12/21/08 written @ 1:00 AM…
This has been an extremely long day. Work was insane. The procrastinator’s were doing their last minute Christmas shopping. All 1,000 of them. Thank the good Lord, this day has finally come to an end. Lately, I have stumbled across people from New Life (staff & such) blogging on this wordpress.com website. Between the diary-type entries to the videos posted, I have seen some pretty awesome things about how amazing God is. Katy Barber & I have been facebooking back & forth. What an amazing girl. I have been praying for Christian friends, & I’m hoping she’s the first of many to come soon. I explained to her my desire to be involved at New Life, and how I wanted to surround myself with positive, Christian people like herself. She sent me the link to the Crew application for New Life. After a very long time of wanting to get more involved at New Life, tonight I have came farther than I have ever been. An application. Simple enough, right? Printed. Just waiting on me to fill it out. . . Here comes the difficult part. Out of the entire Crew team @ Elevation, which ministry do I feel called to do? When I am in church, I feel God tugging at me. I feel like I can hear the word’s coming from his mouth, “You belong here. Now go serve me.” Now I am saying, “Yes sir, but hey..which one??” ha ha. The application consists of everything to greeting people on the impact team, missionary, serve coffee, etc.… so many choices!! At first I was just going through checking them all, until I re-read the top part that said “Please take your time in considering where you will serve. Below we have listed NLC’s student ministry opportunities. Please read through each team/ministry description and place a check mark in the circle of the ministry that suits you best.” I soon realized that they weren’t going to just place me. It was more praying & time spent wondering where I belong in this new beginning. So now that I have stepped back a little bit, I’m going to pray. I promised myself & God tonight that my quiet time would go more in-depth that it ever would. I will be all ears when God calls me. So I was reading my “One-Year bible” tonight, it always amazes me how God talks to us through the word…
One Year Bible entry for December 21, 2008–
Haggai 1: 4-5 ~ “…And now get to work, for I am with you, says the Lord of Heaven’s armys. My spirit remains among you, just as I promised… So do not be afraid.”
Psalm 139: 23-24 ~ “Search me, O God and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”
Psalm 140:1-2, 4 ~ “O Lord, rescue me form evil people. Protect me from those who are violent, those who plot evil in their hearts and stir up trouble all day long…for they are plotting against me.”
I just pray that God will do just that, point out all the wrong in my life, as I surrender to him. With all the things in my life, God should always be number one priority. And with surrendering to him, I must be willing to give up whatever he asks in order to do his work. For he is good & he will take care of me. Amen.
