Kingdom Work Day.

Day 3 was good.  Zach Ervin asked a question this question last night: "Does it get better every night?".  I thought that was a cool question because it was his first time at a CIY event.  I think it always seems like it does get better, but it might only seem like that because we are more prepared to listen to God and our worship is a little more true because of the work we are allowing God to do in ourselves.  Today started with the second day of the USA, Canada war.  The battles are now tied at one a piece because Canada won the battle this morning.  How sad is that.  I don't know if we will be able  pull out the victory or not, but I will keep you posted.  

The theme for today was Crossing.  How can we crossover from being enslaved by sin to not being enslaved by sin.  We know that temptation will come at us hard, and today we worked on preparing ourselves for that to happen.  When the Israelites left Egypt, Pharaoh immediately regretted his decision and sent the Egyptian soldiers out to recapture them.  Satan works this same way, he has had control of you for so long that when you try to make a change, it seems like the temptation gets harder.  The Israelites began grumbling and asking Moses why did you bring out here to die?  They said things like "It would be better to be slaves in Egypt than die out here".  They had already lost faith.  They began looking at their past and not to where God wants to lead them.  It is easy to do that in our lives.  Satan uses our past against us.  How many times have you felt like you can never be good enough because of that sin that you always fall back into?  That is Satan's trick.  God always focuses on moving forward.  Pray that our group can focus on the future and always look to where God leads us.  He has proved himself faithful in every promise he has ever promised.  Why would it be any different in our lives?  

One powerful thing that happened today was a video right before lunch.  It is CIY's Kingdom Worker video.  It starred 3 real people doing amazing things for the kingdom.  The cool thing is that they are ordinary people doing extraordinary things.  We were challenged all day to dream about how things can be different.  We can make a difference in our homes, churches, schools, states, countries, planets.  We were challenged to think about the small things, and also the huge things that need to change.  I'm excited to see what comes from our group when we go home.  

I don't have time to proof this, so best of luck trying to understand it.  Thanks for reading and only 2 more days.  Wish you could've come.