Love Southend - Day 2

The meeting kicked off very well, it Paul Gutteridge was speaking, we'd seen him at Faith Camp and he's from a church from Chelmsford which is local(ish). Following are my notes from what was said:

God's power is for the streets, if you hear someone complain about pain etc. go and pray for them. We will have fear and trembling, don't trust it. Step out and do it!! God wants to confirm His word in the world. God uses us to do that.

Ambassadors have no authority in their own land, but in a foreign land they have will have all the power. We are an ambassador on Earth.

We need to 'talk their language'. Understand where they come from - don't shut yourself away from the world but get into the things they are so we can talk.

If we do something and they ask a question and we give the answer 'Jesus' it's good, but if we give the answer before the question, it's bible bashing.

We don't have to answer people's problems right away but we can ask if we can go away and get the answer. It's okay to feel weak, so long as we know God is strong. A good 4 letter prayer is HELP. Ask God to give us insite into people's lives. It's okay to go away and then come back with an answer, they'll accept that more than an answer on the spot which will be wrong.

Signs and wonders are good. Signs point (we are signs) and wonders make people wonder where they came from.

Sometimes we need to be like a donkey stumbling along with Jesus on our back. Just trust Jesus. Ask God for insite into people's lives.

When we do community action, the spirit of the Lord is upon us. It's not a feeling, it's true and biblical.

Leaving the peaches on the window means they'll soak up the sun and dry up and wont get eaten. They are meant to be eaten. Worship is like us standing in the sun, we can dry up in the sun. We are meant to be smelt and tasted and to be light. We need to be out being smelt and tasted and to be light to the world.

Allow God to open wild situation if we don't have the answer, ask someone!!!!

God doesn't always give us everything right away because He doesn't want us to all be spoilt brats.

It was great encouridgement to actually be told how to evangelise, dispite being told that we must to it.

The work was good, at least it didn't rain. We had graffiti remover today and got rid of most of it but we could have done with twice the amount we had at least to get rid of it all. The other groups did a great job of clearing everything and there was just a little bit left, mostly tidying.

It's such a satisfying feeling doing good hard work for God. So far no one has asked us what we're doing but that isn't so much a problem for me, I quite like doing work like that but I need help with talking to people which will come with practice.

The evening part was good also, I was tired though and just wanted to curl up in a corner and sleep.

Oh oh, Tom broke his foot. There was a skateboard ramp and people were running down it, and Tom slipped and foot. He'll still be going to Faith Camp but he'll be with His parents in their caravan so I'll still be able to go.

I'm going to try and get the photos up soon. I promise.

God bless you guys