{"id":276,"date":"2007-01-13T04:21:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T09:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=276"},"modified":"2007-01-13T04:21:38","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T09:21:38","slug":"my-yea-god-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"my &#8220;yea God&#8221; week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m not surprised but have just gotta say dude, God is AWESOME! He made Himself so completely known to me this week with all of the Greatness He&#8217;s bestowed upon me. i just used the word bestowed &#8211; you have gotta KNOW that God has been working. yes, this is post completely bragging about how Great my God is to me. but really&#8230; it is a week wrap-up. I just happened to have had a frickin&#8217; fantastic week.<br \/>\n~<br \/>\n1. You all know I&#8217;m going on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crystalrenaud.com\/africa.htm\">mission to Africa in March<\/a> &#8211; I say it all the time&#8230; hehe. Because I am not going as <a href=\"http:\/\/westsidefamilychurch.com\/leaders\/leaders_index.htm\">staff<\/a> but as a participant, I need to be raising about $3000 for it. It had seemed like I had exhausted my resources in effort to do so with just very little return (some but not much) and the last couple weeks have just been discouraging to my heart&#8230; going weeks with no word from anyone. Went to the Father and asked, &#8220;Dude, are You sure You&#8217;re sending me, my pockets are empty and I am weary &#8220;&#8230; well God is awesome and has answered my cry. Then i was reminded of my New Year&#8217;s theme, &#8220;trust without fear, walk without pride&#8221;. I have had to be broken and surrender my discouragement and have FAITH. Well&#8230; here&#8217;s the yea God part, over just the last few days I&#8217;ve received a total of $530 in financial support for my mission to Africa. &#8220;cricket cricket&#8221; &#8230; There are not even words to describe how amazing this is. I am SO overwhelmed with God&#8217;s love. When speaking to one of my supporters on the phone I couldn&#8217;t even keep myself composed. I was crying. Thankful. Overwhelmed. Yea GOD!!! Another supporter confided in me that he\/she doesn&#8217;t tithe but that they wanted to give toward the mission&#8230;. dang&#8230; that&#8217;s awesome.<\/p>\n<p>(I am still about $2000 short from the total due but adding in what my mom has committed I have enough for my deposit next week&#8230; hot dang!! it&#8217;s amazing. God is SO good)<\/p>\n<p>2. Worship team auditions were once again held. Yes, even if we are already on team, we all have to re-audition. In some ways I HATE this but in other ways, I totally get it. It evens the playing ground, so to speak. Well, for once I didn&#8217;t pick a safe song. I would generally pick a safe song, go up there, sing pretty, and go back to my seat, but not this time. God laid on my heart a song that I used to LOVE and reminded me of my dear old friend, Grant Mong (my very first youth pastor from when I was 15). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/wp-content\/01-more-than-youll-ever-know-demo.mp3\">CLICK HERE<\/a> to listen to the original recording by Watermark. Although I flubbed a few of the words &#8211; I felt like I sang exactly what I was supposed to sing and in a way, dedicated it to a man who invested in my life unlike anyone ever has. I felt SO on. I felt like I did the trio ensemble well too. Well enough to be asked back&#8230; YIPPEE!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>3. In a time when I&#8217;ve felt quite mediocre about my design abilities, God has brought folks out of the woodwork to encourage me this week. through being offered 2 different freelance design jobs &#8211; just this week alone. Both of which are completely NEW for me. City-wide mailings for the more secular market (a dental office &#038; a photography studio). More info on these when I finish them. One of these 2 clients may want to use me for all of their on-going promotion.<\/p>\n<p>4. I&#8217;ve found my tears. You may not think that is a &#8220;Yea God!&#8221; but it totally is. I am finally emotional again. Not emotional in a PMS or grieving way (that never left)&#8230; but emotional in a worshipping God, <a href=\"http:\/\/dynamic.abc.go.com\/streaming\/landing#\">a TV show<\/a> (the 1\/11 episode of Grey&#8217;s), or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2007-01-12-boys-okay_x.htm?csp=34\">a positive news report<\/a> can bring me to streaming tears kind of way. When I was first saved some 6 years ago &#8211; I was this way &#8211; and my mom is this way. And I&#8217;ve missed having these strong emotions.<\/p>\n<p>5. God has broken my personal temptation and brought into my life incredible new accountability&#8230; and continues to use the faithful in my life.<\/p>\n<p>6. Gettin&#8217; healthy in 2007 has begun. I have returned to doing Pilates on Tuesday\/Thursday and have even invited some staff ladies to join me. We&#8217;re going to start doing that <em>together<\/em> some time in the next few weeks. Signed up for Weight-Watchers online. This is the year of change and restoration. Physically, Mentally, Emotionally and above all, Spiritually.<\/p>\n<p><strong>God doing something in your life?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(oh and I see you and you haven&#8217;t changed your blogroll linkage yet&#8230; tsk, tsk&#8230; hehe)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m not surprised but have just gotta say dude, God is AWESOME! He made Himself so completely known to me this week with all of the Greatness He&#8217;s bestowed upon me. i just used the word bestowed &#8211; you have gotta KNOW that God has been working. yes, this is post completely bragging about how&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=276\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">my &#8220;yea God&#8221; week<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,23,45,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","category-crazy-weekends","category-personal-growth","category-what-the","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}