Our Deepest Fear

I was looking at one of my friend's facebook pages and she had a youtube clip from Coach Carter. In it was a snippet of a poem by Marianne Williamson and wanted to share it with you.

Our Deepest Fear

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.

We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
So that other people will not feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine
As children do.
We were born to make manifest
The glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us;
It's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.

Mind, Body, Spirit

Two weeks ago Saturday I was able to go into London along with 7 others from YWAM England to pray for people in a stall at a Mind, Body, Spirit fair. Many people came to get prayer, we asked God what His original design was for them and many people were blessed and some people were healed and others committed their lives to Jesus.

Approaching and starting conversations with people I don’t know isn’t something I would normally do but as the day went on I was able to pray for many different people and share my belief in Jesus and God used me to share my testimony with quite a few people. It was remarkable how much more open these people were compared to just going out on the street.

We had training 2 weeks previous on what words to use to speak to people, to communicate the message of Jesus without using "Christianese", so instead of calling ourselves Christians we called ourselves "Jesus followers" and were able to talk about the Holy Spirit quite freely and openly. Also we were recommended to use language like "from my experience". When I first heard the teaching, I thought, “This is crazy, these people are just wrong and how will I ever be able to communicate with them, I don't even know what words to use?” Then I was given a revelation that if I thought about them as an un-reached people group, like a tribe in the middle of nowhere, where I would need to learn the language and would make lots of mistakes at first, but as long as I loved them and cared for them and spoke the truth in love, then I would let God do the rest.

All in all, it was overwhelming at first, my only prayer for the day was that God would use me. There is one girl that I was able to exchange e-mail addresses with, I had felt like God had asked me to tell here that Jesus is Lord of my life...and she has e-mailed me in the last week and asked about how my relationship with God has come about, if you could please keep her in your prayers that would be wonderful :)

'evergreen'

This past April I joined my friends' band, Evergreen, to sing back-up vocals for a week long pub outreach in Cardiff, Wales. They have recently become a ministry here at YWAM Harpenden. The idea is to go into pubs and play the music they have written, but have a group of friends who go in with them, who will pray with them beforehand and while in the pub, to make friends and start conversations, and basically bring Jesus into the pubs. God opened so many doors while we were there!

We had the opportunity to be on the radio, you can listen to the recording here:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=381998305717&ref=mf

I was also able to join them to play at a local school in May and share our testimony of Jesus with kids ages 10-17. I'm so thankful for these opportunities to be able to use the musical gift God has given me to lift up His name and reach out to others!

Here is a picture of us in Cardiff

Something Old and Something New

I write a lot in a personal journal, so I hope this will keep people better updated on what God is doing in and through me.

A place to put my thoughts and a way to communicate.

Thanks for listening.

Christy