Tis’ The Season 2009

Wow it has been a long time since I have posted. Life has been insane and I have lots to catch up on before the year ends.

I have been in a spiritual drought for a while now and it is so different. I have started high school now and life is passing by so quickly. My first semester of the rest of my life has started and ended so quickly. I had three honors classes  just this semester! Talk about chaos! So you could say I have been very busy! But God is still faithful! I have to admit that I haven’t been in the Word like I should but that is going to change fast. It is strange because I think a lot of people just automatically think that I am always in the Word or having just a perfect time in my relationship with the Lord. But I have news for those people! I definitely do not have a perfect relationship with the Lord. I just wonder how God can love me so much to want to continue to love me like He does. I have also learned that God doesn’t want  me to just spend time with him Sunday, Wednesday, and in my quiet time, He wants to be weaved in and throughout my day! I just wanted to share a little piece of my heart so you know where I am coming from! SO here below are some things the Lord has shown me through His word anytime in the past up until now about this season. Merry Christmas!

Revelation 4

The Throne in Heaven

¹After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” ²At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. ³And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne. ⁴Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. They were dressed in white and had crowns of gold on their heads. ⁵From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits^[a] of God. ⁶Also before the throne there was what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal.

In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. ⁷The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. ⁸Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under his wings. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.” ⁹Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, ¹⁰the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:
¹¹“You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being.”

God came from such glory as that to become man?? Why?!? He is God. And He came for us and gave up glory and splendor of being born any other way in order to become man to grow up and die for us. Wow! And think about the thrown of God. How beautiful and majestic and He didn’t just stay up there, but He did what I know I wouldn’t have chosen, in order to save the world!

Below is the passage of scripture where Joseph was confronted by an Angel about the birth of his son. Watch how Joseph is sensitive God’s guidance and willing to do God’s will no matter what the consequence. HE of course is shocked but then realizes God has a plan and decides to jump in to what God had for him.God uses whoever He wants in order to do what His will is. He uses the Available!here are a few things I found in my Bible on the side that said we can learn from Joseph’s life:

• Being obedient to the guidance we have from God leads to more guidance from him.
• Feelings are not accurate measures of the rightness or wrongness of an action.

• Social position is of little importance when God chooses to use us.

¹⁸This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. ¹⁹Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man and did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.

²⁰But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. ²¹She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,^[a] because he will save his people from their sins.”

²²All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ²³“The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel”^[b]—which means, “God with us.”

Mary is one of my favorites characters, because I think there are many things to learn from her actions. The big thing that God has taught me about her this Christmas is her obedience and joy in being where God had her even though she didn’t want to be there or didn’t understand why. First off, she was being obedient in saving sex for marriage because the Word tells us the Holy Spirit came upon her and she was a virgin. Otherwise the entire story of Christ’s birth would not be the same. If Mary had not been a virgin, God couldn’t have used her for the birth of Christ in the same way. If we are not obedient to Christ in the things He has called us to, we will miss out in Him using us in specific ways that we would not want to miss out on! God set commandments in our lives to help us not to punish us. How would the virgin birth, one of the biggest things we know in our faith, if Mary had not been a virgin?? How can God use you in your obedience to Him? What will you miss out on if not? Next, below it says that after finding out about the baby she goes to Elizabeth’s house and it is there where I think she truly realizes that God has this huge plan for her life. Then all she does is praise the Lord. My question is HOW THE HECK CAN SHE PRAISE WHEN SHE IS A TEENAGER PREGNANT BUT YET A VIRGIN?? WOW! I think she realized that God had something amazing in store, and she trusted Him and rejoiced in what God had for her. Are we rejoicing in the seasons we aren’t happy to be in? Are we rejoicing even though we have no clue what God is going to do with the hard circumstances before us? Read this passage below with a different perspective this season. How will He use you and me?

²⁶In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, ²⁷to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. ²⁸The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”

²⁹Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. ³⁰But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. ³¹You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. ³²He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, ³³and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.”

³⁴“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

³⁵The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called^[a] the Son of God. ³⁶Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month. ³⁷For nothing is impossible with God.”

³⁸“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it be to me as you have said.” Then the angel left her.

Mary Visits Elizabeth

³⁹At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, ⁴⁰where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. ⁴¹When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. ⁴²In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! ⁴³But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? ⁴⁴As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. ⁴⁵Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!”

Mary’s Song

⁴⁶And Mary said:
“My soul glorifies the Lord
⁴⁷and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
⁴⁸for he has been mindful
of the humble state of his servant.
From now on all generations will call me blessed,
⁴⁹for the Mighty One has done great things for me—
holy is his name.
⁵⁰His mercy extends to those who fear him,
from generation to generation.
⁵¹He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;
he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
⁵²He has brought down rulers from their thrones
but has lifted up the humble.
⁵³He has filled the hungry with good things
but has sent the rich away empty.
⁵⁴He has helped his servant Israel,
remembering to be merciful
⁵⁵to Abraham and his descendants forever,
even as he said to our fathers.”

The prophecy was said in Isaiah 7:14:

¹⁴ Therefore the Lord himself will give you ^[a] a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and ^[b] will call him Immanuel. ^[c]

God knew before time what He was going to do for us. He knew before time what He had planned for you and me and how we tie into His plan. Are we fulfilling what the Lord has? What is stopping us? Obedience? Willingness? Praise even when we have no clue what’s going on?

Merry Christmas!!

-Amy

(sigh) middle school has come and gone….

It’s over. Middle school was fun, yes a ton of fun.

From mission trips, Quests, crusades, camps retreats, pool parties,

to talent shows, come-to-Jesus meetings in Jeff’s office, and friends,

great leaders,passion, inspiration, tears, joy, and a lil’ bit of laughter.

8th graders, the class of 2013, I don’t think we can ever forget all we’ve seen.

We’ve lead out in all we could, and been at everything we thought we should.

I can’t believe all we’ve matured, growing in the faith and seeing God move.

Three years of adventureno one would want to erase, and all we can do is give

God all the praise.

As I reflect, I see God’s hand, I stand in Awe of all he had planned.

The moments I’ve treasured will not be left behind, but taken with

me in the years beyond.

Even in the chaotic moments when John is stressed, kids all pressed,

or when Sam gets up with the urge to preach, or me with a word from

The Lord to teach, or when a tear is shed on behalf of the heart of Christ

or when the girls can’t go to sleep (Ohio 2009 SB) and we get up extra

early so the next night they won’t make a peep.

I know Christ smiles, and I can only hear Him say, “My Children, My Children,

the joy that you have, never ever let go of it or lose its sparkle in you lives.”

8th graders, we accomplished 3 years of excellence and strive to never give up

on honoring God with your life. 6th and 7th graders, we pass on the zeal& adventure

we all had, we hope you all accept it and carry the mission out.(Mathew 28:19-)

Live for God.

Love Him always.

Work hard,

and never lose

sight of the joy

and passion all

believers should

have.

<3  In Christ,

Amy

Moses.

The Lord is faithful in showing himself to me.

So I was doing my daily quiet time with the Lord the other morning and He blew me away. I am reading through the Bible with Brio this year so I was reading Exodus 3. Wow! Moses and the Burning Bush. A story a lot of Christians have heard about. SO I remember growing up and learning stories like this one, But it has never spoken to me in this way before. It started in Treehouse Sunday. I was in Little Treehouse serving for the first time and the story was about Moses and the  Burning Bush.

Moses seems like a pretty cool guy here. Knows what to do ,but scared. God got His attention real quick! And to be on the Hill where God is!!! Holy ground. Read and absorb.

1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

This Mountain is another name for ” Mount Sinai”, where God gave His people the Ten Commandments.

2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”

4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”

God has called us, believers.

5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

Our God is a Holy God.

7 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

Oh my!! God has called me and you believer, to set the Captives free. Our neighbors, friends, classmates, co-workers,bosses, employees, peers,enemies, the poor lady that you see on the road everyday on your way to work, the man who lost his job and has no hope, the daughter/son you will never give up praying for, the Teacher who just lost her dad at a young age, the boy who is suffering with cancer and is on the death bed, the family the Church is “ashamed of” , the lost but searching, the family who will never know the Message, the acoholics, the abused…………..

God wants us to deliever the Message, the Commission, Those people are in bondage destined for hell. Do you not see the shackles?? God wants to set those people free because of His love and what He did for us on the Cross.

And Believer, Stop living in defeat. YOU ARE FREE BY THE GRACE OF GOD! Live like you have been set free! Set the Captives free.

11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

12 And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you ^[a] will worship God on this mountain.”

13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”

Who are you? God’s new creation. The person He is calling to GO. God will equip us. God will show us. God is with us. His words, through you.

14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am . ^[b] This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, ^[c] the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.

We are to go for Him, not ourselves. He is the “I AM”.

16 “Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob—appeared to me and said: I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. 17 And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

He has promised us Heaven, eternal life in Him.

Call those elders!!

18 “The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day journey into the desert to offer sacrifices to the LORD our God.’ 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. 20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.

Prepare your heart. Sacrifice yourself. He wants to use you. He has commanded us to Go.

21 “And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed. 22 Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and daughters. And so you will plunder the Egyptians.”

WOW! Is God Good or what? He spoke to me directly! But I have learned enough, now what am I going to do with it? I hope to Show Jesus. He is good. He has convicted me and given me a heart for Him.

I hope this has challenged you as much as it has me.

Birthday Thanksgivings.

Some of you may know that I am turning the “bIg” 14 (haha) in about,almost,close to 15 days. But who’s counting?? I am not posting this to remind you and Brag about me getting one year older, but I will explain my full purpose. I want to give credit to the SPIRITUAL HELPERS in my life. I am so excited that I am a following of Jesus Christ and has been since I was about 4/5 years of age. But I couldn’t have made it to this important point in my relationship with Christ without all of the people who have done the following: taught me who Christ is, explained to me what that meant, grown me up in Him, showed me the Word, helped me in my Walk, spurred me on, encouraged me, got in my face about all types of subjects that interferred with my Walk, and so much more……..Christ was the center of everyone of those listings. He has/had put these people in my life at a certain season and place and time in my life when I needed them. There are so many people I could talk about but since I am turning 14 I am going to give you 14 people who mean alot!

• Christ- OF COURSE! He died for me. He loves me beyond the love I will ever be able to comprehend. He cares. He protects. He shelters. He gives the most amazing advice. He is my Rock. He is my Creator. He is mY Savior. He is my King and I am His little princess. My audience of one. He is my biggest cheerleader. He is my coach. He is the Only one who I will answer to. He is the biggest bag of GRACE. I could go on ….and on…..and on…..
• Mom and Dad- They brought me into this world and -PRAISE THE LORD- haven’t taken me out of it yet. They showed me who Christ was, and led me to Him. They take care of me and love me. God has blessed me with Parents who love Himself, each other,and me. Thank you for being there and showing me who Christ is. Thank you for providing.
• THE REST ARE IN NO ORDER!:
• Jenn Lockerman- Thank you for taking the time to pick me up from school, talking with me, and just being there when I needed someone to help me along spiritually. You may not ever know how much it means to me.
• John Steen- My Youth Pastor. Thank you for challenging me in my Walk. You have gotten up in my grill about things to challenge me in my Walk and to just to Honor Christ. Thanks.
• Ms.Lois- My Precious Sunday school teacher. She is not just a regular ole’ teacher. SHE BRINGS THE WORD OF GOD. God has used her to teach His message. She has inspired me to teach God’s Word in a different way. Thank you for being who you are and again challenging me in who I am in Christ. I love your weekly BRINGING OF GOD’S WORD SO I CAN KNOW HIM BETTER.
• Ms.Judy- My Sunday School teacher from when I was a little girl. She took the time to teach a 2nd or 3rd grade class the Word. I remember her once saying,”The best kind of Bible is a READ Bible”. Thank you for knowing that we need God’s Word at even a young age, we are the coming generations.
• Ms. Amy Brodrick- My Praise Team Coach. She taught me how to Worship me savior. Challenged me to use my vocal gift in worship for HIM! Whether she realized it or not, WOrship took a whole new meaning in my life when I understood how and what it meant. She never failed to show us how to worship for the Audience of ONE. Thank you.
• Ms. Sandi Hester- One of the Most Godly women I know. Thank you for seeing I needed guidance in the WOrd of God, and seeing my passion for Him and taking it and showing me what to do with it! YOU INSPIRE ME TO BE MORE OF THE WORD!
• ALyssa Vick- This is a girl that should really be towards the top of my list( but again these are in no order. )She is my best friend. I can talk to her knowing it’s confidential and the advice is based on the Word of God. She takes the time to spend time with me. She picks me up from school all the time just to hang out with me and help me to grow in my Walk. She inspires me. – thank you for caring about me and being there and challenging me in my Walk with Christ!
• Kaitlyn Christian,Darilynn Keith,Brittany Stephens- all girls who talk with me and listen to me. Thank you in those specific moments I needed someone tot talk to or just laugh with. You are girls I look up too in so many ways.
• Jenni Jessee- Thank you for being my friend. I enjoy spending time with you and talking to you. She also picks me up and spends time with me. I have known you for a long time and I have always loved our friendship. Thanks for being an awesome example of someone who has a passion for the Lord and His plans for your life. Thanks.
• Teresea Cox and Joy Morris – Thanks Ladies for listening and talking to me about what God is doing my life and always have spiritual advice.
• Paige Elliot- Thanks for being my best friend who is older and can encourage me in my walk. I am so glad I have a good friend a little older who can guide me on my level. I love ya girl! Continue seeking the Lord!
• Thanks to all the college girls,adults on trips or teachers,other ministers-You guys Rock! Thanks for investing your time in my lives to help me grow in my Walk! Thanks!

All of the People listed above will never know how much you’ve affected me. I can’t even begin to thank you for encouraging,challenging,and loving me. Christ will bless you through this.God Bless.

I thank my God everytime I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I pray with Joy.

-Philippians 1:3&4

Obedience=blessings(GENERATIION)

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, God showed up and said to him”‘I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless.”Genesis 17:1

I will confirm my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers. Genesis 17:2

I found these scriptures yesterday morning. I am reading through Genesis right now and the first verse just really caught my attention. I thought,”Ok, Live entirely before Him!” Wow, you know that is a hard thing for me. For my generation. God calls us to live all out, totally, completely, and blamelessly, entirely for Him. Now that is a challenge. The way I see me and my generation going at this moment, I don’t see us living entirely before Christ.

Yeah, I am disappointed. Funny because this is nowhere near I was gonna go with this post, but God had something else in mind. He is God and I am not. Anyway, I was reading through the first couple verses a few minutes ago to see how I could write about them, since they caught my attention. The second verse caught my attention just as much. These pieces of scripture have a lot to do with a lot of things. But here is what is on my heart.

My generation. In the first verse it talks about how God wants our obedience, but then the second verse follows up with the blessings. I believe if my generation does not stand up now things will get worse then it will come to a hard point. God has called the generations to obey Him then I believe He will bless us. Yes, I take full ownership that I am part of this generation where things are changing not always for the glory of God. It scares me.God is in control, but when our we going to rise up as believers and take our place wherever that is and however God has called us to do it.

I want to be in full obedience to Christ.All out of you may know that I have a heart for serving the Lord, especially for missions. I have so much I could do now and even for a career. But I think the only thing I can do is trust the Lord and know He has it all worked out, and I just need to be close to Him to hear His voice telling me what to do, how to do it, and when to do it. The n I can be in obedience to Him and in return he will bless me.

****PLEASE PRAY FOR  ME AND MY GENERATION!!!!

I know, I know I haven’t written in a while.With school starting it’s been a tad bit hectic. New year, new challenges, new commitments, and new goals.I’ve waited a long time to be at the top, an eighth grader. It’s Finally here!

Anyway, I got to go to the Priscilla Shirer Conference this weekend. It was so great! I took tons away from the whole thing! The conference was called Going Beyond and the title alone sounds significant. She focused the weekend on the children of Israel’s journey to Canaan, or the Promise Land. I mean so many things were discussed.

I think one of the biggest things the Lord showed me was how i should/can use my time.I spend a lot of time on earthly things when I could dive into the Word,or ministering to someone,or even just praying.

Another thing was about being content with the season of life you’re in even if it’s hard and want to move on. Like for me, that’s the ordained season of my life of being single.It’s hard at times to not have a boyfriend or someone to like me but it doesn’t matter. The Lord has ordained this season of my life to be single. I must trust Him and press into Him and into knowing Him more. Like Priscilla said, we may find out hings about our savior or learn something in this season we may never learn in any other season of our lives. So I will be content with this season and press into Him.

Oh and also I have gotten so pumped this week about being in the Word, i want to dive in so deep!

Hopefully I have lots more writing coming!

Scripture…

I could find TONS of scripture on pride but here are a few.

Proverbs 11:2 – When Pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 13:10- Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.

Proverbs 22:4- Humility and the fear of the Lord bring wealth and honor and life.

Proverbs 16:18 – Pride goes before destruction,a haughty spirit before a fall.

Humility.

I have just been convicted about being prideful. It has been on my mind and heart like crazy. I came in my room tonight early (or somewhat) so I could spend time with the Lord in prayer about my pride. Pride is something I struggle with and I think it has a lot to do with my personality. But still that is no excuse for me to be prideful. I feel like sometimes I think its all about me and that I should be the center of attention. But when I stop and realize it, Its all not worth it. There is so much I can do for Christ that I don’t want Pride to hinder me from my walk with Christ Or what I could/can be doing for Him.

I go back to school officially in a week and I want humility to be a big focus for me this year. Because if you think about it, If I am so caught up in my pride and thinking its all about ME then that hinders me from serving Him by serving and ministering to others. And I do not want that to happen. I pray that Christ will be my main focus.

I am so glad I have been convicted of this. And I pray it is something that I will constantly strive to get better at, by being humble. And I know I can because God did not give me this pride, it is a tool of the devil’s. So therefore I CAN/MUST/WILL overcome this pride!

**My heart’s prayer is that all who read this can hold myself accountable  to  being humble. PLEASE PRAY  FOR ME!

And yes, everyone I am ready and excited for school to start! Ready to see what  My SAVIOR has in store this year!

A cross-centered life is what it’s all about…..

Ok. Whoo. I am just overwhelmed by what all the Lord has done this summer in and through me. He’s amazed me. I don’t even know where to begin.Ok a huge subject in the youth group at LHBC that God has taught me TONS about! Leadership. Starting all the way back from the beginning of summer to VBS for middle schoolers: WSA. Or Camp….Oh that’s huge. Or maybe the mission trip to Lyman,SC. Any of those, I had to step and be a leader. Yes, It was different, but Christ used me. I still don’t quite feel like an 8th grader, but every time I thought that I kept telling myself, the more I wait to feel like a leader/8th grader the less time I have to be one. I feel like this summer Christ taught me How to be a leader and the many different characteristics behind it. But even today chillin’ at the pool with my family He allowed me to hear something I will remember forever. It was a friend from church we saw with his family and he was telling us about a leadership conference him and another guy took some kids to a few weeks ago. He said the slogan,basically, for the week was “Leadership starts at the feet of Jesus” WOW! That was so humbling to me. Because The Lord showed me this summer that Leadership is not always being in the spotlight at church or anywhere else you’re a leader, It’s willing to humble yourself enough to serve others, just like Christ. He came to serve not to be served. And I will just be honest I don’t always feel like that at home and it’s something to work on on my part, but it all comes down to having a cross-centered life. How much do you want to glorify God with your life.

You know I hear a lot of questions about what God says about certain things in our world today, mostly because like I used to be and still am this way sometimes, My generation is too lazy to get into the Word and find answers to our questions.But anyway, Questions like:

1.) Is it ok for us Christian girls to wear bikinis in the summer?

2.) Is It ok to have a tatoo?

3.) Is it ok for a woman to be president or pastors??

And the List goes on.And yes there is absolutely scriptures for those. But a huge part of stuff we do in our everyday lives is this: How much do I want to glorify Christ with ALL of me.

Kind of changing subject a little, but tonight I went to praise team practice for tree house and after it was over I walked over to River’s Edge( our high school Wed. church) and just happen to sit down and listen as Pharris spoke. He talked about how sometimes he would get arrogant and prideful about “knowing” the Bible and stuff in the Bible that he wasn’t even focused of the point of knowing that stuff or even who gave him the knowledge. He went on and on about the Gospel and how that is what our focus should be on. That is exactly how I am. I sometimes get so caught up in my stuff and what I KNOW about the Bible and being in the spotlight that I forget who I wake up every morning to live for. Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. It was a fantastic sermon and one of the things I want to focus on the rest of my life,every year, and every minute of those days is,do EVERYTHING for the glory of God. Just to be Focused on Him is all I want. Then everything will fall into place.

So thank you for reading this and I hope God taught you something even through this and if HE did, all glory to Him!!

Thank you Lord, for this summer and all you taught me you know everything and I thank you that you are God and I am not. Use me in a mighty way. I’m all yours.Wholly yours. amen.

Amy Hunley

I want to Set The World On Fire.

Ok. As some of you know I have been thinking about lately going into missions. I really believe that being a missionary as a teacher for God’s glory is something that HE has laid on my heart lately. It all started with my dream of becoming a teacher, then I thought why not do it for God’s glory. The top two major careers needed over seas is teachers and people in the medical field. When I first heard  that, I was  thinking of  being a teacher over seas. In the last few years God has given me a passion for missions. It would definitely be  out of my comfort zone but with God anything is possible.

IF GOD IS FOR US ,WHO CAN BE AGAINST US!!

I’ve always wanted to, someday, get married and start a family and so being a missionary I always thought that meant I couldn’t get married. But God definitely showed me that was not true! In the book Lady In Waiting, I learned that God can send me a husband anywhere if that is His plan for me. So now it’s not even about a husband. I am ready for what God wants me to do whether he calls me overseas or maybe even Lynch,KY, I will be ready to hear His voice. Anyway me and my best friend just listened to a new song I bought off of itunes and it really encouraged me! Here are the lyrics to “Set the World On Fire” by Britt Nicole:

“Set The World On Fire”

I wanna set the world on fire
Until it’s burning bright for You
It’s everything that I desire
Can I be the one You use?

[CHORUS]
I, I am small but
You, You are big enough
I, I am weak but
You, You are strong enough to
Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
Lord with You
Nothing I can not do
Nothing I cannot do

I wanna feed the hungry children
And reach across the farthest land
And tell the broken there is healing
And mercy in the Father’s hands

[CHORUS]

Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
Lord with You
Nothing I cannot do
Nothing I cannot do

My hands my feet
My everything
My life, my love
Lord, use me

I wanna set the world on fire
I wanna set the world on fire, yeah

Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
Lord with You
Nothing I cannot do
Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
Lord with You
There’s nothing I can’t do
Nothing I can’t do

I’m gonna set the world on fire
Set the world on fire

***I’M ready to set the world on fire, starting now, here…….Who’s With ME??