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Last night I had planned on taking the youth to a concert but it had already sold out. So to make it up to them I planned a trip to the movies instead. I know real spiritual stuff. Well I thought we were going to have about 12 or 13 students go which is a good bit for our group. Well instead we had 24 students go. At first I was a little overwhelmed but then I was like this is great. I only knew about half of the kids that went but that just means I got to meet some new kids, maybe some of them will come back on sunday or wednesday. Anyway we had a blast and I am not really about the numbers but it was still good to see that many kids go with us. I also had one of my adults back out and I really needed someone to go so luckily my great friend Lisa helped me out and went with us. So thanks Lisa.

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...how we forget about our calling. I mean how we know that God has called us to do a certain job and then when things get tough we think that we cannot do it. For the past few weeks our pastor has been preaching from Nehemiah chapters 1-4 (you should read it). It is where God has called Nehemiah to bring the people together to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem. To make it short, things are going really well, it actually says at one point that "the people had a mind to work" but just after that some surrounding people are forming a plan to attack and soon the people are dicouraged and think they cannot complete the job. It says in verse 10 of chapter 4 the people were saying that the strength of the laborers was giving out and that there was so much rubble that they could not rebuild the wall. Keep in mind that this is when the wall has already been built to half its height. It took very little opposition to discourage them from completing the job. We work the same way, God calls us to do something and at the first sign of trouble we have a tendency to want to give up. I was thinking of myself this morning while listening to the sermon. I know that God has called me to be here but even knowing that, there have been times when I want to give up, times I feel like I am not making any difference and I just get frustrated. Then it hit me Romans 8:35-39.

Who shall seperate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to seperate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

After thinking about that I was like why should I let a little discouragement from the devil get to me. The word says that I am more than a conqueror in Christ. That means the devil has done been beat I don't need to let him get to me. Jesus done beat him. Whatever God has called us to do God is going to see to it that his purpose is served in his time, not ours. He has eqiupped us to be able to perform the task at hand if we will just rely on him. And when the satan comes around to discourage us remember that he ain't got nothing on you cause you got Jesus.

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 Brandon "Bubba" Moore said...
My phone is now working. Thanks for the head up on the grammar. I typed this really fast, but I think I got it fixed. I hope that you day gets better.  

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Well it finally happened. It will probably seem small and some of you will be like "it took long enough". Some of you are right now thinking "he got a girl friend", but you would be wrong. So what am I talking about you ask. This evening something finally clicked within our group. We were playing a game of bucketball (a game i sort of created, but really only "sort of")and it was awesome. I finally really connected with my girls in the youth. They have really been kind of stand-offish(if that's a word)and could not seem to find away to break down the wall. It has alot to do with the fact that these girls are really girly (which is not a bad thing) but most girls I know and have worked with are a little more tom-boyish. Well any God really just broke that wall down and we really had a blast. It was me and four girls against two of my guys. We were giving each other high-fives and making up little chants and things to get the team pumped. We lost 8-2 but we had fun. At one point they had me chanting "what time is it ...girl time huh". As I am typing this i realize why this did not occur before. The whole time I was trying make them come to me, instead of me meeting them where they were. I just really saw God working tonight, not that I have not seen him working before, but tonight it was just so obvious. I cannot really express with words how I feel right now, the only thing that could express it were the tears I fought back when we were playing and I saw God working right there in front of me. So if you are reading this do me a little favor, give God a little WOOP WOOP. Just do it no matter where you are. It will be really funny. Especailly if you are in a computer lab at school reading this. Cause you know that he deserves a WOOP WOOP or at least a hallelujah or an amen or something. Just cause he is DA BOMB! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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 melissa said...
that is soooo great! im glad you feel connected now!  

 Brandon "Bubba" Moore said...
Lisa that is really funny. I totally put the computer lab thing in there just for you  

 Anonymous said...
bubba i'm glad things are going well with your youth group. i can't wait until i get to come down there. WOOP WOOP (for God).

love ya,
Amber La-Joy  

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Well I do not have alot to say today. I am just finishing up getting tonight ready. We are going to be talking about spiritual gifts. I think that it will be very good for my students especially since we are going to do a spiritual gifts inventory. I know that these things aren't 100% accurate but i think they give you a good idea of what gifts you have as long as you are very honest when you take it. Also as you already can see I have made some changes to my blog. If you cannot see everything correctly or it just looks funny. It is probably your browser which is probably Internet Explorer. My blog is best viewed in Netscape Just click the link to download it. I am not trying to get you to switch but it is free, you have less pop-ups and it is just better all around.

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We just wrapped up our d-now. Yesterday before we began I had like three kids back out which took our group down to seven. I got a little discouraged and kind of let satan use that to really bother me. Well once I finally got started with our guys and opened up our first session with prayer God really helped me overcome the discouragement. We had a really good time with some really good discussion which is surprising with the group of guys that I had. Well this morning we all (girls and guys) went out to camp baldwin to have a cookout and canoe, play volleyball and things like that. Then we all came back and got cleaned and some friends of mine from mobile came and led worship for us and we wrapped up the study we had been doing. I know that you are like okay where is the amazing part...well here it is. One of my guys that has only been coming a short time accepted Christ tonight. WOO HOO! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The devil tried to take over from the begginning but God had something else in mind. That is the first of any of my students to accept Christ since I have been here it is so awesome. So my last few days have been great all because of God.

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 melissa said...
HOW INCREDIBLE!  

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Well I have had a pretty busy week. Sunday night my two sisters and my best friend Alan came down to see me. We got to hang out alot because I bascially set my own hours. Also we had a marshmallow gun war here at the church which was wicked awesome. I just did so much it is hard to remember. I did get to introduce my sisters and Al to my good friends Lisa and Scotty on monday. We all met at Lamberts and had soome rolls throwed at us. Where I embarassed our server by using a really cheesy pick up line on her. When she brought us our food I through a sugar pack down on the table and told her that she dropped her name tag (it said suger on it...get it)So that was fun and made everybody laugh. It was really great to see my sisters but it was especially good to see Alan. It really meant alot to me for him to come down here because he is not someone who really takes trips and stuff like that, but also because I have known Alan since our freshman year in high school. Which was nine years ago. Ever since then he has really been my best friend he has always been there for me in his own way. You just really have to know Alan. He is someone that I know is there and will listen. I mean he was the only person who helped comfort me that day I started crying in the locker room (melissa I am just kidding). Anyway it has been a good week.

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 melissa said...
uh huh, whatever  

 Anonymous said...
hey brother. i'm glad you got to see me and alicia and alan. it was wicked fun but i was wondering if you were ever going to send me pictures from the trip. love you.
~LiL SiS~  

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