Birthday Bash Love

On this day 21 one years ago a baby girl was born and that was me! haha!To be honest it didn't feel like I would ever become 21, but in the blink of an eye it came. 

I just want to take the time to say thank you to all those who showered me with love on my birthday! We went to a Filipino restaurant and had had fellowship there. So blessed by so many people in my life that took me in and loved on me during my early college years. I don't know what my journey in Korea would have been like without them! Also thank you for all the family and friends around the world who posted on my wall, skyped me, and sent packages on my special day. I am thankful that God allowed us to cross paths on this journey and I pray a double fold of blessing on your special day :) Love you all! 

Here are a few pictures at my party. 

They got me boots that I have been wanting!

My amazing leaders 

Some of the gifts that were given to me
on my special day.

Special thanks to Melody Welton 

for taking pictures :)

Karios Retreat

For weeks, no let me correct myself, for months the Emmaus staff and student leaders (along with the faithful intercessors and volunteer staff of New Philadelphia Church) have been preparing for the Fall semester’s 2012 Emmaus retreat. They decided to call it Karios because they believed it was God’s appointed time with each of us! With so much preparation and prayer that has gone into this event there was no way that God wasn’t going to show himself.  I myself got set free from things I didn’t even know I had to be set free from! It was incredible. God spoke into my life so powerfully that weekend and was healing me from many hurts I personally didn’t even see I was hurting. He is good!Here's a glimpse of the Kairos Retreat. :)

Overwhelmed No more!

These past few weeks have been a whirlwind of activities; from retreats to rush week events and moving in and getting settled. I knew there was something special about this semester, I could just feel it! Ok I know that every semester it’s special, but I knew this semester was going to be a lot crazier than it was that past term. It started off pretty well; I got to know new students and bonded with old ones. I always get a rush of excitement at the beginning of every semester cuz there’s so many people to get to know!! So being the natural sanguine that I am automatically got all giddy about spending time with all of them!! I FINALLY met someone who loved to sing Disney songs with me all the time! (Shout out to my Disney buddy Lian!) It was great. Nothing much to worry about at the beginning of the semester and more over there wasn’t much school to do during the first month.

            All of it was going well until I found out that I was given a new set of roles this semester. I won’t go into detail, but let’s just say that it was something I didn’t even see coming. I remember even before finding out I told God that “I would do everything that is given to me in excellence.” thinking that it was something that I had an idea of. God knew where to put me during this season even though I didn’t. After finding out, I talked to my fellow student leaders about how I felt about it and they encouraged me breaking off all the lies that the enemy was throwing at me that I was not capable of where I was put and that I was going to feel separated from the rest of Emmaus. I felt a little better about it.

The next day at church Pastor Erin preached a bomb message about feeling overwhelmed. She took the passage from Deuteronomy 1:9-18 and spoke about the time where the Israelites were about to enter the Promise Land. At the beginning of the passage Moses was feeling burdened because the Israelites have increased in number. Basically Moses was feeling overwhelmed with the responsibility that God has called him to. At this point the Israelites were making Moses feel overwhelmed to the point of death. Pastor Erin continued by asking us how we would deal with things if we were ever overwhelmed; and she went on by saying that first of all we shouldn’t let the revelation of who God is be moved. She says that when we feel overwhelmed we are tempted to feel like God has abandoned us. During those times it is our flesh-like mentality that we automatically let our circumstance dictate who God is, when who God is should dictate our circumstance. Depending on what season we are in we tend to define God according to how we feeling during that season. If life is good then God is a good God. If we go through hard times God is a God who abandons us etc… “God should change our circumstance, not our circumstance should change who God is.” She continued to say. And the reason why Moses actually felt overwhelmed was because God fulfilled His promise to Abraham (verse 10). The truth is some of the things we are complaining about are actually a result of God’s blessing over our lives. Moses was in a sense promoted into a different level yet he is asking God to kill him because he couldn’t handle it. And honestly the reason why Moses felt that way was because he was so insecure about whether or not he can do what God has called him to do.

As I listened to the sermon I began to reflect on what was going on in my own heart. The reason why I was feeling too overwhelmed was because I felt insecure about my own abilities of what they were asking me to do. I didn’t see things from God’s perspective and where He wanted to take me this semester. That Sunday I cried my eyes out during service just trusting God for this next season. Even though I don’t know anything I knew one thing’s for sure. I wasn’t going to let my circumstance dictate my God.

So for those of you out there who feels overwhelmed at your current situation, be reminded that it’s because of God’s blessing in your life. So don’t grumble at your situation asking Him why He has given you such things, but rather let God define you circumstance. God gives us God sized dreams. When we walk with Him, He will naturally bring us through a door we are not ready for.  Would we rather go back to what we are comfortable in, what we have become an expert in, than allowing Him to lead the way down a road full of adventures? God is engaging us to have relationship with Him. So an encouragement to all of you out there feeling overwhelmed, be overwhelmed no more! 

He's got His own plans

This semester has been incredible! I honestly could not have imagined what this semester would have looked like at the beginning. When God appears He really does! So many testimonies were birth from this semester. Countless encounters with God, with salvations that were happening left and right.

At the beginning of the semester I remembered looking around the restaurant that we were all having dinner at and just saying "God, just wow me." Here I am 4 months later jaw dropped and still digesting everything that has happened. God is so good!! He does take us above our own expectation on what we think this life should look like.

I know my last few post has been about how amazing this semester has been and my writing has been pretty general. But thankfully now that I am on break I have some time to get into the details!! 

First of all before I go into the story I just want to say that God really does know what He is doing. And last year when I was learning about evangelizem through Rona, I had no clue what the semester ahead had for me.

I began the semester flying from the Philippines and straight to the dorms from the airport. I wasn't as scared as I used to be compared to the past two semesters where I had no clue how to get there. To be honest I was pretty chill because I got used to how things were in college. I wasn't terrified of making decisions let alone carrying all my luggage from the bus stop to the dorms. I have strategically learned the fastest and easiest way to get around my university as well. So at this point I had nothing to worry about. All I was looking forward to is finally seeing all my friends.

Upon moving into the dorms I met my roommate. She just woke up and I felt terrible for walking into our room at 6 in the morning. We introduced ourselves, she told me her name was Madeline. Ironically enough she looked a lot like the little French girl named Madeline too. She seemed nice and not bothered at the fact I disturbed her so early in the morning. We asked questions back and forth for a good half an hour when she had to get ready to leave and I decided to take a nap. 

As I got to know my dear roommate the more I grew fond of her. I liked her quiet personality (which I thought) and just her openness to new ideas. I knew she wasn't a Christian from the stories she told me. And she knew I was because I would be up early Sunday morning and gone for the rest of the day.  In the weeks that followed I felt lead to just pray for her. Nothing like "God please get her saved." or anything like that, but just prayers of blessing her through her day. I continued to invite her to Emmaus rush week gatherings like dinner, shopping and of course Emmaus. She came to the first meeting saying she would give it a try but had to leave early because of a previous engagement. I was sort of disappointed because Pastor Erin spoke such a powerful word! 

I still encouraged her to go to the next one and to my surprise was actually excited to go. She told me everyone there was so nice and friendly so she definitely. wanted to give it another try. 

It was two weeks before the retreat where I started getting anxious. I wanted Madeline to go to our New Wine retreat and for some reason I thought that she just needed to be saved before going. I was making plans for praying and fasting for her the week of the retreat so that God will move in her heart to be saved so that she could go! As many of you know most of our plans aren't exactly God plans. He's got His own plans.

So the week before my fast Madeline goes to our second Emmaus meeting. I sat next to her during the meeting assuring her of a bit of comfort in the new environment. We had worship and a powerful word was given by Pastor Marcus on Psalm 23. Then an alter call was made for those who feel like that sheep that has forgotten about their Shepherd and Pastor Marcus asked the staff and student leaders to pray over the students that stood up. It was an amazing time where students began to open their hearts back to their Shepherd. In the middle of praying for people I totally lost track of what happened to Madeline. It wasn't until I looked around the room and saw her in a corner with Rona. I saw Rona whispering something to Madeline's ear and Madeline repeating it. In my head I was confused yet I knew exactly what was happening. Did Madeline really accept Christ at her first Emmaus meeting? Later on she told me that she was just drawn to everything Pastor Marcus was saying and that she wanted that for herself. 

I was so amazed to see what God was already doing before I even tried to do anything. It was crazy for me to think that it was up to me for her to accept Christ. I know we could do things and lead them to Christ, but it was never up to me that things happened the way they did. I never even got to fast for her! God was moving in her heart before she even met me. She would tell me story after story that lead her heart open to Christianity and why that night was the perfect night for her to get saved. 

I was so blessed that God allowed her to come into my life. Her growth this semester really opened my eyes to things I heard over and over again in my Christian walk. Having her as my roommate also challenged me in different aspects of my life. She looked at Scripture with such hunger and curiosity. And encouraged me and people around her as an overflow of her relationship with Christ. Just seeing her growth was such a joy for me, to see a life totally transformed by His love. I am so thankful that God put her in my life and I wouldn't have it any other way! I love you Madeline!! You shine for Him wherever you go!

*Madeline's experience that night and during 
The New Wine retreat from here blog right here!

Exceeding Greatness

 I find it hilarious that God knows the perfect season for everything. In this season of my life God has given me the opportunity to become a student leader at Emmaus. At first I wasn’t sure if it was where He wanted me to be this point in my life. Because I honestly thought I wasn’t ready to lead other students. So I thought long and hard about it, and alongside as getting encouragements from the Emmaus leaders as well as confirmations from the Lord that I finally knew that it was where He wanted me to be.

In the beginning I remembered thinking “What did I get myself into? I don’t know what I am doing!  I don’t even feel like I got my life all together, how can I be a student leader and lead other students if I don't know what I am doing!?” but then I remembered sometime last year one of the Emmaus staff named Matt Ko said that leadership isn’t a title but rather being an influence. Holding on those words of truth I gave no more thought to the deception that was seeping through my mind. Along with other edifying words from all the staff, I finally had accept that they knew what they were doing when they asked me to become a student leader.
I'm going to admit it was difficult at first. I had to learn the concept of being one with all the other student leaders. I had to learn to work with each one of them. With different personalities in such a small group it was going to be interesting to see how we would interact and communicate with one another.

A few weeks after getting to know each other better and only getting a glimpse of what God was going to do that semester, we were faced with different challenges as a group. We knew the semester was going to be amazing, we knew God was going to move, but when midterms hit I think we all felt the blow of academics and ministry at the same time.  It was hard to hold on to His promises when we felt like we couldn’t balance anything, and we didn’t have enough time to study and hang out with other students.

            It wasn’t until we were asked to listen to “Exceeding Greatness” by Pastor Benjamin that gave me a new perspective on looking at my current situation. He talked about how we always had greatness in us through Christ. When we accepted Jesus into our hearts He has already put that greatness inside of us. Its just that we don't see it manifest until maturity. I kinda thought of it as an inheritance. When we were born into our families we always had an inheritance. Just cuz we didn't see it when we were younger doesn't mean that we never had it. It is over time when we mature that our inheritance is given to us. That's the way I kinda pictured it in my head. Pastor Benjamin also said a lot of great things in the sermon, but one thing I loved was when he talked about the power within us is far greater than what we are currently going through. That set me completely free from what I was going through. Pastor Benjamin at one point asked "Do you wake up every morning knowing that you have exceeding greatness?" This made me realize that I wasn't expecting God to do great things. I got so caught up in what I was going through right now that I didn't bother to expect amazing things that were yet to come. "Yesterday's ceiling is today's floor" this basically means that what we experienced yesterday should be the floor expectation of what today is going to look like. We need to EXPECT God to do great things through us. We need to know that His power is inside of us and that we really do have the authority to do the things He has called us to do.

This podcast was exactly what I needed. I feel that there were many times I was tested in my position as a leader. Many times I felt discouraged because I didn’t feel like I was capable to make and sort of difference in given situations. Not only that I would question if I could even say the right things at that time. But after listening to this sermon I was totally set free. It encouraged me to know that I had greatness living in me. In one of my favorite movies “Megamind” the main quote was “You were destined for greatness”. That’s true to a certain extent but the truth is there is greatness already in each and every one of us, through Christ. Knowing that as I grow the greatness inside of me will manifest more and more excites me! Not only that, all the fear I had about not making a difference fell to the ground. Knowing that I lack nothing and I have access to all and more of what Jesus did in this world.  (John 14:12) The power that conquered the grave lives within me! (Romans 8:11) It is this living breathing truth that allows me not to be shaken in the midst of hard times, but rather will arise and shine!

After shifting my mindset I was able to see my daily tasks as a blessings rather than something I could get frustrated over because it added to another pile on my to-do-list. I had exceeding greatness inside of me, what more did I need? :)

Pastor Benjamin's Exceeding Greatness Podcast right here.

New Wine Retreat

This year's Emmaus retreat was at the end of March this semester. One month into school and we already had our retreat. It was much earlier than what I was used to, but there were many advantages to it having it at that time. Anyways I could write a thousand pages worth of testimonies on my blog about what happened that particular weekend, but sometimes seeing it for yourself is much better. So I'll just show the recap video of our retreat :)

Last thing I want to say about it  was that many things were broken off people,  identities were established, friendships were made, people were set free and most of all God's love was felt. Click here for the New Wine Retreat Recap Video :)

From Glory to Glory

It says in the Word in 2 Corinthians 3:18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

In the KJV ever increasing glory is also phrased as "from glory to glory". 

The verse basically says says we as His body will be transformed to His image and He will take is from glory to ever increasing glory. And well our Campus ministry has become a living testimony of that Word. God has just been taking us from glory to glory!!

His truly has a heart for the youth and revival on campus. We have just been increasing in so many aspects!! One aspect is the number of students that attend. Last semester we used to have 30-40 students come out and it always fluctuated throughout the semester. If they hear a good speaker was coming the numbers would go up, but if they had a lot of workload or if it was during midterm week the numbers would go down. Well that was last year and this year we are in a new DISPENSATION! Each week this semester we have been seeing our numbers grow from the beginning of the semester with a number of  around 30 students to having around almost 70 students come out each week is pretty crazy! 

Not only that we always have prayer meetings before large group and we saw a few people come out to that last year but every week we break the record when we had 29 people come out we were so excited but a few weeks ago we had 40! Can you imagine a group of 40 students before large group just praying and interceding for their peers? It just blows my mind away how God is just so good to us.

Emmaus Large Group at a church outside campus
Taken by Judy Choi

Not only that, but we have been having issues about getting a permanent room for our large group. So each week we would move from one location to another. As disappointed as we were at the beginning of it all we just knew that God was setting us up! We knew that the room we used to stay in could no longer hold the increase we were about to get. So in faith we just moved according to where the Lord lead. All throughout April we could keep the room we were in but after that we were on our own. We had a lot of difficulty finding a room that could match the normal time we have in Emmaus and many other things that lead us not to have a room. But God ALWAYS provided last min for us. The first week we were able to get a room by a church out of campus who's campus ministry who usually meets there happened to go on a field trip that particular week. And that was a powerful night where Pastor Erin preached about  A New Dispensation. Which was just the beginning of my heart and mind stirring towards a new direction.

The week after that God lead us to the campus gym building and that was when Pastor Benjamin Robinson (Pastor Christian and Erin's spiritual father) came to our Large group and ministered in such a powerful way; and the Holy Spirit came down and manifested on so many students. 

All that to conclude that God is truly moving here again this semester. I honestly couldn't believe that He would take us to where we are now. I remember last year loving it so much that I couldn't imagine what it would be like for God to take us to the next glory. Yet here we are again just in awe of how amazing He is. He is truly a God that can't be put in a box. He is a God full of surprises, adventure, and excitement! 

Let it Begin

The first month into the semester can be pretty crazy. It feels like holding your breath and plunging into the water. It can get a bit out of hand sometimes, but I always love new things :) Getting to know people, hanging out with them, trying to remember their names and all that. In my opinion its one of the best times! Just cuz its an awesome opportunity to make new friends. I love how everything is new and fresh. You make new connections to see of you know someone who knows someone and knows that person. It can be quite interesting. I personally like doing that just to see how small the world really is. Another addition to this beginning is the fact we don't have that much work to do since it's the beginning of the school year!!

It's all so exciting. But for some reason I felt weird this time around. I'm not sure what it was. Maybe I was jet lagged (which is highly unlikely cuz the Philippine is only an hour difference from Korea) or not fully liking how cold it was in Korea. I don't know the real reason. Like I explained in my previous posts I didn't feel anything. I felt like I was going through the motions. None of the things I used to do last semester seemed to work. The way I talked to people, the way I tried to spend time with them, the way I even communicated with God was different. I used to walk around the campus especially around the forest just talking to Him and I would hear what He wanted to say to me for that day. But this time around when I would walk I couldn't hear His voice. Instead I would get these flashbacks of my freshman year around the same time.

I was so uncomfortable with the change. I know I said I like new things and I do get pumped up about it but it's the feeling that comes after that makes me uneasy. As fun as the new things are, accepting them as the new reality is a totally different story.

Getting used to everything new can be such a challenge, but it's always setting me up for something more :) 

Rush Week

So these next few blog posts are going to be about what has been happening in Emmaus and in my life these past few months. So keep that in mind while you read the next few :)

While I was still in the Philippines during my winter break our campus ministry, Emmaus, began our per semester event called Rush Week. It's basically a schedule of different events during the week such as shopping, dinner, and different hang out activities to get to know the new students for the semester. They actually started rush week before I got back, so I missed a few events to meet up with the new kids. But when I came home I immediately got on the rush week wheel and was looking forward to meeting a whole bunch of new people!

It was dinner that night at one of my favorite restaurants. I was so excited to see the staff and all of my friends from the past semester. I remembered looking around the room seeing so many new faces, and behind each face was a story that may have not been read before. Others might have torn beginnings that would rather not revisit, others could have had a good beginning, and middle; some might still have pages of hardships that they are still currently living. But one thing I was sure of, I knew that each of those books would have an incredible chapter that will change the turn of events in their lives.

They might have seem like normal college students wanting to find a place to eat with a bunch of people that night. No matter what their reason was, God knew what their journey was going to be like this coming semester. I feel like I was tempted to look at them at where they are and settle for what I saw in the natural. But I had to shift my way of thinking and know that God is more powerful than anything, any of these students are going through. I know that just like He broke through many things in my life my freshman year (and continuing to do so) He is the same God that can break through for everyone I saw at that restaurant.

So the next time I see someone going through a hard time, I shouldn't look at their current state but rather look at them through the eyes of the Father. Who knows what He can do in such a short period of time? :)

Streams of Living Water

For the past few weeks I have been getting visions of different sources of water over and over again. Two that stuck out in particular. The first one kept coming up constantly for the past few weeks. The vision began with a small cup then it poured water out into a bigger bowl then that bowl poured water out to a bigger bowl and the same thing occurred until the fourth bowl that eventually flowed into a river. I had no idea what this meant, but crazy enough God reminded me that Sarah Won (one of the Emmaus leaders) prayed a similar prayer over me about a year ago.

She prayed that I would ask God for a bigger bowl so that He can fill it. She said that He has more for me to experience, more that He wants to share. Back then I wasn't sure what all that was about, but now looking back it started making sense. God did take me from glory to ever increasing glory. But as for this semester I was still confused why I kept getting repetitive signs about rivers. 

Another vision I had was the gates of Heaven opening up and mighty wave flowing out of it. Even during our week long prayer meeting I kept getting visions of rivers. At first I thought that it was just God's way of telling me not to forget my theme verse for this year.

"All my springs are in you." Psalms 87:7b 

But that wasn't the only thing He was getting at.

When I first read this I took it as everything that gives me life is in Him. I knew that He was the source of my existence. All the life that flows out of me comes from Him. This verse was revealed to me before I came back to Korea to begin my Spring semester this year. I knew for a fact that amazing things are going to happen, but I just wasn't sure what this season was going to look like. So even before this chapter of my life was about to begin I knew seeing rivers were a huge part of it. I was also reminded that rivers symbolized the Holy Spirit. So just thinking about the overflow of the Holy Spirit on our campus would cause me to grin from ear to ear. I was just so excited to see what God was going to do!

 (I'll use the next few blogs writing out specific things God has done through this semester :) so get excited!)

All this made sense when Pastor Erin spoke at our Emmaus large group this week. At this point our campus ministry has just reached increasing levels of breakthrough and encounters with the Lord. In her sermon she asked "After the encounter, now what?" She got us thinking about what to do after such an amazing encounter. After getting blessed now what?

First she took us to John 4, the conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman. Now this is a story I heard many times before. I thought that her message would be the same about going to reach out to others etc...but I had no idea what was coming. After reading the story she explained that after the Samaritan woman encountered Jesus through the prophetic word He spoke to her about her husbands, then the woman ran back to her town testifying her encounter with the Lord (verse 28). 

Pastor Erin then explained that just like the Samaritan woman after  encountering Christ we have to go out and share what we were blessed with. We were made to share what we experienced with Christ. She says the truth is we are all thirsty for the encounter of God. That is what we all long for. She even said that we were created to share what we received. Then she goes on about bodies of water. This is where I got super excited! 

Apparently even after living by the dead sea for a good part of my middle and high school years I didn't know half of the things Pastor Erin informed us about that night. The dead sea is so salty that basically anything that tries to live in it will die. It is so salty that even as humans when we try to swim in it it's not possible to sink cuz we will just float to the top. The dead sea only became dead because all it does is receive from the source. It never gives, it just takes. When on the other hand when a body of water spreads and not just takes in the fresh water it will continue to be fresh. This fact of nature is a parallel to our Spiritual lives as well. When we encounter the love of God, if all we do is receive we are slowly turning into the dead sea, but when we share what we personally experience with others streams are flowing out of us into another. And in Ezekiel 47 it says that "where the river flows everything will live. When we share our testimony, or experience with the Lord, it is guaranteed that dead hearts will be brought to life. There are rivers of living water inside everyone of us that is waiting to flow out. God created you to share what you have gotten. There is no need to fear sharing with others what you have encountered because even if they seem like they were blessed or not tasting a bit of the water in you is quenching the thirst they have in them. 

Pastor Erin also said that when Jesus looked at that Samaritan woman He didn't just see her, He saw the whole town that she was going to share her encounter with and allow them to experience Him just like she did. Just like Christ looks at us, He doesn't just see us, he sees a group of friends, an entire class, a university campus...a whole nation. 

I was blown away by the end of the sermon and I found that all this time I was keeping myself from sharing different aspects of my life that is a testimony of how faithful He has been to me. Even from the beginning of the semester God was showing me that I already had everything I needed to enter this season. I had things inside of me that will quench the thirst the lost is seeking for. At that moment I knew that I needed to flow out. I needed to share how amazing He is in my life. 

Just like the vision I had of the bowls, where it started with just a cup flowing out. All it takes is one person sharing to fill up the next bowl. And when more people come together pouring out it fills up a bigger bowl, and before you know it it fill up a whole river. 

So what are you waiting for? It's time to pour out. :)

A New Dispensation

I feel like no matter where I go or no matter what I do I am walking in a new Dispensation! I see everything around me so clearly, I don't feel right about doing some of the things I used to do, I even felt different about the clothes I had in my closet. Everything feels SO new! After hearing bomb revelations at last weekend's church retreat, I truly believe that I am walking in a new level. I can't go back to my old way of thinking even it I tired. The thoughts of not feeling loved, or thinking that I don't belong feels like thoughts of years back. I can't believe how much a weekend can change one person.

A few weeks back I remembered feeling like I was in a weird state. I couldn't feel or talk to God like I used to. I would only hear His voice from time to time and it wasn't even as clearly as before. I thought something was so wrong with me. I thought I had to keep doing more quiet times or pray more often, but then I had to remember that my identity wasn't based on performance. My purpose in life was just to be loved by God. I knew all that, but why was I still feeling like I wasn't getting the messages at my church to heart. "What was wrong with me?!" was the constant cries I had in my head. For a whole month of being a Student Leader for our campus ministry, I just felt so weird. When I talked to people I felt like I was just doing the same thing over and over again and saw no fruit. It was awesome to see how God started working so incredibly in the campus ministry itself, but for me I honestly didn't feel anything.

It wasn't until Pastor Erin spoke at our campus ministry that just broke that mindset off of me. She talked about how usually when we are in a a funk that is usually because we are breaking through another level. We might feel like we are going through a shaking, but the truth is we are about to go into a new level! She continued with using the image of an airplane and how it goes through turbulence right before entering a level then comes peace. She says when turbulence happens the best thing to do is to actually speed up rather than slow down. Because if you slow down only two things can happen. a)the plane will crash or b) it can only go for so long in that certain speed. Then she connected it with our Spiritual walk. She said that when we are experience a shaking in our lives the answer is not to back out of church or people, but to speed up and keep running after God, then we will experience that new level. 

Right when she said that something broke off of me. Suddenly everything I have been feeling since the beginning of the semester started to make sense. God is taking me to a new level. A level of intimacy with Him that I have never experienced before. He is going to use me in ways I have never seen before. It didn't matter if I didn't feel it, because it's already there. Then I began to realize that there was a reason why I was the only one out of the other student leaders that was able to go on that retreat with some of the church people to minister to middle/ high school kids. Or why I was lead to talk to many girls about my passions, or why I kept getting prophecies about that particular aspect of my life. I felt like all the random puzzle pieces I got from God were starting to show the big picture. 

It was only a glimpse, but with the amazing things He constantly does in my life every day, it's impossible to think that there won't be any more.

So if you are going through a shaking or trying time in your life, just remember that you are about to break through a new level! He wants to increase you in a way you have never felt before! So just continue to seek Him in all that you do, and you will reap peace beyond you own understanding. :)

A New Season

It's spring here in the beautiful peninsula of Seoul, Korea. As pink cherry blossoms bloom and the weather warms down, I am beginning to realize that my my spiritual growth is also flourishing. I know it's been awhile since I last posted my last blog post, but I believe it was a season in where God also used to grow me to where I am today. I feel like that time was used to just grow closer to Him so that when I am put in higher places I cannot be shaken. Just take my word for it when I say that last semester was amazing!! I feel like those were my first baby steps in certain aspects of my growth that was key to this coming season in my life. 

As for this season God has been teaching me things that I never saw before. I feel like I walk around and see the world a lot differently than I used to this year. It seems like the battles of the past such are no longer the battles I face. I'm starting to feel that this season is going to be an amazing and a pivotal point in my life. I am walking with a different mindset in everyday life and no longer sink into petty lies of the enemy. After entering the covering of my church I began walking as a son and my mindset of Christianity shifted dramatically that I began to see things in a whole new light. 

I know I'm starting to sound pretty general, so here's an analogy. It's like all my life I have been walking this walk trying to do and say the right things, knowing that my performance and how I viewed morality was costly to my relationship with God. But after coming into Sonship, then I truly understood what Christianity meant. It was like I always had this blind fold covering my eyes this whole time. I could still see the light, but I couldn't see things around me clearly. But now I feel like that blind fold has been stripped off me and His light shines allowing me to view life with 20-20 vision! 

I am so excited to see what God is doing at this place at this hour!! Only from Glory to Glory!

I'm officially reopening my blog! What is happening in this city can't be hidden under a bowl! But may we RISE AND SHINE!