SFOT Sunday Janurary 13, 2008

Let me just start off with God is amazing! He is such an amazing God and I just want to give him props today for everything he has given to me and blessed me with.

Sunday the ministry team I belong to was at the SFOT for children's church. Our theme was Noah's Ark and let me just say WE BROUGHT IT! We worked so well as a team this time that it was amazing. I'm sure that things went wrong, but to others around us the children's church was as close to perfect as we can get.
As i was lying behind the puppet stand with the big giraffe costume on (I couldn't stand up because the kids would see my head over the puppet stand. I couldn't sit up because I had to hold the head of the costume up and my arms were getting numb!) I was thinking of the song the kids and leaders were singing, Trust in the Lord with your H-E-A-R-T. Such a simple song, with such simple lyrics but as I sang these simple lyrics I began to think to myself how important it is for us to trust in the Lord with our whole heart. I then began to think of what the Lord was trying to put onto my heart with such a simple children's song. He was telling me to trust in him, throw myself at his feet and just trust him with my whole heart.
I have been having some problems trusting the lord lately, but as I sang that song I prayed to God to take my life, I was trusting in him from then on. God is now taking my life and giving me little signs to let me know he is here for me. He is an amazing God and I believe that trusting in him with my whole heart is going to be and has already been one of the best decisions of my life. I'm not going to lie, it's going to be a very very hard journey for me because I have come to realize that I worry a lot about things I shouldn't be worrying about. I also have a tendency of getting worried that God is going to throw me out of his hands because of the sins I have commit ed and the fact that I have been let down plenty of times before. I am scared that I am going to loose people in my life that I don't want to loose. I have plenty more fears but I am ready to let it all go and just TRUST in the LORD with all that I am.
I know that by trusting in the Lord with my life I can better fulfill his purpose and will for me. I will become a stronger, braver, more confident christian and will be able to go out and spread his love and gospel more. Who knows, maybe he has plans for me to go over seas or to another country (I have never been out of the east coast of the states, and I have also never saw the Ocean...). It brings me great joy in my heart to think of things he might be calling me for. I know that whatever he calls me to do, I am going to run toward it full force, holding nothing back, because that is what He wants me to do. As I was doing devotions I came across a scripture that really stuck out to me. Isaiah 61 talks about God's anointed ones who are to go out and take care of his people in need and to rebuild lives and towns. I believe that is what God is going to have me do. He is going to use me to reach out to youth and their families who are in need of the Lords love and comforting and hope. I am praying more and more on this to see where God is specifically leading me. Don't worry, I will defiantly update you on it when I get any more information on it.
God Bless....1 Love 1 God 1 Way <><