How big your god?

This passed weekend I went to a YoungLife Leader Committee Overnight in Greensboro. One of the speakers challenged us and asked "how big is your god?" He said that we need to try something so big that if God doesn't show up we will fall on our face. There aren't many areas in my life where I could claim this level of dependence. So it really challenged me to take a step of faith and see how the Lord will show up. I've been really excited about the idea and I can't wait to see Him work.

I found it was kind of hard for me to think of things that would be so big that I wouldn't be able to do them with Gods help. Its kind of sad, it just hasn't been my usual way of thinking. So as I am moving forward I am trying to take big steps of faith and I would encourage you to as well! A couple things I've claimed so far are, If its in the Lords will:

• Have at least 200 kids a Monday night club by the end of the semester
• He will open doors for me after my semester and show me where I am suppose to be even if it isn't starting my career.
• I'm going to be on Ellen and talk about Jesus! and just hang out with her jff (Jesus likes it when we have fun)

I know its a short list.... But I'm working on it! I'm reading through Luke and I'm reading Forgotten God. I was reading through and seeing how Jesus was healing people I noticed a couple things first the people that He was healing had to take a step of faith and ask (besides the paralyzed man lowered through the roof, Jesus says "their faith has saved you, take your mat up and walk". Can our faith save our friends? Crazy). Then it says Immediately they were healed! Then in Forgotten God Francis was talking about how the Lord wants to answer our prayers, but a lot of times we are asking for things that are not in His will. So as long as we are claiming things that are in line with the Lords will He is faithful to answer. Maybe not in the way we are expecting but He will answer! So lets start claiming BIG things that are in line with the Lords will and see Him work big things in our lives!

This passed weekend I was also convicted of the amount of scripture I have memorized. So I need to start taking the steps to having scripture memorized... Meaning I'm going to start memorizing scripture. And he said that the best YoungLife leader is one on their knees... Meaning the best YoungLife leaders are the ones who are praying faithfully for their kids and constantly asking for council from the Holy Spirit. The speaker pointed out Jesus going off to be by himself and praying, he said if Jesus thought it was necessary to be by Himself with the Lord then we needed to take time to ourselves with the Lord in order to be filled. The world will go on without us, YoungLife will go on with out us. But then after we have been filled we will be able to come back and pour into our high school friends. 

Those are a couple things I have been thinking about this week...