Nothing without HIM

So often in life we refuse to try to impact the culture for fear we will fail. I hesitate so often, especially in witnessing. Whenever I go evangelizing, I am so scared that i will 'lose' someone for God instead of leading them. What if i turn people away, and most of all, WHAT IF I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY?!?! This is, infact, my worst problem. When i try to take it into my own hands instead of putting HIM in charge. I am so afraid of failing and have come to realize that we will fail if He is not the center, the complete goal, of our lives. We will fail when left to our own strengths. We are nothing apart from He who made us! Even Jesus said that apart from the Father, He could no nothing (John 5:19). If JESUS Himself could do NOTHING apart from the Father, how much can we get done apart from Him? Ephesians 2:10 says that we are "created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for us to do."
I want to encourage everyone to put God in front of everything and make him the absolute center. Put him before friends, family, movies, and yes, your boyfriend or girlfriend. Relationships thrive when both parties are fully centered on God and putting him 1st. A while back, I read an analogy that made a TON of sense to me. Here it goes- you have two jars and lots of sand and rocks. The rocks represent God and your core values. The sand represents your activities, music, friends, relationships, sports, etc. When the sand goes in the jars first, like you putting things before God, the rocks will not fit and everything falls apart. But when the rocks go in first,and then the sand, everything fits. Just like the rocks, we need to place God before everything in our lives.
Another thing, we dont have to be afraid of sharing Jesus. I have been worried all this summer and i am constantly realizing, there is no need. In Exodus 4:12, it says, "Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say." And lastly, 18:9-10 says, "Do not be afraid. Keep on speaking, do not be silent for I am with you."