Last week I was sitting in the church to translate a message which King, our pastor, shared. I'm sure that God wants to reveal himself as a good provider who provide a safe place to any Christian who deals with family conflicts, and it's a Christ family. This is a very big family that have the same value and thought, they also have a same father, and they also walk to eternity together. Most of Thai Christian would face lots of conflict from our earthly families if we are the 1st person who became Christian in our own family. We value life by live in a holiness and love one another while our very own family value money and how much we can get from others. We can't expect that we'll be understood by our earthly family. God also doesn't let us stand alone in this kind of situation, he is carrying our sadness,grieves and suffering through his children. Once we share our heart together with brother and sister, we receive an encouragement and understanding from them. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't turn away from our earthly family since we receive a good thing from Christ family, we should be a giver who gives to our family. This timeless truth helps me to turn myself to my dad and my sister, instead of point out what wrong with them, I'll be a giver who cares and love them. I'll continue to give and pray for them. Through this, I can walk as Christ-like Christianity. Thanks to God for his wonderful message!
During these intense 6 months of co-leading a YWAM training school, I have been learning and exploring tons of thing about who God is and about myself which I have to lay down myself in many ways. My intimate relationship with God has been developing since I took the FOCOS (Coaching Course with CMI), for I started to focus more on my quality time with God and learning to listen to him. In past 3 months, although there are so much works going on, I still learn to be still and know that God is God where I can't control any thing at all. Through this school, I wish I could be more prepared, the building would be perfect to run the school, all staffs would be ready to serve the school, and the students would learn and grow incredibly, but those are false expectations because God's plan and how he works in a whole group and individual are totally what we are experiencing now. There are tons of small thing occurs to make us discouraged, but I do learn to let thing go and depend on Go...
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