Are you prepared?

This past week I attended the first ever Spring Break Seek Week at camp Buckner. It was intense, emotional, amazing, life changing and left me in awe. It was a great experience where God really spoke to me. 

The first day there we got into groups called D- Teams, where it was two rec team members, and various sponsors and kids from other churches. This was the group that we spent most of the time with. We did games with them as well as D-Team time where we reflected on what we learned and how God spoke to us throughout the day. 

There was one ques ion asked by a leader that has stuck with me all week long. It was not until the last day of camp that I could truthfully answer. The question is as follows. 

If God called you right now to go do His will. Would you be prepared?

This question seems simple but you really have to think about it. If God said, "Hey drop your whole life, family, friends, boyfriend, schooling, everything and go spread my word in a 3rd world country;" Could you? Could you risk your whole life and change everything you have planned to follow Gods plan? 

Now we know that in the book of Jeremiah it states that God has a plan for our life. This plan is not always the one we planned. Just a year ago I had no plans to attend a christian university, to major in a biblical major, or to strive to be a youth pastor. My plan was to attend Sam Houston State University and get my degree in psychology. Plans Change, God changes them. Now God has put it on my heart to be His disciple. 

So I ask again are you prepared? Think hard and pray about this one. Like I said it wasn't until the last day of camp that I answered. 

During worship time on Wednesday, God spoke to me through a song and He said, "Come, Heaven, Follow me." I said "Here I am, God, Take me." I mean that. I'm prepared to lose everything and follow him. Its one thing to say that I am prepared and its another when the time really comes. I would like to think that I am in a place where I full heartily trust in God and follow Him. Now this is not to say that I wont mess up, or that the road will be easy. But I know that God is with me always. He never leaves me. 

So......
         If God called you right now to do His will. Would you be prepared?? 

Love <3 

Heaven April

John 13:16

Wow... So it has been a really long time since I sat here updating this blog. I've been sidetracked and life has been hectic lately. That's no excuse though.. For those of you who keep up with this blog, I am very sorry. 

What I want to share today comes from John 13:16 which says, Very truly I tell you no servant is greater than their master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 

When I heard this verse it really got me to thinking. So often we try to act as though we are higher than one another. In Gods eyes we are all the same. We are equal. None of us is greater than the one who sent us, the one who gave us the very breath we are breathing right now. 

Its easy to get caught up in this world. Its easy for us to act as though were better than one another. Take racism as an example, one race believes they are better than the other. Is that true? No! God made us all equal and he tells us to love one another just as He has loved us. 

That's something the world is lacking. Instead of love they hate. Did God have that hate when he sent his son to die on the cross for us? No, He had love.. He is love. I believe that if the world would take a step back and truly understand that we are equal and decide to love instead of fight, we would all be better off. 

I walk through the halls at my school everyday, and I see the love and family feeling between some students, then again I see the hate and outcast by others. I'm guilty of this. I have been the outcast that feels she doesn't belong, but, even though its wrong, I have also been the one who was not very accepting. I guess we are all guilty of this though. No matter how much we feel like an outcast, we have also been the one making someone else feel the same way. 

So very truly I tell you no servant is greater than their master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. God is our master, God is the one who sent us. Share a smile today, share love, don't share hatred and bitterness. Show that kid that feels like they don't belong that we are equal and that God is waiting to make them feel like they belong. Be that strength that someone is searching for. 

God bless <3

Heaven April

P.S. Once again I am very sorry for not updating. There is no excuse. I just got caught up in the schemes of this world.