Who Am I?

Well, I haven't written on here in a while. Honestly, there hasn't been a whole lot I could think of to write. I'll go ahead and fill you in on the latest, though. I got my mailbox key! YAY! Finally! So feel free to send me letters and stuff! :) I really love that! Our heat/AC has still not been fixed, but that's the next thing to take care of. I am also on a hunt for a car. The Hillsong bus that used to pick people up and take them back to Rosa on Saturday nights for church no longer runs, so we are all left to fend for ourselves. Haha, it's quite interesting, but God always provides a ride, even if it means scrunching in an extra person or two than the car is supposed to hold. I am still looking for a car though, especially if I am going to move out here in Castle Hill for good.

I finally decorated my room the way I had planned to when I first got here...I hung up over 100 pictures on my walls! Well, I figured if they won't let me paint or nail anything into the walls, might as well do something fun with the bare white walls. I must say it looks pretty cool!!! I have pictures of family and friends and missions trips...so many kinds of pictures from so many different places, all in one room. It makes me happy! They make me laugh. I'll post a picture soon. I still don't have a bed, that's why I haven't taken a picture of my room yet, but I'm not sure when I'll be getting one, so I'll go ahead and take some pictures anyway.

I've been pretty sick this past week. I had a cold/sinus thing. It was MISERABLE, especially at first. The worst thing about it was I was going to school while I was sick, because if I didn't, I'd have to get a doctor's note, and I didn't want to go through all that. But I know where to go to the doctor now if I ever need to. There is a Hillsong Health Centre up the road a bit, so I can go there if I ever need to. But anyways, I am getting better now. I'm pretty much almost over it. I took it easy today. Rather than going out to Street Teams early this morning and doing choir tonight, I just rested (and went to the grocery store, beacause I desperately needed to. haha) and then attended church, which was AMAZING! It was about the power of speaking the Word. So good!

God is showing me so much about myself since I've been here. I am coming to realize how much I need Him, how much I need to know who I am in Him. People often say that they don't know who they are. Well, all you have to do is open the Bible. As a Christian, I am a child of God:

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. -1 John 3:1

I am an heir of God, and a co-heir with Jesus (basically, I have authority over evil, as God does. That's how significant this verse is!..notice though how it does say that we must suffer in order to share in His glory):

Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. -Romans 8:17

I am blessed:

Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven,whose sins are covered. -Psalm 32:1

I am new:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! -2 Corinthians 5:17

I am free from the bondage and chains of sin:

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. -Romans 8:1-2

I am beautiful:

I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well. -Psalm 139:14

I am the bride of Christ (basically, God loves me with a more perfect love than my husband will ever be able to):

...as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you. -Isaiah 62:5

I am made to resemble God:

...When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. -Genesis 5:1

I am free:

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir. -Galations 4:7

These are just a few things that I am as a Christian. The speaker tonight was saying how important it is to speak the Word over yourself. When you speak the Word in FAITH, you release the power of God. This may sound funny, but check out this verse:

The tongue has the power of life and death,... - Proverbs 18:21

What we say is so important. I am going to make it a point to speak these things over myself. Check out this promise:

God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? -Numbers 23:19

Many books transform, but the Word transforms. It's so cool for me to know that what God says is true. He never wavers. His character never changes. He never changes His mind. He doesn't go back on what He says. He knows how to keep a promise. The promises He made in the Bible are promises for our life. For example, Jeremiah 29:11:

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

Pheww, what a load off my shoulders. I don't have to figure out my future. God has it already planned. I just have to get closer to Him, day by day, so that I can hear Him clearly.



(P.S. I uploaded some videos: )