Duty Calls

God: "go"
Me: "where and when and why?"
God: "Don't hesitate, just obey"

Thats all He ultimately wants is for us 2 obey, I'm going on mission in 2days and no i dont know what I'm doing, or how things work, but all I can say is that my reliance on Him is so great right now its scary. Anyways have fun while I'm away its only a week, but it'll seem long. I'll tell u'all about it when I come back.
Peace in
dan

Returns from the outdoors...

... ie: camp

I went camping this weekend for our youth guys camp. there were like 47 of us including leaders as apposed to last years like 16. I must say i really learnt alot about how God works, He's revealing more and more to me every day. Some of the things we got up to on camp, was braaing (cookin on a fire) an cooking bacon an eggs on skottles (gas heaters) very nice stuff i must admit. We played many sports including soccer, cricket, one bounce an frisbee. We went to the beach an some guys played touch rugby and swam. People surfed and bodyboarded up and down the coast and we even found some time for a peaceful game of cards. Alot went on in our camp and we met new people and got to know others alot better.

Anyways onto what really happened and what God was really on about on our camp* We had a few guys share their testimonies of what God had done in their lives and how they found Christ, and what really stood out for me, was their amazing humility in it all. Because they had endured really hard lives, made incorrect decisions, opted for the worlds way, they had quite a great story, but yet its encouradgeing to see their humility in it all. They had to again make some hecticly difficult decisions to get themselves outer the matter, but God was still their constant. He was the only thing never changing, always the same, Jesus never left them once they had accepted Him and never changed during their lives, they can all testify to that and so can I.

We had awesome prayer times and the funny thing was we went to go pray because we were bored and had nothing better to do! God decided He was keen and rocked up and really spoke to all of us. Thats happened to me before, I once went to go pray just to get out of doing a chore with a guy and we really felt God's presence, so God can rock up, no matter what your circumstances are.

So now where does that leave us? I am now going to not worry about the past or the future anymore, but concentrate on God and just ultimately be at peace with Him and others and to rejoice always. God doesnt say rejoice when you are feeling happy or when you are feeling down. He says rejoice always! No matter how you are feeling.

Peace in
dan*

Thank God that He made you the way He did and don't look at the outside of someone and imediately judge them, get to know them and love them and find out about their lives before you judge them and write them off your list of friends... and SMILE!!!