Colors of Fall

Fall is here, the trees are changing colors and if it isnt really raining its raining leaves its so beautiful but it really makes me miss home. Today is one of those days where you just want to cuddle up with someone you love and watch movies or read a book and drink tea and eat chicken noodle soup. I miss home. God is so faithful though, He knows exactly when I need another family fix and He is sending my mom all the way from Peru here to Germany to visit for 10 days. But until she gets here God reminds me that He is my home, my shelter, yes my hideaway. How sweet He is. Thank you Father!

meditate:
love is patient.
love is kind.
love does not envy.
love does not boast.
love is not proud.
love is not rude.
love is not self-seeking.
love is not easily angered.
love keeps no record of wrongs.
love doe not delight in evil.
love rejoices in the truth.
love always protects.
love always trusts.
love always hopes.
love always perseveres.
love never fails.

Jesus Christ is ENOUGH!

this is a lesson the Lord is teachine me. he is enough if i will just allow him to be. how will i experince that enoughness unless i stop looking in other things and allow him to fill the void and longing in my heart. he is so faithful to meet when i show up and give him the opportunity. in class last night i learned a relationship with jesus only gets better and better the deeper you decide to go. show up give him a chance to be everything.

Trip to Heidelberg was amazing, the Lord gave us great weather and everyone had a fun time. Intern Girls (Christy, Lydia, and Michelle)
Crazy Matt

Tuukka, Vince, and Barber

Chillin in the shade

Heidelberg

Chiara Mai and Jessica

My Finnish friend Jaakko

Arne and Julia

hey hey, this week is coming to an end but the crazyness isnt going to end for awhile. The Lord is opening many doors for ministry but honeslty this outward man is getting really worn out. I would greatly appreciate your prayers. This next week is going to be super busy for me. On top of the practical things I have to do here I will be teaching my first bible college class next thursday and I need to study for that. We are going on a class trip early tomorrow morning to a city called Heidelberg, Ill post pics when I get a chance. On Sunday we are going for the first time to Dusseldorf to minister with the church there, please pray the Lord will do amazing things. Thanks all for you prayer and love. Misheru San

"For the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught." Proverbs 3:26

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths." Proverbs 3:5-6

"For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation." Psalm 149:9

Love Much,
Michelle

This week has been so crazy and it is only half way over. We are getting ready for all the new students to get here, a lot of them are already here. Lots to do, thats for sure. The Lord is so faithful however, I have been so strengthened and encouraged. Going into this week I was asking the Lord what He was doing placing me here, I felt so incapable of doing the work that is set before me, which of course is true but He reminded me that HE called me and He doesnt not expect me and will not allow me to do it all on my own. I have been so encouraged through the book of 2 Corinthians lately, such a good book about ministry! In 3:5 it says, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our suficiency is from God." Then later 9:8 "And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every work."
I am blessed to have these promises from the Lord because there is a lot to do this semester. I will be working for the registar, Ben Viscarra mostly. I will also be helping in the coffeeshop, cooking dinners (hahahaha) , and most amazing of all I will be helping lead a missions trip to Dusseldorf, Germany!!! How crazy, I have been praying about going there for a while now and God is so amazing and wise I cant wrap my mind around His goodness and sweetness to me.
Thank you all for your prayers and for stopping by to read what is happening in my life, maybe sometime soon I will put pics up. Please continue to pray the Lord would empty me of myself and give me the heart of a servant and that He would give all of us the strength to get ready for the semester, that He would also unify us as a team.
In my devos this morning I read a most amazing Psalm, 107 I was vastly encouraged.
"Oh , that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness."
much love, Michelle

New Intern Girl, Kristy that came yesterday. Me and Wendy went to pick her up from the airport in Frankfurt then we went out to eat yummy German food! Good times

Police Officer Michelle

Probably most of you hae heard about the big earthquake in Peru my family is fine as far as I know, please pray for the people of Peru and espeically that the Lord would use our church to reach out to them in this time when they are hurting. I think they sent a team to help the people affected by it. The Lord uses all things for good...

I cant sleep because there is a thunderstorm and I wanted to watch it so I decided to post the pics of the Christafari concert. Lots of fun dancing, learned some new moves :)

Christafari She was so beautiful and she sang really good too.
Girl bass player!

For Jason

Bike Accident

This is for you Shannon, since you cant be here. Sorry I didnt have anyone there to take a pic of me lying in the middle of the street!! This is pretty much all the excitement Michelle has seen in days...except tomorrow night Christifari is coming to do a concert should be pretty sweet, and they are staying at the Villa...Ill have to spy on them and take pics. Shan, member when Bleach came and I was so excited? If you were here you would be hearing about this too and we would have fun.

On a spiritual note the Lord continues to show me His goodness...how blown away I am that He desires to bless me so much...can one vessel contain so much blessing? I dont think so....its meant to be poured out onto others. The Lord along with blessing is giving me opportunity to minister to several young girls...please pray for my new friend who works at the Halle, she is working there for a couple weeks. Honestly, she grieves me. I want her to give her all to Jesus to really experience Him, I dont know if she has even tasted yet. Please pray the Lord would give me words to speak to her and that her heart would be soft soil ready to receive the word and bear fruit. I am learning more about the sacrificial, and unconditional love of our savior. Even when we were sinners Christ died for us, when we were dark and enemies He still came to us and pursused us I am now beginning to understand a little more...and it blows my mind. Thanks for your prayers, please pray for my toe...it hurts :) With Agape, Michelle

One of my favorite verses in the Bible is Matthew 13:44, "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."

We are God's treasure, how amazing He joyfully sold all He had in order that we could be His purchased possession, that He saw us as something He greatly desired.

"But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light." 1 Peter 2:9

"Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:2

Beyond amazing, no words to express the greatness of His love for us. If we could just grasp and understand a little more everyday, know the depth, height, width, length of His love for us (Ephesians 3). Is that not our purpose? To love and be loved by Him? Oh Jesus cause us to understand and to live in light of that!

Matisyahu Jerusalem

Te quiero Papi!

Lovely Köln trip. Anne and her daughters Ida and Johanna invited me to go on their annual shopping/sightseeing trip to Cologne this year. I was spoiled.

Fight the good fight of faith...

In my devos I am kinda reading about Joshua and all the battles of the Israelites as they come into the Promised Land. No wonder the Lord told Joshua in the very first chapter not to be afraid nor dismayed because there were a lot of armys and cities to fight. It always amazes me how many times the Israelites in history have been way outnumbered by their enemies but they (almost) always gained victory. It is so easy to just read through it and think, "it was so easy for them" or to think "they werent afraid, this isnt as real as the things that are happening in my life" but the truth is there battles were crazy, they really were facing, living breathing men that wanted to kill them. They really had to be brave and courageous, and place all of their confidence in the Lord because their lives were at stake. I wonder if we take our battles as serious? Paul tells the Ephesians, "we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers..." Our battle is just as real and maybe the stakes are even higher for us than they were for Joshua and the Israelites. How much more should be place our confidence in the Lord, to not be afraid and walk as soldiers. Be encouraged, the command to not be afraid is always accompanied with the promise of the Lord's presence. We are assured victory because He fights our battles and not us.

One other thing I want to point out about Joshua that I absolutely love (!!!) is before he was even made a commander or a leader he was continually in the Lord's presence. During Moses time when they set up the tent of meeting, Exodus 33:11 says that Joshua never departed from the tent. I love that about Him and I desire that same heart, no wonder God called him to be a leader of His people! True faith and courage comes from knowing whom you serve and that HE is able and will do what He has said.

Picture is my tough fighting face, haha...I really do have too much free time...but I am going to Cologne tomorrow..THAnk you JESUS!!!

Say unto my soul...fix your eyes on Jesus.

"But hold fast what you have till I come." Revelation 2:25

Some of the girls God has put in my life so far, they are a huge blessing...they make my heart full.

Homesickness....could it be that I long for something deeper than just the houses I grew up in or the family I am so close to? Could it be that I am longing for the home that I have never actually been to, the home that is awaiting me? My heart longs for the cozy arms of my heavenly father, the comfort of completely being myself, of knowing where I am, who I am, and that I belong. When will you come for me dear Lord?

John 14:1-3"Let not your heart be troubled...I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am there you may be also."

"Beloved, I beg you as sojourers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul..." 1 Peter 2:11

"By faith he (Abraham) dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob...for he waited for the city which has foundations whose builder and maker is God." Hebrews 11

"For our citizenship is in Heaven from which we also eagerly wait fot the savior, the Lord Jesus Christ." Philippians 3:20