Well, I'm glad you asked!
I have been super duper busy lately with school. This weekend I have a take-home test in organic and tonight our discipleship class at church is going to MSU to witness. I'm super stoked and I am excited about how God is going to move in those situations. I haven't had a whole lot of time to blog, but I just wanted to check in. I find it a lot easier to read other peoples' blogs than write my own.
In other news, this morning I walked a 5K at school and survived. My legs hurt pretty bad. I need to start walking all the time cause this sucks. I am no where near in shape. But it was to benefit Isabel's house so it was a good cause!
I will post later on how things go tonight! Hope everyone is having a blessed weekend so far!!
♪♫ brianna ♪♫
10.3.12
7.3.12
All for His glory
So lately I have had a big decision come in my life. I got accepted into the Drury Honors house, but it's very expensive, so I didn't know how I was going to pay for it. So I have had a week to let the lady know my final decision and through this week I prayed that whatever came out of this situation would work to bring glory to God and to further His kingdom. My prayer was that somehow, by living in a house with 5 other people I could witness to them and bring them to church. I do not even know them yet, but I am still so excited. I really want to share the word of God with people.
Anyway, things worked out and I will be living in this house and it's all because of Him. The reason I wanted to post this is because so often I get my hopes up thinking about the things that I want and most of the time they just fall through, but this is the first time I truly felt like I was completely trusting God and it was a very exciting time! I honestly didn't know which way it was going to work out, but it ended up even better than what I thought, and I want to truly trust Him in everything!!!
One thing that I struggle with is being single, but I have gotten a lot better in trusting the Lord. I know that He has a guy for me. How could I doubt the maker of the universe? Anyway, I just pray that my future husband is living for the Lord and that I can be a good wife and for now, I just want to completey be content with where I am in life right now and trust God 100% :)
On a completely different note, I have a ton of cool ideas for decorating once I move in. This summer is going to be BUSY!!! I love it! Also, this summer I have to really celebrate because I will have survived organic. Phew!!! :)
Have a blessed day!
Anyway, things worked out and I will be living in this house and it's all because of Him. The reason I wanted to post this is because so often I get my hopes up thinking about the things that I want and most of the time they just fall through, but this is the first time I truly felt like I was completely trusting God and it was a very exciting time! I honestly didn't know which way it was going to work out, but it ended up even better than what I thought, and I want to truly trust Him in everything!!!
One thing that I struggle with is being single, but I have gotten a lot better in trusting the Lord. I know that He has a guy for me. How could I doubt the maker of the universe? Anyway, I just pray that my future husband is living for the Lord and that I can be a good wife and for now, I just want to completey be content with where I am in life right now and trust God 100% :)
On a completely different note, I have a ton of cool ideas for decorating once I move in. This summer is going to be BUSY!!! I love it! Also, this summer I have to really celebrate because I will have survived organic. Phew!!! :)
Have a blessed day!
4.3.12
I'm jumping back on the blogger bandwagon!
My online presence this week has been pretty faint because I was pretty sick Thursday and Friday, therefore missed school, Bible study, work, and now I have to catch up with all those things. Anyway, last Wednesday night David Botts gave the message at our college service at church. He mentioned that a great way to suppliment daily Bible study was to read blogs. Well, blogging is just an old hat for me! But, the thing is, I don't really blog about my faith or walk with God, and how can I even call myself a Christian if I'm not taking steps to furthering His kindgom? And how easy is blogging?! I mean, witnessing is hard. You have to confront people face to face and it can be intimidating (I would like to post more about this later), but blogging is so less scary. SO... I have spent the majority of the morning catching up on my blog reading because a lot of people from church started blogs, and now I feel it's my turn to jump on the bandwagon. A great place to start, I guess, is my testimony, and it will probably sound much like a lot of other peoples', so please bear with me and I promise things will get much more interesting later.
First off, let me tell you that I currently am a member at Broadway Baptist Church and it's just about the coolest church on the planet! BUT, I didn't grow up Baptist. My whole family is Methodist. We have ALWAYS went to church every Sunday and, although Methodists don't usually have Wednesday night services, we were at church because my family was always very involved. My grandpa was the choir director and my aunt was the pianist. We were just always at church. Well, we went to this old old church called St. Luke United Methodist Church and when I was in 2nd grade I got to go to church camp for the first time. They had an invitation at the end of the weekend and I was curious, but I didn't get up. When I got home I asked my mom about it and I got saved. From that point I tried reading the Bible and learning things about God that I didn't know, but seriously how much in depth was I going to go? I was like 8 years old! So I guess my perception of Christian life from that point was that I got saved, now I'm a Christian, now as long as I don't do bad things and go to church and get involved, I'll go to heaven when I die. So I lived that way all through middle school and even the first part of high school. I just got really involved in church and was a good kid and I thought that was all there was to it. Well, like everyone, I had times where I wasn't as faithful as I should have been. I hung out with some people who called themselves Christians, but I knew they weren't the same kind of person I was, but I never really knew how. They just did things that I didn't think were right. Well, once I got out of that situation (which could very well be another blog post for another day), I got really close to my bestest friend in the entire world, Karasyn Lindsey. At this point, I was attending Antioch United Methodist Church and was super duper involved, but there were only two other people my age and they were both boys, so I didn't have many peers to relate to. I sat during the sermons and paid attention and took notes even, but at the end, I couldn't tell you the theme of the sermon or even where you could find the premise in the Bible. So I started visiting my friends' churches. The first was my friend Melissa and then Karasyn. Well, Karasyn went to Broadway Baptist, which was close to my house and I knew a ton of people there and after visiting only a couple times, I felt very welcome. Not awkward at all, but I was sooo involved at my church and felt trapped in that. I was literally going to church only to run the sound board or sing in the choir, but not to hear God's word at all. I didn't want to let the people in the church down, which is a terrible spot to be in.
So finally, my senior year, I got an offer at my job to get some extra hours in on Sunday and I needed the money pretty bad so I did it. It was the perfect excuse to get out of all this work at church. So every other week I worked at the funeral home and went to the evening service at Broadway, then on my off weeks, I went to the early service at Broadway, but still went to my parents' church. This went on for a couple of months, until I started working every single Sunday. At this point I was going to Broadway exclusively on Sundays and then on Wednesdays going to the college class, because I had just begun my freshman year of college. Drew asked me to play keys in the college praise band and I said yes. I wasn't even a member at this church and I was already leading worship? I wasn't even Baptist!! I mean, yeah, I was a born again Christian, but Methodists and Baptists are pretty different. God worked on my heart a lot that fall and winter and finally in Febraury I decided to join Broadway. I was really scared because my family is really close and I wasn't sure how they would take the news that not only was I not going to their church anymore, but I was changing denominations.
Well, my parents supported me in my decision, and although my grandparents were sad to see me leave their church, they were proud that I was making a decision for my own faith. So I have been at Broadway almost 2 years now and I have loved every minute of it. I have made a ton of friends, but most importantly I have really grown spiritually because the leaders there truly teach God's word, no if's, and's, or but's. So that's where I am at right now, and although there is way more to this story, I'm cutting it off now, because you are probably snoring by now. ;)
First off, let me tell you that I currently am a member at Broadway Baptist Church and it's just about the coolest church on the planet! BUT, I didn't grow up Baptist. My whole family is Methodist. We have ALWAYS went to church every Sunday and, although Methodists don't usually have Wednesday night services, we were at church because my family was always very involved. My grandpa was the choir director and my aunt was the pianist. We were just always at church. Well, we went to this old old church called St. Luke United Methodist Church and when I was in 2nd grade I got to go to church camp for the first time. They had an invitation at the end of the weekend and I was curious, but I didn't get up. When I got home I asked my mom about it and I got saved. From that point I tried reading the Bible and learning things about God that I didn't know, but seriously how much in depth was I going to go? I was like 8 years old! So I guess my perception of Christian life from that point was that I got saved, now I'm a Christian, now as long as I don't do bad things and go to church and get involved, I'll go to heaven when I die. So I lived that way all through middle school and even the first part of high school. I just got really involved in church and was a good kid and I thought that was all there was to it. Well, like everyone, I had times where I wasn't as faithful as I should have been. I hung out with some people who called themselves Christians, but I knew they weren't the same kind of person I was, but I never really knew how. They just did things that I didn't think were right. Well, once I got out of that situation (which could very well be another blog post for another day), I got really close to my bestest friend in the entire world, Karasyn Lindsey. At this point, I was attending Antioch United Methodist Church and was super duper involved, but there were only two other people my age and they were both boys, so I didn't have many peers to relate to. I sat during the sermons and paid attention and took notes even, but at the end, I couldn't tell you the theme of the sermon or even where you could find the premise in the Bible. So I started visiting my friends' churches. The first was my friend Melissa and then Karasyn. Well, Karasyn went to Broadway Baptist, which was close to my house and I knew a ton of people there and after visiting only a couple times, I felt very welcome. Not awkward at all, but I was sooo involved at my church and felt trapped in that. I was literally going to church only to run the sound board or sing in the choir, but not to hear God's word at all. I didn't want to let the people in the church down, which is a terrible spot to be in.
So finally, my senior year, I got an offer at my job to get some extra hours in on Sunday and I needed the money pretty bad so I did it. It was the perfect excuse to get out of all this work at church. So every other week I worked at the funeral home and went to the evening service at Broadway, then on my off weeks, I went to the early service at Broadway, but still went to my parents' church. This went on for a couple of months, until I started working every single Sunday. At this point I was going to Broadway exclusively on Sundays and then on Wednesdays going to the college class, because I had just begun my freshman year of college. Drew asked me to play keys in the college praise band and I said yes. I wasn't even a member at this church and I was already leading worship? I wasn't even Baptist!! I mean, yeah, I was a born again Christian, but Methodists and Baptists are pretty different. God worked on my heart a lot that fall and winter and finally in Febraury I decided to join Broadway. I was really scared because my family is really close and I wasn't sure how they would take the news that not only was I not going to their church anymore, but I was changing denominations.
Well, my parents supported me in my decision, and although my grandparents were sad to see me leave their church, they were proud that I was making a decision for my own faith. So I have been at Broadway almost 2 years now and I have loved every minute of it. I have made a ton of friends, but most importantly I have really grown spiritually because the leaders there truly teach God's word, no if's, and's, or but's. So that's where I am at right now, and although there is way more to this story, I'm cutting it off now, because you are probably snoring by now. ;)
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