difficulties concerning guidance and doubts

8:  "Some, however, may say here, 'But I thought we were not to depend on our unenlightened human understanding in Divine things.'  I answer to this that we are not to depend upon our unenlightened human understanding, but upon our human judgement and common sense enlightened by the Spirit of God."  

9:  "Look right at Jesus, and tell Him that you do trust Him, and that you intend to go on trusting Him.  Then let the doubts clamor as they may, they cannot hurt you if you will not let them in.  I know it will look to you sometimes as though you were shutting your door against your best friends...but deny yourself; take up your cross in this matter, and quietly but firmly refuse ever to listen to a single word."   

Difficulties...

5: "Difficulties Concerning Consecration"

"Come once more to Him, in a surrender of your whole self to His will, as complete as you know how to make it.  You must ask Him to reveal to you, by His Spirit, any hidden rebellion; and if He reveals nothing, then you must believe that there is nothing, and that the surrender is complete."  

6: "Difficulties Concerning Faith"

"You have trusted Him in a few things, and He has not failed you.  Trust Him now for everything and see if He does not do for you exceedingly abundantly, above all that you could ever have asked or even thought, not according to your power or capacity, but according to His own mighty power, working in you all the good pleasure of His most blessed will." 

7: "Difficulties Concerning the Will"

"If, therefore, you have in your will taken the steps of surrender and faith, it is your right to believe even now, no matter how much your feelings may clamor against it, that you are all the Lord's."  

The Life Defined/How to Enter In

3:  '"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:  because he trusteth in thee.'  This is the Divine description of the life of faith about which I am writing.  It is no speculative theory, neither is it a dream of romance.  There is such a thing as having one's soul kept in perfect peace, now and here in this life; and childlike trust in God is the key to its attainment."

4:  "I wish only I could show to every one the unfathomable sweetness of the will of God...could we but for a moment get a glimpse into the mighty depths of His love, our hearts would spring out to meet His will and embrace it as our richest treasure and we would abandon ourselves to it with an enthusiasm of gratitude and joy that such a wondrous privilege could be ours."  

The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life...

...by Hannah Whitall Smith

I started this book that was lent to me by my aunt.  I hope you enjoy some of my favorite quotes from each chapter!

1:  "The cross of Christ, by the same might and decisive stroke where with it moved the curse of sin away from us, also surely moves away the power and the love of it from over us."  

2:  "Trust is the beginning and the continuing foundation; but when we trust, the Lord works, and His work is the important part of the whole matter.  And this explains that apparent paradox which puzzles so many.  They say, 'In one breath you tell us to do nothing but trust, and in the next you tell us to do impossible things.  How can you reconcile such contradictory statements?'  They are to be reconciled, just as we reconcile the statements concerning a saw in a carpenter's shop when we say, at one moment, that the saw has sawn asunder a log, and the next moment declare that the carpenter has done it.  The saw is the instrument used; the power that uses it is the carpenter's.  And so we, yielding ourselves unto God, and our members as instruments of righteousness unto Him, find that He works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure, and we can say with Paul, 'I labored; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.'"

TMNT party

My sister's vision for my welcome home party came true this past weekend.  

The movie is sooo good!  

Colorado

My mom wanted some pictures in addition to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

As I mentioned before, my sister Becky wants to have a welcome home party for me and watch the greatest films of all time...TMNT!!!  So, one morning, when I saw one of my fellow new staff members of Campus Crusade for Christ supporting the cause, I had to take a picture.  The next couple days I was excited to see more fans!!!