" You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust. You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of us. " That is the chorus to a song that has changed my life, Beautiful Things by Gungor.
So, the other day, I realized that I was STILL on my "high" from camp like a month ago. But then, it came to me, that I was no longer "high' for God, but that He is truely changing my life to look like Him! Ever since the night at camp when God revealed to me, that He is calling me to be a missionary, to Africa right now ( but that could easily change ), my life has been change for the better. The first change is my conversations with God. I am finding myself talking with God All day long! I had never done that before! :) I was praising Him, and bringing requests, to Him, that came along that I know He could for sure handle. The second change are my priorities in life. The main priority that has changed in me is that God is put first and everything I do glorifies him! " I AM SECOND!" The other priority is my relationships. This week, God gave me the strength to end my friendship with a friend that was very close to me. This friendship had become distant, and God showed me that it was just blocking my relationship with God, and that it was just clutter. As hard as it was to realize that my friend's heart is not centered around the Lord, I know that God has something bigger and better that can come out of ending a friendship that just separates God and I. Now don't get me wrong that this person is bad, it was just that God has different plans for this person and I, and those plans may just not include this person and I being close friends. The other priority that God has changed is the thought in me, that I need earthly, material, things to be happy, but in reality, those "extra" things just clutter our lives. Since God has places the earthly and spiritually needy, Home Sweet Orphanage of Uganda, on my heart, I have been noticing the earthly things in my life that I do not need. And the things that just block me from God.
So also latley, I have realized that ALL the things God has put me through, are for Him and for His glory, and for His plan for my life. All of the friend troubles and hardships I went through in the past, have all led me to a better place with God. I can look back at those times and see that God really does know what He is doing in my life, and that I was having to depend on God when I did not have a friend or when I just felt so sad, I knew that I could talk to God and He would always be there ready to listen and to comfort.
" I was learning that the powerless, broken, dependent place was actually the place where the Lord was closest to me. " -Katie Davis "Kisses From Katie"
I feel God doing amazing things right now through Tylar Reynlds and I. I feel that He is showing us more about His plan for us to go to Uganda, and that it is coming closer to happening! The doubts and fears that I had at first, God has taken away! I DO NOT fear the future! Because I trust that God's plan is being fullfilled by His faithfull servants all for His glory! I am excited for what God has in store for my life next, and where this will take me and those close to me, physically and spiritually!
God is in control!
God is love!
God is truth!
God is my friend!
God is my Father!
GOD IS POWERFUL!!
" Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done." Philippians 4:6
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