JULY 2024: Bringing In A New Girl

Prayer Chain

Dear God thank you for your love, your faithfulness is your grace, you have been good is good to us how don’t praise you, celebrate you, Lord our days are more crowned with your presence, love, we are grateful.

We prayed for security: Security over all our family, land, house, schools’ programs business.

Outreach: Refugee Camp

This month we receive one girl from government, A girl who lives on the street, was raped and gave birth to a child that she sold for 20,000 Congolese francs. She has been using drugs, and was not able to take care of the child. After a few days at home she ran away- after the investigations we realized that she was in need of drugs. We are praying for her.

Spiritual Self Defense

Deploy Your Work on Earth: having a wonderful time with my team

Genesis 1:28, unfolding the divine mandate for work and its profound significance in our lives. The foundational verse set the tone for a message that intertwined the sacredness of work with our God-given purpose.

We learn about provision that accompanies God’s call. Drawing from the creation narrative, He illustrated how God equips us for the tasks He assigns:

-Creation and the Mandate for Work

-Whatever God Calls For, He Provides For

–Whatever God Demands, He Supplies: God ensures we have what we need to fulfill His requirements.

-Whatever He Assigns, He Designs God’s assignments are perfectly tailored with His designs.

– Whatever He Calls Out, He Puts in God places within us the capabilities needed to answer His call.

Work in God’s Plan:

– We Are Co-creators: Highlighting our role in God’s creative work, we partner with God in shaping the world.

– God as the Example of Work: Just as God worked during creation, He sanctified work, making it a divine act.

Work as a Sacred Calling:

– Find Meaning and Satisfaction in Our Work (Eccl 2:24): encouraged finding joy and purpose in our work, viewing it as a sacred calling rather than mere labor.

Challenges of Work and Biblical Principles:

– Work and Perseverance in Difficulties: He acknowledged the challenges we face in our work, urging perseverance grounded in biblical principles.

– Balancing Work and Rest: is very importance of balancing diligence with rest, following God’s example of resting after creation.

Then contrasted the concepts of “Job” and “Work,” drawing a distinction between what we do for compensation and what we are inherently called to do:

– Job: What you are paid to do, employs you, source of frustration, provides compensation, uses your skills, finds colleagues.

– Work: What you are born to do, deploys you, source of satisfaction, provides appreciation, uses your gift, finds co-workers.

We learn that our work must be a blessing to humanity, integrating their God-given gifts with their daily labor. By doing so, we fulfill our divine mandate, transforming our work into a sacred service that glorifies God and enriches the world.

Physical Self Defense

We still in Course 1: Lesson 1

Fight Stance, Technical Stand up, Push and pull base

After reviewing their video, they have still not passed an essential step in the technical stand up. They can complete the technical stand up when there is no one there, but as soon as there is pressure from someone “attacking” them, they lose the technique completely. We are working on this fundamental stance so that if they are attacked they can get on their feet quickly and effectively.