LET HIM LOVE YOU!

Love one another.

John 15:9-13-14-15  When you guard my commands- never letting them out of your sight, you will make my love your home, just as I have guarded my Fathers commands and make His love my home.  As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.  

 Greater love has no one that this, that he lay (aside) his life for his friends. 

 You are my Friends! When you do what I command, I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his masters business.  Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.  You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit- fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command, LOVE each other.

1 John 4:10-11 This is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His son as a sacrifice for our sins. Dear Friends, since God loved us, we also should love one another.

19-We love, because He first loved us.

Let HIM love on you.

This is a very brief idea of what we were studying last week.  It is such a simple concept, yet one that is very much over looked and not always lived out in our walks with Christ.  The idea of allowing God to change us from the inside out with His love pouring into us is something that is hard to grasp and maybe even harder to accept.  

Loving people with the love of Christ is mind blowing! To love people in that way is to give up every write or expectation to what or who we have made them out to be in our own little minds. 

Let God blow your world wide open by just letting HIM LOVE YOU!

Hearing the Voice of God

Hearing the Voice of God was the title of our first lecture week.  Sooo good. 

Some of my thoughts…

Quit asking God for what He has already given you.

Don’t put God in a box, He wont stay there.   

If you are a follower of Christ you have heard His voice. God doesn’t speak to everyone in the same ways. 

Philippians 2:13 

He is working in us to help us do the power of God, and when we agree he gives us the power to do it.

Lets not try to put a label on what “being filled with the Holy Spirit” looks like.

The Holy Spirit is a gentleman. He won’t take more then we allow him to have.

God does have concepts that our minds cannot grasp.

It’s ok to be greedy when receiving the knowledge of God and Holy Spirit, Because as you receive you give.

Be still and allow God to show you what He wants to speak to you and then write it out.

                  Be still

                  Fix our eyes on the Jesus vision

                  Recognize God voice as a spontaneous flow.

                  Write… Try, Test and Prove the experiences and promises that God has given you. Stop trying to figure it all out and except it. 

There are some stumbling blocks that need to be turned into stepping stones.

SEEK HIM FIRST.

Biblical mediation combine with Analytical thought equals the flow of the heart.

Gods words trump my logic.

Reason will try to talk you out of Revelation.  Mediation will release Revelation and study releases information.  WE NEED BOTH

HE to who we are directing our prayers is way bigger then anything and everything we are praying about.

TRUST THAT GOD FORGIVES US

Gods love is very personal.

He has a very distinct purpose in making me.

The balance of Gods love for us evens out what He had to go through on the Cross.

By Law you are GUILTY, by GRACE- HE paid it ALL.

Friendship doesn’t happen by chance…

Person + Time = closeness

Person + talk = trust

Person + feelings = relationship

…It’s impossible for large groups to have this type of close relationship.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace, as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Rom. 15:13

Praying with the Heart of God changes things.

My failure doesn’t change Gods creature.

Humility is measured by the life that expresses it.

This is just a little taste of what we have been learning this week.  I could go on and on for a few more pages, but the just of it is you have a question, ASK, then LISTEN, and WRITE it down. God does speak. And I am so glad He does!

Hello from Chico!

Hey everyone. 

I've been in Chico for about 4 days now and it pretty great!  I have some really amazing people in my class coming from all over the world. There are 2 families and 5 singles in the Crossroads school, but we have joined forces with the DTS which has 7 people in it. 

My roommate is from Sweden. She's already awesome! :)   

School is good. We have just started with orientation. And get to know you stuff, so haven't learned anything to interesting. I'll keep you posted on that area. 

Financially I am doing great!  I believe I am about half way supported for my out reach phase($2000). And I'm so excited to announce that we will be going to South Africa for our outreach. It will be fun learning about the country and culture. 

If you would like to mail me or partner with me please send mail to:

Youth With A Mission 

Jodi Noordmans CDTS fall 2014

15850 Richardson Springs Road

Chico, California 95973