That Crazy Pentecostal Girl

I have a peace like no other right now, and just beginning to write this i get teary eyed! (Tears of Joy) I'm looking over this past year and I'm overwhelmed at how much I have changed. All for the best of course, but still its in sane. A year ago I was a senior in high school. I had left Pentecost for a non-denominational church, which don't get me wrong wasn't all bad, but around this time last year I realized something was missing. I had learned a lot from that church, but spiritually I was still weak. I went to Illinois for Christmas and went to my grandma's church. May I remind you this was the first time I had gone to a pentecostal church in over a year and immediately I realized what I had been missing. This may seem small and simple, but I was missing the worship. Holy Ghost filled, tongue talking, good Ole' Pentecostal worship. No holding back, not fake, completely giving every ounce of energy and passion into it. To think I didn't praise God o...

A little while ago I was stressing out like crazy about paying for college. When I finally just handed it over to God he took care of it. He blessed me with a check of $2500 from a dead aunt I never knew. Not on purpose, but because I kept forgetting to grab my check book before I walked out the door for church, I hadn't tithed. Finally I got around to it....the very next day i got a phone call....I was offered a job!!! Call it coincidence, mere chance, call it whatever you like. I'm ganna call it God blessing me!!!! Now I Can Give Tithes Every Week I'm still struggling with money because I don't get many hours, but God still provides. Just last weekend I won 1st place for my trunk and my church's Trunk-er-Treat (fall festival), which put an extra 20 bucks in my pocket. Then Wednesday my youth pastor gave me a $20 gift card to Chick-Fil-A for winning!!! HAHA Needless to say I'm blessed And I believe this is just the beginning of what God's going to do for m...

"Live, Love and Learn": A movie made in the 1930's that coined the popular phrase now used in cute little quotes, but I think the movie had it all wrong. One must first Learn , then Love , and then and only then can they Live ! Last weekend a group of my friends and I went to a youth rally in Tampa just for the heck of it, and I'm so glad we did! Obviously it was a great service, but your never ganna believe what Bro. Joey Campatella spoke about!!!!???? "HOLINESS" 1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; The way he spoke about it just made you have so much more respect and love for it! On the way home we had a discussion about holiness. See I feel like a view holiness differently then most Pentecostals, but truth is I feel the same way. Some people just don't know it yet. See ever since I was a li...

So, I told you about the lady in Johann's. If that wasn't weird enough I had 3 more people come into my life quit randomly and strangely this past week. Thursday I had class and after I had planned to go out to eat with my mom then go shopping with some of my girlfriends. Well, my mom and I got done eating earlier then I had mapped out so I had a couple extra hours on my hands before I had to meet up with the girls. I decided I would go to the Books-A-Million in town because I had really been wanting a good student study bible. So, Im standing there, looking at the bibles, minding my own business when this young man, nearly my age asked If I was a christian. I looked at the bible in my hand and then looked up at him and said with a grin, "Uh Ya". This kid starts making conversation with me and Im friendly so I make conversation back. Get this, he eventually tells me his life story. How he hasn't always been in church, but he knows this is where he belongs blah bla...

This week has been one of the worst and life evaluating weeks of my life, and it probably didn't help that the little devil that visits me once a month decided to visit me this week:/ I can't go into detail what came to surface early this week because it's family business and not anyone else's, but I can tell you it was difficult to believe, once i believed it, it still didn't seem real, but it became real and I was angry - I let the sun down on my wrath-Ephesians 4:26 I eventually forgave this person, well at least to their face, but to be completely honest I'm still bitter about the situation and Im hurt All this went down on Monday. Tuesday I had class. Afterwards I went to my friends work, had lunch, and went shopping for several hours. All this to stay away from home as long as possible. I went to johann's during those several hours, which is where this story really begins. I went back to the patterns table, sat down, looked through some books, minding ...

So after hyphen a lot of us college and career kids are pumped! If thats the word you wanna use...i don't know. All I know is we've been talking and talking about making a difference and now we are finally going to do it! Its ganna be OFF THE WALL! It started off with My friend Amber and I just chit chatting about how we need change in this church, especially the youth group, over a cup of coffee. We came up with this brilliant idea of having a bible study type thing where we just get together and basically do what we were doing now, talking, but with more people and throw are opinions and idea's out there and just see where it would go from there. So friday night it was set, her house, 7pm... it didn't end till 11! So, there we were, Amber and I, Lauren-Ashley, Troy, Garison, Chris-Ann, and Bro. & Sis. Barnhill, sitting in the living room talking about...well everything. We really touched base with how this generation, the college and career age, needs to b...

I was a little hesitant this week about going to this function my church held! It didn't really sound appealing and it was $25 that I didn't really feel like spending on something I wasn't sure about, but I was talked into and then my church offered to pay for everyones way so I went and I am soooooo glad I did! It was a little awkward at first, but by the end it was one of the best services I've ever been to! I mean it wasn't a jumping around, shouting and getting crazy service. It was chill, quite, but very informational. It was broken up into 6 speakers each of which talked on a different subject. Dreams, Roots, Exposition, Sexuality, Money, and Them! The first subject made me start thinking of when I was little and how I thought I was ganna be a missionary to Australia, and how now that looks just crazy, but what if it wasn't? The next one Roots, the speaker Jody Wells for one is awesome second it made me want to read the bible more, fast more, and...