I follow a King.

Hello lovelies.

This weekend was absolutely incredible. I took my little youth group, whom I refer to as my little family, to Youth Advance. Let me tell you, it was just WOW! Words honestly can't being to explain this weekend at all.

First, I got to experience the real feeling of being a youth pastor, and just watching young people, myself included, run after God so fast and with such a passion. I got to pray over youth that wanted to re-dedicate their lives, and experience freedom. I got to watch and be part of my youth being baptized in the holy spirit and speaking in tongues. I got to watch my youth walk to the altar and dedicate their youth years as campus missionaries. I got up and prayed in front of youth pastors/leaders, students, and many other people for the very first time. God did SO much in my heart, and the hearts of everyone else around me. I can't even being to explain how I felt watching and experiencing all of this. I FOLLOW A KING.

Second, I got to sit in two youth leadership trainings that just blew my mind! Hearing the reality of these youth and what they need really just hit me. I am so blessed and it just melts my heart knowing that I am somehow making a difference in the lives of these youth. I can't thank God enough for putting me in the place I am right now.

I got to talk with a guy from Zion College this weekend and told him about my situation, which I will try and sum up quick. But first, I just need to say that God really knows when I need to hear his voice even if in the form of another. He knows when reassurance is needed and he always gives it to me when he knows it's needed.
I know that I am called to do missions in Africa, I know that for sure. So, many wonder, why am I working in youth? Because God does not just have one place for me.
"Wherever there is a need that needs to be met, and you can meet that need, do it."
God has placed me here for a reason, and I know it's not forever, but I know it's part of the journey that God has planned for me and all I can do is follow the path he has laid out for me right now. At some point there will be a right or left turn, and I will take that turn. But for now I am just focusing on what God needs me to do.

Which takes me back to my precious youth. I got to see their hearts this weekend, I got to hear their passions, I got to see God stir in their hearts and light a fire in them. I couldn't thank God enough for bringing me to where I am now. I love these youth so much, and I thank God every single day for making them part of my life.

To kind of say good bye for this blog I am going to share a verse with you that God kind of used as my "motto" this weekend.

Isaiah 42:6-7
⁶ “I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness;
I will take hold of your hand.
I will keep you and will make you
to be a covenant for the people
and a light for the Gentiles,
⁷ to open eyes that are blind,
to free captives from prison
and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.

As we were in prayer before our first night service I was pacing and yelling for God to give me something. GIVE ME SOMETHING, LORD! I needed something to speak into the youth. I was desperate. As I opened my Bible, I landed on this verse. The whole theme of youth advance is for the youth to be campus missionaries at their schools, so when I got this verse I couldn't help but tear up. God is going to use the hands and mouths of those youth to proclaim victory in their schools, and to make miracles a normal thing in their schools. The darkness that fills the lives and the hallways of the students will be flushed out with the light that is now shining off these students. I honestly couldn't be more in awe of what God did this weekend. I follow a King.