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
