Three Amazing Things God has Done in My life
Amazing Things God has Done In My Life I have entitled my Speech "Amazing Things God Has Done In My Life", because truly He has done some amazing things and I want to talk about the first Three important ones. Of course one was my salvation, but I think I want to touch on more recent "Amazing Things". So I will start with Homeschooling, then talk about Christian Peers that are in my life and how I came to know them, and also Prayer and how I learned it was so important. The reason that my family started to homeschool was because I never saw my father. He worked nights and was always gone when I was home. I begged my parents to let me homeschool, to see more of him. I also thought I would be free to do things that I had never done before. Since they had only recently become Christians the thought had never occurred to them that the Lord may want them to Homeschool. They prayed and came to the decision to Homeschool me. Never would I had thought what an impact it would have on my life, or that I would still be doing it to this day. Maybe if I had known that I never would have asked, but the Lord was looking out for me when my parents said yes. Next we had to figure out what program I was going to do. It didn't take us long to decide which program I would be doing. Since the Christian school I was in had such a good program and my parents thought that I would be going back they chose Abeka. It was Challenging for me, yet not to hard (at the time). My Father took on teaching me Math, History, and Science. My Mother took on Language, Reading, Spelling, Bible, Health, and Physical Education. I loved Homeschooling for the longest time, then I began to float further and further away from the Lord. Even though I wasn't in public school I still found friends that weren't good company. I began to hate Homeschooling, even though I could spend allot of time with my friends. I went almost every other day to my friend's (Robin) house, she, coming here the other days. We were both homescooling, but when no one was around we would rant and rave about how much we disliked homeschooling. Next year Robin would be going to high school and I would be going into 8th grade. Robin went to her parents and soon she had them convinced that she could go to public school. I was furious, I begged my parents. Now I look back and wonder how they ever stood it. They refused to let me go, and soon I was turned totally against them. My Turning Point Had to be when I got a new Computer Program called Alpha Omega Academy Online. I had real teachers not just my parents, real grades, and real school work. The teachers, the students, and the people in my life pulled me closer to God. Now, I have a stronger relationship with the Lord. The Lord sees the big picture and if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be at the place I am today. Homeschooling is the best thing that could have happened to me besides my salvation! The Next best thing that God has blessed me with is Christian Peers. When I started homeschooling, I didn't have many friends. Then my brother started getting into homeschooling and he had absolutely no friends at all, having never been around many kids his age. My mother heard of a Christian homeschool group that was near us. So she decided to see what it was about, especially where we need to be involved in something like that or under the state. So we began to go to many meeting and fun activities. I began to meet many friends, but they weren't close. I was involved with Robin and I wanted nothing to do with Christian people, so I put on a face when I was around them. Acting like I was getting close, going over and doing things with them, but only when I had to. The only reason I ever got involved had to be because of the homeschool program I was in and the influence it had on me. I finally took on homeschooling in a new light. Also I had a major change when I rededicated my life to the Lord at Camp Good News. Never had I been so challenged, with the friends on AOAO and the peers that were in the homeschool group were beginning to influence me more. And I finally broke out from my shell, I wanted to be surrounded by Christian people. So I really started getting involved and doing all the fun things and learning what everyone else was. I started growing closer to the Lord. Now, I would never give up my Christian friends, I am in a group called Time Travelers that meets every Friday. I never have peer pressure like most teenagers my age. The people I surround myself with are Christian people that build me up not tear me down. In Time Travelers there are over 20 kids, each group is broken up into age and gender groups. Each group has it's own name and own program it follows. We all meet for a discussion and worship time before the day starts, but my group called the Young Believers meets before the day's activities and we have Bible study and prayer time. We talk about what we are struggling with and pray for each other. Each teenage girl takes the Bible study once a week, and we learn about something new, discus it and ask questions. Since the beginning of this year our small group has broken up, and we pray for the girl that has to go to public school every week. We talk and write her to encourage her, it's what our group does. We bring each other up not tear down. The Lord has truly blessed me with Christian peers, and I truly don't know what I would do without them! And Autumn, Eustacia, Lily, Laura, Alora, and of course Daphne, you girls encourage me so much. With my walk with the Lord, you don't know all the things you've done for me. Thank you so much! Finally, the last (maybe the best) thing the Lord has done for me has been to teach me the importance of prayer. The first thing the Lord did to teach me about prayer was the experience I had with the Young Believers. We were going to have a day in which we spent shopping and swimming, but it turned into a nightmare. We had finished shopping and it had begun to snow quite heavily, so we hurried to the car to get home as soon as possible so we wouldn't get stuck. We were on the rode for about and hour and we came to a hill and we went to the top, and the Tractor Trailer Truck in front of us stopped. We began to roll back and so did the truck in front of us. Panic struck us all and the Young Believers began to pray, we prayed that we would get home safely. We backed up into the guard rail and waited, when it was finally time to go the battery in the van went. We walked through the blizzard (reciting verses from the Bible the entire way) up to the closest place, which (Praise God) happened to be a town office where we could crash. Thinking back I didn't realize what a predicament we were in or how terrifying it was. The Young Believers went up into a warm room, while the parents took care of the van. We were banned from the down stairs as they took care of things. We prayed and sang praises to the Lord, and was able to witness to a family that was also stranded. We finally found someone to boost the van and we were back on the road, though in the totally opposite direction. We headed for a hotel in which we would stay the night. On the way we got lost and we turned around, on the way back we saw a strange object in the road. As we got closer we saw that it was a woman and she was laying in the middle of the highway. She was having a diabetic attack, no cars were coming so she was safe. A man was trying to get her out of the road, pulling on her to move, but (as we found out later) he was drunk and could never have done anything (what an encounter that was). The light across the street was red, but it finally turned green. A car went full force and all I remember is praying that the Lord would save the woman. We all prayed, and the man in the car swirled out around the woman. It was truly impossible since, he didn't even see the people in the road. The adults called 911 and a ambulance came right away. But truly the Lord had put us in that place to pray for her, since then I have heard another experience similar to ours, but a Christian was put in that place to pray and the people survived. And I've realized that God put us in that situation to pray special for that woman. I think back, and realize that if all that happened to us that night hadn't then maybe that woman could have died. It was a wretched night but, I'll never forget the power of prayer that night! I have started a Prayer Club with the AOAO students, were we pray for the needs of all the students and teachers and country. We have Bible study once a month, and a time to encourage people, to learn Bible verses, we talk about parables and Bible heroes and encourage one another to walk closer to the Lord. The experiences I have gone through have brought me to see how important and powerful prayer is. I can share with them, and they encourage me more then they know! My teachers (Which includes the mothers at Time Travelors) each have a individual impact on me. They have taught me in their own special way how important prayer is! The Lord has truly done some amazing things for me. I know that the people and things that I go through that encourage me I can share with other people and maybe make them closer to the Lord and have a better relationship with him. I hope that people listen to what the Lord say, because there were so many things I could have done that would have totally thrown my entire life off course. I know many times I don't think of it that way, but I am beginning to understand just how important God is in my Life.
