One of my favorite things to do after I wake up is to sit in my bed and think about everything that I have to do during the rest of the day, week, and sometimes month. It is like my brain goes at full throttle in the morning and I all of a sudden become aware of the mass amount of things that I have going on which I somehow don't realize during the rest of the day. Take this morning for instance, I woke up and started thinking about the retreat I have to finish planning that starts in two weeks; the youth art project that comes a week after that; and what I will be talking about for church tonight. Probably what should be considered the most stressful of these things is the retreat.
In school I have planned retreats and camps and teachings and putting everything together but this is the first time that I have actually had to do it for real. I know how much work goes into planning a retreat and I know that I only have a short amount of time to finish up what I am going to do about worship, teachings, fun activities, and everything else that goes along with it but I'm not worried. I mean seriously I feel a bit rushed now to quickly try and figure things out or put things together but ultimately I am not worried about it. I have a ton of things I need to do and get done and I might be the one having to do a lot of the work but I'm not worried at all. This only comes from God.
I am completely at peace with everything that is going on and I am not stressed out at all (even though there really is a lot of stuff that I have going on right now). I started to stress out about the retreat at the beginning stage of putting it all together and God asked me one question, the same question He always asks me, "Do you trust me?" Following that He told me that He would take care of everything and that I had nothing to worry about. Okay, so if God says that I have nothing to worry about than I think it really means that I have nothing to worry about. But I don't have a worship leader. I have to plan teachings for 4 days of a retreat, I have to put together teachings for regular Sundays/Wednesday. I don't know where any of the money for the students to go to camp is going to come from. In the midst of all these things God still says, "You have nothing to worry about."
I am trusting in God to put it all together. I am trusting in God to provide the money and lead me in what He would have me do for teachings/worship/activities. If this retreat and if this ministry is something that God has called me to do than He is going to put it all together and I have nothing to worry about other than to make sure I am not sitting around being lazy and just waiting for something to happen instead of walking out in Faith.
Good thing I don't have anything to worry about because I would be pretty stressed out right now if I did.
B.
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