Time has been pretty much none existent for me the past couple of weeks- especially this past week where the only "rest" I had was about 6-7 hours of sleep each night and where I was up from 6am to 11pm most days... So yeah, time for writing on here had to be put aside, but even with the homework that I have to do tonight, I thought I would speak for a bit.
To start off, the last church I went to was New Vision Baptist, three Sundays ago.. So no new updates on churches for the past two weeks, but I will talk about my experience at N.V. since I have not written about that yet.
I really enjoyed my Sunday morning being at this church. It reminded me of my parent's church back home, Faith Promise. It was a very young church, contemporary, concert like worship, and..a smoke machine, which I think gives a cool ambiance to the room but always wondered the necessity of the contraption.. Anyways, this Sunday I actually went to church with a few friends from campus. We arrived at N.V. about 15 minutes before the service started (which apparently one should be there about 30 minutes early to get a seat.) From the outside, the church looks huge, but the actual sanctuary is not that big and only accommodates a certain amount of people. Fortunately, we found enough seats for the 5 of us..on the front row. We started out the service with song worship, something I always love getting into. Afterward, one of the preachers made a few announcements, and then the head preacher came up and finished up the series which had started 2 weeks ago called, "Hello. My name is Satan."
Basically, the series was about the different and not obvious reasons that the devil can gain a foothold in our lives. This week's session focused on how to protect against his advance by putting on the armor of God. Of course being in a church all my life, I had heard this part of the Bible preached on numerous times, but there were quite a few new things that I learned that Sunday.
After, he was done with the sermon, the middle school pastor came on stage and gave a few more announcements. An offering was taken and with a prayer, the service ended. Upon leaving the sanctuary, my friends and I went to the college room and had lunch, which the church provides for the students every Sunday after the first service. Being sub-sandwiches, it was quite yummy. My friends and I along with a few new faces at the table we sat at had some good conversations. Once the lunch was over, we went back to campus and I continued on with my day.
The service at New Vision gave me a couple of things to think about and how I need to always protect myself from being exposed to the devil and anything that he might try to do to harm me. Of course, I know that there are certain things that he cannot do because I am a child of God and am protected by my Father, but satan does have the power to oppress me. And I need to pray for the power to resist him through my God. The past week and I'm sure the next few will be stressful to me, but I need to not let myself become depressed or down because then I will be at my weakest and where the devil can place his attack on me. I need God in this time (as in every season of my life), or I know I will become bogged down with too much on my mind and body. Life is stressful; God wants to make it stress-free. He can. I'm sure of it.
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