Scrub

Greetings from the Creek!

You know that God is really working when everything seems to be going wrong. What are you talking about? You may be asking me...it's the Devil! We have been experiencing some spiritual battles. The Devil has been working over-time to make sure that God does not get the glory and that our students and adults do not experience or encounter our Holy God. In a huge way this excites me because I know that God is doing a big thing and Satan is about to be cast in the lake of fire where he belongs. Parents and anyone else who stumbles upon this, PLEASE pray for us as God continues to move. Please rebuke Satan in Jesus name.

Now, let me tell you the reason I know God is working.

Picture it, 160 people all making their way to a lake. There is a nice breeze (finally) and the sun is peeking out from behind clouds. While walking you pass a wooden cross and you are reminded of why you even exist. Why you are breathing. Why your personal Savior deserves your service. Once you make it to your destination you find yourself standing on the banks of the lake. Before you know it, there are two people standing in the water in front of you. A sweet girl is courageously standing in front of 158 people, waist deep in water, with the 159th person standing right beside her preparing to dunk her in to this great big lake. She is smiling from ear to ear because she knows exactly why she is about to be drenched in this lake water. She loves God and she wants everyone to know that she is ready to be a servant of Christ. As she is leaving the water, soaked by the lake water and Gods saving grace, she is greeted with over a hundred people smiling, cheering, and crying because of her testimony. She was not the only one changed by this experience. All 159 of the rest of us were moved and will never be the same because of it.

To be a servant is what the theme was yesterday. As followers of Christ we have to be prepared to be last. Jesus himself makes it clear to us that the first shall be last and the last shall be first. We are called to serve. To get down on our hands and knees and scrub whatever needs a good washing in the name of Jesus Christ. Putting on the apron of God and dipping our sponge into the bucket of grace and attempting to scrub and rub off some of the Christ we have experienced. This is what we have been called to do when we accept our Lord and encounter stained people in need of washing.

People, I've told you before. God is doing something here. I have seen teenagers who didn't even really want to be here raising their hands in worship, so overwhelmed by the Spirit of God that the only thing they can do is weep. I have seen dead people rise up and live right before my eyes. Satan will not win. Satan will not get the victory and you know, as well as me, why. Because our God is greater, our God is stronger, Our God is higher than anything and He is ALIVE. Please continue to pray.

Until tomorrow. God Bless

Entry by: Emily Barnett