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Comment by Sylvia Ashley on January 15, 2012 at 4:17pm

Rachel, I totally understand how you feel. I feel like I put my school work before God, even sometimes I feel like i put my school work before anyone else and anything else. But lately I've been working on it because think about it, without GOD you wouldn't even be a top-notch student, in the first place. He's blessed you with that and he can take it if he wants to. So start by thanking him for that. And ask God to help you to refocus your priorities and make him the attention of your life. The beauty of following God is that he understand that the sin of this world will try to come between our relationships with him, but he is willing to listen to us and help us, only if we come talk to him first. So with that I I encourage you to PRAY PRAY PRAY!! It really works and all though it may not happen overnight, please take it one day at a time and PRAY PRAY PRAY!! Keep the faith.

Comment by Rachel Todd on January 15, 2012 at 1:32pm

I am struggling with staying close to God. I know I'm saved(thank God!), but I just don't feel like I'm in a tight relationship with Him. I'm a top-notch student, and maybe I put my school work before Him. I just want to feel Him burning in me stronger than I do now, and I want to be able to look around a see his beauty in everything.

Comment by April S. on November 20, 2011 at 7:53pm

school is hard when everyone around you is talking about sex and cursing every 30 seconds. I can't wait until I graduate this year and I don't have to listen or see all the immature talk and acts that God most definitely doesn't approve of. I know Im no saint and I slip up with my language but it's hard listening to people easily giving themselves away like it's nothing. no offense to anyone here. just venting :)

Comment by Wendy G. on November 14, 2011 at 5:02pm

Hello :) well I've been having a lot of problems at school lately. Thrte are a lot of non-christian students. There has been a lot of drama. Its hard to let my light shine. I've been praying for God to help him to tudents. I love him so much.

Comment by Shelby Luxmoore on November 7, 2011 at 11:44am

Good encouraging ladies and gents :D

Comment by Sylvia Ashley on October 21, 2011 at 8:08pm

Elizabeth, Thank you soo much, That made me feel a 100% GREAT! I always strive to help poeple and to know that Ive helped you means a lot! Ive learned so much from you too! You are soo STRONG and you are going to go extremely far in life! God has truly got his hand on you and he is working in your life. Keep the faith!

Comment by Eliza McFarlish on October 18, 2011 at 5:56pm

I just want to say thank you to everyone, especially Sylvia. I just joined this site, and gave out some general information about my situation and then a complete stranger comments and encourages me. It just goes to show you that people really do care, and I am so happy to know that Sylvia and many others are willing to step out and encourage other people. I guess I just never realized that there were people that shared a situation similar to my own. I just tried to add a group today, it is waiting to be approved, but it is called My Devotional Time because I wanted to share what I have done every night without fail since June. I want to share my story of how I turned to God and how He has become the strong foundation of my life. But again, Sylvia, thank you, I will be praying for you, I wish you would be able to know how much you have helped me, I never knew that this site would already be making a difference.

Comment by Sylvia Ashley on October 16, 2011 at 9:26pm

Elizabeth, I totally understand where you are coming from. I attended a presbyterian church for almost three years and everytime i was there I just wanted to lift my hands and pray, just to show my affection to the LORD. But, i couldnt because that was not their method of worhsip! Hold on my freind, and i advice you to keep on praying that the LORD give your parents understanding of where you are coming from. What you are aking of them is GREAT!! You are not asking to go party or anything but to go to a church where you feel at HOME! You are an amazing child of GOD. Hold on because these things won't last forever! Wait on the LORD because he is yet to show you his miracoulous way! Keep trusting and keep the faith!

P.S Ask your school if they have a Kids for Christ program or a fellowish of christain athletes! B/C their method of worhsip is much like the ones we love!!

Comment by Eliza McFarlish on October 16, 2011 at 4:31pm

Sylvia,

Thank you for that. You see, I can easily walk to the church I want to go to, and it is much more modern, which I like. I've asked my parents if I could go to that church on Sundays because I could go there by myself and get back myself. They won't let me go there, so  Idon't know what to do. My best friend recently joined that church and I would go with her but  Ican only spend the night on Friday nights not Saturday nights. It's all a big mess and this year I 'm supposed to take a course on becoming a member of my home church. It's way to traditional for me and if I threw my hands in the air to praise the Lord everyone would stare and  Iwould be the only one doing it. It's like that is against the PResbyterian rules. My church will never change but my heart has made its decision as to where it belongs. You remind me of a friend I met from the church I like. She is very faithful and loves God more than anyone I know. Thank you for your advice it just doesn't seem that easy to change. Maybe God wants me at my home church for a reason, I just don't know what that reason is yet.

Comment by Sylvia Ashley on October 16, 2011 at 4:22pm

Dear Elizabeth, my friend, keep in mind that not everyone grows in the same church! My advice is to go where you faith grows, where you feel closer to GOD. Ultimately, your relationship with the LORD is more important, without him you wouldnt have your family in the first place. My mother, brother, and younger sister all go to one church, my dad and i go to another church, and my sister goes to a different one, not to mention my grandmother goes to another church hours away! We go where we feel at home because ultimately we are all worhsipping the same GOD, but environments matters. Go where when you are there you feel like lifting your hands and pouring out you heart to the LORD!!

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