Earth-quake!!

God truly shook up our annual SFC Belgian retreat. The theme this year was "The book of Acts today" Over 70 students were gathered from all over Belgium, in unity from both the French and Flemish speaking parts. They came wanting to hear what God had for them. The retreat speaker, Wim Kok, started off the weekend by saying that when he had first became a Christian, the book of Acts annoyed him because there was no end to it as there had been with the Gospels. Yet he continued by saying that the reason that the book of Acts didn't have an "end" was because it hadn't ended.

The book of Acts, the workings of the followers of Christ, is still being written today. No longer by Luke who wrote the original book, but by God inscribing our acts in Heaven. It was an amazing weekend of waiting on God, seeing His miracles of healings and being "shook-up" by Him. You see, as in Acts, one night there were a group of students who stayed up to pray and while they were praying a student prayed out "Lord shake this place up." At that very moment, they all heard a loud noise and the building began to shake. There was an earth-quake! The next day, when reading the newspaper, it said that there had been an earth-quake 2kilometer from where we were meeting. Was it a mere coincidence of science and words, or was it God?

One thing that I know is that, Belgium needs to be shaken up. I believe that this weekend, God did some things that effected Belgium in ways we cannot see, but I am waiting and watching for I know that God is preparing the ground here for His harvest in a new way! As in Acts 4:31, "After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly." Let us continue to pray that God will shake this place up!