My Name Is James and I Am Unstoppable.
Church camp has been awesome. One thing I’d miss about camp is spending time with God and the people I love 24 hours a day. I think that our groups have grown much in fellowship as we spend so much time learning from the Word together, praising and worshipping together and of course, sleeping in the cramp rooms together. We find out one another’s quirky habits, know one another’s dark secrets and old lifestyles. Our caregroup members are no longer just people we meet for a couple of hours on caregroup and service days… they’re as much human as I am! We’re not just ‘friends’, we’re running the race together!
And I just can’t stop grinning from ear to ear because I’m so glad that these people are running alongside me.
Lord, yet let me not forget the words You’ve spoken to me during church camp.
Remind me, O Lord, that these undeserving hands belonging to an unworthy life will seek to honour Your Name only.
Remind me, O Lord, that despite my flaws, my wrongdoings and cui-ness, You still choose to use this life to minister to others. Lord, I’m humbled by Your grace and at the same time, amazed at how You can touch even the hardest of hearts.
Remind me, O Lord, that in all the things I do, be it shepherding or meeting the needs of people, let me do it in love and help me love them as my own.
Remind me, O Lord, that even as many of us leave the campsite at downtown east, even as some of us head back into our neighbourhood, into our schools, into our camps, alone sometimes but that will no longer be a reason to hold us back. We may be the only Chrtistian in our own spheres of influence, we may take lonely walks, we may struggle and feel so hopeless at times, but God, we choose to be unstoppable. Because we remember that God, out of the darkness, Your light shines and we hold on to Your love for us.
Remind me, O Lord, the tears shed in camp during those moments where Your spirit touched ours will never be confined to just in camp! Help us to be people on our knees constantly, let Your spirit touch us daily and let those tears flow freely down our cheeks. Break our hearts, help us to be spiritually dissatisfied, help us to know that there is something You’ve called us to do in our community. Help us to know that there is something we should do, we have to do, we will do. Let us lead victorious and empowered lives for you, for we are no longer defeated in spirit because in You, there’s new life!
God, I stand up and choose to be counted for!
