Connecting with God

I want to share with you something that has happened recently for me. to do that I need to also inform you that I wanted to share it with you before Christmas time, while it is fresh.

It has taught me alot about connecting with God. I realize that I am far from a perfect individual when it comes to sharing the things that are on my heart. Please sympathize with me through this.

I used to think that it was all gonna be too hard to make sense of God's leading and guiding, but from the last week I have to say that He was pleased with me to dwell within Him and makes all things committed to His way. It is a refreshing and a blissful peace, being convinced that all things have come from His hand. This, says Madame Guyon, is the key to the (fathomless) inner depths of Christ.

I guess I should let everyone know. I am in the process of applying to do a Bachelor in Communication and Information Technologies at CPIT (Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology) Who am I to resist what the Spirit is leading me into?

That is what makes the whole experience enjoyable. It has come from His hand, He is leading me, I trust Him with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding.

Here in lies the confidence to ask Him for yet more things from His hand.

For those that are interested, I will potentially be doing this for the next 3 years. Please know that I am also keeping the promises of God close to my heart, so that I may one day speak from my experience exhorting everyone to love God with all their heart, and know that we the church are the only hope for Israel to return to the bond of covenant with God. It's an issue with God's character and His nature he chose Israel in love and for the sake of it, He will confirm all that He has promised to us.

I never want to get away from that simple truth, that God is ravished by my heart of love. At the end of the day, choosing Him, over the world is an issue with Him at the center. I enter into the lions cage, where the world could seek to quash my faith, and tell me God isn't real. But then I would be unfaithful to how He's faithfully lead me and guided me.

The point is, God is the sustaining power to live a life that lights Him in the center of the Lampstand, you can try to live outside of this, but He is worth it, being the one who reminds us of His great love.

I know this is completely self-centred but I'm seeking to goto Israel next year to visit a friend. If anyone wants to invest into what God is doing in and through me, contact me. I am wanting to spend potentially 2 weeks in Israel and need some money for accomodation. I don't want to be forcing this on you. If you have walked with me through the last few years, I know that you will walk with me through this as well.

Actually, I have perfect confidence in you that I've touched your heart and can rely on you for this. God will provide through His body, like it says in 2 Corinthians 9.

Just a little bit of what I plan to do over there.

I want to share the good news with Jewish people. I want to attend the house of prayer and minister to Jesus. I want to encourage the brothers and sisters in Jerusalem. I want to visit a friend as part of ministry opportunities. this is a long time in the running, being something that He has wanted to do since 2011 (that sounds a bit like me)

On a side note, I am looking forward to reading and studying from books in our course notes. I have started reading a commentary on Isaiah by J Alec Motyer, very good! it's taking a while to finish though.

I have always enjoyed reading. Pray that this enjoyment makes things easier for sharing what the Lord gives to me during this time in Polytech.

For those who do not know, Polytech is like University but has more of a practical focus, reaching out to the business communities that the interns will actively be a part of as part of the internship in the 3rd year.

Let me know If you would like to learn any more information

That is all. May you be blessed and flourish in the hand of the Lord. He is worth everything you give to Him.