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Jumping for joy

March 24, 2010 in Challenges with 14 Comments

What is it in life that makes you jump for joy?

Is it maybe your job that makes you excited about life, or maybe your wife/husband, or maybe you really life for playing sports over the weekend?

Whatever it is that really makes you feel like living, it says something about you?

I just had a meeting with our Worship Pastor about getting involved with our Young Adults ministry and what my passions are within ministry, since I am in a change over process of moving into ministry for my standard IT job I used to do.

Talking about this, we touched the subject of a dream that has been growing within me for the last year, at least, which is to establish an internet ministry point for our church, and the more we talked about it, the more I wanted to jump for joy about the prospect of actually getting this project of the ground, and to really change the way we do ministry in our church. Afterwards he just confirmed my feeling within himself, and I am now burning to get this thing of the ground, and to start building this web portal for our Young Adults ministry, and to really bring the whole Web 2.o and Social Networking into the reckoning.

So, what is it that makes you jump for joy?

Primary Calling

January 25, 2010 in Challenges with 1 Comment

What is it that breaks your heart, the way it breaks God’s heart?

As you all know, 2010 is the year of change for me, and I really trust God for a new season in my life. To set me free from a dreadful and dreary job, and to release me into a place where I can really make a difference for the Kingdom of God. This is not to say that I can not make a difference at my workplace, but that just isn’t enough for me.

I currently serve in the worship team at church, and always have served in a worship team. That is just my way of doing corporate church. Due to this fact, I always believed that worship is my calling in life, and I must pursue doing that full time. But during the last couple of weeks, stepping into this season of change, my heart has been opened to that which breaks my heart.

Living in Africa, and being used to the poor and beggars all around, I have become insensitive to the needs of the extremely poor. In the last couple of weeks, God has really just softened my heart to the mission field, but specifically children. Whenever I look at a picture of a child suffering from hunger, I just feel an instant break within me, and I am unable to stop the tears.

Now, it is easy to actually do something for the poor. You can give them money, be it directly or through a charity that look after the poor children, like Compassion International, but that just isn’t enough for me. I really want to be with the children and just show them love.

With this revelation in my life, I have made a commitment to myself, God and my family, that I will go on a mission outreach two weeks every year, at least. If God ordains me to go more, I will follow, but what I can do at this point in my life, is two weeks, and I am going to make them count.

So, if anybody know about organisations that does mission outreaches, with which I can join up, I would really appreciate a comment or an email, so I can start to put the things I need in place.

Resurrection Life

September 22, 2009 in Challenges with 0 Comments

Colossians 3:1-2 (The Message)

So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.

This piece of wisdom from Paul is pretty much where I am at currently in my life. I have been very caught up in what was going on around me, right in front of me. I would get to a point where I simply couldn’t see where I must be in a year or two, and I was getting disjointed in what I did. I would get upset at the smallest of things, and I would get dejected about what other people said to me, but in the process missing the point of why I am here on earth.

The last couple of months, and through this blog, I have been able to remove these visors from my eyes, and started to see the bigger picture. I am able to focus on my calling, and where God wants me to be, rather than to focus on something somebody said to me 5 minutes ago, which they have already forgotten about.

I praise the Lord for this journey that I am on, and for all the growing that is happening within me and within my family in the process as well. I praise the Lord for having a bigger picture. For creating a purpose for each and everyone of us, we must just go out and seek this purpose.

The Revelation of the Spirit

September 18, 2009 in Challenges with 3 Comments

Yesterday at worship team practice, we had a bit of time where we came together in groups to just pray for each other. I love these moments where you can really invest some time in the people that you worship the Lord with, and our group just had this amazing moment going.

I had the feeling of all of us standing together as one, in the Lord, actually being part of each other and not just praying for each other. Then one of the guys in our group gave some scripture for the one lady in our group, which is just so amazing when you start to realise how the Lord reveals His plans for you.

1 Corinthians 2:9-16 (NIV)

However, as it is written:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him”— but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment:
“For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

If you have not had this experience of the Spirit revealing your calling to you, then I urge you to really go out and pursue this, as it really just takes all the weariness of the world of your shoulders, and you will just have this amazing conquering feeling, as well as peace for the future.

I have only received this in the last couple of weeks myself, and I can only confess about the lifting feeling I have had towards my work and everybody else that was able to get me down in the time prior to that.

The BIG question

September 4, 2009 in Challenges with 0 Comments

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This will somehow tie in with my previous post of where you want to be in 5 years time…

After havng had that very confusing question asked of me, and actually sitting down and really thinking about it, I have come to the conclusion that the path I have walked in the last 10 years as far as career goes, was not for nothing. And why can’t I use the skills that I have developed over the years to further the Kingdom using that.

Now, South Africa is far behind the rest of the word as far as technology goes. Yes we have internet, and everything else, but we don’t have the bandwidth that first world countries have, and we don’t have the online community thing as a culture yet. Facebook has become big in South Africa, but the rest of online community has not really started to catch on really.

south African churches also have not yet caught on to really using the internet to further their ministries. Websites have become informational tools only, and I see a future of furthering the online community thing for the South African church, as a whole.

So, what I want to ask of you is, what kind of things would a church web space need to have to really make you sit up and look/listen. This is, at this stage, stopping short of a Church Online. I would love to hear from you on this, as the more I pray about this and sit and think about it as well, the more excited I am getting about it.

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