You're the God of this city... THIS city. We sang this song this morning at MCC and it always moves me. I think today I finally realized why. It's my calling as a Christian - it's our purpose. It's moving past the mundane and the norm to really embracing the place God has allowed you to live in. I was told a few weeks ago, that God wanted to use this time in my life to launch me back into ministry at home. My response - but I love Middlesbrough! I'm tired of the Bible belt.... but no - God is to be proclaimed to people at home as well. He IS real, He requires wholly surrender, He gives purpose and burdens for a reason - He IS the God of this city. Just as "greater things are yet to come, greater things are still to be done" in Middlesbrough, the same great things are still to come in Texas - a revival is necessary to change the hearts of those that love Jesus from a to-do list, to passionate service of our Savior. It's time - time for a revival, time to proclaim that God, my Jesus, my Savior, my Redeemer, is the God of THIS city!!!!!
So after my paragraph on what God taught me this morning, here is a quick look at my week:
I went to York on Monday for a day away, which was great! Tuesday was a CAP visit with a lady named Anu, a university student - funniest visit ever!! On Wednesday i got to spend some time with Shaina, my friend from UMHB who is working in Nunthorpe with Youth For Christ - SO great to hear an American voice! Lifegroup was brilliant as always. Thursday was amazing because God yet again used my asthma and health problems to relate to a CAP client - Edward and Audrey. It is just a matter of time before God pulls them back to himself. I was also the main speaker again at youth alpha on How and why we read the Bible, and adult alpha was just amazing!! Saturday was our Youth Alpha day away where we talked about the Holy Spirit, and then youth club was great as well - we had a bounce house in the main hall!!!!
God is showing me daily that my life is to be a living representation of the hope Jesus can give. Wholly surrender. Please continue to pray for my health and asthma, the Istanbul trip coming up, and the CAP clients!
"Missions is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there." Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell.
"26From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. 27God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 28'For in him we live and move and have our being." Acts 17:26-28
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