Just addressing the issue

Okay, this is going to be short and sweet because I have to go get ready for Church still. But I felt that this is a really important issue that we should all be aware of. Guys, we have to be so careful of cliques. They are so easy to see when you stand back and look at the Youth and/or when you're not in them. I know we're tight as a group, but we shouldn't let that make us cliquey and exclude others. Cliques are so easy to form, and they can really ruin Youth Groups.

I remember not liking Junior High Youth just for the reason of it being too cliquey. No one would dare to step out of their comfort zone to talk to me. Then when I went to Senior High I was amazed at how open the people were. That really made me want to go to Youth and as a result I have been drawn closer to God. Had it not been for those who weren't cliquey I may have not liked Senior High just like when I was in Junior High.

And do we not see enough cliques at school? Well, aren't we as Christians supposed to be different? I think I remember reading before that having good friends are fine, but we need to put our fists in and say "Break!" and split up to welcome other people. We have to be there to serve rather than to be served. All of our needs have been met. We should put others' needs before our own.

Due to my reorganized thoughts of this subject, I feel the best thing to do wouldn't be to pray against "cliques" (as I originally suggested). We should pray that we could be so filled with the Holy Spirit that we would reach out to others and show God's love to everybody.

Thanks for your time,
Sharilyn Christie

Dear Lord,
I thank you for this day. I thank you for my being able to see and to hear this morning. I'm blessed because you are a forgiving God and an understanding God. You have done so much for me and you keep on blessing me. Forgive me this day for everything I have done, said or thought that was not pleasing to you... I ask now for your forgiveness...

Please keep me safe from all danger and harm. Help me to start this day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude. Let me make the best of each and every day to clear my mind so that I can hear from you.

Please broaden my mind that I can accept all things you put in my path, whether blessings or hardship. Everything you put in my way is for your will. Lord, when the darkness closses in Lord please help me say "Blessed be your name"

Let me not whine and whimper about things I have no control over. Let me continue to see sin through God's eyes and acknowledge it as evil. And when I sin, let me repent, and confess with my mouth my wrongdoing, and receive the forgiveness of God.

And when this world closes in on me, let me remember Jesus' example -- to slip away and find a quiet place to pray. It's the best response when I'm pushed beyond my limits. I know that when I can't pray, you listen to my heart. Continue to use me to do your will.

Continue to bless me that I may be a blessing to others. Keep me strong that I may help the weak. Keep me uplifted that I may have words of Encouragement for others. I pray for those who are lost and can't find their way. I pray for those who are misjudged and misunderstood. I pray for those who don't know you intimately... I pray for those who don't believe. But I thank you that I believe.

I believe that God changes people and God changes things. I pray for all my sisters and brothers. For each and every family member in their households. I pray for peace, love and joy in their homes that they are out of debt and all their needs are met.

I pray that every eye that reads this knows there is no problem, circumstance, or situation greater than God. Every battle is in your hands for you to fight. I pray that these words be received into the hearts of every eye that sees them and every mouth that confesses them willingly...

This is my prayer. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Divide and Conquer! _Can you feel the love?

Hey guys and girls.

This is a superfast encouragment cuz I have a meeting I am suppost to be at right now at the table behind me but the other guy in it isn't here yet.

Anyway - I have to apologise because latly I have not been praying for you guys like I should have been. Is that encouragment? I don't know. Anyway I have had sosooooooosooooo much homework latly that when I got up in the morning I usaully ended up skipping/or sleeping through my "pray time" because I didn't have "enough time".
Then I remembered taht is exactly what Satan would want me to do. This has been rough last couple days for me. BUt I really want to keep praying for you guys so I am.

For you guys -keep [praying for each other - sometimes we get caught up in how bad things are going that we forget to pray.

GOt to go

Jon

FRIDAY NIGHT

Hey everyone, how are your days been going? Hopefully well. The church hockey game is playing a game on friday night at the Hamilton arena.( i think that is how you spell it) Anyway, my dad suggested that a bunch of us go over there after youth as we like to get together after anyway. But I will add more details after school. Info Pro work calls . . . well not really, but you know what I mean. Anyway just comment on what you guys and gals think of this. I know we are split up on Friday, but we can still meet after. Bye now.





*read comments for more info* and which cool people are coming to the after party!!*

Prayer Power !!!!!!

A while back Josh wrote me a letter with the title "Greetings from the front lines". Up untill a while back I was kinda dissapointed that I wasn't on the "front lines" - but I'm very wrong. There is a whole lot of work here that needs doing - and somebodies got to do it.

Yes, make no mistake PRBI is a good school. However it does have problems. Most people here probably don't think there problems, or they don't notice them, or they don't care, or they're worried about change.

I have been doing a lot of praying - for change. I feel kinda foolish thinking I can change a school all by myself - but if it's God changing a school than that's another thing. I asked God to change this school - and I now believe that he will.

This year, our stutdent Pres. had the goal of wanting to pop the PRBI BUBBLE. This "Bubble" is something that a lot of people have been complaining about - about how there's hardly anything "the school" does to reach the outside community.
So far not much has happened.
I have been praying that God will show me his will for me.
And he has shown me my first ministry option.
I NEED PRAYER!!!!
FOR THE FOLLOWING:

-The highschool here in SEXSMITH has a cult group trying to get started in it. I believe this is going to be like an ISCF group.
-The highschool (I have heard) has a Christian group
-pray for them, and for me:I would really like to find out about this group, and get involved to help them out.
-This town and highschool (I have heard) has a lot of Satanists. Pray that darkness will not prevail

IF you know me, than you know that I am an idea person. I have soooooo many ideas for our school and reaching the community.
- I am very lucky to have "connections" in this school. I have very good relationships with both the student body pres. and the Collage President (who use to pastor Hillsdale.
-Please pray that I can help them "pop the bubble" of PRBI, and get people motivated to actually CHANGE> or do whatever God wants this school to do.

WE HAVE SOOO MUCH POTENTIAL HERE!!!!!
unfortunaly, most people here seem to be "normal" CHristians. This "normal" that I'm talking about is not the biblical normal, but for the most part is SELF ORIENTED.

ME and a couple other guys here started a prayer group. We meet Mondays at lunch. We go on prayer walks, or just find somewhere to pray.
We put this is in the anouncements every Monday. You know what is SAD???
We are getting no more people showing up than any secular highschool does. On average we get about 6-8 people.
PLEASE PRAY ----- THAT WE WOULD PRAY.
Its kind of sad that I would have to ask you guys to do this, but this is exactly the thing that I want to see change.

THANKS A LOT___JONATHAN

Like wow! Kara you should so be a model!!! Love the hat!! He! He!

word.

so basically if anyone is on here and has not heard, you must come to my mom's house (163 McKee Cres.) at 8:30 tonight (thursday) for some movie action, and a possible trip to dairy queen...possibly...because apparently kara is working until 11, and wants us to visit her.
the end.

Sorry Everyone.

I need to apologize for my last post. The truth is, that I messed up. I deleted everything not so you can't see it. If you did read my post before, then you might know what I mean. Please read the article still it is powerful.

I'm sorry because I get really passionate sometimes about my God- this is good, for the most part, but when I don't think before I talk, and when I don't think Biblically - Bad things can happen. I think this was one of those times. I felt really stupid - like a Pharisee. I was talking about the two great commandments, and I (felt like I) was pushing "the Law" on you guys, when I myself am very far from perfect. Just like a Pharisee.

Anyway, what I was trying to do was question the way we do our faith. We are not obligated as Christians to "follow the Law", but out of Love for God, we should walk in complete purity - in the light - with the Spirit, and LOVE each other, just as Jesus did.

If we truly do this -the whole chruch of North America (you guys from SEMP know what I'm saying) WE WILL RADICALLY IMPACT AND CHANGE THE WORLD.


I will rethink my post about the "Israelites of the 21st century" and let you all in on this thing later. Untill then - Simply love.


"You are my friends if you do what I command." John 15:14

"This is my command: Love each other." John 15:17




If you guys have time, please pray for me in two ways:

-Please pray that I may be wise in words. This is an issue I have been stuggling with a whole lot lately. I feel like I TALK WAY TOO MUCH. I somehow think sometimes that I have a whole lot of wise and intelligent things to say. Sometimes I may have something smart/wise to say, but it definately is not all the time, and so I end up either feeling like a idiot or making myself actually look like an idiot.


-For some reason lately I have been getting very little homework done - I am in the middle of reading break and I am really not looking forward to getting MORE homework come next week. Please pray that I work very productivly and get ALL my work done this week so I won't die of homework phobia soon.

Thanks a lot
Love you all
- Jonathan

It's Time for a Revolution OF LOVE.

Everyone Please Read This Article:
http://www.charismamag.com/a.php?ArticleID=11707

Hey guys

I'm back in Regina for the week, because we have a week off. How is life going with you guys? Hey Randy I hear you are coming back next week and that Thomas was back for last week. That is kind of funny. What time are you getting here Randy? Well if I don't see any of you guys because there is a quiz meet this weekend and I will be there and not church then have an incredible year and be really friendly to everyone. God BLess all.

The Authority of Truth (Oswald Chambers)

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you —James 4:8

It is essential that you give people the opportunity to act on the truth of God. The responsibility must be left with the individual— you cannot act for him. It must be his own deliberate act, but the evangelical message should always lead him to action. Refusing to act leaves a person paralyzed, exactly where he was previously. But once he acts, he is never the same. It is the apparent folly of the truth that stands in the way of hundreds who have been convicted by the Spirit of God. Once I press myself into action, I immediately begin to live. Anything less is merely existing. The moments I truly live are the moments when I act with my entire will.
When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood— work it into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf. We come up to the truth of God, confess we are wrong, but go back again. Then we approach it again and turn back, until we finally learn we have no business going back. When we are confronted with such a word of truth from our redeeming Lord, we must move directly to transact business with Him. "Come to Me . . ." ( Matthew 11:28 ). His word come means "to act." Yet the last thing we want to do is come. But everyone who does come knows that, at that very moment, the supernatural power of the life of God invades him. The dominating power of the world, the flesh, and the devil is now paralyzed; not by your act, but because your act has joined you to God and tapped you in to His redemptive power.

From My Utmost for His Highest

Matthew 9:9-13 (NIV)

As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector's booth. "Follow me," he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him.
While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners'?"
On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but the sinners."

If you can feed five thousand men with a couple fish and a few loaves of bread, can you not feed the hearts of my whole school through only a few servants?!

I have some amazingly awesome fantastic great news!!!!!
For all of you who were praying for our family Friend Tyler Grayson last year especially. On Friday October 25th at Promise Keepers He became a CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh Praise tha Lord that he answered our prayers!!!!!! I just thought I'd share that Praise item with you to let you know that all your prayers were appreciated and answered!!!! Here's Tylers first picture after he had became a Christian:



PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!