Thank YOU, Lord

I just want to say thank You to our Lord Jesus for all the wonderful rain He has sent us here in South Africa. On my family's farm (here in the Eastern Cape) and the surrounding area it was getting close to becoming dangerously dry, but the Lord has answered my prayers with rain. Thank You ♥

I Googled Bible verses of the day and these are what I found (I had originally meant to only post one verse, but I liked them all so much) :

1 John 4:7  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Kings 18:37  Hear me LORD hear me, that these people may know that You are the Lord God and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.

Philippians 2:3  Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

Psalm 25:4-6  Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, LORD, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old.

2 Corinthians 12:9   "And He said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me."  

The websites from which I got the verses of the day are the following:

http://www.lehrmangroup.com/verse/ 
http://www.verseoftheday.com/
http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/bible-verses-about-love-25-awesome-scripture-quotes/
http://www.biblestudytools.com/philippians/2-3.html


I hope you have a great day and weekend and next week and whenever else you want it to be great. Love Emma xx
God loves you.

Greeting all my God-loving friends!

Lately I have been feeling quite negative about the fact that I am don't have a boyfriend. Many of my friends do have boyfriends or love interests and valentines day is approaching, so that doesn't help me any. Then I was on a South African magazine's website and their readers write little blog entrees that you can read directly from the website. One of them was about loving yourself and being single. I immediately clicked the link and after reading the entry, I realized that the writer is right: I don't need a man.
I would like to encourage everyone who's single. You don't need a guy to be happy. Yes, I know it's hard, but it can be done with God on our side. Just pray to Him that you will find happiness within Him and within yourself. It takes time, I know, but doesn't everything in life take time? God will give us our Mr Right when the time is exactly that: right. ♥

 Love forever, Emma


GOD LOVES YOU!

Something to think about for today :)
Love. Emma

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (NIV)

Back to school..

Green dresses, white socks, crowded hallways and hostel food are what await me. As you may have deducted, school starts on Wednesday. Woo hoo *rolling eyes*

 We're going stationary shopping two days before school starts and going to the hostel one day before. Before we do any of that, though, we have to visit the family (let it be noted that this specific branch of my family decided that they were going to China for Christmas. Oh no, they don't have any family there). It was their turn to do Christmas lunch for my grandma, but noooo, China is way more exciting. Anyway, enough of my complaining.


Just this morning I was going through my old magazines and came across an article about positive thinking. Now I can be quite the negative thinker when in the right (or rather wrong) mood, so I thought I might as well give it a shot. I am now going to try my verrry best to think positive thoughts and I will let you know if it makes any difference.


In a weird way, I'm actually excited for school. I'm excited for new subjects, old friends and hockey. Most of all, I'm excited for Alpha (a little Christian group) and VSCV (UCSA). So yeah, I'm quite excited.




PS. Sorry I've been away for such a long time, we were away from home. I had a very blessed Christmas and new years, I hope you did too.

Let Jesus fill your lives!
Love Emma