My day or God's day?

So I haven't posted in awhile....

God has opened my eyes to so many things lately. It is hard to explain in words but I have peace. I have not had peace in a long time but God has given me peace and I have finally excepted his gift. I finally can speak about my future without being anxious or worrisome of doing the wrong thing. I still don't know what He has for my future in detail but I don't even know what He has for me today.

I woke up yesterday just like any other day, but it was not like just any other day. I went to morning prayer and then instead of leaving as soon as it is over to see if i could get a quick nap in I stayed because a friend needed comfort. I left prayer and got ready for class quickly because i wanted to crame in some last minute studying for a test that turned out we didn't even take. He gave us an extension and will take next time. I was thankful. The rest of the time I had freedom to sit and take in what the teacher was talking about for both classes without beating myself up for not studying like i should have messing up on a test. After class I ran around to a couple different businesses to try to get some last minute money for our fundraiser and only sold 5. But when I got back I found out that one of my friends decided to buy 5 more from me so, it was a blessing. I then left got some lunch and then headed to the dream center for a day of painting, at least I thought. I got there and right when I got out of my truck charity walks out and asks if I am going on outreach with them and I told her I would have to ask. I called donna up real quick and she told me to go on outreach instead of painting. So I got on the shuttle with charity and the team from utah and left. We went and got some apples and bread from the warehouse to give out to an apartment complex. Most of the team went door to door handing them out while 3 of us stayed behind to bag them up for the team that was going out. As I was bagging apples one of the guys came back and told us that someone excepted Christ after getting apples and bread. The guy asked to recieve Christ in his heart so 2 guys on outreach led him in a prayer and he excepted God into his heart. How awesome is that! I have done alot of outreaches but not that often do get see actual fruit. God allowed us to see some fruit that they day though. Anyway on the way back to the dream center the lady from utah got a call from her daughter and found out that her daughter's husband's aunt died last night because her son shot her. Wow.. So her daughter needed money so they could go and be with the family. So then the lady needed to go to a bank to transfer money to her daughter's account. So I was asked to take her when we got back from outreach. We don't have the same banks as utah so we had find a cousin bank and the original directions got lost. I called the bank they found and just asked for the closest location did not know it was not a cousin until we got there. So they told us cousin bank and we started heading that direction by this time we were pushing for time because banks close at 5 and we are now in traffic. We got lost a couple of times and then finally got some concrete directions from my good friend angela. We made it to the bank on time then we had a new task at hand we needed to find a western union to transfer the money. Got stuck in traffic again but found one then headed back to the brdc. It only took us 2 hours for what we thought was only a 20 minute errand. It was all good though because we had fun with it and we accomplished the task in time and she blessed me with gas money. :) By the time I got back to the dream center it was 6:20 and everyone was gone and everything was locked up. So I left for home.

I said all of that because I started out thinking it was just going to be another day in school of ministry, but God had different plans for me.

1. Spent much needed quality time with friends
2. Was given grace and did not have take a test
3. Went on outreach and I love outreach
4. Got see fruit and God move on someone's heart
5. God allowed me to help someone in need
6. Got icecream with some roomates! :)

There is no telling what will happen when you totally release everything into God's hands especially your time.

Holiday Break

This holiday break has been quite the experience for me. I have learned alot about myself and what areas I need to grow in. It has been rough but worth going through. I know God is preparing me for his work and I keep learning from my mistakes. I know now that it is better to see my mistakes and to go on than to just continuely condemn myself for them. I will never move on if I am always looking back on the things I have done wrong. I have to push myself to see the mistake as an opportunity to grow and do better next time instead of another reason to try to prove God wrong in calling me to do anything for Him. God knows more than anyone else what He is doing and He knows me better than I know myself. So I'm going to strive to stop holding myself back from God's blessings and calling and just believe He can do it! Its not about me, its about Him who lives in me! I am just a willing vessel trying to be obedient to the will of God by dying to myself everyday.

God can use anyone

So i don't have very much time to do a blog but i just wanted to say just this little bit. I have always known through reading the scripture that God can use anyone, but it wasn't until I actually saw it happen in my life i really believed it. He can use people dispite what they are going through, because in the end it is not about you in the first place. So I know this is something most people already know or have heard in one point in their life if they have been christian for long, but I don't think anyone really realizes how true it is until it God actually uses them to do something beyond their own ability and despite whatever hurts or struggles they are going through in life. I will probably elaborate on this later when I have more time, but this has been on my heart and mind alot lately and I just had to get it out.

Take time to have fun!

This is Mark and Chris. We took a little break in the walmart parking lot during our amazing race at the beginning of the year. We had a blast!

Everyday adventures...

So I arrived at the dream center this morning for church thinking by chance this would be a normal day. That is funny because there are no normal days at the dream center that is what i love about the place. So anyway I get there and we have a waterfall coming down in multiple places in our back building. The sanctuary side has a new rood so it was fine but the other building has not been fixed yet and it rained all day yesterday. So anyway the roof is leaking majorly in the room above the kitchen. Man, I just realized I should have taken a picture. So that is what we did an hour before church started was mop and shop vac up all the water on the floor and put trash cans where it was pouring down. We have other leaks in odd places as well with water stedily coming down. The roof guy is suppose to come tomorrow, so pray that he comes and he actually starts working on it instead of just coming and looking at it. That building does alot throughout the week and it is still just the beginning of the many things to come. I hate to see it like that. Anyway I know God has it covered I mean He is the one got the building in the first place. It is all good. So on the to do list for this week wash all the towels that were used today in drying up rivers of water. WOO WHOO!!!! I love what I get to do and I don't mean that sarcastic at all. I truly love what I get to do everyday! I hate the normal, I would go crazy in a normal setting whatever that might be. Alright that is it for now. Hey 3 posts in a row thats pretty good. Sorry I don't have any pictures of today it is just not the first thing you think of when you see a waterfall coming down inside. :) At least I don't.

I know this Long over due. But this was during the Hurricane. We were at the dream center. Not only did we run a shelter for a nursing home and assisted living patients we also painted Donna's office! We had alot of fun at the Dream Center as you can see in this picture. God did some amazing things during that week and a half there. It was my first time ever doing shift work for security! I will never forget that time in my life when God got me safely out of a hurricane not the one going on outside but the one going on inside of me. He is faithful and He knows where you are.

Its been awhile....

Have really been through alot this year in the internship already. I don't ever write on here anymore because so much is happening in my life its hard for me to gather thoughts to write about just a smidgen of what is going on. But I am trying to get back in the habbit of writing blogs. Because I don't know where I am going to be next year and I want to have something for people to find out what I am doing and what kind of things God is doing through me.

So I guess I will just start with the most recent big thing. It was the thanksgiving outreach. I loved it! The part I loved was actually getting back testimonies before the outreach was even over. I also loved being actually a part of the delieveries 2 days after the outreach. The interns got to deliver to families that didn't get any that registered late. It was great opportunity to be able to go to familes and hand them a thanksgiving meal for them to be able to cook on thanksgiving for their family. The best part about that was being able to pray for them. There was not one family that turned us down when we asked could we pray for them for anything. One lady even prayed for us after we got done praying for her. I love where God has me. I still can't believe how amazing He is and how he can use someone like me dispite MYSELF. He still gets the glory.

Over 400 familes were delieverd a thanksgiving dinner!! In less than 3 hours i might add.... We had alot of volunteers!! :) Thank you God for letting me be a part of something Amazing and is a blessing to so many.