Great day of Worship

Man I love Sundays! They are my favorite day of the week. I've been singing in the choir for two weeks now and that has helped my worship tremendously. Today we sang "By his Wounds" as the special. Then Ryan Johnson preached today and it was incredible and unusual for what our church usually does. Ryan preached for about half the time then we, as a church, prayed through Psalm 145 together. I loved it. You should read that Psalm if you have time. After church I ate with my favorite family, the Johnson's, and we played Apples to Apples. Great game btw. I had choir practice after that and we worked on our Christmas special and stuff!

Then tonight was my church's thanksgiving testimony service. Pretty much we pass the microphone to whoever wants it and they can tell the congregation what God's been doing in there life. If past years I had been nervous to partake in this but this year there was no doubt that I had to tell people what God was doing in my life. I love this service because you get to hear people's hearts, and get to hear what there going through. During the service one member read Hebrews 10:23, "[23] Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful."

(Hebrews 10:23 ESV)

I love this for the last phrase. He who promised is faithful. You can take God at His word because when he says something He does it. Not like faulty humans. That is such a great word!

Today I got more of a vision for what I want in my life. I can see it happening little by little, well feel it more than see it. Psalm 42:1 reads: [42:1] As a deer pants for flowing streams,

so pants my soul for you, O God.

(Psalm 42:1 ESV)

I love the imagery. This deer isn't just thirsty, this deer in panting for flowing streams. He wants it worse than everything else. That's how I want to want the word, and I can feel my body and soul going towards that. I just have this longing for the word! I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving, I know I did. But now it's back to school time. Only another week and a half and it's Christmas break! Have a great week.

Counting all things loss,

Timothy Mathis