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love, another weekend that i wish that i could have shared with you. the joy that i have been experiencing lately is just indescribable. this weekend, someone that i hadnt seen in a while asked me how i had been lately. the only way that i could describe it was that i am just blessed. friday night i went back out to brook hills. the pastor preached a salvation message, relating becoming a Christian to becoming a soldier. i may use that sermon with my youth soon. three people got saved that night and three others decided to go public with their confession and get baptised. i thought it was awesome. saturday, i took the kids to go play paintball. there were eight of us all together. three of my regular youth, three of their friends, vance, and myself. we had so much fun. i truly wish that you were here with me so that you could see the amount of joy that these kids bring me. no one was seriously injured, only a few minor bruises, staind clothes, and broken pride. vance and i tore up some little kids. we had a blast. and i think i am seriously addicted to paintball. im even considering saving up some money to go buy myself a gun. i pray that you are understanding of my addictive personality. saturday night during bible study, i had an awesome experience. as soon as we started worship time, i could hear God telling me to take my chain off and look at my cross. as i sat there looking at the cross, God told me that he wanted to show me all that His love for me had caused him to go through. laying in the floor, my mind drifted to that day 2000 years ago when my Savior died for me. i recalled the events of that day in my mind as best as i could remember from Scripture. after i had replayed all the things that had happened to Jesus that day, the Peace of God overwhelmed me. and i actually fell asleep having a little better understanding of how great God's love me is. sunday morning was cool because one of the kids who went with us to play paintball came to sunday school. he seemed to really enjoy it and he told his friend that he wants to start coming regularly. including him, there were four in sunday school and two came that night. i think the paintball excursion was a good one. it seemed to bring the group together, and it definitely gave us something to discuss on a common level. in fact, they asked me if we could go play again this weekend. i told them that we would wait a couple of weeks before going again. last night, after church a bunch of us went to adam's house to watch fight club. the movie was both entertaining and disturbing at the same time. entertaining in that it was unique. i have never seen another movie quite like it before. disturbing in the amount of crude vulgarity in the movie. lewd sex acts with very strong language and very disturbing violence. i had a discussion about you the other day. it started off as a discussion about prayer between an unsaved friend and myself. he asked me if i really did pray a lot. i told him my whole story of how i used to not pray, but ever since i discovered the power of prayer and what it really means to pray, i do it a lot more. then, he asked me what kinds of things that i pray for, and i told him some of them. then, out of nowhere, he asked me if i prayed for my future wife. and i told him that, as a matter of fact, i do. i told him that i pray for your strength to stay strong during this time of singleness. i pray that you follow God's will for your life in all areas. mostly i pray that God watches over you and keeps you safe. |
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