As bright as i can shine, I'll shine on

If only you knew how many introduction paragraphs I just typed and erased because I want my first post to make an impact to of course leave you with wanting to read another. Hopefully I won't be writing to myself every time words race through my mind to blog. 

 I guess what I've decided to share first is from the sermon tonight at church. A simple verse made me in awe but thats just an understatement of my Fathers living word considering it's the book of life. Mark 7:24b says "He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence a secret." 

I kept reflecting over "yet he could not keep his presence a secret." Jesus can NOT be hidden so while he is living inside of me it should be impossible for his presence to not be with and to flow from me. I'm short of 20 years old and I'm a servant of this all-present lover of my life and maker of all. I've followed him into the hills of Rwanda with the echoing sound in the back ground of children chanting and their feet stomping with dancing. I've followed him as I rode on top of an elephant through Thailand and slept in a tree house over looking the mountains. At night the stars came alive and testings of faith came alive during the day. I'm back in Phenix city, Alabama now and it's a town that everyone says they hate but no seems to leave. The comfort zone of America had been my difficult season of serving Him I must admit. A broken heart and a few distractions made it easy for the devil to blind and bondage me but my God knocked me down to my knees because of his grace. In doubting his love is always hope, in hurting his love is always healing, in distress his love is always still. His presence that fills me never goes unnoticed and all I want is to be is his vessel. 

Lately I've been challenging my self to start praying for the things that I've stopped praying for. When I was in Africa and Thailand the miracles I saw daily would seem unreal to people here. Our faith is so weak when all God asked was for it to be of a mustard seed. A revival is what I'm praying for over this nothing to do city. I already feel the fire burning but the more logs the bigger the fire. So heres to this journey called life and though our lives our just a candle in the wind I guess all that really mattered is that the darkness is attracted to light and where there is light there is no more darkness. And where there is Jesus his presence can not be kept a secret. So as bright as I can shine, I'll shine on.