Merry Christmas you guys!
today was so great... i love christmas.

on fuel on saturday, Jeff spoke.. it totally was like where i'm at right now! kind of like.. it's all or nothing, your in or your out, you need to conform your life to God, live in Him, be a sacrifice (cuz God's worthy!) ..."do you wanna be hearing the stories, or telling them?"

...AMEN! what else can i say? i want that! i want to live for the king. overcoming temtation may be hard, but He is WORTHY. i have nothing to give, but what He has given me. all i have is God's anyways, so why don't we give it back to him? that reminds me of the song we sang at fuel... "every blessing you pour out i'll turn back to praise" we need to give God the glory in everything that we do, God will be the strength in our weakness, he sees beauty when we're broken before him. we are nothing, but much more if Gods inside of us!

there must be more than what we have seen, there must be more than what we have heard, there must be more than what we have felt. we have only scratched the surface of the glory of God! we need to press in people! we need to want more! there is SO MUCH MORE! we want Jesus and His love to be our hearts desire.

(by the way, i'm preaching at myself here, so don't think i'm some spiritual perfect person or anything)

so.. this christmas has been a wonderful one. i am trying to see Jesus as the whole reason for this holiday. we are celebrating the fact that Jesus can live in our hearts. isn't that like the best thing in our whole lives! isn't that what we're living for? who cares about the presents, Jesus' birth, and Jesus' death are the best gifts of all!

may God bless you richly this christmas and show you His gift for you:)
love,
~christine~

hey everyone
Christmas is coming:) and i just woke up from a nap.. everyones at my house watching "it's a wonderful life" (that's a good movie) so i played the guitar and read the bible. i'v read the whole New Testiment! (i started like last may or something) so anyways... i'll try to write stuff, but i'm a little bit tired so umm.. ya ...k

i was listening to the wildings CD and i liked this song on it and i was going to type it out for you but the lyrics are in my brothers room.. but i'll still try to remember the words...

let my life count for something, let me be a burning flame;
let my life count for something, let it be a holy flame


OH I... WANNA LIVE FOR THE KING


let my life count for something, let it be a sacrifice;
let my life count for something, let it be a life of praise

(that's most of it)

anyways, i was like dancing in my room to it.. it was awesome :) ..ya

there's another song on the CD that was like "you're my heart's desire" and it's such a spicy song man! idn... i'm really trying lately to really wrap my mind around what these songs are saying and what we're acually telling God. for example, "undivided focus" by heather clark, when we sing the words, do we know what we're saying "i am in love with undivided focus" and "i am yours" what does that mean? i am yours? it means that i love you more than anything else, i belong to you, i think about you more than anything else... think of what it must be like to be crazy fallen in love.. well that's what we say we are when we sing those words. they are deeper than some cute song with heathers nice voice, it's pure worship. let's not drop empty words that fall to the ground. lets not just sing songs just cause we know the words, we need to mean what you say people!

anyways... basically what i want, is very up there and sometimes it just feels like i'm not getting any closer to obtaining it. like i'v told you in past posts what i want to be and do, but it's SO HARD. i want my life to count for something, i want to be a sacrifice! O God help me! i need you beside me i need to hold your hand. please just come closer to me. make it easier for me to be in UNDIVIDED focus and devotion to you. let this christmas mean something. let it be a time to draw nearer to You Jesus.
amen.
i love you all!

~christine

shizzle!

i've been having a pretty good week, better than last week... i went shopping for christmas stuff on tuesday and i had my dance resital yesterday. it was awesome! ..ya, there's not really that much stuff happening. oh! i'm learning better how to play the guitar! that's fun:)

ok.. so last week i was struggling a lot with my parents.. it seemed like every little thing they did was annoying and i was always fighting and stuff with them. i guess after God really meets you, the Devil trys to grap your weaknesses and pull you away with them. like you're wearing a shirt and theres a loose thread that satan grabs and pulls, until the whole shirt comes undone. so... ya i was feeling really like "i don't want to change my attitude, o God, help me!" and idn.. its SO hard not to fight with your parents. but this week i'm getting a little bit better is that situation, but idn, it's not an over night thing! i'm going on this "date" thing with my dad and Shari and her dad. so hopefully that'll be good.

but.... ya, there's not really anything going on in my life right now... just chillaxin'... waiting for the christmas break... sorry, for not posting that much, but i've been pretty bust lately

pray for me about this whole thing please!

~christine