Almost a month ago I went to a confrence with other leaders from my Chruch (The Rock, Wellington) where Pastor's Bill Johnson, Danny Silk, Martin Steel and Worship Leader Kim Walker-Smith gave amazing testimonies of God. Danny Silk talked about dreams and about how God our Father wants to treat us just like any other Father would want too. And Kim Walker talked about her journey of how God had everything all planned out and it all happened in his timing and not her's.
I have spend a lot of the past 2 years wondering what was going to become of my life, I have had heaps of prophecies over me that I am going to do BIG things for a small person and at Manifest I was prophecied over that I would be someone who would bring people out of things and into new things and that I would bring messages to people that would encourage them and stir them up and that I would work with youth....
I remember when she was praying all this (she was a random from America, who didn't know me from a bar of soap I might add...) I had a couple of tears and just knodded and smiled because it was just so right and what I felt God has been leading me into and growing me for.
I got back from confrence with an opportunity to work at Zeal as a female youth worker, working with teenagers that are stuck in "crap" and need bringing into newness. (The job description pretty much fitted exactly with was prayed over me) and I felt this sence of excitement that I was stepping into something big, scary, exciting and challenging. I of course prayed about it and talked about it with a couple of trusted friends and felt to take the job. Funny thing is I was askedby them about it about 2 months before but had kinda put any thoughts or chances of it on hold cause I had just started uni and wasn't in the head space to think about it. But God's timing is all pefect, over those 2 months he was preparing my heart for it as well, I went through some broken times which I feel has made me more compasionate towards others and will greatly help with this new role.
I felt God is going to use this role as a step into my dream to start a youth ministry in Feilding one day, don't know how it will happen, but I have learn't through all this that God does!! All I have to do is get to know him more and he will reveal things to me the more I get closer to him, kinda like two best friends sharing secrets and trusing each other with stuff :)
And to be honest, I couldn't have made this all happen in my strength, it could only have been God's!
So, if you have dreams, visions, or just want to do something huge for God, just remember we are all his vessels, it s not about us being super duper and doing awesome things, it is about serving a BIG God who wants to use us to do mighty things and the more we get to know him the more of his dreams etc he entrusts to us. Don't be afraid to dream, seek first the kingdom (kingdom being not the building of the Church, but heaven on earth, your relationship with God etc) and He will give you the desires of your heart. (Pslam 37:4 and Matt 6:33)
Have a think about the prophecies, prayers, words of encouragement you have been given and pursue them. They are more than just words :)
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