The Secret Place.

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It all started at youth group a few weeks ago. There was worship playing in the background and we found a spot to just focus on God. Somewhere with no distractions. Naturally, I have to move far away from Rachael because we make each other laugh way too easily. No but, we are serious in these circumstances 🙂 I have a spot in the room where I always sit. Its quite near the front but in front of a kind of board thing so no one can see me and I can only see those in front of me and the band. That is why I like this spot, no one watching but I can watch the band. Anyway, I was just sitting there trying to focus, trying to hear, trying to listen. Trying to go to my secret place. It wasn’t working. I couldn’t hear Jesus in my secret place.. I don’t know what I was or wasn’t doing but I thought I was trying really hard to concentrate. After a while, I just lay there, tears streaming down my face because I didn’t know what to do. All I knew is that I wanted to hear God’s voice so SO badly. It still wasn’t working. Afterwards, my friend came up to me and gave me a note. A note that, again, made my cry. I keep it in the back of my phone so I always have it with me. It says:

‘Lisa, I got a picture of a rose bud which grew into a huge rose! There’s so much in that! Growth. Beautiful fragrance. Beauty. Precious. Delicate.
People are fascinated by you. You excite people. People love to look at you and the things you do.’

It just blessed me, you know? Its nice to feel encouraged and feel that people appreciate you. Because, it isn’t always easy. Life isn’t always easy but when someone writes you a letter of a picture God gives them for you it just melts my heart. It gave me hope. Hope that God hasn’t forgotten me, that I am precious, beautiful and delicate. That I am a rose bud that will grow into a HUGE rose;) I love roses. I love Jesus 🙂

So, on Tuesday lyrics kept popping into my head. You know how it is? Or maybe you don’t.. but lyrics kept coming and eventually I had to write them down before I forgot. That day, when I was home by myself, I started to play. I started to work out how this song would flow. So that’s it! I really hope it works.. if it doesn’t I’ll re post it at some point.

Thank you beautiful people!

Side note: I got 25 out of 25 in my German speaking test. Happy Girly!! Thats 25% of my final grade.. so its pretty important. I’m off to drink a hot mug of tea and watch Dance Academy now 🙂 Oh!! And.. my long board will be arriving at my house tonight! More on that later 😉

New Hope – Be a Life Long Learner.

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Yesterday we talked about, as the title says, being a life long learner. To learn from something what do you need to do first? Make a mistake right? So, God designed us to keep growing in our faith, to learn more about God and learn from our mistakes. 

Are you more adapted to the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of the World? When we give our hearts to God, we adapt to the Kingdom of God. When you make mistakes, what did you learn? When you stop learning, you stop growing. 
We are designed to discover more about Gods plans for humanity. For us. To learn that, we make mistakes. 

Trial and error will allow you to grow. We need to make room for both.  
A man once said: ‘Love God and sin boldly.’ 

Sounds weird right? If we love God and want to grow we will make mistakes. If we’re afraid of making mistakes then we might not be able to love God fully. 
Proverbs 14:4: 
‘Without Oxen a stable stays clean, but you need a strong ox for a large harvest.’

Making mistakes gives you experience. It doesn’t make you wiser. Its reflection of your mistakes that brings you insight. It takes time and reflection to correct wrong perspectives and redefine life’s priorities. 

We can be fearful to try again if we make mistakes. But this makes us live cautiously. At church, in activities, in relationships.
But if you never try it, you’ll never know. We can’t afford to live cautiously in such a fast world. People are loosing their hope, their joy, their faith. Jesus Christ is the answer. We should learn what makes Jesus known in this world, we can’t live cautiously to do this. Don’t be afraid of your mistakes. Learn everything you can with them. 

Don’t drift along taking everything for granted. Take regular checkups on yourself. 
2 Corinthians 13:5-9
‘Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surly you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith. As you test yourselves, I hope you will recognize that we have not failed the test of apostolic authority. We pray to God that you will not do what is wrong by refusing our correction. I hope we won’t need to demonstrate our authority when we arrive. Do the right things before we come – even if that makes it look like we have failed to demonstrate our authority. For we cannot oppose the truth, we must always stand for the truth.’

Learn to face the truth, no matter how painful it will be. You can’t move on unless your courageous enough to face the truth and do something about it. the truth will set you free. It can make you miserable. We don’t like that idea. But its worse to hold onto false hoods. You won’t change unless you are miserable enough to do so. When you look at it face on, it changes you. We have an inversion as human beings to correction. Correction seems like personal failure. Nothing can we further from the truth. We need to make the necessary corrections – A discovery of mere potential. 

Its all about faith. There more to come. We are to courageously face our corrections. 
We are called to be a team of surgeons. To look what is causing the problem. To restore the patient to health. Take the time to learn more about yourself. Don’t be afraid to dig deep. You find treasures when you dig deep. You find the plan that God has for your life. We should live a life of adventure and discovery. To become more like Him.