One door closes the other opens..

This is what i said i was blogging about. Since i used your story in here i didn't want to post it anywhere until you had told me i could do so...let me know what you think.I'm graduating High School in 1 1/2 weeks. Last week as I was walking with a friend she suggested that we talk to 5 people about our hearts and about God in the next 5 days. I think it was just said and then we were both like ok yea, we are going to do this! Thus began this journey...First off, I don't think i've ever seen so many hurting people in the world they are EVERYWHERE!!! I don't think I ever really understood this until lately... My friend & I walked on Friday & Friday night when I was out with my parents I was talking to a friend from church, who had recently told me that she was not yet a believer, this was a wake up call to me. (We average any where from 100-130 teenagers on an average Wednesday night) I really felt God had allowed me to begin this conversation and friendship with her to show her the truth of His Word & that He really does love her, MUCH more than she will ever know! It has been an amazing journey of being able to talk with her and answer her questions and God just keeps showing me that He IS working in a hurting world. I KNOW what a BIG God I serve & He WILL prevail. She is getting so close to accepting Him and turning her life to follow Him. Its not an easy journey but its TOTALLY worth it. Please keep praying...God IS answering prayer.My second opportunity came not even 12 hours later as I was talking with another friend from church. I had asked about life as usual when I was told that she had been caught in an underage drinking 'party'. This made my heart sink as I know God has been at work in her life...or to me it seems He has. I didn't know what to think anymore yet I kept talking asking questions and just letting her know that yes she had made a mistake but that God wanted her to turn and flee from that mistake and ask for His forgiveness. Once again there was another hurting person God had placed in my path...One that the world says has it all yet she confused and mental and emotional tired of the names that the world has labeled her with. We talked about how we can't make these labels or reputations completely go away but that through HIS mercy & HIS grace we can change a reputation into a Testimony of His amazing Love & changing power!I could continue to list the opportunities they go on and on of the friends who are hurting because of family problems, Divorce, pregnancy, neglect, lonliness, confusion, fear, the unknown, the future, friends, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, self mutalation, low self-esteem, no one to care, no one to say I LOVE YOU, no one to say i'm here and i'm not going to leave you...The WORLD is full of hurting people yet, I know the one that heals the broken and the sick, give hope to the hopeless, is a father to the fatherless and give us a HOPE to get through any circumstance that comes our way. He tells us that He is the only one that really matters...He is THE forever friend..the one that never leaves the one that never disappoints and the one that always LOVES...for eternity.The past few weeks have been a spiritual low for me i'm not going to lie...but only in the sense that its VERY difficult to go through a world of hurting people..you pass them in your work place, in our schools, in public, in our churches, they are everywhere...their are hurting people searching for answers...searching for the ONE that will step in and save them from the chaios that they themselves can not handle nor control. YET how many of us truly know the ONE that brings this peace, Love, grace, mercy & forgiveness...how many of us pray regularly for our brothers and sisters in Christ being persecuted? Those in oppression? Those struggling? How many of us take the time to see the hurting all around us?I have decided to let God use my life, my gifts, and abilities that He has blessed me with to share the HOPE that MY SAVIOR gives in that FREE gift called Salvation.So I look foward to the journey that God has allowed me to have as a Child of Him. I LOVE Him soooooooo much & pray that the same will happen in others lives as they seek HIm & listen to His call.I really do believe we are fixing to see a revival break out among the unbelievers...our time is NOW...we are here for such a time as this!