Tuesday, February 17, 2009
One-ness with Christ !
I said while talking to a friend " I can now understand how God can do miracles and how He can move mountains and that with this new closness He and I have, He could actually use me. To come into this abundant love relationship with Christ being the center is breath taking yet so humbling at the same time. As I come to this place and knowing more clearly about who I am as a woman of God I begin to understand the relevance and the beautiful significance of Jesus prayer "and the glory which you gave me I have given them, that they may be one just as we are one"( john 17:22). I am so grateful for this time learning and growing my life has been forever changed.
At times like these I could fully express entirely how I feel. However all I can end with is that the one-ness and love relationship I am pursuing with God ,overflows and pours itself into ever area of my life and the peace and constant presence of God . With that closness, everything else He requires is a joy and seems to fall into place its beautiful. This type of Christianity/relationship with my creator is totally epic to say the least.
Be encouraged there is ALWAYS more with JESUS !
Rebekah Contarino
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
INDIA is the place to be
Because of complications our team had to choose one place that we all are going to go and we felt God calling us to India.
I love you all and will up-date again on Thursday!!
Love
Becky
Friday, February 6, 2009
Here we are at week # 3 we were taught by Micheal Berg(who is our base
director) and he spoke biblical on restoration! Little did i know
this would be a life changing week for me : ) we spoke on many topics.
One was the father heart of God which i realized how grateful i truly
am for blessing me with such an amazing father in my life as well as
an amazing mom. As we looked at hurts and such that may have come from
our fathers i quickly saw how i was in the group of about three other
girls who could say their dads had not hurt them drastically tainting
there perception of God. I am so grateful God has blessed me with this gift of amazing parents and family!
As the week went on we covered the topic of restoration and forgiveness, this was so moving because at the end of the week we all went and had a time of confession and forgiveness. We split into group with our small group leaders and began a 6 hour journey of heart wrenching openness and healing. This is one of the best things and the most freeing thing I have done. I was able to confess and forgive things I never thought I would be able to do. I so wanted to just run around yelling I am free because of JESUS and what HE has done for me :) At the end of the time we had a small Bonn fire and burned all our papers with names and times of all these things (as seen in the top picture). It was a week were I started to have a new understanding of what God wants us to live in all the time and how vitally important this is for our function as humans,
My prayer is always make this a practice in my life and that everyone I know also have this as well. I felt washed white as snow after this time and a closeness with God that was like taking a breath of fresh air!
I pray the same for all of you : )
Love
Rebekah (becky) Contarino
I am doing so well here! The first week of lecture but the 2ND week I
was in Orlando, we learned about hearing Gods voice by Dean Sherman. . . I have never
had a teaching like this in my whole life. It has already changed my
life drastically in how I communicate with God. On a daily basis I
hear from God now, which is something I treasure so greatly.
T-Time(Testimony Time)
As we were still in the process for seeking God as to where we were going for our out reach Ben (our school leader) asked us all to go and pray and seek God for guidance in where He wanted us to go. In my mind I realized that I really did want to go to Thailand, mainly because I had thought of it in my mind for so long and had learned all about it and told everyone thats were I was going. well as soon as I went out from our meeting to seek God I already realized that He wanted to change some things ( ha ha ). So I prayed a prayer of surrender and yielding that I would hear from Him and not be influenced by my desires and pre conceptions. So as I walked and prayed I just heard God speaking and then it became silent and then came the words of this simple poem:
"wash their feet as I did"
"change their lives and culture as I lived"
When I saw these words written on my page, they were enough , they gave me a hope and cry of Gods heart. As I walked back to hand my paper in to the leadership of what I felt God telling me. I felt content in what God had spoken to me I had a feeling that India was the place we were going, so when they told us we were going to India it came as no surprise. I was so at peace with what God had said however i must admit it was not the place of out reach I was planning on going lol. The words God had spoken really ministered to me, and this is only one of the examples of the beautiful words, pictures and moments with my loving God!
That was just a short story of the wonderful things God has been doing , I love Him so much ... with all of my heart and soul and mind!
Love
Rebekah (becky) Contarino