Saturday, May 31, 2008

honey lemon -

A short excerpt from an article my mom sent me, by Bill Yount:

"A testimony is a public declaration of what God has done in your life.

The word testimony has its foundation in the root word meaning "to do again." The contagious power of a testimony is that what God does once He can do again for you and the whole world! When you are testifying what God has done in your life, you are actually prophesying what He will continue to do for you! For instance, when you testify about the Lord healing you in a certain area, you are actually prophesying that He will continue to heal the rest of you--spirit, soul, mind and body! What He begins He completes."

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I've just been a bit annoyed at this eczema that I have that is still bothering me. I know to pray about it, but NOW I know to TESTIFY that God has healed me of my previous disease and that He can do it again! And that goes for being sick too - I have this sore throat and have come up with a list of differentials of what it could be. (That's the thing of working with the ENT clinics and seeing lots of throat problems - you start to think of the worst possible scenario for a sore throat =) )

It has been quite a trying time sorting out my electives. I don't really know why God led me to think about doing missions in Cambodia as part of my electives and I went out of my way to contact so many people to try sort out an elective in Cambodia but in the end, it didn't work out anyway. So I'm just sticking to a UK-Singapore(if Singapore accepts me that is, and I pray they do =))-Brunei elective. I am still keeping my options open for a missions elective - who knows what God can conjure up in a short span of time =)

God is teaching me time and time again to rely on Him, because I am quite useless on my own. It was good, having prayer and worship time on Tuesday night. I needed that kick again to get myself right with God. And I've been reminded too to be a person of influence for Him. God has placed me right here, right now to serve a purpose (for Him) and I'm not going to let any opportunity pass me by.

Sidetracking a little...

I'm listening to Phil Pringle's "Transformation by God" and he said:
"If you complain and grumble about your past for the rest of your life, it will keep cementing you into a negative position" He based it on the scripture "Enter His gates with thanksgiving (Ps 100) and exhorted us to thank God for our past, present and future. That is so true about complaining and its link with negativity. And on this note, I shall ponder on it a bit more before writing anymore.

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