Yesterday as all my teammates were sitting in our room just
hanging out and talking, I decided to go into the other room. There were some
things that I wanted to journal about and I wanted to catch up on reading
Captivating. In the middle of writing out my prayers, I felt my body shaking
and then I realized it wasn’t just my body. The entire room started shaking and
swaying back and forth… it was an EARTHQUAKE! I jumped up with my bible and
backpack and ran around the corner to my teammates as they were screaming to
get down stairs as fast as possible. I heard Karaline yelling for us to get
outside. I’m glad she said that because in the state of panic, honestly, I
didn’t know what to do. I’m from the east coast… we have hurricanes, not
earthquakes! So our team ran outside into the streets. As I looked down the
street there are some towers at the end of it and I saw them going up and down.
I was thinking what’s going to happen? Is the ground below my feet going to
split? Where do we go? About a million questions were running through my head
all at once. I couldn’t make them stop! Then I started to think about my mom,
Frances (my sister), my grandma, my uncle, and the rest of my family. I could
see each one of their faces right in front of me and literally all I wanted to
do was hold them. I thought about my friends and how much I wanted to see them.
(Note: this is all happening in a matter of seconds) In the moment of feeling
like my life was going to end all I could do was pray. I was screaming inside
my head that God would protect my family and friends no matter what. That’s
when I thought to myself what if they don’t know. What if they don’t know about
the personal relationship that they can have with Jesus Christ? What if they
believe in Him, but haven’t truly accepted Him as Lord of their life?
The shaking stopped but my mind was still going crazy to the
point where my body was shaking. My teammates went back upstairs some into
their rooms and others went upstairs to eat, but I decided I needed some time
after that. I slowly made it back into the house and the minute I began to sit
down, it happened again. Karaline, Kayla, and I ran outside onto the streets
again. This time I was nowhere near okay! It didn’t last as long as the first
one and it wasn’t as bad but still! I listing off names off people in my head
praying, praying that God would take captive their hearts and that they would
see God for who He truly is, praying that they would continue to seek God,
praying for the salvation of others, the prayers just kept coming out and wouldn’t
stop. I want all the world to know HIS GREAT NAME! I want all the world to know
GOD! I want all the world to know JESUS THE SON OF GOD!
Check out this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXH0MjGe10s
Matthew 11:26 “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
John 4:13-15 “Jesus answered and said to her, ‘ Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.’ The woman said to Him, ‘Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, no come here to draw.'”
Hebrews 11:6 “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
