God who answers prayer...

Verse 1:
God who answers prayer
Sees me in my need
Runs to my despair
Your promise I believe

Pre-Chorus:
That You Are, You Are, You Are God

Chorus:
Bless the Lord with all that's within o my soul
I cry out with all that I am make me whole
Here I stand I place all my hope in you
My Healer will see me through

Verse 2:
God who answers prayer
Faithful you will be
In my darkest hour
Your promise I believe

Bridge:
My Savior, my God on High
The One who has brought me life
I surrender all that I am
Into your hands, I'm in your hands

This is a song that the worship band at my chruch just did this Sunday and granted i wasnt there.. but it was shared with me.

I am on new ground, and this ground is rocky and scary.. but hopeful at the same time. There are many tears that cover this ground, and a heart that feels like it is falling apart everytime it beats.
Im not even standing on this gound.. i cant seem to find the strength to stand on it.. Im not ready to be on this ground. I knew it was going to have to be on it at some point, but i dont want right now.. i dont want to have to sit and wait on this ground to change. I know what it will take for this to change.. and im not ready to do that either.

I know you are ready.. and i know Jesus cant wait to see you face to face.. and i dont want you to suffer anymore.. but i love you and its hard to me to just hand you over to Jesus right now. I just want you to be healed.. and stay around..

i guess thats why this song brings me to tears.. its everything i want to tell God but cant seem to find the words to tell him...

"God who answers prayer
Faithful you will be
In my darkest hour
Your promise I believe

Bless the Lord with all that's within o my soul
I cry out with all that I am make me whole
Here I stand I place all my hope in you
My Healer will see me through"

I love you grandpa..

Elevation Worship - God Who Answers Prayer

Support letter...

    Hello! Hope this letter finds you doing well. As many of you remember in November 2009, I went to
India for my second trip. While I was there I became aware of all the oppression that takes place in this world. A nine year old boy, Kishore, who was living in an orphanage, was the one who both encouraged me and broke my heart with the weight of his struggles when he shared a small piece of his heart with me. I had only met Kishore hours before he told be these words, “I will never forget you because you loved me tonight.” To this day I can see the look in the eyes of an innocent young man, along with the devastation and hope that he carried for someone, even if it was an American, to spend a few hours with him.
     It is because of this young man, and a calling from God, that I am going to be taking in an amazing journey to Asia. I am joining a group called Youth With A Mission (YWAM) and will be spending a year traveling and sharing the Gospel with many people who have never heard the name of Jesus. During my year I will partake in three different programs with YWAM. The first is Christmas Outreach (COR). This is a two week outreach to share the Gospel in Hong Kong with drama, dance to share the good news of Christ.
      Second is a Discipleship Training School (DTS). This is a five month program in which I will spend three months in a lecture phase in Hong Kong with experienced teachers from all around the world. They will teach on subjects such as hearing the voice of God, prayer and intercession, worship, evangelism, world missions, along with many others. The next two months will be outreach in Mainland China, I will take what I have learned during the lecture phase and share God’s love with those all around me.
      Finally, the last five months will be spent with a Far East Evangelism Team (FEET). I will have a short preparation time in Hong Kong, which will be followed by about four months of outreach. I will travel to three to five countries in Asia using eye catching dramas and dances to capture the attention of villagers.  
     This is a journey of a lifetime, and it is a dream of mine to pursue the passion and heart I have for serving, loving, and walking with others around the world. I would ask for you to partner with me in this adventure in a few ways. First, join with me with your prayers. Not only prayer for the year that I will spend in Asia, but also in the months of preparation before I travel to the other side of the world. Please be praying for health, safety, finances and also for God’s will and heart to be known by all those I encounter during this journey.
     Second, if you feel led to give financially towards my trip you can certainly do so by writing a check to Grace Community and putting “Alicia Patterson” on the memo line. Then mail all donations to me at:                                                               Alicia Patterson
205 South 10^th Street
Norfolk, NE 68701
      I look forward to sharing in this experience with all of you and I cannot wait to see what God has planned for me with this journey! Thanks for helping change the world with me and my Savior.
                                 In His Name (Isaiah 1:17),
                                                      Alicia Patterson

Love is...

... patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance."

I Cor. 13: 4-7

Its about time i get back to some basics in how i look at things, and look at God. I need to learn how to love. because as i look at what Love really is.. im not loving the way i should be. There are many relationships that i have demanded my way, and not allowed others to experiance life on their own. And I have been jealous.. very jealous in other relationships. I have given up more times then i can count. I have lost faith in others. And i have kept a long list of wrongs done against me..

Its time i get back to understanding that to love, is to be in a very dangerous place. however with the God that i serve.. he is big enough to handle any dangers i face!

My God is big enough to love me, and to break down my walls i have build around my heart. And my God is big enough to rebuild the damage that my heart has experianced. and my God is certainly big enough to teach me how to love with a heart that is fully loved by a King.

looking for ideas/help...

Well it has been less than 24 hours since i found out that i was officially accepted to be apart of the Youth With A Mission, Year in Asia program. and so the journey begins!
For those of you who do not know at all what I am talking about, here is a little filling in!
I and going to go spend a year in, well, Asia! I will be learning alot about God's heart for the nations, and for me. I will get a chance to go out many times in that year and share the Good News in many different countries! Its an amazing opportunity and I (at this moment) still have few words to explaine how excited i am to partake in this journey!!

Now i have the skills to go, and i have been called to go on this wonderful trip. However there are other skills that i do not have that i will need to preperation to this trip. Those skills involve being EXTRA creative!! i need to come up with a few fund raisers.. and im not creative and im not got at hammering out details. (i would like to think im good at details.. but i have accepted that i am not skilled in this area). So i would love to walk along side anyone who would be willing to help with some fund raising, but i need some help or ideas that any of you may have.
There is one fund raiser that is "in the works" and with that.. i need a few supplies!! i need 3 peices of plywood that would be big enough to cover a pool table. (3 pool tables need covered with 1 piece of plywood each.) and i know i dont have any plywood.. so i need some help with that too!!
Um.. also addresses. Im in the works of writting support letters and letters to let everyone know how i can keep in contact with all of you, i need addresses/email addresses so that i can let all of you who are interested informed throughout this year and the year that i am traveling.
This is also the address for the blog that i will be using as well while i am gone. it will be used for my highlights and details while i am overseas. please feel free to follow me and take part in thei journey with me!!
Thanks everyone and cant wait to tell you more. (if you have any questions please feel free to ask!!)

im not good enough..

Ephesians 2:8-10 (New Living Translation)

 ⁸ God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. ⁹ Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. ¹⁰ For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.


Satan has been knocking at me hard lately, with family and different stresses. I sent out a text to a few good friends tonight telling them about my news from YWAM and one of them, a very wise friend responded with, "Im not suprised."
And i told them with something like this, "...I was alittle worried that i wasnt going to be good enought for the program.."
And their response was, "your not good enough Ehp 2:8-10"

Touche... im not good enough.

God doesnt call the qualified.. He qualifies the called.

this just in...

I HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED INTO THE YEAR IN ASIA PROGRAM!!!

estimated time of arrival in Hong Kong: Dec 10, 2011

Holy Moley!!! i dont even have words right now.. but AMEN!!! AMEN AMEN AMEN!!!

okay... i need to settle down and get some rest!!

but once again.. AMEN!!!