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| well the semester is OVER and i am home for five weeks! it will be refreshing but..i just realized its saturday night and i'm not at the grill with my friends eating some ice cream. call me if you live around here. i would love to hang out! | | |
| well, its been a while and i figured maybe some of ya'll would like an update on my life! school is going well. the classes are still really hard BUT i passed my last math test by the grace of God! i have definitely been humbled this year. God has knocked me down and made me realize on my own, i am not smart. i cannot pass my classes on my own i desperately need the Lord's help. God is sufficient and will see me through this year. He who has called me to it will see me through it! To get the grade, i need the Lord's help. i am struggling majorly in math and english, but i have faith that as long as i keep giving it my all that God will do the rest and help me. chapel here has been wonderful. this week we had a pastor from bradenton, he preached some awesome sermons from the old testament. one he enititled the ethiopian eunuch, but it wasn't in acts but jeremiah! it was a good message from jeremiah aboujt being courageous! i am very much so anticipating christmas break! i cannot wait to come home! i miss my house, my family, my church lots, and wolbi! going to spend lots of time with all of them! oh yes, and Godiva cheesecake, i will most definitely be eating a piece of that over the break. hopefully with Jen at international plaza! i miss everyone. i need to get going though, i hope that everything is going awesome for everyone. if you think about it, give me a call! oh yes, i would also like a plane ticket to hudson for Word of Life's The Sights and Sounds of Christmas! so if anyone is feeling really generous or knows a rich person, i would appreciate it a lot! | | |
| Yay for wireless at Panera! i am online!! well i have been in classes for two weeks now. it is hard, much harder then wolbi ever was. i have lots of homework every day and study constantly, but i love it! thats why i am here! to learn! i am taking college math, english, speech, second half of NT survey(or as i call it, remidial new testament survey, how many different definitions am i going to learn for sanctification!? lol) and volleyball! God has blessed me time and time again since being here. i am so thankful for my Lord bringing me back to Himself and still having in His will for me to attend pensacola! i do miss Word of Life...a LOT! friends, you are the greatest, i miss all my wolbi friends in extreme ammounts. i don;t think anywhere else could 100 young people be so on fire for the Lord and so consumed by His great love that it is their heartbeat, passion, what they live for. i sit amoungst 5000 students and have not once hear them talk about how awesome God is and how the Lord is working in thier lives or how thier quiet time is. WOL was a totally unique expierence, i am so happy God placed me there. pray for me though, i really desire to meet people at pcc who have the same passion for missions as i do. there is nothing that i love more than sitting around praising the Lord and talking of His grestness with friends! things are going amazing though! i am learning how to multiply and divide again, i definitely have been relying on my TI 83 for the last 3 years and well..we aren't allowed to use calculators here! i was scared, but through much prayer i am acceling in my math classes! english is a struggle, it is humbling to sit back and have to relearn all the basic concepts i learned many years ago over again. i miss home. i found out today that my cat ran away. i also miss casting crowns and my other music lots. i try not to listen to it, i like to be a good girl and follow the rules. speaking of rules, they aren't as bad as people talk them up to be! we have no study hours, no required qt time, (i wish we did) and the sidewalks aren't pink and blue! its actually really relaxed!the preaching is great most of the time. i miss mr ingersoll's lunches and cool teaching days in the gtac. i miss my library, even though the one here is 6 stories! i miss my crazy roomies and all the stuff we used to do. God has blessed me and kept my heart fixed on Him. I have to stay in prayer and focus on my purpose for being here. i was homesick last weekend, i cried a lot. but through much prayer and reading of my wonderful Love story the Bible i felt a peace come over me, and i knew God would take away the pain! i am praying for everyone i can think of to pray for generally, if anyone has any prayer requests call me and let me know. i love you all and want to encourage you! God always is awesome and He loves you! get right with Him if you aren't, or face His chastisement! trust me, getting right is much better. well, thats all for now, chances are i will update in a few weeks. love in Christ, Amber | | |
| well..i tried to go to sleep an hour ago, but as you can seehere i am. awake. i prayed for a while for the ones i love most, my family. my mom dad and brother, and jessica. tonight was a goodnight. i got some mexican food from the bus and ate it. came back home, went in my room did myquiet timewrotelindsey a letter and read some of my new amazing book, Captivating. it is getting better then i thought it would be. the book is about a girl/woman. being the woman God truly desired for her to be. it is a story about all of us women, those who are hurt, broken, tired, or in lovewith God. or all of the above. God loves eachof us. He created us as His mostbeautiful of all creation and He loves us. He desires for usto be secure, confident, princesses. that is whatourdaddy is for. the greatgiftof an earthly father who for so many girls and women of the recent times no longer has. dueto sin and our depraved world most men will notstep up and be the loving protective daddyGodintended for a girl to have. i am blessed asone of the lucky few to have this daddy. my daddy. i love him. iwishi could share him with the world. most people would call me "spoiled". but i thank God for a daddy who lovesme and sees that i have all i need. i have shelter, protection, saftey, a warm home to come home to. i am thankful for my daddy! i know so many girlswho are broken. who dont havethis great gift. the giftof love and security from parents. but there isGod! i wish and pray so much that my girls, my friends who arebroken, lost, seeking fulfillment in guy to guy, giving piecesof themselves would return to their Heavenlydaddy they walked away from a few years ago, or morerecently. Girls, myfriends, mysisters in Christ- you are hurting, God can heal your pain, you are scared, Hewants to protect you, there is nothing too bi, no circumstance so large that God cannot help youout of it. Read the storyof thePridigal Son in Luke15. you cannot go too far, God is waiting for you to come back to Him! in reading the chapter entitledwounded,wounds that i had deep within were brought back tothesurface. in reading healing the wounds tonight i layin my bed in tears, crying out to my Daddy,my Father! it breaks myheartknowing that my earthly parents andbrother do not have thejoy and peace that i do. they are amazing people, all three of them. we love each other deeply and would do anything for eachother. i just, i possess Jesus Christ, the most amazingly awesome Person ever. i long for them to have Christ, to know the joy that comes with having the Holy Spirit with them always. Knowing that God is in control. look into the eyes of a Christian, not just a saved individual, but one who is living eachday in andout for Jesus Christ, seeking to please Him. there is something different there, alight a happinessthat can be found nowhere else this side of Eternity! oh, how i long to see this glow, thisshimmerin the eyes of my mommy daddyand brother, and back in the eyes of my sister jessica! my mom,had a hard childhood. while on vacation this year i learned more about it. i wanted to cry knowingwhat my wonderful mommy went through as a child. i so long for herwounds to be healed for her to have the arms of God wrapped around her and knowHim as I know my Daddy in Heaven! thisbook. Captivating. using scripture like no book ihaveever read before, even though it brings uppainful memorie, it is a great tool. my girls, my friends, you need to read this book. ladies, you areajewl, you are a princess, you are worthfighting for. no matter what the world says you are truly a gift from God.
a prayer in the book:
Jesus, come to me andheal my heart. Come to the shattered places within me. Come for the little girl that was wounded. Come and hold me in your arms, and heal me. Do for me what you promised to do- heal my broken heart and set me free.
I like that. I love my Daddy I have in Heaven. Hehas the powerto save my daddyand mommy and brother!
well that is all for now. i hope this has been an encouragement to you. prayer, is amazing! God works though it. there is something wonderful about literally crying out to God to savethe souls of yourfamily. it leavesa peace, knowing thatGod was listening and in His time, will do it!
amber | | |
| i was gonna write a lot but... for now the words will be few.
good-bye word of life Bible institute. the year was amazing. all of you wonderful people are a gift from God!
life...is a vapor. | | |
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