Hello Everyone,

I hope all of you back at home are doing well and enjoying your summer. The weather here isn't exactly nice 90 degree days so don't take it for granted. It is pretty nice here minus a little rain here and there but overall cannot complain! It has been amazing to see my personal progress and how much the Lord has just been revealing to me about Him. Every week seems to be getting better and better and 3 weeks ago was Repentance and Forgiveness week which was just awesome. We learned a lot about God's pain for sin and how we sometimes seem to not realize how serious sin is and blow it off like it's okay. God calls us to repent of our sins and forgive people who hurt us and I just had a simple revelation that we need to really have that all sorted out with God to really hear His voice. We had an application day of Repentance and Forgiveness which was pretty much 1 person going to the front of the group and repenting for sins and forgiving people who have hurt them in the past which you can imagine was intense. It was a really freeing day which was around 14 hours long and you could see just God healing peoples hearts and really bringing freedom to peoples lives which was so amazing. Last week was Intercession/Worship and going into it I thought Intercession was more for people who weren't on the worship team or leading the church but for the people who didn't have a role in leadership... God completely destroyed that thought I had. By the end of the week I was wanting more and more time for intercession. It is really exciting to actually hear God's voice and be in a group of people listening to hear God and actually getting words from God that match up with what other people were getting! Every thursday night we have city evangelism where we go out into the city and listen to hear from God about the places, people and things we should pray for. We start by being in a group and listening to hear what God has to say and then go the places we feel Him asking us to go. Starting off, I had a terrible attitude about evangelism and felt it was pretty boring. I bought a Hacky Sack and we have been playing with it in between lectures. A couple of us guys thought it would be a good idea to take it and use it as an evangelism tool. We went out and it broke the ice for some really good conversations where we could pray for people and talk to them and just tell them how much God loves them. It was so awesome to evangelize but have fun in the process and in return really fellowship with people! That weekend God really called me to focus on Him last weekend and just be in the word and be with Him all weekend. I was dragging my feet all saturday wishing I was at the beach and with some of my friends but I knew it was what God wanted me to do. I had this lie in my head that being with God was going to be so boring and nothing was going to happen. I thought that He wanted to tell me the next steps after DTS but He really wanted me to just grow in wisdom and grow in Him. Sunday came around and I was worshiping then spending some time in prayer asking God to show me more and reveal what He wanted me to hear for the weekend. He gave me Proverbs 3 and I just started reading from Proverbs 3...which was about gaining wisdom! It was so awesome to see God work in me and answer my prayers! I came away from last weekend with a so much more of God and all that He calls me to in my life. This week was about the Father Heart of God. It was really good and learned a lot about more of how God sees us and how much He loves us but it really didn't hit me till application day on friday. We had 3 people in the front to be intercessor's and pretty much just speak what God was putting on their heart from Him to say. It was really awesome to feel the Father Heart of God and to hear what He thinks of me. This week will mark the half way point of my DTS and it is going by so fast! I have already learned so much and have grown an insane amount and cannot wait for more that is in store in the weeks to come! If you guys could pray for just new revelations of God and me to really seek out what God has for me and to understand exactly what that is that would be awesome! I also still do need help for my outreach funds so if you would like to support me you can make contributions online at ywamperth.org.au. Thank you guys again for all your support and I am just praying in faith that outreach funds will be provided! 

This week 2 different people shared with me 3 of the same verses that they felt God wanted to give me which I will leave you with:

Joshua 1:7-9

"Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."