Walks With Christ

During my junior year of High School I was working at a restaurant in the town over and every night, on my drive home, I would stop by the lake right down the road. I would park, walk out to the water, sit down, and I would talk with God. The first night I spent the majority of my time talking, saying anything that was on my mind or heart no matter how ridiculous. This lasted for a couple days, but as this became more of a regular thing I started having fewer things to pray about. My mind and heart was being emptied daily before God and by the second week I was spending most of my time listening and resting in God. The visits became longer and I would race out of work just to be able to go sit and pray and listen. It was during this time that God radically transformed my relationship with him. Although many people and groups have had huge impacts on my life as a Christian I cannot compare one of them to 7 months with just Jesus. It was there that ideas were formed, that I was convicted and forgiven, where I was given energy beyond my own strength. It was during the spring I stopped, mainly because of the rain, but my relationship with God just continued to grow.

After my senior year of high school I joined Coastland Consultants, a ministry that cannot be compared to. During my time with them I had to learn to enhance my walk with God daily. I would have some pretty rough days. One night, as I was lying down on the couch of a host family, I felt God tell me he wanted to go on a walk with me, so I got up and started to walk outside. It had been about 5 minutes outside when it started to rain. This did not stop me from walking. I continued to walk around praying and asking God to speak to me. I sang songs and prayed against stuff, and then God led me to the swings. I sat down and feeling foolish looked down to the ground. I felt stupid, outside walking in the middle of the night, in the rain, but as I looked down I noticed I was wearing a specific shirt. The shirt said "My People Know Me" and God spoke to me through that saying that, even though it seems foolish, that is my God. Again on another night I was unable to sleep so decided to walk a little bit outside. It was raining as I looked out the window and decided that I would still go. I put on my sandals and started walking, the entire way praying and asking God to speak to me. After walking 4 miles I realized that I could go back or continue to my sister’s house, which was only two towns over. I continued walking to my sister’s house. I made it there after about 2 and a half hour. When I got there I was soaking wet. I snuck in and my brother in law let me use some of his cloths and I went to bed. It was about 6 in the morning.

I am sharing this with you because when I look into my past I try to point out people who radically changed my life, some mentor who changed my entire world and I look and above any face I see is Jesus. He was my mentor and my father through it all. He has to be that to you to, or else you will be useless. So, find a time to go and just be with God for a while. Start now, it will change your forever.