Happy New Year!!!! Yes, I know I am a month late on that, but I believe you can say Happy New Year till at least March when St. Patty's Day takes over! (Okay..maybe in a week when Valentine's Day, really takes over. =D) Man, life has been a wonderful and crazy ride since the last post. God blessed me with an amazing job that I love. A lot of my friends are getting engaged..which equals round two of weddings--which I am THRILLED about. Not sure if I have ever expressed my LOVE of weddings...but now I have! 2012 has already brought trials and tribulations, but I will survive them because I have a Father who is above all that! I should really start at the beginning of the year to fill you in on what has been going on. It's some pretty exciting stuff!
Right before the New Year hit, I was able to go to the OneThing Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. It is one of the most AMAZING conferences I have been to. It is led by IHOP--The International House of Prayer. I was only able to be there all of Friday and Saturday, but it was worth it! So, we get there and start walking to the convention center and I just see tons and tons of people and I start getting super excited! We walk into this HUGE room and it just goes on for miles it feels like. We make it to our seats and just start praising God the way we want to. You have people dancing, sitting down, stand up, crying their eyes out, yelling and praising God..the list goes on and on. It was such a freeing experience just to praise the One who I call Father. Friday and Saturday were both filled with amazing praise and worship sessions, awesome teachings, and lots of prayer and focus on my relationship with Christ. On Saturday there was a praying in tongues class, that all the girls in my group that I went with, wanted to go to. I was anxious and excited to just learn and ask God to bless me with the gift of tongues. Our professor was hilarious and the way he spoke about being baptized in the fire was thrilling. He even spoke a little bit on water baptism, which had me thinking. I initially asked God to bless me with the gift, but I was holding myself back. I know that it is a beautiful language between God and yourself, so I definitely think I will get there one day. So Saturday night we had a party...a HOLY GHOST party!!!!!!!!!!!! "Because..their ain't no party, like a Holy Ghost party, 'cause a Holy Ghost party don't stop!!!" We sang and worshiped God once again and heard a powerful and strong message from Lou Engle. And how did we ring in the new year, you ask?! We danced, danced, and danced, as well as sing and praise God. The ENTIRE room that was filled with thousands of people of all ages were dancing. We were all filled with the Holy Spirit and it was beautiful. I know that I am going back next year, because that is how you welcome Christ into 2012! If any of you who read this want to go with me.. please let me know!!!! :)
2012. A New Beginning.
On January 22nd around 1 pm, I decided to rededicate my life and faith at Frontline Church, which is downtown. What an experience for the first of the year! Since that class at IHOP that I attended, I just felt that it was time to get serious and to just start fresh. I was baptized at the age of 8, when my childlike faith was at it's best. Since then, I have experienced sin, let down after let down, and I have been raised from the ashes because of my Heavenly Father. So I rededicated my life and it has not been an easy road. The whole month of January, I struggled. No idea what was going on till I went to church this past Sunday night and actually had someone pray with me. I was attacked, spiritually. I found myself tired all the time and just not wanting to go to church. I wanted to be in my Father's house, but I just didn't have the energy or drive to. And when I was there, I was so disconnected from it all. Come to find out, just in case any of you don't know, but the devil HATES us. He is not happy with our decision to get baptised, to show our faith and relationship to Christ. In fact, he despises us!!! I really took that hard. Why and how can someone hate you that much to make your life miserable?! It definitely put things into perspective for me and made me fall in love with Christ even more. He LOVES us!! Even we sin and hurt Him. HE.LOVES.US!!! I just get so giddy inside. I know just a tiny bit of what He has in store for me and I cannot wait. I just have to keep seeking Him and walking with Him till then.
Lots of reading, glad you stayed with me till the end of it! Love you all! I really am blessed to have you all as friends and family. You don't even know where I would be without the amazing encouragement. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! =D
