1. What did God teach you this week? How did it transform you?
Praise the Lord for He is a righteous and holy God. The Lord taught me that He didn’t need me in Biloxi, but He brought me here for an experience. Scripture tells us that the Lord has us in the palm of His hand and as the potter forms a ball of clay into a piece of art, in turn God shapes us more like His son by allowing us to experience Him. The Lord showed me repeatedly that mankind will always be at the mercy of the Father. We enjoy pretending in our lives that we have control over our own little worlds, but the truth is that we are small fish in a big pond. Our very existence depends upon the Lord to sustain and uphold us. The Lord showed me in this experience that I am an inwardly minded individual. However, God being the humorous type has the power to turn our hearts back again. That though it will take a lifetime for us all to begin to overcome our inward focus He still wants to do a good work through us. I believe that God will use this generation to lead our broken nation.

2. Tell at least one experience you had where you saw the power of God and it touched you.
It was Saturday afternoon we are on our way home from Biloxi, and God reveals himself. We pull into a Burger King for Lunch and the line to order is a twenty-five minute standstill, none-the-less God loves to use people. So He places me behind two gentlemen that are in there early 90’s , Yes, early 90’s , and the one man turns immediately around and says hello my name is John. I said hello back and told him my name and sure enough God had it so that I was wearing my Bible College t-shirt. So John informs me, after reading my shirt that he was a Baptist preacher for forty years. And then for the next twenty minutes begins to talk all about his life. He told me that as a young man he dropped out of high school and was working on a farm, and he fell in love with a young lady and got married. He then goes on to inform me that during that time he felt lead into the ministry, and his wife at the time was willing to work so that he could go back to school. So John finished high school, college, and then seminary. And all the while his wife is supporting Him, he ends the story by telling me that after serving for forty years he retired. So I asked John where his wife was and he told me that she had gone home to be with the Lord ten years ago, and he went on for another ten minutes telling me how amazing she was and how much he missed her, and with tears in his eyes he looked at me and said I sure loved those 57 years of marriage. And it got me thinking that marriage is a covenant, and how sad is it that we as a nation don’t look at it like that. We are so self centered and only care about ourselves that we miss life completely. John at 81 lost his wife and at 91 loves her more than when they first where wed. Should our relationship with God be that powerful. We are a broken nation, but John informed me as I was walking away that the Lord is moving in this next generation and on Sunday mornings at church he refuses to sit with anyone but my generation because at 91 years of age he wants to be apart of what the Lord is doing. Praise God!

3. Tell of one experience where God used you in a powerful way... something that impacted you.
End. God revealed to me that we are a broken nation this week; we think that we understand but we don’t. We keep asking for his mercy and grace but we forget that he has already opened up the skies of mercy and the heavens pour out grace to us all the time. We are prideful and don’t sacrifice for Him when he wants us to but we sacrifice to Him when we want too. Gratefully God revealed to me at one of our devotion times that He has the power to stop the sun and the moon (Joshua 10:13) and He also has the power to heal a broken nation through a generation, the question lies in our hearts to whether we choose Him. Or we choose mankind. Because it is evident that whatever man builds will be torn down, but whatever the Lord builds will last for eternity.

7. Why do you want to go on this trip?
I want to be a servant of my Lord and fulfill his great commission for his followers to go out inot all the world baptizing and telling people about Jesus Christ.

8. Briefly give your testimony.
I was raised in a secular home, and did not come to know the Lord until I was sixteen years old. Since that time I have seen my twin brother, mother, and father all come to know the Lord. Now I am working with my youth group as an intern and also I attend Philadelphia Biblical University in hopes to become a youth pastor.