God is Good

So today i had a pretty awesome day. I met up with this awesome guy called Jeff, who used to live in whistler for a number of years, but now lives in Hawaii working at the University of the Nations with YWAM. This guy is an absolute champ. I met him at Church on Sunday, but i feel like i've known him for at least a year. We spent some good solid hours in a hotel lobby chatting about what God has for Whistler, and he spoke some really relevant words into my life and about what I'm doing here. We spent some time praying for Seth, for him to find a way back into Canada. He also spent time praying for me, he prayed for my shin splints (that I didn't feel when i was on the hill later), he prayed for my ministry here, for God to work trough me when i'm on the mountain, when i'm hanging out with people and when i'm at work...

Which leads me onto my shift tonight. God totally blew me away with the opportunity he gave me. The other day, the newly hired bartender mentioned to me that she didn't know anything about the Bible and that she would like to read one that she could understand. So today i brought in a Message New Testament with Psalms and Proverbs and gave it to her. We had a brief random discussion on stuff like different denominations, mormons, greek gods, and bible bashers. She then said that she wanted a kids bible so she could get an understanding of the whole bible in simple terms, so i offered to tell it to her. We must have talked about the bible for about 4 hours. We went through Genesis and Exodus, David and Solomon, the Babylonian exile, Some of the Prophets, and pretty much all of the New Testament. I was also able to tell her about some of the symbolism in different numbers, Jewish festivals, cultural backgrounds, contexts and a few of the prophecies fulfilled by Jesus. It was awesome because i have never told a summarised version of the whole bible before, and what an awesome opportunity to tell it to a non-christian! She was really interested and was really keen to hear what happened next in the story. She even said at one point "F#*^%g customers, they are interrupting the story!". Her name is Hayley, so pray for her that God would just carry on reaching out to her, that when she reads the NT that i gave to her, the words would just leap out and hit her in the face! Praise Jesus. I'm really tired, its way too late.