Restoration

The world is never changing day in, day out
It's the same old story, week after week
World is often said to be going to hell
and the critics appear to be right
Children are dying in the streets
Hungry are starving no where to keep put feet
No body seems to care for the broken anymore
Now is the time for restoration

What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for?

What would Jesus say?
If he saw the world today
What would Jesus do?
If he sat beside you there?

He'd get up and move

You sit there in your comfortable pews
I stand here declaring the truth
These are the steps to changing the world
Believe that these words are prophetically true
God is a god of mercy
But he’s also a God of grace
He’s given you talents and abilities to use
So what are you waiting for?

What are you waiting for?
What are you waiting for?

What would Jesus say?
If he saw the church today?
What would Jesus do?
If saw your heart in full
are you doing as you should

The truth of the fact remains
That he sees it anyway
And he wants it all to change
So what are you waiting for?

Get up and move

Guess who's going to Battle School?

Me,

God provided me with the $700 dollars I needed so from July 4 to August 11 continue to keep me in your prayers as I follow through with God's ministry in my life.

Man I love it when God calls you to something then builds your faith by destroying all obsticles that stand in the way.

yay,

Faith in Healing

So recently a girl at my school, her name is Becky (short for Rebecca) came to gym class one afternoon with a injured ankle.

I asked God when I saw her in the morning (the first time I noticed she was using crutches) and I asked God if I was the one who could heal her. He said sure, but that he was going to use this to build my faith. Well basically because God knows my faith in healing is very doubtful. I don't even know why.

Anyway, he gave me clear prophetic instruction on how to accomplish his will.

That day I had to ask Becky if I could pray for ankle.
Then in three days if I continued to pray daily for her ankle on the third day it would be completly healed.

Well so I asked her if I could that very day in gym class, she was hesitate but said I could, anyway so I prayed over her, and she really didn't know how to react so I left it at that.

The next day, I saw her with her usual friends and I prayed silently in my head that her ankle would be healed.

I continued doing this every time I saw her..

On day two when I saw her, she wasn't using crutches anymore, I filled with Joy was really excited, she was still limping but I knew God was doing his part.

On the last day, I didn't see her in the morning, but I remember the prophecy and that day, when I saw her gym class, she was walking fine. No limp nothing.

I'm glad that God allowed my faith in his power of healing to grow through this miracle.

Don't be afraid to ask God to build your faith.

-Brent

Realize

The thing about life is we get so wrapped up in it, that forget the basic truths of our beliefs, or we don't fully grasp them.

I had to realize this in the most unlikely places as God allowed me to comprehend the truth of it all.

No matter what we do in life, we still can't escape that Christ died for our sin, he suffered for our bad choice.

I think we need to realize this more, so we can begin to truely surrender everything we have for him.

Anyway I was inspired to write a song on this very subject as soon as I finished that conversation.

We wake up in the mornings, put on our pants.
We go through yet another day, indure the daily rants
But do we remember, why he died?
Do we hide our tears, or openly cry?

Everybody rushing, to and fro.
Never stoping, always stuck in go,
but do we realize all the pain,
he bore for us to hide our shame?

(Chorus)
Jesus Christ paid the price
for all our sin, for all our lives
so from sin we truely could be free
Jesus Christ bled and died
upon the cross for all the lost
join in praising him for all eternity

(Bridge)
He toiled for all our sin
Now for victory we win.

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It's pretty straight forward, but the way I see it, is no matter how plainly it can be laid out, we tend to forget the fact that he did it for us.

That's a saviour... saving a wretch like me.

-Brent

Chord request

Could anyone find me the song chords for the song that goes like;

Jesus loves me this I know,
For the bible tells me so,
Little ones to him belong,
they are weak but he is strong

Hallelujah, Hallelu, Hallelujah, Hallelu, Hallelujah.

Amazing Grace how sweet the sound...

and so forth, or at least give me the name of this song so I can limit my search.

Thanks
-Brent

RAW 2006: Day Four

Pictures:

Darren

Joe and Xander

Micheal Colins

Jonathan Evans

Writing Raw Testimony

Jedi and Evans

Carla and Jedi

Cell Group Photo

Fiona's Paintings

Ezekial 37

Danielle Stricklen

Stephan Court

Worship through Dancing

Worship

Mr. Rogers

Ashley Mayer

-Brent

RAW 2006: Day 3

Pics:

Tunic Tuesday

$20 Dollar Shirt

Xander and his tunic

Praying the Bible

Worship

Aaron White

Jonathan Evans + Tunic = Best picture ever

Andrew (Speaker)

Cell Group

Planning a letter

Lunch

Open Air

Thrift Store

Dinner

Worship

Darren

Amy

Task; writing qualities of God

Mission 2: Street Combat with Joe and Cory

-Brent

RAW 2006: Day Two

When we arrived at †Culture I met with Mark at the youth drop, since there was a ping pong table, I decided to play him. He was pretty good, but I feel we walked away with an equal game.
Anyway afterwards we traversed upstairs for morning worship. After some more time spent in worshiping our Lord, Aaron White talked to us about opening our eyes;

Open Your Eyes- Notes taken in a discussion by: Aaron White; Side commentary by Brent White
Ezekial 37;
How freaky it would've been to be traversing along as Ezekial and then bam, God places you in a crypt full of, oh guess what? Dead, dusty bones. You can see the darkness and smell the stench of the place full of death. Ezekial is forced to face a reality in this crypt; just like how our missions forced us to look around in the darker places of Vancouver to see the hardships there. What is a reality check though? Well plainly put it is forcing you to be aware of the things around you; or forcing you to see the reality of harsh times.

When the Lord brought Ezekial to this crypt it was the reality check that the Lord wanted him to experience. God forces Ezekial to face these bones (which represented his people); to look at this depression, this death, and defeat.

Looking at loss isn't easy to look at. Take this time to find a place in your life where you were defeated. Mine wasn't long ago. We were playing soccer in gym class, and the other team just beat us, watching their victory was not fun, they were laughing, patting each other on the butt, busting out the high fives; while our team trailed off to the bench in defeat, in failure. Looking at defeat is hard.

But Aaron brought up the good point in his discussion; just like Ezekial we are going to be forced to look at, to look at these dry bones.

Then Ezekial, after being forced to look at these bones, is asked by God, the seemingly impossible: "Can these bones live?". Which Ezekial being an intellectual prophet replies the only answer that seems reasonable; "Only you know Lord."

You see God wants us to look at the unseen in our lives, like if there is hope in the dry bones around us. Still only God knows the answer whether they can live or not, and we should work towards the goal he wants.

We were brought to RAW to be able to look past our comfy couches and our warm churches. We needed to have our eyes opened so we could see the dry bones in our own world.

Aaron meations a few dry bones that can be overlooked and go unseen

• World Poverty
• War
• Child Slavery
• Parents killed in Africa
• Unadoptable Foster Children
• Suicide
• Addicts

We see these dry bones on the television sometimes, or we hear about them, but at RAW we couldn't change the channel to some of these, and it taught us not to. It taught us to ask the question; Can these dry bones live?

It is these dry bones God will use for great things, not us, we are used to breath life into these dry bones, to bring hope to the hopeless so that they may do the great things God has in store for his army.

So take an eye test, what are the dry bones in your life, and can these dry bones live?

So after Aaron talked to us, we went to go have lunch, which was nice except for the fact that I'm allergic to mustard and can't eat it and so I couldn't eat my sandwich. Alas, our first mission for that day came next and it was the prayer room.

Mission One- Prayer Room

So everyone was getting in the mood of prayer to God, I started to pray for the other groups and their missions, I heard God ask me if I wanted to learn more about Obedience. Well God then told me to wear sock on my ears as a sign of obedience, at first I was pretty skepitcal if this was God, or more own insanity. As a sign of obedience to God, I decided to wear my socks on my ears anyway. Other than looking like an idiot I really didn't see the point, but as time went through reading God's word and talking to him, I began to forget about the socks, until I had problems with them falling off. Now God told me to keep them on, so I decided to tape the socks to my ears so they wouldnt fall off. Now this hurt alot for anyone who has hair by their ears. But the tape represented that even though the task was hard, I needed to perservere and be durable for my God. The socks actually represented my obedience, and how obedience can only be a part of you if you listen to what God says and then do it, and to be durable in completing the task, even if it becomes more difficult. I'm just glad that I didn't have to wear socks on my ears all day, nor have any pictures of me with socks on my ears. Thank you oh God of mercy.

After our first mission then we got to hear from Jonathan Evans either before or after our night worship.

He talked about the breath in dry bones, and how prophecy was that breath, b/c Ezekial had to prophecy into those bones, and tell them what they were, before the breath of God came upon them.

He brought up key points about prophesy;

We first have to receieve prophesy, then interpret, then apply it. You have to have all parts for the prophesy to really work.

Jesus was the breath of life, and he gave life to the dry bones of his disciples, although, I'm pretty sure when he did it, he didn't look like he was vomiting all over them.

Then Aaron White made us practice breathing, and then I think worship followed.

Anyway afterwards we were off to Re:Cr8 again, where I met Ricky and Alfredo, both cool and interesting guys.

By the time the night was over I was pooped b/c of the long day, and all the stuff I had learnt.

All of the day two pictures: (Click to enlarge)

Annoucements

April and Christine

Ashley and the coolest hat ever

Evans vomiting over everyone

The discipline of sleeping, err.. breathing, yes breathing.

Cell Group

CORY

Cory and a mouthfull of pie

Dinner

Evans preaching

Butt wooped Cory

Juan

Jill+ Pudding= Yum

Joel

Joel + Matrix Glasses = wootness

Lunch (told you no order)

I heard about a mansion, He has built for me in Glory..

Mark Armstrong

Me

Me + Xander + Both Smiling = Creepy

Mike Birge the average bum

Rest of New Westminster

The newspaper disgusts me too

Parking, too bad it was the wrong place

OWN'D

Joe and Pool

War Room

Aaron White

This is why mail is always late

Song book time

STOMP

Out for a Walk

Aaron got the word... wor'd

Worship

Xander

-Brent