Lexington, SC

It's been a week since we finished our conference in Lexington, SC. I don't want to miss the opportunity to share with you all what happened there. On Wednesday we had an extraordinary chapel time as a team. We started at 10 am and ended somewhere between 1:30 and 2. We spent time in the word and then watched some videos about what was happening at a church in Arkansas. We then spend time in prayer asking God to work and it turned into a time of confession and seeking forgiveness from one another. One team member was impressed to make the comment "with a group as big as ours I wouldn't be surprised if there was someone in our group that wasn't truly saved." One of our girls responded to God after that comment was made and shared with the team how she was living a lie and had just gotten saved. We then rejoiced with her and began to pray for her. While we were doing that another one of our team members that was struggling began to deal with her doubts. And another one of our guys had shared with our team Revivalist that he wasn't sure if he was genuinely saved. Ryan and the rest of our team guys were praying for him as they walked him through the book of I John. He realized he needed to be saved. Praise God for these 3. They were then baptized in the evening service.

That's not it. God kept moving. I don't know what had happened because I was with the kids in Base Camp. But they had people giving testimonies and 8 people got baptized because they never did or were baptized before they were really saved. One of them just got saved that night in the Youth meeting. He then told his dad and went back to the sanctuary to get baptized. It was so neat to see God work.

God is always faithful!

Fifteen years ago today I had my last conversation with my mom. And that’s no April Fool’s joke. There are things that I can clearly remember from that day. The accident happen close to where we live and I remember hearing the sirens and the helicopter and someone coming to our house telling us what happened and Dad leaving to go see for himself. God has taken care of me all these years. He has been my comfort for all the tears I’ve shed and will shed. He tells me that “All things work together for good….” in Romans 8:28. (I didn’t know how this could be good but I knew somehow it was for good). I can still remember having that verse run through my head while I went back to school the day after she died. She had been in ICU for a week and didn’t make it. God was with me back then and He is the same God now and is still with me now!

What will your last conversation be? What would you want your loved ones to know if you knew you were at your last breath?

At 12 years old I had an understanding of God and that had helped me so much. So much that it’s why I think it’s so important to teach children the truth of God’s Word. If I didn’t know God’s Word before losing Mom what hope would I have had 15 years ago.

Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.