Decision Points

Well this past week has been a week of much thought as too what the Lord has in store for me not just for the future but for the here and now. I never would have thought the Lord would have challenged and shaken up my world as much as He has in my time here at Kaleo. I always think that God gets a real kick out of us when we think we have it all figured out, when we think that we have our life all planned out. It is in those moments that He likes to come in and say "No I have something much better for you all you have to do is trust and say 'yes'. Not try and figure out 'how' it is going to get done but rather just say 'yes'."

That my friends is exactly what I feel God saying to me right now. I thought I had my life all planned out and figured out but man was I ever wrong lol. God has challenged me a lot and has been asking me to say 'yes' to His plan and to stop trying to figure out the 'how' of His plan.

So with that I have come to some important Decision Points in my life. And all these Decision Points are going to require my full trust in God.

I believe that God uses all things for His plan and His glory. However I do not believe that all things our of God's will. Even though because of human error and sin we as humanity don't always do God's will God is bigger than us in that He can, and will, still accomplish His will through our error. I say all this because my friends I don't want to be that guy who goes against God's will. I want to be the guy who plays a major role in the kingdom of God by not only being apart of His plan but giving a firm 'yes' to to His will and plan's!

I know that in my past couple of blogs all I seem to talk about is trying to know God's will. That is because my friends I truly feel and know that this has and will be a pivotal year for me in life in which the decision I make at these points will be tremendous.

I feel as though I am coming closer to knowing what God's will is in some important areas of my life. And in other areas not so much as I have only now in some cases discovered that God was trying to speak something into that area.

So to close I want to ask for your continuing prayer. I also want to thank all of you for your prayers and support it truly means a lot to me!

God Bless and may His peace fall upon you,

Joshua E.M. Giesbrecht  

Show me Your ways...

This last week was good and busy as it was reading break and I actually had to do quite a bit of reading (hence the name lol). God has been challenging me a lot over the last week and the area that He has been challenging me the most in is to trust him more. This has especially become painfully clear with trusting him with my plan's for the future. There are so many things that I wish He would tell me and I know everything is done in His good timing but at times I feel as though he has forgotten me. Yet I know in my heart that my ways are not His ways nor are my thoughts His thoughts.

Psalm 25:4-5 "Show me Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day."

This verse I want to be my life statement for this year because I know for fact that it is when I follow after God in his foot steps that I am the most at peace and satisfied with life. A lot of the reason why I am so anxious about what God's will is, especially for next year, is that in the past I have gone ahead with "my plan's" and since they are done for the wrong reasons they don't work out. That was the story of last year and this happened a lot as I was a slow learner lol. However God is patient with us and me. since next years plan's for school hold a lot of implications for the future I really want to make sure I hear God out on this one. I don't want anything outside of Him to dictate my decision.

So my friends I ask that you would please pray for me in this area that I would quite my heart and life to hear God's voice on His will for next year.

I want to thank you al for your support and prayers once again you have no idea how much they mean to me.

God Bless,

Joshua E.M. Giesbrecht

Crossroads...

This last week was a busy but good one. I had Old Testament Literature class with Prof. Don Taylor and it was a very intense but also a very good class. I learned a lot of new of important details about the Old testament and how it is so relevant to our faith today. This week I also learned of the options for mission trips this coming spring which was something I had been really anxious to hear about as missions is some thing God has really laid on my heart. 

The options were:

1) Youth for Christ (YFC), Argentina, South America

2) The Garwhal, Northern India

3) First Nations - Vancouver & Vancouver Island

They all vary a lot from each other as the Argentina one is a camp ministry focus, Northern India is a prayer trek focus, Vancouver is more of inner city/first nations focus. I am feeling God's leading do the Northern India one but I would still ask all of you who read this to please prayer that God would make His will known to me on this. There have been many times in my life where I have gone ahead with my own plan's and haven't given God a chance to make known what His will is and I really don't want to make that same mistake again with a decision as important as this. 

This brings me to my next request for prayer. As of late I have been taking into serious consideration what God's will is for me next year. All I know is that God wants me to keep on going to school next year however which on and what for still remains very much up in the air. On one hand I feel as though God has called me to ministry but I also feel as though He is calling me to politics (how I got these two polar opposite interests God only knows lol). Which brings me to my two main options for school Briercrest for a B.A. in Biblical Studies or to Carlton for a B.A. in Public Affairs and Policy Management. I just want prayer from everyone who reads this that I will truly seek to hear God's voice on this and that I wouldn't let my personally self-interests get in the way. 

I want to thank all of you for your continuing support and prayer.

Josh