Dancing The Journey

Monday, April 2, 2012

Leaving!!!!

Tomorrow I am leaving to go away for about 2 1/2 months. I will try and do an update soon! Thanks for all your prayers and support!

Our lecture topic this week was Evangelism. We had a DTS gathering which means that all the DTSs happening in England and Wales all came together for a week ....slept on church floors and shared Jesus with people! I had such a great time! It was challenging but definitely worth it.

Evangelism

Evangelism doesn’t always mean leading someone to Christ right then and there but moving them closer to accepting him. There isn’t a simple way to lead someone to Christ but millions of ways, different for every person. Don’t be afraid of man because we have the best gift to share with people.

I made the decision this week to stand for God! Be a history maker! And never turn away from him even when things get tough!

Outreach

I loved all the different outreaches I did...

Say One for Me- Asking people on the street if they had any prayer request.

Text A Toasty- Answering college students questions about God or Christianity & making them a grilled cheese or nutela sandwich.

Passing Out flyers for the event we had on Saturday.

Creative Evangelism- Holding signs on the street corners saying what we are and how Christ has freed us from things

Treasure Hunting- Asking God to give you a description of somebody and going out and finding them

Family Fun Day- Face painting, games, balloon sculptures and circus props. This was a great event we had a bunch of people from the community come!

In all these outreaches I had so many good conversations with people trying to share the hope I have in Jesus with them. In Coventry many people were open and also very hurt so it was the perfect opportunity to share Jesus’s LOVE with them!

Summary

This was a great week! I loved meeting so many new people AND learning so many new ways to tell people about Christ.

Week of Craziness!

Creative Evangelism

Family Fun Day

Coventry Cathedral Ruins

Lady I met in the park letting a squire eat out of her hand...

Week 10

Our lecture topic this week was Original Design. I found this week amazing it was all about finding out who God made us to be... I learned a lot and it was really cool to meet more people that are so ON FIRE and in tune with God.

Original Design

God absolutely ADORES ME! He thinks it’s a Heavenly day when he gets to be with me! And that's the same for YOU!

We compare ourselves to others because we don’t see ourselves the way God does.

Stop trying to make things work and let God handle it.

The Holy Spirit doesn’t point things out to condemn us but to FREE us.

We don’t believe lies because we think they our lies but because we think they our true! If we discover who we are then Satan can’t hold those lies to us anymore. Satan speaks as though it were our own thoughts.

Repentance isn’t beating ourselves up over what we did but it’s turing away from those things.

Stop trying to love God! Relax in His presence and you will be overwhelmed by His love which makes you love Him soooo much more!!!

Pray and give God our sleep and the next day.

Vines don’t struggle to produce fruit. Don’t strive.... Remain in God and the fruit will come.

Summary

AMAZING!!!! I would love to do more original design.

Scenery Close By

Week 9

Our lecture topic this week was Old Testament Overview. The speaker was super fun she made learning about the Old Testament entertaining by how excited she was about it! I loved this week... it was great and it really made me want to learn more about the Old Testament and how it falls into history.

Old Testament Overview

Old Testament reveals God in a Big Drama

Covenants in The Old Testament

Abrahamic

Land

Descendants

Blessing

Mosaic

Love God

Love others

Blessing for obedience

Curse for disobedience

David

Secure homeland

House (Dynasty

Son on throne forever

House (Temple) father/son

We need to Raise our Expectations on what God can do because he can do everything!

We need to keep sowing seeds because then we will have a MASSIVE Harvest!!!!

Always expect God to show up today!

How faithful we are with the little God gives up will effect how much we get eternally.

The Israelites thought of themselves as grasshoppers and were afraid to concur the land God promised them. God sees low self-esteem as a sin. STOP!

Don’t offend God by saying the Cross isn’t good enough to save us.

When the people lived under the Mosaic Covenant they would go in a cycle of...

Blesses-Complacence-Sin-Cursed-Repents

Our minds are the battle ground

Gods word NEVER changes!!!

Jesus got revelation of His calling through reading The Old Testament!

Mosaic covenant

All those curses were nailed to the cross so it’s illegal for us to apply them to ourselves now!

If the people in Jesus’s time knew who He was, they would have wanted to put Him on the throne instead of the cross and that wasn’t Gods plan!

Outreach

As we were finishing up our outreach this week when I got back to the group I found out one of my leaders was trying to communicate to someone who was deaf! I got really excited and walked over to see if I would be able to communicate with them at all through ASL. It didn’t work super great because our signs are so different but I found out he was from Latvia and I got his email address and am hoping to be able to minister to him some more.

Summary

This week started a new fire in me to dive into the Old Testament and try and understand what it means. The September DTS came back and we got to hear their testimonies about what happened on outreach which was great! I also had a great long weekend in London and I tried to pray for a man there but he didn’t want me to so I prayed for him in my head as I walked away.

LONDON!!!!

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Week 8

Our lecture topic this week was Prayer and Passion. Our speaker was awesome he was from Australia! We had a 18/5 prayer week which was great! That means someone was in the prayer room during the 18 hour period at all times for 5 days.

Prayer and Passion

This week I learned a lot! I learned how important it is to pray and how if you sit down to pray with little distractions you can pray for an hour and it feel like only a couple minutes has passed.

Have an ADDICTION to GOD!!!

Outreach

This weeks outreach went really well. I was partnered with Dane and we walked around Nuneaton. I got to share what we were doing with a lady who worked at a vitamin store and Dane got to share with someone who worked in a coffee shop. Then we both met these two sales people and got to share with then we found out one of them was a Christian and the other we weren't so sure about but we got to pray for her. That was pretty awesome!

The Memory Verse

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.

Morning Dew