From the heart
A friend sent me an email asking what God has been teaching me these last weeks. This is what I wrote. It may not be perfect English and I don’t know all the quotations exactly but rather and make it a work of art I just want to share from my heart.
What has God been teaching me where do I start!!!
Lesson 1 “ be content in all circumstances”
When I first got sick – God what are you doing? Also struggling with having to leave Sukothai and the people there not understanding. Was I content with being sick no not at all at first. But then I realized it was a time when God wanted me to be still, I couldn’t do much but listen to him and Christian music. I began to appreciate the small things in life the beauty of his creation. The beauty of a rose a butterfly. It gave me lots of time to pray.
Lesson 2 “Be still and know that I am God”
Lesson 3 Be patient. I can now see that God has been pruning me to allow this fruit of the spirit to bear more fruit in my life. (john 15 and Galatians 3) At the time it was painful but now I can see that it was done in complete love, my Father loves me very much. – lesson 4
“My ways are not your ways” – lesson 5
You don’t have to understand everything but trust God. I thank God that in his grace I am beginning to catch a glimpse of what he is doing in my life, why he has allowed what he has allowed in the past few months. “I will not test you beyond what you can endure” lesson 6 It was a struggle for me to come back to Sukothai b/c I struggled with loneliness so much the last time but I trusted God eventually and this was fine this time. I learnt to be content in the circumstance of not having many people about. However it was difficult sometimes and now he has taken me out of this situation, where I’m part of a huge team who love and care for me so much and they are nearly all from the UK so I can communicate so well with them.Lesson 7 can’t remember the exact reference at the mo but where it talks about the different parts of the body and it says when one part rejoices all should rejoice with it when one part suffers all suffers. I have been really touched by the love that my brothers and sisters in Christ have shown me over the last few months. I have never experienced this type of love and concern before. It really shocked me and I felt weak, and such a burden. Then I read these verses and realized that they were following Christ’s commands – praise God. Learning that it’s ok to be weak it’s ok to depend on others. This has been difficult as I’m usually the strong one I’m the one who is normally giving the advice being strong. It was hard at first to accept my weakness but I thank God for this.
Lesson 8 - The devil is real and the devil attacks. The devil doesn’t want me here and the devil doesn’t like me being close to the Lord. The devil has been trying his hardest over the last few days to discourage me through various events, but God is stronger I can almost feel his arms draw tight around me, thank you God.
“It’s not the trials that make us strong but what we choose to do with those trials” These were the words of a song that really encouraged me. What did I need to do with these trials bring them to the Lord. I am still quite weak physically and this is frustrating sometimes what will I do I will bring it to the Lord in prayer, so far he hasn’t taken this weakness away but he has drawn his protective arms closer around me
Woah that’s quite a list!!
A friend sent me an email asking what God has been teaching me these last weeks. This is what I wrote. It may not be perfect English and I don’t know all the quotations exactly but rather and make it a work of art I just want to share from my heart.
What has God been teaching me where do I start!!!
Lesson 1 “ be content in all circumstances”
When I first got sick – God what are you doing? Also struggling with having to leave Sukothai and the people there not understanding. Was I content with being sick no not at all at first. But then I realized it was a time when God wanted me to be still, I couldn’t do much but listen to him and Christian music. I began to appreciate the small things in life the beauty of his creation. The beauty of a rose a butterfly. It gave me lots of time to pray.
Lesson 2 “Be still and know that I am God”
Lesson 3 Be patient. I can now see that God has been pruning me to allow this fruit of the spirit to bear more fruit in my life. (john 15 and Galatians 3) At the time it was painful but now I can see that it was done in complete love, my Father loves me very much. – lesson 4
“My ways are not your ways” – lesson 5
You don’t have to understand everything but trust God. I thank God that in his grace I am beginning to catch a glimpse of what he is doing in my life, why he has allowed what he has allowed in the past few months. “I will not test you beyond what you can endure” lesson 6 It was a struggle for me to come back to Sukothai b/c I struggled with loneliness so much the last time but I trusted God eventually and this was fine this time. I learnt to be content in the circumstance of not having many people about. However it was difficult sometimes and now he has taken me out of this situation, where I’m part of a huge team who love and care for me so much and they are nearly all from the UK so I can communicate so well with them.Lesson 7 can’t remember the exact reference at the mo but where it talks about the different parts of the body and it says when one part rejoices all should rejoice with it when one part suffers all suffers. I have been really touched by the love that my brothers and sisters in Christ have shown me over the last few months. I have never experienced this type of love and concern before. It really shocked me and I felt weak, and such a burden. Then I read these verses and realized that they were following Christ’s commands – praise God. Learning that it’s ok to be weak it’s ok to depend on others. This has been difficult as I’m usually the strong one I’m the one who is normally giving the advice being strong. It was hard at first to accept my weakness but I thank God for this.
Lesson 8 - The devil is real and the devil attacks. The devil doesn’t want me here and the devil doesn’t like me being close to the Lord. The devil has been trying his hardest over the last few days to discourage me through various events, but God is stronger I can almost feel his arms draw tight around me, thank you God.
“It’s not the trials that make us strong but what we choose to do with those trials” These were the words of a song that really encouraged me. What did I need to do with these trials bring them to the Lord. I am still quite weak physically and this is frustrating sometimes what will I do I will bring it to the Lord in prayer, so far he hasn’t taken this weakness away but he has drawn his protective arms closer around me
Woah that’s quite a list!!
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