What a Mighty God we Serve!

Today was an incredible day that ended with me and the other advisors on this trip in pure awe of the God that we serve and the work that He was doing in the lives of our students this week but especially during the covenant service tonight at club.  All week club (the time when we gather in the sanctuary for a game, worship, and message) has been incredible with an amazing worship band just rocking out the joint but tonight was on an entire different level!  Tonight the worship band brought out their acoustic set and set a very reverent ton for the service.  Scott Smith shared his testimony with the students and also challenged the students to surrender whatever burdens and struggles they have been dealing with over to God!  God is bigger than any of the pains, struggles, temptations, and sins that we are living with and He does not want us to carry that burden, and not only does he not want to carry that burden He wants to carry that burden for us!  Tonight our students had the opportunity to join in a covenant with God, a covenant to let go of those burdens and to turn them over to Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.  If the students were ready to make this covenant with God then they had the opportunity to put their hand print on a canvas filled with other hand prints from students just like them who joined the covenant with God earlier this summer.

Michaela and I had the opportunity to pray with our students, paint their hands so they could put their hand print on the canvas, wash the paint off of their hands, and then pray with them again.  Earlier in this post I said I was in awe of the mighty God that we serve because He was working in the hearts of every one of our student’s heart because every single one of them came up and either joined in a covenant with God for the very first time, or they renewed their covenant with God for the second, third, fourth, or twentieth time!  Not only were our students emotional over the work that God was doing in their lives but they were also supporting and praying for one another and as their youth pastor there is nothing that brings me more joy then to actively see God working in the lives of our students and to see our students ministering to their friends!  Please continue to pray for all of your students and for the covenant that they all joined or rejoined tonight! 

Our God is an Awesome God!!