Campus Harvest Part 2

Saturday at Campus Harvest is the full day, as I call it, you never stop going, but it's completely awesome. Last year, this was my favorite day and it lived up to it's title this year too!

We started out the day getting to the church in the morning and honestly I can't remember the exact things we did so I'm just going to hit the high points.

We had a ton of great ministers/speakers talk to us. My favorite would have to be Lynette Lewis. She has a story that is full of hope. And she wears some awesome heels! And she is a runner. Anyway...

Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to pick out one or two of my favorite points that each person made that I feel like sums up what they were speaking about.. here we go!

Jarrett (or Jared?) Sykes

• Why can't we all play the game follow Jesus and do exactly as He wants. We can do it with everything else in out lives.
• If my relationship with Christ isn't making me lose my reputation, I haven't sold out to Jesus yet.

Lynette Lewis

• Will I be more like the Jesus or the devil when my friends are finished with me?
• When you sign up to run with God you HAVE to know people who know your name to cheer you on along the way because you can NEVER cross the finish line without friends.

Rice Brooks

• He spoke on God's purpose for our lives. One thing that he said is that God can put a gift in every life. On the inside. It's up to us to find it and use it for His good.
• You might be born "that way" (your old way and life) but you need to be born again!

Josh McDowell

• Walking into church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than walking into McDonald's make you a big mac. ~Love it!

Then we went to break out sessions. At least that's what I call them. These are sessions were everyone picks what they would like to go to and it is smaller groups of people. I went to Refering To God As A Father by Jason McDaniel and 39 Dresses by Suzanne Tipton.

They were both really good, but I got the most out of 39 Dresses. This is only because I have such a good earthly Father I have a better idea of the capacity of love Jesus has for me if it's greater than my daddy love for me. I can't fathom but I know my daddy loves me a lot! So Jesus must love me REAL good! :)

Jason McDaniel did give us 3 benefits of God's love for us that really stuck out to me...

1- we find our personal identity in God

2- we have total security in God

3- we can have confidence before God even with out imperfection and weaknesses

Suzanne Tipton talked about friendship and what you should look for a value in a friend and how to be the best friend to someone that you can be. She made 4 points:

1-prayer- it has to be part of a friendship, pray for them, pray because your friendship WILL go through hard times and we will need to know what to do in those hard times

2- faith- we have to believe that God can change our friends hearts and lives and that things will be okay in the hard times

3- grace- treat others the way you want to be treated, respect your friends, don't be so nit picky, keep communication open

4- fun- give gifts, tell them good things about them that you love, send cards

she also made a couple of other points..

• we have friends because we need an Aaron and Hur hold hold us up by the arms sometimes
• there are seasons of friendships and some aren't so pretty
• be open to the Lord about your friends
• we have to purposely cultivate our friendship gardens
• HUSBANDS!!- if you do what the Lord wants and not look to the right or left, the right man will cross our path & we have to let the Hold Spirit draw our husband, we won't be able to get rid of him but we we draw our husband, we will want to get rid of him.

After break out sessions were over we left to eat dinner and then came back for the night. Honestly I can't remember who spoke that night but Saturday night they have praise and worship, it is my absolutely favorite time out of the whole weekend! That and listening to Lynette Lewis! I know whoever spoke talked about the Holy Spirit and that we all have the Holy Spirit in us and when we allow the Holy Spirit to fill us up, Jesus will be lifted up.

I think we ended up leaving the church about 1130 Saturday night, so Sunday morning was hard to get up for but we did! And it was a short service because we have to get out of the church for their service. And I woke up not feeling great so I was ready to head home. But it was a good time and I look forward to going next year.