youth wanting to be counted for Christ

G'day,
It's been a while since i have blogged, since the last time i blogged, at Gen1 we have had a visitor from Canada (Mel), and it was great having her here, it was a real blessing, and she brought much joy to many people in Adelaide. Cause this was the second time that she had been here within 12 months, and last time she had met a number of people, so they were all filled with joy to see her again.
At Gen1 we have packed our tv away, under the confiction of God, we decided we didn't need it. We haven't given it away or smashed it yet (which would be fun though, that's the ingle farmer coming out in me), cause we don't really know who it belongs to.
This week we (at the Gen1 house) have responded to a call of prayer from God, through Carly (one of the girls in the house with me). As a result we are making time for prayer, not just for ourselves as individuals (Don't get me wrong, this is a main focus of the call to prayer, to develop a deeper intermacy with Jesus) and as Gen1, but lifting up other people and ministries.
On this same topic Revolution youth are binding together in prayer as well, to see lives changed in their area. These youth are becoming passionate about seeing their community changed, and seeing more and more youth coming to know Christ as their Lord and Saviour.
We are seeing youth from war cry, joining together for prayer and some even while at parties, when music with sexual explicted lyrics come on, praying against it and the cd immediately starts to jump badly, so that it has to be changed.
There is also RAW in Vancouver, which is giving youth a taste of doing Urban mission with God.
In Campbell River, BC, Canada, There is a group of youth that are wanting to serve God. This Group is about 15 -20 in number.

Praise the Lord Youth are stepping up and being counted for Christ and wanting to serve Him to reach others.

God bless you all

Lux

hey

sorry the last blog was long, i didn' t realise, h0wever it is worth the read,
This quote is from an email of a devotion that i got emailed from extreme prophetic, and when i read it, i felt as if it fitted really well into what i was saying in the last blog,

This is an exciting time you live in right now! 2007 is a Year of Vision and Dreams. The Lord is pouring out His Spirit on the earth in unprecedented measure. Signs and wonders abound! The day of the Lord is here, and as Jesus taught, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
In 2007 we are going to see an increase of prophetic dreams brought on by the Holy Spirit, not only dreams, but also visions. These dreams will be "guidance" dreams to give God's people direction and discernment. There will be visions of the Kingdom poured out on a generation like never before. These dreams and visions will be very strategic in the coming months and will resonate through the body. There will be dreams of inventions that will change the world. There will be dreams of prophetic intervention to avert potential dangers and catastrophic events.


This is cool, and it related really well, because the guy that saw the visions and dreams, saw a catastropic event, and he said that they got to stop it. Again it just resounded with my spirit.

If you want to read the whole devotional, just let me know and i can email it to you.

lux

heros

today i watched 2 episodes of the tv series Heros. I love it, so far at least. Not because it is a good tv series to watch and be entertained by. But because it stirred my Spirit, so much that i want to share about it.
The show is about a group of people finding out that they have these "special gifts/abilities" (well so far at least). However there is one guy that has visions or dreams and paints what he sees, then a day, week or month, would go by and what he painted would actually happen somewhere.
Then there is another guy that feels as if he is meant to fly, and keeps seeking out after it, to understand, but his brother thought that he was going crazy, and talked him down, and then they were having an arguement, and he walked to his brother (in the air), from a ledge. but when he looked down, he fell back to the ground.
Another guy, felt he could stop time and in fact travel across time and space, again this guy presued this and then he ended up in New York, and it was a month later, but he travelled across time and space from japan, saw what happened and came back to the date and place from where he left.
A fourth guy, could hear the thoughts of people. There was a girl that if she got hurt, she would heal almost instantly.
The reason why my spirit was stirred, was because i was thinking about these people and their "gift/ability" and was thinking this is all posible through Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit. Like people are give prophetic dreams and visions, sometimes it is futuristic (not always but sometimes). There have been people that have been full of the Holy Spirit and Levitated. There have been intercessors that God has taken them from the country they are in to another country across the other side of the earth, and back again, during their times of prayer.
I have heard of a couple of people hearing the thoughts of others in the Spirit, but more so there are many that feel the heart of the person next to them or across the room, or even just when sitting with someone and praying for that person, God allows us to see/feel that persons heart/hurt/pain. And miracleous healings are happening across the world.
My Spirit was stirred, cause these things happen, in and through the Holy Spirit, and my spirit just cried out, "BRING IT ON", i want to see this around world, i want to see this happening across Australia, i want to see this in Adelaide. I want to be a part of it.
The other thing that stood out to me was that these guys pressed to develope these "gifts/abilities", how often do we press in to what Christ wants to give us. Do we keep striving for the gifts God wants to give to us even when the people around us don't understand, when they put us down, when they call us crazy. These guys press on through these things, and some of them start to realise that they can help the people around them.
Is not that what we are meant to do with the Gifts Christ has given us, are we not suppose to use them to help the people around us, to allow Christ to work through those gifts to save the unsaved?
Pressing in with our relationship with Christ should be our number 1 goal, cause when we focus on Him, He will make things easy. Let me say that again, When Focused on Christ, HE WILL MAKE THINGS EASY. It is not by our striving that anything is done it is Christ, but we need to be focused on Him otherwise, Christ is not able to use us.

Lux

After War Cry

sorry the last post was a little long, but any way

After War Cry, a small group went to pray with and for someone that was close to coming to Christ for the first time. I joined the group a little after they had started. It was awesome, watch and being a part of these teenagers, praying for, and speaking words of life into to this guy.
The end result of it all He accepted Jesus as His Lord and Saviour, Praise God. He also rejected some of the hurt and unforgiveness that he has been holding on to, and left it at the Cross. Praise God. This wasn't just a say a pray and you are saved, it was ok, now that you have let Christ in, let Christ start the clean up. It was awesome, to be a part of it.

Again Praise God, for one more lost child has come back to Him

Lux

War Cry

Last night i went to War Cry, which is the Adelaide Congress Hall's youth service, which is on Friday nights. At the moment a group of youth are leading the whole night, and the youth group on a whole.
2 youth gave a short talk/preach. I am going to blog on the 2nd talk, it was really powerfull, and Christ fully spoke through this person. She spoke on Envy, saying that it is "a problem that Noone has but is the most common problem". Cause noone wants to admitt that they are envious.
She related the parrable of the ten talents to what she was saying. Like God has given each of us talents, and we are all talented at different things and at different talents. And quite often when we have say 2 talents, we say to the people that have one talent to move over and get out of the way, which causes those with only one talent to bury their talent, and not use it. But when some one comes along with 5 talents we quite often what to "scratch their eyes out" and wish they werent' there, and can't praise God for their talent. That is envy.
In the church everyone has talent of different sorts and levels, but we are whole when everyone is working in their talents and giftings, no matter what level they have. Cause when all the people with one talent bind together, they become an Army, which is hard to defeat, but if we put down those that only have the one talent, we may be causing them to bury their talent, and if everyone with one talent buried their talent, the fight force would be a lot smaller, and a lot less people will hear about God's love for them. Cause there is less people with 2 talents, and even less with 5 talents.
That is the basics of the preach.
So those of that have been given 5 talents, need to remember that it is not all about them, and what the do, but they should be encouraging the people with one or 2 talents, to walk in and use what God has given them.
Those with two talents need also need to be encouraging those that have one talent to walk in and use it. But also they need, to be learning from those that have 5, and encouraging and praying for them, cause it's not easy "up the top", with all the attacks from the enemy that alone attacks from other people. So yeah this is what we should being doing for those that have 5 talents, instead of tearing them down so to the same level.
And those that have one talent, be encouraged, YOU HAVE A MIGHTY PART TO PLAY IN THIS WAR, band together with each other and with those that have more than you, THEN TOGETHER WITH CHRIST WE ARE AN ARMY THAT CAN'T BE BEAT.

I hope you understand all that i have blogged, if not I pray that Christ will reveal what i meant, and would reveal/teach you though it.

God bless,
Lux

answer to pray

Well, we have had a few answers to prays this week.
Firstly the guy that i was talking about yesterday, came to cell group last night, and also brought a friend (who we found out was Jewish, Awesome). This guy also told us that he now has a place to stay. Both of these were answers to prays that we prayed on Monday, God is great.
Also at Cell group we prayed for a few people to get a job, and i heard today that one of them has now got a job.
Praise God, He is good, and He loves to answer our prayers.

So i want to encourage you to continue to pray, Our Heavenly Father is our provider

God Bless
Lux

soup run

G'day,
Last night, we (Gen1 members) went to the soup run to talk with people as they had a feed. Now for those not from Adelaide, or that just don't know, the soup run starts at 7pm, and the truck rocks up with tables that they pull out and then put out sandwiches, soup, hot dogs, tea, coffee, and cordial, to serve out to who ever comes. People then can grab one of each, then if they want more can go to the back of the line.
While they are sitting around eating, we will go ove and have a chat with them.
Now that the i have finished telling the background of us going to the soup run, i will continue on with the story from last night.
Now the guys giving out the food, had packed up and were getting ready to leave. One of the servers, brought a guy over to us, and asked us where this guy could get some accomodation. We told him, and gave him a ride to the shelter. On the way to the shelter we invited him to cell group (which is on tuesdays). However he was not able to get in. So we brought him to our place which is just around the corner, and then gave him a backpack and a blanket. This guy stayed at our place for about an hour, just chatting and he was grateful that he could chat with us.
It was just a reminder of how much just having a conversation means to people. Some people especially people on the street, or poor, or disabled, are over looked by people that they pass on the street or in shops.
An Example of how bad people can be over looked by others, is, one of my work mates, injured her leg a few weeks ago, and she had to keep her leg raised for 2 weeks. So that she could go places she had to be in a wheel chair. One day she went to the shops with her husband, he was pushing the wheel chair, and the shop assistant talked totally to her husband, and didn't even reckonise that she was there, that alone a person, until the conversation was over, and her and her husband was about to go, then the shop assistant gave her a little smile. My mate said that it was disgrading. How often do we go down the street, and see people with our eyes and not reckonise them as actual humans but only see them as another body. Do we look in to the eyes of someone, and accept them, and see them as Christ sees them.

That is just something to thing about.

God bless you all
Lux