Dancing The Journey

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Week 5

This week we went to Ireland and joined up with another DTS! I had an AWESOME time! Are lectures were on Missions.

Missions

The Christian life is about discovering how BIG, POWERFUL and how much LOVE God has OVER and OVER again!!!!! The more we encounter him the better it gets!

If you spend your WHOLE life making FRIENDS you will have a GREAT life!

Being a 100% sure what God is saying is overrated!

Better to be overwhelmed with his character than being a 100% sure of his plan.

God is more committed to fulfill his plan for your life than we are willing to find it!

GO GOD!!!

The safest place in the word is right where God wants you!

If God calls you to do something then you are ready!

Life is more about the journey than the will or plan.

The kingdom of God is NOT conformity, made uniquely in the image of God.

Heart of activity is what makes something spiritual! Put God in that middle and all your priorities will revolve around him. Being with friends, playing, cleaning, working, church, sleeping these can all be spiritual if you do them to please God.

You should be doing ministry when your not doing ministry through lifestyle.

The word PASSION came from Jesus’s death on the cross his suffering for us!

God is never, Never, NeVeR, NEVER boring!

WILL FOR YOUR LIFE

LOVE GOD

LOVE PEOPLE!!!

Life -

There is no dress rehearsal for life.

You need to learn into God so much that if he lets go you will fall on your face!

We carry what the world longs for!

We are ORDINARY but we serve an EXTRAORDINARY GOD!!!

Character -

God doesn’t want us to be Jesus he wants us to be ourselves with characteristics like Jesus

God will for your life is not a ministry destination but a character transformation!

Outreach

Because we had to travel to Ireland when we would have our normal outreach time we weren’t able to have scheduled outreach but of course God being who he is had other plans and gave us the oprotunity to have outreach on the bus. At first I was really bummed because when we got on the bus that we were going to be riding on for over 8hrs there were no double seats so I didn’t get to sit with people from my group. One of the other girls in my group and I met a man on the bus. At first he was really against like God and told me that he didn’t believe that there was a God but then said he didn’t believe because there was just to many to choose from. It was obvious that the guy was very lost he was also quite confused by what scientist have called “scientific fact” but those things go against the bible. After we talked to him he really opened up and we were able to share Jesus with him. After the conversation died down I started reading a book I needed to for a book report and he was very interested in what I was reading. I ended up giving him the book and after looking at it he told me that that might be exactly what he needs. After we arrived in Ireland we got to pray healing over him over something that doctors have told him there is no way of fixing his problem. He wasn’t healed right away but I still believe that the Lord will heal him of his problem. It was great to see how open someone could become after only a couple hours!

Summery

This week was very AMAZING!!! I loved visiting Belfast and talking with the people there. The DTS at Northern Ireland base were great! I loved getting to know them. The speaker we had was awesome he was so inspiring and so in love with God!!!!! And I learned so much! It was great to hear so much truth and just relish in the fact that Jesus Loves Me!

Other Things This Week

We went to Belfast it was a very interesting place. We did a bus tour and saw a rope walk, Giants Causeway and some other things.

Car ride to the bus station...

The Sea

Belfast...

First time staying in a hostile...

Bus tour...

This was the town that the town that the YWAM base was in.

YWAM base in Northern Ireland

People playing traditional Irish Music...

Team building at the park...

Speakers and DTS...

Week 4

This week we learned about the Holy Spirit and the Gifts and Fruits of the Spirit.

Holy Spirit

"Knowing about the truth and knowing the truth is a big differences!" This statement was really powerful I feel like so often people learn about different things but they don't but what they learn into practice. This was just another thing that really made me want to work on putting everything I learn about his into my heart and not just my head.

The HOLY Spirit is GOD! Holy Spirit is a person and not an it. He has a will. We can grieve the Holy Spirit because he has emotions. We can make him happy or sad. This was really interesting for me to hear because I feel like a lot of the time I think of the Holy Spirit as an it I wouldn't think about making the Holy Spirit sad just Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is not just a feeling or and experience but he's God and he promises to be with you!

Living with the Holy Spirit is exciting!!!! He wants to give us a vision! When the Holy Spirit comes he brings things we don't understand. He also brings life, provision, vision and direction.

We know things are from the Holy Spirit if it brings LIFE! We need to be filled with revelation that the plans God has for us are GOOD ones!

"We are not created to live carefully and die carefully"

When we are filled with the Holy Spirit it over flows and leaves drops everywhere. There is a BIG difference from being a Christian and being a Holy Spirit filled Christian.

Gifts and Fruits of the Spirit

A gift is not something you earn. I really liked that she said that and enjoyed her illustration.

Fruits of the Spirt

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control

The fruit helps you recognize what the tree is with out it is harder just like in the Christian walk! I LOVED this!

Memory Verse

Acts 1:8

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

Other Things This Week

Sun tanning in england!

Week 3

01/23/ 12 - 01/27/ 12

Character and Nature of God

I found it very interesting that the Bible doesn’t try and prove the existence of God. From Genesis 3 - Revelation 21 is all about redemption.

God is a gracious God and we need to let that characteristic show through us. The better we know God the more peaceful you will be in hard situations.

God sees and knows everything we do! He understands better than we can about what we are going through!!

God calls himself MY provider! I love that!

The Devil won’t attack your strong points!!! That was such a good reminder for me.

God is Love, Anger, Just/Righteous, Holy and Compassionate. He has all these characteristics at the same time he doesn’t ever just have one of them. I thought this was just a good point and good for me to see because sometimes I get so caught up in one or two of the characteristics and don’t fully comprehend or appreciate God for ALL his attributes.

When God calls you to do something HE WILL MAKE THE WAY!!!

Holy Spirit Speaks Through

Written Scripture - 2 Peter 1:19-21
Leading Us Internally - Romans 8:16
Leading Us Externally - Acts 16:6-7, Genesis 24:26-27
Words and Sentences - Acts 8:27-29, 10:19-31
Others Prophetically - Acts 111:27-28, 6:8-10, 21:9-11
Holy Spirit Reveals - Ephesians 3:1-6, 1 Corinthians 12:8, 2:9-10
Dreams and Visions

Praying “In The Name Of Jesus” makes a difference.

We are like Simba in The Lion King.

We don’t have a big roar but are daddy behind us does!

Where we are weak God is strong.

Jesus goes before us! He is there before we pray, have a quiet time or evangelize.

Persist in prayer! God’s will is for break through! Pray with AUTHORITY!!! Our prayers have POWER!!!

It’s not our job to convert people! Our purpose is to do the will of the Holy Spirit!

Outreach

Outreach was great! It was awesome to just be able to build fellowship with the teenagers in the town! I think we were really able to show Christians in a good light just by hanging out and talking with them and not condemning them but showing Jesus’s LOVE.

Summery

This week was very interesting! I felt like I learned a lot of things I didn’t know about the Holy Spirit and healing! I am so excited to see what the Holy Spirit has to say to me. The lecture has really encouraged and challenged me to take time to sit and listen to what he has to say.

The Memory Verse

Psalms 145:8-9

The LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The LORD is good to all; he as compassion on all he has made.

Other Things This Week

With our free time I went with two of the girls from my DTS to Birmingham. We had a great time sight seeing!

Some cool shopping building!

St. Martins church...

Birmingham Museum

Fun in Birmingham!

Cool light thing under a bridge...

Burgers for dinner! YAY!!!

Day of fun is over...

Week 2

Okay so it’s time for catch up! Here is an overview of whats been going on since the second week I have been here. Some of what I am going to write is how I wrote things in my lecture notes.

01/16/12 - 01/20/12

Relationships

This week we had lectures on Relationships. We also had our first outreach!

The speaker challenged us to “instead of KNOWING about God you need to KNOW God!”

We learned that most of the problems in the world come from poor and broken relationships. To many lonely people with relationships in the world.

Good Relationships- A little bit of Heaven on earth

Bad Relationships- A little bit of Hell on earth

Parents

Family should be a loving team! Supporting, praying, having fun, laughing, crying together. The Devil want’s to destroy this make the family like a bunch of little islands each doing their own thing.

How to Honor Your Parents

Speak well in and out of their presents
Seek out their counsel and advice
Open up to them about what you are thinking and going through
Seek opportunities at home to help around the house
Demonstrate love in an appropriate way
Visit regularly, phone letter
Pray

Friendship

God wants us to have friendships. He also wants to be are friend- philio

You can be totally open and honest with God cause he’s your friend. You can never catch him on a bad day!

Ingredients Of A Good Friendship

Love - Most rugged
Trust - Most fragile
Honor & Respect - Most neglected
Knowledge & Understanding - Takes longest

To build relationships some people need to talk others need to listen!

God gave us two ears and one mouth.

Guy Girl

Singleness is a wonderful place to be but with a good group of friends.

People who PRAY together STAY together!

The analogy on being equally yoked and how it’s easier to pull someone off the table than on was a really good way to explain it. Also before you go out with someone or get in a serious relationship you should get good counsel. I thought that “love is blind but the neighbors ain’t” was a really funny quote.

NEED COMMITMENT! Have the mind set that marriage is FOR LIFE!!!!

Don’t have to have the emotion of love to still be committed in love.

Outreach

On Thursday we had our first outreach. We sat and prayed to see where the Lord wanted us to go then we followed where we thought he was leading. It was a great start to feeling more comfortable with sharing Jesus with others.

Summery

I LOVED this week! Very informative and the speaker was GREAT! You could really see the Holy Spirit in him!

How did the relationships week relate to me...

Relationships are something I absolutely LOVE!!!!! I love spending time with people getting to hear their stories and just hanging out! I have realized though that I need to make sure that I make my relationship with Christ my top priority and all the time I love spending building relationships with others will fall into place after that!

The Memory Verse

Matthew 22:37-39

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Other Things This Week

One of the ladies on the base through a birthday party for her daughters 18 birthday.