Couple of funny chats with people yesterday.
Firstly, I was parked in a street near the airport waiting to pick up Duncan and this 'rough looking' man comes up to the car. Turns out he is from Nowra and looking for directions. But then he just strikes up a conversation. We end up chatting about his family, events in his life, issues of the day (eg: petrol prices) and a bunch of stuff. We talked, connected and I know I felt good! He thanked me for chatting with him.
Secondly, after work as I walked home I popped into a food shop Duncan and I both go to. The guy behind the counter asked how Duncan was. And rather than just kinda make a comment and that was it, I offered a conversation starter. We ended up having a good chat about him, his work, work issues he faces, his lifestyle decision to run his own business etc. We parted on closer terms, knowing we would see each other again.
It reminded me that in this relationship challenge the Lord has given me with people it does not take much to connect. I especially feel men are desperate to reach out to other men.
Funny thing, Nick rang me this morning. We had a little chat, but it was not long enough.
Friday, April 28, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
why I believe in God #4
We went for a scan on the new baby the other week and we could see a 4mm long baby (yes thats right 4mm long!).
And we could see its little heart beating at 108 beats per minute. It was mostly heart being that small.
How could nature and micro-evolution develop such a complex process of an embryo growing a heart and into a baby!
Sorry folks - but something like that needed a God designer!
And we could see its little heart beating at 108 beats per minute. It was mostly heart being that small.
How could nature and micro-evolution develop such a complex process of an embryo growing a heart and into a baby!
Sorry folks - but something like that needed a God designer!
I am the same as everyone else
I walk down the street today at lunch...seeing people driving fancy cars, nice suits, lunching in fancy cafes...and think 'how materialistic are these people?', and 'do they know their real purpose in life?'.
Yet I know I am just like them...a materialistic self-centred vain sinner!
BUT also I know that i do know my purpose. And I am saved. And Jesus loves me.
So I carry on down the road smiling. Joy and peace in my heart.
Yet I know I am just like them...a materialistic self-centred vain sinner!
BUT also I know that i do know my purpose. And I am saved. And Jesus loves me.
So I carry on down the road smiling. Joy and peace in my heart.
Sunday, April 16, 2006
ps
LORD
I want to lift up Charlie and Karen to you. Thank you for bringing them to our church - they are such a blessing to us all. Please help them in their walk with you. Help Karen to know who she is in you and all the gifts that she brings to our church family. Give her your confidence LORD and help her to know in her spirit how much you love her. The same with Charlie LORD.
They have both come out of their shells more and it's great to see. Help them to both know you more LORD and to know that you will never leave them nor forsake them. That they can do all things through you, Lord Jesus, because you strengthen them. Help them to grow in their walk with you in your name Lord Jesus.
Help them with their children LORD. Karen is such a loving mum and I'm sure Charlie is just as loving, but it's Karen i know best. Give them both your wisdom to make right choices for their family.
Thank you again for your protection over Julie, for helping her come through with a clean bill of health and for helping her heal so quickly. It's great for her to know that you are her refuge and protector.
Help us to love them LORD, to be a blessing to them, to meet their needs so that they will know that you are their provider. Thank you for all that you are doing in their family.
In your name LORD Jesus, amene
I want to lift up Charlie and Karen to you. Thank you for bringing them to our church - they are such a blessing to us all. Please help them in their walk with you. Help Karen to know who she is in you and all the gifts that she brings to our church family. Give her your confidence LORD and help her to know in her spirit how much you love her. The same with Charlie LORD.
They have both come out of their shells more and it's great to see. Help them to both know you more LORD and to know that you will never leave them nor forsake them. That they can do all things through you, Lord Jesus, because you strengthen them. Help them to grow in their walk with you in your name Lord Jesus.
Help them with their children LORD. Karen is such a loving mum and I'm sure Charlie is just as loving, but it's Karen i know best. Give them both your wisdom to make right choices for their family.
Thank you again for your protection over Julie, for helping her come through with a clean bill of health and for helping her heal so quickly. It's great for her to know that you are her refuge and protector.
Help us to love them LORD, to be a blessing to them, to meet their needs so that they will know that you are their provider. Thank you for all that you are doing in their family.
In your name LORD Jesus, amene
Saturday, April 15, 2006
ps
LORD
I haven't had the time to do my prayer schedule for yesterday and today. And they are two important prayer requests. So I'm still going to pray for both LORD.
Today is Dave and our church. Dave is an awesome asset to our church. He brings a young and evangelical perspective to the leadership team. It's great to have variety, LORD, and I love your awesome planning. If we were all the same it would limit our potential to grow because the world is full of variety. You creations are full of variety. So thank you LORD, for Dave and his youth and vitality.
I pray that you help to grow in leaps and bounds in his walk with you. Teach him your idea of leadership LORD, what it means to serve. Give him a spirit of discernment and wisdom please LORD so he will make right choices for our church and for his own personal walk with you.
Please be with him in his studies and help him to know what it means to be your unique creation to hear teaching and know what is right for him. LORD, help him to renew his mind so he can test and approve of what your will is. He is young LORD so he needs your guidance. Part of renewing our minds is not conforming to the patterns of this world. This includes religious traditions, doctrine, and practices that do not have your truth, that are not a part of your word LORD. What is not a part of you LORD is a part of this world. He needs to be able to recognise the truth LORD, and to have the courage to follow his beliefs.
He needs to know you more and more LORD. Help him to know your will LORD and give him the strength and wisdom to obey you.
As for our church, LORD, my biggest prayer for us is that we do your will and fulfil our part in your plan for your body. That the great commission becomes a reality to us all and we follow your vision for us as a church family.
Please guide our leaders LORD. Help them to build awesome close relationships to you so they will be fill of your Holy Spirit and be able to discern your will for us all as a whole and for each individual under their care.
Help us to become a real family LORD. Like my family, in the sense that, we have weathered the storms of life together and we have had real sometimes hard and challenging relationships with each other. But we still love each other and during good and hard times we share them together knowing that no matter what happens we are tied together by blood, by a shared history, by our parents.
help us to really be a church that anyone can come to LORD...non-christians, the outcasts of this world - homeless, mentally unstable, the poor, different nationalities, prostitutes. Help us to make reach up, reach out and reach in a reality for each of us. In our own personal relationships with you, fulfilling your unique purpose for each of us.
Help us LORD not to conform. To love you, first and foremost, and to love others. LORD thank you for all the many blessings you have given us, and for the flock that we have. Help us to each move a step closer to you and to live lives that give you the glory and show the world that you are they way the truth and the life.
Help us to be faithful to you LORD. To be obedient children to you. Help us to accept each other and encourage each other. Help us to follow you wherever you lead us. Thank you LORD.
In you mighty name Lord Jesus. amene
Lord, I forgot help Dave to be an awesome Father, who lives that proverb of yours, train a child in your ways and he will not depart from it. his son will teach him so much about his personal relationship with you. Help him to make right choices for his son. Thank you LORD.
I haven't had the time to do my prayer schedule for yesterday and today. And they are two important prayer requests. So I'm still going to pray for both LORD.
Today is Dave and our church. Dave is an awesome asset to our church. He brings a young and evangelical perspective to the leadership team. It's great to have variety, LORD, and I love your awesome planning. If we were all the same it would limit our potential to grow because the world is full of variety. You creations are full of variety. So thank you LORD, for Dave and his youth and vitality.
I pray that you help to grow in leaps and bounds in his walk with you. Teach him your idea of leadership LORD, what it means to serve. Give him a spirit of discernment and wisdom please LORD so he will make right choices for our church and for his own personal walk with you.
Please be with him in his studies and help him to know what it means to be your unique creation to hear teaching and know what is right for him. LORD, help him to renew his mind so he can test and approve of what your will is. He is young LORD so he needs your guidance. Part of renewing our minds is not conforming to the patterns of this world. This includes religious traditions, doctrine, and practices that do not have your truth, that are not a part of your word LORD. What is not a part of you LORD is a part of this world. He needs to be able to recognise the truth LORD, and to have the courage to follow his beliefs.
He needs to know you more and more LORD. Help him to know your will LORD and give him the strength and wisdom to obey you.
As for our church, LORD, my biggest prayer for us is that we do your will and fulfil our part in your plan for your body. That the great commission becomes a reality to us all and we follow your vision for us as a church family.
Please guide our leaders LORD. Help them to build awesome close relationships to you so they will be fill of your Holy Spirit and be able to discern your will for us all as a whole and for each individual under their care.
Help us to become a real family LORD. Like my family, in the sense that, we have weathered the storms of life together and we have had real sometimes hard and challenging relationships with each other. But we still love each other and during good and hard times we share them together knowing that no matter what happens we are tied together by blood, by a shared history, by our parents.
help us to really be a church that anyone can come to LORD...non-christians, the outcasts of this world - homeless, mentally unstable, the poor, different nationalities, prostitutes. Help us to make reach up, reach out and reach in a reality for each of us. In our own personal relationships with you, fulfilling your unique purpose for each of us.
Help us LORD not to conform. To love you, first and foremost, and to love others. LORD thank you for all the many blessings you have given us, and for the flock that we have. Help us to each move a step closer to you and to live lives that give you the glory and show the world that you are they way the truth and the life.
Help us to be faithful to you LORD. To be obedient children to you. Help us to accept each other and encourage each other. Help us to follow you wherever you lead us. Thank you LORD.
In you mighty name Lord Jesus. amene
Lord, I forgot help Dave to be an awesome Father, who lives that proverb of yours, train a child in your ways and he will not depart from it. his son will teach him so much about his personal relationship with you. Help him to make right choices for his son. Thank you LORD.
Friday, April 14, 2006
REAL VICTORY
LORD
yesterday was a very hard day. A nite spent praying till 5amish in the morning and at 10:30am I got the call that I hoped and prayed would bring good news. But it didn't. My uncle had died.
I am reminded of that song, blessed be your name...these words:
you give and take away, you give and take away
my heart will choose to say LORD blessed be your name.
That's what my family was feeling yesterday. Last night we all got together at my uncle's house. We had prayers and as we sang songs giving you the glory I could hear the grief in my aunties voices. It broke my heart, LORD. I was sad for the loss of my uncle, but also for the loss to my family.
We have lost 3 uncles in the last 18 months. My uncle's unveilling is next weekend, now we have to fit a funeral in between for yet another uncle. Some of my cousins are wondering why we have lost so many, is our family cursed, have we done something wrong. I asked you this yesterday. Is it something we have done?
But I realised that my first uncle, died in his early 70s which is a good life. So it's only the last two who have died early - in their 50s. Uncle Richard, who just died, has been sick all his life. He had a hole in his heart. They didn't expect him to last to his 20s, so he has lived a good life. Uncle Robert, had luekemia.
I don't think there is a pattern there. But if I'm wrong LORD than please show me.
I hate sickness, LORD. I hate that it's such an effective weapon for Satan. That he could cause so much suffering to my uncle. But i know that his real target is not our bodies. His real target is our spirits, to force us to give up and believe his lies.
Through you, Lord Jesus, our spirits are soaring on wings like eagles. That though we suffer in body our spirits are victorious because he cannot take these from us. These are ours to give.
Like my aunties and one uncle of two left, we can still sing you praises even tho our hearts break and our minds do not understand, we can still believe that you know what you are doing, that you will bring so much good from this for those of us who believe and love you.
My uncle experienced something that you Lord experienced. Today on Good Friday, as we remember when you suffered physically for us, I know my uncle had a taste of that. He was someone who relied on his strength, who always put on a brave face. But 4 months in and out of hospital, as his body started to shut down and he felt such pain that he couldn't hide it, he knew what it meant to suffer.
You let some of us know what it's like to put our lives on the line, to suffer such physical pain that we welcome going home to you. My uncle experienced what it was like to be you. Not all of us are called to do this. Some of us are not mentally or spiritually strong enough to cope. But my uncle went through so much and he kept fighting. He fought a good fight and i know he will be celebrating his victory in heaven with you.
He will be with my Dad and his brothers and sisters, his parents...he will be with you LORD. His reward for going through and not giving up. Even when he felt hopeless, he didn't stop believing. That's what Satan can't touch...that's what we hold in our hands.
LORD, our family is mourning now. Help us to draw near to you so you will draw near to us. Like zella said in her prayer, you are our comforter. When I lost my Dad, only you understood my pain and despair. I ask that you be with my cousins and aunty. Pour your love on them LORD because they seriously need your loving protection.
Help us LORD, to support and love them. Give each of my aunties spirit's of wisdom LORD, so they can think of them first. Help us to work together to give my uncle an awesome sending off. Help us to be peacemakers LORD.
I am upset that Satan stole my uncle from me. But that was only physically.
Today we celebrate your painful death on a cross. It sounds weird to celebrate such a horrific day. But you took this day and made it something good for all those who believe in you for those who have been called according to your purpose. Like the Israelites who were protected by the blood of a sacrificial lamb during passover. We are protected by your blood Lord Jesus, our sacrificial lamb. We are marked with your blood Lord which gives us eternal life access to our promise land.
Blood is something people feel icky about. But it's how you made us, LORD, it's what gives us life, pumps through our bodies, keeps us alive. Your son's blood is exactly that. It's what gives us life. You suffered and sacrificed your blood for us. Without it, we would not have the final victory.
Satan took my uncle's body, but he could not take away his salvation, which you purchased. He could not remove the mark of your blood on his spirit. He tried to steal it but my uncle still believed. My uncle now has eternal life with you. This is greater than 56 years here. He has millions, trillions, of years with you, the author of love, his Creator, his Saviour. Satan can no longer touch him, or cause him pain.
That's real victory. That's Jesus' victory won over 2,000 years ago for us, his followers. That's the real victory we celebate every year at Easter. We know Jesus lives. That he overcame death and sits at your right hand, Father. We know that his suffering, his pain, wasn't the end of the story. He lives and so does my uncle.
And we will meet again in eterntiy.
Thank you LORD. You will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
amene
yesterday was a very hard day. A nite spent praying till 5amish in the morning and at 10:30am I got the call that I hoped and prayed would bring good news. But it didn't. My uncle had died.
I am reminded of that song, blessed be your name...these words:
you give and take away, you give and take away
my heart will choose to say LORD blessed be your name.
That's what my family was feeling yesterday. Last night we all got together at my uncle's house. We had prayers and as we sang songs giving you the glory I could hear the grief in my aunties voices. It broke my heart, LORD. I was sad for the loss of my uncle, but also for the loss to my family.
We have lost 3 uncles in the last 18 months. My uncle's unveilling is next weekend, now we have to fit a funeral in between for yet another uncle. Some of my cousins are wondering why we have lost so many, is our family cursed, have we done something wrong. I asked you this yesterday. Is it something we have done?
But I realised that my first uncle, died in his early 70s which is a good life. So it's only the last two who have died early - in their 50s. Uncle Richard, who just died, has been sick all his life. He had a hole in his heart. They didn't expect him to last to his 20s, so he has lived a good life. Uncle Robert, had luekemia.
I don't think there is a pattern there. But if I'm wrong LORD than please show me.
I hate sickness, LORD. I hate that it's such an effective weapon for Satan. That he could cause so much suffering to my uncle. But i know that his real target is not our bodies. His real target is our spirits, to force us to give up and believe his lies.
Through you, Lord Jesus, our spirits are soaring on wings like eagles. That though we suffer in body our spirits are victorious because he cannot take these from us. These are ours to give.
Like my aunties and one uncle of two left, we can still sing you praises even tho our hearts break and our minds do not understand, we can still believe that you know what you are doing, that you will bring so much good from this for those of us who believe and love you.
My uncle experienced something that you Lord experienced. Today on Good Friday, as we remember when you suffered physically for us, I know my uncle had a taste of that. He was someone who relied on his strength, who always put on a brave face. But 4 months in and out of hospital, as his body started to shut down and he felt such pain that he couldn't hide it, he knew what it meant to suffer.
You let some of us know what it's like to put our lives on the line, to suffer such physical pain that we welcome going home to you. My uncle experienced what it was like to be you. Not all of us are called to do this. Some of us are not mentally or spiritually strong enough to cope. But my uncle went through so much and he kept fighting. He fought a good fight and i know he will be celebrating his victory in heaven with you.
He will be with my Dad and his brothers and sisters, his parents...he will be with you LORD. His reward for going through and not giving up. Even when he felt hopeless, he didn't stop believing. That's what Satan can't touch...that's what we hold in our hands.
LORD, our family is mourning now. Help us to draw near to you so you will draw near to us. Like zella said in her prayer, you are our comforter. When I lost my Dad, only you understood my pain and despair. I ask that you be with my cousins and aunty. Pour your love on them LORD because they seriously need your loving protection.
Help us LORD, to support and love them. Give each of my aunties spirit's of wisdom LORD, so they can think of them first. Help us to work together to give my uncle an awesome sending off. Help us to be peacemakers LORD.
I am upset that Satan stole my uncle from me. But that was only physically.
Today we celebrate your painful death on a cross. It sounds weird to celebrate such a horrific day. But you took this day and made it something good for all those who believe in you for those who have been called according to your purpose. Like the Israelites who were protected by the blood of a sacrificial lamb during passover. We are protected by your blood Lord Jesus, our sacrificial lamb. We are marked with your blood Lord which gives us eternal life access to our promise land.
Blood is something people feel icky about. But it's how you made us, LORD, it's what gives us life, pumps through our bodies, keeps us alive. Your son's blood is exactly that. It's what gives us life. You suffered and sacrificed your blood for us. Without it, we would not have the final victory.
Satan took my uncle's body, but he could not take away his salvation, which you purchased. He could not remove the mark of your blood on his spirit. He tried to steal it but my uncle still believed. My uncle now has eternal life with you. This is greater than 56 years here. He has millions, trillions, of years with you, the author of love, his Creator, his Saviour. Satan can no longer touch him, or cause him pain.
That's real victory. That's Jesus' victory won over 2,000 years ago for us, his followers. That's the real victory we celebate every year at Easter. We know Jesus lives. That he overcame death and sits at your right hand, Father. We know that his suffering, his pain, wasn't the end of the story. He lives and so does my uncle.
And we will meet again in eterntiy.
Thank you LORD. You will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
amene
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Great Loss
Dear Lord,
We surrender to your will, your perfect will. You giveth and you taketh Lord, and tough I know you are now having a party with Uncle Richard in heaven, the loss and grief is almost unbearable. A year ago this week, you cel;ebrated the arrival of Uncle Robert, now a year later, as we are preparing for his unveilng, you call to your throne his brother.
Our dear uncle Richard!
Let you will be done Lord, in heaven and on earth. We put our trust in you.
I pray Lord that you be with Roni, Trace, Ganey and Aunty Vaeva, as well as the the precious grandchildren whom Uncle has left behind. His sisters and brothers as well.
May they be comforted knowing that you love them and that you love uncle so much that he was ready to spend enternity with you, his heavenly father!
"Blessed are they who mourn for they will be comforted"
Let this promis be real for our family as we go through this time of great loss and grief Lord.
I miss him Ftaher,For who knows the mind of the Lord?? I am comforted knowing that you are a loving and compassionate God, who hears our cries and comforts us, as you have done in the past.
Faithful Lord, bless our family at this time....strengthen us and hold us up Lord.
To you I place my trust.In your kind and loving hands i place my family!
Thank you for my uncle Smiley Lord, he was precious to me but i accept that he was more precious to you and so he belongs with you. We were only meant to love him for a little while.
Amen
We surrender to your will, your perfect will. You giveth and you taketh Lord, and tough I know you are now having a party with Uncle Richard in heaven, the loss and grief is almost unbearable. A year ago this week, you cel;ebrated the arrival of Uncle Robert, now a year later, as we are preparing for his unveilng, you call to your throne his brother.
Our dear uncle Richard!
Let you will be done Lord, in heaven and on earth. We put our trust in you.
I pray Lord that you be with Roni, Trace, Ganey and Aunty Vaeva, as well as the the precious grandchildren whom Uncle has left behind. His sisters and brothers as well.
May they be comforted knowing that you love them and that you love uncle so much that he was ready to spend enternity with you, his heavenly father!
"Blessed are they who mourn for they will be comforted"
Let this promis be real for our family as we go through this time of great loss and grief Lord.
I miss him Ftaher,For who knows the mind of the Lord?? I am comforted knowing that you are a loving and compassionate God, who hears our cries and comforts us, as you have done in the past.
Faithful Lord, bless our family at this time....strengthen us and hold us up Lord.
To you I place my trust.In your kind and loving hands i place my family!
Thank you for my uncle Smiley Lord, he was precious to me but i accept that he was more precious to you and so he belongs with you. We were only meant to love him for a little while.
Amen
my uncle
remember us today LORD. remember my family and have mercy on us. i have been praying all nite and now all there is left to do is put my trust in you. That you have heard our prayers and will remember us.
if you are willing Lord Jesus, a miracle can happen now, and my uncle will wake up full of strength thanks to your life giving blood which you sacrificed for us.
Lord i have been here before praying for my dad and my other uncle. they both died. yet my hope remains in you. for all things are possible in your name Lord Jesus. You have the power to intervene on our behalf.
Holy Spirit, spirit of my beloved Father, fill my uncle's body now with your power and strength. So that he will NOT die but continue to live.
LORD, if it's your will for him to go than so be it. But if their is any chance, anything we can say to sway you so you can fight this battle for him and perform this miracle. If you are willing LORD than I have the faith to believe in you to believe that your healing power is alive today as it was with the disciples and 1st century believers.
You said if we have faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains. I'm not asking for a mountain to move but for a life to be saved. For Satan's attacks on my uncle to be defeated in your name Lord Jesus.
You said we could ask for anything in your name. If we remain in you, if we ask with the right motives, if we believe then we shall receive whatever we ask for. If we hold any unforgiveness in our hearts to forgive.
Lord, i forgive whoever has hurt me, i forgive and my conscience is clear that I hold nothing against anyone. I believe and I am asking with the right motives. Imagine the glory you will receive if my uncle lives. Imagine the increase in faith of your children.
So far my family has seen that we cannot pray for sickness and disease to be healed, especially life threatening. But not this time LORD. This time let them see what it means to believe in you.
This time let them soar on wings like eagles, and marvel at your greatness, your faithfulness in answering our prayers. That you are the same today as you were yesterday as you are tomorrow. You do not change - you are still Jehovah Jirah our provider.
LORD i will NOT stop believing in your goodness, no matter how many battles we lose. Because I know you have won the final victory. You have already set us free by dying on that cross for us and overcoming death so we will have eternal life. So by your resurrection you wrote the last page of our story. That you will return and make the LORD's enemies into his footstool, in other words you will trample them under your feet so they can do no more harm.
I will not go quietly into the night while Satan wages a war to steal, kill and destroy us. To deceive us into believing that you don't exist, that you don't care, that you are too weak to help us, that he is greater than you. That this world belongs to him.
He is the king of lies and full of half truths, which he uses to convince us that life is meant to be like this, if we leave him alone he will leave us alone to our comfortable existence, living for ourselves and doing as we please. That's a half truth. Yes we will live comfortable existences, but we will not know the truth, we will not know the way, and will not know life...in abundance, to the full as you have given us. His idea of abundance is nothing compared to yours. An eternity with you, surrounded by the author of love, the maker of all life, the greatest gift we could ever receive. That's what we look forward to as believers, as followers of you.
The real victory is in you LORD. 1,000 years is like a day to you and you do not view us with the days we have on this earth but with eternity in mind. You are the great master planner. So i know I can trust in your promises LORD. That whatever happens you will use for our good because we love you and you have called us according to your purpose.
I will not give up, LORD. You said we would reap if we do not lose heart and grow weary. You said the prayers of a righteous man is powerful and effective. I don't think of myself as righteous but I am righteous in you. You Lord Jesus, have given me this gift through your amazing grace which removes my sins from me and sets me free.
LORD, myles has just texted me to say the family is going in. Please let his next text have good news.
If you are willing LORD, I am willing. But i know this is not about me but about uncle. I pray that he is willing because he is such a fighter. But I will understand LORD if he just wants to be with you. Whatever you think is best LORD. My knowledge is limited to what i know. But I know that you know everything, and your rescue plans are always better than mine.
Your daughter, your humble servant. Lord Jesus, thank you for hearing my prayers and interceding on my behalf. Thank you Father for loving us so much that you gave your son to save us, gave yourself into our hands. Thank you for the gift of your awesome spirit which fills us with your words, with your encouragement, with your wisdom and peace.
amene
if you are willing Lord Jesus, a miracle can happen now, and my uncle will wake up full of strength thanks to your life giving blood which you sacrificed for us.
Lord i have been here before praying for my dad and my other uncle. they both died. yet my hope remains in you. for all things are possible in your name Lord Jesus. You have the power to intervene on our behalf.
Holy Spirit, spirit of my beloved Father, fill my uncle's body now with your power and strength. So that he will NOT die but continue to live.
LORD, if it's your will for him to go than so be it. But if their is any chance, anything we can say to sway you so you can fight this battle for him and perform this miracle. If you are willing LORD than I have the faith to believe in you to believe that your healing power is alive today as it was with the disciples and 1st century believers.
You said if we have faith as small as a mustard seed we can move mountains. I'm not asking for a mountain to move but for a life to be saved. For Satan's attacks on my uncle to be defeated in your name Lord Jesus.
You said we could ask for anything in your name. If we remain in you, if we ask with the right motives, if we believe then we shall receive whatever we ask for. If we hold any unforgiveness in our hearts to forgive.
Lord, i forgive whoever has hurt me, i forgive and my conscience is clear that I hold nothing against anyone. I believe and I am asking with the right motives. Imagine the glory you will receive if my uncle lives. Imagine the increase in faith of your children.
So far my family has seen that we cannot pray for sickness and disease to be healed, especially life threatening. But not this time LORD. This time let them see what it means to believe in you.
This time let them soar on wings like eagles, and marvel at your greatness, your faithfulness in answering our prayers. That you are the same today as you were yesterday as you are tomorrow. You do not change - you are still Jehovah Jirah our provider.
LORD i will NOT stop believing in your goodness, no matter how many battles we lose. Because I know you have won the final victory. You have already set us free by dying on that cross for us and overcoming death so we will have eternal life. So by your resurrection you wrote the last page of our story. That you will return and make the LORD's enemies into his footstool, in other words you will trample them under your feet so they can do no more harm.
I will not go quietly into the night while Satan wages a war to steal, kill and destroy us. To deceive us into believing that you don't exist, that you don't care, that you are too weak to help us, that he is greater than you. That this world belongs to him.
He is the king of lies and full of half truths, which he uses to convince us that life is meant to be like this, if we leave him alone he will leave us alone to our comfortable existence, living for ourselves and doing as we please. That's a half truth. Yes we will live comfortable existences, but we will not know the truth, we will not know the way, and will not know life...in abundance, to the full as you have given us. His idea of abundance is nothing compared to yours. An eternity with you, surrounded by the author of love, the maker of all life, the greatest gift we could ever receive. That's what we look forward to as believers, as followers of you.
The real victory is in you LORD. 1,000 years is like a day to you and you do not view us with the days we have on this earth but with eternity in mind. You are the great master planner. So i know I can trust in your promises LORD. That whatever happens you will use for our good because we love you and you have called us according to your purpose.
I will not give up, LORD. You said we would reap if we do not lose heart and grow weary. You said the prayers of a righteous man is powerful and effective. I don't think of myself as righteous but I am righteous in you. You Lord Jesus, have given me this gift through your amazing grace which removes my sins from me and sets me free.
LORD, myles has just texted me to say the family is going in. Please let his next text have good news.
If you are willing LORD, I am willing. But i know this is not about me but about uncle. I pray that he is willing because he is such a fighter. But I will understand LORD if he just wants to be with you. Whatever you think is best LORD. My knowledge is limited to what i know. But I know that you know everything, and your rescue plans are always better than mine.
Your daughter, your humble servant. Lord Jesus, thank you for hearing my prayers and interceding on my behalf. Thank you Father for loving us so much that you gave your son to save us, gave yourself into our hands. Thank you for the gift of your awesome spirit which fills us with your words, with your encouragement, with your wisdom and peace.
amene
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
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Lord
Today has been an extremely testing day. You are nothing like us LORD. You are faithful everyday, loving everyday and you can never betray yourself. Unlike me. I have a mind which runs away and thinks the worse sometimes. It's my mum in me and it drives me crazy.
The great thing about praying for other people is it takes your mind of you. So gratefully today I'm praying for Lionel and Alex. They are one of the coolest couples I know, not just because they are both gorgeous, because we have lots of couples like that in our family, but because they seem to understand each other - and they are only 21!!!! They've been together forever and they just seem made for each other. Thank you LORD for blessing them both.
Keep their love for each other strong please, and help their faithfulness and commitment to grow as they grow together. I know that you could use them to serve you big time. Young people would look up to them and they would be great youth leaders to begin with. If I'm thinking this then I think your plans for them must be even more amazing.
They will be able to achieve anything together LORD, but if they have you as the invisible cord which binds them together then they will achieve even great things. What you want for them is beyond even their dreams. They both know you LORD, and they have a desire to know you more. I ask that you would burn this like a fire in them so that nothing will keep them from building awesome relationships with you.
They have very distinct personalities LORD, help them to know how much you love them, how your plans for them are to prosper and not to harm them, to give them a hope and future. That if they keep their eyes on you all these things you will add to them.
Help them to grow LORD, help them to hear you voice clearly so they will know you will and give them the power of your spirit LORD to succeed and overcome whatever lies ahead of them. In Jesus name I pray. Help us to encourage them and to be awesome examples of your love LORD.
Thank you for protecting them and I pray that you would keep them in the shadow of your wings to give their faith a chance to grow, to keep them from Satan's plans. They are protected by your blood Lord Jesus, by your name which is above all names.
Lord, give Lionel the commitment needed to keep building a personal relationship with you, one on one. Help them to know you more LORD, to recognise the truth, to know who they are in you, and to be full of courage and wisdom.
Thank you LORD. In Jesus awesome name I pray.
Today has been an extremely testing day. You are nothing like us LORD. You are faithful everyday, loving everyday and you can never betray yourself. Unlike me. I have a mind which runs away and thinks the worse sometimes. It's my mum in me and it drives me crazy.
The great thing about praying for other people is it takes your mind of you. So gratefully today I'm praying for Lionel and Alex. They are one of the coolest couples I know, not just because they are both gorgeous, because we have lots of couples like that in our family, but because they seem to understand each other - and they are only 21!!!! They've been together forever and they just seem made for each other. Thank you LORD for blessing them both.
Keep their love for each other strong please, and help their faithfulness and commitment to grow as they grow together. I know that you could use them to serve you big time. Young people would look up to them and they would be great youth leaders to begin with. If I'm thinking this then I think your plans for them must be even more amazing.
They will be able to achieve anything together LORD, but if they have you as the invisible cord which binds them together then they will achieve even great things. What you want for them is beyond even their dreams. They both know you LORD, and they have a desire to know you more. I ask that you would burn this like a fire in them so that nothing will keep them from building awesome relationships with you.
They have very distinct personalities LORD, help them to know how much you love them, how your plans for them are to prosper and not to harm them, to give them a hope and future. That if they keep their eyes on you all these things you will add to them.
Help them to grow LORD, help them to hear you voice clearly so they will know you will and give them the power of your spirit LORD to succeed and overcome whatever lies ahead of them. In Jesus name I pray. Help us to encourage them and to be awesome examples of your love LORD.
Thank you for protecting them and I pray that you would keep them in the shadow of your wings to give their faith a chance to grow, to keep them from Satan's plans. They are protected by your blood Lord Jesus, by your name which is above all names.
Lord, give Lionel the commitment needed to keep building a personal relationship with you, one on one. Help them to know you more LORD, to recognise the truth, to know who they are in you, and to be full of courage and wisdom.
Thank you LORD. In Jesus awesome name I pray.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
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Lord
thanks for today, for this awesome weather.
today i'm praying for Kaki and Lana. Bless their relationship LORD, help them to grow together and build a strong foundation for the rest of their lives. They both have good hearts Lord and seem very loyal. You know what they're really like LORD. You know what they need to build a closer relationship with each other. I don't know how they really feel about you LORD. But I ask that you would help them find you. Give them that desire to seek you, to build a relationship with you.
I know that Kaki knows you LORD. He needs your guidance and wisdom so he can get past whatever is holding him back from fully committing to you. Show him your will for his life LORD. That your plans are to prosper him and not to harm him but to give him a hope and a future. The same for Lana Lord but i don't know the condition of her heart towards you. Please help them both to move closer to you.
Help us to be a blessing to them, to be better examples of you to them. Help Claire and Lipo who live with them to build closer relationships with them. Help Zella to communicate well with Kaki. Give each of them your words LORD so they can sow seeds which will one day reap a harvest for you.
Thank you Lord for your protection over their lives. Thank you that even tho we cannot see what you are doing behind the scenes in their lives, that we can trust you completely.
in jesus mighty name i pray amene
thanks for today, for this awesome weather.
today i'm praying for Kaki and Lana. Bless their relationship LORD, help them to grow together and build a strong foundation for the rest of their lives. They both have good hearts Lord and seem very loyal. You know what they're really like LORD. You know what they need to build a closer relationship with each other. I don't know how they really feel about you LORD. But I ask that you would help them find you. Give them that desire to seek you, to build a relationship with you.
I know that Kaki knows you LORD. He needs your guidance and wisdom so he can get past whatever is holding him back from fully committing to you. Show him your will for his life LORD. That your plans are to prosper him and not to harm him but to give him a hope and a future. The same for Lana Lord but i don't know the condition of her heart towards you. Please help them both to move closer to you.
Help us to be a blessing to them, to be better examples of you to them. Help Claire and Lipo who live with them to build closer relationships with them. Help Zella to communicate well with Kaki. Give each of them your words LORD so they can sow seeds which will one day reap a harvest for you.
Thank you Lord for your protection over their lives. Thank you that even tho we cannot see what you are doing behind the scenes in their lives, that we can trust you completely.
in jesus mighty name i pray amene
Monday, April 10, 2006
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LORD
thank you that we can cast our cares on to you and leave them in your capable hands. today I'm lifting up Claire's sister, to you and my bro, Rob.
I don't know Claire's sister very well LORD, but i know that Claire has been sowing seeds in her life and she has come to our church a couple of times. It always amazes me when you save an unbeliever. How you change someone's heart around so that they believe and make a commitment to something they can't see, can't always feel, something that did not make any sense to them before. But that's the power of your spirit...that it can reach into someone's soul and find whatever is keeping them from seeing you, and just remove it like it was nothing. So one day they don't believe and that same day they believe wholeheartedly.
You know exactly when that day is for each of your children. The day they experience the joy of their salvation. You have already planned it. You already know what it will take and as we wait eagerly everyday, hoping ,'is today the day LORD?'.......You teach us to be patient and to persevere so that not only do they move a step closer to you but we who are believing also move a step closer to you.
I ask that you give Claire a desire to build an awesome strong relationship with her sister. Help her to be an awesome example of you LORD in word and deed. And when it's hard to love Kirstie (?), please give her the strength to not give up, but to keep sowing seeds in her life. We never know when one of these seeds will actually grow and bear fruit. But you do LORD.
All things are possible in your name Lord Jesus. We know you can open Kirstie's (?) heart to you. We know you love your lost sheep. Help her to find you LORD. To move closer to you and to know that there is something missing in her life. A place no one else can fill but you LORD.
Help Claire LORD to make Isaiah 32 a reality for her sister...so Claire can be a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm and like streams of water in the desert for her sister so her eyes will no longer be closed, and she will be willing listen.
Thank you LORD.
As for my bro. I know he knows you and sometimes he shows so clearly to me his potential to serve you. You have given him a love for conspiracies, for the end of days, a curiosity about historical facts, a soldier's heart. I look forward to that day LORD when he clicks that he's meant to start now. Not postpone you until he's a better person, but let you change him so he can be all you want him to be. He wants to fulfil his potential and he doesn't realise that this can only be done through a personal relationship with you. Open his eyes and ears LORD so he can hear the messages you have for him personally, and so he can listen.
You know all my prayers for him LORD. He does love you. He does belong to you and he does have faith. But he's yet to start living the life you have planned for him. I know that each day he gets closer and I thank you LORD for the work you are doing in his life that I cannot see. For the spiritual battle you are fighting for him so that he will be set free and experience the awesome life you have for him.
Help me LORD to see his heart the way you do, fill me with your discernment LORD, so like Jesus I can see what's keeping him from taking the next step. What's keeping him at just being convinced and not yet committed. Show me how to love him LORD. Show me how to reach him. Open my eyes to the opportunities you give me to sow seeds that will one day reap you an awesome harvest.
You have helped bring so much of what binds him out to the open in the last year LORD. For that I am grateful. Help him to see the truth LORD. To recognise Satan's lies in his life, and to recognise your truth which will set him free.
Lord, Jesus, set my brother free of all that binds him. Help him to not be fearful of the truth, but to know deep in his heart that you cannot abide by lies, big or small. That you are the way the TRUTH and the life. Without your truth LORD we lose our way and we cannot live the life you have planned for us, cannot experience the victories you have for us. TRUTH is who you are. You are the light and you cannot live in the darkness without shinning your light.
We cannot earn this life, we cannot change ourselves...yes we can change ourselves but it's not A TRANSFORMATION that can only come from you. It's not A LIFE CHANGING TRANSFORMATION that only you can do, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. Two completely different entities yet the same....only you can do that LORD. Only you can TRANSFORM a ground crawling insect into one that can fly....
One day LORD, I hope to see my brother fly. Help him to hear you LORD, to know your will for his life and give him the courage and wisdom to obey your will.
I lay these requests before you LORD and look forward to your will being done on earth as it is in heaven. In the name of my Saviour and Lord, Jesus. amen
thank you that we can cast our cares on to you and leave them in your capable hands. today I'm lifting up Claire's sister, to you and my bro, Rob.
I don't know Claire's sister very well LORD, but i know that Claire has been sowing seeds in her life and she has come to our church a couple of times. It always amazes me when you save an unbeliever. How you change someone's heart around so that they believe and make a commitment to something they can't see, can't always feel, something that did not make any sense to them before. But that's the power of your spirit...that it can reach into someone's soul and find whatever is keeping them from seeing you, and just remove it like it was nothing. So one day they don't believe and that same day they believe wholeheartedly.
You know exactly when that day is for each of your children. The day they experience the joy of their salvation. You have already planned it. You already know what it will take and as we wait eagerly everyday, hoping ,'is today the day LORD?'.......You teach us to be patient and to persevere so that not only do they move a step closer to you but we who are believing also move a step closer to you.
I ask that you give Claire a desire to build an awesome strong relationship with her sister. Help her to be an awesome example of you LORD in word and deed. And when it's hard to love Kirstie (?), please give her the strength to not give up, but to keep sowing seeds in her life. We never know when one of these seeds will actually grow and bear fruit. But you do LORD.
All things are possible in your name Lord Jesus. We know you can open Kirstie's (?) heart to you. We know you love your lost sheep. Help her to find you LORD. To move closer to you and to know that there is something missing in her life. A place no one else can fill but you LORD.
Help Claire LORD to make Isaiah 32 a reality for her sister...so Claire can be a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm and like streams of water in the desert for her sister so her eyes will no longer be closed, and she will be willing listen.
Thank you LORD.
As for my bro. I know he knows you and sometimes he shows so clearly to me his potential to serve you. You have given him a love for conspiracies, for the end of days, a curiosity about historical facts, a soldier's heart. I look forward to that day LORD when he clicks that he's meant to start now. Not postpone you until he's a better person, but let you change him so he can be all you want him to be. He wants to fulfil his potential and he doesn't realise that this can only be done through a personal relationship with you. Open his eyes and ears LORD so he can hear the messages you have for him personally, and so he can listen.
You know all my prayers for him LORD. He does love you. He does belong to you and he does have faith. But he's yet to start living the life you have planned for him. I know that each day he gets closer and I thank you LORD for the work you are doing in his life that I cannot see. For the spiritual battle you are fighting for him so that he will be set free and experience the awesome life you have for him.
Help me LORD to see his heart the way you do, fill me with your discernment LORD, so like Jesus I can see what's keeping him from taking the next step. What's keeping him at just being convinced and not yet committed. Show me how to love him LORD. Show me how to reach him. Open my eyes to the opportunities you give me to sow seeds that will one day reap you an awesome harvest.
You have helped bring so much of what binds him out to the open in the last year LORD. For that I am grateful. Help him to see the truth LORD. To recognise Satan's lies in his life, and to recognise your truth which will set him free.
Lord, Jesus, set my brother free of all that binds him. Help him to not be fearful of the truth, but to know deep in his heart that you cannot abide by lies, big or small. That you are the way the TRUTH and the life. Without your truth LORD we lose our way and we cannot live the life you have planned for us, cannot experience the victories you have for us. TRUTH is who you are. You are the light and you cannot live in the darkness without shinning your light.
We cannot earn this life, we cannot change ourselves...yes we can change ourselves but it's not A TRANSFORMATION that can only come from you. It's not A LIFE CHANGING TRANSFORMATION that only you can do, like a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. Two completely different entities yet the same....only you can do that LORD. Only you can TRANSFORM a ground crawling insect into one that can fly....
One day LORD, I hope to see my brother fly. Help him to hear you LORD, to know your will for his life and give him the courage and wisdom to obey your will.
I lay these requests before you LORD and look forward to your will being done on earth as it is in heaven. In the name of my Saviour and Lord, Jesus. amen
another thing..
Lord,
yesterday, Nick said to me that he cant wait to open an orphanage where he will house 100's of children, who will get taught, and given the best medical care and trained on trade etc..etc..according to their own strengths and weaknesses, then send them out into the world to do the same.
I know he doesnt think this dream was from you but i know Lord that you are working in him, day by day.I know he wants to help people and he has gone out of his way to love and be there for people who need him, and his heart breaks for children who dont have the same opportunities we both do and part of his frustration is due to the fact that he wants to do something about this now, but cant!
I know Lord that he will be a generous giver and expects nothing in return, he has all the traits to be a strong man of God,to sow into your kingdom and build it here on earth, he just doesnt know it nor does he see it...But Lord i see it.
I pray that you use all his strengths and weaknesses to bring glory to you!
Bless him Lord so he will see his desire to help others as a passion from you, that he doesnt have to wait until hes rich and living in luxury, but that he can sow whatever little he has now and trust you to water it and see it grow!
Help him to trust in you, Help me to trust in you, help me to see him with your eyes Lord, someone who needs a lot of love and mercy, someone who you are working on and have great plans for.
Thank You Lord for coming for my words
In your awesome name Jesus
amen
yesterday, Nick said to me that he cant wait to open an orphanage where he will house 100's of children, who will get taught, and given the best medical care and trained on trade etc..etc..according to their own strengths and weaknesses, then send them out into the world to do the same.
I know he doesnt think this dream was from you but i know Lord that you are working in him, day by day.I know he wants to help people and he has gone out of his way to love and be there for people who need him, and his heart breaks for children who dont have the same opportunities we both do and part of his frustration is due to the fact that he wants to do something about this now, but cant!
I know Lord that he will be a generous giver and expects nothing in return, he has all the traits to be a strong man of God,to sow into your kingdom and build it here on earth, he just doesnt know it nor does he see it...But Lord i see it.
I pray that you use all his strengths and weaknesses to bring glory to you!
Bless him Lord so he will see his desire to help others as a passion from you, that he doesnt have to wait until hes rich and living in luxury, but that he can sow whatever little he has now and trust you to water it and see it grow!
Help him to trust in you, Help me to trust in you, help me to see him with your eyes Lord, someone who needs a lot of love and mercy, someone who you are working on and have great plans for.
Thank You Lord for coming for my words
In your awesome name Jesus
amen
prayer
Lord,
I lift up Nick to you! You have told me time and time again to keep on praying and be faithful in praying for him if i am to see change.I know theres a lot about me that needs to change especially when it comes to him, and i thank you for reminding me time and time again of who I am fighting against and who i stand for.
Lord, im worried about him, but who am i to worry when i have a big awesome mighty heavnely father who sees into all situations and has control over everything...for who by worrying adds an extra hour to his life?
Hes so ambitious and determined to get ahead that he gets impatient and frustrated.Hes so hard on himself and endlessly worrying about his future and where he will be and what he needs to do now to get there.
Lord, i recognise that coz i was just as bad, until you brought me up from the depths of darkness and assured me of your unfailing love, your love that has never failed me in the past.
He sometimes thinks i dont understand what hes going through Lord, and I dont care about his dreams and goals but Lord help him and fill him with your wisdom and discernment, so he will know how i got rid of all my worries, and that was by allowing you to sort it all out for me. It was when i stopped trying to control everything that you started.
Help me Lord, strengthen me so I can be the example you want for his life, do not harden his heart Lord, coz he needs you.He needs you so much even though hes too proud to admit it.I know Lord this is how society think, that we must be independent and not give into somehting or someone that we cant see, touch or smell, but faith is believing in things not seen as if they were and I am believeing for him Lord.I ask for your divine blessings on his life, bless the works of his hand and let it bring about your glory.
so I ask that you renew his mind, transform him into your likeness and give him a desire to know you Lord.
I ask in your name Jesus, that you make me an instrument of your peace, that i hold steadfast to you as I keep on pursuing your kingdom no matter what the persecutions Lord.
I thank you for all that you have done to bring him this far, I know he knows of you Lord, but I ask that you reveal yourself to him, get his attention and change his world. I ask that you move him up, break down the strongholds and protect him with your precious blood Jesus so he will 'one day' come to see that he only needs to pursue your kingdom first and foremost and all these things will be added unto him.
Lord you are the God of the impossible, you are the God of my breakthrough...help me to not waver in my faith, but be faithful in prayer, hopeful in affliction and keep my eyes on you.
Most of all Lord, i ask that you fill me with your joy that i may be patient, loving and compassionate towards him.
Your truth Lord is the lamp unto my feet and from you creator of heavn and earth comes my help.
We both need you Lord,
Thank You for the lessons you have taught me through him and using him to work in my life.Thank You for blessing our lives with each other Lord.
In your mighty name Jesus
Amen
I lift up Nick to you! You have told me time and time again to keep on praying and be faithful in praying for him if i am to see change.I know theres a lot about me that needs to change especially when it comes to him, and i thank you for reminding me time and time again of who I am fighting against and who i stand for.
Lord, im worried about him, but who am i to worry when i have a big awesome mighty heavnely father who sees into all situations and has control over everything...for who by worrying adds an extra hour to his life?
Hes so ambitious and determined to get ahead that he gets impatient and frustrated.Hes so hard on himself and endlessly worrying about his future and where he will be and what he needs to do now to get there.
Lord, i recognise that coz i was just as bad, until you brought me up from the depths of darkness and assured me of your unfailing love, your love that has never failed me in the past.
He sometimes thinks i dont understand what hes going through Lord, and I dont care about his dreams and goals but Lord help him and fill him with your wisdom and discernment, so he will know how i got rid of all my worries, and that was by allowing you to sort it all out for me. It was when i stopped trying to control everything that you started.
Help me Lord, strengthen me so I can be the example you want for his life, do not harden his heart Lord, coz he needs you.He needs you so much even though hes too proud to admit it.I know Lord this is how society think, that we must be independent and not give into somehting or someone that we cant see, touch or smell, but faith is believing in things not seen as if they were and I am believeing for him Lord.I ask for your divine blessings on his life, bless the works of his hand and let it bring about your glory.
so I ask that you renew his mind, transform him into your likeness and give him a desire to know you Lord.
I ask in your name Jesus, that you make me an instrument of your peace, that i hold steadfast to you as I keep on pursuing your kingdom no matter what the persecutions Lord.
I thank you for all that you have done to bring him this far, I know he knows of you Lord, but I ask that you reveal yourself to him, get his attention and change his world. I ask that you move him up, break down the strongholds and protect him with your precious blood Jesus so he will 'one day' come to see that he only needs to pursue your kingdom first and foremost and all these things will be added unto him.
Lord you are the God of the impossible, you are the God of my breakthrough...help me to not waver in my faith, but be faithful in prayer, hopeful in affliction and keep my eyes on you.
Most of all Lord, i ask that you fill me with your joy that i may be patient, loving and compassionate towards him.
Your truth Lord is the lamp unto my feet and from you creator of heavn and earth comes my help.
We both need you Lord,
Thank You for the lessons you have taught me through him and using him to work in my life.Thank You for blessing our lives with each other Lord.
In your mighty name Jesus
Amen
Sunday, April 09, 2006
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ive decided to post my prayers for the prayer schedule for this month. i keep prayer journals so I can see what i've prayed over the years for my loved ones and when the LORD has answered my prayers. This prayer schedule includes loved ones for all our group. So I've decided to record them on our blog so I can show others in our group what i'm praying for, but also so I can record how the LORD has answered.
It may be months, years, or less of prayer but I can always look back and remember. Praying is about putting our faith into practice. It's believing in what we cannot see and being sure of what we hope for. It's about sowing seeds and letting the LORD grow them into huge trees.
Lord
Thanks for awesome news at church today - that you have answered another couple's prayers for a baby. How awesome is your timing and how much you have blessed our church. Thank you LORD.
Today i am praying for Pam and Eddie. They are an awesome couple LORD and I thank you for bringing them together. They are so good for each other and bring balance to each other's lives. Please continue to be with them in their relationship, to help them to grow together, to love each other more and more! I ask that you fill them both with your spirit so that they will know you more and build personal relationships with you.
Pam knows your church traditions LORD and they have meaning for her, bring her closer to you LORD. I know that she has so much potential and that you have plans for her. I thank you LORD for saving Eddie and giving him a desire to hang out with you. Help him in his bible readings please so it will come alive for him and he can see in those pages your heart for him. Give him your passion LORD to be an overcomer and to continue to be a great example to his friends at work and to other believers. He's such a server LORD. Help him please with his gambling problems. Help him to lean on you and to forgive himself so that he will not give up but keep putting his trust in you.
Thanks LORD for hearing our prayers, for your perfect timing. Thank you that we can trust in you and know that you are working in each of our lives to help us move a step closer to you.
in your name Lord Jesus I ask all these things. amene
It may be months, years, or less of prayer but I can always look back and remember. Praying is about putting our faith into practice. It's believing in what we cannot see and being sure of what we hope for. It's about sowing seeds and letting the LORD grow them into huge trees.
Lord
Thanks for awesome news at church today - that you have answered another couple's prayers for a baby. How awesome is your timing and how much you have blessed our church. Thank you LORD.
Today i am praying for Pam and Eddie. They are an awesome couple LORD and I thank you for bringing them together. They are so good for each other and bring balance to each other's lives. Please continue to be with them in their relationship, to help them to grow together, to love each other more and more! I ask that you fill them both with your spirit so that they will know you more and build personal relationships with you.
Pam knows your church traditions LORD and they have meaning for her, bring her closer to you LORD. I know that she has so much potential and that you have plans for her. I thank you LORD for saving Eddie and giving him a desire to hang out with you. Help him in his bible readings please so it will come alive for him and he can see in those pages your heart for him. Give him your passion LORD to be an overcomer and to continue to be a great example to his friends at work and to other believers. He's such a server LORD. Help him please with his gambling problems. Help him to lean on you and to forgive himself so that he will not give up but keep putting his trust in you.
Thanks LORD for hearing our prayers, for your perfect timing. Thank you that we can trust in you and know that you are working in each of our lives to help us move a step closer to you.
in your name Lord Jesus I ask all these things. amene
Saturday, April 08, 2006
ps...prayer schedule
Lord
Today my prayers are for our kids - Bubba, Tylah, Taneisha, CJ, & Jataliah. My main prayers for them are for your protection wherever they go, from whoever they are with, so they are always safe in the shadow of your wings. Help them to love each other and support each other. Give them your wisdom Lord so when we are not with them they know who to trust and befriend.
Please help us to encourage and teach them your ways, to answer their questions about you with your truth and love.
Already they are 'all about me'. Please teach them to love, to see others with your eyes. Lord, help them to know that your plans are to prosper them and not to harm them, to give them a hope and a future. They belong to you LORD, fill them with your spirit so they have that desire to draw closer to you. Set a fire in their spirits!!!
Last of all LORD, help us to bless them so they will enjoy and live their lives to their full potential. Thanks for protecting them from sickness, for helping them to grow, for giving them such awesome personalities and gifts. Thank you for always going before them LORD.
in jesus' awesome name, amen
Today my prayers are for our kids - Bubba, Tylah, Taneisha, CJ, & Jataliah. My main prayers for them are for your protection wherever they go, from whoever they are with, so they are always safe in the shadow of your wings. Help them to love each other and support each other. Give them your wisdom Lord so when we are not with them they know who to trust and befriend.
Please help us to encourage and teach them your ways, to answer their questions about you with your truth and love.
Already they are 'all about me'. Please teach them to love, to see others with your eyes. Lord, help them to know that your plans are to prosper them and not to harm them, to give them a hope and a future. They belong to you LORD, fill them with your spirit so they have that desire to draw closer to you. Set a fire in their spirits!!!
Last of all LORD, help us to bless them so they will enjoy and live their lives to their full potential. Thanks for protecting them from sickness, for helping them to grow, for giving them such awesome personalities and gifts. Thank you for always going before them LORD.
in jesus' awesome name, amen
Friday, April 07, 2006
Warrior Princess
Lord,
Thank you for the minstry of your holy spirit that has brought us together to do something that nobody in the history of Insearch, our workplace has done.
Precious Lord, you are our saviour and our King, to you alone be all the glory and praises for your goodness.Thank you for being in control of our lives Lord, thank you for bringing together a bunch of girls who are from totally different religious backgrounds, different cultures, different age and different personalities and putting us together in a room, and uniting us together under your Lordship.
Lord you have just put in my heart, that this is what you want for your church, for your body...to put aside our different beliefs of each other and religous rituals so we can unite under one LOVE and one Saviour. To be in agreement, to make a stand..TOGETHER to change the world we live in together.Not to argue and be against each other due to religion but to look to you who is the author of our salvation, you who are the head of the church and just follow.
You are reconciling everything to yourself Lord, and we are here to make your enemies your footstool..how awesome are you Lord!!!
I pray for the girls, that they will come encouraged, that we will passionately share your love with each other as well as others who do not know you just yet.I pray and lift up our prayers on Monday that they will be sweet to your ears Lord, that you will continue to transform us from the inside out so we may be walking testimonies of your love for this world, or in our case for the people around us. Come for our words Lord like you did for Daniel, send us your favour, create for us opportunities to grow and bring others who are in need of you, even those who dont know they need you.
Lord, its been a long time coming and we have been here for 4 years together, wandering around in the wilderness not knowing exactly why we are here at Insearch, carrying our burden on our own and now we are certain of things hoped for Lord, for you are our GOD of the impossible and your ways are perfect and true.
im coming relying on your promises Lord " to be strong and courageous" standing in the gap for my collegues in your mighty name Jesus.
Thank you Lord for bringing us together and seeing the desire of my heart, seeing my struggles and the deep yearnings of my spirit to see people free, and live a cool fantastic life loving you.You saw how much i wanted to break free from the corporate world and all its politics, to share my passion for you with other people, other than just church people...im excited Lord.Thank you for making a way for us!!!!
You are awesome, wonderful and all together loving....you are my GOD, in you i place my trust..I will hope in you Lord, for greater are you who is in me than he who is in this world.No longer shall my enemy have a field day while i tremble in the corner, with the sword of truth I will go forth, and i will come against him in your name Jesus..I can do ALL things through you Lord......
"For satan came only to steal kill and destroy, but YOU, came so I can have life and life in abundance"
in your precious name Jesus, i pray
amen
Thank you for the minstry of your holy spirit that has brought us together to do something that nobody in the history of Insearch, our workplace has done.
Precious Lord, you are our saviour and our King, to you alone be all the glory and praises for your goodness.Thank you for being in control of our lives Lord, thank you for bringing together a bunch of girls who are from totally different religious backgrounds, different cultures, different age and different personalities and putting us together in a room, and uniting us together under your Lordship.
Lord you have just put in my heart, that this is what you want for your church, for your body...to put aside our different beliefs of each other and religous rituals so we can unite under one LOVE and one Saviour. To be in agreement, to make a stand..TOGETHER to change the world we live in together.Not to argue and be against each other due to religion but to look to you who is the author of our salvation, you who are the head of the church and just follow.
You are reconciling everything to yourself Lord, and we are here to make your enemies your footstool..how awesome are you Lord!!!
I pray for the girls, that they will come encouraged, that we will passionately share your love with each other as well as others who do not know you just yet.I pray and lift up our prayers on Monday that they will be sweet to your ears Lord, that you will continue to transform us from the inside out so we may be walking testimonies of your love for this world, or in our case for the people around us. Come for our words Lord like you did for Daniel, send us your favour, create for us opportunities to grow and bring others who are in need of you, even those who dont know they need you.
Lord, its been a long time coming and we have been here for 4 years together, wandering around in the wilderness not knowing exactly why we are here at Insearch, carrying our burden on our own and now we are certain of things hoped for Lord, for you are our GOD of the impossible and your ways are perfect and true.
im coming relying on your promises Lord " to be strong and courageous" standing in the gap for my collegues in your mighty name Jesus.
Thank you Lord for bringing us together and seeing the desire of my heart, seeing my struggles and the deep yearnings of my spirit to see people free, and live a cool fantastic life loving you.You saw how much i wanted to break free from the corporate world and all its politics, to share my passion for you with other people, other than just church people...im excited Lord.Thank you for making a way for us!!!!
You are awesome, wonderful and all together loving....you are my GOD, in you i place my trust..I will hope in you Lord, for greater are you who is in me than he who is in this world.No longer shall my enemy have a field day while i tremble in the corner, with the sword of truth I will go forth, and i will come against him in your name Jesus..I can do ALL things through you Lord......
"For satan came only to steal kill and destroy, but YOU, came so I can have life and life in abundance"
in your precious name Jesus, i pray
amen
prayer schedule
LORD
Today I lift up May and Kalama to you. I pray that you would strengthen their marriage and help them both in their walk with you. You know their hearts LORD, you know what they need to move to the next level in their faith and in their marriage. Please keep them safe from Satan's attacks I ask in Jesus' name. Give them your wisdom and discernment LORD to know your will for their lives. I know they love their children and want to be a blessing to them and to others and I thank you LORD for all that you are doing in their lives. Help each of us to build stronger relationships with them, show us how to do this please, to speak the truth in love, to trust each other more, to enjoy each other's company, to love each other.
Also, please remember Charlie and Maryanne today LORD. Maryanne is struggling with the many responsibilities she has as a mum and wife. She needs your help so much LORD. I know she doesn't know you and I know that you are the answer to her problems. But only you can open her eyes so she can see you so she can know that you are real. She has such a giving heart LORD but she is in need of your direction. LORD, bless their marriage, show them how to communicate with each other, how to listen and work together. They are trying so hard that I wish there was something I could do to help them. Show me how to be better at supporting them both.
Charlie needs you too LORD. I worry about his stress levels, he has such a busy job and his home life is just as full on with 4 kids...a new baby. Please fill them with your wisdom, help them to make right choices, guide them please LORD. I know Charlie prays to you, and he has faith. Please talk to him, show him the truth that he needs to know to help his family. Help to see clearly your will for their lives and give him the wisdom to carry it out. Please protect them all from evil, in Jesus' mighty name I ask.
LORD, only you know when you will answer our prayers and you have heard our prayers over the years for our loved ones. I put my trust in you LORD, for all things are possible in you and I look forward to that one day when Maryanne will know you. You said to cast all our cares to you LORD, because you care for us. To submit to you and resist the devil and he will flee. I look forward to your blessings for our family LORD and I thank you for your never ending protection.
We are under attack a lot lately, but this is nothing compared to you LORD. You who set the stars in their place, who created the world and every living thing in it. What are our problems compared to you? They fill our days and steal moments from us - but not from you LORD, you are our redeemer. We know that the battle is already won and through our Lord Jesus, we can ask you for anything and we shall receive. Our sins are forgiven and we are set free from conforming to this world. Thank you LORD for your awesome mercy and grace which i rely on every day. Your love for us LORD is unfailing. You prove time and time again by answering our prayers. We can do nothing in our own strength LORD, but in you we can do all things.
Lord Jesus thank you for thinking of us, for praying for us, for setting such an example for us on how to love. I give you all the glory because without you I would be a very lost soul. But you saved me when I needed you the most and I know you can do the same for my loved ones. You did it for my man and I wait like a child at the edge of my seat in anticipation and excitement screaming out:
Today I lift up May and Kalama to you. I pray that you would strengthen their marriage and help them both in their walk with you. You know their hearts LORD, you know what they need to move to the next level in their faith and in their marriage. Please keep them safe from Satan's attacks I ask in Jesus' name. Give them your wisdom and discernment LORD to know your will for their lives. I know they love their children and want to be a blessing to them and to others and I thank you LORD for all that you are doing in their lives. Help each of us to build stronger relationships with them, show us how to do this please, to speak the truth in love, to trust each other more, to enjoy each other's company, to love each other.
Also, please remember Charlie and Maryanne today LORD. Maryanne is struggling with the many responsibilities she has as a mum and wife. She needs your help so much LORD. I know she doesn't know you and I know that you are the answer to her problems. But only you can open her eyes so she can see you so she can know that you are real. She has such a giving heart LORD but she is in need of your direction. LORD, bless their marriage, show them how to communicate with each other, how to listen and work together. They are trying so hard that I wish there was something I could do to help them. Show me how to be better at supporting them both.
Charlie needs you too LORD. I worry about his stress levels, he has such a busy job and his home life is just as full on with 4 kids...a new baby. Please fill them with your wisdom, help them to make right choices, guide them please LORD. I know Charlie prays to you, and he has faith. Please talk to him, show him the truth that he needs to know to help his family. Help to see clearly your will for their lives and give him the wisdom to carry it out. Please protect them all from evil, in Jesus' mighty name I ask.
LORD, only you know when you will answer our prayers and you have heard our prayers over the years for our loved ones. I put my trust in you LORD, for all things are possible in you and I look forward to that one day when Maryanne will know you. You said to cast all our cares to you LORD, because you care for us. To submit to you and resist the devil and he will flee. I look forward to your blessings for our family LORD and I thank you for your never ending protection.
We are under attack a lot lately, but this is nothing compared to you LORD. You who set the stars in their place, who created the world and every living thing in it. What are our problems compared to you? They fill our days and steal moments from us - but not from you LORD, you are our redeemer. We know that the battle is already won and through our Lord Jesus, we can ask you for anything and we shall receive. Our sins are forgiven and we are set free from conforming to this world. Thank you LORD for your awesome mercy and grace which i rely on every day. Your love for us LORD is unfailing. You prove time and time again by answering our prayers. We can do nothing in our own strength LORD, but in you we can do all things.
Lord Jesus thank you for thinking of us, for praying for us, for setting such an example for us on how to love. I give you all the glory because without you I would be a very lost soul. But you saved me when I needed you the most and I know you can do the same for my loved ones. You did it for my man and I wait like a child at the edge of my seat in anticipation and excitement screaming out:
' DO IT AGAIN LORD, DO IT AGAIN!!'
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
Ave Mariaaaaaaaaa
TALI IS PREGNANT WORLD!!!
THAT MEANS MYLES IS GOING TO BE A DADDY!!! ... and everybody say "awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww" :p
All last night at our group Myles spirit was singing within in him, even the Lord was excited and couldnt wait to tell them about the miracle that was going to happen the next day...so he made Myles sing Ave Maria in Latin by himself as part of our worship and Amazing Grace in all kinds of version according to Tali !!!
How awesome is our God....even he gets excited when good things happen to us, from the smallest miracle to the big ones...he starts singing, his Joy makes us sing....his JOY becomes our strength.
"For those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength like the EAGLE"
Thank You Lord, Im in awe of you all over again xoxox
answered prayer
LORD
i just wanted the world to know about your goodness, your faithfulness. I've already whispered it to you in the quiet of my room, and on the phone with myles, but now I feel like screaming to the world that my God lives and rewards those who wait on him. Not because I deserved it, not becauseI'm worthy, but just because you are who you say you are.
My life is in your hands and your timing is always perfect compared to mine. I can't believe in December I will be holding a baby in my arms.
You made everything ready, planned my days so that this year, when my marriage was full of your truth and light, my husband saved, my niece born in Feb, you could say 'NOW IS THE HOUR, tell my daughter she's having a baby'
If you had left it to me LORD I would have been pregnant 5 years ago. Or when I had my entopic I would have wanted you to save my child. But you knew I would have to go to Dad and stay in hospital with him for a month. I wouldn't have been able to travel if that baby was saved, the timing was all wrong. Yet you saved my ovary and filled me with hope that one day I would be pregnant.
Today is that day. I'm excited and scared and worried all wrapped up in one.
I give you all the glory LORD, you are my God, and there is no other like you. What do i know about my life, compared to all that you know?? You prove this to me time and time again. I belong to you LORD. You are better at taking care of me than I am.
I am in awe of your goodness. This life growing in me belongs to you LORD. To carry your light into the next generation. Help us to be awesome examples of you and your love. Help me to be the most loving most wise mum this child could ever have.
I might be having more than one child. I have no idea. Whatever you think is best LORD. I'm just happy that at last I will know what it means to be a mum.
I have two more requests LORD. Can this baby be born on my Dad's birthday - 5 December, it's due date is 7 Dec. Can i please have a permanent angel body guard to protect me over the next 9 months OR be more filled with your Holy spirit in me so that my baby is protected from the inside and talking to you already.
Thanks for putting up with me. For listening to me and remembering me.
in Jesus' name, my beloved Saviour and Lord. amen
i just wanted the world to know about your goodness, your faithfulness. I've already whispered it to you in the quiet of my room, and on the phone with myles, but now I feel like screaming to the world that my God lives and rewards those who wait on him. Not because I deserved it, not becauseI'm worthy, but just because you are who you say you are.
My life is in your hands and your timing is always perfect compared to mine. I can't believe in December I will be holding a baby in my arms.
You made everything ready, planned my days so that this year, when my marriage was full of your truth and light, my husband saved, my niece born in Feb, you could say 'NOW IS THE HOUR, tell my daughter she's having a baby'
If you had left it to me LORD I would have been pregnant 5 years ago. Or when I had my entopic I would have wanted you to save my child. But you knew I would have to go to Dad and stay in hospital with him for a month. I wouldn't have been able to travel if that baby was saved, the timing was all wrong. Yet you saved my ovary and filled me with hope that one day I would be pregnant.
Today is that day. I'm excited and scared and worried all wrapped up in one.
I give you all the glory LORD, you are my God, and there is no other like you. What do i know about my life, compared to all that you know?? You prove this to me time and time again. I belong to you LORD. You are better at taking care of me than I am.
I am in awe of your goodness. This life growing in me belongs to you LORD. To carry your light into the next generation. Help us to be awesome examples of you and your love. Help me to be the most loving most wise mum this child could ever have.
I might be having more than one child. I have no idea. Whatever you think is best LORD. I'm just happy that at last I will know what it means to be a mum.
I have two more requests LORD. Can this baby be born on my Dad's birthday - 5 December, it's due date is 7 Dec. Can i please have a permanent angel body guard to protect me over the next 9 months OR be more filled with your Holy spirit in me so that my baby is protected from the inside and talking to you already.
Thanks for putting up with me. For listening to me and remembering me.
in Jesus' name, my beloved Saviour and Lord. amen
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Emotional Day
I think I'm just having one of those emotional girl days. I just feel like crying and letting everything out. The problem with me is that I tend to just hold everything inside until it just gets to much.
I just feel like a hug, its funny how you can have a really bad day but all you need to fix it is a hug from someone you love.
Lord I don't know what's going on at the moment but you know what's in my heart and what's troubling me, so I just lift it up to you Lord and ask for your strength.
I just feel like a hug, its funny how you can have a really bad day but all you need to fix it is a hug from someone you love.
Lord I don't know what's going on at the moment but you know what's in my heart and what's troubling me, so I just lift it up to you Lord and ask for your strength.
Monday, April 03, 2006
God may not be a woman...but Jesus sure is!
I previously posted saying why I thought God is not a woman. I was walking up to the shops tonight and realised that Jesus could be a woman. Actually I am convinced Jesus is a woman!
When I was walking up to the shops tonight I saw a 'street person' who I often see walking the streets. He obviously has a mental condition - he walks down the middle of the street, doesn't like to step on cracks, stops and stares etc.
When we did a street ministry called 'Pass the Plate' we used to give a glass of hot water to a street lady called 'Maria'. It's all she wanted and she always seemed grateful.
As I walked tonight the following verse entered my mind: For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in (Matthew 25:35).
Then I realised this man in the street was Jesus. And Maria was Jesus. Thus making Jesus a woman.
When I was walking up to the shops tonight I saw a 'street person' who I often see walking the streets. He obviously has a mental condition - he walks down the middle of the street, doesn't like to step on cracks, stops and stares etc.
When we did a street ministry called 'Pass the Plate' we used to give a glass of hot water to a street lady called 'Maria'. It's all she wanted and she always seemed grateful.
As I walked tonight the following verse entered my mind: For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in (Matthew 25:35).
Then I realised this man in the street was Jesus. And Maria was Jesus. Thus making Jesus a woman.
following in Jesus' footsteps
One doubting believer says to another:
THE LORD DOES NOT WORK FOR ME. I'm ready to give up. This Christian life sux.
The other believer agrees and says:
You're right the LORD does not work for you. You should give up. Your christian life does suck.
THE LORD DOES NOT WORK FOR ME. I'm ready to give up. This Christian life sux.
The other believer agrees and says:
You're right the LORD does not work for you. You should give up. Your christian life does suck.
The truth is...
YOU WORK FOR THE LORD,
now that you've given up the LORD can use you
INSTEAD of you using the LORD.
That was Jesus' life story...ours is the same.
my birthday!!
it was my birthday last week on the 28th March. im now a walking and talking 28 year old...whooooo hooooooo!!!
this year was quite different, i didnt make a big fuss like i normally do, nor did i remember until my sister reminded me ever so kindly about me getting old etc..etc...
i went home and sat by myself...i mean by my self!!! yes, all those who know me fall over :p
i will always remember this birthday, because i spent every second of it with the Lord, i said to him in the morning "Lord it doesnt matter if anyone remembers my b-day, you remember and know its my birthday, thats all that matters..you created me and welcomed me into this world on this day, 28 years ago and you know everything about me, so its cool"
and i actually meant that..sure enough some of the most important people and perhaps the closest to me forgot my b-day but it didnt matter to me...i was sure of their love for me and so did not even think twice about it...its amazing when you make the Lord your Confidence! Nothing moves you...normally my brother forgetting my b-day would distress me much but I enjoyed celebrating God styles...rest, sit, be still and know that HE IS THE GREAT I AM!!
My frenz wanted to meet up for drinks (which is what we normaly do), but i chose instead to go to uni and go home to sit with the Lord, pray, give him thanks and praise and read his word.
i praised him for the days of my life that he already knows about, i thanked him for I am wonderfully and fearfully made, that he knew me before i was conceived and for designated the 28th of March1978 for my great welcoming into the world. I thanked him for smiling upon my life when i was born as if to say:
" my dear child, theres a big world out there, you will laugh, you will cry, you will hurt and be misunderstood, you will have your heart broken, you will go through heartbreaking loss, you will make frends and you will be betrayed, you will change, you will cry again, you will be discouraged, you will be disrespected, you will be disobedient, you will make wrong choices, you will be taken for granted and will take other for granted as well, you will give up on me but on the 28th March when you were born i celebrated, for I knew what I created and thats YOU...with all your fears, weaknesses and strengths, your doubts and worries, i still created you because on your 28th birthday i knew that you will sit and relfect on a life well lived and you will be reminded that throughout your life, there were changes and different tides, but I remained tha constant, steady hand that guided you back...for I have a plan for you duaghter, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future,then you will search for me with all your heart and you will find me"
I enjoyed every second of the Lords presence and i truly worshipped him for the many days past and yet to come.I look to the future at my life and know that if i cast my cares unto him, submit to his will and keep moving forward with eyes focused on Christ things can only get better...and I am truly encouraged!
My father in heaven knows me by name....what an awesome revelation that was!!!
this year was quite different, i didnt make a big fuss like i normally do, nor did i remember until my sister reminded me ever so kindly about me getting old etc..etc...
i went home and sat by myself...i mean by my self!!! yes, all those who know me fall over :p
i will always remember this birthday, because i spent every second of it with the Lord, i said to him in the morning "Lord it doesnt matter if anyone remembers my b-day, you remember and know its my birthday, thats all that matters..you created me and welcomed me into this world on this day, 28 years ago and you know everything about me, so its cool"
and i actually meant that..sure enough some of the most important people and perhaps the closest to me forgot my b-day but it didnt matter to me...i was sure of their love for me and so did not even think twice about it...its amazing when you make the Lord your Confidence! Nothing moves you...normally my brother forgetting my b-day would distress me much but I enjoyed celebrating God styles...rest, sit, be still and know that HE IS THE GREAT I AM!!
My frenz wanted to meet up for drinks (which is what we normaly do), but i chose instead to go to uni and go home to sit with the Lord, pray, give him thanks and praise and read his word.
i praised him for the days of my life that he already knows about, i thanked him for I am wonderfully and fearfully made, that he knew me before i was conceived and for designated the 28th of March1978 for my great welcoming into the world. I thanked him for smiling upon my life when i was born as if to say:
" my dear child, theres a big world out there, you will laugh, you will cry, you will hurt and be misunderstood, you will have your heart broken, you will go through heartbreaking loss, you will make frends and you will be betrayed, you will change, you will cry again, you will be discouraged, you will be disrespected, you will be disobedient, you will make wrong choices, you will be taken for granted and will take other for granted as well, you will give up on me but on the 28th March when you were born i celebrated, for I knew what I created and thats YOU...with all your fears, weaknesses and strengths, your doubts and worries, i still created you because on your 28th birthday i knew that you will sit and relfect on a life well lived and you will be reminded that throughout your life, there were changes and different tides, but I remained tha constant, steady hand that guided you back...for I have a plan for you duaghter, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future,then you will search for me with all your heart and you will find me"
I enjoyed every second of the Lords presence and i truly worshipped him for the many days past and yet to come.I look to the future at my life and know that if i cast my cares unto him, submit to his will and keep moving forward with eyes focused on Christ things can only get better...and I am truly encouraged!
My father in heaven knows me by name....what an awesome revelation that was!!!
POWER OF PRAYER
One of the main lessons to come out of last year for me was the desperate need for us to pray more - it covers us and helps our faith to grow. More and more the LORD keeps putting it on my heart to pray and pray.
So I have been studying prayer a lot. Reading an excellent prayer book at the moment by John Maxwell. I have always talked to the LORD, even when I was more lost than found, talking to him about the big and small things in my life...listening to him so I can make wise choices.
In everything that is happening around me I'm even more aware of how much I need the LORD. We get so busy with life that it's easy to take our eyes off the LORD and say: OK, if I just sort this out then I can give you time....or if i just get thru this busy month then I can devote time to you...or in my case last year: if I am doing God stuff than it must be ok to be so busy I have no energy to spend on relationships...BUT THESE ARE ALL LIES OF SATAN.
Satan wants us to be busy with ourselves, busy with our 'own lives', and giving the LORD leftovers because then our world is ALL ABOUT US. The LORD is our lives. If we want to live our lives we can't separate it from the LORD and put him back in his box and pull him out when ever we FEEL like it or need him...or on Sundays when we go to church.
I know I can't live without the LORD in my every day life. I know and believe without a doubt that my LORD will never leave me nor forsake me. That when he forgives, my sins are not ONLY wiped away but forgotten. I know the character of my God and it has never changed. He's not trying to hurt me, but to teach me and to help me grow. I can say this without doubt because I have experienced evil, loss, mourning, a broken-heart, and struggle.
The LORD is an all consuming fire. He's not interested in being given a tiny little room waaay in the back of our hearts behind our plans, our calling, our gifts, our religious practices, our relationships, our jobs. HE belongs in EVERY SINGLE ROOM. We, who call ourselves his children, know that unless the LORD builds the house we labour in vain. The LORD is not obliged to bless anything he didn't direct you to build.
We always want the easy solution, the quick fix, but the LORD knows we will learn nothing from getting everything our way. So he makes us wait and sometimes we even have to struggle. Our pastor spoke about what it means to WAIT in the bible. It's not a passive word but a doing word. I wholeheartedly agreed with him.
When the LORD says WAIT on him, to me, it means to WAIT EXPECTANTLY...to be ready to spring into action any second, so as not to be caught napping like the disciples when Jesus prayed before being arrested....but to be on our guard, to stay active and alert, in case like a thief in the night the LORD knocks on our door and we are not ready.
Waiting for me looks like this: do what I know to do, seek the LORD's counsel using all the resources he has given me, abide in him continuing to believe and not give up, making the most of what is in my hand right now. Sometimes all I have in my hand are what Paul talks about in Corinthians - FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE.
When I pray I wait expectantly for the LORD to answer....it can take years...It took the LORD 14 yrs to answer my prayer to save my husband...but in that time he changed me, knocked the foundation out from under myles, and brought our marriage out into the light. Every time there was an alter call, I waited expectantly for Myles to raise his hand. But he never did. Did it stop me believing? No, because I was sure of what I hoped for and certain of what I couldn't see.
I waited expectantly for some good news last week about a young woman at church who had a lump removed from her chest, fearing it was cancer. The LORD answered, she is doing fine and the lump was all clear and she is recovering with little bruising. That's answered prayer.
Last night I waited expectantly for some good news about my Uncle. I still am. My mum came home with a glimmer of hope, his voice was stronger last night, he seemed more positive. Answered prayer. And I wait again for more good news.
I waited expectantly for small things like warm weather for one spot in Sydney where we would be lying on a beach. The LORD answered.
Today, I am waiting to hear good news about being pregnant. It's 5 years since I started this prayer. Over those 5 years my life has changed dramatically. I lost a baby, a fallopian tube, part of my ovary and I lost my Dad. Today I wait expectantly to hear not so much from the nurse, but from my LORD to answer.
What if the answer is NO? Then I try again. If at the end of this year I have exhausted all these options to have a child, then I will adopt. If that doesn't work then I know my LORD's answer. I am meant to be an Aunty and not a Mum.
But until that day comes, I will fight the good fight, I will choose to believe in the goodness of my LORD and I will not go quietly into the night.
So I have been studying prayer a lot. Reading an excellent prayer book at the moment by John Maxwell. I have always talked to the LORD, even when I was more lost than found, talking to him about the big and small things in my life...listening to him so I can make wise choices.
In everything that is happening around me I'm even more aware of how much I need the LORD. We get so busy with life that it's easy to take our eyes off the LORD and say: OK, if I just sort this out then I can give you time....or if i just get thru this busy month then I can devote time to you...or in my case last year: if I am doing God stuff than it must be ok to be so busy I have no energy to spend on relationships...BUT THESE ARE ALL LIES OF SATAN.
Satan wants us to be busy with ourselves, busy with our 'own lives', and giving the LORD leftovers because then our world is ALL ABOUT US. The LORD is our lives. If we want to live our lives we can't separate it from the LORD and put him back in his box and pull him out when ever we FEEL like it or need him...or on Sundays when we go to church.
I know I can't live without the LORD in my every day life. I know and believe without a doubt that my LORD will never leave me nor forsake me. That when he forgives, my sins are not ONLY wiped away but forgotten. I know the character of my God and it has never changed. He's not trying to hurt me, but to teach me and to help me grow. I can say this without doubt because I have experienced evil, loss, mourning, a broken-heart, and struggle.
The LORD is an all consuming fire. He's not interested in being given a tiny little room waaay in the back of our hearts behind our plans, our calling, our gifts, our religious practices, our relationships, our jobs. HE belongs in EVERY SINGLE ROOM. We, who call ourselves his children, know that unless the LORD builds the house we labour in vain. The LORD is not obliged to bless anything he didn't direct you to build.
We always want the easy solution, the quick fix, but the LORD knows we will learn nothing from getting everything our way. So he makes us wait and sometimes we even have to struggle. Our pastor spoke about what it means to WAIT in the bible. It's not a passive word but a doing word. I wholeheartedly agreed with him.
When the LORD says WAIT on him, to me, it means to WAIT EXPECTANTLY...to be ready to spring into action any second, so as not to be caught napping like the disciples when Jesus prayed before being arrested....but to be on our guard, to stay active and alert, in case like a thief in the night the LORD knocks on our door and we are not ready.
Waiting for me looks like this: do what I know to do, seek the LORD's counsel using all the resources he has given me, abide in him continuing to believe and not give up, making the most of what is in my hand right now. Sometimes all I have in my hand are what Paul talks about in Corinthians - FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE.
When I pray I wait expectantly for the LORD to answer....it can take years...It took the LORD 14 yrs to answer my prayer to save my husband...but in that time he changed me, knocked the foundation out from under myles, and brought our marriage out into the light. Every time there was an alter call, I waited expectantly for Myles to raise his hand. But he never did. Did it stop me believing? No, because I was sure of what I hoped for and certain of what I couldn't see.
I waited expectantly for some good news last week about a young woman at church who had a lump removed from her chest, fearing it was cancer. The LORD answered, she is doing fine and the lump was all clear and she is recovering with little bruising. That's answered prayer.
Last night I waited expectantly for some good news about my Uncle. I still am. My mum came home with a glimmer of hope, his voice was stronger last night, he seemed more positive. Answered prayer. And I wait again for more good news.
I waited expectantly for small things like warm weather for one spot in Sydney where we would be lying on a beach. The LORD answered.
Today, I am waiting to hear good news about being pregnant. It's 5 years since I started this prayer. Over those 5 years my life has changed dramatically. I lost a baby, a fallopian tube, part of my ovary and I lost my Dad. Today I wait expectantly to hear not so much from the nurse, but from my LORD to answer.
What if the answer is NO? Then I try again. If at the end of this year I have exhausted all these options to have a child, then I will adopt. If that doesn't work then I know my LORD's answer. I am meant to be an Aunty and not a Mum.
But until that day comes, I will fight the good fight, I will choose to believe in the goodness of my LORD and I will not go quietly into the night.
life update
Feel like I've been on an emotional roll coaster this past week. My uncle took a turn for the worse on Friday, his kidneys are not coping, so last nite he was put on dialysis(?). Doctors are worried he could go into cardiac arrest because his heart might not cope.
My mum has been stressed over it and stressing me out. We had a huge argument about nothing...I hope one day I will grow up enough to not bite back when my mum says something which drives me crazy...i'm 37 and she is still one of the few people who can upset me just like that...one comment...two comments...and I'm loosing the plot. AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!
times like that I wish I remembered I'm my Father's daughter not my mothers!
I've been in a bit more pain with the last lot of injections for IVF. But it's over for now. Didn't get my period over the weekend (and all the boys go EEEEWWWWW!). So had blood test today to see if i'm preggy. Now I have the long wait for the results...probably later today.
Had a moment with my man Saturday night, but I think it was good. The LORD loves to bring everything into the light!
Today is our fasting day. It's perfect timing because I know who needs the LORD the most right now - my Uncle. Today I'm fasting for him. I'm waiting for some good news.
My mum has been stressed over it and stressing me out. We had a huge argument about nothing...I hope one day I will grow up enough to not bite back when my mum says something which drives me crazy...i'm 37 and she is still one of the few people who can upset me just like that...one comment...two comments...and I'm loosing the plot. AAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!
times like that I wish I remembered I'm my Father's daughter not my mothers!
I've been in a bit more pain with the last lot of injections for IVF. But it's over for now. Didn't get my period over the weekend (and all the boys go EEEEWWWWW!). So had blood test today to see if i'm preggy. Now I have the long wait for the results...probably later today.
Had a moment with my man Saturday night, but I think it was good. The LORD loves to bring everything into the light!
Today is our fasting day. It's perfect timing because I know who needs the LORD the most right now - my Uncle. Today I'm fasting for him. I'm waiting for some good news.
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