This quote comes from an amazing Andy Stanley series that I
watched this past week and it changed my life! The series is called “New Rules
for Love, Sex and Dating. The title sounds really intense but it is so good and
challenging to become “the one” instead of looking for “the one”. In this
series he targets worldly aspects of the dating scene and comparing it with
what God says about it. This series motivated me so much to start preparing for
marriage. One thing that stuck out the most is we cannot make a promise (saying
“I Do”) with out preparation. We think that when we say I do we will
automatically know how to love patiently, kindly ect… But we must learn how to
love now!
The last
part of this series he challenges single people to take a year off for a lot of
reasons. Number one, we can change the direction of our story. Every person has
a story that they will tell the person that they will marry; whether or not if
we like it or not is up to us. We can change it! Regardless of our past
mistakes we can tell our future spouse “on this day I changed it and dedicated
a year to prepare for you”. Another reason to take a year off is to simple grow
closer to God, learn how to submit to him and really go after him and take care
of our baggage. With all of this said, I have committed this next year to
Jesus. I am taking a year off dating or “talking” until September 25, 2012. I
am so excited about this! Yeah it will be tough but I know that God is going to
honor it! This is exactly what I need to grow closer to Jesus and mature as a
person; breaking bad habits and gaining good ones. I am at a place in my life
where I am starting to grow up and becoming more independent and this year is
going to really kick it in gear. My main prayer for this year is that God will
mold me into the woman my future husband will need and learn how to love him
the way he will need to be loved.
In other
new, I have writing my first legit song! On Tuesdays we spend the whole day in
our tracks. For worship, we are at the church bright and early to have personal
development time. I usually take this time to blog like I am doing right now J
and practice songs that I am scheduled to sing within the next week. We have an
hour lunch break and then straight into classes which are my favorite part of
the week. We have an hour class with the Associate worship pastor, Pastor
Justin Bradshaw and John-Mark Durough. Pastor Justin just debriefs the past
week and we talk about upcoming events and John-Mark teaches Music theory.
Right after that we have a creative worship class with CJ Blount, this class is
great! We learn how to make a Sunday set list and also how to write songs. Our
first week he paired us up in twos and each group has to write a song and
present it to the class. My partner is an awesome musician so I figured he
would do all the writing but God had a different plan. I wrote the lyrics and
he wrote the music and we put it together and it is so beautiful! I am so
excited because I never written a song and never thought I would be able to! Today
we are presenting it and I am surprisingly pretty calm! Oh yeah and of course
and can’t forget our last class with Pastor John Larson! He shares his wisdom
of being a worship LEADER. There are so many things and so many people a
worship leader will lead and we are learning what those things are and how we
lead effectively. I am so blessed that Jesus put this calling on my life and
cannot picture myself doing anything else than leading people into the presence
of Jesus Christ.
I guess
that’s about it for right now J I am going to go practice some songs! Love you all
and hope you have a great rest of the week! Ps: here is a Link to the series, its free!
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