My name is Jenny Melina Herman. I am a junior and I am 15 years old. I love animals, I love nature, and I love playing soccer. I love playing pretty much any sport. I wish I could take ballet. I love riding horses. I love having adventures. I love swimming and climbing trees. I took piano lessons for about 6 years. I wish I could play the guitar. I love science. I don't really like math. My favorite seasons are spring, fall, summer, and then winter. I am a deep person. My favorite color is purple. I love dresses. I love basketball shorts. I love hoodies and boots. I love dangly, sparkly or colorful earrings. I love worshiping my God, Creator, Father and Savior. My favorite music artists are Hillsong, Phil Wickham, Taylor Swift, Owl City, Skillet, Josh Groban. I love dancing for my King. My love language is physical touch. I want a Dodge Ram 1500. I want anywhere between 5 - 13 kids. I love singing. My favorite Bible verse is Psalm 46:4.
-Jenny
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
true love and prom dresses
Sometimes, to find the right prom dress, you have to look for hours and hours. And your feet hurt, and you are frustrated and hungry, and just want to give up. And most likely, you will find dresses that fit you, and that you like, but they are not really the one for you. So, what do you do? Don't worry, and keep looking! And then... you see it. The perfect dress! Well.... almost. But after you try it on, you know that it is the perfect one for you. And after prom, you love it even more.
Well.. that's how it is sometimes, when you find the one you are going to marry. Many times, you may not find them as soon as you would like, and sometimes, it may take, what seems to you, a looongggg time for you to finally find that one person that you will spend forever with. But don't worry. Even if it does take a while, you will learn things about yourself along the way. And you will grow., and sometimes you get attached to someone, but they end up not being the one, and you have to let them go and keep looking. But when you DO find that one person..... :) Cherish him/her. This is a once in a lifetime chance. And you will spend the rest of your life with that person. And your love for each other will grow as you learn more about each other and spend more time with each other. Of course, this person may not be completely perfect, but love isn't about finding a perfect person to love. It's about finding a person that you can love perfectly. So don't worry if you don't find that person right away. You still have the rest of your life! yay! Spend it with God and friends, not worrying about who you are going to marry. Be wise. Be pure. Think. Never act to quickly. And never give up on love. This goes for before and after you are married.
Jesus is the ultimate prom dress. And... the only price on Him, is you faith. Are you willing to give Him everything? He's worth it. :)
Note: This is not an English paper. Sorry if it's not perfect. But I'm human. And I'm not perfect. :)
Well.. that's how it is sometimes, when you find the one you are going to marry. Many times, you may not find them as soon as you would like, and sometimes, it may take, what seems to you, a looongggg time for you to finally find that one person that you will spend forever with. But don't worry. Even if it does take a while, you will learn things about yourself along the way. And you will grow., and sometimes you get attached to someone, but they end up not being the one, and you have to let them go and keep looking. But when you DO find that one person..... :) Cherish him/her. This is a once in a lifetime chance. And you will spend the rest of your life with that person. And your love for each other will grow as you learn more about each other and spend more time with each other. Of course, this person may not be completely perfect, but love isn't about finding a perfect person to love. It's about finding a person that you can love perfectly. So don't worry if you don't find that person right away. You still have the rest of your life! yay! Spend it with God and friends, not worrying about who you are going to marry. Be wise. Be pure. Think. Never act to quickly. And never give up on love. This goes for before and after you are married.
Jesus is the ultimate prom dress. And... the only price on Him, is you faith. Are you willing to give Him everything? He's worth it. :)
Note: This is not an English paper. Sorry if it's not perfect. But I'm human. And I'm not perfect. :)
Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, and all these things will be added to you. This is my testimony.
This verse is true. This is my testimony.
Last year, my sophomore year, I was going through a really rough time in my life. Long story short, I had disconnected my heart from God and put other things first: my friends, money, my future, etc. I started worrying about what my friends thought about me, about how much money I had, about what my future would look like. I began turning to my friends whenever I felt depressed, which was quite often seeing as God wasn't first in my life anymore. But then something strange happened, and even though it sucked, it was beautiful: God drew me into a lonely time. A time where no matter how hard I tried, I didn't feel anything. I didn't feel my friend's love for me, or even His love for me. I didn't really care about my life, or my future...... but I knew something was missing. And He stayed there. Right beside me, but... distant..... He never left my side, but He knew that I needed to know that. I started to hunger for something, something deeper, something real, something living. I could no longer turn to my friends, or anything else of this world, and partly out of desperation, partly out of need, I turned to God. I raced toward Him, not knowing what would happen, not knowing what people would, think, but not really caring. God, in His infinite wisdom, knew that He could not keep pursuing me if I kept ignoring Him. So He waited until I realized that I needed Him. He held me and never let me go. It took some time to destroy the depression that had seemed to dominate my life. But in time, I fell in love with him again, and He restored to me peace, joy, hope and love. Oh how I desperately needed these things. I needed His peace which surpasses all understanding, I needed His joy instead of my depression and fear, I needed His hope for my future, and I needed His love for Him and my friends. He refilled me with passion. He restored my life. And He was the number one in my life. I put Him above everything else. I turned to Him no matter what. I laid my requests before God, and I cast my cares on Him. Finally, I was able to feel again. To sense the love that came from my friends, and ultimately from Him. I have HOPE for my future. I have PEACE through stressful times. I have JOY in the darkness. I have LOVE for my friends, family and my SAVIOR. I sought God FIRST, and all these things were added to me. THE BIBLE IS REAL! THE BIBLE IS TRUE! THE BIBLE IS HOLY! Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and ALL these things WILL BE ADDED TO YOU!!
This verse is true. This is my testimony.
Last year, my sophomore year, I was going through a really rough time in my life. Long story short, I had disconnected my heart from God and put other things first: my friends, money, my future, etc. I started worrying about what my friends thought about me, about how much money I had, about what my future would look like. I began turning to my friends whenever I felt depressed, which was quite often seeing as God wasn't first in my life anymore. But then something strange happened, and even though it sucked, it was beautiful: God drew me into a lonely time. A time where no matter how hard I tried, I didn't feel anything. I didn't feel my friend's love for me, or even His love for me. I didn't really care about my life, or my future...... but I knew something was missing. And He stayed there. Right beside me, but... distant..... He never left my side, but He knew that I needed to know that. I started to hunger for something, something deeper, something real, something living. I could no longer turn to my friends, or anything else of this world, and partly out of desperation, partly out of need, I turned to God. I raced toward Him, not knowing what would happen, not knowing what people would, think, but not really caring. God, in His infinite wisdom, knew that He could not keep pursuing me if I kept ignoring Him. So He waited until I realized that I needed Him. He held me and never let me go. It took some time to destroy the depression that had seemed to dominate my life. But in time, I fell in love with him again, and He restored to me peace, joy, hope and love. Oh how I desperately needed these things. I needed His peace which surpasses all understanding, I needed His joy instead of my depression and fear, I needed His hope for my future, and I needed His love for Him and my friends. He refilled me with passion. He restored my life. And He was the number one in my life. I put Him above everything else. I turned to Him no matter what. I laid my requests before God, and I cast my cares on Him. Finally, I was able to feel again. To sense the love that came from my friends, and ultimately from Him. I have HOPE for my future. I have PEACE through stressful times. I have JOY in the darkness. I have LOVE for my friends, family and my SAVIOR. I sought God FIRST, and all these things were added to me. THE BIBLE IS REAL! THE BIBLE IS TRUE! THE BIBLE IS HOLY! Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven and ALL these things WILL BE ADDED TO YOU!!
This verse is true. This is my testimony.
Seasons
DYING: Autumn is when the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
DEAD: Winter is when I am washed, purified, sanctified of my sins. Winter is being dead to the world and it's desires.
RISING: Spring is being made new, born again. "You make beautiful things out of the dust."
RUNNING: Summer is burning with passion for the Lord.
DEAD: Winter is when I am washed, purified, sanctified of my sins. Winter is being dead to the world and it's desires.
RISING: Spring is being made new, born again. "You make beautiful things out of the dust."
RUNNING: Summer is burning with passion for the Lord.
A Call to Anguish-David Wilkerson
I suppose I should explain the title of my blog. I listened to a short "sermon" by David Wilkerson. It touched me deeply. And literally changed my life. Here's what he says, "I look at the whole religious scene today and all I see are inventions and ministries of man and flesh. It's mostly powerless. It has no impact on the world. And I see more of the world coming into the church and impacting the church, rather than the church impacting the world. I see the music taking over the house of God. I see entertainment taking over the house of God. Obsession with entertainment in God's house. A hatred of correction and a hatred of reproof. Nobody wants to hear it anymore. Whatever happened to anguish in the house of God? Whatever happened to anguish in the ministry? It's a word you don't hear in this pampered age. You don't hear it. Anguish means extreme pain and distress. The emotions so stirred that it becomes painful. Acute deeply felt inner pain felt because of conditions about you, in you, or around you. Anguish. Deep pain. Deep sorrow. Agony of God's heart. We've held onto our religious rhetoric, and our revival talk, but we've become so passive. All true passion is born out of anguish. All true passion for Christ comes out of a baptism of anguish. You search the scripture and you discover that when God determined to recover a ruined situation, He would share His own anguish for what God saw happening to His own church and to His own people. And he would find a praying man and he would take that man and literally baptize him in anguish. You find it in the book of Nehemiah. Jerusalem is in ruins. How is God going to deal with this? How is God going to restore the ruin? Folks, look at me. Nehemiah was not a preacher. He was a career man. This was a praying man. God FOUND a man who would not just have a flash of emotion, not just some great sudden burst of concern and then let it die. He said, "No. I broke down and I wept. And I mourned and I fasted. And then I began to pray night and day." Why didn't these other men, why didn't they have an answer? Why didn't God use them in restoration. Why didn't they have a word? Because there was no sign of anguish! No weeping! Not a word of prayer! It's all ruin! Does it matter to you today, does it matter to you at all that God's spiritual Jerusalem, the church, is now married to the world? That there is such a coldness sweeping the land? Closer than that, does it matter about the Jerusalem that's in our own hearts? The sign of ruin that's slowly draining spiritual power and passion? Blind to lukewarmness, blind to the mixture that's creeping in. That's all the devil wants to do: get the fight out of you and kill it! So you won't labor in prayer anymore! You won't weep before God anymore! You can sit and watch television and your family go to hell! Let me just ask you, has what I said convicted you at all? There's a great difference between anguish and concern. Concern is something that begins to interest you. You take interest in a project, or a cause, or a concern, or a need. I want to tell you something I've learned over all my 50 years of preaching, if it is not born in anguish, if it has not been born in the Holy Spirit, where what you saw and heard of the ruin that drove you to your knees, took you down into a baptism of anguish where you began to pray and seek God. I know now. Oh my God do I know it. Until I'm in agony. Until I have been anguished over it. And all our projects, all our ministries, everything we do. Where are the Sunday school teachers that weep over kids they know are not hearing and are going to hell? You see, a true prayer life begins at the place of anguish. You see, if you set your heart to pray, God's going to come and start sharing His heart with you. Your heart begins to cry out "Oh God Your name is being blasphemed. Holy Spirit is being mocked. The enemy is out trying to destroy the testimony of the Lord's faithfulness, and something has to be done. There's going to be no renewal, no revival, no awakening, until we are willing to let Him once again break us. Folks it's getting late and it's getting serious. Please don't tell me, don't tell me you're concerned when you're spending hours a day in front of Internet or television. Come on. There is nothing the flesh will give you joy. I don't care how much money, I don't care what kind of house, there is absolutely nothing physical that can give you joy. It is only what is accomplished by the Holy Spirit when you obey Him and take on His heart. Build the walls around your family. Build the walls around your own heart. Make you strong and impregnable against the enemy. God that's what we desire."
After I heard this, I got really depressed. Because, it's true. So much of the church, is cold-hearted. So much of the church has let the world impact it. Where did the extravagant love go? What happened to weeping? What happened to longing to be like Jesus? What happened to desiring Him? To desiring to have a heart like His? Where did the Davids go? Men after God's heart? People after God's heart? This left me weeping. Even now I want to break down and cry. So many Christians live their own happy life. So many Christians have become lukewarm. So many Christians don't know what it's like to weep before the Lord, to be broken hearted. And my heart breaks for them. The Lord gave me a burden for the world, that leaves me weeping. I am not continually depressed; I do still have the joy of the Lord. But, there are times when I think about this, and I weep. The Lord gave me a piece of His heart to let me feel this deep agony for the Church and the lost and unsaved. Oh Lord, break my heart for what breaks Yours. I cannot convey my anguish for the world. I feel like I'm going around in circles, babbling, not making any sense.
Oh Lord, bring passion to the Church. Oh Lord, burn out the impurities. Oh Lord, REND THE HEAVENS AND COME DOWN.
My heart yearns for everyone to be saved. My heart longs for the blind to have open eyes and see the extravagant love of the Creator. My heart aches for the deaf to hear. My heart yearns for the dead to arise and live, for the dry to drown, for the passive to burn. Oh Lord. BREAK IN!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMG_PVaJoI
After I heard this, I got really depressed. Because, it's true. So much of the church, is cold-hearted. So much of the church has let the world impact it. Where did the extravagant love go? What happened to weeping? What happened to longing to be like Jesus? What happened to desiring Him? To desiring to have a heart like His? Where did the Davids go? Men after God's heart? People after God's heart? This left me weeping. Even now I want to break down and cry. So many Christians live their own happy life. So many Christians have become lukewarm. So many Christians don't know what it's like to weep before the Lord, to be broken hearted. And my heart breaks for them. The Lord gave me a burden for the world, that leaves me weeping. I am not continually depressed; I do still have the joy of the Lord. But, there are times when I think about this, and I weep. The Lord gave me a piece of His heart to let me feel this deep agony for the Church and the lost and unsaved. Oh Lord, break my heart for what breaks Yours. I cannot convey my anguish for the world. I feel like I'm going around in circles, babbling, not making any sense.
Oh Lord, bring passion to the Church. Oh Lord, burn out the impurities. Oh Lord, REND THE HEAVENS AND COME DOWN.
My heart yearns for everyone to be saved. My heart longs for the blind to have open eyes and see the extravagant love of the Creator. My heart aches for the deaf to hear. My heart yearns for the dead to arise and live, for the dry to drown, for the passive to burn. Oh Lord. BREAK IN!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGMG_PVaJoI
Vanity of Vanities...
"Vanity of vanities. All is vanity." So, I had a revelation the other day. Many times in Ecclesiastes, Solomon sounds like he's saying that wisdom is useless, or that wisdom is "vanity." But then you hear many other verses praising wisdom. "In her right hand she holds riches and honor, and in her left, long life." It makes you wonder, what was Solomon thinking?? But I realized, Solomon was wiser than us all.(who knew?) When he was saying that having wisdom is like grasping for the wind, he was not saying that wisdom is vain. Later, he goes on to say, "Wisdom is good with an inheritance." What he's saying is, it is good to be smart and intelligent, to be wise and discerning. We must think before we speak. We must think before we act. It is good to desire wisdom and to "search for her as hidden treasure." The message Solomon was trying to get across is that it is silly to try to uncover all the mysteries of life. It is useless to go deep into philosophy. In the long run, where is that going to get you? We can never comprehend all the mysteries of God. We will never know all his plans and purposes. Even scientists do not know everything. God is a mystery. Yes, be wise and intelligent and discerning. But don't let it get to your head. Wisdom give life to those who have it, but love is even greater. The whole thing may sound like a contradiction. Sometimes it can be hard to put something that deep and confusing onto paper. All I'm trying to say is, be wise, but don't set your heart to know all wisdom for "in much wisdom is much grief." "Though I understand all mysteries and all knowledge, but have not love, I am nothing." Everything comes back to love.
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