Back Again!!

Well, having forgotten my blog password...or having been locked out....the outcome is that I have had to start a new blog!! But maybe this time I will be more consistent!

I'm in Sri Lanka again! Things here are yet again different...God has already done so much this year since I've been back, it's been amazing!! 

I'm going about things a little differently, whereas last year I was teaching in the village in order to open doors to sharing God, this year will be no more teaching but going to have one big fun day a month, taking a team from the church in Colombo where I go,  in order to teach them about sharing God's love and giving them an obvious outlet to do so, and using our presence there to share God and pray and just see how God will move through us and reveal himself to the village. The doors are wide open there now...so it's a good time to move in!!


On this side of the country, I have started to work with a few from the church, teaching to listen to God, move in the Holy Spirit...learn to step out not just to shine in the church...but to take that light and shine it in the darkness...using every  opportunity to share God's love...to see people through Jesus' eyes...and to have the boldness to reach out in anyway that God is leading...


I am learning valuable lessons also...through my frustrations and also just through relaxing times!! Learning to be patient, , to not seek commitment from others to the things that I am doing but to be available to them when they want to come and learn, to rest in God and not rest on visible success, to just dwell in God and not circumstances, to carry on reaching out to those in need  even if they are hostile or don't quite react in the way expected, to be wise and seek God's guidance in everything, to open my eyes all the time to see where God wants to use me even when just doing ordinary mundane things...God uses every opportunity that we give him to use us...
I don't know the outcome of the things that I am doing...but God does and so leaning on Him, just obeying and following is all I can do, and trust that there will be seeds sown, that there will be fruit...that God will move through me to touch others and make a difference even when I can't see anything happening.
It's been a lot more relaxed here these days...not so much running around like last year...so that has been nice, I have been able to work a little more around the area where i live, teaching a little, sharing and going in the street doing treasure hunts; asking God who are the treasures he wants to point out to us, and then go and find them and listen to the Holy Spirit, and encourage them, say what God wants to tell them...I have been able to take a couple of people with me on that sometimes, and it has been really good, God uses that time that we make ourselves available to Him, and people have been touched so it has been really encouraging and amazing to see God work through us!


So that is the little update from January till now!! 
I'm really encouraged by how God has been planning all of this,  and setting it all up, as usual He is so faithful, loving and provides for every single need!! Of course there are challenges and I am being stretched all the time, but that is just the way it goes and God equips me for everything that He puts me through and asks me to do, so it's always something I am able to do...even though it may be way out of my comfort zone!
I find after quite difficult days...of which there has been a few!!, that as I just flop at home...all hyped up...tired...and wondering what on earth is happening...that he just gives me the love that I need, the encouragement...the peace and the security that only comes from Him...and I realize that the only important thing, is to love Him most of all, and from that will come the other things....flowing out from that place...it's out of love that we serve Him, so if people react in ways we don't want or expect...we can still carry on because it's not man that we lean on or expect things from for us to continue, but only God...and I am on a mission for Him...to fulfill the plan and purpose that He has for my life...