my God is rich in His promises...

"But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well." - Matthew 6:33

This verse hit me hard especially after my mission trip. I was in distress about my job situation prior going to CR, but God reminded me to just be faithful and just keep my eyes on Him. While I was away, Temple University emailed me and asked for some references for the job position that I applied for. Yesterday a lady from there called and asked if I could come in for an interview. She was curious of why I didn't email her back sooner, and she thought I wasn't interested in the position. I got a chance to tell her that I was away on a mission trip -- it was a good way for her to get to know me. I was just blown away when God gently reminded me of this verse. Oh how I praise my Lord, so faithful in His promises!

I really miss CR--the missionaries, interns, staff, and the kids. They are so faithful in serving God and His Kingdom and their hunger for Christ put me to shame. I was fortunate to see how God is moving in other part of the world. O my God is Omnipresent --working everywhere in every way!!! Although I miss CR, but I'm glad to be back in the states--back at GCC. I realize how I missed the people, the worship, the community here in CH. I'm very encouraged by the love I have here -- the sisters and brothers --keeping me in check with postmissions. I pray that God will continue to blow on the fire that He started in my heart. I want to keep on burning for Jesus. Lord, I want to burn for YOU, I want to keep on burning for YOU!!!!

My sister and I got to spend some time with Kayla and Lindsey, two of the girls, from Camden church. Kayla decided to just whip out her guitar and lead us into worship. It's amazing how we can worship God anywhere --every place we go. I still can't comprehend on how my God works, although I'm tone deaf and I don't really appreciate music, but God uses praise songs to really speak to me.
"I'll bring You more than a song for a song in itself is not what You have required You search much deeper within through the ways things appear You're looking into my heart. I'm coming back to the heart of worship, and it's all about You, all about You-Jesus. I'm sorry Lord, for the things I've made it..when it's all about You, all about You" --it's funny how I was humming this song throughout my time in CR. I feel like at times, I tend to think that it's all about me...me..me...but it's actually NOT...it's all about YOU -Jesus. Lord, my prayer is to be more more more more of You and less less less of me.

So much laugher and love whenever the four of us get together. When we went to Chick-fil-A for some cheesecake --I didn't notice it before, but for the first time, I heard Christian music over the intercom. I thought it was really cool. Just because of that...Chick-fil-A is my favorite fast food joint now. When we were just chilling there, an elderly woman came over. She was looking at us the whole time; I thought maybe I was being loud or that she was interested in my cheesecake. She came over and told us that she has a grandson (he's Korean --I think he's adopted because she's is American...i might be wrong, who knows), whom she would like to introduce to one of us. She wants her grandson to date Asian women...I thought that was really cute. She took out his baby pictures and showed us. I found out that he's a Christian, he's around 27ish (right up my alley..ahha), and he works as an IT..i think. I jokingly told her that I was interested...so she asked me for my email and name and such...I gave her my name and facebook information and told her that Brent (that's his name) could find me on FB...desperate much? I don't think so...I think it's cute how she was trying to hook her grandson up with some random Asian girl she just met at Chick-fil-A. For me it was a way to just start a conversation with people...it doesn't have to be sharing the Four Spiritual Laws of being a Christian to them, but just being there and show them that I do care of what they have to say is good enough. I think building relationships is a great way to share the Gospel with someone. Although I might not see her again and that her grandson will probably never befriends me on fb, but I feel that God creates every opportunity for me. I actually learned it from Pastor Jason. I was amazed by how he can just talk to people about God so freely on our way to CR. He shared with me that all he's doing is just trying to build relationship and just loving the people then eventually he'll get an opportunity to share his faith to them. Speaking of P.Jason...I was just blown away by his conversation with Dave Lee on the plane ride to Philly from CR. I'm just so amazed by how passionate these two brothers are in Christ. I'm so drawn to them...their conversation was so genuine, so passionate, so driven...I just love it. I think that was one of the highlights of the trip. One of my prayer requests to God is for Him to raise up strong male Christian leaders leading the church, leading the household...for awhile I was so discouraged because I didn't see any strong male leaders, but in God...I have hope. From this mission trip, God revealed to me that there are strong Christian leaders at GCC, serving and loving Him passionately. It was so amazing that I get to witness that!

Praise the Lord, for He is so good!!!!