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🏹From John

Hi everyone,

One of my inspirations for mission work is a guy called Loren Cunningham who

founded the YWAM  missionary organisation. YWAM stands for Youth With A Mission. He is my inspiration because of a number of reasons. I want to highlight  three of them here.

💫He uses real life, first hand experience. My heart cry when it comes to Christian testimony, is to be able to relate it to practical everyday living. In his book 'Is that really you,God?', Loren shares real life actual experiences.

💫He highlights both successes and failures within his Christian journey. It has been my  experience that along with successes also come failures. Loren does not omit to include in his book, accounts detailing  personal failure(even self inflicted) and the lessons he has learnt when gradually pulling himself back after a setback or even setbacks.

💫He includes inspiring accounts of answered prayer that give Glory to God! Those    accounts which unashamedly, point to the goodness and faithfulness of God, have become 
my favourite portion of Loren's account of his missionary journey. They have inspired in me, faith in the greatness of God and His ability.

This is my very first newsletter since relocating to Southbourne near Bournemouth, Dorset County, a South Western coastal town of the U.K. I will seek to follow a similar trend as highlighted above, sharing  from a) Real life experiences that I hope dear reader, you can relate to, b)Secondly be transparent in sharing about my successes and experiences of failure!😂 c)Thirdly , I really look forward to inspiring with accounts of answers to prayer. 

🏹🏹🏹There are three main Sections to this letter. The first is Destiny Signpost part 1, which is below  and is basically personal reflections of mine garnered from attempts to process what is going on in fulfilling a call to missionary vocation. This one is called :

🏹The place of Geographical Locations in the Process of Divine Guidance.

🏹The background to this particular study is based on everyday experience. Have you wondered why the same person could vary in levels of productivity and a manifestation of personal potential from one physical environment to the other? I have wondered about this characteristic of individuals as well as sociological groups of people. Why we are influenced by variations within different physical environments for example. Because I really don't want to distract from what I set out to examine in this sign post which is ' Geographical Location and Divine Guidance' I am going to redirect my post to scriptural illustration. 

🏹In reflecting on the incidences of Divine Guidance and Geographical Location, my first illustration is of a man by the name 'Abram

🏹The place of Geographical Locations in the Process of Divine Guidance.

🏹The background to this particular study is based on everyday experience. Have you wondered why the same person could vary in levels of productivity and a manifestation of personal potential from one physical environment to the other? I have wondered about this characteristic of individuals as well as sociological groups of people. Why we are influenced by variations within different physical environments for example. Because I really don't want to distract from what I set out to examine in this sign post which is ' Geographical Location and Divine Guidance' I am going to redirect my post to scriptural illustration. 

🏹In reflecting on the incidences of Divine Guidance and Geographical Location, my first illustration is of a man by the name 'Abram': 

Genesis 12:1 Now in Haran the Lord had said to Abram,“Go away from your country,And from your relativesAnd from your father’s house,To the land which I will show you; 

🏹So in the first evidence of Divine Guidance which Abraham, the Jewish and Arab 'Great grand' patriarch received, we have a very clear example of Divine Instruction to make some changes in Geographical location, from 'Haran' to a yet to be revealed location:' a land that I will show you'.

🏹What was Abram's response to the Divine Instruction he had received? He complied.

Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed in faithful obedience as the Lord had directed him; and Lot his nephew left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. 

🏹 Sometimes whilst reading such an account, it is possible we could assume that in the case of Abram, obedience to Divine Instruction, was second nature 'easy pizzy' 😀but certainly not in our case! 

🏹We are easy to recall our modern day concerns and our very complex lifestyle, certainly our commitments to our jobs, family, denomination, extracurricular social engagements that we have, and in so doing are prone to thinking that whereas it would  have been relatively easier in Abram's case to migrate, we certainly couldn't! Even when there is the clear evidence of Divine Guidance involved!(part 2 in the next issue of Look Up)

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🏹 Successess and Failures😩😩😅