So, Sami, my awesome roommate started this daily blogging thing...so I decided that I would try it as well. At the beginning of my Junior year in college I decided I was going to journal everyday until the college year was over. Yeah...I made it only until mid fall semester. So lets try this again, electronic style.
These past few days have been, to say the least, awesome! :D They have been filled with new friendships, laughter, games, dancing, amazing conversations, prayer and worship, and so much more! But the top of them all!!...a spiritual birthday!
This new semester has come with excitement and a thick presence of the Holy Spirit. Change is coming, revival is near, it is now! There are visions and talk of unity, of revival, of change, of great things, of break throughs, throughout the students, staff and community members of Bemidji.
Tuesday, I sat down with Brittany and Adam to talk about what we wanted to see for the oak small group and the conversation consisted of a stomach turning statement: "we are going to split entirely into three seperate small groups, meeting all together once a month." When I heard this, like I said, I wasn't to thrilled about the idea. It made me uncomfortable. But I wanted to and did trust the decision that the two of them had made about the split. The time of night came along and small group started. The majority of the main members were there and as the night went on my heart was starting to change. As I saw the unexpected reaction of all of the small group members there, I started to become excited along with them. Excited to reach the lost. The passion was rising within me once again. I left my freshmen friends that night, not only seeing the full potential each and every one of them have had from the time I first met them, but also seeing the desire in their eyes to reach out to those who need Jesus!
Wednesday was good, but I'm skipping to Thursday. I'm continually being blown away by the fearlessness of one of my closer freshmen friends. How she goes up to complete strangers and a few minutes later has a new friend! k....skip ahead to 8pm. TNF. Last semester we would go around and attempt to gather people to come along with us, but as the semester went on, sadly it eventually ended up being just Adam and I walking to TNF. What happened? Well, to move on from the past, I will tell you what happened this past Thursday. After walking past the lobby area with Adam and Steph(a wonderful freshmen) sitting and waiting I went back to my room to grab something. When I walked back out into the lobby, who was waiting for me? Probably about 12 freshmen along with Brittany and Adam! I was most definitely caught off guard. But praise God! The night goes on and God truely did speak through Terry, the speaker for the night. The passion inside continued to grow, not only in me, but in many others as well!
Now Friday! After I was done with classes, I hung out in the union with my friends, of course. :) As we sat and ate, we discussed our thoughts and excitement that we had from TNF, the night before. We then started to pray, crying out to God, praying that He would move in us, through us, and around us, stirring up the hearts of those who know Him and of those who don't. About an hour later I saw one of my closest freshmen friends(the one I was talking about in the beginning of the previous paragraph) up at the coffee shop, so I went up next to her. She was excited once again about the new friend she had made, and invited me to go and meet her new friend's other friends. We ended up sitting with them and getting to know them for about an hour or so.
Later on that night was the big game night we had planned for an outreach event. I wasn't really sure what to expect for the night, but God totally showed up and the 50 some people (the majority of them being new faces!) that came had a rockin' time!! There were board games, video games, music, laughter (a lot of it!), prizes, spontaneous dancing, and new friendships! The game party started at 7 and went until around midnight, with an awesome spiritual birthday starting shortly after! :D Might I mention that the majority of those 50 some students stayed for almost that entire 5 hours. A couple of my friends had planned to do some musical worship right after the games and we had originally thought it was going to be maybe 5 people, but it ended up being about 13 or 14 people worshiping and it most definitely ended with a bang! :) Like I've said a million of times in this post, we all got to welcome a new sister into the family of God! And we ended up going to perkins from 12:30am - 3am to celebrate. Awesome times!!
So what have I learned from this past week? That God is faithful! When we pour out the love from within us, He will fill us right back up, so we can pour it out to others again! That there is never a better time, than now, to make new friends, to love people. What is the worst that could happen when you go up to someone and introduce yourself to them? They say hi with an awkward expression, oh no! That's so scary... Think of the impact you could make in their lives, the way the Holy Spirit could work through you to bring them closer to the Only One who can save them. That we go through our day and make choices, choices we think aren't that big of a deal.(for example going to worship after the game night, instead of going to bed or watching a movie...we can play the what would have happened game; would we have a new sister in Christ?) The point I'm getting at though is that God uses the choices we make in His plans for us. How honored are we that He would do that! I could go on, but those are just some of the things I've learned and thought about this past week.
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