(I have $2000 still to raise for March 1st which is the final payment...So please be praying or that.)
It was so cool, I had had one really great time of prayer asking for His provision and after I went to check my online account and I´d received a 500pnd annonymous donation!! Whoever you are, thankyou so much...you were part of God´s perfect and funny timing. I can´t get over how generous you friends have been. But mainly, I´ve been blown away by the fact that God really will provide you with anything you need to follow His will! Serioulsy! God isn´t just 50% real...He´s either fully real as are every one of His promises, or He´s not atall. I´m ashamed that I´ve never pursued life with this knowing before. He WILL provide for me if Bangladesh is His plan is with me, and if it´s not His plan then why would I want to do go anyway! I feel like saying DUUUH to myself whenever I doubt about money stuff. God´s bigger than that!
So thankyou for reaffirming that to me all who donated!! It´s so exciting! And I so so so encourage you all to step out into whatever God calls you to with NO DOUBTS that He will provide. Just do the possible steps to where He leads, even if it seems too big a calling, and He will do the impossible! Let´s let Him be God!!! Sheeeesh, I need to chill.
On to YWAM life:
Ooooh man! So much has happened! I´ve no idea where to start! On the 2nd week of lectures we flew to the big island to the Kona YWAM base, the University of the Nations = which is the biggest YWAM base in the world. It was huuuuge! Like a town of Jesus freaks. I LOVED it! There was an amazing prayer and worship room open 24/7 (which God really spoke to me in) and a massive football pitch sized meeting space that we had our main meetings and worship all together. Aw man, the worship was incredible! It was the best worship I´ve experienced. God was so present. By the end everyone would be dancing around like mad! And Heidi Baker spoke! She was awesome....crazy awesome! Her stories were just full of God´s miraculous hand. Included, God moving lamposts for her car to avoid her being shot, Him multiplying chocolate and cookies for the children in Mozambique, and Him healing quadriplegics! AND THEN...after her first teaching, we had our break which this day was cookies...and the cookies multiplied! The cooks had said that there wasn´t enough for even one each but by the end peaople were taking about 5 away for friends! AWESOME! This was right after her teaching about God multiplying the cookies for the children in Mozambique.
The best thing about this week though wasn´t the teaching or the amazing campus or any of that stuff. But it was that God really spoke to me so clearly numerous times during prayer. Firstly, I realised that all good things really do come from intimacy with Him! I´ve finally learnt how to abide in His presence, without striving, and that from this He can really move in your life. But it is essential to an exciting life with God...spending time with Him! I hadn´t realised how much I had been missing out on when I thought spending time with God was just presenting my prayer requests to Him and talking at Him...not allowing Him the chance to talk back. I enjoy God so much more now- this has changed my life.
Also, He gave me a pretty heavy burden and realisation that Hell is very much real and made me question if I really believe that if I´m just sitting on my bum being lazy while people don´t know the importance of accepting Christ! Pretty crazy stuff. But thankfully He soon after showed me that it says so many times in His word to "always be joyful", and it´d be very hard to do this if we were constantly heavily burdened by Hell. It was an eye-opener though!
Kona was the best week of my life!
Since then we have had weeks on Basic Christianity, which gave great explanation to the solid logical arguement there is for God and the Bible. And a week with Chris Keim on our Identity In Christ. It was awesome and I took a lot away. The main thing being that `we do what we believe´....if we say we believe something, then why don´t we do it. For me that meant...why don´t I go and tell people about Jesus! Here and now! So that convicted me to start...and I have done....it´s incredible.
And last week we had New Hearts week, where we identify any lies and anxieties that we have taken in about ourselves from childhood or our past, and pray against them and forgive others. So much of it for the girls was low self-esteem from putting our identity and how we feel about ourselves on what people thing of us rather than on what God sees in us. God doesn´t make junk so why believe that.
I AM LOVING WHAT I AM LEARNING AND WHAT GOD IS DOING IN ME. I´M SO HAPPY! (And probably sounding a bit crazy)
I think I should round up for now but I hope that this fills you in. Oh and I went whale watching and cliff jumping in to the ocean off a 25ft rock. Cliff jumping´s not so fun when you close your eyes and land smack on your bum rather than feet first. I caved to peer pressure.But Maui´s awesome!
Oh and here´s my address if anyone wants to write or anything, I love mail ;) : Rosh Clark, c/o YWAM Maui, PO Box 790237, PAIA, HI 96779, USA
Keep facebooking and emailing....I love it, even though I´m awful at getting back to people because of no time. I´ve stayed in on a Saturday to get this done, what a bore.
Okay, Love you you all. Please pray for me and for God´s work to remain in me even when I return. GOD BLESS xxxxxxxx
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ONE LAST MONEY PLEA
I still have $2000 to raise before I go to Bangladesh...which is about 1,600pnds! This is for March 1st, 10 days time!
Please pray for provision for this and for peace for me as God says "Don´t worry about anything, instead, pray about everthing" (Phil 4:6- best verse ever).
If you feel led to help me with this then first THANKYOU and second:
Send money to my bank account:
MISS ROISIN L CLARK, Sort code- 800635 Account no.- 10000167. BANK OF SCOTLAND
Or you can follow this paypal link - http://bit.ly/pvBxWC
Amen x
