Well, I have descided to take a break from xanga.  May God receive the glory in our most regular days, in our most fulfilling and joyous days and even in our most darkest days!  God Bless.

In Him,

Mag

Well, I got un update on Ron.  They are taking him off all life support measures tomorrow and are expecting him to pass tomorrow or Wednesday.  It's weird because my grandmother went through the same thing at the end of her also, so I can really relate.  It's also weird how though I will never have met Ron, I feel like he was part of my own family. (Please continue to lift the Criders...Kelly, Ron's wife, Caleb, his son, and the rest of the Crider Family)  

It blows my mind to think how the blood of Christ unites people from different backgrounds, from different walks of life and just different kinds of people.  Some would have us believe that our society and our surroundings are the ones that unites us.  Yet Christ bloods goes beyond skin tones and shades, beyond "cultural" backgrounds, and beyond worldly knowledge from the world. 

I am just taken back today on the complacency of some so-called christians.  I am not judging by any means, I love them and care about them.  Yet, how can one know Christ and claim him as their Savior yet know nothing of what he taught and what he stood for?  I know in my own life I am just as guilty of this as any one else.  Yet my heart cries out for a generation that does not just claim Jesus as Lord but yet desires a heart like Christ.  A heart that beats to be with the lost and the ones that have gone astray and share with them the love that comes from knowing Him.  A heart beating right in unision with the Father. 

My question is what happens to us that makes us easily strayed and bound to forget the heart of the King?  What happens to us that makes us so easily entangled and weeded into ideas and teachings that do not have anything to do with the King? 

My thinking is this:  Do you even know the King that you claim?  Are you spending time worshipping and finding your delight in Him?  Are you delighting yourself in Him, through His word and through talking with Him?

God has truly grabbed a hold of my heart.  He is showing me that I need to be all about what He was all about.  I need to be in unision with His heart.  Recently, since starting school, I have felt more alone than I have felt before.  Not so much spiritually, but just physically.  I have a lot more time alone and am by myself more so than I ever been before.  My point:  Though I have felt physically alone I have spent more time praying, meditating, reading God's word and just finding my delight in Him.  I say this to share that even though something physical was taken away, I have been given more time with Him, which is worth far more than any amount of friends.  

I also want to share that God has put a passion in me for missions.  I have had an excitement for missions in the past, but this goes beyond excitement.  I can say "I feel God is calling me to do ..." etc. but I do not want His calling on my life to have anything to go with feeling.  I want Him to continue to reveal His heart and His passion for all the nations through His word and through people around me and through living life with people, and in that confirm this vision of serving Him and others..therefore being in unsion with His heart. 

Finally, I just want to share something that was told to me last night.  My mom told Erick, co-pastor of the House church I go to, that she does not see me teaching, she sees me doing missions over seas.  Erick and John (pastor of the House Church I go to) confirmed this to me last night also.  Whole point, God put this people in my life to confirm what He had already been telling me from the beginning:  Serve Him, serve others. 

I hope this has gripped you in some way.  It does me.  Christ wants that no one would perish, but that all come into repentance and know Him.  Come to know him.  If you do, seek Him out more, pray more, minister more, worship more, strive for more.  This excites me and fills me with hope, that even if I end up an old maid I will be an old maid for Jesus!  This excites me to think that he does unite all races and people under the blood of Jesus. 

To God be the glory, forever and for always!  Amen. 

Mag    

Hey Guys,

Man God is so good, unexplainable and lovely.  It's hard to try to explain in words all that God is doing in my life yet, He knows.  I am just taken back at how he works all things for our good... all things especially those things that we don't expect to happen in our lives.  God has been showing and revealing alot of things about His heart for the nations and his heart for the people of God to come back to Christ, our first love. 

Please pray that God will focus my priorities to what He deems important in my life.  Pray that I don't dwell on the future, and focus on the present.  And if anybody had any prayer requests, don't hesitate to let me know

Well, I got to run.  Talk more later! 

Mucho carino y amor,

Mag 

Queridos en la Fe,

Man o man, Another week as flown by without hestitaion.  It's funny because just the other day I sent un email out to some friends on how we get  so caught up in our lives and things and committments that we forget all about spending time with our Father, in the word and forget about building relationships.  And thing about it is, I see today how I started to do exactly that this week!  I did not make the specific time this week as I should of tho get into the word.  I compromised my time with God that I had been having because of school work that I had waited to the last minute to do. 

God continues to bewilder, me in that: just as I had called other people to get into the word and not to get "busy" with life, I failed to do myself.  But God rich in his mercy still forgives and still extends his hand down towards us, just as he did to Judas at the last supper.  My God and Father, how we are just ruble and broken, yet you chose to use and make your glory shown through us!

I thank God because He continues to put people in my life to grow me and strengthn me.  He continues to show me that no matter how many times I fall and think things are impossible in my life; He shows me that He can do the impossible in my life and it is only through Him that I can accomplish all that He calls me to. 

Please pray for my friend Lauren.  She is a missionary in Africa and she is just recovery from being sick.  Pray that she can continue to adjust to the way of life  in Africa.  Also pray for her relationships with her teammmates and that they will be restored; therefore being able to grow deeper. 

Thanks dear friends, bros and sistas in the faith!  Let us continue to bear each others burderns and lift each other up!

In Him,

Mag