Monday, April 8, 2013

Ywam-7 Weeks in a Nutshell


YWAM- 7 Weeks in a Nutshell

            Hello friends and family, I apologize for not making time to blog sooner.  My time in Australia has been packed with excitement. We have gone to many different places and have seen many cool things, but shockingly have not yet saw a kangaroo! A few of the places we have been to are Chinchilla, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba, Byron Bay and Nimbin.  We did things like volunteer, evangelism and lectures while away from base which is in Brisbane. All of these things have helped me in my growth with God so much.
          From Monday to Friday our day consists of things like worship, intersession, lectures and community meetings. During lectures we go deep into specific topics such as the character and nature of God, hearing the voice of God, intersession, father heart of God, the Bible, Evangelism and this week missions and our destiny.  No offense to my school teachers, but I have never thoroughly enjoyed going to class as much as I do here.  We have new lecturers every week and each one speaks through Gods direction and lead, they speak what God puts on their heart and it is powerful.
            During the 2nd week here we were told where our outreach locations would be.  The options were Japan, Guam and Sapan, Indonesia and Darjeeling, India.  Once we were told the locations we were told to pray and see were God calls us to go.  That night I went on a long walk through Brisbane and did just that and then continued to do so for an hour or so, on my bed back at base.  I was nearly asleep and suddenly I had this crazy urge to read my required book.  As many of you know I don’t like to read, but at that moment I did. When I did so, the first thing on the page was Darjeeling, India.  God spoke so clear to me in that moment and I had a peace about it.  So on June 17th, seven of us will make our way to India and be there for 7 weeks.
            During Easter we were in Toowoomba at a Christian music festival called Easterfest. All of us students were assigned work tasks that we would do during the week, I was placed in a team of five people to go out into the city during the festival and evangelize.  It was a great experience and God moved.  One thing that stuck out in particular during the week was a woman we prayed for.  When we saw her, she had a leg that was clearly shorter than the other one and walked with an incredible limp.  We talked to her for a while and eventually asked her if we could pray for her, she agreed.  So we did and we asked her to lie down on the ground, we prayed and let God begin to move.  Before this I did not know what I thought about healing, but after watching this woman’s leg grow to the same length as her other leg I will never doubt it again.  She got up after and walked without the slightest limp after having lived with it since a small child. There is no unanswered prayer, it’s either Yes, No or later.  God is always Faithfull!!
            If you are someone who really wants to grow in God, Discipleship Training School (DTS) is the place to be.  I have never been this close to God before, but now that I have, I will never go back.  We need to think of God as the loving Father that he is, rather than a ruling Master, he is so loving!  John 15:13, Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 

By: Michael G Norris

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