Say won't you Say

Killing the Giants

The theme of this week of project is Killing the Giants Week. Giants meaning spiritual giants that we face as we go out sharing our faith, things that scare us a bit and challenges for us to overcome. We all put down a number on a card of how mant people would be out of our comfort zone for us to share with this week and also put our giants on that card. So monday and tuesday I had opportunities to go out and share on the beach with my discipler Amber and with a girl in my bible study and each person we approach those 2 days all I got was flat out rejection. It was so discouraging because the first 2 weeks here everytime I went out it was so good and now when I am trying to actively go out and share as much as possible, Satan was attacking me like crazy and not wanting me to even get the opportunity to share with anyone. Tuesday night teh girls in my bible study prayed over me for no more rejection in sharing my faith, and I was still hopeful and certainly not down and out about it yet.

So last night we had our Impact groups and my group went out to Huntington Beach, another beach about 10-15 min away from Newport, to share there before our Impact dinner. I got with an amazing girl here Caellin whos a year younger, but very wise beyond her years, and with a boy here named Sung-Yoon whos 23, Asian, and from Boston......I felt great about going out with these two, still fearing rejection a little bit, but trusting God completely. To make a long story short we got to talk with 2 different groups of 3 people in each group and we went through the 4 spiritual laws booklet both times and got to pray the prayer with both groups of people! We arent sure if all 6 of them accepted Christ or not, but by the way they responded for sure 3 of the 6 did! and one of those 3 was a Muslim girl named Sarah! It was so good. God was totally faithful to let us talk to them. I was so encouraged, I dont know if I wholeheartedly believed that I would actually get to see people come to know Christ while I am here, I think I just thought how cool taht would be, but that if all I did was plant seeds and get people thinking about spiritual things than that would be ok too. But Luckily God is bigger than I give Him credit for and showed me that He can and will do what he wants and I'm so thrilled He let me be a part of that!
I also got to share the gospel with a man at work today and had a great conversation with him! Which one of my giants is sharing with older people, and he was 41! These last couple of days have just been amazing. It was my roomate Jen's 19th birthday yesterday so we got up early and decorated the apartment and made her a cake and stuff and then after sharing last night we went to eat at Olive Garden for her birthday dinner choice! It was so fun. I'm so loving all of these people here and building some great relationships. Growing and sharing so much with people cant help but make you close. Will write again soon, hopefully having lots more sharing stories and more giants defeated!***A

posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 4:09 PM