa started letting me go and temptation began leaking in everywhere. Satan tried pulling me from every angle and I resisted a majority of it, but still dipped my feet in, maybe a little too deep at times. I began to feel the need to be excepted by everyone in highschool and pushed God to the side, not really bothering to pay attention to Him. In 2008 I attended a castle retreat with a neighboring church, and this is when I realized my life was not focused on what it should be. God was not the center and I needed to change that. I dedicated my life to Christ at the retreat and vowed to stay close to him through everything.I graduated highschool, and then… (*play jaws theme song in head*)…came college. I hadn’t forgotten God but I still managed to fall into sin, I experienced my first party scene. I was doing it again, pushing God on the back burner, and putting myself first. Life went up and down, and after a few eye-opening experiences I was sick of it all and rededicated my life to Christ on October 23, 2010. Although before I  had labeled myself as a “Christian”, and lived like one, I still was caught in Satan’s trap for a period. Many people may be labeled as “closet Christians” for hiding their beliefs but I think I would have been labeled a “closet sinner”. Everyone knew what I believed but behind closed doors I let my guard down and tried living life the way Satan would want me to. That type of lifestyle got tiring and the guilt just ate away at my heart. Thankfully, God is merciful and “makes beautiful things out of the dust” (Song by Gungor called Beautiful Things, look it up, so good!).  One of my best friends told me; “God is always there waiting on the sideline cause we put him there, He’s waiting for us to tag him in, He can take all our anxiety and frustration, all we need to do is ask in faith and He will”. God used this same friend to open my eyes to the luke warm life I was living. I was basing my life off of what seemed right to the world and me, my friend reminded me “The decisions you make shouldn’t be based on what other people want, it should be between you and GOD”, and this is so true, what the heck was I thinking trying to do things on my own and not seeking God unless I was in trouble with something. I realize now we should seek God daily about everything, not just when issues arise.God’s love is like a GIGANTIC waterfall pouring out over the world. We have the choice to step under it and be washed in an amazing shower of grace or to stay out of the stream and become dried up, consumed by the worlds empty promises. I don’t know about you, but I’m enjoying the option to be hydrated in Gods mercy way more than becoming like a dried up raisin under Satan’s nasty foot. =]                            

annnndddd, Waa Laa —>THE END. Err I mean…to be continued in the years to come ;)

                                GUNGOR SONG- Make like jelly and JAM! :)