Week In Review

As I was ending my prayer time with God this morning... That should be restated. As I was ending my set apart prayer time with God this morning, He caused me to think about what He has done by way of answering my prayer to be filled with His Spirit and emboldened to preach the Gospel to every creature. I am typically a coward when it comes to opening my mouth and letting loose. I am a conservative - all the way to my bones, and I have hard time doing things that are outside of socially accepted "norms". It keeps me safe. Safe as in being a friend of the world, at least in pretence. It also keeps me from the ever closer relationship with my God that I desire to have, hence my need to be filled with His Spirit. The only I will overcome myself is by His strength, His power, His love: for perfect love overcometh all fear.

So, this week God answered my prayers on a daily basis. I failed to log (or blog) the occurances, but I had boldness to preach the Gospel on numerous occassions to individuals and sometimes small, eavesdropping groups. In fact God took my apprehension and took it past boldness all the way to excitement. He did so after I opened my mouth and began to preach. I got extremely excited about what God was doing each time it happened. While speaking to whomever my aidience was I would begin to rejoice inside myself, praise God for what He was doing, ask Him to complete His work, and excitedly anticipate His next move; all while speaking. How's that for multi-tasking?

Now God has raised the stakes. He has told me to stand in front of a Catholic church and preach the Gospel to any who would hear. That's happening today. Your prayers for boldness are appreciated. Updates pending...