Lifegroup

As you may or may not have noticed, I haven't written a blog in a long time. . . so yesterday I was trying to think of something to write about when my lifegroup leader/inspiring brother in Christ told me to write about lifegroup and what it means to me. But the thing is, lifegroup has done so much for me that I don't even think I could fit it all in! And it definitely doesn't help that I've never been especially gifted in the writing areas of life. . . I got a B 2 2 2 in my grade card for english this term you see :/ But anyways, I chose to make this blog so I'm going to have a shot at describing to you what my amazing lifegroup has done for me. . . 


I can't remember exactly when it was but from what I can recall, lifegroup started around April 2009. I remember I felt so redonkulously privileged to be invited because I hadn't been at the Kerith (my church) that long and I didn't really feel like I deserved to be in a lifegroup yet, but I guess God had some very different ideas! 

I think I can safely say, that first lifegroup blew us all away. It was at the Findlay's house and we started off by watching a video about dust. Now I can understand if you're thinking 'dust?! what does that have to do with anything?!' but believe me it has everything to do with our lifegroup. See the video was talking about the dust that the disciples collected on the shoes and robes as they travelled from place to place, preaching and teaching and healing and just doing all that crazy stuff that we christians love to do, and anyway, Liam said during that lifegroup that his aim was to make us dusty with the Holy Spirit. The analogy was that we would walk in and with the Holy Spirit as we live our lives so that people can see it on us and people will know who we are and what we're doing. 


Since that first lifegroup we've seen some pretty awesome stuff, all including the Holy Spirit. Prophecies are now the norm at every lifegroup and we tend to spend about an hour, praying for each other and building each other up to be greater brothers and sisters in Christ. Every time, I come away feeling full of new knowledge of God and feeling uplifted and inspired to do more for my faith. I was considering trying to list everything I've learnt from lifegroup, but after trying a few times and failing epically, I've decided against that idea. 

Something that always really bugged me was that my parents always mix up lifegroup and LIFE. Whenever I get picked up from the bus stop on a wednesday they say 'so where's LIFE tonight?' or when we're discussing when to have our family time this week, my mum would say something like 'well I'm actually free this friday! oh wait no, Tabitha has lifegroup'. Now just to clarify, for all of you that don't know, LIFE is our church's massive youth event on friday and lifegroup is our small group of friends talking, praying and learning about God at someone's house every other wednesday. So as I was saying, this always really irritated me when they mixed up the two, because they're completely different! However, last night I saw something really amazing. Lifegroup came to LIFE. Suddenly people from the youth were getting up on stage and praying over everyone there, people were prophesying over each other and there was even healing too! This made me so redonkulously happy and I realised that the thing I wanted most was now for LIFE to be just like one massive lifegroup! God literally never fails to surprise and delight me!


The other day I was praying for LIFE and I got the verse Isaiah 54:2-3 - 'Enlarge your house; build an addition. Spread out your home, and spare no expense! For you will soon be bursting at the seams. Your descendants will occupy other nations and resettle the ruined cities.' Now this just blew me away. It gives such a vision for the future of LIFE and I especially love the part about he descendants occupying other nations and ruined cities because this is exactly what we want to see! Places all over the nation being changed by God and that little friday night youth group from Bracknell ;) I'm praying to see this happen and I'm believing that it will. 


Lifegroup is definitely getting pretty dusty.