Y'know, it's amazing what God is doing here. Not only is there amazing fellowship, friendly people, and a drivenness to do what God wants us to do...but God is here. God is active in Port Hardy.
Take this story for example. The apartment building of two of my new friends is managed by a young Christian man. The other night, a fellow got stabbed, twice, in the chest, right under the collarbone. He stumbled over to the apartment manager's door, spouting blood, and knocked. 3 AM. The manager comes to the door, sees the guy, grabs his keys and takes him to the hospital. The guy who got stabbed just kept on saying, "I forgive this person. I don't want to press charges. I forgive this person." The doctor said that the steak knife (cuz that's what it was) missed the heart by an inch, the lungs by half an inch, and the major arteries by like a fraction. Any higher, lower, any direction side to side, and this guy would have been dead.
Sunday morning, this stabbing victim is in church, telling his story, praising God, and praying for the person who stabbed him...and this guy wasn't the closest to God that he could have been before.
To see God use a terrible situation and make the best out of it...man. God is GOOD! Even just having the Christian manager there to take him to the hospital, pray with him, support him...I mean, God used a stabbing to connect this fellow to the church, put a Christian in his life to pray and support him...I mean, even the protection God gave the guy from being killed!! God is GOOD.
Last night my new friends, and the apartment manager, got together for prayer. It was cool. And every tuesday is intercessory prayer that anyone can come to. I am learning - and relearning - a lot. I am very much learning to be active in my faith - to have faith in what God says - and be active in my trust in Him. To listen to what the Spirit is saying, pray what God is leading us to pray. To pray with faith, and authority, and with conviction. With power. God is good. Even just being here this short amount of time has strengthened my faith and brought me closer to Him.
God is GOOD!!!!
Wow! you're pastoring Port Hardy? Cool. I've been there. they have a lot of parking lots... and whales I'm sure as well.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're blogging from your neck of the woods. the island is a good place to be... south or north. Good to hear positive words from your time thus far.
maybe i'll visit the whales some day,