Test & Trials Come to Make Me Strong

 Hey everybody I have to tell you about my latest experience. It was beyond crazy to say the least lol. Tuesday, my mother and I  had prophetic training (it was really good). We were learning about prophetic ministry and we got on the topic of deliverance and how if you don't guard yourself going in the spirits will read you like a book. They will begin to tell you things about yourself , personal stuff, or even things you never even knew. So you know the Devil wasted no time testing me.
 On the way home we picked up a friend of the family, and lets just say he had been sipping on a little something other than water. I mean, I'm sure most of you all have been around drunk people before. He would not sit back, he talked the whole ride and cursed like it was nobody's business! I was like "God, please please cover us. Whatever that  is consumed inside of him; I ask that you protect us."  As if that wasn't enough, he began to speak to me. He said, "What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to get a job? Go back to school? " I'm sitting in the front seat with the craziest look on my face because though he knew some aspects about me; he did not know me. So much was going through my mind. I said, "I am doing something with my life." His response, "Well what is it?" Me: "I don't feel like I need to share it with you. You wouldn't understand." So I'm thinking that that would end the conversation. WRONG. But the next thing he said, at that moment I knew I was no longer having a conversation with the person; the spirit was speaking. He said, "So you think I won't understand? Are you that  religious and saved? You not even 25 yet. You haven't even lived your life yet! All you do is sit around and be on the computer all day." In my mind I'm thinking God I'm about to lose it. This man doesn't know me from a can of paint and he thinks he can just come up in here and tell me about my life! I was really mad. But you know what I quickly realized that I'm not going to let him tempt me like this. So I took a deep breath and said, "Well I'm sorry that you assumed that that was all that I do all day, but I don't." And I left it at that. You all don't know how happy my mother and I was for him to get out of the car! I mean we sped off!
 What amazes me about the whole situation is, "why do people think that its a specific age you're supposed to be when you get saved or lived a saved lifestyle?" Is 25 that age where you're supposed to say to the Lord, "Hey God its me. I know you kept me all these years of my life. But today on my 25th birthday, I want to start living for you. Please forgive me of my sins and wild teenage years that I clubbed, had sex, did drugs, just ran rampant around the city. Let's get this thing right."? I don't know about you but I know every time I turn on the TV teens are getting killed left and right. Children younger than me are being gunned down. And last time I checked HIV/AIDS are REAL. I thank God for keeping me these 19 years of my life. So I don't care how young people may think I am; I am well aware of the things that's going on in the world. I have grasped the concept. I had my time, but now, everyday that God has allowed me to see, I chose to live for Him. This joy that I have, the world didn't give it to me and the world can't take it away. I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. Since day one God has filled me up with so much more than any worldly thing I could even imagine. Nobody or nothing can get me to turn my back on God. So here I am Lord, a young 19. Let's continue to do this thing right!