A month out...

So here it is, a month since I left home. a lot has happened, and I'm really excited over this weekend!

But first off:

last night (Thursday) was Troop. i was a bit dissapointed cause it was only 5 that showed up (two of them were 19 and 20 year old university students, so it wasn't a big crowd). I wasn't going to share what i had prepared, but matt told me to flip a a coin and if it was heads I would do the lesson and if it was tails I would do the back up lesson (which would have been to recycle Wed. nights object lesson).

The coin landed on heads. So with 5 I started.

We looked at three different stories of Jesus healing people out of Luke. We discussed what the back stories may have been for these individuals and what life was like before and after the healing. On of the students then asked "that's great, but what does this have to do with us?"
Good question i replyed. I then spoke about God coming into our lives and how he loves us too much to let us stay the same. And then i got a bit voulnerable and shared some of my healing experiences over the last two years and what it has been like for me to come out of lies that I've had since childhood. Once i shared that and put my heart out there, the group was dead silent for minutes on end. I don't think they were expecting that and it seemed to stir things in their own hearts. One girl mentioned that she has been struggling with intimidation and feels intimidated by people around her (I think others were probably thinking about their own issues as well and didn't feel like sharing). i think it was a good night and I'm really excited to see where stuff goes over these next few weeks with teaching voulnerability and that God wants us to be healed and to find wholeness.

Today I was up at 6am for the 6:30 prayer meeting at the office. It was a really good time and at the end i shared my dream from two nights ago and some felt that i should be prayed for. It was really encouraging, and God really spoke to me about standing in confidence and that as I do that others will learn it as well and start to fight whatever is opposing them in life.

I have NOT moved into my flat yet. today was raining for most of the day so Jan (pronounced Yawn) said tomorrow might be better. Oh well...

We had a lunch here at Jan and Lisa's for the new discipleship students. Jess and Kate are 19 and 20 (I think) and they are really nice. After lunch kate had a list of really good questions on the youth and what has been happening so far. It was good to have that talk cause it forced me to really think about what stage we're at and where to go from here.

Tonight I'm totally free. Jan and Lisa are going out and the kids are going to be away so I think I'll try and go out or maybe have some people over and watch the ORIGINAL Italian Job. We'll see...

Till next time!
paul