This week the lecture was on repentance and a clear conscience. I learned that true repentance is a decision that meets grace and compassion. And when we repent we are coming home to God. Once we repent, we need to turn 180 degrees from our past and fix our gaze on Jesus Christ. The thing I had trouble with in understanding repentance was that fact that it is a decision not a feeling.
Its all about the heart!
My greatest longing is to be real and transparent with God and others.
The cross is simple:
Believe it
Receive it
Teach it
I learned that God uses people in the area of their brokenness.
I want to be radical in my relationship with Jesus
If we have a relationship with God we need to believe that:
We are all created in Gods image
We are all fearfully and wonderfully made
Christ lives in us
Miss you all
Love you all
Thank you for all the support
all the prayers
Can't wait to see you all again
God bless!
Friday, November 30, 2007
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Brothers and Sisters whats up!
Last week the teaching was on spiritual warfare and intercessory prayer.
I realized that there are two deep needs in our lives:
Security and adventure; these needs will be fulfilled if you seek a relationship with God.
Our greatest weapon is our mouth
Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden. Once Adam and Eve sinned we lost that garden. Jesus died for us so we could have communion with God.
Each of us have a garden.
The garden is where we have sweet fellowship with God and a place where man seeks counsel from God on how to rule the earth. In the first testament Jesus is our garden.
Right now I'm trying to cultivate my garden and develop a strong relationship with God.
The Lord owns the earth, but God gave us authority.
There are three main things on raising up men and women of prayer:
We must continually increase our understanding on, who God is, who Man is, and the world around us.
Families are supposed to be main gates where God can reveal his plans and purpose for the earth.
A family is also supposed to be a safe place where the enemy cannot attack.
We always try to find a solution to our problems. The solution is Jesus.
This week was a lecture on Inductive bible study. We studied Philemon, Titus, and Acts. Through these three books I really saw what forgiveness, character, and courage is all about. In the book of Philemon I learned a lot about Gods total forgiveness. Paul was willing to take all the blame for Onesimus. I encourage everybody to read this book, its really short but you learn a lot about Paul's example of Love.
Through this lecture I was really encouraged to pursue another Ywam class. The class is called SBS- School of Biblical Studies. Its a 9 month course and it is credited in the University of the Nations. However, I have a lot of things going through my mind about the future. I just gave all my concerns to God.
Im doing well out here and God is doing a lot of healing and character building in my life. Discipline is great!
For my major outreach Im am planning on going to China. And I need all your prayers! : )
Tomorrow, I am going to church and supposedly there is going to be a late Thanksgiving dinner.
Nagkalami ang pagKaon! This is some of my skills in cebuano and what I said is that the food is going to be delicious.
I miss everyone!
I love you all
Everyone take care
I realized that there are two deep needs in our lives:
Security and adventure; these needs will be fulfilled if you seek a relationship with God.
Our greatest weapon is our mouth
Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden. Once Adam and Eve sinned we lost that garden. Jesus died for us so we could have communion with God.
Each of us have a garden.
The garden is where we have sweet fellowship with God and a place where man seeks counsel from God on how to rule the earth. In the first testament Jesus is our garden.
Right now I'm trying to cultivate my garden and develop a strong relationship with God.
The Lord owns the earth, but God gave us authority.
There are three main things on raising up men and women of prayer:
We must continually increase our understanding on, who God is, who Man is, and the world around us.
Families are supposed to be main gates where God can reveal his plans and purpose for the earth.
A family is also supposed to be a safe place where the enemy cannot attack.
We always try to find a solution to our problems. The solution is Jesus.
This week was a lecture on Inductive bible study. We studied Philemon, Titus, and Acts. Through these three books I really saw what forgiveness, character, and courage is all about. In the book of Philemon I learned a lot about Gods total forgiveness. Paul was willing to take all the blame for Onesimus. I encourage everybody to read this book, its really short but you learn a lot about Paul's example of Love.
Through this lecture I was really encouraged to pursue another Ywam class. The class is called SBS- School of Biblical Studies. Its a 9 month course and it is credited in the University of the Nations. However, I have a lot of things going through my mind about the future. I just gave all my concerns to God.
Im doing well out here and God is doing a lot of healing and character building in my life. Discipline is great!
For my major outreach Im am planning on going to China. And I need all your prayers! : )
Tomorrow, I am going to church and supposedly there is going to be a late Thanksgiving dinner.
Nagkalami ang pagKaon! This is some of my skills in cebuano and what I said is that the food is going to be delicious.
I miss everyone!
I love you all
Everyone take care
Saturday, November 10, 2007
ALL THE FUN!!
I have all my pictures posted!!! They're all posted because I actually had time to sit on the computer and wait for the pictures to load.
God is good!
Everyone is a child of God and as a Father he wants to lavish his Love on you.
So Jesus Loves all of you just in case you didn't know
Chris Kurtz Loves all of you too
So yeah today I did my journal, hand washed my clothes, took a nap, played basketball and tried to evangelize to little kids passing by. They would shout "DUNK!" to me so I would and before I did I would say this is because of Jesus. Then the little kids would say wow and I would say yeah you can do anything through Christ who strengthens you. I also kept repeating the fact that Jesus loves them. Once they left they were saying Jesus loves me. So hopefully I did something good in their lives even though I'm no Michael Jordan.
Tomorrow I'm going to church and after church we usually hang out at the mall and buy stuff. So we'll see whats up tomorrow. On Monday we have a lecture on Spiritual Warfare and Intercessory prayer. I heard that this teacher is boring and the class itself is a spiritual warfare, but by the grace of God he'll provide the coffee and the strength to learn.
Well take care everybody
Talk to you soon
Just an FYI the pictures are to the right under YWAM Pictures lol : )
God is good!
Everyone is a child of God and as a Father he wants to lavish his Love on you.
So Jesus Loves all of you just in case you didn't know
Chris Kurtz Loves all of you too
So yeah today I did my journal, hand washed my clothes, took a nap, played basketball and tried to evangelize to little kids passing by. They would shout "DUNK!" to me so I would and before I did I would say this is because of Jesus. Then the little kids would say wow and I would say yeah you can do anything through Christ who strengthens you. I also kept repeating the fact that Jesus loves them. Once they left they were saying Jesus loves me. So hopefully I did something good in their lives even though I'm no Michael Jordan.
Tomorrow I'm going to church and after church we usually hang out at the mall and buy stuff. So we'll see whats up tomorrow. On Monday we have a lecture on Spiritual Warfare and Intercessory prayer. I heard that this teacher is boring and the class itself is a spiritual warfare, but by the grace of God he'll provide the coffee and the strength to learn.
Well take care everybody
Talk to you soon
Just an FYI the pictures are to the right under YWAM Pictures lol : )
Friday, November 9, 2007
Outreach update
I loaded pictures on my facebook from Calbayog.
To the right of this window click facebook and you'll see all the fun pictures.
Calbayog was great! We visited Buhang and Gandara.
A lot of people never heard the good news of Jesus Christ.
So we shared it with them.
God was really working in these cities using us as instruments to make him known.
A lot of people also needed prayer for healing because the spirit of sickness is really strong there.
I had a lot of fun and I can't wait to do more outreach!
Check out the pictures!
Love you all
To the right of this window click facebook and you'll see all the fun pictures.
Calbayog was great! We visited Buhang and Gandara.
A lot of people never heard the good news of Jesus Christ.
So we shared it with them.
God was really working in these cities using us as instruments to make him known.
A lot of people also needed prayer for healing because the spirit of sickness is really strong there.
I had a lot of fun and I can't wait to do more outreach!
Check out the pictures!
Love you all
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