David Gava

This 2 weeks we had David Gava...

What to say about him....it where 2 intence weeks!
The topic was The Holy Spirit.
We learned a lot from him , i never gave The Holy Spirit a lot of attention .
Maybe i never heard a lot about Him or i put my focus more on God.

It was very opening to me to see who The Holy Spirit truly is , what He can do inside of us and to hear about the gifts of The Holy Spirit.

David gave us homework, we had to prepare a sermon of ten minutes about Matthew 13.
We could pick our own topic as long as it was one of the parables.

The parable i took was the one about the hidden treasure and the pearl.

"The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.  "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

There where many parables about the kingdom of God, and it showed the kingdom in many ways.
To me this parable about the Kingdom means that The Kingdom is Jesus, the faith we have in Jesus, the way to The Father we have in Jesus.

Its a treasure hidden in the field....
Faith is a treasure..... i feel like ones u have it u realise how much of a treasure it is.
I have a friend who is from Israel , he studied the new testament 2 times but he still not believes it.
He did not find the treasure.

In the verse it says that the man in his joy goes and sells everything he has...
In his joy; that stood out to me , becous i had a lot of trouble with having joy in my faith.
I was depressed for a long time, had no hope, had no joy or what soever .
I can deffinitely say that God pulled me out of it and learned me how to laugh again.
To find that joy again, it somethimes still not easy.
In the beginning of this DTS i had "flashbacks" or how u want to call them but i got in that depress mode again.
Luckily God put a lot af praying people on my path, thats what they like to do here ;)

The man in the parable sells everything he has just to buy that treasure.
It made me think of how valuable my faith is to me.
With that i thought about all the storys im reading in this book about persecuted Christians.
Would i give my all for my faith? would i give my life for my faith?
How far would i go?
To my shame i thought about all the times i actually didnt wanted to go to church.
Or all the promisses i made to God, every day , to spend more time with Him....
And every time i failed, somethimes i said ; if i would spend the same amount of time i am on Facebook , to my Bible ...i would be a pastor by now.
So thats where i was in my faith.
Luckily im decided to do a DTS ;) haha

The second parable tells about a man searching for pearls.
That made me think of a book i once red about Keith Green ( read it if u have not red it before, its good!)
Keith and his girlfriend are looking for that something in life, they are looking for the pearl.
They try to find it in many different believes but they end up finding it in Christ.
Christ is that pearl!

This was my sermon i prepared, it was a bit different becous i didnt used my notes ,
 i guess it truly was The Holy Spirit talking trough me ;)
In the beginning of this DTS i really had trouble with speaking in class.
But God helped me  , im still somethimes nervous but i know now that God is bigger than my fear.
Everytime it stil can be a struggle for me but God helps me to speak!
So when i had to do the sermon i was really nervous , but when i walked up there , infront of the class.
I felt like i had to share my thoughts about this message, i had to.

I wanted to.

And God helped me !