Lets start off with this one.
I will officially serving God in Haiti this summer. I received a call last Friday afternoon while I was babysitting and couldn't contain my excitement! I was so flustered I probably sounded crazy on the phone. As I hung up, I jumped and clapped my hands as well as the cute little baby I sit on. It was fun celebrating with her even though she had no clue why I was so excited.
Ever since last summer, I have seen God work in extraordinary ways to prepare me for that moment. It's such a joy to know God. To really know Him. As I look back, I knew without a doubt I'd be going back to Haiti to serve for a longer period of time. Yet, I still doubted because I just didn't know how or where I would even get all the money to go but I knew God was calling me. There's no way I could've denied that. When I was accepted, I doubted because I didn't know if I'd even be placed in Haiti. But I prayed. I prayed for God's will to be done. That was all I wanted and knew I needed (with a little hope I'd get to go to Haiti). He heard me and answered me. He never fails to leave me amazed. I found a few words I wrote in my journal the day I came back home from Haiti last summer:
I honestly feel like I left my heart and soul in Haiti. How do you feel homesick in your own home? I would jump on a plane in a heartbeat to be back there. The Lord has called me there and I'm certain Haiti will be in my future. (July 7, 2012)
Summer 2013 will be just amazing.
More great things to share!
My pretty friend, Carly, and I were blessed with the opportunity to lead a small group of middle school girls last weekend for Disciple Now. It was an unbelievable time of refreshment and revival. All 5 of the girls were so hungry to hear what God wanted to speak to them. Our worship band, Rend Collective Experiment, was off the chain. I highly highly encourage you to purchase their album, 'Campfire', that hit iTunes yesterday! I could sit here and quote about every lyric but I'll save your time and my time. Just buy it and you'll understand. Dave Edwards was our speaker for the weekend who brought the Word to us in a tremendous way. Carly and I had the chance to work his merchandise booth the last night. He had this devotional book he wrote that I wanted so bad but didn't have any money on me but this is the part where I encourage to purchase that along with your Rend Collective Experiment CD. You'll be set for some awesome tools to praise God with!
The whole weekend was based on God's Word. To stop seeing the Bible as a book with words on a page but as a portal that brings you into God's heart. Hebrews 4:12 tells us that His Word is alive and active! John 1 tells us that in the beginning, the Word was God and He the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. It is God-breathed. We need to stop looking at the Bible as just a book but to be immersed in it and lost in it, knowing we encounter God through it. When we reach points in our life and can't 'feel' God, are we reading the Bible? When we disconnect our walk with God from the Word of God, it isn't going to work.
Two of the girls in my group made decisions to follow God in this life! It was so amazing God allowed me to be apart of that. Praying with them that night was completely overwhelming because of how I saw the Lord working. God is so so so so so good. Pray for them with me!
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