Ok so I am crazy like that

So we have our next Chik Nite approaching so quickly. One of the things I have been looking for is a yummy cinnamon roll for all of the ladies to have that evening. The problem....well price. When you are going to have around 70 ladies and you are on a budget money suddenly becomes an issue right?
So I get the great idea that I will just make them.......
I didn't mention that it is 10:45 in the evening did I? So I go to Wal-Mart get the supplies come home make the cinnamon rolls and at 2 a.m. my batch of cinnamon rolls were finally done.
This is the life of a married woman with children. Staying up to make cinnamon rolls till 2 a.m. on a Friday night. I am pretty crazy like that!!
So I don't know why, but I just felt like I had to share that with you guys! LOL

REVIVAL

Every year at youth camp each kid comes of all different kinds.


You have the “Emo ones’

Then there are the “Jesus Freaks”


The first night the “Jesus Freaks" are down in the front just enjoying every word that comes out of that ministers mouth.

The others are sitting with arms crossed. They are determined that they are not going to change. That everyone here is just way off their rocker, but them no they are not going to leave different. They just came to eat the bad food, get no sleep and be away from the parents for the week. Then the last night something crazy happens every time……

From the Emo kid to the Jesus freaks be it 12 or 70 all hands are raised in the air and there is one thing that bonds us all……..


That is that we are so crazy in love with Jesus!!

I asked the Lord why this was…..Why? Every year these kids come and get fired up for God. Then by the next year they have totally forgotten what happened that week at camp.

The Lord showed me that there when they go home they aren’t being stirred up.

You see at camp you live in a bubble. Where everyone lives for Jesus unashamed. There is no bad music, no cussing, no awful t.v., backstabbing. They live in a totally pure environment.

This is why there is change in them. The people and leaders that they are surrounded with really live Jesus. This generation is so hungry to see people really live for Jesus. Not just half way serve the Lord.

When you are going to church on Sunday morning and then no more then get out of the door and you are cussing your kid out. What kind of message does that send to your kid? This is why kids are out trying drugs and getting drunk. They are looking for something to fill the void in their heart.

Why would your kid turn to Jesus to fill that void when you don’t?

Revival starts with us. When we start really living for the Lord that is when our children will follow suite. This is when change will happen in your kids!!


I know that this may step on some toes, but if it does then that means that it has an element of truth for you!

I love you girls! I really do! I just want us to think about the legacy that we are leaving behind. Which is our children.

Excedingly Abundantly

I am sitting here thinking and my heart is filled with so much joy. Today we had church as we do every Sunday morning. Our sanctuary was about 3/4 full!! That is so exciting we probably had about 10 visitors there!

We then went to eat came home put the kids down for a nap and took a quick one ourselves before the rest of our day began.

Then we went to our Youth Leaders meeting at 4. This was amazing. The presence of God was so think there as we worshiped! WOW! It was truely amazing!

After all of this we were off to Trendsetters which is our Bible Study groups on how to be a Proverbs 31 woman! This went ohh so well also!

God is so good to me in my life. I am so thankful for all that He is doing in our life. Our church is growing, and it is just so amazing to watch God's hand of blessing over all of our ministries and Pastor. The best part is to know that this is only the begining! We are about to see revival like never before! There is a turning of the tide in people.

There is a hunger that God is stiring up in the community to truely know Him. I am so excited. I have this HUGE expectation in my heart that He is going to do Excedingly Abundantly above all that I could ever ask or think!

I love you guys and look forward to posting again tomorrow :D

HAPPY

The Bible says that "The joy of the Lord is our strength". I love how it also says that "He will renew our strength like the eagles".

Let's think about the first verse first. I love how there is no time line on this verse. It doesn't say that when everything is great that He is our strength or even when everything is bad for that matter. I have learned that it is really not a challenge to be happy or to stay happy when everything is going your way.

When the kids awake in joyful dispositions, the house is in order, everything in general going your way. That is not hard to be happy. I have been so working on just being happy.

Just where I am. Not where I am going, or where I will be. BUT WHERE I AM.

Some days it is as though you are just going about your business and then BAM it hits somebody trying to take your peace. Be it a critical statement, a slow checker, or kids spilling a whole glass of orange juice on the nice carpet.

It is in those times that true character is tested I believe. What do you do when adversity heads your way. Do you put on a smile and go charging right back at it or do you let your feelings take over.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks is what the Bible says. When pressure is on you what is coming out? For me I never have a curse word come out, but I am trying so hard for peace to come out of me at all times. To not let my circumstances control how I will feel.

We can't be circumstantially happy. If we live our life this way then it will always be a roller coaster. This is not the way I want to be that is for sure. I want to be the same in crisis as I am in celebration.

Peaceful.

The second verse says that "He will renew our strength as the eagles. This means that God new that adversity would come our way. He knew there would be things that would come in and take away our joy which is also refered to as our strength.

When you don't have joy it makes doing the simplest of things so hard. God made us to enjoy our life. When I am full of joy I can clean toilets and be happy. When my joy is gone I can't even do the things I love with a smile.....

Why? Joy is our strength. God is the only true source of joy. That is why He says HE will renew our strength (joy). Everything else that makes you happy be it good news, a happy surprise or anything else is just temporary.

So what do you do to keep joyful you might ask me. Well it is easy. For me today I was happy this morning and BAM all of a sudden I could feel my joy being ripped from my finger tips. I got away for a moment and just put on a good praise song and worshiped God for a moment.....just like that I had my peace back.....Joy was back in my life.

Even as I type things there are things going on that are trying to steal my peace. Kids knocking over fans, fighting, making messes. To keep your peace is a choice that you and you alone can truly make.

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YFN 2008

Well we are back, and wow it was such an amazing week! God is so good every year. There is something that will just make you tear up when watching around 1,400 teens lifting their hands and praising God. It makes something inside of me say we need more of this!!!

There were so many miracles this week at camp! Two kids came that were borne deaf and during worship started hearing for the first time EVER!!!! This is so huge!
That is why God is the same yesterday today and forever! This means He is still willing to heal, we just need to receive it! What are your expectations when you go into worship? These kids got healed because the came with a heart that God was going to do something big for them that day!
While we were there we had Benny Perez prophesy over us that we will have a youth group of 800-1,200 teens!!! This is an amazing thing because there are 1,200 in our high school a lone! I am excited to see what God has in store this next year in our youth group!
I will post more as time allows. I am still trying to catch up right now!

UNPLUGGED

Well this week my husband and I are taking 15 kids to have their lives changed at Youth Camp. Not only is this a great time for them but for us also. It is a great time to be refreshed. The only thing that I am sad about is there is ABSOLUTELY no computer usage while there! Awhhhhh!

There are two things a girl needs in everyday life that is a cell phone and the other is a laptop! LOL

It will be good for me to have a life unplugged and just focus on Jesus. Who knows maybe I should do it a little more often......

So with that said, pray for our youth this week pray that their lives will be changed. I will look forward to telling you all of the funny things that happened this week as I am sure I will be up late Friday blogging!

Also Chik Nite is this Friday at our church at 7 p.m.! I hope any of you that live near will come it is going to be amazing with Jennifer Moffatt as our guest speaker!

Blessings all and I will miss you guys! Hope you have a great week!!