There's Bousta be a Holy Ghost Explosion up in this Mess!!!

Ha Ha WOW!!! It is officially 2009 and it is a GREAT YEAR already. I have been feeling this conviction on my heart for the last two weeks to just tear off my old self and throw it away. To really use this time away from the hustle and bustle of the city and of the mess that I made over the last 8 years and just come to the Lord. Well I have been studying Romans during my lunch times and whenever I have a chance and I keep finding myself reading Romans 12:1-2 over and over again. "Therefore I urge you brothers, in view of God's mercy to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and spprove what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will." Even when I don't mean, to I will just end up there and read it. The portion about offering our bodies as a living sacrifice is what stands out the most. I know God has been pointing me in the direction of this scripture for a reason but I keep saying okay God... tomorrow God... I promise I will do it... but unlike My God... I do not always follow through on my word.

Well on Monday I went to that Bible Study and Mike the guy that I met a few weeks ago at church invited me to a New Years service at another church of the other side of town. I wasn't really feeling like going today cause I bought a Wii and a TV and really wanted to play it with Brad and Richard ... but something (God) told me to leave them in my room to set it up and just go to the service. So I went... I get there they hand me the service flyer and what does it say???

Renewing Our Minds in 2009

Whooooeeeee... I was on fire!!! I knew that God brought me to that place for a reason. He had been preparing me for what I was about to hear. So the preacher started talking about how we really need to fully just give up that old self... which was exactly what the Spirit has been telling me... he preached about setting ourselves apart and really surrendering. Gosh I can't even type everything that God told me tonight. It was a Gospel service which I am coming to LOVE!!! And in the middle of the choir singing and me sitting there with my head bowed and tears dripping from my closed eyes I felt the building shake and the sound of a mortar hitting nearby... it was right then that I felt the power of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!! He was in that place tonight... while we were worshipping. Though arrows were flying to our right and our left he protects us because we worship him, love him, and call on his name!!! Whooooooo.... I am soooo ready!!! This is going to be an amazing year for those who Love the Lord!!! I can feel it!!!