Rethink

God you are showing me over and over again that this is something that I CANNOT ignore. A call on my heart that I need to intercede! I need to be more present in what is going on around the world.

I can no longer sit bored and idly while people are dying, because I am knowledgeable of what is going on, yet I chose to sit on my butt, sitting for mindless hours in front of my computer, tv, phone, ANYTHING but choosing to fight back.

To fight back for the justice that I can chose into making a change. To partner with what God is already doing. That I don’t have to fight it on my own, but I can be apart of a world change!

That we have the POWER to move. We have the power to DO.

That the time is now. You are calling us, and have always called us to be movers, doers, and disciple the nations…which requires us to do more than just “be.”

Why do we do this? Why do we sit back with the KNOWLEDGE of what is going on around us? Because we are LAZY, SELFISH, and so easily cold-shouldered, because thank God it isn’t happening to us right?

Thank God that we aren’t the ones who have to lose our house because of an earthquake, or since our family can’t support their addictions, they have to sell our daughter into prostitution, thank God that we don’t wake up every morning fearing for our lives because we are of a certain tribe…

Thank God, huh?

That His blessing is still here, that it is still upon us. That we don’t have to worry because He just loves this nation so much He holds back His wrath.

WRONG.

THIS IS WRONG.

We live as though we are untouchable. But more so than that, we live as if we aren’t RESPONSIBLE. That somehow God allows us to know all these injustices, but then wants us to spend 3 hours a day of facebook instead of fighting on behalf of His children. OUR brothers and sisters.

Hmm. our brothers and sisters?

When we put it into those words, wouldn’t you fight for your siblings? Wouldn’t you want that injustice against family TO STOP.

Well, they are, we are family.

So where does that leave us? That leaves us completely dependent on the goodness and glory of God, that we are in DESPERATE need of our Father. We are in total need of His wisdom.

Some things to chew on for the week. You can join me in that one J

Here are two of the videos that just wrecked my heart.

I Heart Revolution: Courtesy of Will during our DTS focus time

A Call to Anguish: Courtesy of Taylor, love the challenges he gives.

Update!

Ok, so it is about that time again where I really should have blogged a month ago, but I am quickly learning that it drains me, BUT YOU ARE WORTH IT! And time is so scarce here. I am blessed to have you as family, friends, supporters… and so I pray that as I write this, it blesses your heart.

So we are 23 days now away from going on outreach! As some of you might know, I am going to ISREAL AND ETHIPOIA!! And we are not entirely sure what we are doing yet, I know working with prostitutes, orphans, and helping in the community as much as we can. Because we are realizing just how valuable our neighbors are.

I wish that I had the time to just type up all my notes from lectures the past 2 months and give them to anyone who would read them because the teachers that we have are absolutely PHENOMENAL and have wrecked and torn up our view of God in this generation. We are going right into the Bible and saying, “who do YOU say that you are?” “where has our view gone wrong?” “what issues, past experiences, how I was raised, skewing my view of who I think you are?”

It’s incredible how God can, when we allow Him, ask Him where have WE gone wrong?

He will hold your heart, and gently speak to you on what people, what experience, and what of our self has skewed our view of God. Because He is a Father, a lover, a friend, that desires to rip us of our views, what we have placed on Him and gently remind us who He really is.

This is the point in which I had kept y’all a little more updated because I could just go on and on and on about what He has been teaching me, where He has been taking me, showing me, and loving me without limits. J

Here are some specifics in prayer that we could use as a team:

There are still some people with financial needs, just praying for the provision that God has already promised to come, that people’s hearts would be compelled.

Also, for our contacts to be safe, one of the places that we were going to, we can no longer go to in Israel because of the persecution that they are facing

Continued support and blessings for the staffers here.

And also direction for us as we seek God on what’s next for each of us girls

I am, in a few days, going to be posting some “funnies” for y’all to enjoy from my time here so far. SO GET EXCTIED!!

p.s. mom and grannana are coming on the 2^nd!!! WHOOOP!

p.p.s. the Aggies that are reading this, I have most the girls here (even foreigners) throwing thumbs up, and the staff kids here saying Gig ‘em Aggies! I have not forgotten about my Aggie Family! J

just a fun little picture of me and the ladies at our Family Dinner night aka MURDER MYSTERY! bringing the south all the way to Cali!

This is Enough

Words.

Words on a page.

How are they significant?

Well they are because they are because they are.

Who can say that these words are nothing?

So how does all this make sense? What is the purpose of questioning these things?

I really am just word vomiting on the page because my brain thinks faster than what I like to write. So therefore I am going to say these things as a way to word spew an overflow.

An overflow of His goodness. Of His creation. Of His astounding love.

OF HIS WORD.

(These words are significant.)

He says. THE LORD SAYS. Do not worry about tomorrow.

FOR tomorrow will worry about itself.

You have and are proving for TODAY.

Today $1900 was provided. Do I need A LOT more? Yes.

But for today, this is enough. This is more than enough.

Instead of me seeking and dwelling on what I do not have, for today I have all that I need.

(I know that you have heard this all of your life.)

CHALLENGE: Take all the things in your life that you need right now. All the things that are not being provided for and make a list. All the things that you even want.

Now…

Make another list on another page on all the ways that He has provided for you TODAY.

Be specific.

Now…

Which list has more?

Hmm...

Doesn’t God provide more that what we need?

We have clean water. Electricity. Internet. Paper. Pen. Clothes. Coffee. I mean this list can go on and on and on.

Now take the list of “needs”…cross it out! and write this underneath it.

So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.

Matthew 6:34

The Lord promises… I am RIGHT HERE. I am RIGHT HERE. I am not leaving, I am not forsaking.

Ask the Lord, what can be my overflow?

My chains are broken. You run to me to fill my cup.

Do not let this get in the way of His goodness, His new mercies each day.

He-everyday- is renewing us from the inside out.

This is enough.

He is with us.

God is my refuge and strength.

God is in the midst of me, I SHALL NOT BE MOVED.

Your Kingdom come, Your will be DONE.

"Watch what God does and then do it. Keep company with Him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. HIS LOVE WAS NOT CAUTIOUS BUT EXTRAVAGANT. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give EVERYTHING of Himself to us. LOVE LIKE THAT." Ephesians 5:2

The Lord is raising up the people OF THE STATES. The Lord is calling people that are willing to give up everything to pray for THE STATES. He is moving. He is doing something and today it was clearly impressed upon all of our hearts. Today the Lord is giving us reasons that He is merciful, that He is gracious, and that He LOVES us. He loves us.

Because we are bums. We are unworthy bums. We are people who consume and people who live to gain. Not a Heavenly gain, but duh...worldly. We are faulty, we are sinful and hateful. We are judgmental and we reject people. Yet the Lord claims us AS HIS OWN. He claims our unworthy, filthy selves and calls us HIS CHILDREN. How personal. He calls us His beloved. Yet we live as if we DESERVE everything. bahahaha we deserve NOTHING. Take some time to read Hebrews 13.

Wait, but seriously you should pause and read Hebrews 13.

A service well pleasing to the Lord.

Good stuff? I just made a spelling error and it said God stuff first try. Which are both applicable. :)

The end is near. Read it again- THE END IS NEAR.

Tonight I had an incredible conversation with my roommate about the end times. Something that I am not most keen on thinking about now, not because I don't think that they are important, but because I don't want to be consumed with what is to come- so that I can live in the now. So that I don't miss the process, the hard stuff (hmm.. haha), and how the Lord is so incredibly The Provider. But wow, conviction...chills...and more passion than ever arose when she began to explain the visions the Lord has given her. She is gifted in visions. They are both powerful and effective, and I have never been more terrified.

Terrified at the idea that I thought I was anything. That I thought that I had anything to do with where I am, how He has gifted me, and how He has allowed me to live in a place where I am safe and protected.

The idea that there is persecution to come. That there is persecution now.

That He loves me enough that He is pulling me out of this world and into what His Heavenly realm is. That He wants an army... and we are chosen. Warriors.

So this morning after worship, as we were praying specifically for the states and what the Lord is doing, is unpleased with, or anything that is to be seen, heard, felt...

This is just a small list.

Join us in praying for this. Join us in praying for your neighbors, co-workers, friends, family, strangers, haters, all of them.

This is us.

marriage. that our love for our spouse would be a reflection of how God loves the church and how He loves us. Eternal.

unity in the church.

more men would rise up and lead. boldness.

families.

church awakening. that we would have an open door, accepting anyone and everyone- and not just because it is trendy.

that God's freedom would and is going to be a domino effect. come like an eagle.

wait on the Lord. not all about here and now. not all things needed at internet speed.

God's best over Cali (said natural disasters, or any disasters are to come).

media.

disease.

humility and selflessness.

untouchables and homeless would be reached. that we were never reject our homes or food or resources to another.

Pray with us and we trust that the Lord's best is to come over our nation, even if that may not be what we see as best.

Let us run the race to the end. To endure until it hurts not a little, but a lot.

http://www.ywampismobeach.org/arts.html

why yes. This is it! YWAM PISMO BEACH, CA ISAIAH 61 JUSTICE DTS. Now try saying that one 5 times fast.

I am packing. packing. packing. and the Lord continues to remind me to simplify. So a small suitcase and backpack is all that this 5 months will be entailing. I'm stoked! Easy travels. After traveling everywhere in India with an obnoxious amount of unnecessary "stuff" I am no more in that. Meaning as well, Penelope (my guitar) won't be making this trip either. So praise Jesus that the school has extra's to spare!

But beyond all of this, the Lord has really been laying on my heart the word community. Take a minute to really think about what this means to you.

Is it worth sacrificing comfort, life, family, friends, materials, to be able to experience this in the way the church in Acts did. More importantly the way Jesus did. Does.

I am reading this book called the Irresistible Revolution. Stop. RIGHT NOW. Buy it. Read it.

It challenges all of our fleshy-ness of what WE think community is. What we think life is supposed to be in general. To become organic. To be ripped to the core of why and what we were CREATED for. That we may bring glory to the Lord in ALL. And funny thing is, we even need Him to be able to bring Him glory.

This is my prayer for this next step that He has me in. Happily, I am His. Happily, I am where He has created me to be for this season. Praying that this becomes more than just a trip, but a life to come, a place that becomes more than the next "place" but a place to listen and discover His creation. That the next season is more than just a "do good" work, but a lifestyle that continues, to daily, make me more and more of His beloved, dependent on His daily provision.

"It's a beautiful thing when people in poverty are no longer just a mission project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream, and struggle..."

Irresistible Revolution- Shane Claiborne

I no longer call you servants...Instead, I have called you friends. John 15:15

"Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed."

Hmm. Yes Lord. Can we still say yes to you, faithfully?

SOLD
Forgiveness
Audrey Spurgin
$250

SOLD
Buttons
Audrey Spurgin
$50

Africa's Eyes
$100
Mike Simmons

Omit for A
Audrey Spurgin
$50

Staircase
Justin Clemons
$100

ONLY 5 PIECES LEFT FROM ART SHOW FOR INDIA!!

if you would like one of these pieces, or would like to commission me to do a piece: email me at audrey_spurg@tamu.edu

also, if you want more specifics on size, or what it is made/painted on, let me know! :)

kickin' it old school continued...

NEW JOURNALS!!

I took these old children's books and gutted the insides to make room for my new idea.

I bound together white unlined paper and put them on the inside to make a journal so that you get the chance to re-tell the story.

I left in about 4 pages in each journal of the original story, or picture from the story, in order to give you a feel of what was once there.

So now these are just blank journals ready to be filled with any sort of idea, expression, or thought that you may have! :)

this is one of my many projects this summer to help me raise money to go to India- so the proceeds of these will go into my India fund!

Thanks y'all! Enjoy!

These are also a one quantity only, these are unique and once one is sold there is no replacement- unless of course you find another copy :)

The prices are $16 and $18 (plus shipping), the more expensive one has more pages.

if you are interested in buying a journal you can email me: audrey_spurg@tamu.edu

"Deneki" $16

SOLD

"Little Boy Navajo" $16

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"The Saracen's Head" $16

"Awk!" $16

SOLD

"Alligators and Music: $18

SOLD

"One Day In Ancient Rome" $16

"All the Day Long" $16

SOLD

"A Book of Stars for You" $18

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