Say so!

Two weeks ago my dad (my church's youth leader) asked me to preach to the youth. So I will be preaching to the youth this Sunday about what? I have no idea....well, had.
Yesterday was a pretty emotional day for me and because I've been having to face some pretty scary/exciting decisions, I found myself asking God, "what am I supposed to be doing for You? Am I doing enough? What is my purpose?" So today here I am listening to Israel Houghton's song Say So and the pre-chorus says to be salt and light in the world. I was singing out loud and it just hit me, that's my purpose!
That's what God wants us to be, flavor! What is food without salt? What is day without light? We are supposed to be the difference!
Reading another blogger's post, she wrote that she preaches of God and does what she does for love, for God is love. As the salt and the light that we are we are supposed to give "flavor"....LOVE!
"God is love" 1 John 4:8. We have to give love, talk love, preach love, walk with love, smile with love, do everything with love. Why? Because God is love.
Now, when we make the decision to serve God, we are saying that we are going to take God's word with us everywhere (). For a lot of the "newcomers" it is very difficult to do so. We get nervous, scared, sometimes even embarrassed. For those who get a little scared, read Jeremiah 29:11. It says ...plans to prosper you and not to harm you. When I would have to go tell people that God loved them, I would turn red and I would be sooooo scared; I would think "this person is going to punch me, he/she is going to yell at me". I was scared! But the Lord says He has plans for us that do not bring harm to us. So why be scared? The bible talks of David and Goliath. David was a kid, young, sorta like us (I'm young too)! He was not scared to face Goliath (a huge, warrior, I picture him pretty scary looking)! David knew that God was not going to let Goliath harm him; He fought Goliath in the name of God, in the name of love.
God does the impossible. He is God of the impossible! We were called to be more than great because God was way more than great.
Mary, Jesus' mother, must have been nervous about having a child. She was a virgin and not even married yet. When the angel appeared to her, he tells her what God's plans are for her. Personally, if this were to happen to me, I would freak, I would cry, I would worry of what will people say? But we see Mary and she says I am the Lord's servant, may it be to me as you have said. She probably did have that fears that we would have nowaday but she knew that God was with her and she knew that God would not let anything happen to her, she had to ignore the comments that I'm sure where made. She had faith in the God of the impossible.
Psalms 46:10 says be still and know that I am God. Do not let fear or nerves or the feeling to go to the bathroom (that happens to me) get to you when God calls you to do something, whether it is preaching, or leading worship, or praying, or just picking up the offering. Be still says the Lord, in modern day language He is saying "CHILL! BREATHE! RELAX! I've got you, I've got this". So just give everything to God and do what He demands from you, whatever it is!
So yea this is what I am going to be talking about this Sunday. It was a lot of answers given to me personally and I think they would also be a blessing to the youth at my church.
Remember, we serve the God of the impossible! :)