My final speech is a persuasive speech. I have gone back and forth over and over trying to decide what to do my speech on. I have never had such a hard time trying to find something to write about. I couldn't stop thinking about doing a suicide prevention speech... almost like trying to convince someone not to commit suicide... I didn't know why I kept feeling like that.
Then I was going to do one for purity. Like why to wait to have sex until marriage. That was good, but then when I was talking to April about it, she made a good point... That I have 8 minutes to get in front of a whole class of people and say whatever I want, so why don't I persuade them to follow Christ?
Wow, I never thought about it like that. Really, I have this great opportunity to share my faith with all these people at one time... WOW. So then I thought about it and it scared me to death. I didn't think I could do it. Then I finally sat down to write it all out. Bad idea. I had nothing. I didn't even know where to begin and then I started thinking of all the reasons not to do it.
I didnt know what day I was assigned to do my speech, so I just ended up going to class with nothing, hoping that I had been assigned for the next week. If I had been assigned tonight, I would just take the F and get over it. I still had a good chance of getting a good grade anyway.
I got to class and sat there with a major headache. My first day back to the real life of work and school I decided to go caffeine free? BAD IDEA! Not really my choice, but I'm broke so yeah... lol.
During the break the teacher took me aside to talk to me. Long story short, he said no matter what Ill have a solid B in the class and that it didn't matter if I did the persuasive speech or not. HE said he wanted to give me a break, but if I wanted to do it then I could.
That gave me a lot to think about. That is the easy way out. Now I had a reason no to do my speech about Jesus because I didn't have to. It wasn't going to affect my grade anyways so I shouldn't do it... But then it hit me...
That was the enemy trying to get me not to do it. That's a confirmation that I AM supposed to be doing this speech. Something is going to happen. I don't care what those people in my class might think of me, I'm going for it. I have the opportunity to possibly change these peoples lives.
Now I just gotta be praying up and seeking God in what I need to say to these people. Pressure... yes. But I can do it. God wants me to do it, and he will be with me. I'm curious to see what kind of testimony will come from this. I know its gonna be good.
Oh yeah... I'm scared...
1 comment:
Oh boy!! Good luck with that! Let me know if you need any help? I dunno how I could help you.. but I'd try! lol. I'll be praying that all goes well and someone is blessed out of it!
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