How do sum up 9 of the most gloriously intense weeks of your life? By leaving stuff out!
The main subjects which I believe God worked into me in a deeper manner this summer:
- Entrusting the development of the men which God has called me to pour into to God.
- I cannot even change my own heart, how could I expect to change the hearts of other men?!
- Desire for constant prayer, prayer in general, praying for big things.
- This was developed through my own weakness (as a leader, friend, co-worker, etc.) which revealed my obvious need to be constantly praying. Also being influenced by a book which talked about how Dawson Trotmen, started navs in the 40’s, would just pray for 2 hrs with other men every morning for God to do work. Through that and other areas of faithfulness that one man had a drastic affect on the world. I desire to be used by God in just as large ways.
- Desire for daily scripture memory and review
- Having your mind constantly focused on the word greatly affects your outlook on life and your heart in a positive manner. It places your eyes on Christ and not other things.
- Evangelism
- More of just being open and real with those who don’t know Christ, instead of boxing off that portion of your life. It is a very simple, easy, non-weird way to share Christ with others. This has to be combined with prayer of course.
The team at the end:
I believe things ended well with them. Bart ended up leaving 2 days early, because it was quite difficult for him to see his ex daily. This was a bummer, but he stuck around for the last Bible study which I know the team and I appreciated. He continues to struggle but is honestly pursuing the Lord and sharing himself, via email, with the rest of the team.
I realized at the end that they had grabbed hold of my heart. For some ridiculous reason I did not believe that they would I miss them and I am excited to see what God does in their lives. I would love to see the things that became a regular practice during the program integrated into their lives. It seems like this is happening, but time will tell. My prayer for them and myself is that that what was learned will truly affect the way we see our world from now on.
In regard to the “conflict” at the end, it was not as big of a deal as I thought it was. God worked out a way for it to be taken care of in a non in your face kind of way, which was sweet. I believe the right decisions were made. (Could I be anymore vague!?)
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