Soo, I am quite behind on reporting what has happened over
the past few weeks. Week four was
lead by a man named Henning. The
topic of that week’s lecture was all about hearing God’s voice. I was a little nervous for this topic
because hearing God’s voice is something that I always struggled with. I knew God spoke to me here and there,
but I did not completely understand how exactly it was that God spoke to me or how
I was to interpret what it is that He would say to me. I did not think that God would speak to
me in ways that could help bring encouragement to a situation, a friend, or
even to myself. I knew that people
would get words from God or would get pictures. However, I never really got anything like that before. Here and there I would get something,
but not often and I would just talk it down to me just having an active
imagination.
When in fact, God is a relational God. “My sheep listen to my voice; I know
them, and they follow me.” (John
10:27) God would not create us and
then not communicate with us. Just
as you get to know a human more and more, the better you get to know their
voice and understand what they are meaning when they speak. When you know them really well, you do
not even need to see them to know it is them speaking. Henning encouraged us to spend time with
the Lord to get to know Him better so we can get to know His voice better. As it says in Luke 4:18-19, The spirit
of the Lord is on us, so He is with us at all times therefore He is there to
speak to and communicate with us at all times.
That week’s lessons left me with a lot of crazy emotions and
thoughts running around in my head.
I needed a time to just sit and have a complete quiet time with
God. So Wednesday afternoon when
we were all going to head out to outreach, I decided to stay in the church that
we meet in at the center of town.
It was such a great peaceful time.
I was able to process through some of the things that Henning said. A lot of what he said was really
helpful, while some other things were difficult to process. It left me feeling a little confused at
times, but God works through that.
When we get confused about life or about something that people share
with us about God, that is when we need to push even more into God to see what
it is He is trying to reveal to us.
Read His Word, the Bible, to see what it is He is actually saying. Talk to others who you trust, and
simply just pray. After a bit of
time, I was able to process out what I needed to process through. It was great to have that quiet time in
the Church just for time with God and me.
That week was a good, trying, yet encouraging week. It was good stuff!
On a random just what happened in the week note, it was one
of the guys from our team’s birthday, so we went to this really cool old pub,
called The Eagle. It is the
location where the discovery of DNA occurred. Fun fact, right?!
So, basically it was a great evening of relaxation and chatting with
friends! J They
had amazing food as well! Which was just awesome! Alright, enough rambling for this week. Talk to you all again soon!
