instead of giving some kind of update for today, i am going to post my final application from the book of 2 Corinthians so you can get a grasp of what a portion of my homework each week looks like as well as how i am interpreting our books! i am going to try and post these final applications onto here, as i feel led. i hope it can encourage and bless you today!

2 Corinthians Final Application – Bobby Bo.

What are the basic, timeless truths in this book?
God desires to comfort all who believe (1:4)
The veil has been torn and there is freedom for all who believe in the name of Jesus (3:14)
God did not call believers to a ministry of success but a ministry of obedience (6:9-10)
Believers are to give sacrificially (9:6)
The power of Jesus is enough for all believers (12:9)
Believers are to not give up on those they are discipling (12:19)

What am I to believe?
After reading this book I think that I can now relate to why people say that “it’s not about you” and it’s funny because I felt like God was saying to me earlier in the week when I had just done the outloud and color code that “right now you might not get it, but you will” and I don’t believe I have the full picture but I definitely see it a bit more clearly now, that it is not about me. I am to believe that in my weaknesses God wants to use me through them. I am thinking a lot about when I first became a Christian and how hard it was for me to do and the guy that was discipling me definitely had a lot of questions coming his way from me regarding this whole new life that I was living and there were for sure times when I would walk into his office on Fridays and tell him that I don’t think I can do it, that I don’t have the strength to live like this, that I just want to do things my way and every single time I would walk out of that office, I would see how God had me right where He wanted me and that I needed to put my needs to the side and just trust that He knew what He was doing. And now God wants to use me in same way my mentor was discipling me, to disciple others and not give up on them when they say that they cannot do it anymore, but rather sit with them and talk them through it and pray for them and just trust God to be God and do His thing and not my own. Through myself walking in obedience on the path that God has me on, He is going to bless that and though I might look successful in the eyes of the world, I know that through my obedience I am successful in spending eternity with my Jesus Christ.

Are there attitudes, actions or thought patterns that I need to change?
I need to change the way I think the world views me. Almost daily I feel like people look at me and are judging me or thinking negative thoughts about me and this is just a thought pattern that I have had for a really long time that doesn’t seem to go away, but I most definitely desire it to. I need to change that mindset to one that though I might not be what some in the world may think a 26 year-old man should be at in their life, but in God’s eyes I am exactly where I am supposed to be, and have that be my strength, and for me to genuinely be okay with that.

What can I learn about my relationship with God, with people?
That the grace of God is more than anything I will ever need on this earth. That as long as God keeps pouring out that grace and I am in a place of honestly receiving it, that is the only place I need to be in. That I need to remind myself of those who discipled me early in my walk and think about how they did not give up on me despite my frustration but just kept praying for me and pressed into my life with authenticity and then in return do the same for those who God blesses me with an opportunity to disciple myself.

What is the Good News for me?
The good news is that God has called me to serve Him and there is nothing else I could imagine myself doing at all. Before I became Christian, God was not even a thought in my head and then I got saved and it was all about God. He was all that I could think about and it is still that way. The good news is that God desires to use me in peoples lives to bring change to their hearts and He will constantly be willing to fuel my heart with his grace and mercy to be able to do that.

In view of these truths, what changes should I make in my life?
I need to change my heart to a place that truly believes that God wants to use my weaknesses to bring him glory through discipling next-generation Christians. I need to pursue more relationships in my life to help guide others through their walks in life and their lives in the Lord.

How do I plan to carry out these changes?
As stated in one of my applications in my charts, I am going to follow-up through facebook/email some people who God has put on my heart from Thailand who I have been teaching English to / gone to church with and see if they would be willing to skype maybe once a week/every other week to help disciple on a more personal level as I am here in Taiwan. And as a reminder for this as well, I am going to write out 2 Cor. 12:19 and put it on the wall next to my bed as a reminder to pray for those people every night before I go to sleep.

live love.