What more can I say...

God is good!

God is doing so much in our church! Rashad was saved on Wednesday night. And, as if that wasn't enough, God showed Himself even more powerful yesterday at church! Christian, Rodney, and Javana were all saved yesterday! Christian is about 6, Rodney is about 9, and Javana is about 10. What a wonderful thought, that these kids have the rest of their lives to be able to live for God!

Christian was saved in Sunday School, then Rodney and Javana were saved after the afternoon service. We had a missionary from Hungary (He's a Hungarian man who is a missionary in Hungary) who preached yesterday. He preached a sermon focused more on witnessing to others, so it wasn't what we would call a "salvation message" encouraging others to be saved. But it turned out that way! Praise the Lord! Pastor came to me after the service was done, and he said that Javana wasn't sure that she had been saved! I took her down to the nursery and spent about 20 minutes (?) talking to her and showing her the "Roman's Road" and answering her many questions, like "How do we know God can hear us?" and "Do I have to pray out loud?" She has been coming to church for a while...since last spring, I think. She has heard a lot of Bible stories between Sundays and Wednesday nights, so she had the foundation. What a blessing for "one begger to tell another begger where to find food!" God is definitely doing some wonderful things at Stoughton Baptist Church!

Wednesday nights

I'm helping with Teen Time, our youth program for teens, at Stoughton Baptist Church on Wednesdays. Titus has been teaching the teens how to witness to others. So, last night, Titus asked for a volunteer. We've been praying that Rashad would get saved, and he volunteered. So, he went up to the front with Titus, who then showed the other teens how to witness to their friends by presenting the gospel to Rashad, which accomplished two things at once: showing the saved teens how they can witness to others and also presenting the gospel to Rashad! Well, they came to the end, the "decision," and Titus asked Rashad if he wanted to be saved, all part of the roll-play. Rashad asked, "For real?" Titus answered that he could be saved, for real, if he wanted to! And Rashad answered that he did! He prayed and asked God to save him, right there in front of all the other teens! Praise the Lord!!! God worked out the little details! Titus needed a volunteer to present the gospel to for the lesson, Rashad volunteered, and Titus was able to present the gospel to Rashad, who was ready to be saved! God is so good! Let the angels in heaven rejoice over one more sinner who has come to repentence! And let us pray that he will grow in the knowledge and love of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!

I did a search

Here are the results:

I Corinthians 14:33 "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace..."

Philippians 4:7 "The peace of God...shall keep your hearts."

Colossians 3:15 "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts."

Psalm 71:1 "In Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be put to confusion."

I must admit that I've allowed confusion to rule my heart, not the peace of God. God's peace will not necessarily make the confusion go away, but it will at least be able to give you the joy of the Lord, if you "let the peace of God rule in your heart." I've been wasting my time lately by not allowing God's peace to prevail in my life, and I've done some stupid things because of it.

What is peace? I've been asking myself that recently. I was looking through some old sermon notes last night, and I found a quote from one of the preachers saying that peace is a knowledge coming from God that lets you know that something is right. Ouch. I knew that, but I didn't want to think about it. Maybe I wanted something so much that I convinced myself that I had peace about it. Maybe the peace I had is for the future, that it will happen someday, but now is not the right time. I cannot see the future. I can hope, and pray. But God will do what is best; I just have to trust Him for today and have peace in what He has given me for today.

off-campus

So, I've been living off-campus for a while, now, and I love it! I've been living with the Garlands since January. I love them very much (please don't misunderstand me), but I kindof just want a place of my own. I mean, I'm 24 years old. I'm financially able to pay for an apartment (or, at least, I will be by the time I get around to moving). I want to be able to do my own grocery shopping, live a little closer to campus so I can go visit more often, and just have a place of my own. So, I have a few options, and I'm thinking about them and praying about them. Decisions, decisions. I hate making decisions...