Cough cough cough and Andy Stanley

I'm coughing so badly. Sigh. Need to get better for work. 6 hours of teaching tomorrow. Non-stop. Lord Jesus, please heal my throat. I rebuke all the infection and command it to go!

On a brighter note, thanks to Chrissy Bee's suggestions, I have been researching a couple of new authors and preachers. One of them is Andy Stanley, a pastor from North Point Communities in the US. I want to mention him, because I think he is a great communicator and because his preaching has brought breakthrough in my life.

He has some free podcasts up on the web periodically. The series that impacted me are not there anymore, but they deal with the HEART, and DISCOVERING GOD'S WILL.

I've heard many sermons on both these topics, but Andy's words were used by God to just speak into my heart and really give me encouragement to change this year.

He spoke on the polluters of the heart: guilt, envy, anger etc. Listening to the sermon on guilt and accountability in the wee hours of the night really really impacted me to reach out to bring some things out into the light, difficult as it was, and I'm a transformed person because of it.

And the sermon on VISION and the Different FACETS of GOD's WILL challenged me.

And now I'm reading his books 'Communicating for a Change', and 'Visioneering'.

Some quotes ppl might know:

"To understand why, submit and apply" [Namaan]

"I'm doing a great work and I cannot come down"[talking about Nehemiah on the wall]

"Stop confessing the same sin to God again and again. He already knows. You need to confess your sins to each other and pray for each other to be healed"

Thank you God for him. Please add the impact of my life to his rewards in heaven.

Good night.

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