Wednesday, January 30, 2013

God Stepping In

            I want to start out by saying that God disciplines me just as much or ever more than my parents do(probably more).  He has disciplined me on everything from my attitude to my actions. This past weekend I was struggling tremendously with anger and unforgiveness. I had a great desire to ask my youth pastor for prayer and on Sunday he asked I how I was doing. Of course I said the easy answer . But tonight at youth group he started out by saying "I know that a lot of you have been struggle with this topic (unforgiveness). My youth pastor then preceded to give his testimony involving the murder of his mother. I cannot describe how awful his experience was because I am not fully able to grasp what he went through. However I will say that all the teens pay attention and take to heart everything he says. We greatly respect our youth pastor because of the way he leads us closer to God. Although I have heard most of his testimony before it really spoke to me because of how I hold on to grudges. After all if He forgave the murders then I think I can handle a few hurt feelings.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

The First Step In An Awesome Adventure

So I have tried this blogging thing before but it never really worked. This time I am setting achievable goals and blogging about a topic that is broader and endless. My Relationship with God. Until two years ago I never really expected God to talk to me. I had been baptized as my own decision, but my faith was still dead. It was not until a I started using a prayer note book that I realized just how real God is. There were four categories int he book: praise, requests, answer to request and something else. As I prayed, my requests slowly moved to the answered column. For me this was proof that GOD REALLY DID EXIST.We always a book on prayer during the national month of prayer so there is no way out of being spoken to by God. Each time my church has done a church wide Bible study on prayer something big happens to me.  The first year my church did this was in 2010.  A few months later they had another Bible study (that was just for adults) on a different book on prayer. I asked to join one of the Bible studies but was offered the opportunity to help start one for the teens. Not very many teens were interested. In fact only two other teens came. This was stepping stones preparing me for a great trial.