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Forgiveness and the Process of Healing

Week 3 - The Father Heart of God with RenĂ© Laframboise Week 4 - Relational Wholeness with Living Waters Canada Hello friends and family! Sorry I didn't do this past Sunday. So here's what's been happening in Vancouver. Week 3 This week was particularly hard for me. Not only did I lose a friend but it was a topic I had a hard time understanding. Rene, a French Canadian and psychologist, broke the week down into six (6) sessions: Discovering our identity in Christ and developing a healthy love relationship, false concepts, uprooting the false concepts, understanding God's governance, receiving the Father's comfort and affirmation, and to be reconciled with our earthly Fathers and the process of forgiving.  I never knew my biological father and so I projected that onto God. I never saw God as a Father. It just didn't "click". All I've ever had was my mom so the concept of God the Father just didn't "click". I never had a father/d

Ask, Seek, Knock

WEEK 1 - Recognizing God's Voice with Joanna Pallister  WEEK 2 - The Nature and Character of God with Tanya Lyons Wow! what an amazing last 2 weeks here in Vancouver! There is so much to say, I don't even know where to begin. WEEK 1 The first official week of classes started with recognizing the voice of God. A week I thought would be hard, since I haven't God speak to me since telling me that I am going to YWAM. But, I prayed about it and opened up my heart and willed myself to let God do His thing. And of course, He did! One of the first questions Joanna asked us was "when was there a time in your life when you didn't recognize God's voice?" Keyword being recognize and not heard because we all hear God's voice, we just realize it's Him. Joanna asked us to bow our heads, close our eyes, sit in complete silence, and just...listen. At first, with my overactive mind, I was thinking about lunch, how silly this exercise was. "I haven'