Verse Mapping John 1:12

I love how God continually teaches us throughout our life....

High School: Learned I could have a personal relationship with Christ...I could talk to him as I would a friend.

College: I learned about Quiet Time with God...taking time to dig into the word and to take time to listen to what God to say to me.

Adulthood: Through my time at Palm Valley Church in Goodyear Arizona I learned a practical application I could use while reading the bible called S.O.A.P (Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer) below is a link if you want to learn more:
http://www.palmvalley.org/nextsteps/study-tools/

Now through my Online Bible Studies provided by Proverbs 31 Ministires I have learned how to verse map. As an educator I love how verse mapping allows you to take any verse and really dig deep into the meaning and what it is saying. I love how you can make it your own. I have noticed depending on what is going on in my life I verse map with different perspectives. Below is a link if you want to learn more about verse mapping:
http://heatherbleier.com/2012/06/13/a-day-with-jesus/

This week our memory verse is John 1:12
"Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—"

Here is my verse map this week: 

 Some take aways: 
Believe: means to have confidence. I have confidence in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I have confidence that God has great things in store for my life. 

Accepted: to receive. I receive the Grace that God freely gives. The sacrifice God made so that we could be FREE of sin and suffering is unimaginable to me. 

Children: Because of Gods love for his creation he calls us His children. I have two young girls of my own and my love for them is unfathomable. If I love my own children that much how much more does God love me! Through a commentary I learned that because of Christ we were predestined to be ADOPTED by our PAPA. I am adopted not only in Christ but in real life as well.  I am confident that God knew before my own mother was even born that he would conceive me for my mother to raise, love and cherish.

In the Valley of Sheep

I am currently in my 7th Online Bible Study through Proverbs 31 Ministries entitled "Limitless Life" by Derwin Gray. Just like the previous studies this is impacting and changing my life in a powerful way. 

In the first chapter Derwin recounts the story of David and how when everyone else was trembling in fear, David stepped up to confront and insurmountable foe Goliath. It was through David's faith in God that he was able to defeat this foe and stand strong to defend name of God. 
In my own life the devil has sought to be a thief that "seeks and destroys". 

 For those of you that don't know I was born in 1983 in a small fishing village in South Korea on a small hut on a dirt floor. Shortly after my birth I was left at an orphanage in a sense abandoned. Yet I live by the promise that God gave us that "He has a plan for our life..". The definition of "orphan" was not going to stick. God placed me in the loving arms of my forever family and no longer did I not have a family but placed me in the loving arms of my parents and I had a name "Kerr" and I became a apart of the "Balyeat" family and now through marriage the "Corradi" family. I have more family than one person could ever dream of. Family that loves me unconditionally, that accepts me as theirs whether it be through adoption or marriage. And yet...the devil whispers in my ear "you were unwanted, abandoned, not good enough to be kept." I have never really spoken of this to anyone because anytime this small seed creeps into my heart God reminds me how loved I am. Not only by my family but by Him. 

I have always been one  to hate change..yet I think God sometimes chuckles about this because change is a part of my every day life. I have gone through great change in my 30 years and each time God has shown me that he has so much good to come out of the change. Here is a short overview: 
1. Born in South Korea but adopted into a loving family halway around the world here in the United States. 
2. Moved throughout my childhood each time to a better place where God would lead me to grow in my faith and find foundation that impact my life in major ways. (One of those being my Dad, my father figure who is there for me in thick and thin who will always be my side. (I used to have some daddy issues)). 
3. Feeling alone and afraid of being alone forever: I didnt have a first date until I was 18 years old and that was to my forever soul mate my husband who God knew he had waiting just for me. 
4. Inadequacy: Not knowing how to be a wife, or new teacher thinking I could not be either. Yet God placed a patient, loving husband who still reassures me to this day that I am enough. My first principal who had faith in me..not allowing me to quit and give up. Who through his faith I am now the teacher I am today. (I have found my true calling in life, or at least one of them). 
5. God placing amazing people in my life to support and sustain me in every trial and change. (Forever friends through each stage of my life, bible study and small groups that have changed who I am and made me a seeker of the Word). 
6. Recently God answered my cry and prayer and moved me back to family reminding me that everything is in His time. (I moved back just in time to spend quality time with family prior to the death of my Grandfather, my children have been able to develop close relationships with family just as I grew up doing). 
7. Dreams that God fulfills giving me a job that I had prayed and dreamed about working for Mason City Schools..even though I sometimes wonder if I am good enough to truly teach in this amazing school district. 
I could go on and on but it would take quite awhile. 

In Chapter one of "Limitless Life" Derwin states "fear paralyzes us from acting on behalf of God's glory, but faith mobilizes us to live courageously for God's glory." pg. 11 Wow! That is how I am trying to live my every day life on FAITH. Faith allows me and gives me the strength to feebly attempt to fulfill Gods plan and His purpose. Faith gives me the will to open my eyes each morning and welcome the new day. 

Although I walk through the valley God will lead me to the promise he has for me that one day I will see Him face to face and I hope I hear him say "well done my faithful servant".  

3. WRITE IT: In the Valley of Sheep ~ It is here David learns to depend on God. Are you here now? Do you feel unnoticed and like your assignment is not important? After reading this chapter of Limitless Life, how has your perspective changed? - See more at: http://proverbs31.org/online-bible-studies/current-study/page/2/#sthash.phT1s2Ec.dpuf

3. WRITE IT: In the Valley of Sheep ~ It is here David learns to depend on God. Are you here now? Do you feel unnoticed and like your assignment is not important? After reading this chapter of Limitless Life, how has your perspective changed? - See more at: http://proverbs31.org/online-bible-studies/current-study/page/2/#sthash.phT1s2Ec.dpuf

3. WRITE IT: In the Valley of Sheep ~ It is here David learns to depend on God. Are you here now? Do you feel unnoticed and like your assignment is not important? After reading this chapter of Limitless Life, how has your perspective changed? - See more at: http://proverbs31.org/online-bible-studies/current-study/page/2/#sthash.phT1s2Ec.dpuf

3. WRITE IT: In the Valley of Sheep ~ It is here David learns to depend on God. Are you here now? Do you feel unnoticed and like your assignment is not important? After reading this chapter of Limitless Life, how has your perspective changed? - See more at: http://proverbs31.org/online-bible-studies/current-study/page/2/#sthash.phT1s2Ec.dpuf