love

I've not been posting in a while as I've felt that i could not hear God. I realised that he can hear me all the time and he loves to watch us, hear us, whisper to us, let us feel his presence... I cant wait to explode, as I've felt like i have been staying struggled up and not letting my personality, creatively shine through, i believe the one reason for this is my job, as I've been feeling like a robot in it. however today i had such peace, joy in my work, it made me realise that God has not went anywhere, i had this fire in my belly, where i could take on the world and still be smiling, it was brillant- as i knew, I'm not alone, my God well never let go of me... just blew me away...

Last day....

Hey, today in church we were talking about if I today was your last day, what would you do? I thought about it, I was a bit disappointed as I've not really done loads with me life, but it made we realise that ive made all these plans for my life, but where is God in them all. Sometimes i plan my life ahead but don't ask the big lad upstairs what he thinks.. Ive been living and doing what i want but i sometimes don't know what he wants me to do, ive been too busy with me life... i read somewere, cant remember were but if we are too busy, then we are way too busy than God created us to be.. Im just thinking out loud here....

More

Hey, im just back from a very productive prayer time with some people from me church, its such a good time for us at church as i feel that God is calling us to walk together as a group, hundle in together, now some people are longer saved than others but that really inspires me as i see what God has done for them in their lives and im just looking for more of God in my life... I can be honest, as its me own blog which i will prob read one day over and see my journey, i was feeling 'right God give me something ere' let me be probehtic in my vision and my words but i was not seeing anything. so i felt a little bit, like i was not seeing God but when i prayed for people who had a real problem and needed healed now, i felt that God was letting me make a choice, i could sit and wait or i could pray for things that needed it...

Hope

Yesturday we went to Craigavon lakes to a Hope concert. The concert was amazing but what really struck with me was the way the youth were right up the front and did not care about anyone else. I loved this at it showed me that the youth is growing, yes in our church but also throughout Ireland as they wont afraid of shouting, dancing, praising God... The presence of God was brillant he knows when to show up, when i got home i thought i was drunk on the holy spirit., im still buzzing today, even though me legs are sore but that wont stope me from worshiping today.. Yesturday i met two wee new dance partners, two wee kids, God blessed me so much through these two, so much energy, happy, joyful, loved them too.. I've been having some trouble with what God wants me to do with my life and i felt God saying this is your call, work with kids and i know he has the timing in his kids... im getting excited for us as a church, for my marriage with david, everything of what God is doing and planning...

fellowship

Last night we had a Nic Nac nite with all the girls from church, the fellowship we have in our church I feel is amazing, as i can be myself and express how i'm feeling and they won't judge me. i just felt God squeezing the women together more tightly, as sometimes as women we shut off as we feel no one understands but last night God made me realise with somethings I'm going through, that I'm not alone, other people are also going throught the same stuff... or most people have already through it on their journey. As a wise friend of mime said 'let's take off the fake bake,' look good naked' with God and one another... I wanna be the real me God created me to be. I'm working along with God by dealing with some stuff from my past, from now which is not really easy but when you can be yourself and trust God, i just feel like im not doing it alone.

home alone

Today im home alone as David is away with Dave getting his car in Newcastle, I never really liked being along but from I got saved I have become to like it alot more has i know im not alone. I've been doing some reading and i never realised just how much information the bible as, its amazing, im enjoying it so much, i really should read more of it thou.. God is helping me make big steps at the moment even though i walk one step first and fall back by two, its a working progress... Im going to be honest i suffer with bad mood swings, well not really mood swings, really bad tempers and one word can set me off, i know God does not want me to live like this though and i don't either... I wanna leave the old me behind and embrace on the me God has been wanting me to get intouch with. Sometimes I cant see the change in me from when i became a christian but listening to Joyce, she has made me realise that i actually have but sometimes the devil underminds us...

New days ahead

Over the last while ive been struggling with myself, i thought that God was no where to be found, maybe he was having alittle game of hide and seek but i could not find... so yesturday when David asked me to marry him, (still in shock now, lol) i could feel the peace in my heart, i just thought God you are there, i felt so much peace and calmness yest, thanks to David and God... im so looking forward to spending my life with my two best friends and i could hardly sleep with excitment last nite...
Also today i felt all good and could feel God so much so i really wanted to share it with someone, but i was so nervous and the butterflies were kicking in, i kept saying, on my way to work at 7 this morning, right ill tell this person, then no i cant tell this person. So i got into work and i was going to bust with excitement as God loves me so much, i just wanted to tell someont, that God loves them that much too... i build up me courage and there is a wee polish women in my work and i thought lets do this, so i said Do you know that God loves you so much, (give her a big hug) no matter what you do or say he will still love you. i was in fire on the instead...
lately i have felt that i cant overly talk about God in my work as nobody is christans, so today really blessed me so much as i was talking about our church and the youth group. we have a work experience girl in who is a christan and has only become one over the last 4 months. i said its tough but keep at it as its worth it, it was brill for me to talk about God and having relationships with him, i loved it...

David crowder

David Crowder - Fuel 09


Fuel was amazing last night, i had such a good time with my really good friends. David Ostby David Crowder, third day, got the crowd going but the thing that most hit me was the presence of God. Lately ive been going through some stuff which is such a challenge for myself and i just felt that God with me last night that he is never going to let me go... during one of the songs just stuck me like a lighting bolt, he is always on our side, love is always on our side, you will catch us when we fall... when i closed my eyes and just pictured God always on our side, i saw a couple of robes and God walking with us but we have to walk his way...

thank God

Sometimes in my life we always look to what we do not have, we say 'if only', i know from experience that is a key word in my life, if only i had my dream job, if only i could do this, then something good will happen... but it does not, if we serve God, he has our plans in his hands... its like a circle we dance around, then realise ooops i really cant do this on my own, i dont want to go by what my emotions and feelings tell me as it would be one hell of rollarcoaster ride, i wanna be guide by my God... sometimes its difficult to try and push your emotions aside...

Connect

Im back on track with me reading again, ye-ha, i got a little side tracked for a while but im back with a vengence... im reading Identity and its really helping me, me the real me and not try and pretend im someone else, which i would normally of done, so i was like by people... but its made me realise that i'm me for a reason...
there was a point in moses life when he felt the burden of leading three million people. What did God do, he did not say, dont worry moses, i'll fix everything. he told moses to make more of the connections he had in his life... the demand moses made on them by making close connections meant that they could each start to release the potiential inside them...

to build a house, we just don't need builders, we need plumbers, electrions and so on.. its so good that God knows the plans for us and that we have a connected living with others and no two people are the same...

Home

This morning i just had a great sense of revelation of the love of God, the line that i woke up saying, come home running just as you are, and i think that, thaat is amazing as he wants us for being us, nobody else... i have a picture in me head of God waitin with his arms opened wide, awaitin us... i think is saying is brill, religion is mankind searchin for god, but christianity is God searching for mankind...

Free

Lately ive been having some disagreements with dad even though i love him so much, i felt like i dont want to be the easy one to give in to arguements but whoever knows me, knows im so lead back and its not in my character to hold anything against anyone... so today i thought im just going to have to settle this as i love me dad... i just felt a big weight being lifted off me shoulders, as i came out of victoria sq there was a place called free spirit as we came out of the kitchen bar, i just felt that's what God wants our spirits to be free and willing to him...

for God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but (he has given us a spirit) of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control...

journey

On bank holiday Monday, i want to the bus stop and as i got on the bus the traffic was derouted, i had no control over this and did not know what was happenin. i felt God just clear up a few things with me, that i am on a journey with him, an adventure but i should let him be the one in control and just enjoy, as lately ive had not been really enjoyin my journey, he just wants me to enjoy and the best thing was that the bus dropped me closer to my workkk.... mad...

Bluetree..

Last nite when i got home from Bluetree charity, i was still buzzing with a sore throat. God's presence's and love in that room while we worshiped could of knocked down walls... Sometimes we don't want to think about charity's which challenge us as i know years ago when i heard of child exploitation i was like ' don't want to know' but when they told us how it was, what if all of us said that it was too disturbing for us to know, then nothing would get done... Nothing is too big for God but we need to work hand in hand with him... As the children are our future and sometimes i learn most things from kids... I am a child of God, just think how much hurt God is seeing his children be esploitation.

God has made me realise that we need to help the children that we know, so im really looking forward till the youth alpha course...
this trees roots are planted firmly, you can see that the wind is swinging it but its not going anywere... brillant...

Wait

over the last couple of months ive been learning to wait and have patience while waiting on God, God is doing something in our lives if we do our bit then God does the rest, my strength has been from God and has words, the power of God's love is so amazing and his spirit within us i love when it glows, i want it to grew more... the people who have helped me over the last couple of months, i see the love,wisdom, knowledge and dedication God has given them and i wanna be in on it... God always turns things around, when we go into a situation which he does not want us to enter in on... look on the bright side of life.. God is good..lets enjoy it, bring it on....

Looking

Sometimes I try to find
The one thing
I just can’t hide,
As he’s all around

Me mind becomes so focus
On the looking, hearing but
Instead of listening to the warmest feeling I have inside.

Youth

I'm getting really excited about taking the youth and being there for them. i know its going to be a real challenge for me, i prob don't even know how challenging it will be but im willing and up for it. The rest of the team are brillant, they are ready to get stuck in also, i just wanna say thank you to them as its a team i feel that i can lean on, jump off and just talk to them...

dad

I just wanna thank God for giving us the 'ulimate daddy' as when our earth dads screw up we know that God is our ulimate daddy we can depend on,lean on, rely on, he is good all the time... praise him....

love

just reading a wee book called Epic and its so good... We were born out of love, so we have so much love within us. God will never let us go as he has created us to be his intimate allies, friends of the deepest sort, lover..

As the father loved me, so have i love you. now remain in my love....

i will give them a heart to know me, that i am the lord. they will be my people, and i will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart...


its just amazing that God is our resuer....

today when i was puttin out the rubbish in work, its quite a wee walk to bring them so i had some God time which was brill, it just amazes me that God who created the sky, sea, mountains, animals, universe, stars, is interested in my wee life.. it just amazes me, im so thankful that he is....

just reading a wee book at thee moment and it says expect good things to happen and be willing to accept them. sometimes we cant see beyond our flesh but God has created us from when we were in the womb and he knows our plans, our gifts and sometimes i think i run ahead of him, although i just need a wee pull back a couple of steps. Its so amazing that our creator knows each one of us so intimally. love you God. he will not leave us, which is amazing as when i have a bad day i know he is with me...

While i was praying last night I just felt overwhelmed with joy and love. i was also really humble as Jesus died for our sins and i was trying to imagine if someone i know close to me died to save me and sometimes we take it for granted. I had no words to say but all praise and glory is his.

Im getting excited about the youth in the church at the moment while ive been praying. i know it will be such a challenge but i want to be bold and not just sit on the line and bobble along and not really get anywhere. People showed me that they cared for me and that i did count, i'm sure that there is some children out there that just need people to be there and show that some one cares. No one cares more than God alone. I want to thank the people who have taught me things and made me realise that we can make a difference...:)

father

last one, i promise.... when me and david were in the park, i felt like a kid again, i loved it, lol... there was a child there who was being pushed on the swing by her dad, just right behind here but as she gets older she is allowed to learn things for herself, even though her father will always be there....

Change

God made me realise that i think i need to change someone as my mind thinks i do, but this not my job as who am i to judge, it was hard when God made me realise as i should not get in God's way when he is trying to work...

fruit

Lately ive been asking God for my self to beable propheise as i was blown away by the Sharon Stone and also ive been praying for our church to propheise more... i know its within use. When me and David went to this park their was loads of trees and only a couple stood out. There was one above which stood out as it had loads of branches and fruit which were so colourful, while other trees were being held upright with a rod. God wants us all to bare fruit but i know i have his rod in my back helping me upright and thats how we bare fruit...

holiday

Im just back from me lovely holiday away and God speak to me so much i had to write it down..lol... while reading my book in the apartment, as thats all i every do is read... as soon as David turned on the tv, going gets tough came on, it was such a key song as im worried about moving house and getting a new job, i read one thing which said have confidence in the lord, this is one way our confidences growes through our strength in him, believe come before achieve. Now i am back home i got to rejections letters from jobs but its ok as i know God has his plan for me..

i script which pop to me mind, i think goes something like likes, fear not, for i will never leave nor forsake you... thats just brill... it may be written wrong...

Worry

I'm just doing some reading and i realised that we spent most of our lives worrying and what for, God has already dealt with it.

'trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on his faithfulness, and truly shall you be fed.' ps 37.3

Sometimes we worry as we think things should be happing now but God has the plan and he knows when the timing is best.

'let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money ( including greed, avarice, lust, adn craving for earthing possessions) be satisfied with your present (circumstances and with what you have); for he (God) himself has said, i will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. i will not leave, i will not, i will not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let you down (relax my hold on you)! assuredly not!

Time

This morning i got up singing the song 'i'll wait upon the lord' and i could not get it out of me head from the moment i got up. i felt God was tellin me to wait on him and not to rush ahead in my own time.

Doubt

Doubt
today watching american idol i realised that we should not let anything stand in the way of our dreams. one man on the show, who was incrediably talented was blind, he played the piano, he connect with the audience as we could feel his passion. sometimes we let the devil creep in when we are off guard and he begins to put doubt in our minds. in the book im reading, battlefield of the mind, it says satan works hard to try and get us to abort our dreams and he uses undoubt and another is unbelief. it says dont make decisions on how we feel but to check with our spirit. when the devil comes knocking we are to believe our spirit, and tighten the belt of the truth. it also says to dig in both your heels, set your face like flint and be determined in the holy spirit to stay out of the boat, praise God. sometimes my mind says, you could never do that, why even bother or im i sure thats true, and we only want to dip our feet into it because we are unsure but lets the devils work as he does not want us to get spiritually connect with God. its so hard as we as humans like things in boxes and when the spirit throws us off on another direction we cant understand so all we can do is trust...
I've lived most of my life in doubt saying, how can i do that, i would love to but i cant but with God all things are possible, he makes you realise your dreams are possible.

Spirit

my spirit is beginning to grow
i just cant control
the sparks flying
around me form
head to toe.

The joy inside
is so alive
even though me mind sometimes says No.
I have to say i owe Praise
to theee above
Let's enjoy God's love...

Caroline...:)

God showed me today the importance of watching what comes out of your mouth as just before i was about to say something, that would of got me in to trouble i was stopped in my tracks.. Thank you God...

“He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin."

Ive learned that to get through tough times its better to speak positive and then we beable to see time going quickly through them...

Along with God

God wants us to work with him, he wants us to do the groundwork which he'll honour and then work with us... i think that is so good as we are not saying right God sort out everything, we have to be motivated to do some work also....

laughter

“The one enthroned in heaven laughs”

our church is a place for joy, laughter, smiles, fun and it was not until I came to word of faith that I realized, God wants us to laugh, smile and enjoy ourselves… that quote makes me laugh as God prob laughs at our jokes and the way we behave sometimes, if God created it, why aren’t we doing it in his church. This is one of the reason I wanted to come to word of faith as when came in for the first time, people were telling jokes, laughing and smiling wereas my previous experience from catholic churches, I feel that it is sad and gloomy. God loves a good laugh also so lets laugh with him... its so good that we can be ourselves in such a special place with God.

A cheerful heart is good medicine but a crushed spirit dries up the bones

i think this quote is brill ooo and its for Nichola, His yoke is easy and his burden is light. so any thing that is getting us down or making us have a frown is not from God. Lighten up, we are not perfect and God knows that, but he loves us anyway... let laughter consume you.. believe me if you come to our church you'll get some laughs...

Zeal

Ampllified bible, zeal for God's house has completely eaten me up. Zeal is a God Breathed source of supply that will get you out of bed even when you don't feel like it.

During work today God was making me think about our we a spectator or a participater, it just came back to me there while reading someone's story. Do we just want to specatate what is happening in our lives, churches, or are we people with drive, determination and we want to get involve even though our flesh says something else.

i think this sayin is so good as we always give are own view on things. even if we don't feel like it but its what God wants that comes first.

God doesn't want your opinion, he wants your co-operation...

Hear

I just started reading a wee book consumed or consumer... i totally love the meaning the author give to consumed, to be fully absorded: to be devoured completely: to be eaten up; for you to disapear because you have been swallowed up by something bigger. But that bigger is a zillion times bigger, bigger than we can even imagine. i love that cos if we are consumed we can let that God be the one in charge of everything. an example of consuming a glass of water, although the glass of water is still in you, so you cant separate it as its inside you, its the same as being consumed by the house of God we cant sepearate the two. we begin to think more about what God wants and become involved in his bigger picture as he has the pieces already in place for when we are ready. We don't think of what are flesh is telling us, i cant wait as God has beginnig to get me involved in the picture of God's house and i cant wait. i want to be consumed and get involved in God's work even though i may be afraid of somethings but God is with us, as he has a plan for us. God has been teaching me the importance of listening. Sometimes im too busy trying to tell God what i want but it says God knows everythin, so why are we tryin to tell him somethin he already knows, in this wee book it says, we should approach with a listening ear and a guarded mouth. When God wakes me in the middle of the nite i feel ooo i have to pray so i go through a couple of people i feel needs pray but the other nite i just listened and maybe thats why God wakens me to tell me stuff and im not listenin. they is so much importance of listening, im starting in baby steps...

" watch your step when you enter God's house. enter to learn. thats far better than mindlessly offering a sacifice, doing more harm than good. dont shoot off your mouth or speak before you think. dont be too quick to tell God what you think he wants to hear. God's in charge, not you- the less you speak, the better."

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Kindred Spirits

I went to dave and Nichola's there and oo im God, i felt the spirit of God so much i did not know what to do, Nic said i just smiled away. i cant stop smiling...:)... im so excited about what God has in plan for me... I looked up kindered spirits and saw this wee poem.. im not too sure what some parts mean but i like the message, have a read..

Kindred Spirits

"And On the winged, booted feet
of Mercury's, quick"
We are here and we are gone,
souls cast out and ripped
from the shadows we live in and call all our own,
to the heavens, the four winds,
through the mists we are blown.

Soul Dancers, prancing,
adrift on the mists.

As they and the four winds collide
and are kissed,
Becoming one.
Like we Kindred Spirits
once were,
one soul and one sun.
Yes swept there
and kept there,
In God's mists of Azure.

Through the blankets of time,
swept across all our skies,
Kindred Spirits adrift,
see their souls meet and fly.
And their born of a spirit
that none can see,
But it's felt in the shadows,
and flows to the seas.
And it sees and it knows,
though the mists meet and rise,
Kindred Spirits are breathing
their life to the skies.
And none shall deny
their souls as they fly,
or another's great spirit
when they've looked in their eyes.
And seen the center of God
in their hearts and their hands,
they've met for a moment,
then they're gone,
yet, it stands.
That they understood
in those slivers of time,
that the knowledge they knew,
they spoke to and flew,
was another piece of themselves gone
and yet, given to you.

We live alone
and we die alone
and if somewhere in between,
we find we have spoken,
we've touched or we've seen,
another one like us,
who's been where we've been,
it's the most blessed of feelings,
to Have taken them in.
For, our aloneness is broken,
its knelt,
Been Replaced,
by the sharing of one to another,
It's felt.
It's Embraced!
As the love emptying out,
pouring out of us finds,
we've been blessed by
the Father with hope,
sweet peace of mind.

For to be given a soul with whom you can share,
all your innermost secrets,
the scars we all bare,
is a gift like no other,
A treasure so great,
it can redeem and recover,
our heartache,
Our fate.

It is the sweetest blessing of this breathing Lung,
To have shared for sweet moments,
this time under the sun.
Where Kindred Spirits were allowed to meet,
feel and greet.
Spilling into each other,
their love,
their souls deep and sweet.

Kindred Spirits,
Kindred Spirits,
Adrift in the winds,
scattered through time,
We see, We begin.

And So, the love and the wonder,
we hold for this time,
will fill us with its Magic
from time to time.
Spreading its blanket,
of sweet peace, our love,
Like a warm cup of Kindness,
Spilt down from above.

Yes, we are Kindred Spirits,
and that's all I know,
Of God in His Heaven,
and times Long Ago!

Kindred Spirits,
I promise that I shan't forget,
this sliver in time,
your souls that I've met.
For they are etched now in mine
and shall ever be,
The deepest of depths,
these pieces of thee.
These pieces you've shared,
and given to Me.
As I've shared mine too
and given to thee.

Sketched , Interwoven,
my tapestry's done.
Kindred Spirits once drifting,
now, tethered,
as One.

May 16, 1999
Linda A. Copp

Team

In my work each person has a different section, while i was puttin out delivery i found some things on the floor which weren't in my session so i decided im not pickin them up as they are not in my section. God just automcially speak to me and things would be alot easier if we all helped each other out more. Even though we have our own section its good to help others who are behind, when i began to do this i felt alot happy and alot more stress free.

Joy of the lord

During the week me and david visited a house we really wanted. I thought that we really liked it, i prayed in the house and thought, yes this was made for us. when i got the phone call saying we had not been accept for it my emotions run wild. i thought why? but then i began to praise God and thought if it was meant for us God would have given us, and he only wants the best for his children, it was quite hard as me flesh was saying one thing but i knew i had to use me spirit to pray. Today in work i felt the real joy of God just come on me and i felt so calm and joyful. we have our faith in Jesus as he already has our path planned ahead.

hold

God has been helpin me deal with holdin on, today the song by take that, hold on kept comin to me head. Also the song Never let go, it goes oo no you never let go, through the high and through the low, im trying to hold on as i know God wants whats best for us... even when its not what we want....

I went and seen snow patrol and they were amazin but durin it one of the songs i felt God was tryin to say to me hold on to him, give him the chance and he will hold on to me and never let go. Now that we have God nothing such fear us, sometimes we let our hearts get in the way and take over... I'm tryin to hold on to him more even thou the enemy has been tryin to get in the way...

Just give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on
Give me a chance to hold on

It's so clear now that you are all that I have
I have no fear cos you are all that I have

Favour

I went to church today and totally enjoyed developin the topic of favour. i picked up a couple of things, there was so much info...

Favour is an active force of gravity and although we cant see it but without it we could not exist. We depend on it even thou we cant see it..

The more you trust in God- the more favor begins to open up for you. Although we all have favour but when we begin to exericise it, it grows.

Favor is attached by the power you give it.

goodness and mercy may follow me all of my life. that's God's favour that is attached to us...

When we are persifear to a favour which we do not want to, but we do it joyfully we strengthen ourselves.

this is from a wee website.. it helps to understand such a big thing...

The more we please God, the more we will be favored by Him. Also, it is important not to think of this favor in material or worldly terms. God's favor most likely will be given in spiritual blessings more than in material blessings.

Here are some of the ways by which we obtain the favor of the Lord:

By praying unto the Lord (Job 33:26).
By keeping the commandments of the Lord (Proverbs 3:1-4).
By seeking and finding God's wisdom (Proverbs 8:35).
By diligently seeking good (Proverbs 11:27; 12:2).
By living righteously (Proverbs 14:9).
There are many benefits of being in the favor of the Lord. Here are some of them:

Our petitions are more likely to be granted (Esther 7:3).
God will compass us with a shield (Psalm 5:12).
We will receive life (Psalm 30:5).
Our enemies will not triumph over us (Psalm 41:11).
God will show mercy (Psalm 119:58).

Spirit

No other success is possible without spiritual maturity. we need to grow up. Joyce Meyers.

Matt 5-48; therefore you shall be perfect, just as your father in heaven is perfect, but in the amp
Amp- pressing towards the mark of spiritual maturity, growing into Godlyness.

if we are going to be spiritual mature we are going to go through trial and tribuation and learn how to handle them in a mature way. A mature person handles them by keepin their Joy, even though the enemy may be bringing it God is able to turn it around for good, and we will see somethin out of ourselves from it. Joyce meyer said this and it was what ive been looking for, no matter what, never let the devil steal our joy...
sometimes this is such a challenge for me to do...

Lets enjoy it and be joyful with our God

Relationships

Quotes

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. •Hermann Hesse Intimate

To live without love is to not live at all and shrivels the soul, and we learn nothing.

But there are ways to be in relationship with others that is positive and uplifting to yourself and to the other, even if the relationship doesn't last forever. In love relationships we have much to learn from the other.

The important people in our lives (actually all people in our lives) are really mirrors. We draw to us those who will help us learn about ourselves. Each time we are presented with a challenge in a relationship, we are really being presented with an 'opportunity' to look inside ourselves to see what about us it is that needs working on, so that we may grow.

these are fab quotes... just think about some of them.... God is what makes most relationships work, as our flesh tells us other wise.

Easy

Praise you God...You have made it easy for us to have a relationship with you, but the normal, boring everyday lifestyle tries to take us and our joy away from our God...

Praise you again...

Small steps

Lately ive been learniin the importance of obedience and having alittle bit of fear and doing what God wants anyway. As Sue says' feel the fear and FAITH it anyway'....

As im not that long a christian, sometimes i feel that i should be hearing God more but im takin it small steps at a time, im so lookin forward to the journey with so much more to come.

When i was looking at some image to see fear and faith i seen a really weird one ere, it says its fearful but its so peaceful. maybe if we use fear in some parts of our faith...

I Came across today... A sign...

A sign ive came across all day...

....Those without vision will perish....



"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. "

The four d's....

The danger: perishing.
The design: love.
The duty: faith.
The destiny: eternal life.


The first "D." The verse talks about the danger that we are in without Christ—" . . . that we might not perish." All human beings are in danger of perishing, which is not merely dying, but is the opposite of eternal life. Eternal perishing.

The second "D." The verse talks about the design of God to rescue us from perishing, namely, the design of love. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son." It's the love of God giving his Son in incarnation and death that rescues us from perishing.

The third "D." The verse talks about the duty that we must fulfill if we are going to be a part of the love of God in rescuing sinners from perishing. The duty is faith, or trust, or believing in the Son that God sends. " . . . that whoever believes on him might not perish."

Finally, the fourth "D." The verse talks about the destiny of those who believe, eternal life. " . . . that whoever believes on him might not perish, but have eternal life."

Reading

Im doing alot of reading at thee mo, which means i can upload some useful tips, for meself and others...
A little thing on relationships...
acknowledge your need for others.
a complete christian is filled with God's spirit but is also complemented by different gifted friends. friends are essential.
" there are many members but only one body"

Sometimes we treat failure as an enemy and really we should treat as a friend. i know when i fail, i run a mile but im starting to realise that its the learning and that there is a positive message in it.

" repeated failures are fingerpoints to the road to achievements"
Fail forward towards success... i think this is so good..

A couple of things ive read

Caroline said...
hey guys, just a couple of things ive read over the past couple of days. Ive put them on here so that people can look at be in encouraged and plus and i can also read them here. -

The valve of a visionis that it encourages you to give up at any moment all that you are in order to recieve all that can become. once you have had a glimpse of what God can make of you, you'll never be satisfied of what u are now...

PURPOSE
Pray more than the ordinary person.
Unite more than the ordinary person.
Risk more than the ordinary person.
Plan more than the ordinary person.
Observe more than the ordinary person
Sacrifice more than the ordinary person.
Expect more than the ordinary person.

Ive but them here so i can try and use them and for any one else

Dave, Sue and team

I just wanna say a big thank you to Dave and Sue for such a fab and inspirational weekend, u guys have such a big heart, thank you so much... Let's hope some of it rubs off onto us, lol. I wanna also say a big thank you to everyone at Word Of Faith, who has made me realise that it is possible to dream, and then make it a reality by Rock Solid Choices, by puttin in into action. Thank u team...

Caz...

Hello everyone, a big welcome to my blog... i just want to tell you, God is good... and im finding out how good he is more each day...