Hey guys! It's time for another update about my life
I know, you're all super excited, right? I mean, my life is just interesting! haha
...anyway ...
So, as you may or may not know, I was given a vision at camp where I was preaching to to teenagers. However, at the time, I didn't know it was a vision - I thought it was my imagination acting up. So, I prayed about it for the rest of the week, and discovered God's calling on my life - to be an evangelist.
However, I had absolutely no idea how to get there. I thought that I would go to North Central - but then what? Not to mention I was scared. How could God want ME to speak to teenagers? I was so scared, that I was considering running from the mission fields that He's already placed me in.
Then on Monday night, I think, the story of God rejecting Saul as king (1 Samuel 15) would not get out of my mind. I finally had to journal about it, because it would not stay out of my mind. And I discovered that we are like Saul. God has changed our lives, and expects us to fully kill our old lives (like Saul was to kill the Amalekites). However, we tend to hold on to some things (whether it's fear, secular music, the past, whatever), like Saul's men held on to whatever was pleasing to the eye. And as long as we hold on to those things, God won't show us what plans that He has for us, because we're still clinging to the old ways.
By Wednesday night, those thoughts had not left my head, and it wasn't until Chris Mancl started preaching that I found out why. He had talked about 1 Samuel 10, and how we need to give up our baggage (coincidence? I think not!). So, I went up to the altar and I gave up the things I would run back to, and the things that would keep me from doing God's will (mainly my past, and general fear). And you know what? God began to work in me.
Fast-forwarding to last night, I was praying both for the Encounter God Service, and to be used by God. I had given up my baggage, so I was hoping and praying that God would show me what He wanted me to do.
And this is what He showed me:
God gave me a vision of me, my sister, and a friend of mine, in the middle of the commons at my school. For those of you who have never been to my school, the commons is a giant circle, and we were standing in the middle of it. Anyway, we were standing there sometime before school, and we were praying, there was a little bit of worshiping too, and I was preaching! So, then I saw the three of us kind of getting laughed at, but I heard Dave reading Matthew 5:10-12 (seriously, it's not a coincidence that this is the ONLY part of what he said that I heard). Despite the fact that we were getting laughed at, we continued to meet there everyday. By winter (or late fall, I couldn't really tell), we had about 15 people, and by spring, there were 25 people. Finally, by the middle of spring, the whole commons was filled to people who were meeting with us! And I was preaching, to the WHOLE COMMONS! It was AWESOME!
Then, I heard God tell me that what I had seen was going to be my start and the vision I had at camp would be my end!
God also told me that I had to wait until I had left my fear and past at the altar. Because, until I stopped running back to that, God couldn't show me His plans for me. And He also told me that this vision was what everything that happened to me in youth group recently was for. Now that I have been given His Spirit, God is going to have me use it to reach people! AWESOME!
It was amazing guys! I can't believe that I am going to be preaching to kids at my school! I'm still kind of scared, so please pray that God gives me the boldness to do this.
I'm excited for school to start now!
Yay It's Update Time :D
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