Personal Praise

So, I'm going to take a post and do a personal Praise to God.

Since I was saved on January 10, 2010.  My life has been a roller coaster.  I went through some of the worst pain in my entire life caused by some of the hardest things in my entire life.  I will tell you right now, as I've said to others, if I didn't have God... I would be dead.   Despite all of these things and all of the pain, God never left my side.  I have struggled with doubt and lack of faith in Him and He is just taking that from me.

It has been it has been 7 months and 15 days since I cried out for the first time and took Jesus as my SAVIOR!!! God has taken me under his wing and has been molding and pruning and creating me as a new creation.  I have changed more in the last 7 months than I have in my entire life.

My specific Praise, if that wasn't enough, is how God is just taking that doubt and lack of faith and SHOWING ME that He's got my back.  I've got three specific ways God has done this.

1: Earlier this summer, things were getting rough around here financially.  I was losing faith.  I stopped... took time to God and just laid it all out to Him.  THAT NIGHT!!! (true story) I had a refund from school financial aid and was able to get those things that I needed.

2: I'm coming to the end of my associates degree in less than a month.  I've just been wanting a job or something to do at least.  God heard my prayers and brought me to the mind of someone.   Because of those few minutes he spoke with me after church, I am now volunteering and I am helping him out in his office.  GOD ANSWERED MY PRAYERS!!!!

3: I can't explain how excited I am about this one.  Early spring, I thought it would be a good idea to just keep going to school.  So, I applied to a few schools within an hour from me, but not HERE.  I want to be far enough away that I can do my own thing, but close that I can still see my family.  Things started getting bad again with all of the stuff.. so I put it on the back shelf.  May, I decided I really did want to persue this, but I only really wanted to go to ONE of the schools that I had applied to.  So I was going to apply again because I didn't know if they still had my application.  Soon after these thoughts, that school called me asking if I still wanted to start in Spring 2011.  I said YES!!!  A few days, maybe a week, later I went up to Grand Rapids and toured the campus.  It was home!! I can't explain it.  From that moment on.. I CLAIMED IT!!! I said I WANT THIS!!! So, from that moment on I said "I'm leaving in January to go up to Cornerstone".  Well, there were some road blocks, but God just blew those away.  satan tried to stop me and I said to God I WANT THIS! As of yesturday August 24, 2010, I have been accepted to Cornerstone University Spring 2011.  I still have a few things to deal with mostly financial aid, but God has mansions full of money up there just waiting for His faithful ones to ask for it.

Because of that final one, I do have a prayer request.  PLEASE!!! Pray for me as often as I come to mind that God has this amazing plan for me and that I will be at Cornerstone in January 2011 with no problems.  Please just pray that God keeps being faithful to me even when I'm not to him.

Our words our powerful.  You don't need to pray for 20 minutes for this, a simple "God, be with Brittany as she goes down this road following what you have shown her".  Even our simple prayers get answered.  So as you all pray, I'll keep claiming.

I WILL BE A STUDENT ON CAMPUS AT CORNERSTONE UNIVERSITY IN JANUARY 2011 AND EVERYTHING WILL FALL IN TO PLACE JUST AS GOD HAS INTENDED!!!!!!