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26 August 2009

The Move of God

God is clearly moving across South Africa in unprecedented ways. All over the country we are hearing reports of how God is touching lives and in many places there are dramatic manifestations taking place. As a church, at His People Johannesburg, we are seking to be open to what God is doing while ensuring that we “govern” the church and people through these times.

I was inspired today to hear that John Wesley once said: “‘If I can’t have revival without the mess, then give me revival with the mess.” In any move of God there will be three things involved: God himself, the devil and the flesh. We will know the true from the false by the fruit: there will be greater missional activity and greater sacrifice on behalf of people.

Andrew Murray said that the Holy spirit is the presence and the power of God. We are not just seeking after manifestations of God (ie. the power of God), but a climate in which the character of God is experienced (the presence of God). May God continue to lead and guide us as we experience more of His sovereign presence in our midst!

23 August 2009

Don’t Be Cheap

I learnt a great proverb while I was growing up:  “Goed koop is duur koop.” For those who are not up to speed with Afrikaans or Dutch, it is translated roughly as: “Buy cheap and it wil cost you!”

I just wish that I had applied that wisdom last week when I spent hours setting up a free website – I am talking hours past midnight and hours in the day too – only to realise that creating a proper website that I wanted is beyond the freebie stuff out there and it was just not going to meet my needs.

I just wish that I had opened my wallet and bought my own web domain in the beginning because I ended up buying into a web storage facility for the large number of audio and powerpoint files that I needed to upload – so that cost me money, and then I realised that the site was really slow (I can hear my dad saying: “Well you got what you paid for it!” Cheap skate!).

Someone once said: “If something is worth doing, it is worth doing properly”. So, now I am all set up (after a little investment from my credit card) with my own domain (http://www.ymresourcer.com) that should give me the space I need to share what I create or gather for use in youth ministry with as broad an audience as possible.

Sounds a little like the attitude that King David reflected when he said: “I will not offer anything that costs me nothing!” (2 Samuel 24:24). Here’s to investing in the kingdom of God!

Working Together

On Wednesday this past week our monthly Unity Fraternal gathering took place. The Unity Fraternal consists of a group of youth pastors from different church backgrounds who meet once a month for sharing, encouragement and planning of corporate gatherings. Our youth ministries meet together once a term at one of our churches and once a year for a camp type event.

This week was a real highlight where we just spent time each sharing where we were at – some of us had returned from the annual Change Agents Youth Leadership Conference so we have much to share. But the value of the time was in sharing about our needs and also insights that God had given to us from his work and experiences since our last gathering a month ago.

We have an upcoming event that we briefly planned around, but we work hard at making sure our monthly gathering do not get swamped by planning time. We are committed to relating and ministering to each other and want that to stay the focus of our time together.

Historically churches have not been quick to work together, so we are realy excited about what God has been doing in our midst over the past two years that the Unity Fraternal has been gathering.

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