Day 69– Sep 6, 2005, Tuesday: Piling up Yesterdays

Before our speaker came to lecture we had a time of sharing what God has done in the last week in our lives. I mentioned how last Friday we had a time of praying for spiritual gifts and healing. Terry’s girlfriend happened to be here last week. She showed up as a surprise to him. She was there on Friday and Terry and Sara ended up praying for her. She had 4 large cysts in her breast and was scheduled for surgery this next week. (notice I say had) Terry and Sara prayed for her healing for a long time on Friday. They actually stayed after the meeting and I walked in and saw them crying as they were praying for her. Today they told how God healed her. WOW! Carry Anne also came up because she has had cyatica due to degenerating discs in her back for the last 3 years. She was prayed for and this weekend was the first weekend in 3 years that she hasn’t had pain. Dave had an ear infection all last week and was really hurting. He had people pray for healing and he said he felt the pain move from one ear to the other and then the next day it was gone. I’ve never grown up with healings or even much of spiritual gifts, so this is all pretty new for me. I know that God is all powerful. I know that He can heal. I am just amazed to see it! How cool is God?

Then we had Neil McClendon http://www.obedshouse.com/ come speak (his picture is above). Wow, does this guy say it like it is. One of the quotes of his that I really liked was “Manners are no excuse for disobedience” meaning that we need to stop being polite and be willing to speak God’s truth, even if it hurts. Another similar one was “It’s better to bruise a friend now then watch them bleed later”. Don’t hold back if someone you know isn’t obeying God’s Word. It might hurt to tell them about it, but if they don’t know it could get much worse.

We then had a team meeting in which we ordered our shirts for our team, listened to Rita (our Leader) give her testimony, and we prayed for direction. Our team is really striving to know what God wants us to do when we get to Uganda. We are praying for clear direction from God.

At night I went to an optional with Jeremy West as the speaker. It was about leadership and thinking forward. He had a cool quote “we are running out of tomorrows and piling up yesterdays”

Below is a picture of where we have worship with the kids.