Christ over Culture

College 

Going to college is one thing I struggled with. I never thought I was cut out for college, honestly I never saw a future for myself so the thought of college made me cringe! 

I was not one of those people who had their lives planned out, honestly I’m still not! I was very “fly by the seat of my pants”. Just thinking about the future was too overwhelming for me! 

It all happened one day in a group called “Kingdom Daughters” . By this time I was a leader but even leaders need help navigating life! One of the other leaders was speaking. I can’t remember what about but I know God started to talk at the same time saying “Go to college”…HA I laughed. Maybe that’s the word for the girl on the side of me. It’s not my word, I know that for sure!

Now at this time I had already been to college and dropped out so obviously I thought me and God decided that college wasn’t for me. Obviously God had other plans! 

After brushing God off, one night months later He began to speak again! I was shooting pool with my connect group and I heard the voice “Go to college”…seriously? Why? No! He spoke again “Go to college” now what I did next was Gideon 101!

I wasn’t making any shots, because I’m not good at playing pool. However because I wanted to see how serious God was I said “if this is You God telling me Go to college let me make this next shot” well surely I did! I asked 2 more times after that shot with the same question and I made it both times. That moment began my journey back to college! 

Arriving at college was much harder! For a girl who never had her life planned out I was quite content with the life I had back at home! So you could imagine how I struggled being alone when my whole life was surrounded by community.

I struggled to find community and make friends so I started living a defeated life! I started to proclaim things over my life that God had never said! “I’ll always be alone”, “I’ll never find community”, “I’ll never pass my classes”, “I’m not good enough for this”, “God You made a mistake sending me here”. A lot more thoughts like that came every single day! 

On October 5th 2025, I wrote a letter to God saying how I felt and what He told me shook my life up! 

“Stop living a defeated life! Instead, live like you have God on your side, live like you know who I Am and what I can do!”

Y’all my days haven’t been the same since! I can’t live defeated because my God has NEVER been defeated! 

My encouragement to you and to me is that we should stop living as though we don’t know who our God is! What is a mountain to God? Go through life, everyday as though you know who God is! If you have time to sit down worrying and stressing you have time to sit down and think about who God is! 

I know God to be faithful! Who do you know Him to be?