Overflow

Well this weekend has been great for me, saturday night was the night of my first proper ball and i must say i throughly enjoyed myself, not because i was dancing and eating (especially) and enjoying the company of my friends being all dressed up and snazzy. more thoroughly it was because it was my first social event that the temptations of alcohol and sexual urges were practically gone, its an... enlightening feeling to know that i can have a good time without any of that and just resting on god to keep my concoiusness clear and focused on him.
today, while lying in waitangi park soaking up the sun and enjoying the company of some new christian friends, i heard one of them say "apparently the devil tries hardest to tempt you during the 40 days after you baptism" and in hearing that i automatically linked it to the bible for when jesus was baptised and then tempted and tried in the desert by satan himself for 40 day's.
on top of this i believe i am finding a lot more ease to pray DURING everyday life not at night or in the morning but while things are happening and this has been a significant step in my faith i think as it allows me to acknowledge my sin and repent and ask for forgiveness right away rather than passing it off as "another thing to pray about for tonight" because let's be honest we can never remember all the things we put in that list can we?

then there was the greg laurie crusade tonight; Harvest.
to know that so many people came that there was not enough room in the TSB bank arena (events centre) and that they needed an OVERFLOW room for people who came late, to know this alone is quite overwhelming and had my heart overflowing with thanks and praise to God. of course i got involved in the moshing to the few songs by the couple of bands but as usual was keen to hear the preaching. my 'analysis' of greg's preaching is that it is very direct in terms of reaching to the lost and in terms of preaching from the bible, quotes left right and centre from the bible and c.s lewis and celibrities about what they thought if heaven were to exist.
all in all my heart was once again overflowing with thanks when i saw the dancefloor completely fill up with people ready to give their lives to christ i had to try not make a scene in my seating area by crying out (literally) and shout "praise the lord".
from my guess i would say 3 or 400 people came to christ this evening, in the past two nights the total was 1000, and in the past 2-3 weeks i would say we now have a total of over 1600, from church services, street preaching and harvest. words will never be able to express my joy of this moment, and on top of this i might have to go deeper into the subject.

i think that regardless of what kind of church people are in or are coming to christ through we are all inexplicably part of a concregation and henceforth one that is ever growing, i believe that yes denonimations have their differences but as long as people are pushed to read the bible then all is fair and well, for in reading the bible i have known many catholics to come out of their, undermining denonimation (in the sense that catholicism purposely ignores a lot of what jesus say's and what jesus stood for) god has been granting my prayers to soften my heart and through that i have heard phenomenal stories of hundred's, thousands and even millions making a commitment for god at the same venue. in the respect of that million figure, pastor levi (my baptist :D) in life group was speaking of taking action and spoke of a man who got called from god to travel america and share the gospel and in one of his conventions more than two million attended and around one million committed right then and there, the message behind this story was that when he was interviewed he was asked "do you feel privelaged?" he answered no because the lord had told him that before him god asked 5 other people, as far as he was concerned he was just doing his bidding in his faith.

(gargh there was so many thoughts running in my mind while i was at harvest that i wanted to blog about, lost hlaf of them.) yes well this has been half of my original thought train this weekend.
i guess sometimes there is just too much to talk about with me, infact thats generally the case.
yes i indeed love ranting :D mainly about god :D.

I think i shall leave it at that for tonight.

Please give me your thoughts on this.

God bless.

Daniel