July EYC Explosion Testimony
I was looking forward to the July Explosion. Everyone was! As the day approached I knew that I had to get something from God that night and nothing was going to stop me. As our youth group prayed before the service I talked to God expressing my need for a change in my life. I desired to go to the next level as did many of my friends. As the service began I decided that I would try to put aside thoughts of how I looked and how this was not the day to have a bad hair day… I decided that I would just try to give God everything! I worshipped and clapped and gave it my all but by time the music was over with I was ready for a Word from God. As Josh Herring preached it sometimes seemed as he had been reading my journal and knew thoughts that I had but in reality he was just in tune with the voice of God!
You see, I’ve never really liked myself or have been comfortable with who I am and I always compare myself with somebody else and it always seems as though I don’t measure up! At times I’ve felt worthless and have been afraid that I’m not good enough to do something for God yet all the while I could hear Him calling to me. My life was like a rollercoaster, as Josh Herring put it so perfectly. One day I felt as though I could conquer the world but then the next I felt so insignificant. My life went up and down! I felt good than bad. Up than down. Happy than sad. As Josh Herring spoke the words hit home and I decided right then that I couldn’t continue to live that way. As others came to the front to pray I came too with a hunger inside that needed to be fulfilled. I cried as I poured my heart out to God. But even then I couldn’t feel the break inside of me that I needed. When I was finished praying I felt no relief of the burden inside me.
Upon returning home I went to my room and then remembered that I, yes me, the person that felt so low and down, was supposed to write a testimony for the service because Vince, the director of EYC was out of town. I sent Vince a text message and told him that I would be unable to write the testimony and he would just have to find somebody else to do it! I told him what was going on and then I went to sleep still feeling disappointed.
The next few days went by with the EYC Explosion still in the back of my mind. I was supposed to be helping with
I went to work on Monday and went to VBS practice afterwards. On Tuesday I did the same thing except on Tuesday they were having a prayer meeting when I got there. As I walked into the sanctuary God’s presence was overwhelming. I sat down and listened as Sis Miller (one of the people over VBS and over Dallas SALT) talked to all the young people. She was speaking about the anointing in the room. And how God had given some young people in there Spiritual gifts. I wanted to pray so I went to the very back corner of the sanctuary. I wanted to tell someone how I really felt. I was so tired of living like I was so strong when inside I felt so weak!
Some of the young people began to tell stuff about them that no one knew. And I wondered why couldn’t I tell these people that I counted as my friends how I really felt? So I did. I didn’t immediately feel better. A big rush of wind didn’t flow through me and make me feel ok. But it was that seed that had been planted at the EYC Explosion that had been growing inside while I was completely unaware of it – it began to flourish. Through the rest of the week we had the most fired up prayer meetings I’ve ever been in. We had tongues and interpretation - given and interrupted by the youth. Words can’t really describe all that happened but a joy seemed to spread through our youth group.
I can’t contribute all of this to our Student Action Leadership Team (SALT) and VBS. Neither can I contribute it all to EYC. But it was a joint thing. A seed was planted in all of us at the EYC Explosion – that same seed has been continually put in us since EYC has started. SALT and VBS gave it a chance to grow and produce fruit. That fruit was 10 kids that got the Holy Ghost, healings and miracles in our bodies and lives, and our youth group getting so on fire that nothing can put this fire out.
I still struggle sometimes but every time I start to listen to the voices that tell me that I’m not good enough I can hear God’s voice telling me louder that He made me. He loves me. He will use me if I just give it all to Him and if I determine that nothing will keep me back from talking to Him everyday, sacrificing for Him, and living all of my life for God.
A few nights after another great church service, I decided that I had to tell people what God has done for me and our youth group in the last couple of weeks. I decided to write this testimony because I want you to know that you can have the same kind of fire in your life or in your youth group! You don’t have to live a rollercoaster life or have a rollercoaster youth group. You don’t have to be fired up one day, or week, or month and than dull the next. You can have revival. For more information on how to have revival in your youth group through EYC send an email to comments@endtimeyouthcorp.com.
Tsionah Novick
EYC Member
August EYC Explosion Testimony
