HOWDY HO

How great is our God.

Faith that is the theme of the main lesson that i went through from mon onwards till today and definitely until my exams end. Today i had my exam on AAA today. And even though i think i wont do well as in like get a B or an A. I have this confidence that I will pass. After a long time i finally get a taste of what having confidence in the Lord our God is. Its like an experience i have never felt. If i did, i didnt feel much.

Its not confidence that will make you boast, cause you know that you didnt do anything, it was nothing on your part at all. But it is confidence that God will do something. And its like walking through a shooting range and knowing that none of the bullets will hit you. Its just that kind of confidence. Confidence in the lord. And this confidence doesnt make you pridefull or boastfull at all, in fact it just makes you very thankful and amazed. Cause you throughly know that it is nothing on your part. Well i guess the only thing you have to do is to look straight and follow. Look straight at God.

Num 21:8 The Lord said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live

John 3:14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up

So this one of the things that was at the back of my mind this whole period. I have no idea where and when i saw the connection of the two verses. I know someone told me. You know its like slumdog millionare. Its not my chance that the guy won the million bucks but rather it was the events during the course of his life that shaped him for that very day. Unknowningly fate has given him the very tools to gain victory. But ofcourse as christians. We know that there is no such thing as chance, if there is chance if there is fate, someone must have rolled the dice, someone must have woven the fabric of the cosmos. So like Jermal.I think thats how you spell the Indian's boy name.

God just helped me by giving the tools along the way. And it wasnt smooth sailing. Sometimes things just seem like its not going to work out, but you just got to have Faith. You just got to harness it and concentrate on God. The feeling is wonderful. All your fears are stripped away, cause you know you are going to make it in the end, even if your eyes is staring straight in the face of doom.

Its like having iron man as your father. And you know all your life that your father was a great superhero and everything, and armour was the one that made him awesome. One day your father dies and passes you the armour and says that it will protect you from anything. The next day, you go to war vsing all the super villians in the world. For a while it does seem true that the armour is protecting you from all their attacks. But then suddenly superman's evil twin comes and smash one part of your armour up. you can see the armour being destroyed and everything.

Its at that point where doubt starts to creep in. You are thinking stuff like, oh during my dad's time, there wasnt a super villian as powerfull as evil superman So he didnt factor in the strength of superman. Then you start thinking that oh no this is the end of the road, im doomed. But you believe that what your dad said is true. So you just took that step forward. And had faith. Just pressing on. Believing that the armour will protect from anything. At the end of the day, evil supernam is defeated. At the end of the day, you looked at the armour, and realised that it had a regen function, all those nano bots repairing themselves.

Lol i know the story is a bit werid. But thats what i went through. Not believeing in myself, but the armour. Oh and another thing i have learnt. God should be the first thing you turn to. Not when everything seems bad then you realise that you have no other option then you turn to Jesus. Yeah i do that. I realise even though God saves me. Its not what i should be doing. Even before i see the storm, he should already be my pillar of strength not life jacket.

I tell you, God is just wonderful.

This is my thursday's qt: Colossian 1:17, he existed before anything else and He holds all creation together.

Friday's qt: Acts 2: 23, God knew what would happen and his prearranged plan was carried out.
Verse 25 and 26: I will not be shaken, for He is right beside me. My God is still with me even when the path is confusing.

Friday: jerome called me, and talked about faith. Leroy asked me to look at the past year papers.

Sat: I had my pmkt paper. About half the paper were questions from the past year paper that i did and i only did one past year paper.

I had a lesson on how to teach the sec1s on the book of acts and my part that i was incharge of presenting was about how God empowers you. Acts chapter 1 verse 8: But you will recieve pwer when the Holy Spirit comes on you.

Sunday: Shadow feet was being played and i think also beautiful Saviour.

Lyrics from shadowfeet :

when the world has fallen out from under me
I'll be found in you, still standing
when the sky rolls up and mountains fall on their knees
when time and space are through
I'll be found in you

This was a part of the sermon that was being said or like the verses used:

Prov 29: 25: The fear of a man is a snare, but those who trust the Lord is safe

Romans 8: 39 : The love of God will never be taken away

Hebrews 13: 5: I will never forsake you

Psalm 27 verse one: The lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear? The lord is the stronghold of my life of whom shall I be afraid?

Mon: this was the major one, one hour before the paper, i realised i didnt study the ratio part, something that was very important. I was on the verge of panicing, I was staring at the face of doom. And i just prayed and just concentrated. I dont know how to say it, but seriously its the most wonderful feeling, all your fear is stripped away and you have only one thing in your mind and you jus tknow everything is going to be fine. All glory to God. 30 mins before the exam, I memorised the ratios Leroy had spotted. In the end, 6 out 7 ratios that were tested, were the ones Leroy had spotted. Seriously praise God.

I mean when i look back all this. You know when you are young your faith isnt that strong and the Devil has that small little voice in your head telling you, maybe its not God. But i tell you it is, this isnt the first time that this has happened to me. So many things just fall nicely into place, so many things connect. How can this not be the work of someone higher? Is this all just by chance? How can so many factors fall into place? How can my pastor, the people who wrote ODJ and jerome come to together and plan everything so nicely that they keep talking about the same things, Faith, trust the Lord and empowerment through the holy spirit and God. And the person who wrote the ODJ, his name is Tom Felten for all i know he is halfway across the world, drinking a nice cup of tea. And that guy doesnt even know my name, what more im going through.

I tell you this cannot be chance. There is a God. A God who loves you and would gladly do the same for you. Oh and another thing, this doesn mean you can slack of and do nothing. I mean if you knew that God has already helped you, and you know you are going to succeed then there is only one thing left to do which is do what you have to do.

And ofcourse there were things i had to give up like watching the liverpool match and also half of the manu match.

And also when i was young, i had doubts about how such things can be connected, that Christians just used general saying so everything seems connected. But what if non Christians are saying the sayings?

How great is our God.

I just hope one day, you will experience what i went through. It really wondeful even if the moment last only for 5 mins.

8:17 PM

To the BAT MOBILE!