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5月27日 Go West, young man? Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:5-6.
When I came back from my holiday in Arizona last October I came back very blessed indeed as the Lord had richly Blessed my holiday over there. I decided upon my return home I would very much like to return to Arizona. I kinda decided to return autumn 2007. But when I thought I had to wait that long I felt sick inside & had a strong yearning to get back there sooner. The thought of waiting another 2 years was almost too much for me to bear it seemed. I thought within myself I have a "pull", never before have I felt a 'pull' or yearning. OK, I had had a blessed holiday with my friend Dave, I saw a beautiful part of the americas, meet some wonderful brothers & sisters who had become good friends to me. But inside me I knew this 'pull' or whatever you'd call it was more than a desire to to return to have another good trip.
When, Samuel, my pastor, said he was feeling very led by the Holy Spirit to go & preach over there at the invite of a pastor in Poenix, I became very excited indeed. I thought of a chance to return to phoenix was almost to much to think about for me. I wanted God's Perfect Will first of all but inside I hoped with all my heart Samuel's leading was of the Holy Spirit, which it turned about to be. You can read about the trip to Arizona in my previous blog entry.
Anyways, While I was over there in phoenix, I confessed to a few people about my experience when I had returned home the previous october. I shared this with Samuel & said something like " I have a pull for this place" and at the time I was not really meaning phoenix but yet at the same time thinking it was for phoenix as I was enjoying the fellowship there. Samuel being in the spirit made a comment something like this " I think that's just your flesh talking & if you moved here you'd probaly leave the Lord" at hereing this I was very despondent & didn't take to well at hearing this. Deep down I kinda knew he was right as big cities are a pull for my flesh sometimes. I Just left it at that & tried not to dwell on it. As soon as we had left Phoenix, The pull returned. I had put phoenix behind me & was just looking forward to seeing my friends in Flagstaff & seeing places like Sedona etc again. So, I saw my friends there & had some wonderful fellowship with the saints there. Was soo good to see my friends again. The church in Flagstaff has such a nice spirit on it. I made a comment to Samuel about the church there feeling like the one at home & Samuel agreed & that it felt the same. I went on to comment to several people that this church is like being at home away from home & even went on to say I truly felt if I was to leave my church in southampton for some reason I'd only want to to come to the church here. Also we spent some good quality time fellowshipping with bro Jim Daulton, the pastor in Flagstaff. I came to have a great respect for bro Jim as an elder in the church. I greatly respect his wisdom, his thoughts & of course His Love for the Lord & the Word. I said to also said to Samuel, If you wasn't my pastor I'd like bro Jim to my pastor. Let me just add in here I've travelled quite a bit around the USA & been to several churches but had never felt such as I had in Flagstaff. I left Flagstaff & felt if I was leaving my 2nd home or something.
So, back here in England I've been pondering on alll this and of course praying about all this & commiting it all to the Lord. I've kinda been imagining what it would be like to leave England behind & move over to Flagstaff. Today I phoned some friends in Flagstaff & got talking to a dear sister who mentioned her son in law is looking for someone to help in his painting busines & her & her daughter or daughter in law both thought of me for some reason. Not only that she mentioned her husband always need help in his business too. So, you can imagine this got me all thinking again!
Who can say what the future holds but the Lord. I don't know the Lord's Perfect Will for me in all of this but I just felt I should get this written down as I believe it to be the start of a testimony one way or another. I dare not say any more than that & dare not even to mention what my desire is. 9月22日 Praise God.Tonight I was going to write a blog about how that I'm in the middle of a raging war with the devil. I was going to write that I felt I was in the midst of a raging storm, buffeted this way n that way by the waves of despondency & doubt. I was going to write dispite all this I'm trusting in God for deliverence. Tonight before I came to work I was full of woe & feeling sorry for myself beacause of these things. I prayed & I meditated on the scriptures .......he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? nd he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith? Mark 4:35b-40. I then prayed & called Jesus on the scene just like His disisples did who was fearful & lacked in faith. I also meditated the one scripture I hang onto when I'm overcome with doubt is Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ: Philippians 1:6. .Then tonight at work through prayer I got a deliverence I was longing for. The devil had had me bound & I felt I wasn't quite myself for sometime. It was effecting my relationships with people, my work etc. My pastor, bro Samuel, bro Ben & I prayed through & Samuel praying & claiming the scripture... And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils Mark 16:17 cast out the devils plaguing me. Praise & Thank God for His Goodnes. That one little bit of mustard seed sized faith I had was enough to awken My Lord & cause Him to speak "Peace, be still" in my life & to stop the raging storm in my life. Amen.
Now if thats not a testimony of a Living God working through Faith I dunno what is!? 4月18日 A Continuing Testimony Of Gods Love & Grace.For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jeramiah 29:11 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3:6 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 In another testimony I wrote in my blog I discribed how I came to move & how the Lord had blessed it. This is like a continuation of that same testemony in a way. Over the last few weeks The Lord has been really talking to me, working on me and opening up new revelations about Him & His Word. One of the main things I've noticed is how this has come about. I am now believing God had to get me out of my old apartment for this all to happen. In my old place I had seemed to gotten myself into a rut of bad habits that I couldn't seem to break free from. Some of these bad habits was becoming very detrimantal to my christian walk & was feeding my flesh to the point it was becoming rampant. no matter how much I prayed & prayed to God to be free of all this & confess my old man & his old nature was dead I had no lasting victory. Praise The Lord! since moving God has moved on these things & I now have a real victory of 90% of them. I'll always have this sinful flesh with me until the rapture happens but God is now doing a major work in me & changing me & cleaning me up. I've also have new mind set, so to speak. I'm thinking totally different now & have gotten rid of a lot of static in my mind that was muffling & hindering God talking to me. I now have clear airwaves & can hear God loud & clear, figuratively speaking. Like I also mentioned I'm being blessed & spiritually fed with some new revelations. I'd been praying about revelation on spiritual fornication for a while now & God is starting to cause me to get new revelation on this by first of talking to me about Lord Jesus being our head & how the bride coming together in love makes up the body of Christ. Also God is opening up His Word to me on redemption and about light (which I shall write about in a blog very soon, Lord Willing. So, all n all I'm a very Richly Blessed & happy bunny at the moment. I'm very excited to see where God is leading me to with all these things happening in my life at the moment. Praise be to God. 3月29日 My Move.A few months the housing association that I rented my apartment from wrote to me & and asked me if I would consider moving(They want to convert the apartments into family flats rather than for single people). They offered me a small tidy sum of money to move as well as paying all my expenses etc. At 1st I was loathed at the thought about moving but prayed it all through and got a peace that if it was Gods perfect will for me to move I'd happily move. From that time on my apartment didn't feel like home. I was unsettled & didn't know what to tell the housing assocoation after the couple of weeks they gave me to think about it was up. 3 weeks went by & I phoned my Housing assoc. & said I still haven't made a decision, they was fine about it & said I can take my time. I still was unsettled as to what to do. I made a list of specifications in my mind of what would make me move to another apartment. A week later I got a call from a housing officer saying a 1 bedroom apartment had become free & would I be interested in viewing it. I agreed to, having nothing to lose. So, I went to view the place. The apartment met every requirement I had specified in my mind. I asked for a week or so to think about it & make a decision. I prayed about the whole situation and God gave me a peace to about the place. I accepted the apartment & was given 2 weeks leeway for moving & sortin stuff out etc. It was a very busy & hectic 2 weeks for me decorating the living room & bedroom between work shifts & other commitments I had. The Lord really Blessed me in those 2 weeks. I had 2 friends from church help me decorate & move.The Lord created time for them to be able to help me despite thier own work scedules. I was very blessed by this a few times as I was close to collasping from tiredness & exhaustion. We worked well as a team & got a lot done in a very short space of time. All the moving arrangements worked out just I'd planned it out. The actual move it self... saturday just gone went very well & smoothly. Evan the tiny details like my old curtains fitting all my new windows. I was able to use all the fittings from my old flat to furnish my new flat. I used my old living room carpet for my new bedroom & got a really nice new carpet for my livingroom for a really good price. God Blessed me & was with me all through the 2 weeks. I am so thankful to Him for this cos it gave me such a peace knowing that it was all in His hands & all I had to do was just Trust in Him. Everyone thats visited my new apartment has commented on how nice a place it is & it has a really nice ambience. I've mentioned parts of my testimony in previous blogs but now I can tell my testimony about moving apartments as a whole testimony. I am excited to see how The Lord Will use me in my new apartment & area. I forgot to mention I've moved very near to where I go to church, nearer to work & only a 3 min walk to my best friends, Del & Rachels place. I had stated in a previous blog I was gonna write about what the Lord has been talking to me about & showing me in His Word. Lord Willing I hope to start writing that tomorrow night in my blog while at work. 3月5日 Let us pray for each other...... and pray one for another,..... James 5:16 99% of my friends are christians and I know some of them follow my blog occasionally & some read it regulary. This got me thinkin' about having a seperate blog thingy where we could all share prayer requests & testiomonys. I truly believe in these last days as The Lord tarrys, we Bible believers need to draw closer to each other in prayer, support & encouragement. After all if we haven't got each other to turn to for prayer support etc who else can we turn to? All powers of this word both in the natural & spiritual are coming against us. 06/03/05 OK, I'm gonna start with a prayer request for myself.... I'd like prayer that these persistant pesky germs would go away! Last week I had a head cold that cleared up but then I had a really sore throat & could hardly swallow for a few days & then that cleared up to make way for stinky snotty cold! Grrrrrrrr |
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