Well hello beautiful people!!

Its been a while since I wrote.. things have been cruising along- with a few bumpy patches. Yes that is life, and sometimes those bumpy patches are VERY hard. Its these bumpy patches that teach us so much, and reveal to us who is in control our lives. I have been blown away by how God has been revealing himself to me through this challenging situations.

I am currently in Auckland. Its been an awesome few days here. I went to Teen Aglow meeting in Pakuranga on Tuesday night. WOW - what a phenominal group of young woman. It kinda made me want to move back to Auckland.. hehe

There were some powerful testimonies of how God has answered prayer and how God had spoken to the girls about different things that he had for them in their lives. It was really encouraging to see confidence and boldness arising, and fear being cast out. As Christ followers we need to NOT throw away our confidence. The gospel would never get preached if we were not bold. God has chosen us to be his representatives on earth so we really need to get rid of the fear that is holding us back. Maybe taking some time to sit and SOAK in GODS LOVE is the thing this generation has not been doing. We are all soooo busy DOING STUFF, that we often forget that we need to spend time in the word of God, in prayer, worshipping God in a quiet place... and in these times fear will get cast out - cause REMEMBER - perfect love casts out ALL FEAR. Perfect love can only come from GOD.

My hope and prayer for this generation is that we would learn to find the greatest love of all - JESUS.... let him romance us, be our first love... and out of this love relationship that we have that we can fulfill the great commission- and fulfill the purpose for which GOD CHOSE TO MAKE US....

 

OK... so thats a bit of what I've been thinking of lately... and where I'm at personally... 

Next week I head down to Wellington for the Aglow quarterly board meeting. This will be great to connect with our Advisors and have time to reflect on the year ending, and the new one approaching...

My saying for 2009 is ... 2009 - love divine...  Lets believe that as we head out of 08 into 09 that we experience this LOVE DIVINE from CHRIST ALONE....

Keep in touch... and keep your eyes open for events near year that will kick off in 09

love... katie