The Word of God

What a day!  God was really at work today and is at work this week.  We have a group of about 85 students here this week so a total of about 100 people including leaders from Las Vegas.  They are from a large church and brought a big group of kids with a large variety of spiritual maturity.  I was a little bit discouraged by this group and kind of had a bad attitude earlier this week about this group..mostly because my group last week was so amazing!  Anyways today God made some breakthrough and I am going to share on story...

There is a young girl in my group that is going into her Sophomore year in high school and she came on this trip not really knowing anyone because her family hasn't really been involved and are new to this church.  She doesn't really have much of a spiritual background but came on the trip anyways.  This afternoon during devotion time i gave the kids several verses to look up in the Bible and journal about and just really pray.  So they all spread out across the park we were at and had time with God.  After all the kids spread out this particular girl in my group came up to me and asked if i could help her.  She didn't know how to look up verses in the Bible.  So she spent devotion time with me looking up verses together and talking about what they mean.  It was such a powerful experience for me to see her really light up when reading the Word of God out loud.  In her life she had never really spent any significant amount of time on her own reading the Bible and now for the first time she was reading and understanding right before my own eyes.  It was a true blessing to see God revealing himself to this girl as she read His word. We went through the rest of the day serving and then tonight had a large group session with all 100 people.  After the session she was crying so i pulled her aside and asked her what was wrong and she said she just had this feeling inside of her that she didn't understand....like someone was talking to her but she didnt really know who.  And i said..."Sweetie..that's God!"  What a joy to see a young girl in one day go from never spending much time in the Word of God in her life to hearing his voice in her heart for the first time.  God is so powerful and is moving in miraculous way.  All the glory and praise to Him!