Formal marathon results

Today they posted all the results online and in the newspaper. It turns out Daniel and I both got exactly 25.23 minutes as out time! How bizarre - what are the odds of getting the same time. I was very impressed that the photographers managed to catch every person on film and they have made available a video of the race for each person crossing the finishing line - so in my personal video it has Daniel and I crossing together. Pretty amazing media team.

I look a bit retarded in the photos because I had a very daggy headband and long pants to keep warm. The majority of people wore their HBF fun run shirts. These are the photos the professional photographers put up that are for sale!!!

HBF Fun Run

Somehow I miraculously managed to run 4km in 25 minutes!!! AND I won a raffle with my C25 orange ticket. I got a fitness ball. God is so good.

After that week of training where I ran 3km four days in a row, the next week I was in much pain when I ran, to the extent that I couldn't run more than 2km. I found out from a fitness magazine that I had achilles tendonitis. It's when you train too much, more than what your body can cope with and the tendons in your legs become stiff and immovable. So for the rest of the week, I simply had to rest. Saturday, I went to a prayer meeting and I think I somehow got miraculously healed, though I didn't even ask for prayer!

So then today, amazingly I completed with run without stopping (except for a drink break) and I just couldn't believe it. I ran past lots of people and finished same time as Daniel. Yukari, his wife, beat both of us!!!

Three laps around the park across the road from work

Miraculously managed to run 3km today in 22 minutes. What a miracle, given I could only run 2km last week :-) Somehow I have to work my way up so I can complete the HBF fun run in 2 weeks. Oh my goodness, what was I thinking when I registered?!?!? lol

God is faithful

God told me that everything would come out well and I believe him :-)

Prayer connect

Last weekend, Ps Anne asked me to teach on prayer at the Prayer Connect, which is a once a month gathering of intercessors and prayer warriors. I started by sharing the story about the farm workers I heard in South korea.

Then I gave a 15 minute testimony about how I used to be just like those workers who tried to please God without seeking His perfect will. I rose to a high permanent position in govt and got to a state where i was very unhappy and dissatisfied with my life, feeling like I had missed God's perfect will. He spoke to me in a dream and I obeyed His leading to quite my job, despite it meaning giving up financial security for the rest of my life and laying down my desire to buy a house.

I gave an overview using powerpoint about following the Holy Spirit's leading to Mexico, America and South Korea and showed a few photos and shared little gems about what I had learnt about prayer in each nation. Then I shared the testimony of coming home, God restoring my employment to get me an even better permanent govt job and then buying a house one month into my job. What a God of restoration!

Then I showed the promo video from my IHOP internship and shared some teaching on apostolic prayer and how to apply them. I broke down Ephesians 1:17-19 and showed how you can look up each key word in the dictionary and find scriptures for each one. Then I demonstrated how you can pray it as a comprehensive extended prayer. Then I played some IHOP recordings on two other apostolic prayers and got them all to write down the words they heard, basically to expand their prayer vocabulary. Then we prayed in tongues for 10 minutes before I broke them into small groups to pray for the church while IHOP music was playing in the background.

It was received so well and everyone seemed to get into it! So now Ps Anne has asked me to lead the next Prayer Connect at the end of May!

I really don't want to do it, but decided to take on the challenge of waiting for the Lord to provide an inspiring message to me to give.

I went to Ps Anne's house to pray yesterday and she prophesied over me. She said this is a preparation time and I will go overseas again. Wow.

Calling words of encouragement into our lives

A really cool thing I learnt to do at bible college was to call those things that be not as though they are and specifically to call words of encouragement into my life. On Friday, i called words of encouragement into my life and scored this beauty to my boss about me :-) 

From: Christianne White
Sent: Friday, 3 May 2013 3:07 PM
To: Alberts, Ruth
Subject: excellent customer service

Good Afternoon Ruth

I thought that you should be aware of the excellent customer service that I and my colleagues at the WA Centre for Health and Ageing have received from Michelle.

Michelle, not only provided us with helpful information, she was patient with our endless questions and dealt with our questions in a helpful and professional manner.

I would like to thank Michelle for her excellent customer service, she truly went over and above to assist us with our Ethics submissions.

Best regards

Christianne

Business Development Manager