So I've got a lot of work to be done today. This is not because I actually have to go to work, or because I'm going to my mom's to dig up more dirt today. No, this is because I'm doing a message tonight at Delta Youth, and I need to be up there for about 20 minutes. That's a long time for me. I've done a couple messages before, but those were only 5-10 minutes long. This is actually double as long as that... that will be my intellegent statement for the day. I'll talk about the Czech Republic for a bit first, and my trip there and all that happened, as much as I can remember anyways. It's been a while now. I've got powerpoint and whatever to go along with that of course. The after that I'll share the message that God put on my heart a while ago to talk about. So that is where all the work today comes in. I've been a little off of my prayer life the last week, but this is pretty much just the push I need to get back into it. So this message isn't just for the youth, but just as much for me, if not even more so for me than for them. That's the way God seems to work. Whatever He gets you to do is never more for those your doing it for than it is for yourself, as with my trip to Rwanda. Yeah I'm going to go and see what I can do to really help people over there as much as I can, but I will be getting a load more out of the experience than anyone else who I'm focussing on while I'm there. Anyways, today I'm definitely going to have to get on my face and just pray over every part of the message I have for tonight. A message that hasn't been prayed over is kind of like two frozen pieces of bread. Sure it's good for you, but who wants to bite into some frozen bread? Of course not. You've got to put it in the toaster, warm it up, prepare it with whatever you want to make a sandwich, and then you bite into it and its delicious. ... Well that wasn't really the best thought out parable but it still kind of works. If I don't spend any time in prayer over this message, someone may walk away from it and say, 'yeah that was a pretty good message', but only if I get on my face and cover every part of that message in prayer will God actually move through my words, the words He has given me, and work in peoples hearts through it so that people may be able to really take in the words that I'm saying. If I don't pray over it, I might as well be teaching math class, because none of it will sink in to them in the least. ... especially if I'm teaching math... I really suck at math. Anyways, that's my day.
I get to go camping next weekend, which is definitely going to be sweet. I'm looking forward to that. And I got a necklace from my dad today. Thankyou dad! It is fully awesome for sure. So I'm done for now. Go check out all my new stuff!
