Welp, it's come to the final hours. We leave for the airport at 8am tomorrow morning and our flight leaves a little before 1pm. So at this time tomorrow we'll be flying over the ocean on our way to Fiji. Crazy as stuff, man.
This week has been a lot of prep for outreach and not much else. There's been a lot of answered prayers, which has been so awesome to see, so that's pretty bomb.
One quick prayer request, I haven't hardly slept over the past month or so and i feel tired. I can fall asleep just fine, i am just unable to either stay asleep or when i am asleep i have nightmares. It makes me a little worried about outreach because we're going to be doing stuff a lot and i don't want to be exhausted all the time.
Dear Fiji and Samoa,
BRING IT ON!!!
Love, Maren.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
A New Hope
OH. MAN.
Has this week been awesome or what. I feel like the entire lecture phase has led up to this week and I feel way more prepared for outreach and even the rest of my life! Thank you for your prayers! Mark Parker was our speaker this week and he taught on the Lordship of Christ, which is basically focusing on Jesus in total abandonment to yourself. I’m going to give you some quotes from this week now.
“Getting people saved is the easy part, that’s all Jesus, but it’s up to us to help them grow in their faith.”
“We need to be weak in God’s presence, not in ourselves.”
“Keep Jesus in the center, not at the top.”
“I’d rather stand on the rock than to have it thrown at me.”
“Don’t get married until you have gained control over your body.”
“Feelings don’t rule, they FOLLOW.”
I have 17 pages of notes from this week, so I’m not going to tell you about everything, but pretty much we need to get over ourselves and keep our eyes focused on God. We can sit here and focus on our sins and how we need to fix them, or we can focus on God and seek His will and not dwell on our past. Awesome AND relieving!
I’ve been praying that God would continue to reveal His plans for my life and where my next steps will be, and on Tuesday night at Open Meeting I had a super awesome Jesus encounter. I prayed that either God would speak to me directly about His plans or that He would send someone who would be the messenger, and did He ever!! A woman came up and started praying for me, we’d never met before and she was praying about some things that only a spare few people know. She also prophesied over me and most of it lined up with what I was reflecting back to God, and it was some more pretty crazy stuff. Again, I’m not going to talk about it on here because it’s personal, but I thank God that everything He’s going to do is my life is through His power because there’s no way I could do the things He has planned for me in my own power.
Now that I look back, I can see that I’ve been in a spiritual wilderness over the past six years and I praise God that I have finally seen the beginning of the Promised Land!!!
Also, on Friday we had a Tabernacle celebration. It was 10 ½ hours straight of ministry filled with worship, praise, thanksgiving, sacrifice, and prayer. That’s the main reason this blog is a couple days late. But it was epic and it was some of the best worship time I feel I’ve given to God, so good. I also did some evangelism on Saturday morning and then on Saturday night we had a 3 hour rave in our lecture room. There were smoke machines, strobe lights and all the legit stuff (thanks to a guy here who had all the equipment!) it was intense. At the end of the rave we played some worship songs really loud and danced around like a bunch of crazies in complete self-abandonment to our Lord and Savior! WOO!!
Oh, and I almost died on Monday evening. You can all thank Matthew Blank for saving my life!
Well, we’re about to start our final half week of lectures and we’re flying from Auckland to Fiji A WEEK FROM TODAY!!!!!!! ONE WEEK!!!!
Thanks for all your prayers!
Has this week been awesome or what. I feel like the entire lecture phase has led up to this week and I feel way more prepared for outreach and even the rest of my life! Thank you for your prayers! Mark Parker was our speaker this week and he taught on the Lordship of Christ, which is basically focusing on Jesus in total abandonment to yourself. I’m going to give you some quotes from this week now.
“Getting people saved is the easy part, that’s all Jesus, but it’s up to us to help them grow in their faith.”
“We need to be weak in God’s presence, not in ourselves.”
“Keep Jesus in the center, not at the top.”
“I’d rather stand on the rock than to have it thrown at me.”
“Don’t get married until you have gained control over your body.”
“Feelings don’t rule, they FOLLOW.”
I have 17 pages of notes from this week, so I’m not going to tell you about everything, but pretty much we need to get over ourselves and keep our eyes focused on God. We can sit here and focus on our sins and how we need to fix them, or we can focus on God and seek His will and not dwell on our past. Awesome AND relieving!
I’ve been praying that God would continue to reveal His plans for my life and where my next steps will be, and on Tuesday night at Open Meeting I had a super awesome Jesus encounter. I prayed that either God would speak to me directly about His plans or that He would send someone who would be the messenger, and did He ever!! A woman came up and started praying for me, we’d never met before and she was praying about some things that only a spare few people know. She also prophesied over me and most of it lined up with what I was reflecting back to God, and it was some more pretty crazy stuff. Again, I’m not going to talk about it on here because it’s personal, but I thank God that everything He’s going to do is my life is through His power because there’s no way I could do the things He has planned for me in my own power.
Now that I look back, I can see that I’ve been in a spiritual wilderness over the past six years and I praise God that I have finally seen the beginning of the Promised Land!!!
Also, on Friday we had a Tabernacle celebration. It was 10 ½ hours straight of ministry filled with worship, praise, thanksgiving, sacrifice, and prayer. That’s the main reason this blog is a couple days late. But it was epic and it was some of the best worship time I feel I’ve given to God, so good. I also did some evangelism on Saturday morning and then on Saturday night we had a 3 hour rave in our lecture room. There were smoke machines, strobe lights and all the legit stuff (thanks to a guy here who had all the equipment!) it was intense. At the end of the rave we played some worship songs really loud and danced around like a bunch of crazies in complete self-abandonment to our Lord and Savior! WOO!!
Oh, and I almost died on Monday evening. You can all thank Matthew Blank for saving my life!
Well, we’re about to start our final half week of lectures and we’re flying from Auckland to Fiji A WEEK FROM TODAY!!!!!!! ONE WEEK!!!!
Thanks for all your prayers!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Far Far Away
To be honest, i just need prayer right now. I really feel like i'm struggling so i'd appreciate some prayer whenever you think of it. thank you!
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