Potter's Wheel

Why I Blog?

Ok cool story, so in January this school called Morning Star came to Wesley and had a conference for us. Well during worship one of the students from Morning Star got a prophetic word for my friend Addison who was sitting next to me. So she went up on stage and pointed to Addison and asked him to stand up, well it seriously looked looked like she was pointing at me and I was pretty sure we had some eye contact going on, so I stood up.. only to get denied.. Slightly embarrassing, I guess I just really wanted to get prophesy thrown my way, but I totally got shut down. So after Addison got called like a revolutionist and all this awesome stuff, which he totally is btw, one of the directors from Morning Star got the microphone and said that he had a word for the really enthusiastic kid in the blue shirt (ME). So I stood up and got a sympathetic applause from the crowd because I didn't get left out. The first thing he asked me was, "Do you blog??" and I said "umm no.." Then he went on to say that I was someone that is good at teaching, communication, and getting my point across to people and that is why he wondered if I was a blogger. So this is when the seed was planted.

On a side note the other time I had prophetic ministry with Morning Star a girl asked me if I played an instrument, or if I wrote music and at the time I really didn't. So I said, "well i try to play the guitar", and she told me that she thought that God was telling her that He was going to use me in that, and that I should keep trying. So a week later I got a text from a friend asking me if I wanted to help lead worship at the youth group at her church. So I said sure! I'll try out! I ended up getting the job even though I only knew one song at the time ha. Adam Greenwald one of my many roommates started leading worship for this youth group, I would play the guitar and he would sing. I was learning as I would go and God was fulfilling everything he promised all the while. We kept getting better and better and now we have been playing for the youth group for about 3 and a half months, we lead worship for the main service at the church (ChapelWood UMC), and we started leading worship at Herty Field on North Campus (which is a whole other story).

Sorry that was a big side note, but that was my first encounter with prophetic words for me, and God was totally faithful, so now I decided to see what God is going to do with this. If God thinks that I should start a blog then I'm going to start blog.

So I wanted to start this blog to provide a testimony of what the Lord is doing in my life and to keep people that have invested in me and are currently helping me financially, through prayer and in other ways updated on how the Lord is working in me and around me.

About Me

Hello, my name is Alan Maxcy. I was born in Myrtle Beach, SC. and I grew up in Montgomery, AL. I lived in Montgomery for most of my life, but I moved to Lawrenceville, GA. for high school so that I could try to get the HOPE scholarship for college. I started going to church my sophomore year of high school. My girlfriend at the time took me to the youth group at Andy Stanley's Church North Point in Alpharetta GA. I really enjoyed this as my first experience in a church, but I lacked the general understanding of what Christianity was and what it meant to be a Christian.

I decided to move to Athens, GA. to go to school at Gainesville State College. My first semester of college was the worst, darkest time of my life. I surrounded myself with cussing, drinking, smoking, and girls and I slowly started to give into the worldly things around me. I began drinking and going to parties soon I found myself in serious danger of losing my scholarship. Things were just going wrong in every way imaginable. At the end of the semester I took time to look back and reflect, and I realized that I had so much more potential. I remember looking back and thinking of all the fake friendships that I made, and the lustful/empty relationships that I had been in, and thinking to myself that there has to be something more to life than this. This is when my questions turned towards God. I wanted more and I thought that maybe God had more for me than the life that I was living.

So I started to think about what I knew about God and what it meant to be a Christian and I realized that I didn't know very much. I actually didn't really know anything at all. At this point in my life I had never read my bible and I had never asked Jesus to come into my heart. I didn't even know who Jesus was. So this is when I realized that I didn't believe in God, and that the past several years I acknowledged who he was, but I had not put my trust in him. So second semester of college I started going to Athens Church, I got involved with a community group through Athens Church and I actually started leading a 5th grade small group at Athens Church as well (I don't know how anyone let me have that Job haha). So I really dived into the whole church thing, I started reading a chapter of the bible every day and I would send a text message of my favorite verse to my friend Adam Greenwald. For the first time in my life I was actually seeking after the Lord. I went through several months of really really trying to believe, but I just couldn't do it. It was too hard for me to believe in what the gospels were telling me. "Then Jesus spit in the dirt, rubbed it around, made mud, rubbed it is a blind man's eyes, and now he can see!!!" What?!?! I don't know about you but that is crazy to me. Stuff like that was just too hard for me to believe without seeing it. I'm just too stubborn. I would go through little phases of reading the bible, Oh!! I believe!!... wait.. He raised a man from the dead?? O, maybe not. It was so frustrating!! I desired to believe in God so bad, but my flesh would not let me. I was holding myself back from what I desired most. Then one night, one very very Good Friday 2009 at Athens Church it clicked, it all made sense. Andy Stanley's sermon was written for me that night. It was so divine, none of my worries went away, they were still there, they just didn't matter anymore. I had found a treasure and nothing could separate me from it.

Thats when my walk with Christ began and it has lead me into soooo much happiness, joy, healing, sanctification, did I say JOY. The life I now live with Christ is so much better than anything the world has to offer. The friendships that I make now actually last and the Lord has delivered me from the life of lust that I was living in. I look at women in a completely different way now. The Lord brought me so much healing in that area it is crazy. One of the coolest things about God is that he likes to use people when they are weak. I was so broken, depressed, alone, and God completely pulled me out of that, he turned me around and he placed my feet on his solid ground. I am a completely different person than I was a year ago. That is one of the reasons I wanted to start this blog. I want to be able to provide a testimony to people that may have gone through or are going though the same situations that I am going through.