Bible Study

Okay, so for the past 4 summers I have been involved in a girl's bible study with my youth group. It's really awesome because the past 2 summers, it has been just the high school girls. And don't get me wrong, I love the middle school girls, but sometimes it's harder to relate to them and vice versa. They really are an awesome group of girls. But anyways...

This summer we are studying from this book called The Power Of A Praying Teen by Stormie Omartian (yes, that is in fact her real name lol) She has written a series of books known as The Power of a Praying books. (praying teen, parent, student, etc.) It's really an amazing book, and I highly reccommend it if you're looking for something for your quiet time. Sorry, I'm not trying to advertise for it or anything, but the reason I'm writing this is because it has already helped me change my attitude and put a lot of things in perspective for me and we've only met 3 times so far this summer.

The book is very topical. You can pick it up every day and look at the table of contents and find a chapter that is relating to your life within seconds. It's amazing and different than anything I've ever studied before. I find myself not wanting to put the book down because I feel like God is really speaking to me and showing me His will for my life. It really helps too because we have college girls and my youth pastor's wife there and they talk to us and mentor us and give us advice about anything we can think of. They are one of my major support systems and I love them to death.

We meet every Tuesday night, hence why I'm typing this tonight. (because we just met a few hours ago) We had major break throughs tonight and I feel like a huge weight was lifted off my chest and God is beginning to move me in the way He wants me to go. I realized this summer that prayer is like one of THE most important things. It is our direct line to God, and if we only pray when there are hard times, or problems, it's not going to help. You have to give God praise in everything and trust Him when there are problems.

Okay, I'm done with my little tangent there...lol But, I wanted to share that with all of ya'll because I want you to know that God is working in my life. And even though I don't know all of you specifically, like I've never met you, I am praying for you and I think you are all awesome! Sorry it took me so long to make a new post, but there ya go. There's my 2 cents for the day lol.

Remember to:

"Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you."

-1 Thessalonians 5:16-18