GOD IS OUR PROVIDER!!!
So, i write this today very excited!!! what's new you might ask?? well yesterday i got my student loans papers signed by the college and put them in the mail to Canada, so that money should be coming in a couple of weeks! and then today (saturday) i went job hunting and God provided me with a job. See i had been feeling like God was telling me to settle here, get a job, get a car and then possibly do the degree next year, so yes if you are reading this i do plan on being here a while, longer than a year. Why wouldn't ya? It's hillsong, flippin the best church in the world - well not necessarily true, but a really great church that has a lot of things already established and in place for me to learn leadership skills etc - So i actually did things kinda backwards and bought the car before having the job - and i was really feeling it was a faith step that God wanted me to get the car first before the job and now i see why - because i needed the car to get to where the job was going to be! So now i have a car and a job! the story is kinda neat actually - i was applying to a bunch of jobs online and then was going to go out and look in the area and so i went to Subway, Pizza Hut, Fitness First and then after i applied i fitness first i went to leave, was driving out of the parking lot, looked at this restuarant and thought "i should apply there" and then was like or i'll just go home but i ended up turning around and going back in there and when i walked in I introduced myself said i was looking for part-time work, the lady asked me what experience i had and i told her about Tim Hortons etc, she looked through my whole resume and asked me what my hours of availability were and then asked me if i could start monday at 4pm - so i said sure - she kept saying thank you to me, which i found rather odd, i was the one who needed to be thankful! but anyways - yeah friday morning at chapel they asked anyone who was going through a tough time to come forward so i did - and i got prayed for by 3 different people and one of them prayed for supernatural provision and i thought "man i'm going to take hold of that" and i really kept declaring that and thanking God for it even though i didn't see anything yet and then it was later that afternoon that i got my osap papers back and then today that i did the job hunting - so it was a week of stress and wondering whether i should have bought the car or not, whether i heard God right or not - but i'm telling you, when God promises you something, he does not lie - it's coming, maybe not after a week, but it's coming, DO NOT GIVE UP!!! GOD IS ABLE - Jesse Duplantis spoke here on the weekend and he was amazing - this man lives in blessing because he knows that God is able, he is more than able and we as his children (God's children that is) need to know our rights and authority as being sons and daughters of the most high king - we need to take authority over what is ours!!! anyways so that is what is new here - oh yeah it's flippin cold at night - last night i slept with my pyjama pants, my t-shirt, sweatshirt, socks and 3 blankets - they don't believe in central heating here! they like it cold because to them it gets too flippin hot in the summers or something like that! so yeah now i should go work on some homework - should probaly re-write the sermon i already wrote using some of this! hehe anyways peace out - hope everyone is doing well!!!
2nd week with Liz and current thoughts
So the second week Liz and I headed up to Cairns where the Great Barrier Reef is - the first day we got there we just lounged by the lagoon in the city and then chilled at night - we decided the second day to go scuba diving and snorkeling out at the reef, alright so someone who gets motion sickness should not have even considered this, however, the stubborn person that i am, really wanted to do this - so we went out to Oyster Reef and Upolu Cay and well within the first half hour out on the boat i was puking - oh and it did not stop there - anyways i did end up going swimming for a bit because i had to get off that rocking boat - the water is beautiful, it really is that beautiful teal colour that you see in pictures - i was very thankful to get out to the cay - which is a little sand area in the middle of water - it was not moving which was great and we were able to stay there for about 1.5 hours! i got really sunburnt because i didn't take the time to put on sunscreen and then i got sand caked in my hair because it was so windy out there! i did take some pictures but i really wish i actually looked under the water to see the coral life etc, but oh well what can you do? the wednesday we went to Palm Cove Beach and it wasn't a really warm day so we just walked around and checked out the shops etc and i got my first ever massage! it was great, wish it could've been longer!!! and then thursday the day we were leaving we went up to Kuranda the rainforest area and we got to hold koalas, which definitely was the highlight of the trip for me, they are so cuddly, i wish i could bring one home with me! so that was our trip - other things that were going on with me was that i was really not wanting to be in school anymore, i don't really know what i want to do but i don't really feel like being in school, although now i think i'm okay with it - i was thinking of switching from powerhouse youth to wildlife which is 18-25 to 14-18 aged, but i think i really want to stay in powerhouse and be involved with my uni ministry which i'm already involved in and then maybe get involved with Hillsong Youth Services which i probably already mentioned in one other blog previously - so i'm looking to find out more info about that right now - because i think i see myself outside of the church more than inside - and i want to start a connect group - i think i just really want someone to pour into - i'm being fed so much and have no way of letting it flow out, which i know is not entirely true but i think you know what i mean - so yeah just been conversing with God quite a lot and i feel at peace now, feel i have a little more confirmation on things, not necessarily direction but that's okay
first week with Liz
Well it's been quite a while since i last wrote, you probably thought i fell off the face of this earth, well.....i didn't!! hehe...anyways i've been on break for the past 2 weeks - i have one more day off and then i head back to classes for term 2 - my friend Liz was here visiting for two weeks - the first day she got here we went into the city and i showed her the Sydney Opera House, Botanical Gardens, Darling Harbour and we just walked around and chatted -it was so great - we were both tired though after a long trip for her and me getting up early to go get her - tuesday and wednesday i still had classes so she came to class with me - i had leadership 2 - one course 2 days - it was quite good i might add and she quite enjoyed it herself - she said she felt she was here for a 2 day conference - then thursday we went into the city again and went to Bondi Beach and went shopping in Bondi Junction for most of the afternoon and then came home - friday i took the day off and went to the gym and read and stuff and her and franny went shopping and then we went to powerhouse and she loved it so that was cool - we met some people there and we all went out to McDonalds after which was fun getting to know new people - the one guy is quite the evangelist and i was learning alot from him and my passion for evangelism starting to stir within me and he said he has dvds etc for that and that i could go out evangelizing with him and his team sometime, when that will be i don't know, but hopefully soon then saturday we went back into the city, but we left later and we went to pancakes on the rocks for lunch and we shopped at the open markets and we walked on the harbour bridge and took pictures but it was really dark so mine didn't turn out really well so that sucks, but liz got some good ones - then sunday we went to church, it was liz's first church service at hillsong and then the aftenoon we just chilled and then went back to church at night which was fun - monday we left for Cairns and when we got there we hung out at the lagoon, which is a really big pool basically - the beach water sucked it was really muddy there because of the drought i'm guessing but anyways i will add more soon my connect group just got here gotta go
