Conferences and realizations

This weekend I was at a youth workers/youth ministry conference; It was interesting, I learned a lot of interesting things so I'm going to share!

So the basic layout was Welcome, introduction and short worship time. Then there were morning and afternoon mini seminar conference groups happening and you had to choose which one to go to. In the morning I chose the one called 'A generation who adore themselves' basically it was all about how my generation (myself included) adore themselves and tend to be in an 'All about me' mindset and there was a couple tips on how to combat that the main one being:

'Teach children to give their lives away in service to others'

That one really struck me, since serving others is what God's been (trying) to teach me and what I'm trying to focus on lately.


The afternoon seminar I went to was 'Nurture your soul'  and I am so glad I went to that one! We ended up having four different 'groups' in each corner of the room those being "prayer' Time in God's word, community, and 'silence and serenity'. We were asked to go to what we thought was our weakest then our strongest and in those groups we just talked about things we can do help out that area or if we'd gone to the group because it was our 'strongest' give some advice. So it was really fantastic and I learned some things from a bunch of different people.



At the end of the day there was a speaker after the afternoon seminars had ended and I felt so convicted about well... a lot of the things he talked about. He talked about how we don't take Jesus seriously enough and if we did we would actually try to do what he said. The speaker followed that up by talking about denying oneself and not getting comfortable.

Those two things together made me think 'guilty, guilty, guilty'. Yikes. He was right... I don't take what Jesus said seriously enough... honestly some of the harder things He said- like 'denying yourself and following Him' I read them and I'm like 'ya I'd like to do that but... nah, that's kinda tough'

Clearly if I'm blowing a point like that off.. well that doesn't just doesn't cut it.  And I do want to live my life for God - really I do and so some things are going to have to change - even though part of me doesn't want it to.

Another question I heard at some point throughout the day is 'What has God taught you this day or this week?' And I didn't have an answer that was different from what I've learned in the last month....
 That was a real kick in the pants! What had I learned from God last week...probably nothing, seeing as I didn't spend much time with Him... (I'm not doing too good am I? Yikes)
So I've been praying about things... trying to figure out where I've let myself become comfortable and get rid of it - I currently a small list and with God's help will be working on it.
And to keep me on track I will be writing at the end of every week in my journal (I may not share everything on here - seeing as some things are more personal than others) about what I've learned or a specific bible verse that I'm been thinking about or just something about God that I thought about and think is really neat.

So I guess this is what I've learned and been thinking about so far this week!

Anything interesting that God's teaching you? Leave a comment!

God bless! :)