Old Stuff

I was recently looking through all of my old email’s and found this email that for whatever reason, i sent to myself. Reading over it was interesting. It is dated 7/21/2006.

	Since I have become a Christian, I have learned new things about myself, 
God, and people around me daily.  God teaches me these things by divine 
appointment, through spending time with him, and through reading His word.  
God has given me a heart for the lost, and  a heart to serve.  I have 
learned that serving is a huge testimony of my faith in most any situation.
	For the past nine months I have worked for an oil company with a lot of 
people who are not Christians.  I have felt very persecuted and belittled 
among people there, and at the same time, I have found it a great place for 
ministry.  God has shown me a lot about love through the past months at 
work.
	I get to be a leader at the youth group at my church on Sunday nights.  It 
has been such a blessing to me to get to hang out  with those kids every 
Wednesday night.  I find many opportunities to  disciple many of the jr. 
high boys.  One in particular, is a 9th grader named Daniel.  He is home 
schooled and has a hard time making friends since he doesn’t go to school 
with anyone from church.  He is the youngest of 5 kids, not to mention the 
only man of all the siblings.  I began to meet with him on a weekly basis 
outside of church and have some time of personal discipleship.  I have found 
it so rewarding to impart what God has taught me to Daniel.
	Also had the opportunity to be a counselor at our church camp this summer.  
It was an awesome time of brokenness for a lot of our kids that have been 
coming to the youth group for a while.  It was really cool to be able to 
pray for and with them and feel as though all the fasting and prayer before 
the trip really did matter.    It is going to be very hard to leave these 
kids when I move to Dallas.
	I have never been one to really sit down and write specific goals for me in 
the near or distant future; however, a lady at work emailed me and asked me 
what my goals were a few months ago and I actually sat down and thought 
about them tat whole week.  I Wrote her back telling her that I wanted to 
learn how to serve God in the most complacent of times.  I also said that 
one day I long to be overseas doing ministry, and that I want to have a wife 
that loves the Lord with all that she is, and raise kids that love God with 
all of their heart as well.  Since then some other goals that I am pursuing 
are becoming more and more disciplined in the little things as well as the 
big, and focusing more on the day and what I can do now, instead of 
tomorrow.
	I have figured out that all of these goals are nothing more than the 
desires of my heart.  My goals and desires are one in the same.  If I am 
focused on Jesus, I can’t go wrong with that.


The End.