Make Your Day Count

CPS:  The milkman.

LR:  The milkman said, “Some day you’re going to be Miss America.” But a car accident said, “You will never make it.”  If you believed your circumstances, you would have–well, first of  all, you would have died physically.  You would have died in thenatural.  (That’s right.) But, first of all, God saved your life. If God can spare her very life, He can certainly spare the details around it.  If God can change our lives and keep us whole and safe in the midst of a total disaster, then God can take care of all the little details around it.  I really believe that.

CPS:  And there are a lot of teenagers that are watching, I believe a lot of teenagers are watching today.  A lot of parents have pulled those teenagers down and said, “Sit down and watch Rhonda today,” because I believe in my heart that you have something good to say to them and you go around and you speak and you get to sing and you travel a lot all during your year.  What is it that you say to a teenager above all else?  I mean, you know where teenagers are. You’re right there.  I mean, you may have a crown on your head, but their life between happiness and sadness every day?

RC:  What teenagers are looking for and most of them don’t realize it, is Jesus Christ.  They’re looking for happiness, they’re looking for peace, and that’s in Jesus Christ.  And they get caught up in the drugs.  And, first of all, what I try to tell teenagers is set your values.  Don’t wait around for your friends to decide them for you. Set your values and like she said, whatever your dream is, envision that dream.  You have to expect that dream.  Set your values and then stick with them and with the Lord you can stick to your values.  And if you don’t want to drink, don’t drink.  And people will stand with you. When I made my stand, the Lord gave me other friends, and we stood together.  And then, like she said, you can be the peer pressure for the world and they can look at you and say, “How can she be having so much fun at that party and she’s not drinking?” Because of the Lord, you don’t need that stuff, and that is what I want to tell teenagers, that if they’re looking for happiness, looking for that emptiness that they have, they’re looking for something to fill that emptiness, and it’s Jesus Christ.