“But rise, and stand upon they feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee” Acts 26:16



The vision Paul had on the road to Damascus was no passing emotion, but a vision that had very clear and emphatic directions for him, and he says, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.” Our Lord said, in effect, to Paul – Your whole life is to be overmastered by Me; you are to have no end, no aim, and no purpose but Mine. “I have chosen him.”
When we are born again we all have vision, if we are spiritual at all, of what Jesus wants us to be, and the great thing is to learn not to be disobedient to the vision, not to say that it cannot be attained. It is not sufficient to know that God has redeemed the world, and to know that the Holy Spirit can make all that Jesus did effectual in me; I must have the basis of a personal relationship to Him. Paul was not given a message or a doctrine to proclaim, he was brought into a vivid, personal overmastering relationship to Jesus Christ. Verse 16 is immensely commanding, “to make thee a minister and a witness.” There is nothing there apart from the personal relationship. Paul was devoted to a Person not to a cause. He was absolutely Jesus Christ’s, he saw nothing else, he lived for nothing else. “For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.”







I so want this for my life, to be solely focused on Jesus Christ and no other. So many times I get bogged down in people and forget about God. I focus on what people are doing, how they are being treated, why they act the way they do, how they act towards me. All that doesn’t matter at all though, none of it does. Just , with because we know the world and get along with everyone we come across doesn’t mean that we should lose site of Jesus. We have to keep reminding ourselves: why do we act this way? Why are we so stupid?
This poem I am about to post below is what I read in my adolescent Psychology book. It makes me realize how far down our teens have gone. Yet we can be a shining light until them:







Land of Diminished Dreams


The year is two-thousand fifty-four,
The world is full of curses.
People walk the streets no more,
No women carry purses

The name of the game is survival now-
Safety is far in the past.
Families are huge, with tons of kids
In hopes that one will last.

Drugs are no longer looked down on,
They are a way of life.
They help us escape the wrenching stress
Of our fast world’s endless strife…

I wake up now – it was only a dream,
But the message was terribly clear.
We’d better think hard about the future
Before our goals and our dreams disappear.
- Jessica Inglis, Age 16


These are the teens that I want to work with….Lord help them see your glory!