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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
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Jolly Day in Toccoa
Well, not much going on over here...
Yesterday was a beautiful day--it wasn't too hot, the evening cooled down, the sunset displayed amazing colors, and I felt like I was surrounded by peace and joy all day. Man, the Lord is good and faithful!
Tomorrow until Saturday I'll be in Atlanta Fest, so I'm looking forward to that! Christian music artists like Building 429, Jeremy Camp, Casting Crowns, etc... are gonne be there. And I'll be there to represent Toccoa Falls College!!
May you all be blessed and keep your eyes open to what God is doing and saying around you!
Monday, June 16, 2008
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Praying for healing in ATL mall
So yesterday, me and some friends from the Jesus Culture conference I've been attending since Thursday went to the Phipps mall in Atlanta. It's a real high-class, fancy kind of mall that Christians apparently avoid because it's such a hard place to reach people and what not.
Well, me and about 8 other people split up into 3s and started walking around the mall. Before we went out, we took time to pray and ask God to show us pictures, words, impressions, or whatever to be looking for at the mall. So then we walked around the mall looking for these things. I had a girl w/ a yellow dress come to my mind, one guy had the picture of a white polo shirt w/ a blue symbol on it, etc...
We walked up the escalator and saw an elderly man sitting by himself. He started talking to him and just asked him if we could pray a blessing over him. After we prayed for him, we realized he had on a white polo shirt w/ a blue symbol on it!! Then his wife came out and I asked her if she had any pain in her body. When she told us that her knees are always hurting, we started praying for her. We ended up praying for her like 5 times and in between, she would test her knees and the pain lessened w/ each time.She was so excited, she was trying out her knees, going up and down.
Then we walked into a Nike store. I was checking out some running shoes and in walked a lady w/ a knee brace on. Again, me and the other 2 guys asked if we could pray for her. She took off the knee brace and I laid my hands on her knees. We prayed for her; she stood up and said the pain was less. We prayed again and as I was feeling her knees, I could feel like the cartilage all broken up and just bumpiness under her skin. We prayed a third time and after I felt it then, THE KNEE WAS COMPLETELY SMOOTH!! She stood up and unbelievingly told us she felt no pain whatsoever!! She was so excited she told the elderly woman nearby that God had healed her.
We prayed for others, I found my lady in the yellow dress, and we just prayed.
It was awesome.
When all the groups got back to the church in the evening, everyone shared the awesome things God had done that afternoon--people in wheelchairs stood up and regained strength; a lady got prayed for her heroine addiction and her and her boyfriend got saved, etc etc...
The Lord is mighty to save and I look forward to so many more powerful encounters that will even sweep our TFC campus. So let it be.
Check out www.jesusculture.org for some amazing resources like podcasts, music, etc...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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Currently Listening
Hiding Place
By Selah
see relatedSummer in the heat of the South!
I think I say this everytime now, but I miss being on xanga and everyone keeping in touch thru xanga! who knows how many ppl have unsubscribe and rarely get on this thing anymore, but facebook is just not the same. Facebook is great for quick messaging and letting people know you're thinking of them, but xanga really lets you know what's going on in people's lives (since they rarely write notes on facebook...)
Anyway, enough said about that. After visiting people in TX and going on to AZ to see my brother graduate and then going to the Grand Canyon as a family (it was awesome!! GOD is awesome!!) I came back here to GA. I've been doing my business internship in the office of admissions at Toccoa Falls College. It's been good so far. Some days get long, but then again, I am so not the indoorsy 9 to 5 kinda person...
This afternoon, I'm going to Jesus Culture!! it's a conference in Atlanta hosted by Bethel church in CA; I am really looking forward to just spending time in the Lord's presence and learning more.
Have you heard of the awesome work God is doing in Lakeland, FL? It started out as a regular conference, but God started healing people on the spot and it's like heavens just opened. So they've been extending meetings every week and they've had to take the mtgs to a tent because so many people from all over the world are going there!
My parents went there before flying back to Turkey and they saw people being healed all around them. They're now back in Turkey, and with another pastor who had been in Lakeland for a few days, are holding revival meetings! This is something so new in Turkey, but so exciting! People are being slain in the spirit, people are coming to Christ, people from other cities are coming to get anointed. To God be all the glory!!Till, hopefully, not too long!
Saturday, March 22, 2008
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SPRING BREAK IN ARIZONA!!
I miss xanga blogging. I think about updating and writing on here in class, but by the time I get to a computer, I am either posting homework, emailing a prof, doing research, or don't have enough time to sit and write for a few minutes.
Facebook is working well-ish, since you can write one-liners and it's a good way to stay connected to people w/ whom you already established a friendship w/ or whom you're trying to get to know better...
But still I miss writing on here. I actually have a bit of time now, since I'm on spring break. Man oh man, is this break ever needed and has it ever come at a good time.
this semester has been quite a different one...it feels like God literally turned my world upside down and almost nothing is the same as it was last semester: my work place changed, some things changed at the place I live, my social circle totally changed, I found out who my close and true friends are, I was ouchly betrayed by a good friend, I am getting into core major classes...
I finally declared my Major: Business Administration w/ a concentration in Management. Besides this, God willing I'll graduate w/ additional minors of Bible and Counseling (or Behavioral Science). I love to learn and my teachers at TFC are so good--teaching truthfully and adamently the Word of God and all other subjects--I am surrounded by breath-taking beauty and nature, I am building some close friendships, and as long as God doesn't open another door for me to go elsewhere or do something else, I will stay at TFC.
It's hard to believe that I will be a SENIOR in college next Fall!!
Wow...crazy that I've only been at TFC one year, yet so much has transpired since...
Now I'm on spring break visiting my brother in Arizona. It's such a different kind of beauty out here! The whole desert scene--saguaros, bushes, bunnies, cacti, sand--it's all really here! it's unbelievable!
Anyway, hopefully I will be motivated to write at least a few lines of updates on xanga regularly...Pray that good things will continue to happen this last part of semester. Oh, and what I should do w/ my summer :)
Saturday, January 05, 2008
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Goodbyes are not without tears...
"Hello." "Goodbye."
Everybody says them, not only in daily life, but in friendships, in geographical places, to people. So many people come and go into our lives in each season of our life.
The life of an mk is especially filled with greetings and farewells. You finally make a friend w/ whom you share everything, and suddenly they have to go back to their home countries. Two years ago, I was the one to leave and left behind all those people I had known for the most of my life.
It was a cheerful hello to greet my family here at home in Izmir, Turkey again, and to see my brother after not having been w/ him for over a year. Saying goodbye to him today was like saying goodbye to the world again. It's as if each time you say hello/goodbye, your heart stretches more and more, hurting more each time, but each time being filled again w/ something new.
It hurts to see friends and family go; it hurts to leave those you love; it hurts to see good times pass; it hurts to let others into your life again because you know the time will come when you say goodbye again. The farewell may not be forever, but as time goes on, things become more uncertain, unknown, and more dangerous. There are those who let noone share into their lives--they don't share their heart, they don't share joy and sorrow--thinking they will spare themselves sorrow when people move on. But is that right too? What about those who open up to each person, and share their lives willingly? From experience I know this takes much courage and strength as you grow attached to something and then have it stripped away from you. But what a boring and lonesome world this would be if everyone did keep to themselves, who, due to the pain of departure, never even say hello.
I write this with a sigh...knowing many hellos and goodbyes are still to come. For me, goodbyes to family members is the hardest and the most heart-wrenching, not knowing when I will see them again.
But I send Simi away w/ blessing, love, and courage. My goodbye will be someone else's hello. Be blessed, bro.
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