So I was teaching the guy from the youth group on our guitar lesson on Monday and he told me a story. Apparently when he was 12 years old a man "prophesied" into his life that one day he would reach people for Jesus with his voice and his music. And I'm the guy teaching him guitar. As my team leader said "it's really cool that God brought someone all the way from Brazil to begin to bring about his call on this guys life".
It's just so cool for me to watch what God wants to do in our lives. Not just in the spiritual "oh I'll get to heaven some day" but the right now "I want to put your life upside down everyday" kind of way. I've just spent a lot of time this week watching over preachings and teachings about the completed work of the cross. Jesus didn't just buy us eternal life on the cross. He bought us everything we would ever been in need and more. Jesus wants to be part of our lives in the spiritual, the mental and the physical. To prove it here are some video of what Jesus is doing in people's lives today.
Todd white - Rise up (street healing)
Bill johnson preaching
So this Tuesday was a pretty slow day altogether. We were supposed to be in Maia Neto in the morning with the kids but they cancelled our lesson last minute. So that morning we got to have some free time to play Capoeira in the church. I am absolutely loving it these days, doing cart wheels and back hang springs and whatever. Its a really fun sport. We spent most of the day after just hanging around planning lessons and reading the word together because me and
Gina had a Portuguese lesson at night.
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| a project that we will be running in the coming weeks |
Wednesday we were in the school with our project "life choices" again. Was a little bit more difficult this week but God was in it and we had some really good chances to chat and to share with kids. That night we had our cell group again which was amazing. We spent the whole night in worship just praying for each other and hearing what God had to say to us and I received a really specific "word" from Ramin.
Our thursday was spent much the same as our wednesday as again we weren't able to get to one of the schools (we had planned to visit a new one this thrusday). We were got a lot more planning done and were able to again get to play some more.
I went home early that night as I was preparing a talk for the following day. I'm at weird stage in my growing with the language where i have plenty of confidence speaking to people one on one but when it comes to crowds i get very nervous that I'm saying the wrong thing. So that word took a while to prepare and I used some of Friday morning to sort it out as well.
The reason I was speaking on Friday was because the guys from the school had another day off (for good friday) so we went to the park with them to hang out. I was speaking on "the completed work of the cross" and how Jesus paid for it all on the cross. The talk was okay but afterwards we got to pray with each one of the guys which was great.
This saturday morning I was able to start a new project that I'm going to be heading up. I'm looking to get the guys from the youth group together who can play guitar and teach them a little bit more technique as well as teaching them how to lead worhsip. This week only one guy showed up but it was good fun teaching and I'm really excited about seeing those guys lead worship in the future.
Now off for the weekend (mostly) for easter so going to have a good rest before getting stuck back in next week. Please keep praying for me and all that God is doing.
Thanks so much for all those who lifted up prayers for my friend Hermes, he's doing a lot better and seems to be getting closer to God ever day.
God bless
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