Listening to Ecclesia's podcast

I missed church last Sunday and tonight is my discussion group, uh oh!! So I went to Ecclessia's website and found the podcast. Sunday started a new teaching series about how to pray properly. I'll be on here again later tonight to post prayer requests; if any one has a request please message me ,jasonparker2560@gmail.com and I will include it, discretion is always practiced. Check out the link to the podcast below. 

http://www.churchinhollywood.com/#/sundays/podcasts

Forgot a Prayer

A good friend of mine has had to make an emergency trip to the hospital. Prayers for her please. She is an amazing person, I'm not sure why she is going to the hospital but I know her family has a history of cancer so I'm hoping it's not that. Please pray

One Month Sober off drugs

I officially have one day sober today off of drugs. I feel very blessed to have been able to go this long. Since I started using drugs 15 years ago this the 5th longest time I have ever been sober. I've done 6 months once, 3 months twice and 6 weeks once. I'm hoping the Lord can keep his healing powers on me and take this addiction way forever.
I had to work this weekend so I missed church but my plan is to listen to the podcast tomorrow and then have discussion about it on Wednesday with my community group. The other community group I'm in is meeting on Saturday and we are going to be cooking lunch for about a 90 kids and their parents at the Ronald McDonald House. I'm very excited about that!! If things work out we will be doing this one Saturday a month for the rest of the year.
In the prayer department my friend Wendy is in desperate need still and Zacarias is back in the hospital. I'm also requesting prayers for myself, I'm for a job that I really would love to get. I'm asking the Lord to do what he can for me! I have another friend who will remain nameless who is feeling lost at the moment and needs the Lord's guidance more than ever.
Please contact me with any prayer requests, go in peace brothers and sisters in Christ and have a great week :)

Prayers

I have a few prayer requests for some of my friends. My friend Zacararias needs prayers for Cron's she is throwing up every few minutes as we speak. My friend Eve has been having really bad two day long migraines. My friend Chris' sister Heidi has Lyme disease and is going through a very intense treatment for that. She also has 5 children that she barely can take care of because of the disease, so please pray for her husband who is doing allot on his own. Please pray for my friend Wendy and her husband, I'm not sure about what but I know our Risen Lord does. My friend Owen asked for some prayers so he can be as good a father as he can be. My former roommate Rick who is always very sick could always use prayers. We know that all things are possible in the name of our Risen Lord Jesus Christ, even touching his cloak is enough to cure all that ailed those of the past. Peace be with my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

Ecclessia Community Group

So tonight was the first official meeting of the community group I joined through my church. Besides fellowship the main focus of the group is too discuss the sermon of the Sunday before. The meeting takes place in North Hollywood at a friends house. Tonight's discussion was about Romans 12 and being a living sacrifice. The other major topic was too let the Lord have vengeance since it is his and not ours. I brought up my former roommate who I did quite a bit for and said some very nasty things about me in August. I don't talk to him any more and I'm not sure if that is good but I still pray for him on the regular. The group seems good, I was able to openly talk about my drug and sex addiction. I've actually been sober for two and a half weeks, I'm proud of that. I joined another community group that starts meeting on Saturday, this group will have us going to the Ronald McDonald house and talking to sick children, I'm very excited about this! I feel very blessed to be where I'm at right now.

On the prayer front my friend Chris' sister Heidi has Lime disease and could use all the prayers you can muster. If anyone has any prayer requests please message me.

Peace be with you brothers and sisters in Christ.

The Lord is calling

I went to church really stoned on Sunday. I was on the welcome team and I talked to everyone who walked into the service. I also collected the tithes with another girl. I'm not sure for how long I was really high, I'm not really sure most of the time when I'm high. I enjoy the feeling though, I work on another level. This shames me that I always have to feel this way. At the moment I'm really high writing this, I need prayers. The service was great Pastor Joseph interviewed a women who runs an amazing congregation in Kenya. She said the Lord is changing lives in the heart of the worst slum in the world. The church I attend; Ecclesia, sends a team to Kenya every year, when they return they tell stories and it has always intrigued me. During these talks I've always had this image of having a small clothing business in Kenya. I think people become truly happy when they learn how to make things. With that in mind what she said next blew my mind. The church teaches all the uneducated how to sew dresses! Wow I have a team to make my clothes and they are believers like myself. Take a minute today and please pray for the people of Kenya.
The rest of the service was very interesting also. Pastor Joseph started a series called All In, this refers to us giving up our lives so we can gain eternal life. The service ended with one of my favorite passages, JOHN 12:23-26.

Jesus replied "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant will also be. My father will honor the one who serves me."

What a great passage. Prayer requests are always welcome. I found out recently a friend of mine's father is very sick with cancer. My friend Zacarias I had mentioned before is doing a little better and been able to leave the hospital. Go in peace brothers and sisters in Christ

I was worrying about money

I reached into my bag today to get out my notebook. Inside the notebook is where I write down all of my little expenses. I was about to figure out how I was going to spend my next check when I noticed my little black bible. I picked it up and decided to read a little scripture before any thing. Well after flipping through a few pages I found LUKE 12:22-26.

Then Jesus said to his disciples: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. "Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? Since you can not do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?

Well I put the notebook away and wrote this. Thank you almighty Lord Jesus, your suffering on the cross has saved me for all eternity. In your name all things are possible, AMEN.

Please contact me for any prayer requests. Oh please keep praying for Zacahrias, the crohns is really doing a number on her. Pray for my friend Mark, he has had a bad throat infection for a month now. Please pray for my former Rick who is readjusting to being back home from an extended stay in the hospital. Also for Tommy who is now taking care of him, he is going to need them.