My random ramblings...: One Way...

My random ramblings...

Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37v4.

Saturday, July 30, 2005

One Way...

wow. what a week. If you've been in contact with me in the past week then you will probably had a glimpse of the excitement that i'm currently feeling. So much has happened, and i'm just bursting to tell it all... so beware, but a HUGE and i mean HUGE post is coming up...

Saturday morning, was obviously feeling quite nervous, but really looking forward to getting to Clan and getting to work... basically, the nerves really came from the fact that I knew that I was going to be in a position where God was going to use me in things that i wasn't necessarily experienced or comfortable with, especially big things and that scared me a bit... but yeah it was all good. Me, MJ and Rosey all headed off to St Andrews and all was good. Lovely flat for the week (although a bit cold at times admittedly) but i'm telling you... everything was amazing. *goes to find journal to remind herself of certain details* Basically we had a program which went a bit like this:

Seminars (on topics ranging from evangelism to leadership and all sorts): 9:30-10:45am
Morning meeting: 11:30am-1pm - on the theme of worship, looking at the cost, power awesomeness of worship...
afternoon workshops: 2:30-4:30pm - ranging from footie to basketball to creative stuff
Evening meeting: 6:30-8:30pm (although by the end of the week it was going on much longer!) - bringing the message to the yp and encouraging them to go out and share with the world.
L8r: 9:15-10:45pm - general silliness most of the time, but included other things like bands 'n stuff!

so there you go... that's the general breakdown. now for the nitty-gritty:

Saturday evening... James from City Church in Aberdeen spoke at the evening meeting and he basically encouraged the young people to be open to what God had to say to them over the week... he was a really good speaker. I spent most of the evening doing detached work though. So i wasn't in the meeting much. Worship is awesome though. St Mungo's have some serisously gifted worship leaders!!!!!!! other than that i spent some time getting to know some of the other leaders, and if memory serves Helen C and i went on a little adventure to Tescos... where they have a SELF-SERVICE machines... whats THAT about?! lol. was most confused. ah well. *blushes*

Sunday - well it was weird not being at church on Sunday - very weird. But the seminar i was at was good. I was a scribe for the guys who were doing the leadership seminar - was good *hehe* as for the morning meeting it was Rosey who did it and she basically was encouraging the young people to get themselves 'right' with God. Most of the young people at Clan were already Christians, but not all, and afterwards we had a really good prayer ministry session... i have to say prayer ministry in that sense is not something i've been involved with in the past, but it was good to be a part of it. It was just soooooo amazing to be right in the middle of so many young people praising God with everything they had without restrictions or distractions, just being able to give God the praise he deserves! At night Sally did the speaking and she was talking about 'ripples', and no not the chocolate *lol* she was basically saying that the bigger the foundation and faith we have in Christ the bigger the ripple will be that we make to those around us... was exciting stuff, and the response was for the young people who were committed to making ripples marking their hometowns etc on a map... was really encouraging to see the map afterwards!!!

Monday - morning meeting was Tara and she was talking about the importance of Jesus encounters and how they shape our perseption of who God is. Again it was really good. Worship, amazing. Been learning some new songs... and we've' been singing some new (to me) songs which Al and Jonny have written themselves which is even more exciting!!! ooooh and then we had our first creative workshop session in the afternoon... was soooooooooooo funny. Basically we were looking at how we could represent the 193 countries of the world through pictures. and some of them were just soooooo funny... *LOL* i.e. Oman was a pic of Niel with a roll of masking tape above his head so it was 'O' - 'man' - was in hysterics *hehe* Yeah then the evening we had Andy, the team leader speaking and he was taking about the bridge that Christ made between us and God, and was gd. He had a response at the end where people could cross the bridge for the first time, or take others with them 'n stuff.. was awesome. By this point though i was losing my voice. No idea why, but by tuesday it was practially gone. No one could understand me very easily *lol*

Tuesday - Well i spent the night before getting really worked up coz i had to do my seminar with Mark hte night before, but i just really cried out to God for his peace 'n stuff and it worked, and the seminar went pretty well *grin* then Tim was speaking in the morning, again he was great. Was talking about being free to worship God. Mainly focusing on how the Devil can prevent us from being free to worship because of the guilt 'n stuff that he feeds into our heads... was a big prayer ministry session again after that one. It's a priviledge to be used by God in that way. The night meeting was just wow. Ollie talked about being filled with the Spirit, and afterwards had a prayer response but sooooo many folk went forward that we ended up doing something called a 'fire tunnel' which basically meant that the prayer ministry team stood opposite each other in a line and the yp went through as we prayed for them and layed hands on them 'n stuff. After we'd prayed for all the young people we too were prayed for and it was just amazing... i was walking on air the next day!!!!!!!!

Wednesday - Ollie again in the morning... he was talking about the 'otherness of God' and how we need to have to show some of that while being Christians... this day we had James from Aberdeen leading worship... he's done it for Catlayst before and is just amazingly gifted!!!! the evening it was tim again and he was talking about gifts, was soooooo good, and the young people got to make a response by signing a cd an sticking it up on the wall promising to use their gifts for Jesus. This was a particuarly exciting evening for me... coz we were asked to go around the crowd asking the yp if they wanted prayer rather than getting them to stay forward after doing their cd and i while doing this i heard andy request some leaders to go forward as some folk wanted specific prayer... as it happened though there were no females in that group (we were only allowed to pray for same sex) so i just hung around at the front joining in with the worship, but then this girl came pushing forward and she told Andy something, next thing i know he's beckoning me forward... turned out that she had been told that she need to receieve a word from God... so i prayed with her... and when i had finished she was in tears coz what i had said had spoken right into her heart where it needed too... God used me to really make a difference. it was such a priviledge!

Thursday - was getting pretty tired by now... but the day started with Cherie doing the main speaking at the morning meeting and she was sooooooooooo good. it was all about the cost of worship. I reckon Tim should get her to do that one at elevate sometime. At night though Jackie Pullinger came and spoke. Man she rocks for God. some of the stuff she shared was just amazing. Then afterwards we did prayer ministry, only this time she was calling the shots, and she asked those who wished to receive the gift of tongues to come forward. Now i've never receievd the gift of tongues before, so i decided to 'join the crowd' as it were, but knowing full-well that because we as leaders were meant to be praying for the yp that it was unlikely that a leader would come a pray with me. But i just stood there praying to God and just worshiping him and standing in his presence and basically for about 10 mins i must have been standing there just praying for God to send someone to pray with me, and eventually he did. Meanwhile many yp and leaders were sharing the gift of tongues. But evenutally Rachel came and prayed with me. Although i didn't reallise it was her. and other people came and prayer over me too... but it wasn't until Jackie Pullinger came herself and she just encouraged me 'n stuff and all of a sudden i just started talking in this weird language and rachel kept encouraging me to keep going, and then she whispered in my ear that i had just said 'let's praise the Lord in worship' and i was like *wow* and gave her a huge hug!!!! man it was just soooooo overwhelming!!! and they were by this point singing a particularly heartfelt song, and i was just about breaking down... then cherie came from like nowhere and asked if she could pray for me at which point i did breakdown, and she did. She thank God for me and just prayed for me and the stuff she knew i struggled with 'n stuff... and then afterwards she told me that she knew that God was pleased with me and that she was proud of me.. I'm just soooooo thankful for her and her support. at that point though i pretty much had to go and sit down. my legs just weren't going to hold me any longer - i meant i had been standing there for almost an hour by this point. the whole time people had been praying for me it was as though the soles of my feet had been burning, and when Cherie was praying for me i thought i was gonna go down a few times... was an extremely humbling experience.

Friday - well this was the last day... me and rosey did a seminar on evangelism in schools in the morning which was fun, and then James spoke in the morning... was gd. all about your lifestyle and stuff and how heart and mind have to be in line iwth God 'n stuff. then at night it was Andy again - his last. Was about equipping the yp to go out from Clan... was good. Another Fire tunnel... this time though i was so drained by the end that i pretty much feel to my knees once the guys had gone through... Helen C was praying for me, i could hear her... but my legged just gave in. *lol* was good though... was really good... spent until about midnight tearing everything down 'n stuff... so was really tired by the time i got home.

i think there's sooooooooo much that i've taken away from this week at Clan, not least the fact that God is soooo faithful with the things we ask for. The team was amazing, the worship was amazing, i think that teh speakers at the seminars and the main meetings where totally blessed by God in everything they said and it was just such a huge priviledge to be apart of it all... so there you go... in a shortened, yet quite detailed form, there is my week. *grin*

posted by TLT @ 8:44 pm

2 Comments:

At 10:29 pm, Anonymous said…

Sound like an exceptional week. Looking forward to hearing more when we next meet.

Luv Dad XX
At 10:34 pm, TLT said…

*grin*