Metal Ministry Update 02
Metal Ministry 02
So for the last few weeks I have been meeting with a friend of mine discussing matters of Christian faith. I wrote to many of you (whomever I had an email address for) asking for prayers for him and me during these ministry times (Usually Wednesday or Sunday nights). In that email I said that I'd keep ya updated on the status of your prayers for him. Here's that update fore the past few weeks.
God has been working in many many ways in this ministry. It seriously blows my mind how he can turn my fumbling half understandable ramblin' run on sentences into anything that my friend can take and understand. hahaha. Ok seriously everyone knows I like to talk, too much most would probably say, but when it comes to saying the right things I am never confident. Who is? Anyway God has shown me over and over again that if I have faith that he will use my willingness to share my faith in his own ways and make sure that I don't fail. It's amazing, miracuelous even. haha. Like, sometimes I'll try to explain something to this friend and to me what I said to him would sound like crap and not make any sense but THEN, after patiently listening to my redicuelous acronyms, metaphores, and examples, he will say something like "so you're saying that ______________" and I'd be like uhhh yea that's amazing that you just got that much out of what I just said. He'd then be like "wow that's awesome!" and end up super excited to learn more on his own. All the while I sit there dumbfounded that what I just said actually worked. Yay God.
Lets follow up with that "God uses the willing" thing. Ok so I'm super willing to help my friend open up to the Lord and the posibilities that come with a life lived for Christ but had no idea how to do it and God is pushing me along full force. The thing is, though, that if I had no clue on how to go about ministering to someone,my FRIEND definetly had no clue about how to receive that ministry and really "meet" God.
How do you pray?
How do you hear God?
Does God really communicate with us?
What is faith?
How are you sure that is faith?
How can you tell it's faith?
Free will?
Miracles?
What is an Angel?
etc etc etc etc...
This kid is so willing to learn about God that it seems like no matter what I say, the Lord makes him understand. I keep learning day and day again how quickly God can fill that absence in a non-believer's life when the person is willing. What a miracle: watching your friend be filled with the holy spirit... and man, the spirit is strong with this one. haha... ok yes I know enough with the star wars jokes. For some reason I can't avoid then when talking about faith issues. I think I've said "Only Sith's deal in absolutes" about once per meeting that we've had. haha.
My friend is so filled with the holy spirit. In only a week he was asking me to take him to church! We attended a non-denominational service catered a little more toward the college crowd here and then had dinner afterwards and talked about a lot of the things brought up at the service. It was sweet because he and I both knew a lot of people there. He brought the journal I bought him and took notes so we could discuss things later after the service. It's funny because the whole time before that service I was thinking to myself "man he's going to get a lot out of this"... and then while we were sitting there listening to the lessons being taught I was like "MAN I'm getting a lot out of this!" Funny how those things work, eh? The lesson was about relationships and about how if you put Christ first, the others will fall into place. Relationships: what a perfect thing to tie into our ministry meetings. That is what we've been touching on since the start you know? A personal relationship with God. I love how this is all working together!
That was three weeks ago. We took 2 weeks off because of midterms and tons of work to do but still met on our Wednesdays. We are planning on going to the service again this week.
He is so excited. That's the best part. He is excited about prayer and is starting to acknowledge answered prayers (be it positive or negative answers) and is making visible changes and decisions in his life because of this new faith. I don't even know if he understands that it's because of the grace being given to him that he's making some of the decisions he's been making- I'm not quite sure if he even knows that it's him starting to live his faith. It's so beautiful that it makes me want to cry hahahahaha It's so great though!
Anyway, that's all for now, please keep praying for him and for me in the ministry. Email me if you aren't on my email prayer list and want to be. I'd appreciate as many people as possible, we're building the Kingdom here, you know? Hit me up.
We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea
So for the last few weeks I have been meeting with a friend of mine discussing matters of Christian faith. I wrote to many of you (whomever I had an email address for) asking for prayers for him and me during these ministry times (Usually Wednesday or Sunday nights). In that email I said that I'd keep ya updated on the status of your prayers for him. Here's that update fore the past few weeks.
God has been working in many many ways in this ministry. It seriously blows my mind how he can turn my fumbling half understandable ramblin' run on sentences into anything that my friend can take and understand. hahaha. Ok seriously everyone knows I like to talk, too much most would probably say, but when it comes to saying the right things I am never confident. Who is? Anyway God has shown me over and over again that if I have faith that he will use my willingness to share my faith in his own ways and make sure that I don't fail. It's amazing, miracuelous even. haha. Like, sometimes I'll try to explain something to this friend and to me what I said to him would sound like crap and not make any sense but THEN, after patiently listening to my redicuelous acronyms, metaphores, and examples, he will say something like "so you're saying that ______________" and I'd be like uhhh yea that's amazing that you just got that much out of what I just said. He'd then be like "wow that's awesome!" and end up super excited to learn more on his own. All the while I sit there dumbfounded that what I just said actually worked. Yay God.
Lets follow up with that "God uses the willing" thing. Ok so I'm super willing to help my friend open up to the Lord and the posibilities that come with a life lived for Christ but had no idea how to do it and God is pushing me along full force. The thing is, though, that if I had no clue on how to go about ministering to someone,my FRIEND definetly had no clue about how to receive that ministry and really "meet" God.
How do you pray?
How do you hear God?
Does God really communicate with us?
What is faith?
How are you sure that is faith?
How can you tell it's faith?
Free will?
Miracles?
What is an Angel?
etc etc etc etc...
This kid is so willing to learn about God that it seems like no matter what I say, the Lord makes him understand. I keep learning day and day again how quickly God can fill that absence in a non-believer's life when the person is willing. What a miracle: watching your friend be filled with the holy spirit... and man, the spirit is strong with this one. haha... ok yes I know enough with the star wars jokes. For some reason I can't avoid then when talking about faith issues. I think I've said "Only Sith's deal in absolutes" about once per meeting that we've had. haha.
My friend is so filled with the holy spirit. In only a week he was asking me to take him to church! We attended a non-denominational service catered a little more toward the college crowd here and then had dinner afterwards and talked about a lot of the things brought up at the service. It was sweet because he and I both knew a lot of people there. He brought the journal I bought him and took notes so we could discuss things later after the service. It's funny because the whole time before that service I was thinking to myself "man he's going to get a lot out of this"... and then while we were sitting there listening to the lessons being taught I was like "MAN I'm getting a lot out of this!" Funny how those things work, eh? The lesson was about relationships and about how if you put Christ first, the others will fall into place. Relationships: what a perfect thing to tie into our ministry meetings. That is what we've been touching on since the start you know? A personal relationship with God. I love how this is all working together!
That was three weeks ago. We took 2 weeks off because of midterms and tons of work to do but still met on our Wednesdays. We are planning on going to the service again this week.
He is so excited. That's the best part. He is excited about prayer and is starting to acknowledge answered prayers (be it positive or negative answers) and is making visible changes and decisions in his life because of this new faith. I don't even know if he understands that it's because of the grace being given to him that he's making some of the decisions he's been making- I'm not quite sure if he even knows that it's him starting to live his faith. It's so beautiful that it makes me want to cry hahahahaha It's so great though!
Anyway, that's all for now, please keep praying for him and for me in the ministry. Email me if you aren't on my email prayer list and want to be. I'd appreciate as many people as possible, we're building the Kingdom here, you know? Hit me up.
We could be closer than you know,
Chelsea
posted by Chelsea at 11:49 PM
2 Comments:
man, i love reading your stuff!!!! its exciting!
you continue to impress and engourage me (without even knowing it!)
-blair
Blair you are nothing short of awesome. I'm adding your blarg to my links..
-c
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