Having been here about a week I have already seen somuch transformation and renewal, in not only my faith but the way I experience and worship God. With the people I have met and the instruction I have been getting I know they are straight from the lips of God. I know thats cliche, but it is true. The people here excude the character of God and it is through them that I truly see his footprints. I am amazed, and humbled by how truly "Great our God" is!
Well I will take you through a little bit of what I have been taught through out this week so I will start from the beginning. The very first day of class we were being taught how to identify Gods Character and identifying Gods Identity. There is a big difference that honestly I never really thought about to hard. Our speaker asked us "Why do we believe in God?" And it was hard for me to convey it in words that would be appropriate for what I really believed. Another spin was that we could not use the Bible as a source of why we believed in God. Which I thought was a very effective excersise, because when we are ministering to people who do not know Christ they will not be able to relate to the words of the Bible and may not even consider it a credible source. This was awesome because it truly stretched me to find the words to speak, but it made me confident for the next time I am asked this question in reality.
Another highlight of this week was a lecture about "Why the Word of the Lord" is so important". What I love about all the speakers so far is they all have such a humility about not only themsleves but also about their knowledge and express there need to know and understand more about this huge God we serve. In a nutshell he was asking us what the Bible was to each of us. And I said that to me right now it was a textbook. Not because it was boring or stressful, but that I was learning more and more from it and he was continuing to teach me more and more about his Character and his will for my life. He then decided to compare the Bible and the Koran. He gave evidence to both sides and there was one piece of evidence that I thought was very interesting. He was saying that in a court case, witnesses are brought to the stand and asked to tell them their side of the story. When witnesses come and tell the exact same story....the Judge becomes hesitant of their stories. Yet, when witnesses come and tell different perspectives to the same story it makes them more credible. He then asked how many people wrote the Koran....the answer is one if you didn't already know. Then he asked how many people wrote the bible and we said "Alot" all from different periods of time,and all from different places and circumstances. The Bible is truly an amazing love letter from God to us, and I feel that we as a culture have to come to take it for granted. There are hundereds of rural nations that don't even have a Bible translated in their native tounge...and many of us have copies sitting on our shelves collecting dust. I am sorry if this all sounds a bit all over the place...but I have seriously been learning somuch I am just trying to convey the highlights that really touched me.
I do have some prayer requests as well :)
If you could please pray for protection from spiritual warfare....not just protection, but that the fear I have for it would be cast out. I am not the only one that has experienced activity....but it only affirmes the God is moving and molding me into a new women and the devil is trying to do everything in his power to stop it.
If you could also pray that my relationship with Christ would continue to grow deeper and deeper...and that I would be given a boldness to confront issues I have within myself. Also pray that God would truly fill me up and send me out, and that everything I do will be completly for the Kingdom of Christ and not for my own pride or selfishness. Thank you somuch for the prayer support and feel free to comment if you have any advice or guidance :) I love you guys and I am so glad to have everyone of you behind me :)
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