2007/08/23

birthday

And, I am now 26!!!!!??

God's been so good all my life.












Psalm 139
...in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me,
when as yet there were none of them.
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You.

Acts 17:28
For in Him we live and move and have our being...

2007/08/17

John 3:17

I do not like being around my family when they drink.
Although they seem to think that when they drink they are happy and can talk about alot of things they don't usually feel comfortable talking about, something about it just bothers me very much.
(not the fact itself that they are drinking)
Being in the same house as they are drinking, I have to have my head phones with very loud music so I don't hear what they are talking about.
I just simply don't want to hear anything.
I love my family, but I now am starting to realize I belong to my Heavenly Father first.
Very hard to accept and face some reality sometimes.
I am very weak, Lord please help me.

God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

2007/08/13

Joy God gives

I can't believe she is gone.
This is truly a very strange feeling I have never experienced before.

I am fine most of the time,
but it still sometimes hits me the fact that she is not here anymore, and it is hard to believe.

To not have something you always had is surely strange.

Just a pet I know,
but I now see how much God really blessed us with her presence in the past 9 years. She was such a joy to all of us.




May I always see God in all things.

Acknowledge Him in all your ways.

2007/08/11

Today

Our dog Stacy died today. Very sad.
I am doing fine, but please pray for my family. They are not fine.
Please pray that God will use this time to speak to their heart, or even use me to shine in the family that they will see that my strength and comfort comes from the Lord alone.

We know that all things work together for good to those who love God,
to those who are the called according to His purpose.

God gives and also takes away for His purpose.

2007/08/09

Prayers

Lately, God has put 2 people on my heart to pray for (seriously making that as my commitment) and seek how I can share with them.

① my cousin Noah who is 13
② Toki obachan who just had her birthday and she doesn't even know how old she is anymore. She is around 93 ~ 95, I am not so sure.

Having talked to some of my sisters in the Lord and after Christina prayed for them and myself this afternoon, I was encouraged and 勇気をもらった. Even just to ask Noah to come to the beach bash this Sunday with us was a step for me.

I wanted to write this to always remember to never give up, keep praying for them and wait enthusiastically and expect to see God work in their lives.
And when God tells me to speak, then I will be bold to do so.

I pray that the day of their salvation is near.
Please if you will, join me in prayer for them... ありがとうございます。