Temptation devotion (very good)

Jan 22

Matthew chapter 4

summary of what happens in the chapter.

- Jesus was tempted by the devil

- Jesus picks his first disciple

- Jesus heals the sick

- Jesus Begins to preach

• Do not put the Lord your god to the test
• worship The Lord your god and serve him only
• Follow me and i will make you fishers of men
• While i was reading these verses in Matthew, the story that caught my attention the most was when jesus was tempted by the devil him self. First the tempter (satan) says of jesus " If you are the son of god then turn these stones to bread" Jesus quickly responded with scripture and says man dose not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of god.
• The tempter then took him to a holy city and had him stand on the edge of a building and said "if you are the son of man then throw yourself down for as it is written "he will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against stone. Jesus again quickly responds with scripture " do not put the lord your god to the test". Scripture quoting is very powerful but we need to watch out because the tempter himself knows the bible very well and will try and twist gods words like he dose with eve in the garden of eden.
• The tempter dose not stop there which should not surprise anyone because the tempter attacks day and night (rev 12:10). Satan takes jesus to a high mountain and shows him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor " all this i will give to you if you bow down before me and worship me. and jesus responds "Away from me satan! For it is written worship the lord your god and serve him only. WOW. Bow down before me and worship me. He went way to far with that one i think. This is the son of god, perfect in everything and he offers him some crapy kingdoms of the world if he worships him. I don't know about anyone else but i thought that was kind of a bold move and really funny that he would even try. But let me tell you something. Satan will do anything to get you away from god. he knows our weaknesses and where we stumble. alcohol, drugs, sex, gossip, stealing, lust, cursing, Hanging out with the wrong crowd and the list goes on. But we need to stand strong like Jesus and take action when tempted. Quote scripture if you have to, Pray and ask for gods help or just run from the temptation.
• I know its hard because the things we are tempted with are the things we like and feel good, but that just makes us worshipers of our own selves. Im not perfect either and i fall into temptation once in a while but no ones perfect we need to be more like Jesus and do something when the tempter comes around.
• This is a devotion that i did jan 22 and i came across it today and i felt like this is a huge event that happens in every persons life. It wasn't this long in jan tho, i added a bunch of new stuff to it as a went over the scriptures again. So i want to share and help you guys who are reading to get our of Satan's death grip of temptation.
• fee free to go back to this story in Matthew Chapter 4 The temptation of Jesus.
• some other verses I encourage you to look at if you are having problems with temptation are
• -1 corinthians 10:13
• -Hebrews 2:18
• -Hebrews 4:15-16
• -James 1:2-4 and 13-14
• -1 Peter 5:8-10
• -These are all scriptures that you can read about being tempted.

5th section to port to base.

left, kids of the 5th section chilling around.

bottom, a mud house were clayton slept. and bottom left is me working haha. yeah me working. and the last on is the river were we bathed.



i'm going to make this short because it is getting really late and i do not feel all that great. We canm back from port and left and spent one night at the base. the next day we went to go stay in the 5th section for a week. While we were in the 5th section we started building a new church for the people. It was also a school for the kids. The first day in the 5th section i got sick with a bad cold most likely because we were sleeping out side were it gets really cold at night. You might not think it dose but it did. So im in the 5th section working and sick. This was not fun for me at all but while i was there i connected with the people so much. Everyone knew my name and by the end of the first day. Kids and adults were calling out mike mike mike mike while i was walking place to place. kinda feels good.

Showers..... wow that was an experience. We bathed in a river that was not to deep. It only got up to your thigh at the deepest point. There was a strong current that i like to think cleaned my body the most. Peterson told me that the last time he bathed here he saw a dead headless donkey thats belly was bloated floating down the river. So they waited 15 mins before going in. haha i thought that was funny.

Another part of the reason for us being in the 5th section was the crusade that we held every night in a open field where all the people in the 5th section were invited to come. We had dramas, music, talent shows and other contests, speaks and more. Lots of people came and heard about god and what god had been doing in peoples lives.

We then came back to the base for one day after the week in the 5th section was done. the church was build and everyone was happy.

We left to go to port again but i was only there for two day. I was sick again, this time i could not keep my food or liquids down and was throwing up everywhere. I was in bed and did not stand for two days. I did not eat anything for two days and i was so week. They sent me back to the base to rest and get better. the think it was food poisoning or worms by the way. we still don't know. I soon regained my heath and soon after that my feet where a little sore. I then got athletes foot and the whole bottom of my foot was coming off haha. The skin was like one huge blister. My foot is still healing but its not over yet. I woke up this morning with my eyes sealed shut. I ran to the bathroom and felt my eyes. There was a thick coat of hard mucus on my eye lashes. So i ripped it off and found my left eye as red as blood. It was mucusy and blurry. I also left my contacts in, so there ruined as well. SOooooooooooooo, now i have pink eye. its ok because i know god will heal me and protect me from anything else that comes my way.

other then all of that im just waiting till sat for the rest of my team to come back from port and see where were going next. keep praying for me.

again im not going over my spelling. sorry

were back...but going again

We arrived today at 1:00pm and we were suppose to et here at 8:00am. Ill tell you later.

we arrive in port au prince a nice house that what almost finished being made with tiled floors and a bathroom with a toilet and a square room for a kitchen. it was really nice compared to what i was expecting. We set up our beds on the floor and packed everything in the house and we were set. The next day we prayed and clean the house. we rested most of that day but then we went out to do our drama and dance at night. We went to the park in clercine Port au prince. When we got there there was so many people and really loud music. We soon found out that there was a Guinness party at the park that was averting Guinness. Not a good crowd. but there was no violence and not to much mocking. That was our biggest crowd all week, there were at least 300 to 400 people there possibly more.

The next day we went out to different schools in the morning and talked with the principles to see what days we could perform our freedom project. God opened doors and we were able to get all the days filled with different schools. We were surprised because they were in there exam weeks. That night we did our drama at another park in maigate Port au Prince.

ok im not going to start getting into to much detail anymore. We did alot of drams and went to school.

the next week we stayed in the 5th section for a week also. It was probably one of the hardest but most amazing experience i have had. Every night we held a crusade in the middle of a field that was in the middle of no where. hundreds of local people would come and watch our dramas and pastors speak. During the day we were building a church and and school in the 5th section.

the 5th section was a great experience and i made alot of friends. we bathed in the river that had a hefty current to it and was completely brown but fun. wow there is so much more to say but i am extremely tired and need to pack and wash my clothes and we leave again for tomorrow. i might not be able to talk to you mom for a while because i dont think were coming back anytime soon. And were not going to mexico anymore were staying in haiti and might go to the dominican for a couple weeks. BYEEEEEEEE

today is the day

So we will be leaving at noon today to go to Port. God has provided places to perform our dramas and music. He has opened up parks and streets all over Port au Prince. We will also be staying in a broken down house with no electric or running water. I am so excited to see what god is going to do with us in these situations. Please keep us in your prayers for protection because port au prince is very dangerous. A lot of murders and kidnaping go on. Not all the time but it dose happen. to make you feel better we did talk about what we would do if some one stole something from us, grabbed us away, had a gun, pull a gun, hear a gun shot, or hear something about kidnaping or guns hahaa . so yeah we have plans on what we are suppose to do. so just keep us in your head and pray for protection.

bye..

going to PORT

I will be leaving tomorrow to go on the dts outreach in Port au Prince. This will still be in Haiti. Port au Prince is the capital of Haiti and has the highest population with some of the riches people in Haiti and the poorest people in haiti. Just to clarify i have not gone to Mexico yet and it still has not been confirmed that we will be going. We have not gotten the permission from the mexico leaders to enter the country. Please keep my team in your prayers as god works on opening doors for us.

back to port au prince. we leave tomorrow and will be helping out at orphanages and i think we will be staying at one. At night we will be preforming our Freedom dram that we did at mardi gras festival. We will be returning back here on thurs and leaving again on sat to the 5th section where we will be staying for 4 days. we come back wed or thurs and go back to port au prince shortly after for another outreach. Then we go to mexico (hopefully).

Yesterday we did a day fast for our outreach. we woke up at 5 i the morning and had prayer and worship till 12. no breakfast and no lunch. the fast ended at 530 so we were able to have supper. to me 12 hours with no food was not that difficult but it was a good experience just to focus on god and have prayer and worship for our outreach. God will open doors for us and we will go to mexico. If thats where he wants us.

Keep me in your prayers and thank you so much for the people who have been praying for me. i have been healthy and im still alive not missing home. haha. i do miss my dogs a little bit tho. Ok and my family. ill be back o thurs so i hope to write about what i did in port au prince.

this week

This week there has been a lot of things going on. There has been a lot of trips going out to the 5th section to give out clothes and food. Clayton one of my friends on base loves to go out to the fith section and has been going out every time. he really has a heart for the people in that part of haiti. I wish i could go more and i would but the thing is they leave when im in class and i can not miss the classes because they are mandatory.

speaking of classes we had a teacher come from the states two weeks ago and teach us on "god in real life". It was really interesting how he was saying even trough creation you can see how big and how powerful god is. Look at the human body and how complex it is. look at the stars and the universes and the galaxies. its incredible how great our god is. There is no way that all of this could have been accidently made. god is good and made everything good. We also had a teacher come in and teach us about callings from god and the end times. The end times part was a little weird but i was just listening to what she had to say and took it to thought but some of the things she was saying i dont agree with. Im not going to mention what she was saying because i dont want to give any false thoughts so anyways. yeah

one of the DTS students steve fell from the top of a ladder and cracked his head open and broke his wrist. THERE WAS BLOOD EVERYWHERE. They ran him to a hospital and rapped him up but he's ok now. he has just been resting a lot.

Yesterday i spent all day at the beach and got my first sun burn. wow it was hot but in my head i was like "ohhh i never get sun burn" but i was wrong. Now it dosent hurt but i can feel a little bit on my shoulders, But i have a huge tan now, i am almost as black as some of the haitians here. At the beach we swam and caught big crabs and lizards. This one lizard i caught was huge. I was holding it by the tale and all the girls were getting pictures of it and then all of a sudden it moved and the thing dropped but i still had its tale in my hand haha. It was a big tale to. it was moving around like a little worm and everyone was freaking. It was a fun time yesterday and i hope were able to go again next week.

Little insight of what were are doing for the next week coming. I will have another teaching this week and the next weeek we will be in port au prince doing an outreach. after that we will be in the 5th section for 4 days doing an outreach, and yes we will be staying there for 4 days with no water,little food and in a mud hut house. after that we go back to port au prince and do one more outreach for a week. Then finally we leave Haiti and go to.............. MEXICO. so yeah. keep me and my team in your prayers because im going to need them. and dont forget to check out www.ywamportauprince.com it still needs editing so yeah check it out.

Sorry for my grammar errors im in a rush because breakfast is almost done. and im no good at spelling anyways.

bye

wow

ok so i haven't blogged in an ice-age because i have not been doing alot of stuff. nothing to exciting, but i did have my first hot hot hot hot hot shower yesterday. Peterson, one of the leaders here said that i can take a hot shower at hs house because he remembered me saying that i would like a hot shower. it was pretty much the best feeling in the world. so every time you have a hot shower be thankful because not everyone in the world gets one.

I have been going to the 5th section a lot lately and have been helping peterson out with his new web site that i'm making him, he is starting a new YWAM base in Port au Prince Haiti and you can check it out if you want to. I would subject you do. He still needs alot of support to start it and if you feel something in your heart to give a little then give a little. even if its 10 dollars, every little bit counts and every bit of money if put towards the mission base. www.ywamportauprince.com

sorry i haven't been writing a lot but please keep checking my blog.

I am leaving to go to mexico for our outreach as well just so everyone knows and i will let you know if that changes.

it really makes me happy that people are reading my blog and that you are praying for me tank you and im am sorry again for not blogging much. CHECK THE SITE THO. TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO DO MAKE IT BETTER.