So I won't lie. God is pretty cool. And He likes to rock your world. At least, He rocks my world on a daily basis. And I'm not saying that in the 90s rock way, I mean, God likes to come in and pretty much just mess with your head, and show you the coolest things known to mankind.
God has been speaking to me lately (in the past month or so) about how we need to live with the expectation that He is going to act.
Read 2 Kings 4:1-7 (read all of 2 Kings actually, and you'll get the same picture)
If you don't have your Bible handy, it's the story of the widow whose sons are about to be sold to pay off her late husband's debt. The one where she has to sell oil, and her one jar of oil doesn't run out until there are no jars left in the neighbourhood, and she sells all that oil, and completely pays off her debt.
Anyway, what struck me about the story was the widow's attitude. She knew she didn't have anything. She knew there was nothing she could do. But she understood God's character, and what she knew of God's character and personhood caused her to step out in faith, with the expectation that God was going to do something!
God really convicted me through that.
And ideas starting rolling around in my brain. And soon God spoke to me about this...
In order for the church to grow, it needs leaders (and followers, lol, mostly just members) who are not afraid to tap into the power of God, who are already seeing the truth of God bearing evidence in their own lives, who lose themselves in worship before the King, who have a heart for the lost which shows itself in the power and frequency of their intercession.
Isn't this what the church needs?
Just a thought...That's how God has been rocking my world lately. Pushing me into a place where I will, as Michael Slaughter puts it...catch on fire for God, and [have] people come to watch [me] burn...
Amen
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
And this is the beginning...
Well everyone,
Darla here. Reporting.
Today is definitely not Day 1 of my adventure with God. But it is Day 1 of blogging my adventure with God.
So for those of you who don't know me very well...my name is Darla. I come from an itty-bitty town way up in northern Alberta. It's called La Crete:) This is where I've spent most of my growing up years, and the people here have hugely influenced who I am today. God bless beginnings.
I started my relationship with God when I was super young. I was 'converted' at age 4, but even before that, I spent my days making up poems and stories and songs to God. So the relationship has always kind of been there. As I've gotten older, however, I've learned so much more of who God is, and how beautiful His character is.
After I finished high school, I spent a year in Bible School. After that, I moved onto Grant MacEwan College (or University, as it's now known). I was taking a degree in Professional Writing. I absolutely loved the program, but by the end of my first year, God had begun placing a burden on me for the lost. That summer, I spent 5 weeks in Fiji. A few months later, I moved to a First Nations community on the west coast. I spent the better part of a year and a half there, learning incredibly hard, but good lessons about God and relationships. At the end of that time, I felt led to do my DTS with YWAM, and God brought me to a base in the Cook Islands.
I had no idea where the Cook Islands were, but I started researching, and found out where in the South Pacific they were located. I began my application process to the school and for a visa. Within 2 months, I was once again on a plane to the South Pacific.
I spent 5 months in the Cooks, completing my Discipleship Training School, which consisted of 12 weeks of Lecture and 8 weeks of Outreach. On my outreach I traveled to 2 of the outer islands which help comprise the 15 islands that the Cook Islands consist of.
After my DTS, I ended up extending my visa and I staffed a DTS in September 2011. This was a mobile DTS, so we traveled around the South Pacific for a few months before the school finished off its outreach in Rarotonga (the main island in the Cook Islands).
I traveled back home in March 2012, and I have been working in my hometown for the past few months, preparing for whatever ministry God has for me.
Through the past year, I have come to grow in God so much more, and His heart for the lost and dying world has become ever clearer for me!
God is preparing me for full-time service. So I'm getting ready to strap in and see what else God has prepared for this grand adventure:)
Over and out,
darla:)
Darla here. Reporting.
Today is definitely not Day 1 of my adventure with God. But it is Day 1 of blogging my adventure with God.
So for those of you who don't know me very well...my name is Darla. I come from an itty-bitty town way up in northern Alberta. It's called La Crete:) This is where I've spent most of my growing up years, and the people here have hugely influenced who I am today. God bless beginnings.
I started my relationship with God when I was super young. I was 'converted' at age 4, but even before that, I spent my days making up poems and stories and songs to God. So the relationship has always kind of been there. As I've gotten older, however, I've learned so much more of who God is, and how beautiful His character is.
After I finished high school, I spent a year in Bible School. After that, I moved onto Grant MacEwan College (or University, as it's now known). I was taking a degree in Professional Writing. I absolutely loved the program, but by the end of my first year, God had begun placing a burden on me for the lost. That summer, I spent 5 weeks in Fiji. A few months later, I moved to a First Nations community on the west coast. I spent the better part of a year and a half there, learning incredibly hard, but good lessons about God and relationships. At the end of that time, I felt led to do my DTS with YWAM, and God brought me to a base in the Cook Islands.
I had no idea where the Cook Islands were, but I started researching, and found out where in the South Pacific they were located. I began my application process to the school and for a visa. Within 2 months, I was once again on a plane to the South Pacific.
I spent 5 months in the Cooks, completing my Discipleship Training School, which consisted of 12 weeks of Lecture and 8 weeks of Outreach. On my outreach I traveled to 2 of the outer islands which help comprise the 15 islands that the Cook Islands consist of.
After my DTS, I ended up extending my visa and I staffed a DTS in September 2011. This was a mobile DTS, so we traveled around the South Pacific for a few months before the school finished off its outreach in Rarotonga (the main island in the Cook Islands).
I traveled back home in March 2012, and I have been working in my hometown for the past few months, preparing for whatever ministry God has for me.
Through the past year, I have come to grow in God so much more, and His heart for the lost and dying world has become ever clearer for me!
God is preparing me for full-time service. So I'm getting ready to strap in and see what else God has prepared for this grand adventure:)
Over and out,
darla:)
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