Beautiful By MercyMe.

Last night we went to the Rock and Worship Roadshow at JQH arena. It was AMAZING!! I mean in a stadium that is packed full with thousands of other teenagers that have the same love for God is just amazing! It was truely a great night and God was with us. The main band there was MercyMe. I was so excited when I found out I would get to see them live. My favorite song by them is I Can Only Imagine. Last night though another song just stuck with me though. I mean yes I know all their music and I listen to this song quite often. I just never truely listened to this song and let the words soak into me. I will try to post the video to this song. I am not quite sure how to though. Beautiful by MercyMe is truely an amazing song. We learned the background behind this. Lead singer, Mike Scheuchzer, originally wrote this song for his two young daughters when they get older. He reminded everyone that at such a young age girls and some guys are faced with so much pressure of how we should dress, act, look, what size we should be, what's in, and what's not. He said he hoped this song would be a reminder for EVERYONE!! No matter the age. He knows that there are kids out there that don't get to hear I love youfrom both their parents and thnk that they aren't worth it. That they will never be anything. That is so untrue. You are beautiful and just perfect to God. I mean we aren't the same perfect as God is but he still sees us as that higher standered of alway being enough when we say that we aren't. We all just have to keep in mind that what happens on this earth but not as much as we sometimes let it matter. This is just our home for the time being. Shouldn't we be mor concerned about our eternal destiny? So that means we should be living everyday for God because he holds our lives! ~In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.~1 John 4:10-11~ Take care!

Oppurtunities.

I have been so blessed by friends through this blog. I am getting so close with God and realize that every moment of my life is being lived for him!!! I just think that is AWESOME!! He is what everyone needs and is really longing for whether they find him or not. Don't you think we should help as many people find him as we can since he is exactly what we need??? One way to reach out is by taking advantage of oppurtunities that he gives us!!! I just got a great one. As our youth leader will be out of town she has asked me to take over two lessons. I am so excited. After studying and studying and restudying these two lessons I realize God is just truely amazing. He just longs for us to love him back like he loves each and every one of us. I hope I do a great job for Stacy this week and show others Gods love. Just make sure you watch for even the small oppurtunities that God gives each and every one of us. Kailee Elaine

Staying Connected with God.

So the last post I made talked about the metaphor with the grape vines. I didn't want it getting to be too long so I left off a part that I really want to post. God wants us to stay connected to him. That is why he says he takes our burdens so we won't be so weighed down like cutting back a grape vine. If something happens and we don't let him take our burdens we can lose our close connection with God. That would relate to if the branch was to break off the vine. Now a farmer can make a cut in the actual vine and try to reconnect the branch. We can always do this with God. The farmer makes the cut in the vine so the sap can flow back through the branch and once again bear fruit. Jesus was nailed on a cross and he shed his blood so that all of us could live in enternity with God. The blood flowed from his side just like the sap flows through the branch. His blood was shed so that all of us would have a chance to tell everyone we know about Jesus. HE loves us so much. He died willingly for us!!! That is more than anyone has and ever will do for you. The only way I know to sum all this up is with this verse. This should be everyones perfect valentine.

For God so loved the world
         that he gave
             his only
            begotten
                  son
                     that whosoever
       believeth in him
          should not perish
       but have everlasting life.
                                        John 3:16


Thanks for reading!

Love Kailee Elaine.

Being the Branches.

Sorry that I haven't blogged for a couple days!!! If you are anything like me you love to read devotional books. I sat down the other day and started reading the book Always By Melody Carlson. One of the devotionals in there used a few verses from John 15. Here is what I read: I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardner. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must reamin in the vine. Neither can bear fruit unless you remain in me. John 15 1-2, 4.
Now not all of us understand farming terms. Back then most of them had grape vineyards or worked in them so all of that just made a ton of sense to them. Now a days not all of us know about vineyards and grape vines. What God is saying is we are connected to him just like a branch is connected to the rest of the vine. Now God will go through all of us. He knows what we think and how we feel. He knows what our hearts are saying. Us that stay connected to God and bear fruit will be pruned or in other words be cut back and have weight taken off so our branch doesn't eventually break off from the vine. The simplest way that I can put that is that God will NEVER give us more than we can handle. Yes he puts us through hard times but its never gonna be too much. If we hang close and stay connected to God we will always pull through it. He will take the weight and problems off us if we just simply offer them to him in pray. It also says that he will cut off every branch that doesn't bear fruit. Now he isn't gonna just ignore the people that don't try to show their faith in him or believe in him but that just sums up to that those of us who do stay connected will live in enternity with him. Wow. He reminds us to stay with him. He also reminds us that NO branch will be able to bear fruit by itself. That means we won't stay connected with God if we forget about him and put him off in the back of our minds. God already knows everything about you but when you come to him and just say hey this is how I feel it thrills him. You love him back like he loves you and feel like hes the one that you need to tell everything to. Thats what he wants from us. He wants us to come to him with our problems that way he can help us solve them and get through them. You won't get through them without God. Hope you guys are as touched by this as I was. Just remember that God wants to be your best friend. =] Kailee Elaine

YouthQuake 2011

Some of you will know what I am talking about when I say Youthquake. Others won't. It is a HUGE concert that they put on every January in Springfield. I have been blessed to have gotten to attend it four years now. It really is a great time to worship God. We always look forward to it every single year. Yes it is a huge concert with a band, but more importantly they have speakers come in and we worship God. The Skit Guys were great! They made a couple of really good points that I just want to go over today. They have just stuck with me through the last week and I want to make them known! They told the story about the man on the mat who could not walk and his friends took him to Jesus and he was healed. That right there can be a lot to take in. Jesus just told him to get up and walk and he did! They wanted us to see how we could use this in everyday life. At one point sooner or later in your life your gonna be in both places: As the person on the mat and as the one pulling them to Jesus. You have had people in your life whether it be family or friends who care about you enough they see you on your mat and they pull you to Jesus. They want you to build up a relationship with him. Once you have this relationship and have trusted in him to be your saviour it becomes your job to pull others to God and Jesus. Now you may be thinking that it sounds awful hard and scary, But really its not that hard. Just show everyone that you come into contact with about God's love. I am sure you guys that go to high school see on a daily basis someone that could use a little help or even just kind words or a hug. You will find those who are dealing with a lot and that kind word or action could completely turn their entire day around!!! You could make a difference in your life just by passing on the love and kindness that someone once showed you and brought you to God. Now with this being said another good point that was made at Youthquake is obedience. I will admit sometimes its hard to say your completely right God and I need to trust you and do what you are telling me to. I am one that isn't the best at public speaking so when he lays it on my heart to speak at church or at an FCA meeting at school I want to question it. I know that I can't because what really matters to God is obedience and showing his love to everyone. A high school guy just like you and me that has a BIG heart for God knew that God wanted him to get up and speak infront of all of us. He didn't know what he was going to say or why God wanted him up there but he knew that didn't matter. He knew he had to follow God's calling. It took him a few minutes but God finally laid it on his heart. He knew it was gonna be hard to get up infront of everyone but he remembered that God was gonna be with him. Wow. I wish every one of us could do that. But we are only human. We make mistakes and tend to leave God out at times. Just make sure you are following him and doing what he asks or just would even want in everything you say and do. I don't have any better way to sum this up other than this verse. I am the Lord's servant. May it be to me as you have said. ~Luke 1:38~
Have a blessed day and may the Lord be with you! Kailee Elaine

Friends.

I just wanted to say thanks to my friends who have gotten me here!!!!! Kate, You got me started in this blogging. Thanks for your help and your advice!!!! Courtlyn, You are so amazing and a true inspiration to me!!!! Aaron, Bud I know that what you are going through is hard. Just hang in there and hang close to God. Lauren, Where do I even begin. I love watching you on stage and I hope to be like you one of these days!!! Stacy, You are truely an amazing youth leader. Thanks so much for inspiring me every day to build up a relationship with God. Michael, Doubt that your reading this but in case you are thanks for being a great friend!! You mean the world to me. Blake, Jessie, Abigail, Brittany, Bekka, and Harlee, I love doing FCA with you guys. Thanks for keeping me on track and inspiring me every single day to serve others!!! Danyelle, You are the best big sis I could ever ask for!!!! Will be sad to see ya graduate this year! Joe, You are an amazing big brother!! Don't change. I have so many friends that I just wanna thank for being here for me!!! I don't have room to name you all!! You know who you are!

Welcome!!!

So this might take a while for me to get use to. I haven't blogged before so I am  very excited. We had a big concert I guess you would say called Youthquake a week or so ago and God has called me to do more than just being an FCA Leader at school and going to youth group. I am still not quite sure what it is. I think maybe reaching out like this might be a nice way to find what God wants from me. I went forward and I am very excited about this journey that I am taking with him. I know he is with me every step of the way. I know every day I am growing in him more and more. I don't know any other way at this point to reach out. I really hope this is what God is calling me to do. I can feel his spirit in me. Let me know if you guys ever want me to blog about a certain thing and I will do my best. Thanks for reading. Kailee Elaine