hi everyone, i have been tensed up and worried for two weeks now regarding my first presentation on the research work i had been carrying out from the begining of the year. to be honest, i was terrified at even imagining me in front of that enormous audience! but all through i kept hearing God say, "it's my battle not yours". i obviously dd'nt believe Him becase i carried on being nervouus about it and especially more as the days grew nearer. Anyway,ijust thank God for my friends who just prayed for me and trusted God for me! today was the presentation and i am just amazed at the results!!! the truth is, ii was shaking so badly that i couuld barely hold the pointer. and so was my voice. after the prese4ntation ii thot everyone clapped in sympathy for me, you know! like "oh poor girl, well atleast she finished her speach!" sort of thing! buut everyone kept coming back to me with coments liike "you spoke very clearly and uunderstandably!". "your tone was just rght" and thngs like that! "we enjoyed it". Everyone's comments emphasised the clarty of my voice! my friends who watched the whole affair swear they could not hear any kind of shakiness in my voice or see my hands shivering or any sort of thing! I asked God for the strenght to stand in front of that audience, but i feel really dumb in front of Him now! obviously i hadn't understood what He'd been tellng me the whole time! or rather, i was too worried about my self that i dd'nt notice what He'd been trying to tell me the whole time!!! "IT'S MY BATTLE NOT YOURS!". see, the thing is, i've battled with a very crippliing fear of speaking in public for a very long time, and have refused to let anyone help me on that. so when i came here to do my masters in research pharmacology, ii knew that 'd have to be able to present my work and i had told God then that because He had brought me to this fiield, it wouuld be His duty to bring me out! in every aspect, you know! so i find it funny now to look back on my presentation and realse that although i had done it, the output was definitely not mine! i mean, i was the one sayng it and i couuuld hear myself, but obvously my audience did not hear me the way ii heard myself. they heard me the way God wanted me to sound! praise God for that! Praise God that He really is faithful to all His promises! wiith love, sheril
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