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Name: Zach
Birthday: 3/29/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: i am interested in God!
Expertise: None just letting God do everything.
Occupation: Unemployed/Between Jobs
Industry: Government
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Member Since:
12/9/2004
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| The title for all of you non spanish speaking people, says I am looking for the words of God.... this has about 50,000 different meanings in my life right now. God has revealed about 1,000 to me this summer and told me things that i thought were dead gone and already taken care of, but obviously God has different ideas about that. For example my gifts and what I thought I could do and what i thought God had given me, in the sense of spiritual gifts, and in regular gifts.... but God is not done with me yet.... He is constantly revealing things to me about gifts that He has given me, gifts He is going to give me and things that He is goin to do at times through me in my life... I have been learning more about prayer.... i thought i knew how to pray.... before He began to teach my prayers were like that of a 2 year old! now they are about a 5 year old, but thats better than a 2 year old. God is working on my heart, and is showing places to go, I dont want to reveal anything yet because God hasnt shown me the whole plan, just a couple details.... but lets say this much.... God has changed my life forever.... and I dont think it will ever stop growing from here..... I love you all my friends and I pray God is making you seek to find answers as well! You are all in my prayers! ¡Gloria Dios!
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| So I have been here for a month now and it feels just like yesterday I was with you guys back in the states for the week before i went to España! I miss you guys terribly.... but am so excited about the work i am doing here and the way that God is growing me and hopefully using me! I have gained a new understanding about the Holy Spirit, God, wayz to worship, myself in His kingdom, what He wants me to do with my life, and What true ministry is! God is changing me and shaping me daily! I have made so really great friends here, American and Mèxican alike. I believe that most of these friendships will continue throughout most of the rest of my life and i hope to keep up with these guys as they venture out into the mission field into other places and God leads them in different wayz. I have started to get a better understanding of a lot of what God is teaching me right now... the 3 verses i have written on my hand explain alot: Micah 6:8 "He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." This verse has been teaching me alot about how to treat the people of this world and how to actually follow God and with what type of heart. The next Phil. 4:6-7 "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus." Constant prayer and the power of prayer and listening to God is a huge thing i am being taught this summer, healings and other types of miracles are a huge focus this summer in my mind. God has been giving me many revelations about things and has been teaching me the way to pray and how to give it all and surrender it all to Him! and last but not least Col. 3:11 "Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all." This verse has been teaching how to love, how to see people and how to see myself. We are all Christ.... and Christ is all of us... this is a good glimpse of How Jesus looks at us and He has been doing great things in my heart through these verse i pray that you guys will find peace in these verses and learn more of God through them. I love you guys and Can`t wait to be back in yalls presence! I pray that God is teaching you more than He is teaching me! | | |
| I left the great land of spain after only a month and was kind of reluctant to leave, because i had started to really improve on my Spanish, but so is life. I returned home for all of about 12 hours and ate dinner with my family. Then i slept and felt a good bit better, then i woke up and headed for the airport where i was supposed to leave at 6:30 in the morining, which im guessing now you are getting the point that i didn´t leave at the time i was supposed to leave at. i ended up leaving at around 11:50. which was completely cool with me because Hermes came to the airport and hung out with me and i spoke a good bit of spanish with him and he was astounded at the amount of spanish i had learned in such a short time. After i left the airport i headed to houston and then to mexico. Because I left so late i arrived in Mexico City at around 4:30 and had a 8 1/2 hour ride on the way to get to Tlaxiaco. Well i ended up missing the bus and slept the night in the bus station in Oaxaca! Don´t let my grandmother know that, but i want someone to doubt my man hood... because i stayed in a bus station for a good 7 hours... but it was fun. my first two weeks here in mexico have been really good... i really don´t have time to update so i will try to get back to you guys in the near future... I love you guys and appreciate your prayers. | | |
| Ahhh.... my last week en Spain! the past month has absolutely flown by! It seemed just like yesterday I was sitting in my apartment... the 304.... eating lunch with Charla or Ashley or reading the Good Word with Zach... taking communion and praising God in a way that I was use to... but it has been a month and i have noticed myself changing and i have noticed that I am worshiping to a new song now.... i dont neccisarily know what that song is but i´m deffinately humming the beat and i´m sure that words will come soon! I have had to find new ways to worship here in Spain. There is no group that i can go to and sing praises with, there is no person or persons that i can turn to and say lets open up scripture together and dive head first in... there is no song that i can just bust out singing in a group and have those people understand what is inside my heart and soul.... instead there has been times of solitude listening to what little music i brought and singing it with all my might in my heart and listening to the words and taking them all to heart, reading The Word in quite silence and reflecting for long hours and days, Studying The Word in what almost seems like secret to me because I am not sharing with someone what God is teaching me and the scriptures that I have been devoured by lately..... but God has provided outlets for the message that is pent up inside of me, I have had many oppurtunities to tell my story and to help people out who are struggling with issues of faith in many different ways and all have been benificial for me and i hope and pray have been benificial for those people... i have been able to represent my fraternity and show what God can do in a broken life and have shown some of the people on the trip with me a little bit of what my fraternity and the life that God has called me to is about. It has been really good and i believe for at least the most part the 15 other people on the trip with me think of at least BYX a little different... they don´t think we are preist but better yet cool guys that don´t drink or cuss and can help you when you are down.... which opens doors to other parts of peoples lives. There has been one friend here that has been a window of growth since i´ve been here. This girl has inspired me in many ways in my faith and she has no clue... we have had good discussions on scripture and faith although sparce they were very benificial! God be praise and He be lifted on high for the great things He has done in this life over the past month.
I really think I like all of the free time that I have in Spain.... It makes me not want to return to the extremely busy semester that I have infront of me.... but i know that God will be glorified and that all things will work for the good of those who love Him and are called to His purpose (Romans 8:28) so i know that everything is going to be ok. It has taken me 3 weeks but I am really starting to really enjoy my time here in Spain and am not ready to leave on Sunday, but I know that all good things come to an end and i am looking forward to what i have in my future... Mexico and Pledges! Last night I had a dream about pledges and woke up ready to work with them... so i hope that they are ready to feel what God has put on my heart for them! ¡Gloria Dios! His name be praised on high!
Whats going on in your neck of the woods? I would love to hear how God is spurring you on... so that I may be spurred on by your accomplishments and your failings! I´m praying for you guys!
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| España es hermosa... I really love the atmosphere here but hate it at the same time. The people go eat sleep and then wake up and drink.... they drink non stop.... its kind of depressing to see everyone completely wasted almost everynight of the week... but its all good. My family is great and I have been speaking and hanging out with them and my mom a whole lot. Whenever i talk with them I can actually see that I have learned a little spanish.... I think it will multiply by another 20 or 30 times when I spend my two months in Mexico. I can feel myself slowly being able to not have to translate the words from Spanish into my English in my head. Its been really difficult this past week where I have kind of hit a wall and it is just now getting to where i can listen to them speak spanish and not have to translate at all. Its actually kind of good... I can´t wait until i can just respond without having to translate it in my head... i hope it happens before i leave spain in the next 10 days. I am getting a good bit better. I have to write a paper sometime this weekend so that i can get my extra three hours.... im not really looking forward to that..... 2 Timothy has really been energizing me... being on this trip and having so much time to myself has really energized my faith in a good way... i have had to rely on God and have Him do things through me... I have no clue what He is doing but I hope he is doing something..... I think i´m headed to portugal(spell) this weekend for a couple of days... I´m pretty ready to get to Mexico, and ready to eat a little bit of American food the 12 hours im in the U.S. I pray that God is blessing you all Read 2 Timothy and take it really slow.... and mediate on it.... 2:1-7 is really good to mediate on also 1:7 is really good! ¡Gloria Dios! | | |
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