february.

i haven't written a blog this month. here's whats going on in my life. i am part of a life group. finally. i am part of nates life group. which is amazing. why? i'm glad you asked. its a sermon lifegroup. well, it s a trainging group. and we each prepare a sermon everyweek. fifteen minutes each. on a given verse. we're speaking through luke. its amazing. my sermon today was going to be on identity in christ. in knowing our God for who he is. psalm 91 says god will save us because we know his name. Psalm 91:14-16. check it out. awesome. i was going to talk about how we know people by their names, and how in knowing their names we can know tings about them. if i buy a sticker that says "hello my name is" and then write "andrew" in the large space, you know i am andrew. if i wrote, instead "ron stoppable" in the blank space, some people would be confused, but the wise people would know i was refering to the character from Kim Possible, the Disney channel show. they would get the reference. they might even realize i said that because i can be awkward a lot of the time, but am loyal and pull through for you when you need me. i was going to open with something like that. its way cooler, but this one works and doens't give away the point of my sermon to those who may still get to hear it. anyways, life group is amazing.

also, i made ith through my second valentines day in a row without a valentine. i made it from february fifth 2009 until now without dating anyone. i'm pretty proud of that. not THAT much of a feat, but it was good for me. now i'm looking for a certain type of woman, and if i cannot find her, i am content to wait as long as it takes. i have been saying that all along, but now i feel it.

since i got over the last crush, God has laid a long list of people on my heart. theres still one i have to talk to, and one i want to talk to still from last fall, but i'll get to those two in the appropriate time.

at church a few sundays ago i learned more about spiritual gifts. here's what i think i have:
Special Knowledge. God lets you know things you shouldn't know. God tells you to walk up to someone and say "you're addicted to hardcore narcotics"
Encouragement. god tells me to encourage people for him. sometimes its just i am told to go be encouraging, sometimes its specific words.
Wisdom. God tells me advice to give people.
Helps. i help people. theres a reason this one is lower. it used to be major in my life, but less in recent years.
oh, and prophecy. specifically prophetic visions. one of those needs to be told to some people face to face before it can get into the blogosphere. but a times lately God has given me a vision of people doing things. of one of the guys on the band at church stopping in the middle of the street to sing praises to God. of two of the guys at life group being a perfect pair of lifelong friends and entering into a time of building one another up and mutual mentorship. some other more crazy things but i don't want to go into detail.

anyways, all this is to say my semester is going extremely well, and it startles me sometimes. oh, and i still need to talk to someone about something God showed me for them on Sunday at church. okay. time to send a text. okay. things are in motion. goodnight.