Update!

Well it has been an amazing week and I’ve got lots to share with you all. This past week the weather has been absolutely amazing, which I’m sure warms all your hearts back in Canada. I have never been pushed so much in my walk with Christ in so many different ways it has been so humbling since I’ve been here. I’m discovering a whole new meaning of what it means to be a Christian and what it actually means to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I really don’t know how I lived without knowing Jesus this way my whole life; it is by His Grace I’m where I am today.

Last week we had a lady named Kristie Wilkie speaking on Hearing God’s voice, which is something I’ve thought I’ve always struggled with. I realized very quickly it had nothing to do with God’s inability to speak it was my inability to hear. Our God is a communicator I discovered very quickly, and it’s so cool to actually be able to talk with Him throughout my days. I’ll give you example of how God spoke to me this week, which was a memory I will carry with me all my life. Last week we were doing a lot of practice hearing God’s voice and we would ask God to give us words or scripture to share with a certain person in the room. I’ve never done anything like this before in my life, so it was such an eye opener that God can speak to anyone about anything at anytime. Anyways after last week I really wanted to talk on my own with God and not rely on someone else to initiate it. A couple nights ago we were in a worship session and it was spontaneous because the guy who was teaching our lecture just felt lead to put off teaching for the rest of the night to sing. It was an amazing time of worship, but the coolest thing happened for me just as we were about to leave to go back to our dorms. I got a word for one of the girls who stayed sitting while everyone else left for the night. The word was “Jump,” I can’t explain how strong I felt I needed to share this word with her, but my mind kept telling me I was making it up. I prayed about it just to make sure that I was not acting on my own behalf and I really felt I needed to share it with her. I wrote her a note and felt God needed me to tell her to jump because He was waiting to catch her. I left it in front of her and left to go get a cup of coffee from the dining hall. No more than a minute later she came to me and I honestly thought that I offended her by saying it just in the expression on her face. Then the first words that came out of her mouth were, “I don’t know how.” I was so surprised by her reaction, but it was so exciting to know that what I wrote her actually had meaning and I knew it was from God. We sat down and talked about it and it was just so amazing how God used that moment and conversation to humble me before Him and to encourage her to not be afraid to Jump into the life He has waiting for her.

That’s the really short version of the story and I can tell you that this kind of stuff has been happening all week here and I honestly can’t explain how it has changed my view of my Saviour. I used to think that God was only watching over us, but now I can see He’s also walking with us. When we eat, when we sleep, when we work, when we drive, in school, any situation you can think of He is there with us! Now I know people will say yeah I always knew that, but how do you live that out? For me I have been really focusing on thinking about Jesus as a person in my life, I know it sounds crazy, but bear with me. When I walk I talk to with him as if he’s beside me walking, when I eat, I talk to Him as if He’s eating with me, when I pray, I pray as if He is right there with me. Along with that, I have put pennies in my shoes, so every time I take a step I am reminded that He is with me, this was a cool idea that Kristie gave us all last week. I encourage all who read this to try it out; it’ll change your life. Once we finally embrace God’s presence we break the mould of just a thirty minute a day relationship with God. He doesn’t just want to speak to us in a thirty minute devotion He wants to speak to us in every single thing we do in a day.

Anyways I’m going to work on shortening my blogs so that I don’t have to keep trying to remember and piece together everything from the weeks past. I also will be sure to keep these blogs from turning into sermons, I’ve got such an information overload and I’m just waiting to pour it out, but I think that my blog would crash if I tried to get all my thoughts and experiences in one blog. Thanks again for your prayers and support, I love and miss you all!

Adam