What's your story?

Spiritual  Emphasis  Week

This past week was our school's Spiritual Emphasis week.  Instead of having chapel once a week it was scheduled everyday for the secondary students (High School and Middle School).  In the past the school usually brings in various speakers to talk to the students about various topics.  This year our Chapel team decided to stay "in house" and use the teachers to speak.  The theme was titled By His Design.  Six different teachers shared their testimonies about how Jesus Christ saved them and his complete faithfulness during very difficult times.  It was such a powerful and enriching week for everyone.  I thought it was so neat for the students to see the teachers as "real people" with real stories.  God was moving mountains in many of these student's lives.  Walls were breaking down, questions were being asked and conversations about Jesus were happening hourly.  It was quite an amazing experience!

We tend to forget that our testimonies and stories are sometimes the most powerful tools that we have to share Jesus with others.  It is hard to debate and argue with real life experiences that involve Jesus Christ.  In one of my Spanish classes a student asked me, "So Ms. Johnson... what's your story?".  The student that asked me this question is one that is seeking God and unsure of what she believes.  God presented such an opportunity to share what Jesus meant to me right in class.  Later that day in another Spanish class I asked the students what they had thought of the speakers so far and thus began a huge debate between a Christian, Muslim and an agnostic on the matter of Jesus Christ.

One thing I have learned this week is the power of TESTIMONY.  Jesus has given us all a different story of how we have come to know him and that is powerful.  Whether it be easy or hard, God has been incredibly faithful and good.  So my prayer for this year is that my students create/find their story and share it with as many people as possible.

What is your testimony?  I'd love to hear it some day!  :)

Revelation 12:11

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb 

and because the word of their testimony...

Getting ready to worship

S.E.W. devotional 

One of our speakers 

Listening to the speaker

  

A beautiful little song I came across:  Jesus, lover of my soul (It's all about you)