DelMarVa FCA

Danielle Hines (second from left in picture) was a three year Delmarva FCA campus representative, she completed our summer internship in 2008 and served with the FCA National Cheerleading Ministry last year. She has grown in Jesus in amazing ways and continues to. Her FCA peers affectionately call her "Momma D" as a result of her leadership ability. We look forward to her joining our leadership program again next summer. Enjoy her update of what God is doing in her life.

This semester I transferred down to Lakeland, FL to finish out my schooling at a Christian school that I’ve had my heart set on for a couple years now. It was a HUGE blessing that I was even able to come because in this economy it’s hard to pay for college much less a private college. So that was blessing #1.

Once here I realized how different life was going to be away from my family. I no longer was around them every day and wouldn’t be seeing them for at least two months. I was no longer competing or coaching athletically. I was living with a group of girls that I didn’t know and at a campus where I didn’t know anyone either. But God has blessed me with such a great surrounding of godly peers, which is what I have prayed for the last year.

As I began the school year and went to chapels, I would wake up some mornings and just say to myself, this is real right? God is so good! He knows the desires of my heart and when I follow Him, He blesses me abundantly! He has blessed me with an amazing family that I stay in contact with daily, amazing girls to live with, and an amazing circle of friends!

Recently God has been placing on my heart to fall madly and deeply in love with Him. I had a recent upset in my life, nothing major but just a stumbling block as we all do. Through that God said, Danielle I want you to surrender everything over to me. I replied with ‘God I do!’ God replied with ‘No.. I want you to really surrender everything over to me.’

So my prayer recently has been, God show me how to relinquish everything over to you, teach me again how to surrender all aspects of my life to you because I am a “living” sacrifice for you and sometimes I get up and crawl off the altar and I don’t want to do this. I want to sit at your feet, drink from the cup in your hand, lay back against you and breathe, feel your heart beat. (That’s a song by Kari Jobe which I strongly suggest looking up!)

God moves in different ways, He moves anywhere and any time. I believe that if we want to see change around us it must start with us. I’m asking God to flip my world upside down and help me to wake up in the morning singing His praise and shouting at the top of my lungs that He is Lord! And I honestly can say for the last week I’ve woken up in a prayerful attitude, I just wake up and it’s like He’s sitting at the end of my bed waiting for me to get up so He can talk to me. 

My God likes me the way I am, but LOVES me too much to leave me where I’m at.

Blessings,
Danielle Hines