God is sooooo Good.

Yo.

So, when I am down and really struggling with sin I end up beating myself up and beginning to believe how worthless I am and that nothing good will come from me and that I should isolate myself to minimize damage and that I need to work on myself before anything happens. And then I get depressed because of how bleak my future would be looking.

But grace is sooooo much more than sin and God is sooooo much better than we can ever imagine. Even when I am down He picks me up. He shows me that He values me. He shows me that He can work in and through me. He shows me that following Him and helping others to do so is worth so much more than trying to hide. God can overcome anything in my life. He will bring to completion what He has started. He is good. Always.

A couple weeks ago I was given the opportunity to talk to a Masters student at Carleton. I hadn't met her in person yet, but she was emailing the P2C email account, which I was overseeing. So I messaged her back and we got to meet up. It was amazing! Like literally, we just started talking and getting to know each other and then she was asking about Jesus. God has been doing a lot in her life, various tough times, and a bunch of friends sharing Christ with her, and now she is seeking on her own. She doesn't want her friends to bias her search, which is cool, but they're gonna be so happy when she finally tells them. haha. We were looking at the Knowing God Personally booklet, which outlines 4 basic points of the gospel, and she was asking sooooooo many questions and was sooooo interested in hearing more! After point 2: we are separated from God because of our sin and there's nothing we can do about it on our own, she was pretty bummed out, but point 3 is amazing and I was so excited about it and then she got so excited about it! Man. We talked for like an hour and a half about the Bible and who God is and why we love sharing the good news with others in P2C. She told me about the Prince of Egypt movie and I told her more of the story in the wilderness and of God's faithfulness. So good. We haven't been able to meet up recently, but I am going to try meeting up this week. She said she'd be happy to meet up and talk more about God! Please pray for her!

And then at Summit this weekend, after the Saturday evening session I saw a girl sitting alone and felt prompted to go talk to her. Carleton was going to do something and I was told to hurry up, but whatever, I'd rather follow this prompting and talk to her. So I sat in a chair beside her and asked what was up? She was a little overwhelmed with what God had been telling her. In the session they had shown a video about mission trips and how there are so many people around the world who have never heard the good news of Jesus, and she felt really compelled to go. Well, actually, at first she was just kinda crying and didn't know how to explain anything, so I prayed for her a bit encouraging her that no matter what difficult situation she was going through or felt God calling her to that He is good, that He would provide, and that He loved her deeply. She also was feeling convicted in regards to decisions she had been making. She had felt called to go to a University away from her home town so she could be pushed outside her comfort zone and rely on God, but she had been not taking those steps, she had been coasting, she had been defensive. I don't remember all of the details anymore, but she was feeling super convicted by the Spirit to trust God more and follow Him wherever He was calling her, and that's amazing! So I asked if she could pray, and then I prayed for her too. She was so much happier afterwards and more sure of what God was telling her. Please pray for her too! I'm so glad I stopped to talk with her and listened to God. So much of what she was saying I resonated with and was also convicted of. < 3 God is so good!

I literally love ministry and experiencing God through it. I don't remember exactly what she said, but the speaker at Summit said something about how we don't do ministry for God, when we participate in ministry it is us experiencing and allowing God to live in and through us. I don't want to ever stop serving others around me. I don't ever want to believe lies about myself. I want to submit everything to God and continue to serve wherever I go by His Spirit in me.

God is so good.

Seriously.

If you've never really met Him you should read the book of John and ask for God to reveal Himself to you, and talk to a friend of yours who does know God. And if you do know God, let's pray that He lets us get to know Him more, that we take steps of faith and grow in our relationship with Him, experiencing His power and presence in everything we do!

God is sooooo good.

Ttyl.

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