Prayers answered

Now you can see the point, I had nowhere else to turn but ask God to help me out and supply His love to me. I was reading this book called "Your kingdom come" unlocking the miraculous through faith and prayer, reading power of prayer and spending time with God.

'My famous thumb' 

Reading chapter that mentions about 'prayer that brings heaven to earth'. Then it explains this which stands out for me. 

God sees absolutely everything...He also looks deep within the heart of individual. 

Then it came to my realisation that I've been praying half hearted at times, quick 5 mins read then bed. This is when moment I take a stand, make time and room to pray and being alone with God. I went along the lake, at night time to gaze at stars along the pier for quiet time with my heavenly father, praying for people here that they will get to know his light, praying for a Christians at camp to support one another here. I remember vividly a guy told me he is a Christian where he was wearing gold cross chain on his neck, but wasn't sure what was type he was. Trusting God would provide the way as he knows everything. 

Then I read the bible - DVO app is a must for u readers (iPhone)

At that time I was reading it, then something amazing happen, this is below text I sent out to my friends back home on whatapp. 

I can't believe what happened, I was getting little frustrated with God with current situation in life and at camp. I decided to myself that I'll spend more time with God. So this evening I headed out towards the lake, by the pier at night time to pray and gaze at the stars (that then it was cloudy) And started praying for someone I could share or gospel the good news, I knew I met this boy at camp who is a Christian and wonder if he shares the same faith as me. I started reading the bible about hope anchor my soul then I felt the footsteps along the pier, torch was shining in my eyes, big black figure with 15 size feet and realised it was him, the Christian guy Brian. Wow, out of everyone he came then we chatted about Christianity, life, spreading gospels, struggles being a Christian, other religions etc. Lucky I knew the answers so Bible College and spending time with God with list of questions paid off, I knew exactly what he was saying. Thanks God and fellowships.

Praying with faith goes a long way. Ask in Jesus name and it will be done on earth. When we passionately pray the things that on His heart more than our own, God clearly love it. When we begin to passionately pray for people, and people to be saved (I have seen this happens praying for others in the past) we have every confident that heaven is beginning to move in response. The truth is clearly illustrated by Jesus in the scripture, John 14:13-14 "And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the father may be glorified in the son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it". Jesus has promised that when we pray with motivitation that His father be glorified. He will respond by doing anything that we ask Him to do. It's time to get Jesus famous and known at this camp and of course wherever we go. Wow, amazing and full of promises. God is not like us so therefore He never fail or fall short of his promises to us. 

This was 3 weeks ago now, also to mention I try regularly meet up with Brian for fellowship, we haven't had chance to meet up last week because of our busy schedule but we manage to meet up last night, that time heavy rain and thunder storm, it felt like it was going to rain during day time but nothing came, u can feel the air was tense all day, the humidly and all. At that time in the evening at 9pm myself and Brian was praying, having worship songs in the background. Brian feels a struggle with himself not trusting God enough for his future in everything, and he went on about what ifs, then that moment, talking about he doesn't have patience for God to work in his life, then the mightly thunder erupted! It was so loud! Absolutely booming! It was frightening sounds, even myself I'm deaf still consider how loud is was and it was scary, Brian felt somehow that was God way of telling him. Then that moment, it was like killing two birds in one stone, he was on his app of the day, and there it was God reminding him of something.  

Trust Lord with all your heart.

Do not lean on your own understanding- perfect verse to Brian.

That's I told him that's big man telling you up there, alas Brian was expecting the Holy Spirit will come with loud booming voice, but it doesn't, instead it's a gentle whisper. 

Although not quite sure what I think of the thunder, it was definitely loud!

God is good and his timing was perfect - sums up everything that night. 

Speak soon! Xx

The previous day, weather came lashing down with rain, completely soaked during swim teaching within 5 mins. 

Where's the love?!

Hey guys, 

How's things? Just letting you know that my friends wanted more details about a particular story that happens couple weeks ago. I'm not definitely a writer so apologies if I made any grammar errors, please don't judge me on that. I'm just stating facts and obvious what's God doing here. Im just passionate about Jesus and really want people to have that experience with Him. The never ending love, mercy and grace. 

USA swim coach and camp

Relaxing on my job EVERY DAY! :)

My lifeguard dog on patrol at waterfront. 

The day of the life at USA, swim coaching going swimmingly well here, I have to say activities...wow they really goes beyond expectation here. Let me summaries this for you so you get round up on the kind ideas we have here. On camp we have...hockey, lacrosse, basketball, football, swimming, water slide, arts and craft, woodwork, pottery, archery, tall ropes (go apes like adventures), trekking, farm (we have farms here, llama, donkeys etc). Canoeing, kakaying, sailing, rope swing, water ride, shame there's no wake-boarding or surfing (no waves). It's really exaggerating how much activities and specialists in their particular area and there's lot more but you get my drift. We have theme happening once a week such as Charlie and chocolate factory, cavemen night, Hawaii theme night etc. Everyone dresses up for this adventure, painting all over dining room matching themes, cup, plates so on. Overnights where each unit goes off for a night on forest with fire, cooking food. I say this again, there's no camp like this before certainly not Europe from what I've seen. America camp is place to be!

One of the many photos from event night, Charlie and chocolate factory.

This is not the reason I'm stating on this post, I must say activities, being with kids are such a blessing and it's great! What I have noticed when I arrived that I found it very difficult to fit in, I struggle to understand why it's not easy as I thought it would be. I know deaf can be a disadvantage to group conversations but I wouldn't let that get to me. I'm

confident, determined person. I found one thing that was difficult, being Christian without your fellowship was harder than I thought it was, meaning I had to rely fully on God a lot more. That made me appreciate my fellowship back in Belfast. There are roughly 150-175 staff and there aren't many Christians here from what I know now. But that wasn't only challenge, mixing with people, I found them friendly but conversation was hardly flowing at times, just lot of surface talks. I found it frustrating that there is no one generally showing love for one and another, interacting, chatting, getting involved etc. I'm not being sensitive but I just love interacting with different people from different background, nationality etc where people comes as one not groups. At times like this, it's seem everyone was the same, I couldn't find people I could really interact with for past couple weeks. But I love this quote a friend told me this: 

The greatest gift is to give time to each other. 

Totally this speaks true, I know I'm guilty for not giving enough time to people and generally sidetrack by technologies in evenings especially new gadgets ie iPhone, MacBook Pro and not interacting with my housemates, friends, parents, siblings and so on. It's incredibly distracting and anti-socialable, here at camp, mostly of them whisk out their mobiles in front of everyone and not interacting, or making time to chat. I was thinking if this was 20 years ago (camp was founded 1886) I'm sure the staff has more fun than us playing board games, interacting one another but nowadays the society is taken over by mobiles, tablet, apps, gaming, mobile apps particularly one of the app is well known subject on talks in common room. It's dating app called 'Tinder' that find people locally and already a guy from camp here hooked up with one of the girl locally here in the USA through that, who happens to be mutual friend with a staff. How awkward.

So you get my drift, being with fellowship and enjoying other people's company is amazing. It's shame to see how society is going. Although I feel people here needs know God's love for them and from what I have experiences God's love for me, is a huge difference between the me and them as though it's feels like I'm standing over the other side. Maybe I'm going over board a little but I think I realised that now. This made me appreciates my fellowship and friends back home.

I have been praying to God asking him to direct me to people who needs to hear the gospel, someone who also shares same faith as me and friends with people I get on well, I found that hard first in few weeks with people like that everyone needs that something, connecting with people. This is probably boring post but will explain why and what has been happening and how God answers to my prayers.