September 7, 2009
So school has probably already started for some of you and maybe it begins this week! Who knows, but, are you nervous to start school? Are you going to a brand new school and don't know anybody? Well God is with you. You know how the day before school, you are going through all your stuff to make sure you have it? Like, making sure your outfit for tomorrow is perfect and that you have your favorite mechanical pencil, or make sure that your friends are going to for sure be there? Well do you ever think to check your faith? It might sound kinda stupid but your faith should be at the highest top of the mountain right now. One, you need to be ready for everything that happens in the school year, whether its losing your best friend from cancer or failing math, you need to be ready for anything to happen and keep moving forward. Next, you need to be able to take a stand for God. Just like in our blog 'Leadership', you need to be able to stand up for God and what you believe in. Lastly, its for your own good. You need to continue to build your faith with God. We all do. Its important as a Christian to learn more about God and what we should be expecting from Him. But just be prepared for the school year. Remember, you have the most powerful, loving person right next to you at all time. He will protect you for anything but remember your faith.
Posted by Ellie. Posted In : School Year
September 3, 2009
So by now you should know that there are some bad things that this world can produce, drugs, alcohol, suicide, and other stuff like that. Okay, all those things come from the devil, they are not of this world, they are from Hell and you should not be following them. Maybe at school there's the cool little group and they are smoking and they invite you to come and have a smoke! Warning: Do not turn from God. That stuff is bad for your body it doesn't do you good, and most of all, it doesn't make God happy to see one of His children begin to turn away. Just like in our blog Don't Turn Away, during the summer you can be lazy and not know what to do, but keep your eyes right on Jesus not on the things this world tells you you should be doing. It's not what God wants, it may not be what you want but don't let someone force it onto to you. You know, my uncle used to smoke when I was about 10 (I'll be 13 Nov 4th!), my sisters and I would always pray to God that would keep Him safe and that He would not turn from God. We always would write little letters and send them in the mail. After a hard few months, my uncle finally stopped smoking! God was with Him all along. If you have someone in your family thats doing things of this world, pray for them, ask God to be right next to them so they can be with you in Heaven. Sometimes things may not always go as you want them to, but God knows you, and He knows that you will be ok. Maybe in a couple of years, you are down the wrong path and you have begun to take drugs and you smoke, JUST PRAY! Ask God to help you, I mean, God has the greatest power ever! He can heal you. People around you will help you too and give you a place to stay. God is there, He will never desert you. But try to not fall as a teen, and try to never fall, and don't to things of THIS world, do thing of our Heavenly world
Posted by Ellie. Posted In : The Big Green Thing
