Lost

Firstly watch Simon talking in the video above.

When we feel lost sometimes the last thing we feel like doing or even think to do is to approach God.

Sometimes it is our actions that cause us to get lost. We may not feel that we are able to come before God as we are at that time. We may feel we are not good enough and do not deserve to come before God. Maybe we have pushed God out of our lives because we have wanted to live it the way that we want to for a while rather then the way that God wants. The truth is that none of us are good enough, and none of use deserve to be able to come before God yet his love for us allows us to. He loves us all so much that no matter what state we are in, no matter what we have done we can come before him. Not only does his love allow us to approach him he wants us to approach him, he has been calling out our name leaving the 99 other sheep to come and get us back again. It's easy to think I'll sort myself out first and then go and find God but it's not so easy to sort ourselves out without the help of God, God wants to help us and with his help we are able to get our lives back on track and not feel lost anymore.

This week I heard about a guy called Clay Crosse who is a Christian singer in America and had a very successful song over there called "I surrender all". Although to everyone else he seemed to have a pretty good life, a wife and a daughter along with a career he presumably loved, he became addicted to porn. This addiction nearly cost him his marriage, he lost his relationship with God and he nearly lost his career. As he was touring he began to find that his voice wasn't performing they way that it had been and went to see a vocal coach. The coach asked him if everything was ok with his home life and how his relationship with God was. The vocal coach prayed with Clay and Clay left knowing that his life had been changed in that session and that everything was going to get sorted out. He went back to his wife and told her everything and although it was a hard time for both of them they managed to sort out their relationship over the year that followed by asking God to help them in the situation. Although his voice hasn't returned 100% he is able to go and perform concerts.

"God just loved me back, and every area of my life just changed. The things that I once thought were so important just began to look silly. Something as uncool as reading God’s Word began to be real cool to me and real nourishment" - Clay Crosse

Clay now uses his experience to help others fighting this addiction, God is using him and his experiences in a positive way to help others find their way back to God.

Clay's story shows us three things:
1) By praying to God about what we have done, by asking for forgiveness, asking God to help us and lead us away from what we have been doing we can stop and start to live our lives the way that we need to be.
2) God wants to take us back, for us to find him again and that when we do approach him and pray to him for help and forgiveness he will take us back.
3) Once we have sorted our lives out God is able to use our experiences to help others to change their lives and to find their way back to God.

If you are feeling lost then I encourage you to pray and maybe get someone to pray with/for you. Perhaps at Sanctum Youth you can find someone that you feel comfortable with and ask them to pray with you. I am happy to pray with and/or for people and I am sure that any of the leaders will be maybe you want to ask a friend to pray with you, whatever you feel comfortable with.

I got some of the info here: http://www.cbn.com/cbnmusic/Interviews/700club_crosses022806.aspx