WOW!! Sunday March 9th was a very moving day for me, one that I am likely not to forget for a very long time. I smiled,I cried, I laughed, and that was all in the first twenty minutes!

I suppose to make sense of all this I should start at the beginning so everyone can understand were I am coming from. My pastor and I have been doing a bible study every week for about 8 months now. I'm not sure exactly how long it has been, but that is not relevant to this story. We meet every Thursday morning and spend around one hour together learning about God and ourselves. This has been more moving to me then allot of other things I have done in my life. God has put a thirst for knowledge about him in me and I can not get enough! Well, last week I went in and Pastor Sean told me we were going to do something different, so of course I said OK.

Well little did I know that he was planning on asking me to get up in front of church and share part of my story with the congregation. The reason for this was because we were having friend day at church. Everyone was encouraged to invite people who do not go to our church, so they could come and see our awesome service and then stay for a big potluck afterwords. Well this means its not only the congregation that i am going to talk to but also strangers that do not go to our church, that is cool! I think that part excited me the most now that I look back on it, I might be able to help plant one of God's seeds in someones heart and let it grow into a intimate relationship with The Lord our God! That has to be one of the biggest privilege's I have ever had the honor to do! Thank you for that Pastor Sean!

So that Thursday Pastor Sean and I went over some questions he had in mind to ask me and then printed out a copy for me to look over so I could be prepared, that was the plan anyway! Sunday morning rolled around and you know what? That piece of paper was still sitting on my desk where i put it Thursday. I never even looked at it. Don't get me wrong I thought about it , but that is as far as that went.

When we get to church Pastor Sean pulls me aside and tells me he made some changes and was going to give me a new sheet. Not only was i not prepared for the original questions, now there were new ones and I had no idea what I would say. I started to get really nervous! I sat done and glanced over the list, got even more nervous! I said to Jen "What am I going to say for this question?" Right then I should have known something was going to happen. She didn't answer me, she looked at me then looked away. That is how i remember it anyway. She always answers me on things like that, but this time there was just silence. That turned out to be the best answer she could have ever given me.

I prayed! I prayed repeatedly, and you know what? God answered! How awesome is that? God took the time to answer my prayers, even though I was in church and there was possibly 100 other people praying at the same time and the same location, not to mention every were else in the world. The Lord God almighty answered me. He didn't give me an answer in words, but in emotion. I simply and earnestly prayed the only thing I could think of at that time " God, please use me as your tool to accomplish what you want accomplished today. I don't know what to say so if you would fill me with the holy spirit and give me the words to say I will do your will and not my own." I prayed this and smiler forms repeatedly that morning.

It hit me all at once! I felt like i was thrown under a waterfall of the coolest, cleanest water after a long hard day out in the sun. You know the feeling I'm sure. That feeling was on the inside of me! What a great feeling, I actually felt the warm and cleansing of the Lord flowing through my body, and all of my worries were swept away! That is one of the most amazing feelings I have ever felt in my life! I don't even know how to express that feeling, but WOW, I hope that everyone will get to experience that at least one time in there life!

That is what I did, Pastor Sean called me up on stage and started asking me questions and the answers just came to me. God choose what words I would say and how I would say each thing. I just got to be the tool that he used to complete his task for that day. Jen and I stayed up until 2AM that night talking about how we felt during church and how moved we were, how God had touched each of us, and how thankfull we are about where we are in life!

I truly believe that God probably touched others that way during that Sunday morning in His house of worship. Then again there might have been only Jen and I that were touched that way, but I'm sure there were others. I know in His own way he touched everyone in our family and the friends that Chasten, my oldest son, had with him. Pastor Sean also mentioned this website. If anyone who was there or even just by reading this was touched in away similar to that I would sure like to hear about it. If you like you can email it to me or post it on the form pages, you don't even have to use your real name if you don't want to. I just hope others felt what we felt that day!

I would also like to take a moment to thank Pastor Sean for everything. He brought me to tears that day in a good way, and i want to thank him for it, you are a true and valued friend that has made a huge impact on my life, thank you for that and everything you do!

Until i write again, May God Bless You All

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