Well, I'm not a very good blogger lately. But I have noticed that maybe not many people are updating as much as they used to be! My friends page, which I do check doesn't change as regularly as it used to! Not that I had heapsa friends on facebook, but maybe even some of the communities are dying! My fault too as I haven't contributed in ages. But oh well.
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What has happened? I mean it's been nearly a month since I last updated! Maybe even over a month! I can't remember when I last looked at it, but oh well! I went to Tonga for 10days with a team from church was pretty spectacularly fun!
One highlight while I was there was reading Psalm 150 on Sunday morning at Vaini Corps! We all read it aloud and so it was read joyfully in English and Tongan at the same time! Tongan takes longer to read btw! And it was so joyus! The Tongan people are lovely and happy with what they have and love singing praises to God! So loud and joyful and it's pretty cool! There is so much we can learn from them really!
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What else! We just had LIVEFIRE: Reloaded last weekend! Took 15 youth including myself and it was amazing! God really dealt with another layer in me! Kinda took a huge weight off my shoulders that had been there for about 3 months I think... it was just not letting me be happy. I was not really content in myself for about 3 months.. like a cloud hging over me. And even tho I had many fabulous encounters with God during that time and all that, something wasn't quite right.
On Sunday night at Livefire I went up even tho I thought I should be ministering to my youth, and God truly dealt with me and broke into that part of my life! I was blessed to have a girl about my age pray with me! And then when I went back to minister to one of the girls from my youth, I ended up crying with her! Which was good! I understood her situation so I was crying for her, but also I was crying cos God wasn't done setting me free yet. I started to pray aloud amidst my tears and I ended up sobbing. The girl I was praying with ended up praying for me and I sobbed for about 10mins. A friend also came and prayed over me and gave me a word from God which was truly special. I was fully aware that God was doing something in my life... another layer ya know. And I was hugely aware of His presence!!! It took me a while to get up off the floor! I was sobbing for a long while and The Holy Spirit was really ministering to me!
One of my leaders came up and sat beside me and it actually scared me cos I was so into God's presence that I got a fright when he turned up! But he said, we'll deal with you and then I'll tell you whats going on with the youth from our corps! So we talked a tad about what God had done in me (not that I truly knew) and then he proceeded to tell me that one of our boys had made a first time decision!!!! And a heap of them had had HUGE encounters with God like they had never had before! The rest were praying together and being COMMUNITY and seeking God and worshipping!! And oh my goodness was I stoked!
I had felt a little silly that I wasn't ministering to the youth I was responsible for... but I didn't really cos God really needed to do something in me, and I really needed that!! So I was ok really!! And God had continued to do His thing without me ministering to them! They supported each other and God provided the people to pray with them and help them!! And really, after camp is where my job really begins!! God is in control and way MIGHTIER than I.
So yayah!!
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Today, my study was on time management! And I'm gonna try to keep myself accountable for the gym, and prayer and bible reading a lot more! Gonna involve some people and just see where God takes me! Can't wait!! Gonna try to update here more with my progress and all the awesome stuff God is teaching me! I know He will.
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Love to all
xoxo