God works through those you least expect

friendships are something you have to choose wisely and i have found that in college friends are some of the most important people around. Since my family is over 350 miles aways my friends here at school have become like my family. Its hard to go almost 3 months without seeing family but being with people who truly care about you and are willing to do anything to help has made life away from those i love dearly much easier. God has blessed me by putting wonderful amazing people into my life who challenge me daily in my faith.

over the past couple weeks the topic of discussion has been how selfish we have been lately.
we do things for our own personal glory an not the glory of God. I have felt convicted lately on why I do things
1. because my friends are there
2. because i know i'll have a good time

this past weekend i got the opportunity to do a d-now weekend with the middle and highschoolers at the church i go to. When preparing for the lesson i was going to have to teach i came uopn this

before God can use us in ministry, we need to be humble. to see who we our apart from Christ. Only when we are broken and humble can we be truly affective in ministry.



the only way for me to truly affect the girls i teach in lifegroup and the students i will come across as being a high school intern i need to humble myself. its easier said then done.

i need to be broken and humle. i need to stop resisting God and letting hin work more in my life. i need to stop being selfish and have a servants heart. I need to be like Mary who when her life was interupted by God's plan she embraced it and glorified him.



Philippians 2:5-8Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.

i was able to watch my 9th grade girls be so strong in their faith and it made me desire to be so much stronger in my faith. these girls blew my mind when we sat down for discussion. God works at the least expect times in the least expected ways