MY DTS STORY
During DTS I felt like the Lord was speaking to me about something’s I am to do after YWAM. I was so excited and early wanting to know what God was going to tell me, that made me not to miss my quite time. I just made my heart open to the lord and waited for him patiently, sometimes I go for my time expecting him to speak to me about what He wants me to do after DTS but hen He tells me other things. well When He speaks I had to obey it though it wasn't what I was expecting of Him. It was until week 8 of my DTS when He finally Opened up to me about the nation of Congo. We had a long conversation wit God, The lord begun to show for me my childhood memories and I found my self deeply self immerged in those memories
Side effects DTS: you have spent six months crazy scheduled and controlled you time was predesignated. Quite time was built in and you became accustom to it. It kept you strait and sane most days but now you have excuses. So this article is or you. Or if your the person who knows what it's like to plan out your Monday and use it as your fresh start then you need to read this too.
Mondays, another one has come and gone.
But before you can get to Mondays you have Sunday. And (most) every Sunday you go to church, you sit in the service, you go home and on Sunday nights you lay in bed and vow to do better this week, physically, spiritually, mentally, and personally. Tomorrows a new day! You lie in bed contemplating the mountains you are going to concur this week (do 500 crunches every day, re-train the dogs, re-do the kitchen, do more paintings, plan out future, start a wildly successful Etsy business and grow closer to God, closer than anyone else!) and you perfectly measure the miles you must march tomorrow in order to reach to top of success by the end of the week. You go to bed counting the number of rocks you have to climb an hurdles you must jump. ...work out, do the laundry, wash the dogs, clean the kitchen, make bed, make dinner, work on project...etc, oh yeah and have some bible time. Then Monday morning comes and it's harder to get out of be than usual, you finally crawl out and find your gym clothes wet in the laundry, because that was something you were supposed to do last night. You wait for your pants to dry and make your bed, you get dressed and think. I need to do my devotions. But then you hear the dogs, oh I need to walk them, and well if I'm going to walk them I might as well workout too. You get back, it's time for lunch, I should read my devotions with lunch, oh but there is a new Greys episode, an hour later your done with lunch. Okay now I'll do my devotions, but wait the kitchen is a mess, and I need to take a shower but I should really wash the dogs before that. Before you know it you need to make dinner, then you think now I will do it but you realize the premiere of your favorite show comes on tonight so you find one more thing to push it away with, then your back in bed, thinking about tomorrow. You wish today had gone differently, you know you want a closer relationship to God but there just seems to be no time. You can't stay up and do it now because you have to get up early and do something in the morning, so that knocks out then too. So then you pray God help me, help me make time for you and help me grow closer to you. Help me stick to my diet and workout routine, help me be more positive, help me not worry, help me find a job, provide the money for my trip, can I get a new car, I could use some new jeans, can you do this and that etc, then you feel guilty about asking for so much but giving him virtually nothing, you beg him to make your walk more than Sundays. You give him thanks for his grace and then you put on worship music and write a blog about Mondays and how your spiritual life needs to change. And here you are, at the end of the article, in bed with your thumbs cramping not sure how your going to fit your devotions into your busy day of nothing tomorrow but still know that God heard your prayers and he hears this, and he would still love you if all you did was push him out of the way and ask him for things, but your smart. You know that you wouldn't be happy in that relationship. So you look ahead to make a change, you don't know what its going to be, but your committing to it,
even if every day is monday, because you need this, and you know it. So,
tomorrows a new day, another day of grace,
another chance to figure it out.
Tomorrows going to be different.
