Wait For Me by: rebecca St. James

Wow who doesn't love this girl? her books and her music is just so inspirational. In this blog I am going to talk to you about my lastest book that I have called "wait for me".

This book gives us understanding of why waiting for sex for marriage is the right and best thing we can do and ways that we can enjoy that waiting time. Even though our minds are being bombarded with real negative thoughts.

Chapter 1: Dream Again Recovering The Dream of True Romance
Who doesn't want a nice hansome guy riding on a white horse coming to our rescue? I sure do!! :) I got a ring for my birthday that signify's my purity for my husband the one I am waiting for. When comes to our minds being bombarded with so many sexual thoughts all because this culture today is encouraging our teens to think these thoughts, but for many of us who are reading this book are christians and we know what to do with these thoughts as soon as they hit our minds.

Rebecca says in this chapter that there is a reset button that we can push to refresh our minds all we have to do is just go to God and ask for forgivness and he will hit the reset button.

The man that we are waiting for is in our father God's hands, God knows the perfect timing and place where he will bring our future husband to us. All we have have to do is wait patiently while he reveals this man to us bit by bit.


Chapter 2: Mind Matters Guarding Your Thoughts To Make Wise Decisions

This book just gets better and better, God says that we need to guard our heart and mind through christ, God is watching every move we make, Rebecca explains in this chapter that we not only need to guard our body but our heart and MIND aswell, as this is where satan comes to attack us the most.

Pornography is a BIG thing in our culture today, alot of teenagers are drawn to this kind of sexual sin all it is only a click away on a mouse of a computer.

We need to have self-control and ask God to help us turn our eyes away from such lustful desires. Because one thing leads to another.

We need to avoid this tempation by turning of the TV and computer if we know that it is going to lead us to a bad descision.

The culture we live in today is high on the way we dress alot of models wear skimpy T-shirts and way too short skirts. We need to stand strong because we are christians and show others that dressing sinfully and skimpy only leads boys to sexual desires.

Bill Hybels: Just a Walk across the room (Simple steps to pointing people to faith)

I will start with an opening statement to this book.
Bill Hybel's books are amazing to comprehend. The one i am reading at the moment is a book that gives insightful and easy tips on how to lead people to christ. What if redirecting a person's forever really is as simple as walking across the room?

When i attend the empowering conference tomorrow the conference is about leadership and tips and stratages on how to come up with fun groups in your own school I want to be the leader of this group that I'm thinking about and I want to see people lead to christ if I step outside my circle of comfort and walk a simple step across the room I could change someones forever.

Please pray that God will guide me into this group I am doing and will give me the strength to do what I need to do.

Commitment to Conquer: Chapter1: Hemet Calls

Chapter 1 was a bit scary I thought at first but when I contiued reading it turned out to be good. Chapter 1 is about a guy Called Bob Beckett he is called to a job at a juvenille dentention in Hemet when he gets there he discovers a mountain called San Jacinto Mountains and in it is the devil they call him Tahquitz they believe and think of him as the evil one.

Bob continues to look further into this mountain and is called to a meeting with Peter Wagner and he shows him a map that he has been keeping track of and thinks where all these things that are bad having being happening one by one he marks a red dot where he wants to find out more and wants to change. Peter the proffessor says that this is great and believes that Bob will do amazing things in this city with God's help.

Bob grabbed a few men that were christians and they went on a journey up to the mountain in san Jancinto to pray and fast, when it was late at night they all woke from a deep sleep of quacking through their cabins, they believed it what the evil spirit trying to stop them from overcoming him and seeing good things happen for the glory of God, so they got up immediately and began to pray and praised God they got louder and louder and the shaking became more intense but they continued to pray and it eventually settled down and they felt the presense of God.

When they returned they wondered and they continued to pray, eventually Bob opened up a church in San Jacinto Mountains. they continued praying and they opened up a prayer group in the church where everyone could attend, about 100 people attended. They continued for 5 years they saw changes and miracles in the church but the community remained as it was. They still don't know why this is but they will continue praying and seeking God no what the circumstance. Yes it will be challenging but God will be with us all, all the way through.

We will see what God is going to do  in that community in chapter 2 and how we can gain the power to do the same in our community as well.

Commitment to Conquer: Redeeming Your City By Strategic Intercession

This book is great it is a leading book on how to turn a generation toward God and overcoming the devil.

A Young Woman After God's Own Heart: Review

This book is about being and becoming the young woman God created us girls to be. Elizabeth Gorge gives some examples of how we can search for God in order to find out what we were created to be. Elizabeth is a great author she is very insightful. I believe that as I read this book God is going to talk to me and show me what my destiny and future yet to be is and show what I am going to for and to him.

Chapter 10: Generation rising creating a counterculture from scratch (and a dash of salt)

An amazing teenage boy stood out to me in this chapter his name is Corner Cress. Corner was reading a World Vision magazine when he came across it he realised that the magazine was about poor children suffering and in pain because of starvation and hunger corner continued reading and it really spoke to him. He started to realise how easy his life was when he looked at the poor children. Corner realised that something ewas not right and he had to do something about it doesn't exactly say in this chapter what he did but when he posted that story it was two years ago when he did it so he must be doing something amazing for the glory of God by helping these poor children.

We all can be salt and light to this world we need to look deep within ourselves and realise that we are bigger than what we think we need to pray and ask God what we can do to help this world and the people in it.

A HOLY AMBITION. Wow I can't wait to find mine what this part is about well as a child we play with dolls and toy trucks but as we grow and become adults we begin to turns those small things into big things like girls becoming nurses and midwives and delivering babies and caring for real ones, boys will build building with tractors and big trucks that are real. Things like these we need to take a hold of and realise that as we grow and become adults we need to let go our childish behaviour and start looking beyond dolls and toy trucks and look and pray for our holy ambition to come. So what is your HOLY AMBITION?

Chapter: Taking A stand

This chapter is real it gave me a sense that I need to take a stand and not care about what everyone else thinks, if I am christian which I am nothing Is going to stop me and I am going to live it for the rest of my life even if I have to go against the crowd and everything makes fun of me. If I keep sticking with God he will help all the way no matter what the circumstance.

What defines me at the moment I feel like I am a liar most of the time this is why some people can't trust me, but once I start doing hard things that issue is going to change, I know another thing that defines I am a real christian everyone at school calls me a God freak, I really love being known by this but in some ways I do lose some opputunities like not being invited to parties not being able to hang out with cool crowds but I don't really care because I know in long run it really is going benifit me going against the crowd and sticking to what I know is right and taking a stand.

Chapter 8: Small Hard things how to do hard things that don't pay off immediately

chapter 8 is a great chapter it talks about things that we do that are toward us and don't pay off immediately but in the long run it does even though it doesn't immediately. Respecting my parents really stood out and spoke to me in this chapter, when I do respect them they may not reward me but bI will be rewared in long run from God.

I'm sorry this is such a short review but this is all God spoke to through this chapter I hope it's okay.

Chapter 7: The Power of Collaboration How to do hard things that are too big too do alone

Chapter 7 is my favourite and best chapter yet, it talks about working together to achieve great and big things and in so doing we recieve great rewards from God with his help and blessing,

The first topic I want to head up is strength numbers as the bible says when two or more are gathered there he is in the midst of them. This statement really touches me, when teenagers like us reach out to other people God will help us through the good and the bad.

Older people are supposably wiser than the younger toward Alex and Brett they believe that the elders in the church are the ones that we should look up to.

teaming up at home is also another form of collaboration for example when familes put together a fundraiser to raise money they are collabrating together, we should all take a stand and start doing this.

I personally am going to collorbrate with my family memebers from this day foward by help clean the backyard that needs to by done over the weekend, i am also going to put togetehr fun fundraisers for compassion and for the earthquake in New Zealand.

The last topic I want to close with is don't give up and success happens (in more ways than one)
these two topics spoke to my heart, don't give up even if times are getting tough just keeping pushing through and ask God to help the group/team and you, the other topic was success happens in more ways than one, which means there is plenty more ways we can work together to raise money or find the dirty clothes than just one.

When hard things tackle us we need to stand together and work as a team to achieve big hard things. But first we need to pray, plan and then go for it.

Chapter 6: Raising the bar (how to hard things that go beyond what is expected or required)

Chapter 6 talks about going beyond what is expected or required for example Sarah was low in her grades but then stood high and aimed toward getting a higher grade and she accomplished it even though she wasn't expected to do it.

Alex and Brett explain about a guy in our minds called Mr. Complancy this guy attacks our minds by saying that our life is a breeze and there is nothing wrong with it but there is, everyday we face new challenges and experiences that sometimes we think they aren't worth worrying about, but they are!

Do what is hard for you, things that take you outside your comfort zone like public speaking for example.

Be known for what you do (more than for what you don't) which in other mords means that let people see that you are reliable faithful christian not things that you don't do e.g go partying late at night saying no to pre-marital sex etc.

The last thing I want to say on this topic is that we need to stop being whimps and become world changers for christ and to lead others to christ.

Chapter 5: That First Scary Step How to do things that take you out of your comfort zone

Chapter 5 talks about stepping outside your comfort zone to do "Hard things" . They also explain that God is along side us all of the way when we step outside that zone, the boys say that you can't get success without risking failure which means that yes we will stumble along the way and we will make mistakes but we just have to get back on our feet and try again. There is a story about a girl that does public speaking and she use to hate that but she stood and came out of that comfort zone and it now she is famous because she accomplished her great fear and came out of her comfort zone, we too can do that but we just have to step outside of our comfort zone, this is the first step for accomplishing and doing "hard things".  

Chapter 4: A Better Way

Chapter 4 talks about how our teenage years impact our future and what is for our lives. The boys explain that our teenage years is a launch pad into life which we can start doing things now that will benifit our future.

Kidults are really common in today's society. Kidults are people that are adults, but act as little children still, because they didn't live the fulling teenage life as a launch pad into their future which they lived.
The boys also explain that it's not too late if we are teenagers now, because we can still use these years as a launch pad. In chapter 5: The boys will give us some examples of how to launch the pad into our everyday life now as teenagers to benifit our future as we enter into adults.

Chapter 3: The Myth of Adolescence EXPOSING LOW EXPECTATIONS THAT ARE ROBBING OUR GENERATION

OMG this chapter really spoke to me, In this chapter the boys explain that society today expect teenagers to be lazy, sit around and act as teenage life as a cruise. When actually our teen years means a lot because it is a launch pad into our future and will determine what we will become, but more about that in chapter 4 and the next blog.

What this chapter is saying is that teens in this generation are low and aren't expected to do much, but they are suppose to do a lot. Teens are suppose to be influnces to younger people but not today, back about 100 years ago there was no such thing as a TEENAGER but as this generation came to be the world put the word ADOLESCENCE & TEENAGER into everyday life which now means the ages between 13 and 19. When a child is becoming an adult going through puberty and maturing.

People about 100 years ago at the age of 15 were adults and they were given big jobs that most 30 year olds can't even do these days. But why isn't it like this these days? It's because society these believes that children between ages 13 & 19 should have adventurous time during this stage. but it's not true. Teens should become more mature, wiser and respectful and see what they have install for their lives in the future determined by how they are living their teens lives at the moment and in the years to come. Now all about how we can put that into practise in chapter 4. 

Chapter 2: The birth of a big idea

Chapter 2 talks about Alex and Brett finding work in a high place at only the age of 16. What their trying to say is that all of our ideas and our attitudes determine who we going to become when we grow up. It doesn't matter what society says about teens, we christian teens and in general teens can become bigger than we what think or the world thinks that we are.

Brett and Alex also talk about how to rebel against rebellion, which means going against what the world thinks of us and who teens are and starting acting maturly and not like this world today.

We have to think better than what we are and start living out the truth about what real christian teenages are like and who they are to become. Respectful and mature.

Do Hard Things by: Alex & Brett harris chapter 1: Most people don't... A different kind of Teen book

Wow this book is amazing, I believe that this book is going to touch and inspire me. The minute I opened this book I got a revelation that God is going to change me around for the better, against rebellion. Chapter 1 talks about how this book is different from every other kind of teen book. You see in this generation of teens we are expected to just read books and for them not to do anything for us,

but this book is challenges us differently from today society, Brett and Alex explain that standing out and going against rebellion in going to be a new generation for teen christians like us today. They also explain that they wrote up a blog called rebellution which means rebellion against revelution. Brett and Alex believe that this generation is going to go against the revelution of this world and go against rebellion. I'm praying right now that as I read this book God is going to change my heart and thinking and stand on what God says about rebellion in this generation. I am today going against the revelution on rebellion and start focusing on what God wants for me in my teen years yet to come to be good and respectful.

A Young Woman After God's Own Heart "Chapter 1" "A Heart Devoted to God"

In Chapter 1 of "a young woman after God's own heart". Elizabeth George the author gives us a few tips and advice on to how become closer and be more devoted to God in our everyday life, there is also a story in chapter 1 that talks about two ladies in the bible mary and martha. Both of these ladies loved God, but it was about the ways that they served God, you see Martha loved God and served him in every way she could or thought, but whereas Mary was a servant of God aswell but she also took the time to stop all that she was doing, even serving him, sat at at his feet, worshipped him and took the time to enjoy him aswell. Jesus looked at her ways thought it was good and rewared her. This story spoke to me, you see it's not all about just serving God and Jesus, you can also take the time out of your day to just worship and enjoy him. There is also a poem in chapter 1 of this book that says

Good, better, best,

never let it rest,

until your good is better,

and your better is best.

What this poem is saying is that when you confront everyday situations we should say this and God will help and give us advice if we try.

Lastly in this chapter the author gives us advice on how to develop a heart devoted to God everyday, there are three ways on how to do this, number 1: Pray everyday before u get up out of your bed, during the day and at night. Number 2: Read at least 1 chapter of your bible Morning, during the day and at night. & Number 3: Just stop and enjoy God for who he is.

This chapter is very inspirational, everyday from now I am going to grow closer to God and be more devoted to him every minute of the day all day. And lastly from now and on I will at times sit back, worship and enjoy God and Jesus for who they are and be thankful that I have them and for all they have done for me.

Honour's reward by John Bevere chapter 3 A full reward

Out of this chapter I got a real revelation. I found that honour rewards don't come unless you have faith in God or in whatever you are doing. There are a few people in the bible that spoke to me in this chapter about having faith, like the woman who had a daughter with a demon inside her. When God said go away and called her a dog, she stood there and said that even the little dogs get the crumbs from under the table. Jesus was amazed with this so he rewarded her and healed her daughter, it was because of her faith that she recieved the full reward. Another one that spoke to me was a Roman officer, when his servent was paralyzed the Roman officer asked Jesus to heal his servant. Jesus answered yes I will come into your house and I will heal your servernt. The Roman officer said to Jesus I am not worthy enough for a person like you to come into my house. Jesus was astonished and at that second the Servent was healed. The man was amazed. It was because of this officer's faith that he recieved this reward.

What John is trying to say, is that no matter what we do to honour people we need to have faith in what we do to honour them. Otherwise we will not recieve a full reward.

Honor's reward chapter 2 review

Chapter 2 of honor's reward talks about partial or no rewards. A lot of people in the bible were used as examples in this chapter. People like Jesus' family will only recieve a partial reward because they had doubts in him, most of them thought that he was just an ordinary boy and man. But people like preachers and teachers that told and talked about the word of God had a lot of doubts in Jesus and they didn't recieve any reward. The reason why they didn't recieve any reward is not because they doubted in Jesus but because they had the thoughts in their minds. They did not express their feelings or thoughts to Jesus otherwise Jesus would have explained it again and given them more understanding so they would recieve a reward. What John Bevere is trying to get to us is that what we do, think or say has an impact on what and how we recieve our reward. This is my review on chapter 2 Honor's reward by John Bevere.

honor's reward by John Bevereve chapter 1

Hello to whoever will read this blog. Chapter 1 of this book is an introduction that is great beyond all words. The inspiration that John gives in this first chapter is amazing. The first thing I found rewarding is that God is waiting to reward us. But we will only recieve this reward if we have earnt it. Most of the time we take honoring as just an extinct virtue, which is not true in God's eyes. God sees honoring as the number one thing we need to do to reap a good harvest. Like John says in the bible :Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may recieve a full reward.

King Rehoboam lost his reward and did not recieve it because he did not listen to God or his people but turned to his peers for the wrong advice on the beating of his people or not.

I will stop here, and ask my dear cousin when to start reading the second chapeter. In chapter two we will read wheather we have earnt a partial or no reward.