A little prayer answered with a piece of testimony.

Sometimes it's really funny the way God works. I often find myself praying to God about the future, not because I'm ready for the next big thing to happen but because I'm ready for the next big thing to happen through him. I am pretty content with where I am at life right now, I'm at a place where I don't have to have a job to survive and a place where I am easily able to go church. That hasn't always been the case for me. You see my parents are Christians but they are not much of church goers they used to be when my sister and I were really young and before we were born but honestly I have only seen them go to Church on Easters and my baptism in the 7th grade, I think they may have even went on Christmas ounce. So because of this going to church wasn't always something readily easy for me. My parents always kind of encouraged church and they never said no you can't go to church. Church has always been my own choice which I am very thankful for the fact that I never had that you ARE going to church pressure. I am really glade that in Middle School I went to a church that had a bus ministry, it allowed me to be able to go to church every Sunday morning. Then when I moved again going into my freshman year there weren't many churches that I was willing to go too. None of the churches in town had a bus ministry so I had to walk to church. I tried going to a Methodist church that only worked for a few weeks before I realized I should not be there. Eventually during my Sophomore year on Easter I decided to walk further then one would see fit and I went to the first baptist church of that town. I really enjoyed and continued to go once in a while. During High school I really wasn't that close to the Lord. My junior year I ended up moving south. I got into a lot of stuff that I shouldn't have and dated many people. In September I started going to a church with my grandparents. After that I went to church with them every Sunday and Wednesday, where I joined youth, and met this really amazing Godly family. I was still into all of those things that I shouldn't have been into, but had that tug constantly trying to pull me back to Christ. I'm really glade I had that year of church because my senior year was really hard for me. I moved again that wasn't the hard part because I hated the school I went to my junior year. The hard part was the fact that I was in a city school with a ton of people who had all of high school to get know each other, and I didn't know of any good churches. I was pretty alone that year and wasn't very close to God but knew that he was still there for me which is a lot of what kept me going. By the end of that school year I had a good amount of acquaintances to talk to and a really good friend that liked the same Hockey team as me so that was pretty awesome. That easter I got a flyer in the mail for this baptist to church, so I got on Facebook to find out if they had a bus ministry turned out that they did. So that Easter I went to church then I continued to go I'm really glade I went there I still wasn't close to God but I was being given the chance and that pull that the Holy Ghost gives you saying "come back to me, Come back to me." Then after graduation I went to Hannibal La-Grange University which is a Southern Baptist Christian university. I was given a lot of chances with God there yeah sure there were a lot of lost people there too which was honestly very helpful to have them too. I had a really awesome RA who was there for anything I needed her for and was even helpful when I started getting sick. My roommate Sam was a really awesome person too, even though we were only roommates for half the semester she became a person in my life that I will never forget and helped me get to where I am with God today. I also met several other people that helped pull me closer to God. Especially my friends Ashley and Angie. They were able to help me and get excited with me about many things that helped get me to where I am with Christ today. I am honestly glade that God put those girls in my life, they are really good Godly girls and they are both going to go very far in life. During that semester at University I went to this church called Calvary, God did some amazing things for me there. We had revival there and during Revival I started getting closer and closer with God that is honestly one of the closest most amazing moments I have ever had with God. The next Sunday I spent like a good 15-20 minutes crying at the altar. I definitely know why God had me go to University there even if it were only for a semester. My life changed while I was there every plan I had for my life changed in just that one semester. I have God and all of those wonderful people I met along the way to thank for it. Which is part of why I am content where I am in life right now because I know that Gods' plan is my plan. Of course I'm still working towards figuring out the next step in life is but I'm turning it to God and letting him decide. Let's say my future 6 months ago and my future today are very different futures. Any ways I've been praying about the future lately, but not because I want what's next but because I want whatever is next to be through him, So I have been praying for little things like in the future let me continue to grow with you the way I am now, or When I have my own family in the future let me do this this this and this the way you would want me to do it and not the way the world does it. Well a few days ago I found myself asking God for the experience of being able to pray in a group with my family holding hands, I never had anything like that before. Well tonight at church with my Grandma after service the Pastor had us all get into a big circle and pray for the church after we went through Psalms chapter 4. Yeah it may not have been my family but it was my church family. God answered my prayer and I thank God for it, he continues to do little things like this for me to show me he still and always will care. I am so excited to see where he brings me and what he does for me next.