Hola, I say Hola A lot, its turned into a habit that I am trying to break.
I am a Senior at Jupiter High.
My Birthday is on Groundhogs Day.
The Middle Child.
Live In Sunshine State – Florida.
Mountains are better then beaches (my opinion)
Favorite Color is Green.
I like Adventures!
Honduran Kids are pretty darn cool.
I lived on a Bus for two months.
Get asked if I’m from Boston about once a week.
I find myself to just be your average human being that is nasty and full of sin and I really can’t stand it. Though, lucky for me, I have a mediator who paid the price for that and now I’m redeemed and can enter the throne room of God, fearfully but boldly. Now how awesome is that!
Now the really interesting part about my life – how the Holy Spirit has worked through me and molded me more into the image of Christ. Once I was completely lost, seeking after acceptance, comfort, satisfaction from things that come from this world. What I did not realize was that this world sucks and nothing comes from it that matters eternally. Only sin runs through this world because of the fall. As a child my mama would make me go to Church and Awana’s and all that fun stuff because it was the right thing. I thought I was a Christian because I did believe in a God (But we all do, even demons do, others just suppress the truth) I just never submitted myself to his will but I believed in a heaven and hell and I was a good person so I thought I was going to go to heaven. Sadly that is false and thankfully I know that now even though I didn’t at the time. I got baptized once because I thought that was another step closer into getting into the gates of heaven, which is also a false thing I believed.
A few years pass and now It’s my freshman year, which was a really hard year for me. I had many family issues going on at the time that put me in a state of depression and I felt lost. I was not in a good place, because my family’s love was failing me and not meeting my needs and wants. So I in turn decided to seek acceptance from other people. I would try and find acceptance from my friends at school and people that I knew went and got drunk and high. So like a follower, I did the exact same thing and sought after that stuff for a little. I was a good person still though right, I have a good heart, and it’s not my fault God put me through what he did with my family? Wrong.
So one day, I went to youth group and they announced they were going to a camp called Snowbird Wilderness Outfitters. I did not know exactly what I was getting myself into I just knew it looked like a lot of fun and my sister always came back and was the happiest person ever and she felt satisfied by God. So when I went to camp that week it was really weird and quite awkward at first. I had to have a lot of one on one talks where people would ask me if I was willing to give my life to the Lord. I didn’t even know what that exactly looked like or meant. Though through the personal relationships I made on the trip with my counselors and chaperones and even the other kids I realized one thing. I was not like them and they were separated from me in a way of holiness.
I knew I was in the wrong and that I was a sinner. Through that recognition of sin and the many talks I had with the people that were investing in me I came to realize I am not a Christian at all, though I was still not wanting to submit to God, I was still chasing after popularity and acceptance from other people not these Jesus freaks I was stuck in a tent with for a week. It was the last night of camp though, and we were sitting in the Friday night sermon. I remember it was cram packed and I was sitting there laughing with my friend next to me and I just wanted to get out of the room.
Two minutes later a video comes on about a girl getting raped. Believe me when I say that I broke down. Though, I was not breaking down because of the video because even though a girl getting raped is sad and really devastating, it was not going to make me sit there and cry and cry and cry like I was at that moment in the state of not being a believer. No, I was breaking down because of something way bigger and way more powerful. That is the moment that God chose to reveal who he was to me, and quite honestly it was the weirdest moment I have ever experienced because it was so supernatural. Here I am laughing one moment never in a million years would I have dreamed of the Spirit of God coming to rest on me minutes later.
God placed me in a position of complete humbleness. (I’m not even quite sure that is a word but that is what he did.) Through his power, he revealed himself to me, then humbled me, then put me in a position to have no other choice but submit my life to him. How marvelous and wonderful and majestic that moment was. It changed the path of life I was going on, I was going down a destructive path. It changed my state of position with where I stood with God. I was now in a relationship with the Creator of the world, with the creator of humanity, with my creator. I now truly knew what it meant to give my life to Christ and in that moment it changed my life eternally. PRAISE HIM WHO DESERVES ALL GLORY ALONE!
Now I have been following Christ for about two and a half years and he has completely rocked my world in that time alone. I now have hope and purpose for my life and I recognize that purpose. I now have a reason to be alive and only have good things to look forward to. Though I also now have responsibilitys but I look at them as more of privledges. Christ has been working in me and through me in ways that I can not eliquently describe in words, because they are things thats surpass this world and words alone, it is so supernatural!
The issues I was going through with my family God just completely cleared. I am not saying their are not issues now but the issues I was facing freshman year I know longer face. Even though God has not revealed who he truly was to everyone in my family yet or led them to a position of surrendering to him, things overall have been better. We are all closer and now we even have a family bible study every once in a while, which is so awesome to just get to sit down and open the Word of God with them believers and non believers! I now have real friends and a family of believers that I know I can count on for anything and are always going to be there to encourage me through any trial I go through.
The Summer camp where God used to bring me to him I got the oppurtunity to serve at for a summer on a program called Servant Team, where that just completely rocked my world. I am going back this summer to counsel and invest in kids for ten weeks like my counselors used to do with me. I am involved in different ministries at my church and school and God has even placed me in a position of leadership in the Student Ministry, which is a huge privledge, responsibility and oppurtunity to invest in the students at my local town.
God has just really shaped my life and brought me to things that I could never imagine. I am getting ready to go travel the world for nine months and get the oppurtunity to preach the gospel to people who may have never heard it before! I will get to be involved in so many different ministries that I have never dreamed in a million years I would get to be involved in. God is going to personally use me and send me out into the reality of this world and not just this little town that I live in! How the gospel changes lives is just so stinking amazing I litterally am at a loss for words. I just know what I have personally gone through, and how it brought me to life and liberty and how he has done it to my friends and family and how he is going to do it in so many others lives and I can not wait for the chance to play an active role in his work.
So I am leaving you all with that for now. If you have any questions about my life and want to know in more detail how Christ has worked through me then just contact me. I really want anyone and everyone to be involved in this process with me. I am a people person most of the time. If you have any questions about what future ministry will look like for me and want to know more about this trip I have been blessed with the oppurtunity to go on just contact me! Or if you have any prayer requests that you may not want to share with others, or things you want to get off your chest, or you just know the power of prayer works and want me to be there for you, contact me! In all seriousness that is my prayer, that you guys can be as involved in this trip as I am and that I can bring you guys along the journey with me.
