Faithful

Last night, I rung in the New Year by spending some time alone with God. This is the way I wanted to start the year and prepare for what God has planned for me over the next year. God is going to rock my world this next year and I can't wait to see everything unfold. This will be a year of change. I am graduating from Vogue probably in late March, and then we'll see where God leads.
This past week I spent time as a leader with our Sr. High at Spring Hill in Michigan. It was so exciting and encouraging to see God move through all these kids who want to seek after him. God is building up an army at NMC and these kids are gonna change the world. So many of them want to be involved in missions and just do the Lord's will. I went into this week knowing that I wanted to go to Zambia and work with children at the orphan school. I left the retreat thoroughly confused, but extremely excited for what God has next! At the retreat we spent some time just letting God speak to us. In that time I saw myself speaking....I don't speak in front of people. haha. I saw myself speaking to a group of women, probably about 20 to start with. We were in a circle praying, then another circle of women formed outside our circle. And another, and another. Until there were like 7 rings outside of this main circle. I was leading all these women. I don't know the color of their skin...if it was here in the u.s. or over in Africa, but God was using me to lead these women. So i have no idea where God is going with this, but I know He has some awesome plans for me this year! I don't think he's done with me in missions and I've got a ton of things running around in my head and ready to jump into action. In my journal on the first day of the retreat I wrote, "This is a year of change. Life will be different...It's all gotta be for the glory of God. There's no other option." Im going all out on this one. No turning back. Completely surrendered.

Last night I felt it was time to take down all the baby centre pics off my wall. As I took each one down I was overwhelmed by how faithful God has been to the baby centre. Most of the kids on my wall from when I was there last October had been adopted. All of them have a future now. So many unwanted children have been rescued. The stories of the journeys these kids have gone through are incredible. I know God has an amazing plan and purpose for each one of their lives! It was so good to, again, be reminded of God's awesome faithfulness.