Christmas!

So these past few weeks have been absolutely crazy! Non- stop rehearsals for carol services, the panto, joyful joyful etc, interviews, trying to find good presents for all my friends, christmas fayre running and prep, meeting up with friends and celebrating everything Christmassy! And sixth form with all its work on top of that! But in the end it was all so worth it and I can finally relax! I got my place on Soul 61, I have FINALLY got all my presents sorted, the carol service went amazingly, we've had a lot of our 'non-church' community in through the church doors, and I've also had some amazing times! And now I've finished sixth form for Christmas so I can relaxx!
So I have been pretty tired and i've had moments when I have just been totally run down, but God has kept me going and keeps blessing me for all the work I've been putting in! We've also seen many blessings come from the many things we've been running over Christmas, this past month church saw 4 people coming to know Christ at the 'Christmas lie' and after tonnes of rehearsals we had the hall full to bursting for our carol service which went down amazingly! We saw lots of people come through the church doors at our Christmas Fare which then meant we could serve our lovely community this Christmas! Which is always amazing to do!
So now it is time for some well earned rest, but also some time to just chill out with God and really seek him on what he wants me to do next! And also try and get some prep in for next year!

So, these holidays will now be spent with some amazing friends, my AMAZING God,  my guitar and ALOT of christmas food! I look forward to it!

Here is one of the outcomes of MANY hours of practice, we are all very proud of this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrbSZMYurdY

family

so tonight was our carol service, and our lovely church once again did an amazing job. I'm so proud of everyone, and I love every person in my church so much. It actually scares me thinking about having to leave them all, but thats a while off, and we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. They all did such a good job tonight, and yeah the performing was amazing, but they still gave everything to God during the worship, and i pray this rubbed off on the people who had never been before. They welcomed every new person with open arms, and made them feel at home. My church family are amazing, and i wouldn't change them for the world. GOD HAS BLESSED ME SO MUCH!

Get out and Go.

So today I was in sociology ( I know, weird place to have some kind of spiritual blogging revelation) but we were talking about the decline of religion in society, especially within Christianity. One of these reasons was that it is no longer relavant and the church isn't integrating with people - WHY NOT?! Is this not the whole point of what Jesus told us to do, he said go out into all nations, so lets get on with it! There are so many people that need the amazing message of love that we have! And the church isn't relavant - what a load of rubbish, don't be scared of telling people about God and your faith because it 'Isn't relavant to their lives' because it is the most relavant thing they could hear!
It's awesome though to look at certain areas of the church that are out there, I love looking at my church and seeing everyone getting so passionate about reaching our community, just through little things, like our christmas fayre, and the amount of people we had in the building for our nativity - it's awesome to see people bringing others to church, because we are one big family and we need to be welcoming everyone in :)
 God's love is so amazing, how can we keep it to ourselves? I heard a talk at M4 just last month on 'We are not excused!' - we aren't, we have no excuse to keep how amazing God is to ourselves, we need to get out there and show people some God love!

I don't know what this is/was, I just felt the need to write it down, so i apologise as it probably makes no sense whatsoever but hey ho!
Anyway, I doubt any of you are reading this, but if you are and want to ask me a question or talk to me about something I've said or just challenge it (I'm up for it!) then email me - abbie.micklethwaite@gmail.com

THANKYOU FOR READING MY RANT!!!

A Bigger Plan

God has such a huge plan for your life, and its a good one.  And no matter what he will make sure it happens, if it's money thats the problem he will provide, the only thing stopping you from going for it is yourself. Everything else he has sorted - each obstacle you can overcome! How amazing is that? It says in the bible that he knew you before you were in your mothers womb, every moment of your life has been planned out for you, all you need to do is follow that plan.
And I promise you, deciding to follow his plan will be the best decision you will ever make.

Something new

Ok so I thought i'd  give blogging a go, seems like a lot of people are doing it recently so thought i'd join in see what all the fuss is about!
For my first ever post I thought i'd just talk about how AMAZING my God is. This summer he was really speaking to me about giving everything to him, and he showed me that I was holding back certain parts of my life and not giving them to him, so I gave everything to him, my whole life, and since its been absolutely incredible!

I felt God saying to do this year out with Soul Survivor called Soul 61, which is basically a leadership course and a year in Watford getting to know God, so I applied, still hesitating because I knew there was only 35 places. So I kept praying about it, and God was just prompting me and telling me this is what  he wants me to do! So I went for the interview, and when i didn't hear from them I started doubting what God wanted me to do etc, the day after i got an email - I GOT ON THE COURSE! So this time next year i'll be in Watford using my life to serve God and i'm so excited about it!

It's going to be scary though, because Nelson is now my comfort zone, and I'm going to miss everyone so much. Especially my church, but I know this is what God wants for me and whatever he wants is going to be AMAZING! So, don't ever think God's forgotten about you, or he has forgotten you out of his plans, he will always make sure what he promises is right, he showed me this just last week, never doubt how big and amazing our God is. His plan is so amazing!

P.s this is my first ever blog thing and its probably really badly written cause i don't really know what to do so please just take it as it comes!