Warrior of the Mighty King

Romans 5:1-5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith,  we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.   Through him we have also  obtained access by faith into this grace  in which we stand, and  we rejoice   in hope of the glory of God.   Not only that, but we  rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering  produces endurance,   and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,   and  hope does not put us to shame, because God's love  has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. This summer when I was in New York and talking to people about coming back for a year, a guy told me that the first few months would be like the "honeymoon phase" where I would love New York and then later it would fade away. Well these first couple of months have been no honeymoon! It has not been terrible either though. When I'm teaching English to our studen...

So this blog is going to look a little different style-wise, because I have not been journaling every day but because I take pictures I can remember what happened throughout the week. Lately, my schedule has been crammed full of reading for seminary and watching lectures for seminary and teaching ESL classes and helping assist with ESL classes and helping kids with their homework and sharing the gospel with everyone and helping with children at church. Thankfully, God's timing is perfect and at one of our churches we are studying about the things that God has given us to be stewards of such as money, time, body, health, and our minds. I have also been learning to trust God completely and the small group I have joined is going through a book called Trusting God. It's awesome to see how God orchestrates this life and how our lives are just a small chunk of time in His huge plan. Our South Asian Center has been under some spiritual warfare lately. There is a lady who lives in th...

Right now, I am craving deep Christian friendship. I have many friends here but I just feel like all of our conversations are just surface level. I think that the reason  professional counselors exist is because we are too afraid to have deep friendships where we listen to each other, and understand each other so that we don't give half-baked advice because we weren't really understanding the full situation. I am thankful for those friendships that I do have all over the states though. During this time I have been so close to the Lord which is beautiful. 1/27/14 Monday Week 5 Day 3 This morning I taught ESL at the SA with a bengali lady who is just starting to learn English. She is struggling. Pray that she will be eager to learn English and that I will boldly share the gospel with her. Grace's friends Anna and Hank need prayer for transparency in their relationship. I studied this afternoon and met a former student and gave her a New Testament. Pray for her that she rea...