Fistful of Sand

This is the update for last week…. Sorry :/ Internet situations have gotten more sporadic and I’m only able to write this to you now because a super awesome guy came to the base, bought internet, used some of it, and then gave me the remaining amount right before he left. Sweet as! This week’s will be posted on Friday……………… hopefully.

Last week we talked about SPIRITUAL WARFARE; one of the most controversial and interesting topics in Christianity today. Dun dun dunnnn. We learned about how there are certain ‘curses’ over families and how to rebuke them and break them in the name of Jesus… crazy stuff man. We didn’t have any manifestations this week though, so that was good. The key thing that I took out of this week is the true realization that there is nothing that Satan (i.e. Jerkface) can do to us as Christians. Sometimes it feel s like jerkface is holding us in his hand and pounding us with his other fist and God is just watching on the sidelines… but He’s not!! Jerkface can do nothing to us and no matter what happens, God loves us and we are always protected in his loving arms, even when it doesn’t always feel like it. We have such security in our salvation and eternity that we can only sit back and laugh at jerkface’s lame attempts at making us stumble. What a lame as excuse for a nothing. Pfff. It’s quite the realization when you become aware of the spiritual battles that are occurring constantly and also that we can even help the angels defeat the demons! We have weapons of our own: prayer, fasting, praise and worship, the word and armor of God, speech, faith, communion and the name of Jesus. But the only way to be effective in warfare is to have faith and a good, clean conscience. And then WA-CHAA jerkface loses.

This past weekend the DTS travelled 5ish hours to help out with the Christian Surfers Conference, I was supposed to be in the worship band but we forgot the bass at the base… so I didn’t get to play. Oh well, I got to run the powerpoint! It was awesome and God totally worked through that time though, there are a lot of surfers that attend the conference that are not Christians and so the coordinators decided to have an alternative in case some of the people didn’t feel comfortable with the worship time… and worship was at the very end, after the teaching. Honestly we were expecting there to be the DTS and maybe 10 surfers that would stay for it. So I had a little intercession and lifted up the worship time to Him and asked Him to let His will be done. And you know what? Only 10 people LEFT to go to the bonfire… and some even went to the bonfire and then CAME BACK to the worship time! Hallelujah!

God is good! He loves me, knows that I am beautiful, holds me when I cry, hears my prayers, and fills me up when I feel empty.

There is some exciting news to come in the next blog entry… SO SIT AT THE EDGE OF YOUR SEATS UNTIL THEN!!!!