grow - tonyka jamieson

11th April 2011 by MORE

Over the past few months I've felt kind of lost. I didn't really have a plan for the year. It felt weird – kind of like I was empty.

Every Wednesday at lunchtime at school, a few of my friends, my Scripture teacher and I have a prayer group. People sometimes go to our Scripture teacher and ask her to pray for them. But I hadn't really been getting involved like I usually did.

One Wednesday my teacher called me away from the others and asked me if everything was alright and I said, "Yeah" because I thought I was alright. The she asked, "Have you been talking to God" and of course I said "Yeah". But it got me thinking, had I?

That afternoon I went home and grabbed my Bible, I turned a few pages and they kept saying the same thing. For example, "The Lord will always be with you", "The Lord will always love you" and so on.

A few days later I went to a youth rally and they talked on the topic of trusting God. I realised in that moment that I hadn't been trusting him with his plans for my life. I had been making excuses out of negativity and not looking at the positives. For example, every time I heard the word China, shivers went up my spine. I knew there was a teen missions team going to China but I didn't want to look at it because I knew it was what God wanted me to do.

But being me, I did look and now I am registered for the China Team 1104 and we will be leaving in December this year.

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Kimberley

April 16, 2011 at 4:27pm

It's amazing what God can do with people who step out in faith and trust him. Praying for you, my friend :)

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