God Has Changed My Point of View

My Life

I was saved at the age of eight and was raised in a Christian home. When every kid is little, they don’t know what they are going to do. Of course, they have ideas; they want to be a firefighter, or they want to be an astronaut. Although, I wasn’t completely sure what I was going to do, I was certain that I was not going to be a pastor. And, I knew for a fact that I wasn’t going to be in the ministry. Four years later, I surrendered my life to Christ and to whatever He wanted me to do. As I got into my teen years, I kind of set that aside inwardly, because I didn’t really want to acknowledge it.

My Plans

I had some plans that I thought I would follow. I enjoy music and politics. So I thought that maybe I would go into politics; you know, those are very similar. But, I knew for sure that I wasn’t going to be in the ministry. I knew, inwardly, that God was calling me to be in the ministry, and over the next three to four years I thought it over for quite some time.

In the summer of 2016, Bro. Park Sutton was preaching at Indian Creek Baptist Camp in Indiana. It was there when I finally surrendered to be in full time ministry. I finally gave it over to God and decided to follow His will. I prayed some more, and I realized that God would have me to come to Heartland Baptist Bible College. After I surrendered, God gave me peace and contentment because I was following His will. Although I had visited the college before, I felt something different this time because I knew that I was in the middle of God’s will.

My Experience at Heartland

God has used Heartland’s structure that is geared towards spiritual growth. The RA’s, have been in my life to teach  and instruct me spiritually. And I can’t forget the teachers and chapel preachers that give their time and effort week in and week out here at the college.

While at Heartland, God has blessed me with opportunities to serve at Southwest Baptist Church. Through the different ministries there, through the choir here at college, and through the visitation ministry and outreach, there has been a blessing far more than I could ever comprehend. God has taken what seemed at one point an inconvenience in my life and a departure from what I wanted to do, and He has blessed me and has used it in a way that I could have never imagined.

My New Home

By following His will, God has changed my point of view. I didn’t see Heartland Baptist Bible College here on 4700 Northwest 10 Street as just a college campus anymore; I see it as a home. I don’t see the training and the classes as just school anymore; I see it as preparation for a future ministry. Finally, I don’t  look at Heartland Baptist Bible College as just a group of college students or as a program that I can be a part of; I see it as God’s perfect will for my life.

Through my time so far at Heartland Baptist Bible College, God has shown me that following His will is always the best way. I would like to finish with these very familiar verses, “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct they paths.”