God's provision

Well it's been an amazing couple of weeks since my last post. I've only been here three weeks and God's already done so much. Last week, they had some fun activities for all the first semester students that really allowed us to meet a lot of people and see some cool stuff in Sydney. On Monday, they served us brunch. Tuesday they took us to Bondi beach where a friend and I went into the water in spite of it being a little cold. Wednesday, we went over to Manly beach and walked around the town there. That evening, when everyone else took a ferry back to where we started, I stuck around in the city and connected with a friend who had been here for the last year and a half going to the Hillsong city campus. He was getting ready to go back to the states, so it was good to connect with him once before he did. It was a fun three days and I met a lot of really cool people. The next couple of days we had orientation and got our schedules for the next two weeks.

Last Thursday night, I went to what was called Creative Team Meeting. It's designed for anybody involved in the church through worship, dance, or media. It's a time of worship and exhortation and the Spirit of God was there from the moment it started. Through the time of worship, God really started speaking to me about areas of my life I need to change. Towards the end of the night, they took up an offering for the people affected by the tsunami. They take up an offering for them every Thursday night. I still hadn't received a job, so I was trying to hold on to all the money I had and not spend much. I had $25 in my wallet, and I really felt like God told me to give it all. I was obedient and put it in the offering. Later, as I was praying I felt like God told me I would receive a job the next day. The next day, I went back up to a restaurant that had told me they might be hiring and asked him if they still were. He told me to give him another week. I noticed a couple other places that said they were hiring so I gave my resume to them. I went through the rest of that day and still hadn't heard anything. I figured I must have heard from God wrong. The following day, I received a call from one of those places to come in for an interview later that afternoon and they gave me a job. So God did get me a job the day He told me He would by leading me to the right place to turn in my resume. Praise God! He's showing me each and every day that He will provide for me.

Classes started this week. They have gone really well. I've been blown away by all the teachers and how genuine they are. They really seem to care about the students. They love God and they love people. One might think that with such a big church, (well over 20,000 people attend each week) when people climb the ladder so to speak and have positions of authority, it could get to their head. But everyone I've come into contact with has really seemed to have such a heart of a servant and are willing to do whatever it takes to further the Kingdom of God, not their ministry or their ego. God, would you give me that heart as well. Sometimes I think I care more about my passions, my dreams, than I care about people. More and more I'm realizing that when you have a servant's heart and are willing to do whatever needs to be done to further the Kingdom, then God can use you and then He will cause the dreams that He's given you to come true. So God, use me however you want, whether it be leading worship, setting up chairs, or cleaning toilets. I'm your servant.