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love, its been a while since i have written you. no reason really, i've just been lazy since school has been out. help! im addicted to paintball. since i have last written you, i have spent almost $300 on paintball equipment. man, that looks really bad after typing it out. i now have my own gun, all the accessories that go with it, a mask, an aluminum carrying case, and i have a better mask and an after market barrel in transit to me as i type. but its so much fun. and im going to go play tomorrow night. i really hope that you are understanding of my addictive personality. im trying to remember the things that have happened since i last wrote you. i went and watched vance and his best friend get oiled up and wear bikini speedos with about 150 other guys. yeah, it was quite a scene. he was in the mr. alabama (i think) bodybuilding contest. he won third place in the teen division and fifth place in the novice division. i was extremely proud of him. from there, we drove down to panama city for the day. where we encountered copious amounts of sea weed in the ocean and an equally aboundant amount of rainfall from the sky. not exactly your typical vacation weather, but we had a blast anyway. oh, and i got struck by lightning. sort of. i cant think of anything else terribly exciting that has happened. i got my grades back from last quarter. i got two A's. thats the first time that's ever happened. well since my life is boring, i'll tell you about what happened last night at church. the service started off terrible. i was trying to do the announcements, and i was talking about the see you at the pole rally that we are going to. everyone started making excuses as to why they couldnt go, and they just wouldnt shut up and let me talk. they were going on and on about stupid stuff. finally, i just sat there and waited on them to finish so that i could talk. then, i gave them the words to the worship songs that we were going to listen to and i told them to worship and pray during this time. i told them to pray for whatever God had been dealing with them about. i tried not to watch them, but as a leader, i kind of have to. bl looked like he was going to sleep and n was looking at some cd case. i prayed for the group, and myself heavily during that time. after that, i told them that we were going to have a share time. i shared with them something that i was going through and something that God had been dealing with me about. i've written about it before, something very personal. then i asked them to do the same thing. im always a little nervous whenever i ask something like that, that nobody will say anything. bl volunteered. he said that he felt that God had been wanting him to get baptized, and thats what he was praying about during the worship time, and he felt that he was ready to do it. how incredibly awesome is that? i was blown away. i wasnt expecting anything like that. wow. then, n said that God had been dealing with her about a friendship that she has that has gone astray. she felt that she needed to mend the relationship. then, i opened my mouth and God spoke. i started talking (again) about taking over your school for Jesus, and standing up and taking a stand this year. i was talking so passionately, love. it was amazing. i was listening to myself and thinking 'wow God, you're awesome'. the kids were so receptive, and i think they changed their minds about the rally. we'll see though. God keeps telling me to encourage them to go to First Priority. i just see a youth revival happening in the city of tarrant. and i see it starting in First Priority. then i closed the with a spirit filled prayer. i wish i could pray like that all of the time. we really do serve an awesome God. |
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