I originally wrote this as a sort of script for a video I was asked to make for KSU Wesley. If you do not know KSU Wesley is a campus ministry at the college I attend (Kennesaw State University). I have been going there since my freshman year because I was convinced to go there by my god sister who was also a part of leadership there. I went, fell in love with the community, and have not looked back. I have been on Leadership there for the past two years. We ended the semester with a series on Elijah and everything God did in Elijah's life. To aide this the leadership team was asked if they wanted to share a story of how God has moved in our lives. They would video this and play it at the Wednesday night worship service before the message. I offered to share a small testimony and they asked me to write it down so I have a good idea of what to say and so they can make sure everything's good. They said at some point they will post the video on ksuwesley.org , but I do not know i
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A couple of times in this message I mention something called the Identity in Jesus sheet it has been scanned and will also be posted on my blog page for you to read as I mention it in the message. It was a page given to me by some of the administrators at my high school when I was in the 11th grade. I am now about to enter the 15th grade (junior year of college) and I still have this sheet. I keep it with me and I look at the things on the sheet that Christ sees me as. I printed it out in Spanish and gave it to some of the people in Guatemala. I can’t very well do that for you, but feel free to print it out for yourself and put it somewhere where you can see it and it will remind you what your true Identity is. I’m here to give you a little more insight on who you are to God (hopefully I do that). More than the fact that you are a human and not a cat or a dog and that you’re a boy or a girl and not a plant there are characteristics of who you are. Think about a few names people
MY IDENTITY IN JESUS BELOVED "l have loved you With an everlasting love: I have drawn you with unfailing kindness." - Jeremiah 313 A CHILD OF GOD "See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" - 1 John 3:] DELIGHTED IN "The Cord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he wiil no longer rebuke you, but Will rejoice over you with singing." - Zephaniah 3:17 FORGIVEN "He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed." Peter 2:24 WASHED CLEAN "Though your Sins are like scarlet, they Shali be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be tike wool." - Isaiah 1:18 FREE 'It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burden
As some of you may know last year (as in my Freshman year of college) I was sick a lot and there were a lot of other stressors happening in my life. In the chaos of it all I was struggling to find time in my schedule to eat. I did not see the big deal and I almost did not even realize it. At one point someone asked me what I had eaten and I honestly could not tell them the last thing I had eaten. At that point I was lucky enough to have friends around to help me remember to eat. This sounds terrible and like I was doing this to myself and to an extent I was and to an extent I wasn’t. My freshman year of college I had the Freshman Fifteen, I had just lost the weight instead of gained it. This was not due to my own choice, nor my own desire. I was on the go: from hospital visits (9 times), to 3 different doctors, classes, homework, family, friends at college, friends at home, Wesley a campus ministry I am a part of, trying to find a home church in Kennesaw, moving 3 times, t