Grace

God is more loving and shows me more grace than I deserve. I just am being hit by that this week a lot. God is so good to me, even though I continue to live my life however I please. Thanks for being more than I ever earned God.

Opportunities

Hi Lord. Yesterday was an awesome day. I went to South Gate Baptist Church and really loved it. I have a great opportunity to get plugged into their youth ministry program there as a leader, so just keep me focused on you in the days ahead, and God please help me be a staple in the lives of the kids in the group as I start to get to know them in the days ahead. Let me speak your truth and be a beacon of light in their lives. Continue to speak to me in the days ahead, because I need to grow too. I just want to thank you again before I go for surrounding me with such great people here at Cedarville University. I love you God. Thank you for giving me such great opportunities and great hope.

Finding A Church

Well lord, today I started to look for a local church to attend while I'm at Cedarville. I think a found a good church called South Gate Baptist Church in Springfield. Please help me find a church that accurately speaks the word, and has a good youth pastor I can learn from so I can get good experience for my own future as a youth minister. If it is not the church for me please open my eyes to see that.

talk to you later,
Mike Herrera

Move In

Well, I'm all moved in here at Cedarville. Everything is going pretty sweet so far god. I got to know some cool people at this freshman party on campus last night. It seems like everyone is pretty cool here. Just help me stay focused on you in school. With all the new people here for me to meet, all the activities, and sports to do when I'm here it can get easy to be distracted from why I'm here. (to serve you) Just shift my focus back to you lord. Remind me why you've brought me here to live for you and hopefully get more people to do that too. Well I'm gonna get going. talk to you later god.

Mike

more jounal entries to come

I know i haven't done this lately, but I intend to write in my journal more when I go to Cedarville next week. I have been told by a few people that they want me to start doing this blog again so I will pick it up when I go back to school next weekend.

Lord I don't have much time so I'll make this post short. I had a really good day today. Even though the weather was less than perfect, I got a muscle knot in my hamstring, and I got scheduled to work on a day I requested off for a youth conference it was awesome. For some reason none of it really bothered me that much. I think it is mainly because I felt close to you today. I appreciate that lord. It felt like you were with me more. I struggled less with sins and I even found myself applying what I've been learning from the bible more often. Lord help me keep up your good work to help others.

rededicating my life

Lord, I'm sorry for a lot of things. I am sorry for staying away from you for so long and I am sorry that I sin and fall short of the expectations you set for me. One thing I am not sorry about, though, is that I accept your love and grace. I am so thankful that you accept me in my broken existence. Lord I'm so happy that you don't give up on me even when I give up on you. You keep pulling me in and whispering in my ear that it will be OK. You have carried me through the hardest times in my life and caught me when I've fallen. You took the bullet so that I don't have to feel the pain of my enemy, and for all this I can only say thank you. I need to rededicate my life to you, because lately I have been doing things that I am ashamed about. I have lusted, lied, cheated, been disrespectful, I have used your name in vain, and it's about time I wake up and realize that this is not my purpose. I have been depressed so much lately, because I struggle with sin. Instead of being depressed I should give thanks for the forgiveness you give and spread that forgiveness as if everyday were my last day. Lord I know where I am headed when I die, but sadly I don't know where my friends have gone or are going. Lets do something about that, NOW!