I have one question about something that happened to me. When I started my walk with Jesus, I was asked to accompany the final year schlars of the Sunday School camp. It was my first willingness to do something for Jesus. So off we went to this CAMP in the Drakensberg mountains...
There were about 50 students (scholars) and 10 group-leaders of which I was one.... As we departed from the church, i chose the five boys in the back of the bus to be my "group". I did that because I could relate to them best... I was also one of the guys that sat in the back of the bus... THE MAIN MACK... You know what I mean.
Ok so, when we boarded the bus a dear girl came to me and said... "Oom (uncle) Cobus, good luck thrying to convert one of those boys. And believe me you are going to need it, they are WILD ones"... So we arrived at the mountains some 300 km away, and we had our first session...
In this session everybody had to go their seperate ways and read Matthew 14:25 to 30... Where Jesus walked on the water and Peter walked to Him.... Then we each had to choose any verse and memorise it... After 30 minute we gathered in our groups again and this is when the counselling started, and the first miracle happened in my life..
Know this...I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD WHEN I SAT DOWN WITH THOSE YOUNG MEN! (Around 17 and 18 years old) there was also another older man STEPHAN, with us in the group and he was appointed as my assistant. Just happened like that...I cannot say why...
So now we are together and the "counselling/teaching" should start. For the first time in my life I prayed with whatever faith I had, and I asked...Lord help us this weekend, AMEN!
Then i saked the boys what verses they memorised and they were very dissappointing, i wonder if any of them ever read the peace. But then one asked me a good question... And he said:..."Oom, What is the use we try to be christians, who will take us seriously, we are so young?"... I said... AND I WAS AMAZED AT WHAT CAME FROM MY MOUTH>>>> "Do you know that the Lord had a young prophet, and He also thought he was to young? God said to that prophet..... " Do not say you are too young, for you shall go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak."... Jer 1:7. But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Now seeing that I NEVER HEARD THAT VERSE, nor EVER read that verse, How did I quote that verse, and How did I know where it was in the Bible, and I read it for them STRAIGHT AFTER I QOUTED IT!..... On that moment. that very moment as we read the Word there, the whole situation changed... ALL OF A SUDDEN I KNEW GOD WAS THERE!!!!
Now any one can pull this to pueces if you like, but the ones that have something of scripture to share with me, PLEASE explain this what happened there!
For our young ones... Form that moment on all five boys had love for Oom Cobus. They paid attention to all I said and I quoted more Bible than I EVER read that weekend. They ATE UP THE WORD OF GOD, as it came from me, WHOM NEVER READ OR HEARD WHAT HE WAS SAYING... And they ate it...
We were there for four days, and just before we came back the Sunday afternoon, the minister opened the floor for witnesses... The most special thing in my life happened then.... When a lot of children witnessed how the Lord touched their hearts, my five young men stood up like one man... They walked to the front and their witnesses had me IN HEAVEN!!!!
I witnessed the greatest mirackle of ALL time that day... I saw how Jesus change people! AND IT HAPPENED WHEN JESUS WAS USING ME!!!! Man i cried rivers.... There was not a single dry eye in that hall, everybody was overwelmed by the GREAT GRACE OF GOD!!!!
I have to say what one of the Boys said... He said this looking straight at the girl..." Elmari (a girl that is the leader of their school's youth for Christ) we always thought you were a strange girl, and that you were fake. We teased, joked, and blashemed all around and at you, but you always showed pain and humbleness.... Something we thought was weakness.... SORRY!!! I ask you, please forgive us, and Elmari NOBODY will talk bad about you EVER again at school. We were the weak ones, and we were the fake ones, thank you all for this weekend, I am now awakened about my foolishness "... I believed that these five guys will not allow blasphemy in their schoo again....
I took a weeks leave to support them at school, and that went terribly wrong, for MY AWAKENING on what lies ahead...But that is another experience ... call it the VDM revenge... I was kicked off the school property... by you know who... But the boys triamphed, in Jesus.
My question is this...How could I qoute the Word of God if I did not even know it was written in the Bible? And then I would also just open the Bible at that place to read it to them.
There were about 50 students (scholars) and 10 group-leaders of which I was one.... As we departed from the church, i chose the five boys in the back of the bus to be my "group". I did that because I could relate to them best... I was also one of the guys that sat in the back of the bus... THE MAIN MACK... You know what I mean.
Ok so, when we boarded the bus a dear girl came to me and said... "Oom (uncle) Cobus, good luck thrying to convert one of those boys. And believe me you are going to need it, they are WILD ones"... So we arrived at the mountains some 300 km away, and we had our first session...
In this session everybody had to go their seperate ways and read Matthew 14:25 to 30... Where Jesus walked on the water and Peter walked to Him.... Then we each had to choose any verse and memorise it... After 30 minute we gathered in our groups again and this is when the counselling started, and the first miracle happened in my life..
Know this...I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD WHEN I SAT DOWN WITH THOSE YOUNG MEN! (Around 17 and 18 years old) there was also another older man STEPHAN, with us in the group and he was appointed as my assistant. Just happened like that...I cannot say why...
So now we are together and the "counselling/teaching" should start. For the first time in my life I prayed with whatever faith I had, and I asked...Lord help us this weekend, AMEN!
Then i saked the boys what verses they memorised and they were very dissappointing, i wonder if any of them ever read the peace. But then one asked me a good question... And he said:..."Oom, What is the use we try to be christians, who will take us seriously, we are so young?"... I said... AND I WAS AMAZED AT WHAT CAME FROM MY MOUTH>>>> "Do you know that the Lord had a young prophet, and He also thought he was to young? God said to that prophet..... " Do not say you are too young, for you shall go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee, thou shalt speak."... Jer 1:7. But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Now seeing that I NEVER HEARD THAT VERSE, nor EVER read that verse, How did I quote that verse, and How did I know where it was in the Bible, and I read it for them STRAIGHT AFTER I QOUTED IT!..... On that moment. that very moment as we read the Word there, the whole situation changed... ALL OF A SUDDEN I KNEW GOD WAS THERE!!!!
Now any one can pull this to pueces if you like, but the ones that have something of scripture to share with me, PLEASE explain this what happened there!
For our young ones... Form that moment on all five boys had love for Oom Cobus. They paid attention to all I said and I quoted more Bible than I EVER read that weekend. They ATE UP THE WORD OF GOD, as it came from me, WHOM NEVER READ OR HEARD WHAT HE WAS SAYING... And they ate it...
We were there for four days, and just before we came back the Sunday afternoon, the minister opened the floor for witnesses... The most special thing in my life happened then.... When a lot of children witnessed how the Lord touched their hearts, my five young men stood up like one man... They walked to the front and their witnesses had me IN HEAVEN!!!!
I witnessed the greatest mirackle of ALL time that day... I saw how Jesus change people! AND IT HAPPENED WHEN JESUS WAS USING ME!!!! Man i cried rivers.... There was not a single dry eye in that hall, everybody was overwelmed by the GREAT GRACE OF GOD!!!!
I have to say what one of the Boys said... He said this looking straight at the girl..." Elmari (a girl that is the leader of their school's youth for Christ) we always thought you were a strange girl, and that you were fake. We teased, joked, and blashemed all around and at you, but you always showed pain and humbleness.... Something we thought was weakness.... SORRY!!! I ask you, please forgive us, and Elmari NOBODY will talk bad about you EVER again at school. We were the weak ones, and we were the fake ones, thank you all for this weekend, I am now awakened about my foolishness "... I believed that these five guys will not allow blasphemy in their schoo again....
I took a weeks leave to support them at school, and that went terribly wrong, for MY AWAKENING on what lies ahead...But that is another experience ... call it the VDM revenge... I was kicked off the school property... by you know who... But the boys triamphed, in Jesus.
My question is this...How could I qoute the Word of God if I did not even know it was written in the Bible? And then I would also just open the Bible at that place to read it to them.