So there is only 7 days left till we go overseasto the Philippines. I'm excited for God to move while we are there for him to be glorifed to use us in life changing ways. The last couple of weeks have been full yet refreshing. We've learnt about the importance of God's word reciveing new and amazing deepths of wisdom about his word and the worldview in a biblical sense. Seeing the big picture and also doing a bible study taking Ephesians 3 and exploring it individually then coming back together again and talking about the revelations we had of what God was saying then and also to us currently about his message.

The next week we had freedom in Christ were we were delivered from curses and addictions it was a freeing week, I felt a load be lifted off and knowing that I will remember this day as a life changing awakening of spiritual life day where the devil cant threaten me with insults because Jesus has already redeemed me from the yoke of burden and suffering. This is a new season a refreshing one where singing and joy are in abundance and I can sing of my delight in God. Song of songs 2 vs. 10 says “My lover spoke to be and said to me 'Arise my darling my beautiful One and come with me. See! The winter is past the rains are over and gone...” This verse reminds me I am in a new season a season for joy and singing that I am my beloveds and He is mine. I am beautiful lovely and he is showing me the gifts he has plaved in me. Like mothering, words of knowledge creative displays and so much more.

We learnt about the importance of the Cross and why it is the Gospel of the Kingdom that we share, that what Jesus has already done for us by dying on the cross is important but we must also share about what he is going to do when he comes a second time.

This week we have had free time because of Easter and the speaker being sick so it has been a time of relaxing and preparing for outreach. Also this week I had a revelation about whose I was as I have always struggled with who I was and what was the reason for living and doing life. But I had been asking the wrong question its not who am I but whose am I? And I had a heart to head revelation about whose I was I AM MY BELOVEDs AND HE IS MINE. This has brought such joy and peace to my heart I can really listen and hear my heart now for it has been pruned and cleansed by God. Its taken so long but now I finally can say and share my joy in knowing the one I call my lover and I am finding who I am in him. His royal bride, beautiful, precious, priceless, worth the wait, adorable, created for a purpose to bring joy and share the love I have been given. I am an image bearer for Christ to show his glory through me being a vessel and open for him to use me in whatever way he wants. For it is not I that live but Christ who lives in me.

After coming back from the Philippines I'm not quite sure what I will do so please keep me in your prayers all I do know is that Jesus has said come be humbled before me kneel at his feet and allow him to teach me his word. I am thinking of do the THOP (Tauranga house of Prayer) internship in April next year where I can reflect and lean on my beloved to go deeper in Him.

One of the assignments we have had to do was a creative devotional about an unreached people group. The country that most of us picked was Azerbaijan and we did different people groups like the Tats and Azeri people. So keep these people on your prayer lists for God to send people that are fully devoted to him to deliever his good news and proclaim that Jesus is glorified in heaven for his sacrifice and ulimate price paid for all humanity. Please feel free to research about other unreached people groups a good website is www.joshuaproject.com.

So when you think and pray for me ask God to minister to the people we reach out to in the Philippines . If you would like to help finanically it would be of much help to this outreach to the people we help and disiciple for His glory. While over there I will only be using an internet cafe to check emails and facebook and Im not sure how many times we will be able to do that, so if you want to contact me or write a word of encouragement that will be such a blessing.

Many blessings

Renee

Ramblings and thoughts about life and God

Don't depend on the circumstances around you or the situation at hand, see the sliver-lining in all things both good and bad. Depend on God hes got your back.


Don't think of the bad you face everyday not having all you need. There is always going to be a longing for something something more rewarding. Learn to be content with what you've got humble yourself to give even that. God will reward you in this so give of yourself give of your time and give of your money that's right. Being diligent with your time money and self will be a reflection of your true self. 


God is a God who is jealous he claimed one nation for himself. But that wasn't enough he wanted the whole world. He wanted all the nations to be his people to love on everything tribe, tongue and nation. To show his compassion to show his mercy to declare his glory is the reason for living. He gives grace to the humble so are you humble? Do you put others first and seek God for other people For him to lavish and cherish them in his love? Would you show what he has spoken to you? Don't you know that it is the Holy Spirit  that pierces the heart. Put God first seek him out be satisfied in him with totally surrendered hearts.


Christ died his blood was shed so that both male and female are one again with the spirit of God. To be joined in marriage to be made perfect and whole to be fully satisfied with the God of all.


Ephesians 2 vs 14-16  We as male and female were one man joined with God. So it is oneness as male and female and with God that makes a whole. To have a perfect circle in marriage you need all parts to play their role to complete the whole. We need to play our part in the marriage to join each room of the temple. The male and female make up the inner and outer courts. And Jesus/God is the holy of hollies the centre of the temple, the place where your spring of life comes from and flows to, it's where we hid things where we discover ourselves. Jesus is the cornerstone we start and lay our foundations on him in marriage and in life. 


Jesus became sin for us but he is no longer sin. He broke it he conquered it he overcame it with his pure blood. Jesus commands us to love your neighbour as yourself but the problem is these days we don't know ourselves to be able to love ourselves. Loving yourself has to do with loving all of yourself the good and the bad. Knowing you have been forgiven and are pure before God when you stand before him. The sign 'work in progress' that you see on motorways or building sites indicates just that a job is getting done here. Just like our hearts get filled with junk when we allow things to consume us like technology, books, information. If it is not the right message if it is not the truth getting our foundations layed will be useless will be futile to the life we live. Jesus has to come and clean ourselves out. He does it kindly room by room piece by piece. As we start to see the progress we start to feel lighter and brighter and freer to do the things of God in obedience to him. Because he has given you a gift of sanctification and justifying us to himself the purification process starts from the longings of his heart. It starts when we say Jesus come into my heart. We need to accept that we do wrong and sometimes those wrongs have harsh outcomes if we don't learn and progress in these areas then whats the point in progressing at all. Believing that we are healed and standing on God's truths doing the best we know how to do and praising God for doing the rest. Acknowledging our weaknesses are the first place to start then knowing that in God these are turned to strengths. 

Thank you to the gentlemen

I would like to thank you men for the diligence of service that you show to woman.
  For getting the door and complementing our style, for showing us home even to the door.
I would like to appreciate you for your brotherly love
  for asking how we are and really caring for our well-being.
To be delighted when we are delighted to show mercy when we do wrong.
  To forgive and forget the wrong we do the patience you have when we are trying to explain
No matter how many times we talk about the same things
  Thank you for your wisdom and grace for showing us a different heart of Jesus
Thank you for your striving to look your best when we are around.
  For your manly things and your willingness to teach us new things.
To be spontaneous with your adventurous spirit and letting us join in.

THANK YOU!!

DTS so far

To Friends & Family

Sorry it’s been so long since doing this update. A lot has happened and I don’t know how I’m going to get it down on paper, but I’ll try. As you all know I am doing a DTS that is called Intimacy and Impacts. Were we are finding out about intimacy with God through revelations and wisdom given by God and imparted through men. (Ephesians 1 vs.17- 19) At the start of this season here in Tauranga my computer decided to not work and so I haven’t had much access to a computer. Finally got my computer back after a couple of weeks in the shop and now our internet is not working as there was a crash outside our house and the power shortage killed our modem.

One of the subjects we have been learning about is intimacy with God and how only God can satisfy our needs to be loved totally and fully. He created us for His glory, everything he does is to point back to him he is not prideful he just wants to share his love with another. Aaron Walsh taught us about this and just let a bomb go by talking about how intimacy with God should be our main focus in life. We can do this by setting aside time each day to talk and listen to build our relationship with him. Have you ever thought about how Isaac and Rebekah’s story is a symbolism of God and us becoming one? Abraham (God the father) sends his head servant (Holy Spirit) to find his son (Jesus) a bride in the land that he himself came from and to take from his family a bride. The servant goes but is led by the connection with the father about who the bride will be and what she will say so he knows that she is the one for the son. That this life now is the journey to find out about the bridegroom and their family, the Holy Spirit is here to guide and tell us about his master (Jesus). Amazing right!

Other topics are the nature and character of God, gifts of the Holy Spirit. The father’s heart was a week of amazing change in my life. We learnt about what God thinks of us. Frank Naea taught us about this, on Wednesday we put our names in a hat and pulled out someone’s name so that on Thursday and Friday we could tell that person what God wanted to say to them and how he wanted us to express that. My friend Katie got me and sprinkled flowers over me like after a wedding ceremony and said that ‘I am my beloveds and he is mine’. (Song of Songs 2 vs. 16) After that everyone got ask to take some petals and give them to me as gifts speaking truth into my heart about who God thinks I am and what he wants to do to me. It was an amazing time of love and sharing. In learning about the father heart of God we went back to the start and reacted the scene of the Garden of Eden. About how when Satan (who was an angel that was very beautiful; he is described in Ezekiel 28 vs. 11-18) tempted Eve; she was deceived into wanting to be like God but in love with him like he was in love with them not to have knowledge of good and evil and to rule and suffer the consequences of this. When God called to Adam in the garden he was referring to both parts the male and female human. That nothing happened until both parts of Adam had eaten the apple and then the female part was given a different name Eve.

In the last couple of weeks we have learnt about Identity in Christ, Hearing God’s voice and Relationships. It’s amazing the things we think are truths but are not, that we have thought or been taught that makes us fear trying things because it is naught or wrong we are not always given the full truth about relationships and what they were created for. I have been dealing with a lot of past events that have affected me and let God reveal to me where he was in that situation and what he would have said. At the beginning of this course we were told about how this time here is a consecrated time devoted to hearing God’s voice and developing our relationship with him. We were asked to write down what we wanted to get out of this what we wanted God to do. Before I came to this course I had asked God this question and I came expectant for him to restore, renew, refresh and rename me. I can totally see him doing this in me, Praise the Lord. He has renamed me from Isaiah 62 vs. 3-4 “You will be a crown of splendour in the Lords hand, a royal diadem in the hand of your God. No longer will they call you Deserted or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah (my delight is in her) and your land Beulah” (married, favoured and blessed by the Lord). He has been teaching me about the beauty I have in him and has called me to “Arise my darling, my beautiful one and come with me. See the winter is past, the rains are over and gone.” (Song of Songs 2 vs. 10-11). He has said to step into the joy of the Lord and receive his love with wholeness and delight.

As some of you know I have always had a dream to open a café and have apprentices that come from a woman’s shelter to train and teach them about what life is about and who they are in Christ Jesus that there is another way to live life without getting abused, or not treated with the respect due to them. At this time I have given this dream to God to either bring back into my life or to start a new passion. I am devoted to doing whatever he calls me to do in this new season in life even if that is scary and out of my comfort zone.  As a part of this course we are asked to do Friday night evangelism where we go out on the street talking to people about God. This for me is very scary and not my style of evangelism; we are all called to do different things to bring people to Christ to develop them and teach them to be disciples. But as I have gone out I have felt God with me and give me the strength and boldness to talk to people it is a journey and with each week I have been able to take small steps to delivering the message of Christ. Praying for a girl to know that she is worth the whole earth to God she is worth the wait to be together with him. Introducing myself and just asking questions about the person and asking if we could pray for them. We had an awesome experience with a guy one night were we were able to pray for him and just talk about God freely because he was ready to hear what God wanted to say to him. We were the best thing that had happened to him that day that month as he had been going through a hard time and was just sick of life. So God does call us to do things that we feel uncomfortable doing and sometimes it’s only for a season, so just be willing for him to use you in that time listening to his voice and his direction.

We have recently found out where we are going on our outreach phase and who we will be going with when we split up. We are going to the Philippines and we start off all together for about a month then split up and go to different Islands to help out for another month. This is a fantastic opportunity to do this and some of us will get to work with prostitutes which I’m excited about because my heart hurts and has a lot of compassion for them to bring them out of this lifestyle. So please pray for us while we are over there that God would protect us and help bring his children to him.

As part of our course we also attend THOP (Tauranga House of Prayer) it’s an amazing time were we just get to spend time with God talking and learning about him. If you are ever in Tauranga I would totally urge you to visit this place to just experience God in a new way and to pray for things. Know that this house prays for the youth of the nation, for the churches and leaders and so much more it is so exciting to know that you are being prayed for on a regular basis through prayer and worship.

If you would like to help sponsor me or give money towards outreach fees for the students here please private mail me and I can give you the information needed. Also pray for us that we would be able to get the most out of this course and that the plans God has for us here in New Zealand as well as overseas in the Philippines will go smoothly. 

Thanks for reading my update and I hope it will be sooner when I can update my time here.

Many blessings

Renee Pearce