Beach Camp 2015

This past weekend my church high school group joined up with another youth group from Menifee and went beach camping in Coronado.  We had a great time fellowshipping with each other and diving deeper into God's word while being surrounded by His beautiful creation.  Besides paddle boarding, kayaking, surfing, volleyball, spike ball and other awesome beach activities, we all just had a great time hanging out.  Each night one of the pastors would teach on multiple verses from Romans 8- all talking about the Holy Spirit.  I learned so much and it was such an encouragement hearing how God has been working in my fellow high school believers' lives :)

Something that stuck out to me pertaining to the Holy Spirit, and his part in the trinity, was that the SAME power, the Holy Spirit, that raised Jesus Christ from the dead (3 days after he died on the cross for our sins) is living in us as believers!! What an incredible thought!

"You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you... And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you." Romans 8:9, 11 

I pray that you would be encouraged by this and that you would strive to trust God and His power working in and through you!