Tonight we continued with our series 181 days to change your school. God desires to change your school, the question is: do you? We had the first step last week of being changed by God, the second step is to bring God into the conversation. We read from 2nd Kings 5:1-14 in which a girl is taken as a slave (forced to be there), but she listened and cared about her master's husband's disease (he had leperosy). She truly believed in God's power, we know this because she spoke up and gave hope to Naaman by telling him to go to a prophet in Israel (Elisha) who could use God's power to heal him. Naaman went but almost refused to do what the prophet told him to (dip into the dirty Jordan 7 times) but she again spoke up when doubt crept in to him. He followed through by her encouragement and his body was transformed to diseased to brand new.
You are at school because you are forced to be there, but just like her you are there for a reason, because God wants you there. We need to look for opportunities to speak about God (looking for needs from people as well as just conversations that He could fit into). We must know and trust God and the only way to have that is to truly experience Him. When we do bring God into the conversation we must give soemthing real, speaking hope and light in hopeless and dark situations. Finally we must continue to name drop, it will be awkward at first, like learning a foreign language, but will become natural with practice.
If the girl had said nothing Naaman would have died from his leprosy, but she brough brout about transformation in him, just by bringing God into the conversation. You can bring transformation in your school by bringing God into the conversation too!
I give tonight: B
Favorite moment: Seeing so many who have been gone all summer
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