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Thursday, December 20, 2012

What God has been showing me in the past year

In this blog post I will discuss what God has been showing me in the past year.  These things God has been showing me are important to my Christian growth in my relationship with God.
The first thing God has been showing me in the past year has centered on God's desire for me to have more of a burden for those that don't know Christ.  This desire started in God leading me to a mission trip in Thailand this past summer.
 In the first week I was there God broke down language barriers and used myself and another girl that was there with us to lead a Thai university student in Changmai to knowledge of Jesus Christ.  The gospel presentation that we used centered on discussing that God created the heavens and earth, then we shared the gospel with our new friend Noom.  The day that we shared with Noom was a Wednesday, in which they had the day off school.  We were able to share with Noom for about two hours.  Noom and I were both Journalism majors in college.
God also used a seminary class to give me the desire to have more of a burden for the lost.  In Contemporary Evangelism class, I was challenged to be more bold in sharing the gospel with those that don't know Christ.  We learned about different forms of evangelism from: Personal evangelism, to Direct evangelism, Servant evangelism, Door-to-Door- Evangelism, and Church Evangelism.  We read books about these different forms of evangelism that described how each is useful in it's own context.  In this class, we also learned about different movements of revival and Christian growth in America throughout the years.
Overall, this class gave me a great background for future ministry and gave me more of a desire to share the gospel everyone I come in contact with.  Our teacher challenged us to boldly share to gospel on a regular basis.  People in the class shared their stories of their evangelism efforts throughout the semester.  God sent this class in my life for me to grow in my desire to become a better evangelist.  I have seen my teacher's heart for his students and other people that don't know Jesus this semester.
I also did something I had never done before in my life this semester I shared the gospel doing Door-to-Door Evangelism.  We knocked on doors and shared the gospel to those that wanted to hear.  This method worked at times while at other times it did not.  Some people answered the door while others didn't.  In conclusion, this method challenged me in my walk with Christ and ability to share with others about him.
The last thing God has been showing me in this past year is that I need to be more centered on him.  One of the ways this is parlayed is asking God for forgiveness of my sins and for me to pull me away from all temptations that this world throws at me.  If I do this, then it will cause me to become humbled and centered on what Christ wants for me and my life.  I will be able to abide in him more if I am centered on him in all my thoughts, actions, and words.  It will cause me to present/surrender things to God daily and become more totally dependent on God for everything.
Another thing that being centered on Christ will allow me to do is that it will lead me to a woman.  The girl that I marry will see that Christ is in me and is flowing through my life.  The person that becomes my wife/life partner will come to know that Christ is the center of my life in all that I do and I have developed an abiding, daily desperate dependence on God.
As I end this blog post, I hope God will show me more even more amazing things in this next year as I hope to graduate from seminary in December of 2013 and go onto future ministry service.  What is God showing you today my fellow readers?


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