This is a post from my old blog that I am just shipping over.
Phil Kyei (our youth pastor) and Robert Madu (awesome preacher) spoke two amazing messages.
Phil brought out a whiteboard and gave us a maths lesson on God. Imagine this equation: 5 + x = 10. That's the most basic algebra right there. So if you are the number 5 and your goal is to reach 10, how are you going to do it? You have to make the x into enough to reach that goal. And I'm pretty sure you can guess what this analogy was leading to. That's right: God is x. God is the guy who can fill that gap from you in the present to your aspirations. He is the middle man who you have to put your whole faith in. It's not about what you and I can do, it's about what He can do in us. I think that was pretty deep (especially when I realised how fast he spoke).
Honestly, by the time Robert came out, I had been up for over 27 hours and I was ready for a sleep. I didn't nap though because that guy freaking blew me away! He was talking about John 4 when Jesus goes to the well to see the Samaritan woman. Jesus is all like "Sooooo can I have some water?" and she's like "Uhhhhhh nuh". For context: the Jews and the Samaritans didn't like each other and Jesus was sitting on a well in freaking Samaritan-Land aka Samaria.
Jesus obviously didn't need the water. Like, it's Jesus. But He told her that the water that He would provide for the people would leave them without thirst. Robert spoke from the Samaritan woman's point of view. He told us that her present perspective was being polluted by her past experiences. The times where she had bad times with Jews was stopping her from seeing that Jesus was Messiah.
In John 4:25 she says, "I don’t know about that. I do know that the Messiah is coming. When he arrives, we’ll get the whole story". She literally had God in front of her and she didn't realise.
I was listening to Robert and thinking about all those people who hear about places like Westboro Baptist Church and assume that all Christians are like that. Those people who walk into a church service and can't get the idea of a hateful church out of their head. Those people who don't find Jesus because they can't escape the thought of their bad past experiences with Christians. I think that's pretty heartbreaking really.
Gosh, I probably should've written this on my other blog but there you go!
Over the rest of the day we had live music from LZ7 who just got everyone buzzing! I might have been running on I-don't-even-know-what energy but I danced for a full hour and it felt pretty good! Although, I can't dance at all so I don't even want to know what I must've looked like.
Oh, and I didn't eat all day. Cripes.
Anyways, I finally got home at around 11pm after being awake for just over 30 hours and slept like a princess. Lol jk, I stayed up to watch Sherlock (again), catch up on Eastenders and then woke up at 3pm on Saturday. So really I didn't fix my sleeping pattern at all!
Overall, I had a pretty blessed Friday and I'm so glad I gathered the energy to go. I have already made changes from it and I know that 2014 is going to be a new, powerful chapter in my walk with God.
Peace out x
P.S. THE SIGN OF THREE IS ON TODAY, CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE IT! TWO EPISODES IN ONE WEEK, AREN'T WE LUCKY? Well, either that or Moffat literally wants us all to die from the feels.
Oh my giddy gosh! Friday was freaking AMAZING.
On Thursday night, I decided I needed to fix my sleeping pattern. I had woken up at 4:30 on Thursday afternoon and at 2am on Friday morning, I realised that I was up at 7am and I would now have to stay up to avoid oversleeping. So that's what I did.
I got to London Bridge station for 10:30 and this conversation happened:
Marna: Heys Sons, do you wanna do your "I have decided" moment today?
Me: Ummm, what?
Marna: Do you want to do your "I have decided"?
Me: Uhhh, okay. Sure.
Well, it was something like that. This was definitely sprung on me and I wasn't prepared at all. I don't especially do well at public speaking and the other day I literally wrote that improving my confidence was one of my new years resolutions. So I was pretty stressed out about it but I prayed with my babes Ms. Land and, after walking onto the stage a bit late, I managed to not have really shaky hands and to speak somewhat coherently.
The second I came off the stage, I literally had an overwhelming "OH MY GOSH I DID THIS AND I CANNOT EVEN BELIEVE IT" feeling. My friends were so freaking supportive and awesome. I know now that I could definitely develop this confidence and I could see myself happily, freely speaking on a stage one day. It's so weird, I feel like I've nearly completed this resolution three days into the year.
Aside from this, a ton of other fabulous things happened!
Tribal Wars was tres amussant; the Deltas (what in the world name) may have beaten us but, as the Super Villains, we have permission to dress up as Loki for church so I am pretty sure we are the winners here. Oh, if you don't know what I am on about then here you go:
Yeah, it's awesome.On Thursday night, I decided I needed to fix my sleeping pattern. I had woken up at 4:30 on Thursday afternoon and at 2am on Friday morning, I realised that I was up at 7am and I would now have to stay up to avoid oversleeping. So that's what I did.
I got to London Bridge station for 10:30 and this conversation happened:
Marna: Heys Sons, do you wanna do your "I have decided" moment today?
Me: Ummm, what?
Marna: Do you want to do your "I have decided"?
Me: Uhhh, okay. Sure.
Well, it was something like that. This was definitely sprung on me and I wasn't prepared at all. I don't especially do well at public speaking and the other day I literally wrote that improving my confidence was one of my new years resolutions. So I was pretty stressed out about it but I prayed with my babes Ms. Land and, after walking onto the stage a bit late, I managed to not have really shaky hands and to speak somewhat coherently.
The second I came off the stage, I literally had an overwhelming "OH MY GOSH I DID THIS AND I CANNOT EVEN BELIEVE IT" feeling. My friends were so freaking supportive and awesome. I know now that I could definitely develop this confidence and I could see myself happily, freely speaking on a stage one day. It's so weird, I feel like I've nearly completed this resolution three days into the year.
Aside from this, a ton of other fabulous things happened!
Tribal Wars was tres amussant; the Deltas (what in the world name) may have beaten us but, as the Super Villains, we have permission to dress up as Loki for church so I am pretty sure we are the winners here. Oh, if you don't know what I am on about then here you go:
- Hillsong Youth are split in half to make two tribes. This year they are called Delta and Super Villains.
- The two tribes compete in challenges to gain points and the tribe with the most points at the end of (enter event here) wins.
- People dress up sometimes and that's pretty fabulous.
- It gets SUPER COMPETITIVE AND PERSONAL.
Phil Kyei (our youth pastor) and Robert Madu (awesome preacher) spoke two amazing messages.
Phil brought out a whiteboard and gave us a maths lesson on God. Imagine this equation: 5 + x = 10. That's the most basic algebra right there. So if you are the number 5 and your goal is to reach 10, how are you going to do it? You have to make the x into enough to reach that goal. And I'm pretty sure you can guess what this analogy was leading to. That's right: God is x. God is the guy who can fill that gap from you in the present to your aspirations. He is the middle man who you have to put your whole faith in. It's not about what you and I can do, it's about what He can do in us. I think that was pretty deep (especially when I realised how fast he spoke).
Honestly, by the time Robert came out, I had been up for over 27 hours and I was ready for a sleep. I didn't nap though because that guy freaking blew me away! He was talking about John 4 when Jesus goes to the well to see the Samaritan woman. Jesus is all like "Sooooo can I have some water?" and she's like "Uhhhhhh nuh". For context: the Jews and the Samaritans didn't like each other and Jesus was sitting on a well in freaking Samaritan-Land aka Samaria.
Jesus obviously didn't need the water. Like, it's Jesus. But He told her that the water that He would provide for the people would leave them without thirst. Robert spoke from the Samaritan woman's point of view. He told us that her present perspective was being polluted by her past experiences. The times where she had bad times with Jews was stopping her from seeing that Jesus was Messiah.
In John 4:25 she says, "I don’t know about that. I do know that the Messiah is coming. When he arrives, we’ll get the whole story". She literally had God in front of her and she didn't realise.
I was listening to Robert and thinking about all those people who hear about places like Westboro Baptist Church and assume that all Christians are like that. Those people who walk into a church service and can't get the idea of a hateful church out of their head. Those people who don't find Jesus because they can't escape the thought of their bad past experiences with Christians. I think that's pretty heartbreaking really.
Gosh, I probably should've written this on my other blog but there you go!
Over the rest of the day we had live music from LZ7 who just got everyone buzzing! I might have been running on I-don't-even-know-what energy but I danced for a full hour and it felt pretty good! Although, I can't dance at all so I don't even want to know what I must've looked like.
Oh, and I didn't eat all day. Cripes.
Anyways, I finally got home at around 11pm after being awake for just over 30 hours and slept like a princess. Lol jk, I stayed up to watch Sherlock (again), catch up on Eastenders and then woke up at 3pm on Saturday. So really I didn't fix my sleeping pattern at all!
Overall, I had a pretty blessed Friday and I'm so glad I gathered the energy to go. I have already made changes from it and I know that 2014 is going to be a new, powerful chapter in my walk with God.
Peace out x
P.S. THE SIGN OF THREE IS ON TODAY, CAN YOU EVEN BELIEVE IT! TWO EPISODES IN ONE WEEK, AREN'T WE LUCKY? Well, either that or Moffat literally wants us all to die from the feels.
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