In His Refuge

Just a place to store some memories

January 21, 2007

RVTV Crew Team 1

Last night was the last night on RVTV Crew for both Michael and I. Michael's jumping the State boundary to settle in Adelaide, where he'll be helping to establish the new film crew ministry for the Paradise church (which is where Guy Sebastian apparently came from). What a blessing for South Australia!

As for me, i've just had so much stuff on my plate for the last couple of months. I've been like a juggler with way too many things in my hands and I guess it's the start of a new season in my life, letting go of a few things in order to face new challenges and overcome new obstacles. I feel a bit heartbroken to withdraw from crew, because there is such a strong sense of community within the crew and it is awesome just sitting around in the green room and chatting to people that I probably wouldn't normally step out of my comfort zone to introduce myself to in a normal church service. I guess I am not leaving the country and everyone will still be around and it's not like I am banned from entering the green room, well I hope not anyway ;-) so I can still see everyone.

Recently, I have thrown myself into a new phase of prayer, where i've been praying for at least two hours a day. I just think it is so important. I know God hears me, because He's been answering so many little things... and i've got this list of people I pray for every day and I get this deep sense of satisfaction when I hear that their prayers have been answered. It fuels me into more prayer time.

Dave and Cate led me to an awesome little book called "Scripture Keys for Kingdom Living", which is a book filled with verses from the Bible that have been categorised into topics. If you feel really low one day or you have a bad headache or you're in dire need of finances or something, you go to the relevant section of the book and pray the scriptures that relate to what you need, over your situation. The word of God is life, it is nourishing to the soul and there is something mysteriously powerful about praying verses over your situation. You read the verses out loud and pray them again and again and it's like it empowers you to see the situation from God's perspective and it stirs up your faith and dispels your doubts and negativity and it enables miracles to happen. Definitely worth a shot!

This is a partial team photo from last night (some people hadn't showed up or had gone home already). I don't usually label my piccies, but seeing it's one of my last shots of crew, i may as well. In this piccy, left to right, we have Erling, Leanne, Micky, Karen, Michael, Me and Joelle. Then there's a collage capturing our dinner at Sebastians afterwards ;-) In this piccy, clockwise from the top left, we have Joelle, Rob and FrankPol, Liesel, Mathys, Lachlan, Joelle, Micky, Leanne and Michael. Praise God for He blessed us, and the hands that made our delicious pizza.