Encouraging Words from Friends

Hey All :D

Work is going well VERY busy My hours got upped a bit which is a HUGE blessing but here is an encouraging word a freind sent me and I thought I would Share with you :) I love you all and THANKYOU from the bottom of my heart for your support!!!! Also read 2 Samuel 22:31-33, 47, and 50 :D

Max Lucado

For the next twelve hours I will be exposed to the day's demands. It is now I must make a choice. Because of Calvary, I'm free to choose. And so I choose…. I CHOOSE LOVE…No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.I CHOOSE JOY…I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical…the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.I CHOOSE PEACE…I will live forgiven. I will forgive so that I may live.I CHOOSE PATIENCE…I will overlook the inconveniences of the world. Instead of cursing the one who takes my place, I'll invite him to do so. Rather than complain that the wait is too long, I will thank God for a moment to pray. Instead of clenching my fist at new assignments, I will face them with joy and courage.I CHOOSE KINDNESS…I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. I will be kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me.I CHOOSE GOODNESS…I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.I CHOOSE FAITHFULNESS…Today I will keep my promises.My debtors will not regret their trust. My associates will not question my word. My spouse will not question my love.I CHOOSE GENTLENESS…Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice, may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it only be in prayer. If I make a demand, may it only be of myself.I CHOOSE SELF CONTROL…I am a spiritual being… After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

Megan Jarrell

4216 Sandberg Drive

Colorado Springs, Colorado 80911

My Heart for Korea

Hey Everyone!!! I was talking with someone and they told me that I should really express my heart for Korea and what God is doing :D soooo here goes


Well I started when i was hearing about south korea through my school MidAmerica Nazarene University my freshman year. i've always throught that it would be fun but I wasnt highly sold on it. I mean it was something that i've kept in mind but it was in the back of my mind. it wasnt till Junior year that God was beginnig to tell me that I needed to go to korea and really plan, think but mostly pray about it. That's when i studied abroad in Germany and God told me that this would not be the last time I went over seas. Since then i've had such a pssion to go to korea and teach english.


When i go to Korea i'm really hoping and praying to go be able to get connect to an orpahage and be able to greatly help those around me, those who are overlooked. God has always given me a heart for the overlooked and for orphans. Ever since the loss of my mom and since my dad wasn't around, i felt very alone for a while and so i believe that I will be able to understand and be able to i think connect with those who have lost so much and even more then that God is so passionate about eveyone I hope and pray that I will  be able to shower HIS love on them. I don't want to become so famous person though.I pray that my face isn't remembered but that God's love is :D


I know that I know that I know that this is where I am supposed to go. I haven't told many people this but I have spoken with the Asia-Pacific regional director and He wants me as a commioned missionary and teach english to people all over the world. I do not know where I will be with this but God has made it very clear that his is the next step in my life! I'm so happy to see how God is moving and working!!


It is hard though because as of right now there is no way that I can do this, without God!!! And hoenstly i like it that way!! countless times God has worked and moved and showen me His hand and guidence! When I went to North Dakota and was a Youth Pastor for a summer, going back year after year for school at MNU, being able to go to Germany to study abroad. Each and every time in my life there was no way I could do it without God and honestly i like it that way because I don't want to do it in my own strength because then i rely upon myself and not God! And so it is this time and I know that God will come through. I am working as much as i can right now to do my part because I know that God will help me through. And so i'm working 3 jobs and taking Korean and trying my hardest to learn to trust God. I know that He will put me exactly where He wants me exactly when He wants me there. God's timing is not our timing but His timing is Perfect!!!!


I know that wherever i end up going I will be in God's will because God is already there! The Lord has begun to give me and show me that passion that HE has for this world and all the people in it!!! God is loves eveyone so much ans has begun to shower me with tha hope and love ^_^ I would greatly appricate your love, support, and prayers!!! that's the only way i will be abe to accomplish anything, not in my own strength but in God's alone!!!!

Megan Jarrell

4216 Sandberg Drive

Colorado Springs, Colorado 80911

And So It Begins :D

So I've decided that I will start posting of how life is going right now in preparation of Korea and what God is doing and how He is working and all. :) 


right now I'm working three part time jobs right now, Bath and Body, Chick Fil A and I sit with a wonderful older lady on Sunday afternoons. I have been getting more hours recently and I am a little burned out by it but still very blessed. I am still taking Korean Saturday mornings and understanding more and more. I can write a good amount but reading takes a while.


God has been doing a great deal in my life right now. I am learning more and more to trust God and where He is taking me and who He is creating me into. It's a beautiful thing but still hard. I am meeting with God daily and usually a few times a day. I love it God is teaching me love and so much hope. I am seeing how God sees everyone and how much love He has for us!! it's amazing!! He's so passionate about us!! He sees our faults and the hardships that we have gone through and all the bad choices that we have made but He loves is sooo much more then we can imagine!! ah! it's so wonderful.


I have been waiting for the FBI paper work to come in so that I can get my visa for Korea. I am reading about the culture of Korea as much as I can as well as trying to get back into the food and building up my immunity to the spiciness ^_^


I have been having health issues recently some of you may remember. I was having sever pains in my stomach and had had so many tests. I met with a doctor and they said that there was only about a 75% chance that it was my gallbladder and that taking it out would help. well they took it out the 7th of this month and i just found out a few days ago that after removing my gallbladder they tested it and found that there were small crystals that werent seen on any of the ultra sounds or the scans but that those are the beginnings of gallbladder disease. PRAISE GOD they took it out :D 


and so right now I am working hard, sleeping as much as i can, and keeping my eyes on God :) thanks for ur prayers i love you all so much O this pic is me and Baby Ryon :D I love this kid!!!

The Battle Has Begun

I've come to realize something so key to my life and I would dare to say to yours as well....

......Your HEART is what all this war is about......

*to all those out there of couse it's not ur physical pumping blood squishy heart but ur emotional heart :P smarty*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srdqcVXwdCE&feature=related

what war you may ask....

well think about it....

....How many of us are searching for "the one"?

....How many of us have felt so alone that we turn to

.......drugs?

.......drinking?

..........sex?

............giving out hearts away without even the person knowing it?

How many of us are ready to give up?

beacause of.....

...too much work?

...pressure from others?

...the words you are not enough?

...the words you are not worthy?

How many of us would truly admit that we've considered once.....

...susicide? 

...an escape?

...running away?

Where is the core of all of this? well it IS OUR HEARTS!! lol

What drives us to love or hate?

What inspires us? depresses us? 

What is the one thing that could change a decision?

.... your heart

What has GOD called us to guard?

....."Above all else, guard your HEART, for it is the wellspring of life." Proverbs 4:23

Why would we need to guard it if someone was not trying to steal it or KILL it? 

It is pointless to guard an empty bank....

.....but one that has Bill Gate's money in it is guarded by the best people 24/7 with guns who mean business...

Why? 

beacause what is in side is worth DYING for!! 

it is the same with YOU and YOUR HEART!! 

You maybe saying well that sounds all fine and dandy but you don't get it I'm _(insert age)_ and I'm still single...everyon i've ever dated has chewed me up and spit me out. or i've been through so much that no one even knows about...or you don't understand my pain.....

well...YOU ARE NOT ALONE!! i'm 23 and Still deeply wishing and praying for my one ... I KNOW he's out there...somewhere but only GOD knows where right now and that's fine. I've been chewed up and thrown to the side of the road by guys I HAVEN'T even dated. ontop of that I was physically, emotionally and sexually abused all of my life. I understand the pain. I used to give in to the pain. but you know what? I've walked the line between the darkness and light ive seen true evil, i've experienced hopelessness too...YOU ARE NOT ALONE....and on top of ALLL of that....you are STRONG!!!!

  "I can do ALL things through Christ who strengthens me!"-Philippians 4:13

isn't GOD the strongest ever?! isn't He the one who HOLDS the universe in motion and all that jazz? if He's sharing the power then what is stronger then that? What should we be afraid of??? NOTHING!! let me tell you i was afraid of the darkness all my life...like I said i had expereinced it in a very real way and i had gathered some not so nice things and I was terrified....those two mins before i fell asleep were the worst because I always felt like i was not alone but you know what? GOD has concured death CHRIST has DEFEATED the evil and the darkness and FEAR!! and by the grace of GOD I am not afraid!!! :D 

the darkness, it cannot stand the light. It cannot be in it's presence. but know this if you are really striving for God's will and His heart then you will be under attack and we must stand our ground...or be trampled. but God has given us Armor!! REALLY!!! lol Eph. 6:10-18 and i'm not going to post it because i want YOU to look it up ^-^ lol but God has given us arrmor and a SWORD but if we do not know our sword if we do not pratice with it and sharpen it how will we know how to use it when the time comes....we wont

so I challenge you. STAND YOUR GROUND. first protect ur heart from the world it will try and draw you away with sweet talk but all it is is empty promises. Second do not fear!! you are with God and on His side and here's a SPOILER ALERT. God wins in the end :D and third put on your armor by that i mean know your armor. only ware it if you chose to show it in your life. and Finally KNOW YOUR SWORD USE YOUR SWORD. 

Who you are and what you are called to do is so much more then i believe any of you realize. and how do i know that who is reading this is called to anything at all? I belive that God has called each of us and i believe unless we are living in the heart of our LORD we can and are called to be more  IN HIM :D

ok I'll stop talking now lol i love you guys! don't give up. you are not alone

Thoughts....i guess

You know what I've been realizing so much lately? GOD is constantly reaching for us. And I know that that sounds so clique and the "Jesus" answer but it's true. 


You know when you are about to give up and you get that one hug, or those words of encouragement? Have you ever stop to think that maybe it's been GOD teaching out to you in a more physical way? 


Sometimes we hear the voice of GOD so clearly but then again sometimes we need people. i believe that that is why GOD has given us each other. we NEED each other. we need to hear what each of us are going through, but not only to hear about it but to go through it together. We were not designed to have to deal with so much all alone. GOD has created in us the need for each other and the passion to live as such. we are designed within our entire being to be with each other and we do so much better together!! 


And I totally believe that GOD places people in your life for a reason! there are those out there that when they enter your life they are there for only a short time and yet their touch ripples out and completely changes who you are!! They may pop into your life occasionally or just be in to for a short amount of time but either way their presence in your life has changed who you are.....

So here's your choice who will you be? will you be a person that people can turn to when they are so out of hope, someone that when the river of life rages on so fast, people can kling to and you can point them toward Christ. I challenge you to do so. Stop and listen for GOD's voice and then follow after whatever he maybe calling you to do, no matter what it may be, no matter what He may say, do it because it will be one of the most amazing things that you will have ever been blessed to do.

Ok GOD i'm listening....

Have you ever been almost asleep then a thought consumes ur mind and you must do something about ti but then the next thing u know...you are doing like 5 things...yeah welcome to my life like 20 mins ago.... 

so i was in bed about to pass out and i was just getting dark images in my mind for some reason so i prayed and decied to put some music on...tired though my cell because ipod is missing :P no luck so I looked at the ring tones i have and i decied that i wanted to listen to Million Voices by Barlow Girl *see link --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwzQFeKoG3E * and I was challenged to write this...i'm not sure as of right this moment what it will turn out to be but hear me out...if it's a waste of ur time...well haha ur on fb I blame that :P here goes

I love this song. i feel like it is the anthem of my generation and the ones right around me. We are the ones sick of all the bull and standing up for things that have long since been ignored. and this is wonderful!!! i love the passion i see in your eyes. it's invigorating and contagious! We stand for the trees, we stand for the panda, we stand for saving the polar ice caps but do we stand for our faith??? i've noticed we will rally, riot, and camp out for weeks to stop the deforestation, which is NEEDED, but what to do we do to speak out against that which is killing our faith???

there is a deadly disease attacking each and everyone of us, sin. and I'm not just going to say well we all need to stop cussing and drinking and whatever else and then the world will be all happy rainbow and unicorns. that's bull. but sin is KILLING us!! LITERALLY!!! do u realize it!? Sin is eating away at ur soul. each moment we spend doing nothing slothing  on the couch, each engorging potato chip, each sensual image, each salty sweet lie that caresses our lips, it ca roads our souls a bit more. so when is the end?! 

there are millions of ppl around us slowly being eaten away at by this acidic poison and they don't even realize it. or they DO realize it and try to stop it but only end up adding more acid onto their already open wounds. we see the hopelessness. we see the sorrow that goes beyond words. we see the death, and still we sit in secret with our bibles huddled in the corners not moving to offer a safety rope or a hand to pull each other away form the edge.

I have already seen so much and so many amazingly good things come out of this generation! i have seen peace and color-blindness, i have seen injustices be stopped, i have seen starving children fed. YOU are powerful! I am powerful! together with GOD WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE!!!! Do you see that?*AND THIS IS NOT JUST FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS* we need to unify. we need wisdom. we need direction. we need passion and liveliness. 

2 Chronicles 7:14

 "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

an idea starts out small and fragile but if whispered upon the wind, if it catches the hint of passion it will ignight within the hearts of some, form there it will become a blazing fire that burns inside us!!! it's like a little ripple, it starts out wiht a drop, but before u know it it is shoving water up on the shore line!! Do not limit yourselves!!! Christ has empowered us and commissioned  us to bigger and better things then we realize even yet!! 

Matthew 28:18-19

"Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

*IS CHRIST CALLING YOU TO SOMETHING MORE? HOW WILL YOU ANSWER???*

What Do you see?

What do you see when you look into my eyes? What do you see when you at the people we pass by daily? Those who you rub shoulders with? those who you open doors for and smile blankly back to? those who keep their head down as they walk, headphones in and tears on the edge their eyes? Why do we have empty words that flow out of fake masks we ware? what will it take to stop and look? 

I've been reading in the gospels lately and there is one really amazing thing i've seen in Jesus *yes there are tons more but this is what God has been showing me lately* that you know Jesus did all these amazing miracles and raised people from the dead, healed the sick, and opened the eyes of the blind and yeah sure these are amazing AMAZING things and they are truly miracles but I don't think that the miracles started with Jesus saying be healed or your faith has healed you or with Him spitting in the mud or whatever....I think that the real miracles started way before Jesus even said a word. Jesus saw people that everyone else only looked at...Jesus saw them for who they were right where they were at...in that moment they were at...He say their hurt and the healing they needed but He saw more then that....He saw their worth, He saw how incredibly valuable they were in that very moment in their hurts and in their darkest moments. He saw them and accepted them, THERE WAS ALWAYS A PLACE FOR EVERYONE!! no matter where they came from or what they had done Jesus ALWAYS had a seat at the table for them.....

Jesus saw people that everyone else only looked at. think about it....how many times did the priest pass by the lame beggar? how many times did those everyday kinda joes act like they did not see the blind men at the city gate? how many times did those women walk as far as they could from that woman who was bleeding for years upon end? how many times have we just shrugged off a friend saying that they need to talk or that they are fine when really we can see the agony in their eyes? How many times have we just walked on by when we know someone would love just five mins of our time or a hug....and yet we hurry to class or on with our day?

Ok now please do not feel like I'm judging anyone!!! I know like is crazy and insane an there is so much going on in our lives that we can barely keep up...I am  right there with you!! and those people had ligament reason backed by the Law that they did not do anything...we have ligament reasons too right? too busy...too stressed...too much on our plates....too much you yourself are dealing with...Too......whatever....but the thing is we do not know...we do not know how much that smile or that hug can affect someone's life....how much being real will help someone....how much taking five mins will effect someone's heart.....do we know how much stopping for five mins could change someones live or drastically affect our own?

Now Yes Jesus is JESUS...the SON OF GOD!! There has never and there will never be anyone like Him! He is the Alpha the Omega the Beginning and the End!! Jesus is God and God is so good!!! God is love, He is hope and faith and light and LIFE!! That love, that hope, that faith, that light, that LIFE is the very breath to our suffocating souls!!! With out it we die.... Jesus is everything but He has called us to be more...what Jesus did He has called us to also do, He has called us to also walk that path, to see those people, and He would not call us to something that we could not accomplish...We are infused with the Holy Spirit if we call ourselves Christians but what does that even mean any more?! to act "good" whenever anyone is looking and to do whatever you want when noone or the pastor isn't around? what's the point of all this if you're not going to let this change you? WE ARE CALLED TO BE MORE!!!!! Will you answer that call?! 

I've seen the church at it's finest and at it's worst, but the truth is WE are the church not some building or something else , we YOU AND ME are the church, we are Christ to the dark world around us!!!! We are the future of what is and what could be... I am so sick and tired of seeing the world die... JESUS HAS ALREADY CONCORD DEATH SO WHY ARE WE JUST SITTING HERE and allowing it to zap our joy or our zeal?! this is what's been on my heart and PLEASE PLEASE do not feel like i'm judging anyone or anything....maybe God is convicting you..idk this is just on my heart....this is what God has convicted me about....

So What do you see? Who do you see? Will you take the time to stop and see the people around your? will you take the time to talk to the friend who says that they are just fine? will you give someone five mins when that could save their life? so what do you See??