God never gives up

In most main sessions in the big top there is a prayer time where they ask if people want prayer for specific things. I can't remember what I went up to prayer for, but I did and a random man who was a youth worker for another youth group came and prayed for me. After a few minutes he said that he had a word from God for me, saying that that he felt that God was saying that he was going to use my gifts of speaking in groups of people and writing to share more about him. 

Writing and speaking...... Writing and speaking! 

Anyone who knows me knows that I spent my whole time at school in English. Being dyslexic, my writing was never brilliant, and how I passed my English GCSE is a complete miracle and gift from God. 

I was also very shy, and therefore speaking in front of people was never going to happen. For my English GCSE I had to do monologues and speeches. I hated this! I spent most of the time in school when I was supposed to be doing this crying, not speaking. They ended up putting in special measures for me to be able to do it in a small group of friends, rather than my whole English class. 

So as you can see, I doubted this man, and doubted God. How could I be used to speak or write to share the good news of God?

Soon after I got home from soul survivor I started my blog. I spent a lot of time on it, writing different things about  what was going on or what I was thinking about, lots of time proof reading and getting others to check it for me as well. It's far from perfect but I've been able to share what God has done in my life with others. I have also been able to share my struggles, and how God can work through really difficult things. See link at the bottom of my blog called ' There is a blessing in the storm. Sit tight'. 

Since I started at youth for Christ, doing my gap year then continuing at my placement for uni, I was able to share my testimony, be able to speak to young people about how God has changed my life. This was such a personal thing for me to share, and scared me so much, but I was able to do it! And it lead on to so many questions. They were able to see how God had changed my life, and they were able to see that in me. God used me in a way I never thought he would be able to do. 

I wrote this blog because I wanted to show that God can change things in my life from the smallest things. Back when I was at soul survivor, and I was being told this word from God, I thought that he was crazy. 'Clearly he doesn't know me or he wouldn't be saying this'. But God never fails on his word, and never gave up on me. 

Links:

There is a blessing in the storm. Sit tight: http://abiwb.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/there-is-blessing-in-storm-sit-tight.html