I taught at The War College today. It was kinda fun. Okay really fun (I just hope the students thought that too). We first had a discussion on prayer, not so much teaching, but more to get us thinking. Why do we pray? What is prayer? Is there a point in saying Grace before meals? If we are praying in the spirit at all time as Paul encourages us to do in Eph. 6, then should we open and close 'events' and other times with prayer? Again, none of these are a teaching thing, it was more of a discussion thing and to get our minds thinking for ourselves. To explore these places with the Holy Spirit and not to just be taught by people and blindly or loosely take it in.

The Lord layed that on my heart last night to talk about with the students, but what I wanted to teach on was LIFE. I've blogged about this many times, I might post some more in the nearish future..but the main points from this mornings class are as follows. The meaning of life is to live. Choose life. Zoe, in it's original Greek means, life, alive, come to life, belong, receive living, and bring life to others. Always choose life. And remember Christ's Resurrection.

There are some fantastic teachings coming up as we wrap up December. Check out our online calender for details - google calender search 'The War College'...theres also a link you could go to, but I don't know it.

God Bless The War College

and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all.

Kettles

Well....the bells are ringing...kettles have started! I had 2 opportunities to pray with people on kettles this week. On 2 different days, 2 guys came up to me and started telling me about how they dont like the way their life is going...and how they want to change and asked me to pray for them. It was really cool! As I was praying for them both of them just started bawling! It was really cool!!!

He Is The Redeemer!

Hallelujah!

Today I was waiting in the harbourlight line for my lunch and a guy wearing a Santa hat walked (key word, I'll explain later) past me. I knew I recognized him, but I couldn't place where I knew him from. I suddenly remembered who he was and I couldn't breathe. I had met him previously while we were doing an open air in pigeon park and he was drunk out of his mind in a wheelchair. He sang with us the whole time, and I remember him asking us to sing amazing grace over and over again, and here he was in front of me, completely sober and WALKING around... I was completely flabbergasted and I couldn't believe my eyes. PRAISE THE LORD! Answered prayer is so sweet. After I saw him I went back to my house and opened up my prayer journal and found about 2 or 3 pages of prayers for this guy. Right now I'm just overcome with happiness that he's found sobriety. He didn't remember who I was when I talked to him today, but he thanked me for whatever it was that I did. Give glory to God!

Praise The Lord!

 So I was on kettles, probably just around my fifth hour, when a guy came up to me and asked me for a light. When I replied that I don't smoke and that my friend who does had just left, he pulled out a lighter and lit his cigar himself. Obviously, he didn't just want a light; he wanted a conversation. He asked if it was okay if he stood beside me and smoked, and then proceeded to tell me about how he was in Harbour Light treatment 4 years ago. He said that he was doing really well now and he lived in The Vogue. When he was there, he had no money and it was around christmas time, the chaplain blessed him by buying two beautiful silver chain and cross necklaces for him to give to his two sons. His kids still have those necklaces.

Praise the Lord! We are making a difference!