This morning going into our 15th hour, I was so tired and brain dead. 9 hours straight yesterday was a little taxing on my little brain - information overload.
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Started the morning at the prayer room :) Going to the first study was a little tiring though, maybe last night I didn't sleep too well, and people on my floor were very loud, they were jamming at 12am.
It's interesting how God speaks to you in different ways through scripture, and in retrospect seeing how things are pieced together. While I was at the prayer room after lunch, today the topic was hope, healing and restoration. A clay pot was smashed and we could take pieces of the clay pot and paint them - in whatever you like, anything that has to do with the theme. Not knowing what to paint, I saw three pieces put together on the ground, so I went to find a space to paint. Only had blue and white in front of me, so I decided, "hmmmm...maybe I'll paint a cloud on these three pieces and make it a mosaic itself on it's own, as looking up into the sky always gives me hope." Why painting and meditating on the passages studied, what caught my attention was this one verse - "Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove." Mark 1:10. It was just the thing I was painting. A cloud/the sky being torn open.
I really want to try sharing the experience of the Bible studies, but I really can't...it's a little impossible. Digging into it, being more confused, discussing, wrestling with people on the passage and questions, discussion and throwing ideas across the room, drawing connections...and then "Aha!" That moment of "ding" happened so many times for us as a group today.
It's really awesome to study the word with a group of dedicated people, everyone was just so on their feet, even though we were so tired and was lack of expressions, the excitement you see when the word speaks to us! That moment of seeing a glimpse of what the Scripture means, I don't really know how to describe it. I guess it's kind of a thing where you need to experience it on your own.
After the last section, a seeker YP was asking me more questions on the passage we studied, we wrestled with it a little more. And if you see this, please do pray for her? :) As a team we all think that she might become a believer this week. Please pray that the Word will come alive for her. She told me that it's such a great experience for her to see how something originally confusing becomes clearer to her after the studies :)
From my notes:
"Our faith is like an Easter egg hunt, and our Lord is waiting for us. He does not hide the eggs so that we cannot find it, but He hides it so that they can be found. And during the process of finding the eggs, we can thus experience tremendous joy and excitement."
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