First day of classes!

WOAHHH WHAT A LONG CRAZY DAY! I just wanted to give you all an update of my first day. :)

This morning i got up at 6:40 and left the house at 7:20. I had been hoping and praying all weekend that a math class would open up. They were ALL full! I had been emailing back and forth to Professor Barbara Wilson because i wanted to get into her class. So i was going to go this morning just to check in. I didnt want her to think i was a dingbat and didnt take classes seriously! As soon as i got there she was like "just a few minutes ago someone dropped!" I was sooooo thankful! I RAN DOWN TO ADMISSIONS. But on the way i "figgured" the line would be so long! so i cheated and just went to the math office and got the receptions to enroll me lickity split! :) so i made it back to class at 8:01. All the while on the way saying "thankyou Lord, thankyou Lord!"( to a little tune i came up with on the stop.) YAY FOR BEING SMART AND GOING TO CLASS EARLY! but anyway! My teacher is so nice and think i will do very well (hopfully) in her class :)

At 9 i have theory III. OH MY! I am so beyond excited! it will be so crazy hard! We didnt do too much other than go over the syllabus. We did discuss the renaissance period and the baroque period, just to get and intro. We will do more on that Wednesday. :) We got out ten minutes early. :)

At 10 I normally have Paino III except for today because my TEACHER DR ALLISON WAS SICK! lame.. so me and "Pheobes" and Megan "practiced" we didnt really tho.. we ended up going out into B hall so we could study our theory :) and we did that through our break during the 11 ocklock hour!

Then at 12 :) AURAL SKILLS III. OH WOAH SAUCE. We sight sang and practiced our chromatic scale and slowly died inside realizing just how much there is too learn. It is going to be so hard. POWER OF PRAYER. lemme tell you :) there will be a lot a prayers.. I actually have a benchmark Friday. NO SWEAT RIGHT!?

At 1:00 I have Expressions, which is my Jazz choir! And it went pretty well I thought i actually think it going to be pretty low key this semester i am hoping for no terrible drama. Lol Which has been a constant in the past 3 semesters...

At 2:30 to 5:30... (Woah) we Have sextets. WE HAVE NO OTHER NAME! I think i will spare you the other names that were going around.....BUT we are a sextet and for those of you who dont know that is 6 PEOPLE. More commonly known as 1 on a part! It is going to be SO legit. :) We had a ton of fun in there! it is a great dynamic :) i think we will do great things!

Today was pretty exhausting! After class i rushed home to eat and then went to the nursing home Bible study. It was very good! Great time singing :) I am so thankful for today and for the way God orchestrates things. I am looking forward to Wednesday. :)

Just thinking

Love ALWAYS

Holly dee

We are the WORD to the WORLD

School is starting tomorrow and so i wanted to take this time to write out the notes i took during the sermon this morning. Ben is such a powerful teacher and speaker of the word of God. This sermon really moved me and the power of the Lord and the word of our almighty God is empowering me and giving me boldness. I am writing this down because it is how i need to live and it is what i need to do in my everyday life at school. When i am surrounded my darkness and around people who are held by the power if the evil one. My God is mighty to save every single one of them.

BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY, CONQUERING THE WORLD.

1.) Gods word is powerful to change us

2.) We are not bound by what we were or who we have been

3.) We are the word to the world

4.) Gods plan is that we be fruitful and multiply so we can expand the word to the world.

Acts 6:7 "The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith."

19:20 "According to the mighty hand of the Lord the word was growing mightily and prevailing."

We don't always share Christ because we doubt His power and ability. We also want to be accepted and we think if we share Christ or admit we are a Christian it will inconvenience us, making our lives difficult. Often we don't know what to say and we get caught up in our own inadequacy's. We might be embarrassed of think we may not know how to talk or share. But our God IS MIGHTY TO SAVE. God will work through me.

Isaiah 40: 6-8 "The grass withers, the flower fades, the breath of the LORD blows upon it; Surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever." In Isaiah Gods power is pictured as a conquering hero. Even if we do not know what to say. We can ask people to just read the Bible with us. Because the bible is "living and active and sharper than any two edged sword." We are going to fade away, our lives are vapors, but Gods word is GOING TO STAND FOREVER. His word is unchanging and unfailing. His word is powerful.

Ben told his testimony, he wasn't raised as a Christian. He was very hostel to the word of the Lord. He initially started to study the bible so he could be able to refute the ideas to all the Christians he knew. He wanted to be able to rip all of their beliefs to shreds. He started to go to church every Sunday so he could learn everything he could. he said the first Sunday he went he felt something was different but he didn't yet understand what it was. He started to go to the Wednesday night Bible study's and every time after the study he would debate the teacher for about an hour. For 6 months Ben studied the Bible intensely and fought against God. Then God saved him.

Isaiah 55:8-11 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return there without watering the earth and making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it."

Gods word is powerful. And just by reading it you can grow or you can be saved. It is error less and perfect. We are not bound by who we used to be before we were saved. God has the power to change us! And he will change us if we poor ourselves into Him.

Acts 4:29-31 "And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence, while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness."

It is our duty to pray but also to act. We have a responsibility. We must pray for boldness and confidence so we can be fruitful and multiply expanding the word of Christ to the world. I AM CHRISTS WORD TO THE WORLD. I cant live my day to day in a comfortable state. I have to be witnessing and telling people about what Christ has done for me. It doesn't matter if i don't feel like i know what to say. If i pray for wisdom i will receive it and the holy spirit will work through me. I cant do anything of myself. I have to ask people to read the bible with me. Because i don't have all the answers. But the word of the God is power! My God is mighty and powerful and full of grace and honer. He deserves all glory.

I want to grow this semester. I want to be a witness at school. I want to be on fire for Christ. I never want to give him up.. I never want to be stuck in a place where I doubt his power. He can use me. He can work through someone as depraved and filthy as me. His word can change me, renew me, build me up, purify me, and sanctify me.

"HOLY HOLY HOLY. LORD GOD ALMIGHTY. Who was and is and is to come." There is no one like you O God.

just thinking.

Love always

Holly Dee