Hey everyone
Thanks so much to everyone whose been praying for me
I'm well sorry for moaning and complaining so much recently. But thanks for responding in love
I'm so thankful for this family belonging to Christ that I am part of
You are all fantastic...EACH one of you
Mike gave an interpreation in church tonight
about lifting our hearts up and not getting buried under everything and dragged down.
That word from God broke me
I always focus on how badly I feel oppressed. And I get down and think negatively about how rubbish I am.
But we need to look up, to Him who can save us.
what Gareth said in youth chuch this morning about knowledge, belief and faith, ties in with it.
I cry out to God under oppression and accusation...
I believe He can save me, after all He is all powerfull.
But where is my faith, that confidence in what I believe. I want to be cnfident in my Savoiur
God has ministered to me so much today
I am so thankful. It's like all His attention had been focussed on seeing me through and loving me and teaching me what I need so desperately.
Mike's whole sermon was on some verses in Phillipians that have meant so so much to me recently.
Presing on towards the goal
Striving for the prize, even under oppression
being poured out like a drink offering, just like Jesus was.
Keeping on for God in His strength - and my weakness
Forgetting what is behind and keep persevering
These thoughts have been instruction, comfort, encouragement and bread to me
It is not about the oppression we will all walk through or how much we feel God.
It is about having a deep desire and yearning to see His name lifted high, far higher than any power
We worship Him, Almighty God, Holy and beautiful and true
This week, THIS WEEK
I am going to struggle for you God
I trust YOU, not anyone else, to be there
Even when I am in the desert, Even when accused by Satan and oppressed by all his power
I will Press on
And serve my brothers, and live like one set free by THE Saviour
It is for freedom You've set us free
I am not at all perfect, BUT I thank you for those places where through YOU, I will love freely, care freely, pray freely, and be free from sin
Thank You Jesus - my strength and salvation, My rock, my fortress, My MIGHTY Warrior
In You I trust
Amen
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Shasa, sometimes God will go to extraordinary lengths to make sure that it's just you and Him.
It's in the desert places that there are few distractions. When John went to Saudi a few years ago, he got the chance to go out into a real live desert, and he said that what got to him most was not the heat, or discomfort, or thirst - it was the silence. When everything else was "noised out", it just felt like it was Him and God alone in all the world. He would have loved the opportunity to leave his colleagues for a while,and just read the Word in the silence
God speaks in the silence, Shasa. And you don't have to struggle with it - just let God speak in His still small voice, and try not to interrupt!
Relax - He likes you, and He loves you loads. Yes, He is awesome, but he also wants you to know that His deep desire is to just sit with you once in a while, and whisper a few things in your ear.
I'll keep praying
Hi Shasa
Here's the verse I mentioned yesterday - Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus! Amen!!!
Have a good week!
Pen :-)
Shasa, just remember that none of us has truly attained--we go from faith to faith, and you've got a long earthly life ahead of you, the good Lord willing! We're all pressing toward the mark, because all of us have fallen short of the glory of God.
Only by grace can we enter;
Only by grace can we stand.
Not by our human endeavour,
but by the blood of the Lamb.
Into Your Presence You call us, You call us to come.
Into Your Presence You draw us, and now by Your Grace we come.
Lord, if you mark our transgressions, who would stand?
Thanks to Your Grace we are cleansed by the blood of the Lamb.
Lord, if you mark our transgressions, who would stand?
Thanks to Your Grace we are cleansed by the blood of the Lamb.
Only by grace can we enter;
Only by grace can we stand.
Not by our human endeavour,
but by the blood of the Lamb.
Into Your Presence You call us, You call us to come.
Into Your Presence You draw us, and now by Your Grace we come.
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