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Topic 2: Coping Mechanisms
Trusting God As mentioned before, God never changes. “He was; He is and He is to come…” He never lies and He is always faithful. Faith / Faithfulness is also one of the fruits of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-23), so if you have the Holy Spirit in you (happens when you give your life to…
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Topic 1: Goals of Psychology
Describe Psychology helps us overcome obstacles by rationally and systematically ratifying our thinking patterns. It empowers us to take control of our behaviour, to define our reality and to promote desirable outcomes. Many of the structures and systems of Psychology struggle to find meaning or purpose in a scientific world where, without a Higher Being,…
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God Psychology
Introduction Over the next few weeks I will be doing my best to upload a new series called God Psychology. It’s something that God has laid on my heart to write about for a long time, but whenever I think about it or get started with it, it’s not very long before all I can…
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Chapter 11 Philippines
3 Months in the Philippines – Even though already evening, I was bowled over by the heat wave that hit me as I made my way out of the airport. For the next few weeks the heat and mosquitoes would be my main challenge. I was relieved to find my room had an air-con.…
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Chapter 10 Home Again
Arriving back in South Africa, I was frustrated by the fact that at every airport I had been, as a South African, I found myself in the longest queue, South Africa being no exception. After finally getting through customs, it felt really weird seeing my family again. They were there, but for the first few…
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9.2 Back in Scotland
Suddenly the final week in India was upon us. It was a weird experience; there were so many times prior that I wanted to leave, but by the time it came around it was harder than expected. The strangeness of it all had become normal. I had settled and finally got used to it. I…
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CHAPTER 9.1 OUTREACH
I have returned from a 2 month Outreach in India. For the time there our mission statement was ‘Invitation into Kingdom transformation’; while my personal one was: ‘Take courage and defeat fears, have no regrets, live as much as I can out of a joyful spirit, bringing Kingdom.’ After about 2 hours sleep over a…
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Chapter 8.2 Spiritual Warfare
Chapter 8.2 Spiritual Warfare A new week had just begun. As time rolled forward 4 different people shared these images with me regarding the coming week. One said, “Jesus is the bread of life, eat it”, another said, “I see you are like a shark swimming around, you just found a place with lots of…
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Chapter 8.1
Chapter 8.1 Holy Spirit week We started off the week by learning how to engage with the Holy Spirit and by asking questions that we hoped to answer in the coming week. My questions included: “How is the Holy Spirit different from the ‘Father’ and ‘Son’? He’s the first of the 3 parts of God…
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Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Inverness Outreach On the 22nd of October I departed with the Kingdom DTS for the outreach to Inverness. I was rather excited to go to Inverness as it had been on my bucket list, and the routine at base had started to grow a little dull. I was eager to go where the…
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