X men

So I am a huge movie nerd! And a huge superhero nerd! So I just adore superhero movies!! Tonight I watched X-Men First Class. It was amazing I loved it. Learning how these heros became who they are. I just loved it. So that got me thinking, I am not a mutant, I am not a superhero but I am different. It's easy to let the culture around us talk us into the dream that because you are different you are better. That simply isn't so. Because you are different you have the ability to bring so much into the world. But that doesn't make you a superior human, or in some cases a better Christian. I am different because I have the spiritual gift of prophecy. It is like most gifts purely form God, and I struggle with using it. No I can't see the future, and no I can't read minds, but God has givin me insight into people and events along with other things (If you want to learn more about the modern day gift of prophecy read your Bible) so it's been hard on me lately because until now I assumed that all Christians saw everything I saw and understood what I did. That simply isn't so. So now I have to smush my ego back down to size because I can only do what I do because God is with me and using me. I can't do it on my own!! So since I was thinking about spiritual gifts I realized that everyone deals with this to some extent. We each have gifts that make us different, that make us special and wonderful. But if we by into the superhuman philosophy our heads will soon grow bigger and our reliance on God will soon shrink into a Sunday activity. I am so guilty of this, I am not the best musician, I can't draw to save my life, math is annoying and I can't for the life of me origanize or put things in an order! So to have something that I can do that not many people can, makes me excited and proud. That is my problem, I have gotten proud of what I can do, not amazed at what God can do through me. If I think I am better than people because they are different than me, then I have turned into Magnito (X-Men) If I try to pretend like I am not different and I think like others I have turned into a lemming and that's pitiful! So balence, balence is good. I haven't found balence yet but I am working on it :-) I will find it with Gods help!
So as I go to bed I cry out
'Lord help me, I thank you for what you have done in me, show me how to use it for you.'

That's what we all need to do cry out for Help! Because God will always answer!

Juggling

Sorry it's been so long, but I have been juggling.
Have you ever had to juggle? Life, and school, and friends, and work. All at the same time and all demanding all your time and effort! So I wasn't able to blog because every night I would fall into bed and think.. Ok God I am done now, can life just chill a bit? And the answer was always the same.. My dear daughter I have plans for you, nothing you are doing now is pointless. So good news, my God has a plan for me!! And my juggling is not pointless!! Yay *happy dance*  Bad news, I don't have juggling stamina! I need a break! So then I would flop into bed and say... God I am not as good at this as my friends can I get like a week off? Maybe not have a calamity for a bit? But the answer was always the same... My dear daughter, I love you. And I have plans for you, and nothing you are doing is pointless. So I kept on plodding on, wishing that things were different, that my friends didn't have high school drama every day of the week, that my siblings and I would just get along and that the cows across the street would stop mooing! So tonight I flopped in to bed, and prayed.. HELP! And the answer I got was... My dear daughter, I thought you would never ask. I can't juggle my life! I can't keep my friends sane, I can't work a grown up Job, but the 'God who made the world and everything in it....' * Can do that, if I ask him. I maybe should have thought this through sooner. God made everything and loves everyone, he can handle my boy drama pretty easily. So I had an ah ha moment and I was excited! So I am back to my blog and my peace of mind! So let me leave you with this

'For I know the plans I have for you declares The Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.'
Jeremiah 29:11

He has plans, and he will help you through those plans. He will never give you more than the two of you as a team can handle and since he is God, well He can handle anything!

*Acts 17:24

I am back!

Hi! Remember me? The one who writes things? Yeah it has been a while… My bad, I have news.

I want to change the world.

Yep I am dead serious. I want to change the world.

How? Well at first I thought, I want to change the way Adults think so they can teach their kids what is truth and what is not. But the more I thought the more I became sure, I am trying to fix the problem backwards, how adults think will change, when we become the adults. Scary, right? We will soon be the adults, running government, leading the church, dealing with the social problems of the world. And our generation is truly the turning point, in the past there was a sense of, this is good, and we are all good, except a few bad…that we don’t talk about. People could dance in the gray on hot issues and never get burned. Yes, there were the radicals in both parties but on a whole everyone was together. Well not so any more. The gray is slowing disappearing, battle lines are being drawn, and there is an ‘us or them’ mentality on issues that has not been present before. It will only get worse. I am not saying it’s bad or good, I just know it’s there. This is the challenge we face. We must be following God, and we as the church must be united. But we, as teenagers hold the future in our hands, and what are we doing? Flirting and eating chocolate while on Facebook and Twitter, not that I am against any of those things, in moderation. But there is so, so, sooooooooo much more to life than, who likes who and what celebs are doing. I am not saying to sit and read the Bible 24/7 (though if you want to I will in no way discourage it!!) what I am saying is stand up and make a choice! A choice to find out facts about the world around us and then do something about them! I choice to stop letting society walk all over us Christian Kids because we are too scared to say what we really think! We all can choose sit by and let everyone think that we are, disrespectful, lazy, rude, teens with our heads in the clouds, or we can be the ones who change the world. To me the choice is simple. And the Bible backs me up on this

Romans 12:2

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will

 and This is the Message take of Romans 12: 1-2  

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. 

This is what the Bible says, it’s your choice. But I will NEVER conform to this world’s pattern again.

The responsibility of the WORLD will soon be our generations and if we as Christian teen don’t stand up now. Nothing will change. and we need change, now.