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S'yeah... (Sublimital message to Bayley to write more blogs!)
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Yeah, the video kinda tweaked out, I know. You probably just sighed in relief,no don't worry, Australia hasn't changed my voice and made me sound stupid! So I don't really want to stay up very late tonight, so I'm gonna finish this and make it short but sweet. :)
I started to say that the lectures on Missions really made an impact on me because of something Jeremy Humphreys (speaker) said. He grew up in the U.S., and heard the Gospel thousands of times because of it. There are so many people spreading God's word in places that already have heard it. Now there's nothing wrong with that, but what if we could take some of that to people who have never heard about God and what Jesus did for us?! There are SO very many people in the world who do not know of God, and who do not even have the Bible translated into their language! How could we not want to go and reach these people?! This was definately an eye opening testimony for me. I have been interested in missions since I was a little kid in VBS(Vacation Bible School); those missionary stories really got to me ^_^. But I have never envisioned myself in a place that had never had the Gospel taken to them; it has always been in places that have more access to it. But God has spoken to my heart this week, and now I would say that going to the unreached is a possibility in my life!
We also had Bonner Wolf speak on worship this last week. Also SUCH great lectures! He challenged us in our personal relationship with God by sharing some of his own stories. Something he shared with us is how to keep a diary/journal, part of it being revelations we get, part of it being things God's spoken to us. Ok, so some of this may sound a little strange to people. I'll be honest, I never really understood how God could 'speak' to someone, and they would 'hear from God'; it kinda sounded crazy at first! But actually learning how to listen to God has been so incredible, and so much fun! This week I have really felt God's love on me and I have just felt so full of joy and love. Once again, I could go into SO much more detail, but I'm just gonna stick to the slim jim's tonight (morning for you guys). You'll just have to wait for personal stories and details when I get back! :P
Another thing we did this week as an outreach team was take a spiritual gifts test. Some of the things on the possible results were discerning, faith, wisdom, knowledge, teacher, preacher, exhorter, compassion, helps, prophecy, etc. The things I got pretttty much fit me to the T. (where does that saying come from? anyways...) I got missionary as number one (wow who woulda thought), and I don't remember which was next in order, but I also got compassion, leadership, and faith (once again, I coulda told you that :P). You were supposed to only get your top 3 in the results as your strongest, but my last ones were tied, so I'm just special like that :)
In the descriptions, it was so cool to see how those aspects fit into our lives and to be able to recognize it and be like "oh yeah, that's toTally me! Which reminds me, one of the things Jeremy said was kind of a recognition/revelation for me. He said he used to always dream that he was a pioneer back in the day, and had to travel in a covered wagon, and could take it anywhere and then build a house wherever he wanted to, and live off the land, etc. I hope you get what I mean. It was this spirit in him, that led him to also enjoy pioneering in missions, which he did for many years. And I gotta admit, I completely used to think like that too :) hehe I remember there being a show on PBS about something like this, where they took regular people and put them in a situation that of as the pioneers would have lived in, and they had to figure out how to live and survive and everything. (kinda like a pioneer version of Surviver?) I remember watching that and wishing I could do it! It's funny how I'm seeing parts of me from when I was a child, things I loved or wished I could do, come into play into when I'm an adult! (ok, not adult, I'm not THAT old, pft...) Which also plays into what I've learned how God places the desires you have on your heart, the things you like to do, because He knows you, and He knows the things you are GOING to do. I could go on for a long time about what that means, and how I'm seeing it come into play also. Man, there's just not enough space or time!
Well yeah, pretty much I'm tired now and want to go to bed. I realize I'm basically cutting this off, no conclusion or anything. (Don't worry Mrs. Ward, I really did learn in English class! :) ) But I'll end with a video blog from this last weeked at Murray Lodge. For those of you who don't know, a small group of us go there as part of DTS every weekend. But it isn't something that we "have to do", we LOVE IT!!! We're actually very very sad we won't be able to go for the next 3 months. Anyways, focus Jessica focus. It's a place where elderly/mentally/physically handicapped people can live and be taken care of. It's not the nicest place, I'll be honest. But the people there are SO incredible! I know so many friendship have been made, not only for me, but for the others that go with me, and we don't want to ever have to say goodbye to them! Anyways, I know the videos of our experience are long, so just watch them if you feel like it :) Goodnight!