The Work!

{ June 11, 2008 @ 8:25 pm } · { Life }
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The Beginning

My life’s a mess. I was just arrested.  I’m going to school for something I never wanted to do.  I’m having sex with a girl that I don’t love. I don’t know what I want. I don’t know what to do. I feel like the walls are caving in around me.  What do I do?  I want to end it all. I don’t want to feel like this.  God take me. Let me die.  I hate this life. It isn’t even my own. This can’t be me.

The Invite

Eric wants me to come to Celebration?! Should I go? I don’t really know Eric very well.  He is a friend of my girlfriend.  Even so, I shouldn’t be in church.  My life is a mess.  He really wants me to go.  I guess it won’t hurt to go this once. 

What!?!?

This is different.  This place is like a concert.  I’ve never experienced anything like this. This is crazy.  Church isn’t suppose to be this fun, is it?  What in the world is going on?  There is no way this is a church.

The Turn

What is this feeling?  I don’t feel condemned.  I feel free.  I feel better.  There is hope.  I can do this.  Is this really what God feels like?  This is amazing.  It is so much better than anything that I have ever experienced.  God…You are real! I am so sorry.  I…LOVE…YOU!

The Letter

David, Don’t worry.  I am with you.  I will provide everything that you need.  I am your hope.  I am your future.  You want to know what you are supposed to do?  You are called to be with Me.  To serve Me.  To love Me.  To worship Me.  To tell people about Me.  You are my son.  I have given you everything that you will ever need.  My Son.

The Prayer

God, what should I do?  Should I join EDJ.  Should I go somewhere else.  Should I look into other internships.  Where do you want me.  Let your will be done.  Open doors.  Close others.

The Still Small Voice

You cannot leave.  Your family needs me.  You are to lead them back.  You can’t go anywhere until they come back to me.  EDJ.

School is in Session

This is harder than I expected.  This is a lot of work.  A lot of manual labor.  A lot of being told what to do.  Very little recognition or appreciation, or so it seems.  I can’t do this.  I want to quit.  I can’t quit.  God called me.  Maybe.  No, He called me.  I must finish.  I must be better.  I want more.  I need more.  God, give me more of You.

The End

I am changed.  I am new.  I can’t believe who I had become.  God has saved me.  He has redeemed me.  I am loved.  I have friends.  I have hope.  I have a calling.  I know what I want.  I know what I am supposed to do.  I KNOW GOD!  I LOVE MY GOD!  I CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT HIM!

GOD, thank you so much.  You are everything to me.  I need nothing else.  I want nothing else.  Only you.  Use me.  Lead me. Guid me.  Let your will be done.  Rid me of my self.  I praise You. I thank You.  Without You, I am nothing.

Wanting to quit by Tommy Barnett

{ June 11, 2008 @ 7:34 pm } · { Sermons }
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Recently I listened to a message by Tommy Barnett and it was amazing.  This message was packed with a ton of information.  Here are a few of the points that I really enjoyed.

Wanting to quit is a sign of success.  Everyone at some point in time has the desire to quit what they are doing because of the struggles that they face.  The thing is that when we face struggles it usually means that we are growing and therefore getting better at what we do.  We are heading for success.  Tommy Barnett said that we can enjoy the luxury of wanting to quit as long as you know you are never going to quit.  Also, the more that you have to quit, then the more you will want to quit. 

Then he went through a couple points of how to keep from quiting.  Tommy used a lot of examples of people that he has seen throgh the dream center that he started in California.  He also used the example of when He ran from Arizona to California.  He wanted to quit, but he didn’t.  So, how do we keep ourselves from quiting???

1) We need to burn the bridges behind us.  If we make sure that there is nothing to go back to then there is no chance that we can quit. 

2) We can’t tell anyone that we want to quit, when we want to quit.  Though we do often want to quit we cannot show that to other people.  If other people know about it then they will expect you to quit.  And when that begins to happen it opens doors for you to actually quit.  They might plan for the day that you do end up quiting or something like that.

3) We can’t expose ourselves to what we do not want to be.  If we put ourselves in positions where we can quit or dwell on different ways that we can quit.  When we present ourselves with opportunities to quit then obviously there is an oen door and it makes it a ton more likely tat we will actually quit.

4) If you don’t want to quit, lock yourself in so that you cannot quit. 

There have been a few times during this internship where I have wanted to quit, but through a little perseverence I have succeeded in finishing this time in my life.  It has been amazing.

John Bevere

{ June 10, 2008 @ 11:16 pm } · { Sermons }
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I recently listened to a video message by John Bevere from when he was preaching at the Hillsong conference.  His message was great and was so jam packed with information that it will take me watching it a couple more times to get everything out of it that I can. So, with that being said, I am going to tell you just a couple of the things that John mentioned in his message that really made me think and brought new perspective on people of the bible as well has biblical principals.

First, I will start with something that I thought was really cool.  John went onto this big thing about being humble.  He used examples like Paul and Moses.  Now, Moses wrote the first five books of the bible.  In one of the passages from these books, it says that Moses is the most humble man walking on the earth.  Now, think about that for a second….

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FIgure that out!?!?  He was writing about himself that he was the most humble man on earth.  You think about it and you come up with….Was he really humble?  That statement seems a little prideful doesn’t it.  No, Moses was really the most humble man walking the earth.  The bible is the 100% inerrant word of God and there are no lies in it.  Just because he said it of himself doesn’t mean that he wasnt humble.  He must have been extremely humble if he could write it and it be worthy to be in the bible.  Paul was similar in that he called himself the worst sinner.

These men were humble.  How did they get that way, you ask.  Because they pressed.  They kept their focus on God and pressed towards Christ with everything that they were.  They held nothing back.  They risked death and imprisonment and so much more without giving up.  John said that Pride and Religion go hand in hand.  They cover each other up and as one grows so does the other.  We have to press towards God to get move away from pride in our lives.  He also said that pride must die for you to have fresh vision of God and the degree that the pride dies is the degree of fresh vision that you receive.  I have come to realize that pride is a sneaky sin.  It is sneaky in the fact that most people don’t know that they have pride or that it is a sin at all.  It prevents so many people from drawing a lot closer to God because of the simple fact that they are ignorant of if.

We have to press for humility.  We have to press towards God.

We have to PRESS.

WE HAVE TO PRESS.
WE HAVE TO PRESS!!!!!

For humility and a fresh vision of God.  To become more like Jesus. To see this world changed

We have to press!

 

An End of a Season

{ June 9, 2008 @ 10:31 pm } · { Life }
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So, my time in this two year internship is almost up.  My last day is this next thursday and I am finally getting close on all the work that I need to get done.  Graduations is the following thursday.  I guess this would be the time to start getting senioritis and getting ready to graduate, but I can’t say that I have done too much of that.  It all seems to have come on really fast and I don’t even know what has hit me.  I really have not felt like it was the end yet and now I’m starting to get a little scared.

I mean, seriously, what am I going to do with my life after the internship is over.  I ran into Pastor Stovall the other day and he jokingly said, “Your doing a third year right?”  I responded with, “I would if we had one.”  He said it jokingly.  I was a little serious.  I have enjoyed this internship so much and have grown so much that I would really like to come back for a third year, but the thing is…there is no third year in Celebration Leadership College.  I would like it, but I know that God has greater plans for me than a third year at CLC.  This season is over…so what is next.

I have not been offered a job at Celebration Church and am not expecting one.  I do not have a job apart from the church as of yet either.  So, what am I going to do?  I am scheduled to take the General Knowledge (GK) test next month and I will hopefully be able to become a teacher to some extent.  I plan on substituting until I have taken all the required tests and classes.  This is all if I don’t find a job at a church.  I would like to find a job at a church for the reason that I know that I have been called to be a pastor.  I know that I will not give up that calling whether I go to teach or get a job at the church, but I would like to work at a church for the purpose of “getting my feet wet” as they say in the ministry.  Whether I have to clean toilets or get a job as a youth pastor or become a teacher, I will do it to the best of my ability and with the attitude that Christ would want me to have. 

I have learned a lot in this season of interning and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.  God has been so good to me and I thank Him so much for giving me the opportunity to be a part of a church that is so dynamic and in an internship designed for growth.  I know that I am different than when I started this internship.  Different in a good way. 

The season is over and I am ready (hopefully) for the next stage of my life

Wednesday Night Fuel

{ June 8, 2008 @ 12:16 pm } · { Learning, Life }
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This past wednesday night I was given the opportunity to speak in the Fuel middle school service at Celebration Church and God moved in me in a powerful way.  The set-up for this service went like this…

I was told that I was going to speak on the Saturday before, and I was like, “Cool. I can do that.”  Then, it wasn’t until Monday afternoon that I was told that I was to speak on serving and getting plugged into a serving team.  Then I was like…uh, okay, thats cool.

At this point I was wondering what in the world I was going to speak on.  The next couple days I spent either at the church for my internship or doing homework for my internship.  So, needless to say, I didn’t get much time to think about what I was going to say.  The night before I had to speak, I sacrificed some sleep to spend some time in prayer and study for the message.  I wrote two full pages of notes, but when I looked back over them it just looked like a bunch of random statements that had no order or single meaning. 

THE DAY OF

Now I was beginning to get a little stressed.  I was praying under my breath for most of the day because I really had no idea what I was going to say or how it was going to come off.  “God, please speak through me.  I don’t want to speak unless you give me the words to say.”  The day was spent doing the normal set-up for the service…aka…all the manual labor.  About 30 minutes before service, I was free to pray with the exception that ever 3 minutes someone interrupted me. 

IT’S TIME

It’s time to speak.  My heart is pounding.  My mind is swimming.  What was I going to do?  What was I going to say?  I can’t tell Josh that I have no idea what to do.  I can’t do this.  Underneath all those questions and doubts I hear, “You have it. Don’t worry.”  I walked to the front, Josh is moving around behind me serving the youth who brought friends dinner.  The students are loud and going a little crazy.  “They all want the food, what do you expect. Don’t worry.  You have the words.”  God, Help Me!!!  I open my mouth.  Words pour out.  Kids begin to laugh.  I open my mouth again.  The crowd roars.  I open my mouth again.  Silence falls.  A pin drop can be heard.  Words flow out of my mouth and I have no idea what I am even saying.  Passion is flaring up within me.  Fire is burning from my throat.  My mouth closes and applause breaks out.  Service is let out and 85% of the students walk across the hall to sign up for a serving team.  What is going on?  “You wanted them to be my words.  I made sure that you knew that it wasn’t you.”  WOW!  God, you are so amazing.  Thank you so much for moving through me!

I have spoken before to the middle school, highschool and college students.  I always get a little nervous, but I am always prepared and the nerves I know are God keeping me humble because I know that I can’t do it without Him.  I knew that I couldn’t do it without Him, but there was still a little part of me that was a little prideful when I was given the opportunity to speak.  It wasn’t a big part, but it was still there.  God wrecked that this past wednesday night.  There was no way I could have done that on my own.  This was the first time where I was extremely scared because I didn’t know what to say, but God moved so so much.  It was amazing and I don’t know any other way to describe it.

Weddings

{ June 6, 2008 @ 9:14 pm } · { Life }
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My life as of right now has become a wedding extravaganza.  Everyday it seems like my house gets full of more and more wedding stuff and none of it is mine.  In April, my cousin Daniel got married. On May 10th, my sister Kristina got married to Tony, a man she has been dating for about four years now.  In about a week I will be heading up to Tennessee for my cousins wedding.  In early July, I have my grandmother and grandfather’s 60th anniversery.  In that same month, my parents 28th anniversery will also be taking place.  And finally in August, my brother Chris will be getting married. 

Talk about a summer of weddings/anniverserys.  I am going slightly out of my mind in this house.  Getting work done seems to take twice as long because there is no chance for focus.  This is crazy.  There are always people coming in and out of our house for showers and parties and all kinds of different activities that I didn’t even know where included with weddings. 

All in all, it is very stressful because of all of the work that I have to get done, but its cool.  I am really happy for all of my family members who are getting married and it is an extraordinary accomplishment nowadays for a couple to be together for 60 years.  Though it is tough right now, it is all going to be fun.  I get out of school in a week and will have no more work to turn in.  Then I can just sit back and enjoy everything while my family runs around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to put all these parties together. 

God is so amazing!  There are always trials that He puts us through, but with a little bit of faith and prayer every trial looks like a cake walk.  He said that we would have all that we need and He would never give us more than we could handle.  He said that He would give us the strength to endure it all.  That is so amazing to me and I love it!

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{ May 22, 2008 @ 4:53 am } · { Sermons }
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What are we waiting for?  Why do we doubt?  Why are we afraid?  What really matters?  Why are we here?  What are we doing?  Why is everything hard?  Why do we hurt?  WHAT IS WRONG?

We ask so many questions.  I have asked everyone one of these questions and more and when do we ever get answers.  Answers to many of these questions are silence.  They are left open.

Where are the answers?

There is only one!  JESUS.  If you are reading this, you are now thinking, “Oh, typical answer. Next.”

Don’t worry about the answers to life’s questions.  God is the only answer that you need.  You want to know what you are waiting for?  God calls us to go and make disciples of all nations…who told you to wait at all?  You want to know why you doubt and why everythin is so hard?  God told us that we would face trials to build us up. He told us that there is an enemy who comes to steal, kill, and destroy everything including our faith.  He said count it all joy because the very fact that you struggle and have doubt shows that God is real and if God is real there is no reason to doubt…Who told you it would be easy?  You want to know why you are afraid?  The world tells us that we should be.  We should be afraid of death, heights, snakes, people, etc…Who is the world to tell us anything?  Perfect love casts out fear! God is love!  You want to know what really matters and why you are here?  God knit you together in your mothers womb.  He gave you the life that you have and every breath that you take.  You are here because He wanted you to be here and if He wanted you here then He must have a plan for you that no one else can accomplish.  God matters and nothing else!  Without Him there IS NOTHING!  You want to know why you hurt and what is wrong?  God has given you a vision of what perfection should look like and no matter how hard you try you will not fully get there while you are on earth.  This seems dim…so why even try?  Not just because that is what God wants from us, but because with each step we take towards perfection is another reward in heaven(the perfect place).  With each step is another blessing.  With each step is another advancement.  With each step is a step closer to God.  With each step is lives saved.  With each step is a better, not easier, better life. 

DO NOT WAIT…TAKE A STEP…GO!

Preaching to myself!

Perfection

{ May 15, 2008 @ 1:51 am } · { Learning }
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Tonight, Josh Turner preached a message that was originally done by Louie Giglio about the human body.  This message was amazing.  I had heard it before by Louie Giglio, but there was something about tonight that made it different and it wasn’t that it was Josh Turner/Chuck Jangles preaching.  God started speaking to me about perfection during one part of the message, but I will get to that in a minute.

The main point behind this message is to show people that they are fearfully and wonderfully made.  When God created the universe, He spoke it into existence.  When He created you and me, He knit us together with His own hands.  He made us in His image.  He took time to plan out every little detail about who you are.

The message goes into a lot of scientific facts about the human body.  There are 75 trillion cells in the human body and in the time it took you to read that 50 thousand cells died and were reproduced in your body.  You wonder why you are tired all the time!  There is so much scientific information in this message that just blows your mind.  Things like the fact that your lungs unfold to the size of a tennis court.  There are enough arteries, veins and capillaries in your body to go around the earth three times.  In one cell there are millions of atoms.  In each atom, there are hundreds of thousands of protiens.  In each protien, there are hundreds of thousands of amino acids.  If one thing is off/out of place, the cell dies.  You are fearfully and wonderfully made.

The Eye

The human eye is the most scientifically advanced thing on the planet.  When you are in your mothers womb, your eye is created.  One million optic nerves leave the brain and one million optic nerve endings leave the flesh of the eye and when they meet you have sight.  Number 7 has to find number 7.  Number 82,000 has to find number 82,000.  Number 657,214 has to find number 657,214.  They have to find their exact partner, one million out of one million, or else you do not have sight.  Once their find their matches, at that moment you have sight, but there is one problem, you eyelid is comepletely shut.  Scientist say that in about the sixth month a mysterious cutting device appears in the womb and cuts the eyelid perfectly across.  They cannot explain where it comes from or how it happens, but it does.  You are fearfully and wonderfully made.

DNA

All of the 75 trillion cells in your body have you DNA in them.  One DNA strand can be stretched out to six feet long.  There is enough DNA in your body to go to the moon and back 20,000 times.  When you were born, one cell from your dad met up with one cell from your mom each carrying 23 chromosomes.  When they met, for the first time ever upon the earth the genetic code for you was made.  You are the only you and you were created for a purpose.  God knit you together in your mother’s womb.

What God spoke to me through this message is that we are perfect.  Though we make mistakes and make bad choices occasionally, God made us to perfection.  If one little thing was off in our body, we would not be alive.  People often thing that well if I looked like that person or if I was smart like him/her then everything would be better.  NO!  God made you the way that you are for a purpose.  You ARE fearfully and wonderfully made.  You are made to perfection and God has a purpose for your life that no one else can fulfill.  God said that He will finish the work He started in us and He will bring us to perfection. 

This message gave me a new outlook on how I look at other people.  Every person, whether I like them or not, is made in the image of God and He made them to perfection for the purpose that He created them for. 

Practicing What You Preach!

{ May 15, 2008 @ 1:27 am } · { Learning }
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Recenetly I was given the opportunity to speak at the college life service at Celebration Church.  The topic for the talk was to be on staying plugged in to the local church over the summer.  Since it was drawing near to summer vacation for college students, it was a good topic for the time.  When I was preparing the message for College Life, God led me in a slightly different direction.  The way it ended up was not just staying plugged in to the local church, but more importantly staying plugged in to God. 

I had been hearing in so many messages how we needed to constantly comune with God.  We can not slack off, we can not back down, we must pursue God with everything that we are and hold nothing back.  I kept hearing these things over and over again in message after message and I really felt God leading me in this type of direction for my message. 

There is a point in my message that partially sums up the entire message.  I went through a timeline of how people fall away from God.  It goes like this…Everyone has those days where they wake up and just have a bad day.  You don’t really know what it is, but something seems off.  You go through you day and when it comes to an end you feel relieved in a way, but still a little down.  Because you feel a little down you decide to just go to bed and not spend time with God that night, or if you do your quite time in the morning, you just decide to sleep in and not do one that morning.  Then you next day gets even worse because you have not had your quiet time in two days now.  And then the next night/morning you fell worse and don’t want to spend time with God again.  You JUST want to sleep.  One day turns into two, two turns into four, four into a week, a week into a month, a month into a year and before you know it you have lost all touch with God.  The longer you go without spending time the harder it is to get back into it and the more likely you are to fall into your past sins.  Eventually you might find yourself in the place where you start to think that maybe God really doesn’t exist.  Then you have just ruined everything, you lost sight of God and now you start to lose sight of everything else.

After this, I told of a few men in the Bible who were completely sold out to God and you knew that they must have had a daily quite time and rarely if ever missed a day.  I talked about Paul and also about Noah.  How they both had things come against them all the time, but because of their relationship with God, they got through it all and were blessed because of it.  Paul being put in prison yet rejoicing for his circumstances.  God only telling Noah to build a boat once and that it would take a hundred years for him to build it and he does it without losing heart.  Seriously, it had never rained before.  People must have come up to him all the time calling him crazy for building a boat for something noone had ever witnessed.  They faced trials yet they persevered, because they knew God on a personal level.

Where the title of this blog comes into play is right here…  Not long after I preached this message to College Life, I began to struggle with my quiet time with God.  Being an intern at the church it is easier to get back into having quiet time because it is scheduled on all of our work days, but still.  When the weekends came, I slacked off.  I didn’t read my bible and I began to pray a little less.  The more I did this the harder it became for me to get back into it.  I have devoted a lot of time to prayer and bible study this year, but I began to fall into the trap that I warned the other college students about and summer hadn’t come yet.  I began to notice a few things in my life that seemed to be falling apart and I knew why.  It was because I had begun to lose touch with God.  I knew that He was always with me and I would still occasionally have my quiet time, but it became really difficult to get back into it and I didn’t know what to do.

God is good.  No matter how much you struggle, no matter how many times you fall, He will always be there to pick you back up.  Though it has been hard getting back into a flow with my quiet time, God has given me a renewed passion for Him and has shown me so much about myself.  I have made mistakes, but I have learned from them and I guess that is where God works the best.  Through knowing that we are flawed and imperfect and learning from the mistakes we have made so that we don’t make them again and so that we can share with others to encourage them, God can work miracles. 

I knew what I was saying when I gave that message, but I didn’t know that God was not only speaking through me with it, but also speaking TO me.

Africa

{ April 28, 2008 @ 4:32 pm } · { Events }
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My mission trip was to Swaziland, Africa, where we partnered with Children’s Cup and ministered to hundreds of children ages one to sixteen as well as to some adults and the Healing Place Church services.  This trip changed my life enormously in so many ways.  One of the biggest ways in which this trip changed my life was the children that we got to minister to.  While we were at the Care points, we built retaining walls out of tires, we leveled some ground, we loved on kids, gave bible studies, served the kids food, and so much more.  But, it wasn’t the work that did it for me it was the attitude of the children.  While we were working a lot of the older boys came up to us wanting to help.  We taught them how to use drills and how to build the retaining wall.  Afterwards, they were not tired or mad that they had to work; they were thankful, thankful that we taught them how to do the work because it was something that they could use in the future to make a little bit of money.  Though these kids had nothing, no food, no money, and many of them no family, they were some of the happiest kids I have ever seen.  They never complained about their situation or anything.  They enjoyed life and enjoyed playing with one another.  We taught them about God and they soaked it in.  They were so willing to learn and to play.  These children were amazing.

 

I will never forget the story of this little girl named Tanele.  We went to her house to bring her food one day and we found her with her sister on her back and her brother standing next to her.  She is seven years old, her brother is three, and her sister is one.  They were locked out of their house that day and the missionaries there told us that she walks a mile to the care point every day with her little sister on her back and that the meal at the care point is often times the only meal she gets a day.  Her mother works all day and she has no father.  They live in a little homestead that is no bigger than a small walk-in closet.  She was in a situation where it would be easy to be mad and upset, but a smile never left her beautiful face.  Her attitude and her love for her siblings brought me to tears.  We walked with her back to the care point that day.  We took her sister off her back and gave her some relief and just played with her and her family the whole mile back to the care point.  After that, we fed all of the children at the care point and then had to say good-bye.  It was one of the hardest things that I have had to do, say good-bye to this beautiful little girl.  I will never forget her.

 

During the week that we were there we spent a lot of time building the retaining wall and loving on kids.  We held a youth service on one of the days that we were there and there were about 200 plus youth there.  It was amazing.  We performed a drama that gave an overview of the bible in the youth service and in the main service for Healing Place Church.  The drama really touched people’s lives.  Each person on our team was given the opportunity to speak and give their testimony.  

 

The youth service was so cool, but what was even more impacting was that morning.  That morning our group split up into smaller groups of two people.  Then we each went to a different care point and picked up the youth that were going to go to the service that afternoon.  Before we went to the service, however, we got to spend some time with the youth and serve somewhere in the community.  Jamie and I went to the home of one of the ladies who cooks for the care points.  This lady wanted to build another stick and mud house on her land so that she could rent it out as a source of income.  Her family worked at a factory close by, but the factory had closed and they needed some way to make a living, so the youth, Jamie and I were assisting in building her a stick and mud house.  The ingredients that we used to build this house were sticks, rocks, self-mixed concrete and a few pieces of sheet metal for the roof.  We hammered the sticks together in two columns with a gap to make a wall.  We then put the rocks in between the gaps.  Then mixed the concrete on the ground and threw it on the walls to fill in all of the holes.  Then all that was left was placing the sheet metal on the roof and hammering them down and we were finished.  It was awesome watching these youth serve this family.  They went at it with all that they had and did a spectacular job.  Watching them put forth that kind of effort with such great attitudes was a huge inspiration to me.

 

We accomplished so much, but the biggest day for me was the day when we hiked up a mountain.  This mountain was both physical and spiritual for me.  On the way up, I started to get really tired and worn out and when we were getting near the top I felt the need to take the thirty pound food bag off of another team member’s back.  At this point I was already exhausted both physically and spiritually with a situation that I had been in and I started praying.  “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.”  I got to the top of the mountain, took the backpack off, and my burdens were GONE.  I had overcome the mountain in my life that had been standing in the way of me and God and I can’t even describe the feeling that I had at that moment.  The way down the mountain was a breeze.  I put my ipod on and praised God the whole way down.  That night, we had a prayer meeting at Healing Place Church and it was just a continued outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon me.  It was amazing.  When we got back to the place we were staying we had a prayer session with just our group and the group of interns from Zimbabwe.  One of their interns was highly gifted in prophecy and he prophesied over me that I would be a pastor.  After he said that I would be a pastor he said, “I am not the first person to tell you this am I?”  This blew me away because he wasn’t.  Just before this I was wondering about my calling and asking God for direction because I didn’t know where he wanted me.  Then this came along and I was blown away.  God answered my prayers and gave me so much more than that that night.  That day he spoke to me so much.  On top of the mountain he said that even the mountains that I was seeing meant nothing to him, that I ravished his heart.  That day was ridiculously awesome for me and I needed it so much. 

 

During this trip God showed me how amazing that He is and that He was always there.  He showed me that He answers prayers and that He loves each and every one of us more than we can even imagine.  He showed me how huge your attitude can be and how it can affect the people around you.  I know that wherever I go He will be by my side.  I am fired up to go wherever God leads me.  God is so good to us!

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