I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want...

Yes. Good week. God is good.

Almost everyday this week we've done door-to-door evangelism in the local community, which has been our focus for the week. As you can imagine (or might have read about in a previous blog), door-to-door isn't exactly my cup of tea but this week has actually changed my perspective on it quite considerably. Most of our visits this week happened to be to Christian homes so instead of awkward and pressurised conversations we had many wonderfully edifying ones and words of mutual respect and encouragement for the different work that we're doing. And then one of the few times we got invited into a non-Christian home, we were met with the most honest and open lady that you're ever going to meet. She was only in her early twentys but she started pouring out her heart, how she longed for direction and passion in life, shedding a tear here in there. Was really powerful, and now she's coming along to these mini-discipleship classes were running in the afternoons so that's awesome! Speaking of which, I'm supposed to be teaching a two hour lesson on the Word of God tomorrow! Feel totally unqualified but thankfully it wont be on my own strength... prayers greatly appreciated thank you!

We had an open-air meeting on Saturday morning, same as last week, and at the end we just opened it up for a time of prayer. One lady who was prayed for found it very difficult to walk - she had problems with her back and was fighting against having to use a wheel-chair but God just came and completely healed her there and then! You should've seen the smile on her face - she was so happy! She grabbed the mic and told everyone what had happened there and then but she said she wouldn't be shutting up about this for a little while! Was so cool to see God come through so powerfully. Before Saturday I had been thinking, "We've been praying for people but they haven't been healed, what's going on?" The day after I had these questions my quiet time notes lead me to read about Shadrach, Meshach and Adednego - when they were going to be chucked into the furnace for not worshipping false idols they said "Our God can save us from the fire but even if he doesn't, we will still worship him. And that really struck a chord - God's a God who can heal, who is all powerful but even if he doesn't then I still need to be giving him all the glory 'cause he's got everything under control! Mmm, sho (which is what you say if you agree with something in a sermon over here by the way - you make a really loud "mm" grunt and then follow it up with a "sure", pronounced "sho". Not sure I'll be bringing that one back to HTCD though!).

Something else that I've been thinking about recently - a sermon someone preached a while back talked about how Jesus visioned big but built small; He used twelve men to change the course of world history. He had a big vision. He may not have seen the world 'changed' during his time on earth but he invested so much in those twelve disciples. If we truly impact people, go beneath the surface and help to instigate change, our influence will be greater then we could ever imagine - they will impact others who will impact others and so on. Build small, vision big and impact knowing that you're impacting people you don't know in generations you're not a part of. That's the plan at least! Hmmm. Potench.

It's decided - I want to be a lawyer. That's the latest idea anyhows.

Dances continue to provide much cause for amusement - the stage was extremely slippery at our service on Friday evening and I was wearing shoes with less grip than the stage itself. Recipe for disaster - I was slipping and sliding all over the shop, much to everyone's amusement. Not gone well. Had to dance solo on Friday morning in front of about seventy kids as well - that was err, an interesting experience! I'm slowly learning that there's worse things in life than making a fool out of yourself!

Alright. I need to go prepare for class tomorrow (have been waiting a long time to be able to say something like that!). Sorry this blog was far too serious! Enjoy your weeks....

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