youth rally
saturday. had a great day. slept in sort of and ate some yummy pancakes and for the rest of the day i cleaned, woo-hoo. then at 4 i left with 5 of the girls from church to ride up to trussville to this church, dont remember the name, in the middle of nowhere really. it was a small church but there was a good amount of youth there and youth advisors from that church and another one. the band played outside, it was awesome! really loud too! as soon as i got there i just wanted to worship God. sometimes i have such a hard time focusing oon him and what really matters and i get caught up in things that i'm going through, but tonight i just surrendered to God's will and whatever he was going to do for me tonight. i finally just forgot about my issues and put my trust in God. i've always had something inside of me, even when i went to church in south carolina that i just wanted to let out. i mean in church at first p i sang and all, but now that i think of it that worship just wasnt what i needed. thats why i'm so glad i found gmvumc, now that part of me inside that is dying to get out to worship God the way that i really want to is slowly coming out. i'm just a little apprehensvie to let it out for some odd reason, i have trouble with it. i hope though, that as i grow in christ that i can learn to let go and worship him how i really want to, with no apprehension.
one last thing, i'm trying to make this short but its hard. at the youth rally, the pastor announced that this man who was 34 years old had to tell us something important. he was crying when he came to the mic and i could tell it took all of the courage he had to come and talk to all of us. when he finally spoke betweeen tears he had told us that he was driving down the road and heard the music so he came to the church to see what was going on. so he came during tim's message and he listened to the music and it really touched his life. i dont know for sure, but i think that he accepted christ into his heart. i could tell that he had been really hurting and it made me so overjoyed that he finally wanted to make a change in his life and i got to witness this amazing change in his life. i just wanted to hug him. he told us that he was an alcoholic and told us to never result to that for anything, and that it has messed up his life and his family's. by the end of his speech i was crying so much, i felt for him. it was bittersweet tears...oh what God does for people when they hit rock bottom :) see you in my dreams
one last thing, i'm trying to make this short but its hard. at the youth rally, the pastor announced that this man who was 34 years old had to tell us something important. he was crying when he came to the mic and i could tell it took all of the courage he had to come and talk to all of us. when he finally spoke betweeen tears he had told us that he was driving down the road and heard the music so he came to the church to see what was going on. so he came during tim's message and he listened to the music and it really touched his life. i dont know for sure, but i think that he accepted christ into his heart. i could tell that he had been really hurting and it made me so overjoyed that he finally wanted to make a change in his life and i got to witness this amazing change in his life. i just wanted to hug him. he told us that he was an alcoholic and told us to never result to that for anything, and that it has messed up his life and his family's. by the end of his speech i was crying so much, i felt for him. it was bittersweet tears...oh what God does for people when they hit rock bottom :) see you in my dreams