Prayer

Prayer

 
          Hello Friends! 
These past few weeks have been incredibly insane for me. A couple weeks ago I was praying to God for the ability to be aware of where I am at with Him. And boy, did he give it to me! 
     It is so easy to get discouraged around springtime (especially in Oregon) where it is still cold and rainy, and you still have 4 months to go in school. Painful right? Well, of course on top of all of this sadness and spring fever, I decided to go to Haiti within a month barely funded basically saying to myself "I got this, I will sell my stuff and make money for Haiti! I can do it!" well, all of that is gung-ho until you actually begin to sell stuff on eBay, and nobody wants it. I found myself WAY underfunded, overwhelmed, stressed and teary-eyed and After a while, I thought to myself "woah, not once have I given this up to God. Not once did I actually believe that if God wants me on this trip, than he will take me on this trip. If I trust in Him to provide, he will provide. So, as I was sitting in the car, saying this to God, I got a call from my dad about an insurance settlement from a car accident I was in during December. And guess what, The settlement was EXACTLY the amount I needed to get to Haiti. WHAT. That was definitely God telling me I needed to trust in Him and whole-heartedly believe in his power.
    Okay God,
             I gotcha
                    I see your power
                             you're amazing
                                          Thank YOU for being so gracious!

                        -Lauren

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Why not follow biblical marriage?

 Marriage. Oh Boy. First off I am not married, so I don't have a lot of personal experience to share with you, but, being human, I live around people who are married, and in a society where marriage and its attributes are largely discussed. So I can see many different sides and views of the topic of marriage. Here are a couple of view points that I've been seeing lately. Many of times I see the misconception that in a Christian Marriage, Women are not valued as much as men, Now we are getting into equality talk here, but this definitely is a well known misconception that needs to be addressed. What I have noticed, the more and more I have heard non-Christian point of view, is that it focuses mostly on gender equality, not gender roles. These two things are very different, but can easily be mushed together as one thing. In a Christian marriage, the two genders are equal, but they do not have the same roles. Just like having a team captain, and a team. You need a captain to lead and you need a team member to be lead. One could not function without the other, and this is very much how a biblical Marriage works. In a biblical marriage, The man is the leader of the household(he answers and listens to God), the wife follows his instructions (which are straight from God) and the children follow the parents lead. Marriage has a bullet proof game plan told to us straight from God. The question is why not follow it?

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