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| Life is a weird change: one after another. When you think it's a time where you can settle and kick your feet back up, something prohibits that. I embrace it, slightly in anticipation, waiting on the day to come, when my time comes. I can hardly wait... | | |
| God is .. -an answer to prayer to meet someone with similar interests **less than 5 minutes, I meet Danner Marsden from Oglethorpe Univ, who is a Mass Communications major and is going to intern at a radio station. Still not a believer?
-an answer to prayer that I will just the opportunity to buy someone food and share the Gospel with. *IMMEDIATELY after that prayer, Jonathan Wilson from Alabama walks out from Club La Vela and he tells me he is going to get some food. God then gives me the opportunity to share His love, praying with Jonathan after his heart is broken and eyes are opened to the fact that he needs that once strong relationship with God again.. --an answer to specific prayers that the foam parties in Panama City on Wednesday will simply "suck". Many people we encounter that night tells us of how horrible the parties were :) An answer that all the alcohol will run out in a club. That same night at 10 PM ALL THE ALCOHOL runs out!
-leading Pat Redwine and Jason Maupin from Cincinatti into my life, meeting randomly while on Street Reach. God is allowing a sinner myself the opportunity to share my testimony with Jason, and praying with him, asking God to show Jason how important it is to have that relationship with Him. --breaking Beach Reach student's hearts, showing us just a fraction of the pain we put our God through on a daily basis when we live in sin.
**To say that this past week was AWEsome, would be an understatement. I firmly believe that when you see the face of God at work right in front of your eyes, you are forever changed. There isn't a single thing on this earth that even comes close to the feeling you have when God opens His arms, welcoming you back. No matter how far you run away from Him, the fact remains that He is always going to be right behind you, waiting for your return. *-* Pray for those we have a chance to talk to, and for those we didn't. God is at work in His people, and my prayer is that it won't stop now. I love you all, and don't be like I once was: doubting God of His power and Mercy... | | |
| Faith is described as "belief and trust in God; knowing that God is real, even though one can't see him." Instead of giving God half my heart, half my life, I've decided to make a change. I've decided to have complete faith to give God everything and chase after HIM and what HE wants. It has required a few major changes in my life, but it has always been my belief that when you follow God with all your heart, you can never go wrong. Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same. That is exactly the way I felt about leaving a group of men that I had been with for a year and a half. It broke my heart, but I made God a promise that I would do anything, and I have to fulfill just that. It's not the popular decision to most, but it's the right decision to me. My hope is that God will make my life useful... to serve, to give, and to just be the man HE has desired for so long now. I'll fight my last breathe for that day to come. I am blessed beyond belief... I love you all, and that is all for now... | | |
| It never fails to amaze me how awesome God truly is. I really couldn't say that enough right now. For so long I didn't feel that way deep down. I couldn't honestly say my heart was totally at the right place. As always, God never gave up on me... even though I basically gave up on HIM several times before. It's a work in a progress... our spiritual lives that is.
I am probably more excited about the future and coming days than ever before. I can't explain why or what brought upon it, but it's just there. It just happened. Whether it's 500 fresh faces, seeing old faces, Jeff Garner sharing his newfound passion in his Walk (which brought upon this e-mail), or everything together. I won't be sleeping a second this night, because I can't. I am thinking about all of you, and how somehow you've impacted my life and maybe somehow I can help you. It's an adrenaline rush I could get used to... God Bless you all today and I thank you for bringing back the passion for life in me...
I just can't explain... and I'm speechless.. | | |
| In living, we seem to learn new things on a daily basis. It makes life more interesting. The older you get, the more you realize you don't know as much as you thought. There will always be the questions we can't answer until it's all over. There will always be the love of a lifetime waiting on us... until that is, we discover it.
The one thing I've never had a doubt about, is the issue of faith. Recently I was reaffirmed that there is a God, and as always, HE is always there.. despite what we sometimes do to distract ourselves on something we think more important. It's kind of ironic yet obvious that when you're on the top of the world, it's usually because you're letting God rule your world. I've had a problem with absolutely knowing some things to be true in life, but the question of whether there is a God has never been a question, and I'm glad.
Sometimes things happen at a certain time in a certain way for a reason... | | |
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