Andy's speak over spiritual emphasis week.

So Andy was probably one of my favorite talkers during chapel, that i have ever been at Oba since 7th grade. Just wanted to start out with that.

Monday: Andy started off with showing us some slides of his family, and about the 2 kids he adopted. He said that both of them are full american and nothing different than each one of us, and he talked about how God showed him an his wife that they needed to adopt. After that he asked everyone 3 questions.

1.Is the sky really blue? He talked about how he is colored blind and that we were told the sky is blue. 2.Are we really alive? or is it like Inseption, the movie. Inseption is a movie about team of people sneaking into another persons dreams while they are asleep, and planting a idea into their dream. So in this dreams anything can happen. then Andy said how do we not know if we arent a butterfly in africa flying around and not human beings in Enid, Oklahoma listening to him. 3.Is there really a God? this is the last question Andy asked us in chapel monday. he told us a story about this guy that dressed up as Jesus and was walking down a street in new orleans (i think) saying, "repent for the kingdom of God is at hand." and how he joked around with this christian that tried to persuade him to become a Christian. then he asked if we really believed that our God is really, and that we have proof to really back it up and that we arent just saying we believe it cause are parents have taught us that and that is what we have been told.

Tuesday: On tuesday Andy said there is ONE TRUE GOD! and he asked What is it that I believe? i believe that there is one true God that created me to live for him. That he sent his son to die on the cross for my sins and that i have a purpose in life, even though im still working to find out the full purpose of my life, and that i can asked him for forgiveness whenever i feel like a messed up and did something wrong against him. and in ROMANS 10:9 it says, "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." and i believe this. Paul wrote Romans and Paul also warned the people that were confessing that Jesus is Lord and saying there is one true God because some people thought that Caesar was "god" so they were going to probably get persecuted so they better have got ready. Andy also said that Genesis is the cornerstone for the whole New Testament. Later that afternoon Andy talked in my 7th hour bible class, and we talked about how we can proof that the Bible is true other than that it says that in the Bible. Matthew was a tax collector which is like a thief, he was one of the most hated Jews; Paul who wrote 2/3 of the New Testament was once Saul a murderer; and Peter was a Fisherman who probably was a liar, so why would God choose these kind of people to write his Bible? Then extra Biblical: history of battles between hebrews and other people, civilizations, empires, oppressors. Archeology, geographical, prophesies, Oral Traditions. and more, so there is more than just the Bible that shows us that our Bible is true and that we can believe its true.

Wednesday: Behave? Andy asked how we really should behave. how we really behave is how people see us everywhere at home, at school, and the mall with friends, anywhere. There were 5 points that we need to think about to have a good spiritual life that should help us with our behavior. 1.You are what you eat. Just like if you eat mcdonalds the whole time then you will get really fat and sick. 2. Junk food changes your physical appearance, just like thoughts change your behavior 3.Junk food causes heart problems and confuses your bodies natural functions, just like unhealthy spiritual things can cause you to be confused in your spiritual life. 4.Junk food taste good in the short term, but in the long term it leads to adverse side effects. 5.An apple a day.... Psalms 51:10-13 create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. then i will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you."

Thursday: Messages? Andy showed us some videos of things that we see everyday like a Facebook video, Axe Commercial are these good or bad spiritual foods? An music, we hear it everyday and sing to it without actually thinking about what the message is. the axe commerical is suppose to show that this smell of this axe was suppose to make all these girls go crazy for you, when it really doesnt even smell that good. Junk food is apart of us but we dont notice it as well cause its in our everyday life, so can we honestly point out what are the good things and the bad things in our lifes? Like our music we listen to, it can change what we think and what we say to friends and family, cause their are a lot of songs now with cuss words and sometimes we say them or think them just cause we have heard them in a song.
Friday: Who are we as a people? are we a loving people, a caring people, a people who want to help those in need? Starbucks had 10,000 people go to New Orleans and help rebuild some of the communities down there, i think thats helpful. We also watched a adoption video that shows us that we can help people by just adopting a orphan and showing the kindness and showing them God and then they hopefully they will be able to show kindness and God to someone else and  so on and so forther. we need to love another, not just people that get along with us and our family and friends, but people we dont know or every talk to or people we dont like. Even though it might be hard to love someone we dont like. Andy also asked How many times do we try to run away from God? Jonah was one of those people who tried to run away from God, cause God told him to go to Nineveh the worst place in the world in his time, and tell them they need to change their ways. But Jonah went and got on a boat and tried to hide and run away from God but God had him swallowed by a whale. So Jonah was stuck in that whale for 3 days and asked God to forgive him, so God forgave him, Jonah went to Nineveh and said in Jonah 3:4, "Yet in 40 days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown," so then Jonah walked out of city and sat under a tree and waited for Nineveh to be destroyed, but all the people in Nineveh changed cause of him, cause he finally chose to follow God an tried to love a group of people who he didnt want to love. Andy also said that some of us will be called to do great things for God, but its our chose if we will follow God and let him work through us to bring more people to him and glorify his kingdom more, and we will need to use our talents for his kingdom also.

So thank you Andy Braner, No Brainer, for coming and talking to us for Spiritual Emphasis week. for coming all these way and being away from your family. Thank you for making me think more, and learn more about God.