different ways of ministring to others

This week has been awesome, and challenging all in one.
I have had to step out of my comfort zone, and confront a couple of people about where they are at.... I have had to ask for help... cause i am on my own at Gen1 at the moment, i am trusting God to bring someone else along to help lead Gen1. Cause i know God's not done here. I have also started a mail out of praise point and prayer requests for Gen1, which has been good, having that coverage of prayer... if you are interested in recieving these and praying for me and Gen1, just leave a comment, and email, and i will get back to you.
Awesome cause Christ has been using me to minister to different people in different ways. Here's some ways how.
We had an awesome spirit lead cell last night. On friday I was priveledged to help put up a tent in the parklands for a couple of people to stay in, then one monday i was previleged to pray with one of them. I have had the opportunity to chat with people in front of my place for about 1/2 to an hour, and share Christ with them. Got to chat with someone with an heorin addiction, but who genuinely whats to get off it, and had the previlege to share Christ with him.
I have met a number of people who are wanting to change and are doing something about it. i have met others that are wanting things to change, however they don't know where to start, and don't have any friends that are a good influence, so i got to offer friendship t them, and said that if they need to chat, just come and knock on the door, if i am home i will chat and hang out with them.
I also got to listen to someone, which made them feel worth while, cause i just sat and listened and didn't offer the advice that friends or even professionals have offered to him.... He just wanted to be heard.
Looking back over what i have typed, i have realised that there are many different ways that Christ uses us to impact the people around us. It is really cool, cause it is not me... it is Christ, if it was just me, i probably wouldn't of done half the stuff that is typed here...
So i just want to praise God for the awesome week, and that He uses me, who hasn't got everything together, but is just willing to be used.

Jesus bring on more transformation in me and in Adelaide.
Blessings.

been thinking about the spiritual atmosphere of the area and how it fully hit me last night and today.... I think it hit me so hard, partly cause i had been in an atmosphere totally opposite, and partially spiritual attack.
you see, while away, i had so many ideas from Christ, and also a number of things that i was determined to do when i got back... Things that would make the enemy quake in his boots.... Christ gave me some plans and strategies to take ground, and i was fully pumped to get into it all when i got back.
So when the atmosphere hit, it was like i just ran in to a full on tackle by some huge guy... like a heavy tackle where you think that the person isn't going to get up from. I just wasn't expecting that hard a hit as soon as i got back...
Now... i realised, i know that it is there, and that it can affect me just as much as it affects other people in the neighbourhood, especially if i am not watching.... if i am watching i can side step or spin (in illustration of tackling), to either get away or not be hit as hard. And the way i do that is in spirit, worshipping and focusing on Christ... i will spin out of the tackle, and run with Christ and gain ground.

spiritual atmosphere..

A few blogs ago i touched on this, mentioning that i had "felt" God in Adelaide, and how when i was up in the Gold Coast it was different, i felt lighter and "felt" God's presence.
Well, now i am back in Adelaide, after being away for 2 weeks, on in the Gold Coast at the basketball carnival, and the other in Melbourne at 2 different conferences. The time away was awesome, the first week fun, the second week in community more, and awesome times of worship and times of being prayed for and built up.
Last night was the first night that i stayed home... and the atmosphere hit me, i felt heavy again, also overwhelmed, defeated and broken... i have never realised the spiritual atmosphere here, so intensely, it hasn't hit me in such one big blow before... which makes sense in this area... there is so many around this area that would feel like, from the shelters, sobering up unit, and towards independance and even just on the street.
I spent some time crying out to the Lord, and worshipping him, and i was lead to a song in the SASB, number 745... Christ really encouraged me through the words of this song. Here they are;

My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean on Jesus' name

On Christ the solid rock i stand
all other ground is sinking sand

When darkness seems to veil his face
I rest on his unchanging grace
in every high an stormy gale
my anchors holds within the veil

His oath, his covenant and blood
Support me in the 'wheming flood
When all around my soul gives way
He then is all my hope and stay

God of healing 2

I have been at a conference earlier this week, about the spirit and poverty... Jackie Pullinger was the teacher... She taught on the gifts of the holy spirit.... she not only talked about them, but gave us opportunity to practice them... we had worship each day... and had people giving words of knowledge and prophecy as a part of the worship. Then there was a prayer ministry time... where people would pray for the people who the word of knowledge was about.
Every day i got prayed for the first by a couple of friends, we just prayed for each other, the other three nights i responded to words of knowledge that people had... and then a group of people came an prayed with me, i didn't know any of them... and i still don't... however when they were praying for me, God brought stuff up that needed to be dealt with (both times)... so they prayed through stuff with me, which allowed Christ to do some inner healing which was awesome.
I know that some behaviors/thinking patterns may not change straight away, cause they have become habits, however, i don't need to act/think in those ways cause Christ has healed me, and with His help those habits of the way i talk/act that need to change will change with practise.

I just praise Christ cause He is a God that heals... not only in the physical but more so with inner healing and forgiveness...
My God is Awesome, i love Him heaps.

Our God heals

Well it is half way through the basketball carnival that i am on... and it has been good. My team has won 4 out of 6 games in two days.... today is a rest day.
I am a little sore from the games, in fact i think i have at least a bruised coccyx (tailbone), it hurts. One of my team mates has injured her ankle, which is a blow for our team.... she has torn a ligiment.... We have been praying before our games, and praying for healing for her ankle, and at the moment it seems to be healing faster than what it should be, so i praise the Lord, because it is awesome... With the healing continuing at this rate, my friend will be able to play the finals at the end of the week... which would be awesome... not just having back on the court, but that the Lord God almighty is willing to heal. It is a great reminder that He is the God that heals... that every thing, even every part of our body is under His authority.

first post from the Gold Coast

G'day, i am in the Gold Coast for a week, during most of my time here i will be playing basketball as a part of The Salvation Army interstate carnival. It is going to be interesting how i pull up afterwards cause i haven't played that much for a couple of years.
I arrived last night and got to catch up with a friend as soon as i arrive and see how she is going... it was awesome to see her passion for God's will for her life, and it was a privledge that she also shared how she was struggling at the moment. I also had a chance to share, the time was really encouraging for both of us, i think.
Last night (well technically this morning), as i went to bed i really felt God's presence around me... and when i woke up in the morning i still felt Him, in fact so far all day i have felt Him around me... It is awesome.
You see in Adelaide i haven't felt God for a while, like i knew that He was there, and held on to the promise that He would never leave me. Looking back now, it is like the spiritual atmosphere is really heavy and negative, and it is easy to be fully surround by it, which then makes it hard to feel like Christ is there, and leaves this alone sort of feeling. Last night Christ revealed that something has to be done about this spiritual atmosphere, I asked what, the response was praying through the house on a regular basis, and also start pray walking the area intensively, focusing on one block at a time... daily prayer walking around that block, and when things start changing in that block, prayer walk a bigger area. (move the tent pegs out),
I have been here one night and i didn't have much sleep cause i was up til 1.30am and then got up around 4.30am to the mate i was chatting with last night to the airport. However it was the most refreshing sleep i have had for quite a while... it was awesome... i love it here, at my friend's place, even if there is no one here with me for the week, it is still really refreshing.