Fastest week EVER!

Youth Group from Tornio, Finland

Wow, what a week. Seriously I'm not even sure I know how to completely explain this week very well. But I will do my best.

First I will start off by talking about last weekend. We had a youth group from Tornio which is where two very good friends of mine are from. I must say, it was a good weekend but it was also very hard. I had to take last weeks teacher to the airport at 4:30am so I was pretty exhausted for the weekend. I've also found the language barrier kinda hard lately. There was one time we were having a time of worship and since of course we are in Finland and we were working with a Finnish youth group we sang songs in Finnish! Now I have learned a few songs in finnish but I really have a hard time not checking out because I don't understand. Now it really frustrated me because I've really been trying to worship God no matter what. So I started asking God how the heck I was supposed to worship Him when I had no idea what was going on. He reminded me that He looks at my heart. If I'm trying my best to sing even though I don't understand, it doesn't matter if my pronunciation is wrong or if I really have to focus on what I'm saying because God is not limited to english! He can speak to me through finnish if He wants to but I have to be open to that. So once again, I learned something new. But you can for sure be praying for me in this area. The language barrier has been something I'm having a hard time with lately.

Next I will talk about this week's teaching. Our teacher Jon has been speaking on the prophetic in worship. Honestly as much stuff happened this week, it's almost impossible to actually put into words. I've learned that I'm very prophetic. Stuff that I thought was just my imagination is way more real than I think. It's time for me to realize what God is doing instead of just pass it off as daydreaming or being visual. I've been really learning the importance of meditating on scripture. It's crazy how I can take just one verse in the Bible and be stuck on it for an hour and God just shows me SOOOOOO much!! I love it! I kinda got stuck in a mindset of having to really read a lot of scripture rather than just take one and really really really understand it before I move on. When you sit down and really think about what God is saying in that one particular scripture it changes your perception of reading the Bible. God put every verse in there for a reason. He didn't just mindlessly say oh lets stick this story in there so that it will be thicker. No way jose! Thats so not God. I'm so grateful that He gave us the Bible. It really is so helpful. Smart thinking God! :)
Ok well, this doesn't even come close to how impacting this week was but I really don't even have any words. I just really thank God for this week. It's been a very hard week but it's been a very good week. That seems to be how they all go.