As I was sitting in the big blue “Konig” (King in German) bus outside the YWAM base on a rainy morning I began to listen. To listen to what God had to speak to me. I was just sitting there in the passenger seat, completely peaceful, appreciating how God has blessed me with my favorite kind of mornings - rainy mornings. Sitting in the passenger seat, being soothed by the sound of the repitition of raindrops hitting the wide front window, I began to take a closer look at what was in front of me. Hearing the raindrops, but catching the detail of the water falling, hitting, and sliding down the window to their designated places. Having my eyes wide open like I was sitting infront of a static tv, I noticed an abstract object pasted on the window. When my eyes began to focus on this object, I realized it was a leaf, pasted by the rain, to the window, and it did not dare to move from its spot. As a lot of you do not know, my new found love are leaves, and the meanings behind leaves. God has put a special place in my heart for leaves, and everyday He shows me a new meaning for what a leaf could be to us as children, or for the world, or specifically for myself. I was overjoyed by just how surprising God can be in giving me gifts. As I was sitting, God started to tell me why this leaf is so important at this moment in time. As I have been going through difficulty, hardships, and valleys with a special friend here at YWAM, God wanted to speak to me through this simple leaf being pasted by the rain on the window. God revealed to me, through this amazing, intricate, small leaf, that He will never leave us. God revealed that He is the leaf that sticks to us. We are the window, He is the pasted leaf, and the world, our friends and families, is the rain that is falling down upon us, and quickly falling away. God also revealed that we as Christians, should be that pasted leaf to other peoples lives. That we should not back out when the going gets tough. That we should not give up so easily just because things aren’t going our way. That we should go through hell and back with our brothers and sisters and still be there to encourage, motivate, and love our brothers and sisters. He was stressing to me so much that we are made to love. We should be the ones who suffer for others and are willing to take the pain for others. And through all this, He will reward us for being so faithful to Him by us not backing out and leaving people behind for death to ensnare them. After soaking all this in, I just drifted into the seat and pondered upon the words that were just given to me. Realizing how God has never left us in our life made me realize how easily we tend to just give up on people and not give them a second chance. I hope that once you read this, that you will be willing and wanting to receive what God has for you through this.
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Tuesday morning my roommate, Rene, and I led worship for the base for 30 mins. We were able to worship how we both LOVED to worship : instrumental. With instrumental, you are able to have NO PLANS OR STRUCTURE, and just go where the music and God, takes you after each note. I was in awe of just how people were moved by the music. How God impacted the area we were in so intensely it just sent people into a trance. I give no credit to this. I have prayed for God to use me this way for so long, and He is now placing oppurtunities in my life to be able to worship Him with music and give that out to the people to experience Him in a different way then traditional worship. From now on, Rene and I will be leading worship every Tuesday morning! :-)
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The students found out 2 days ago where they are able to go for the 3 month Outreach starting in January. The photo students can choose to go on a photography based outreach apart from the regular students. They gave us 4 days to pray about where God wants us to go. I feel a pull to a certain country, I won’t reveal where yet, but please pray for me for Gods will to be done over where I should go for outreach.
