5/19/12

This was yesterday and this was another school's praise night and the school is named Mission San Jose High School. I decided to go and I arrived at the right time when they just started worship. Everyone was inside and they were worshiping and praising. I came in and joined in the singing and praising, it was great. Then the speaker came up and her name was Mishi. She too also shared her testimony and what the Lord has done in her life and the story she told was just frightening. Because she went to graduate school in Brooklyn and from what she said, it was much more worse than Oakland. But she told her story and explained how the love of God and that He is the only one that is there for her and will protect her at all times. I really liked her story and I was just surprised from what she has gone through. She also shared bible verses and we read them together and she was explaining them to us. She also told us that her favorite book in the bible is the book of Hosea. Right after we did some worship and it was just awesome! During the worship I met up again with a teacher at Mission San Jose that I met last year at Mission's praise night. His name is Mr. Vierk. It was great talking with him again and what was surprising to me was that he told me that he was praying for me the day before. I asked him to pray for me and my boldness and I prayed for him to have boldness as well to tell his students that there is a god as well as talk with them about the Lord Jesus Christ. For worship the worship team played some smooth songs with calm worship and I was just praising the Lord with my hands in the air. Then after those songs the worship team played "deep down in my heart" which was a amazing and exciting worship song that had me dancing and shouting and clapping my hands until they were really red haha. One part of the song that I remember the most is when all of us shout the lyrics "yes I love my Jesus!" then continue singing the song. Now THAT was just fantastic! Then afterwards we prayed again and the event was over. I also talked with this girl named Katrina from another High School named American. It was just great to see her in person. I introduced myself to some of the other Mission students that I have not met before, all of them were Christian. They were discussing about going to Deny's to eat and just hang out. I wanted to go so I called my dad and asked him if I could go and he said that I could, and so I drove over in my car listening to awesome Christian rap from trip lee. I arrived at Deny's and walked over to the table where everyone else was at. I ordered my food which was mozzerela sticks and DP (Dr. Pepper my favorite haha). And me and my friend Brian started chatting just in general and I started sharing my stories with him about me witnessing to the lost. He was really into the stories I was sharing to him and enjoyed them. As I was talking with Brian someone just held for my shoulder for about a second and it was my classmate Marissa and I was really surprised. She asked me what I was doing at Deny's and I told her that I was with Mission's praise night people and I told her that it was really nice to see her and she told me the same. I continued on with my stories and Brian told me that he was just amazed by them. I payed for my stuff and then left the restaurant. It was such a blessed night! All glory goes to the Lord Jesus Christ!!! Amen!

5/18/12

This event was last Friday but it was was my High School's praise night, and my school is called Irvington High School. When I finally arrived and walked into Valhalla theater which is my school's drama theater I saw that my CORE group was praying. So I just tiptoed near them and just prayed silently in my head. Most of them never knew I was there and when they were done praying I said out loud "hey guys!" It was pretty funny haha. Then afterwards a guy named Eddie who was part of our youth alive Christian CORE group told me to wait outside and just help his friends to show them where the praise night was. I was just having a great time outside greeting people! It was just so much fun! I was waving to everyone that came by who were leaving the school and also pointing at them and it may be awkward to them but oh man was I filled with the Holy Spirit that day! I didn't care what those people thought about me, all I cared about was that what the Lord thought. That's what only matters.  And also people that were coming to the front entrance I approached them, and shook their hand and asked them what their name was. I met people that were new to me and people that were students at my school at Irvington. It was just fantastic! Then when I was told to come inside I came inside and greeted more people that I knew already and new faces as well. The praise night started and of course worship was first and man was I jumping and moving around and praising the Lord with the hands all the way up in the air! Wow! And then we listened to Anh Truong who was a speaker at our praise night event that I already knew. And the first thing he wanted us to do was to text him what does love mean to us? And so he gave us his number (I already had his number haha) and people in the audience texted him what love meant to them. I texted Anh "Love is what Christ did for us on the Cross by being tortured and then nailed to the Cross for our sins by giving us eternal life. -George. :D" And I got a text from Anh back saying "MAN G! So true." Then Anh began sharing his testimony of coming to know Christ and it was just to hear his story knowing that he had a rough childhood growing up but persevered through it. And it was great to hear it for sure since everyone's story is unique and different from the other just like everyone on the Earth is, unique and different. Then after Anh spoke we had more worship and then prayer and everyone left to get refreshments in the snack room. I chatted with a few people that I met including a guy named Daniel, and several other people. I asked them if they could pray for me and they joyfully volunteered. It was such a blessing. I also met a girl named Lydia whom I have not seen for a while and we chatted for a little bit. She used to go to Irvington but transferred to another school named Kennedy that is near my High School. It was so awesome to get to see her and talk a little again before I left. Then after I talked with all the people the Lord led me to, I said goodbye to some people and left home. What a fantastic night praising the Lord with old and new brother's and sister's in Christ! Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!!! Amen!

Quotation

"People everywhere say that actions speak louder than words which is true in one sense. Because when you do a kind action then people will acknowledge that and know that you are doing a random act of kindness. But how in the world do actions speak louder than words when talking to the lost about Jesus Christ? Can you talk about sin, Judgment, Jesus Christ, Heaven and Hell without words? You could do it with actions, but it is really difficult. That is why when Jesus said "Go and preach the good news to all creation" He meant preach (which is a word that means to speak or proclaim). And words do really speak louder than actions. We are called to verbally witness to someone about Jesus Christ. Open up your mouth and let the good news of the gospel spill into other people's lives."


-George Lenta Jr. 

Never the same

Life just isn't ever the same without Jesus. My life in the past was just messed up and pointless when I didn't even realize it. My life in the past was going absolutely nowhere. I had no purpose whatsoever and no path to come into. But later on when my mom told me about Jesus Christ was when I became curious to this "religious stuff". So I followed my mom's footsteps as she took me to Church (which is the building, the people that are believers in Christ are the Church) and the service and I was not yet convinced about all of this Christian stuff. But then when my mom started telling me about how Christ has changed her life I felt a little bit of conviction, but not enough to stir me to be convinced if this was true or not. We gathered around the table one night and I prayed a very wimpy prayer that non-believers pray (I was not a Christian at the time believe it or not). And then after, I did not feel anything different. Later on when I was a freshmen in High School I was sitting in my health class as bored as could be haha, when suddenly one of the school administrators who died this year (wonder where he is in eternity) Mike Greer came in and told me that he needed to borrow me to take a test. So I came out and asked him what test I needed to take and he told me none. I was just wondering "why would he take me out of a class and lie to my teacher that I was taking a test when I wasn't?" It was so strange. We came to the teacher's lounge and he told me to wait there until the vice principal came. I did just that and the vice principal came and he asked me "are you George?" I said "yeah." He said "congratulations on getting the winning ticket to the faculty follies." I said "thanks!" and he said "I'll see you there tonight." I was so excited and I could not believe it. And what was funny was that I was thinking in my head in my health class how I did not have enough money to buy the tickets to the show, it was the last day to buy them and my good friend was going too. I was utterly hopeless. But then when I got called out for exactly that I was just stunned and had no words to describe how awesome it felt. I knew that the Lord was showing Himself to me and that the experience that I just had is how He operates. Then afterwards when I was continually going to Church and learning more about Jesus the Word of God (the bible) and other stuff I was gaining more knowledge about my faith. But I was not completely 100% convinced yet. I wanted to know if the bible is true and if it really is the Word of God. So I went on the internet and searched up more about the faith that my mom was telling me about and I found one part that stuck out the most which was Jesus. And the most stunning part about Jesus was the claims that He made and how He could perform miracles and the most amazing of all, predicting He would rise from the dead. The Resurrection of Christ is the most important event in the history of the world and if it did not happen then me, my mom and everyone else who has put their trust in Him have been lied to and have wasted our lives. I wanted to know if Christ did rise so then I would know if I had been lied to or have been told the truth the entire time. I found out very quickly that Jesus did rise from the dead because people have seen Him rise and more than 500 eyewitnesses have seen Him after He rose. Now I know and can prove to the world that Jesus is alive based on what those people saw with their own eyes which was the Resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. My life has never been the same when I met Jesus Christ in my life, He has changed me from my sinful self out knowing that I am a sinner and needed a Savior which is the Lord Jesus Christ. We all need Him. He is our Savior so call out to Him from your heart and put your trust in Him and He will change you. I have many more stories of how Christ has changed me and how He has interacted in my life. He is SO REAL. The stories can be located on my blog archive on the right. All you have to do is believe and have faith in Jesus Christ. He will reveal Himself to you. Praise the Lord!!!

True friendship

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Know where you are going

Death = Limitless
Life span = Limited

There is 100% chance that we are all going to die and that we are going to be dead longer than we are going to be alive. Think about that. Make sure you know where you will spend eternity after you die. And can you also guarantee that you will wake up tomorrow morning? I can't either. I don't even know if I will wake up the next morning, only if the Lord allows me to. Repent and turn away from your sins and put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ before it is too late.

Quotation

Make Jesus shine throughout your life and He will make His blessings shine on you. -George Lenta Jr.