Prophets Abound

OK,

So, for the last week and a-half, our house has had no internet, because of our GB of internet being close to our maxed limit. So, I'm sorry that I never had the chance to say anything extra on my blogs since then and sorry for that delay as well.

On the brighter side, I have more experiences to share since then till now.

Let’s start from 2 weeks ago...

I attended a seminar for two nights on Tuesday and Wednesday night called "Sense & Sexuality" with guest speakers Allan Meyer and Sy Rogers. The seminar was great; a lot of applicable teaching was presented on our make up for our drives with our sexual maturity and identity. I particularly enjoyed hearing Sy Rogers, since his previous lifestyle before accepting Christ was homosexual. His insight on what life is like before and after his decision was extremely insightful. Most people think that when you've become a Christian, you just magically have all your problems go away, because you're "taken care of" now, but the reality of it all, is that we have to fight for our freedom sometimes, and Sy Rogers explains that his cravings for his past was not an easy burden to dismantle in his life. It was with the help of God, as his strength, through his weaknesses that prevailed. Sy learned that his memory was very functional at the worst of times, and it was running towards God saying "help me" rather than running away from God saying "hide me" that made the difference. He's now a married man, with one beautiful daughter who’s recently married, and is now speaking across the world of his testimony and previous struggles, and sharing his victory in Christ.

So that was just the seminar, and there's more that has happened since then too. College continues to grow in excellence, and I continue to grow passionate in serving and building great character with integrity for God.

I've had an interesting past week, considering I've had prophecies pour into me several times from totally different random people through out the college. The first one started in one of my lecture classes, I like to sit up front in my Doctrine 2 class, and the teacher is Lee Burns who's the principal of the college at the Hills campus. He spoke of ways to simply encourage one another, and through his "example" he just decided to encourage and pour prophecy in my life. He mentioned I was a man of God, with great character and integrity, hungry for the word, and obedient to God's call and will. He continued to encourage and made note of a destiny with God, and I was in a way shocked and yet confident that those words would soon come true to pass.

The next word of I had was in a leadership group I meet in before chapel, and every Wednesday each member of the group gets to have prophecy done in their life. It happened to be my week for it, but the Sense & Sexuality seminar brought an encounter day with Sy Rogers to guest speak, so a week later passed and I received it then. I was told from three different people what they say, and 2 of the 3 were nearly identical and neither of those people had shared with each other what they received, and the 3rd prophecy was somewhat on the same lines, and encouraged the next levels of my character. The major theme from the 2 members went something like this: I am to be a great leader, in many areas of life. That I have a natural gift to lead, with words and actions towards other people. What some people may find difficult in leading, I will find it to be natural and with ease. That I will have a great team of leaders work with me, and change the perspective of the world in certain areas of life with God. That what ever my dreams are currently, they will only be the beginning of even greater things to come. That I will have two areas in my life that will be ever so important as my responsibility with this leadership offers. One being to be stronger and two being softer. To be stronger is defined that my intimacy with God and growing in Christ will be evident and crucial to my leadership. That intimacy will guide and guard many areas of my life and my very being and heart. God's plans will be clear and precise as I grow intimately with God, and move at an incredible pace. The second being softer applies for care towards others and those around me. The softness required of this leadership is also crucial, that there will be times to tend to needs of others, allowing for growth and "catch up" carrying others with me to even greater heights. With out this softness, I may trample over others with out intentions, but by default, and possibly leave important people behind and possibly damage those left behind by accident. Through the softness of the heart will I truly understand the intimacy I'll grow with Christ, and lead the way I aught to by example. With all of this in mind the final thought was that my dreams now are almost nothing in comparison to what God will do in 10 years time. I won't understand why or how, but the job is not to ponder, rather to act on what God blesses us with. Also that the team I will work with will be prepared by God and will also be key and crucial for the dreams to become reality and to do something amazing.

As some of us already know, that team is somewhat completed, but still not 100% there yet. Some of us on this team are being discovered, others are in the making, and others haven't even shown themselves yet, but soon will join the cause for Christ.

Now that's just the few instances so far where people have spoken and encouraged in my life, there's still more, and from people I really don't know that well at all. They just come up and boldly encourage and I'm left sitting there wondering sometimes, "God, why me?" Then I remember its all because of His grace.

I want to finish this post with an extremely amazing example of what "reality" , "mercy" and "grace" can offer us.

The story begins with a young man getting in his car after drinking too much, and recklessly driving home. At an intersection he crosses paths with another car and crashes into a wreck. The drunk driver is still alive, but the young man in the other car has passed away. The next week he is in trial standing next to the father of the diseased son. The father is presented with the penalty.

Reality: The father through bitterness wishes the worst upon the drunk driver and mourns the loss of his son, thinking justice has been served.

Mercy: The father forgives the drunk driver and leaves the charges into the hands of the drunk driver, letting the weight of his actions speak for them self.

Grace: The father not only forgives the drunk driver, but takes the drunk driver in as his own son. Not only giving him a second chance, but growing with him, and giving life back where it may have looked like it no longer existed.

God Bless, and don't forget to pray for me and send me emails... I love it when I get to read from you all.

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This picture is for Jon... he wanted me to send him a shot of what P&W looks like at Hillsong. One draw back though brother, this is only Power house, not their standard Sunday morning. So its filled with Young Adults, not all ages.

Happy Birthday Justin

Hi everyone,

It's my little brother's birthday today, he turns 17, so if anyone see's him... which can be rare at times... than please wish him a Happy 17th.

I just wanted to send a small recap from the past week, and it has been good and some minor bad things too.

I'll start with the bad... We still don't know or have the funds to pay the phone bill, and its past the due date since September 3rd. We're all praying for provision, and thus far, we're still believing something will happen.

The goods would fall in the category with having a great week, We had two guest speakers in the past week, one for our Friday morning, where classes like Church History and World Religion were canceled. Those happen to be two classes I really like, but the speaker, Tom Rawls, was very good, and instilled confidence to his audience. The second speaker we had was at Church in the services, his name is Reggie Dabbs. He's a great man, with a wicked history and testimony. When he was 7 years old, he found out that his parents were foster parents, and his real mother was a prostitute, and he was a product of "Mom trying to earn another dollar to feed her kids." The problem was that Reggie was given up for adoption, because his biological Mother couldn't afford to keep another child, and Reggies testimony starts with him learning what the Gospel means, and than realizing that his family all along was with Christ, and through this victory he now preaches to thousands, and leads a thriving church in Florida.

Other great things that happened during the week, from cousins Melanie and Marc, both gave encouraging emails, and loved hearing from both of them. You guys lifted my spirits, and made a good day into a great day. So thank you guys so much for doing that, I pray amazing blessings going both your ways. Also, Mom has been encouraging more so than usual, in the past week, and its been incredible. Talking to Dad on his birthday was another high lite, and today chatting with Justin on Skype was great.

I have some videos I'd like to post, I'm going to get some help from my room mates who used to work with multi-media stuff for over two years, and I'm sure I can get something going by next post. So hang tight, I'll catch you all later, and I love you and miss you all, and don't forget to be blessed.

With Love