Well let me first start off by praising God for all the wonderful things he has been doing in our lives. Thank you so much Lord for your faithfulness and love. Thanks to my supporters as well for there faithful praying and giving that God has laid on their hearts.
It has been a while since the Love Extreme project. During that project a lot of us were being spiritually attacked. I know I was and it was not good my relationship with God and my devotion time was horrible. I wanted to go home I felt as if I had been abandoned here in Peru. Culture shock was hitting me hard I was angry fed up with listening to the rules and didn't know where to turn for guidance. I started to think about it really hard and me and my friend Gary were in the room chillin and he was talking to his parents about something that he wrote exactly a year ago. It said something like this: I want God to break me hear in Peru I want him to break me so all I do is rely on him. That hit me he was crying and so was I. I realized that this is what was happening to me also. I still was lost in anger. I hadn't talked to my mentor in a while so I set up a conversation with him on skype. When we talked he told me something that was hard to accept and told me what I wanted them to pray for me before I left. He told me I needed to change my attitude and pray for my partner more. That was it I changed my attitude but let me tell you everyday it is not great and it is a fight. I have to bring it to God everyday. There is more I am going to talk about and I will write more blogs soon. I ask that you pray that I will continue to have the attitude of Christ there is a scripture that I really like and try to live up to in
>1 Peter 2:4-8 4 As you come to him, the living stone-rejected by men chosen by God and precious to him- 5 You also like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For the Scripture it says: See I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trust in him will never be put to shame. 7 Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, " the stone the builders rejected has become to capstone," and, "A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble because the disobey the message-which is also what they were destined for.
First the scripture refers to Jesus as the living stone and that He is precious. Then it refers to us as living stones because Christ lives in us and we are the living stones that make up the Church. It is not some building it is the people of the Church. We are being built into spiritual houses refers to Christ continuing to work in our lives each day to form and shape us into the likeness of Him. Holy priesthood refers to the us being made holy like a priest and needing to offer spiritual sacrifices to God for example: Fasting, giving something up for some time, and ect. The precious conerstone refers to Jesus. The story of the conerstone was the builders used the stone to measure the whole building off that stone. As we need to measure our lives off the life of Jesus and we also need to be that conerstone in the lives of others so that they to can see Jesus in us. It goes on and talks about those who don't believe and how Jesus becomes a stumbling block for their lives because they do not obey. We need to remember to obey the laws that Jesus set forth before us and remember everyday that people are watching us and waiting for us to make mistakes. I am not saying we are going to be perfect but we have to try to be and continue to obey God because if we don't we can cause other people in our live to turn away from God or not choose him at all because of our actions. This is for encouragement in your lives and know that
