God is great! :]

Soo.. I guess I should post..

We had a Revival at our church Thursday night through Sunday night, and it was amazing! I am SO thankful that I got to be there every service! I was blessed GREATLY! God did some amazing things. I don't remember everything that happened.. But I do know we had SEVERAL people get closer with the Lord :) Brother Hawkins preached some AWESOME messages!
Brother Sutton had asked Morgan and I to sing and sign on Saturday night... and I was freaking out. Morgan and I decided to do our new song, which I had just learned like three days before that... It was "Who Am I?" by Casting Crowns. I could really feel the anointing, although I forgot the words in the FIRST verse and stopped for a minute [yes, ON STAGE] and then just did a random sign. haha. Which, in fact, turned out to be the wrong one. :/ oops. But no one really noticed.. After it was over and I walked off stage I went to the bathroom and cried. Morgan followed after me and gave me a "pep talk".. what are best friends for? :) It did help, but I was still REALLY upset.

Umm.. oh. Going back to Friday night.. we [meaning like.. everyone from church] went out to eat at ihop after service was over. It was tons of fun. And then some of the girls.. Crystal, Emily, Chelsei, Morgan, Gracee, Brennan, and I [hopefully I didn't miss anyone.. :/.. ] went back to Crystal and Emily's apartment and had a 'girl's night'! It was SO MUCH FUN!

Going forward to Sunday.. Sunday school was VERY good! Emily's lesson was really good [like always]! We are memorizing scriptures so that if we get asked about something, we can quote a scripture to help someone.. I think it's a really good idea!

Ummm... Sunday morning service was REALLY good! I didn't sit through the whole thing because I was watching Sara Riddell and she kept getting fussy so I took her in the back and entertained her. She is the cutest thing EVER! I love her soooo much!

Sunday morning service was also very long. It lasted till like.. 3 p.m. I think. So when I came home I was STARVING and exhausted so I ate and took about an hour long nap and then headed back to our last revival service. It was also, very VERY good! The Lord moved!

All in all, the revival was AMAZING and I am VERY thankful for it!!

Um. So yesterday I was suppose to have a make-up spanish class, but my mom forgot about it, and then cancelled it to let me sleep. Yay. :) when I woke up I did school and everything.. and then I went and played soccer with some friends! (Yes in the freezing cold!) umm. I'm gonna try to remember the people that went. Crystal, Brandon, Tyler, Jordan, Chandler, Morgan, Matt Haynes, Bethany Haynes [two of our friends from soccer and tutorial], Josh, Justin, and me. [hope I'm not forgetting anyone..]

it was SO cold! but, SOOOO FUN! It got dark on us but we still played :) It's never too cold or dark for soccer :P haha.

After that, we went back to Crystal's and watched a movie. Vantage Point I THINK was the name of it. I REALLY like that movie! It was very entertaining.


Um, my headaches have been getting better and better and while I was praying some during the revival, my head stopped hurting COMPLETELY! THANK THE LORD!!! :)


Um. So I'm tired of posting.
Later.

~k~

Blessing-- My headaches getting better and better and better and better!! :)

Blessed beyond Belief

Have you ever truly thought about how BLESSED you REALLY ARE?

When I think about it, I consider the things I have:

I have a house to live in
A bed to sleep in
Wonderful parents who love me
The best friends in the world
An AMAZING Church family
I am a member of The Church of God
I KNOW Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

and the list goes on and on..

I take for granted, VERY OFTEN what I have.

I complain about it. "Why does this always happen to me? It's not fair"
But was it really FAIR for Jesus to get crucified for MY sins?

He didn't have to do that.

He gave up His own life for MY sins.

I know you've heard and can probably all quote John 3:16.

But think about it. Think about how God gave His ONLY son so WE could have Everlasting life.

Does that not get you excited? Man, it gets me really excited! I do NOT deserve anything at all. But He loved me enough to give His life for my sins so I can have an Eternal Life in Heaven with Him.

I am VERY excited for what the Lord has in store for His Church this coming year! This is The Year Of Miracles, I know it!
There have already been Several miracles and it's only January 19th! Ahh!

This Thursday night starts our Revival at Antioch! I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!! I cannot WAIT! It is going to be AMAZING! I am expecting the Lord to do many things! The Revival goes through Sunday night I think. YAY!

[These were some of my notes taken from a few church services lately...]

The most powerful awesome weapon in the world today is The Word of God. So get your weapon out!
Don't underestimate the power of The Word!

The Word of God is not only a weapon, it's a light.

You have GOT to be In The Word.

We all have to live in the world, but we don't have to be Of the world.

Do you want The Word hammered into your heart? I sure do.

Deception causes us not to have power. But if we have The Word hidden in our hearts, we will Always have power through Jesus Christ.

It is powerless if the devil deceives you.

You can't be built on rocky ground!

A pure heart is going to be a POWERFUL heart!

If you lack power in your life, you still have hardness in your heart.

Heaven is Not a fairy tale, it is Real and True.

We don't need to be weak Christians! We need to be STRONG Christians!

We as Christians need to Keep Moving Forward!

You can live up to the standard of the Bible if you live your life for Him.

We can't live up to the standard of the Word of God without the Power of God.

It takes the anointing of the Holy Ghost to make people want to serve God!

Don't force people to learn The Word. It won't do anything unless they have been anointed by The Holy Ghost. They will not understand anything and they will be difficult and cause drama unless the Holy Ghost reveals it to them.

There is NO shame in praying!!

God can and WILL deliver you from discouragement.

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There are always going to be things in our lives that we don't understand, but we have to keep seeking God for those and asking him to reveal stuff to us to HELP us understand more and more.
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Oh. My headaches are getting better. Don't feel like posting much about them, but they are getting somewhat better. The doctor is decreasing my medicine. YAY! KEEP PRAYING PLEASE! I want them gone ALL THE WAY!

Sooo... I don't have much else to post about.. so I'm done for now.


Are you ready for Jesus to come back? Will you be ready when those trumpets sound?



[Me and Morgannnn. I love her!]

~k~

Headache

please pray. urgh. my head has been really good.. but all of a sudden, just now, it got REALLY bad and now it's killing me. i've got a rag on my head and i'm just praying and hoping it goes away, or at least some.

thanks.

love yall.

~k~

VERY encouraged!

Okay, so, my headaches are DEFINITELY getting better! I can tell a difference for sure! On a scale from 1-10.. last night about 11:30 it only hurt about a 1! BARELY ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!! THANK THE LORD! I KNOW He is going to heal me COMPLETELY of these and I am VERY encouraged now! Right now it only hurts about a 2.. maybe 3!

God is GREAT!!

Just thought I'd inform y'all. :)

Thanks for praying! Keep on doing it!

Later!

~k~

Discouraged..

Still don't know about these headaches. They gave me medicine to take.. And it was supposed to take the headaches away in a week.. and it didn't. So I'm taking the medicine for another week, plus two Aleve two times a day.. STILL having headaches. I don't know if these headaches are EVER going to go away. It's so discouraging. I do want to Praise the Lord that I woke up in the night last night, and had absolutely NO headache. That was I think the first time in a month that I've been WITHOUT a headache.

Of course, I woke up with a headache this morning. Earlier it didn't hurt that bad, but right now it's hurting REALLY bad.

Please say a prayer that these headaches STOP. I need relief.


I had a meeting for High School Musical [the play that my tutorial is putting on] today. It was pretty boring O:)

Tomorrow morning I have tutorial. BLEGH! I have to wake up early and it's just.. not fun.

Tomorrow night I have a Band Service at Sis. Amy's. I'm excited. I love getting together with my prayer band.

Also tomorrow, my grandmother is coming in. She's been in Mississippi since a week after Thanksgiving. She's just staying here till Sunday morning and then she's going home to Ohio. She might be sleeping in my room which means I'll have to sleep in my parent's floor :( Sad day.
Pray for the Lord to convict her soul. She's a smoker.. and an alcoholic I think and she needs Jesus. She has health problems and I want her to go to Heaven.. but that's not where she's headed right now.

Uh. The medicine I have to take makes me hungry all the time.. I've had FOUR meals today! And not little meals either! ICK! I'm a fatty! Urgh stupid medicine!

I don't really have a "New Year's Resolution".. I made a prayer list that I pray for usually every morning and night. But that wasn't a New Year's Resolution.. it was just something I decided to do. I really get into the Spirit of Praying and I love it. I believe that 2009 IS THE year of Miracles! I cannot wait to see what the Lord has in store! I started a few months back, reading my Bible all the way through.. and reading a chapter or so a night. I'm still in Genesis :/ I was slacking a few months ago but I finally have a DESIRE to read my Bible and it's INTERESTING to me! I thank the Lord for this desire.

I am NOT trying to brag on myself with what I just said.. It's just something I'm VERY thankful for. Remember that song we used to sing back in Children's Church and Gleaners .....

"if you read your Bible and pray every day.. pray every day.. pray every day.. if you read your Bible and pray every day then you will grow, grow, grow...... if you don't read your Bible and pray every day.. pray every day.. pray every day.. if you don't read your Bible and pray every day then you will shrink, shrink, shrink..."
...
or something along the lines of that? Well.. that's the truth. I know it's just a silly action song for kids.. but it's the truth when you think about it. I was shrinking in the Lord because I wasn't being FAITHFUL to reading my Bible and praying every day.
So now I'm trying to be more faithful. All I want to do is praise the Lord and serve Him all the days of my life.

Have you been faithful in doing so?

Well. I've gotta go make cookies with my mom for my teacher I think.. Have a great night.

Love you all!

~k~

Devotion from January 2

Is it working? Your belief system? Is it really working? God's intention all along has been for His children to succeed. So I ask you, is your Christian life feeling successful? Are you achieving and experiencing what Scripture says you would? God stated unapologetically that conditions exist under which "you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do." But the only way we are going to impact our generation is to prove that our faith in Christ is real and that it works. For countless Christians, I'm convinced it's real. My concern is whether or not we have the fruit to suggest it works.

Scripture reference: Joshua 1:8.

The devotion book was written by Beth Moore. "Believing God" Day By Day---- rowing your faith all year long.

~k~

Devotion from January 1

January 1

This book is about developing an action verb faith. It's about getting out there where we can feel the wind of God's Spirit blowing in our faces. It's about learning that we don't have to put down the Sword of the Spirit (the Word of God) to raise up the Shield of Faith.
The way I see it, that's why God gave us two hands. If we want to live abundantly, we must pick up both. To pick up the Sword of the Spirit without the Shield of Faith is to shrivel and dry up in the desert of legalism. To pick up the Shield of Faith without the Sword of the Spirit is to try walking on quicksand.

Scripture reference: Ephesians 6:16-17


~k~

[I got this devotion book for Christmas. It is awesome. I am thankful for it. It was written by Beth Moore. "Believing God Day By Day Growing your faith all year long." is what all it says on the front..]