Ah it's good to be back! Hope everyone had a great christmas and new year! Made any resolutions yet? I haven't made nearly so many as usual I think I could some them all up in the sentence: This year I want to live a life compelled by love.
Awesome things are happening for the first week of 2012! It can only get better!
So recently I haven't been spending as much time with God, mainly because I've been distracted by 6th form, work, my boyfriend and all the new things that are happening, for instance my 2 best friends moved away :( Very sad but they're both doing what God wants and are enjoying it immensely, and we keep in touch... Anyhoo, so yeah then this week I randomly put on some worship music and looked back through my old prayer diaries (which were the main reason for starting this blog so it would all be in one place!) and yeah God just totally revealed himself! It was incredible! I heard his voice internally but so clearly, he told me: "I am not finished with you, my work in you is only just starting. I will use you. You will be used as a path for my glory in this nation. I have great things planned for you. When I look at you I see Jesus, this is not of you but a gift from me and when others look at you they will also see Jesus in you for my Holy Spirit is within you. Do not worry about doing right, I will not leave you."
How awesome is that?! Then I opened my bible and read: '"From the first announcement I have not spoken in secret; at the time it happens, I am there." And now the sovereign Lord has sent me, with his spirit. This is what the Lord says- your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: "I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go."
I was filled with His Spirit and felt renewed and encouraged by the things he said and the things I had written about my college from last year. I wanted Him to use me more so I prayed for lots of things, school, friends, family, etc.
Yesterday, I felt God challenge me to pray over my friends for words of knowledge/prophecies at school so I prayed and text my 2 christian friends asking if they could also pray but not much happened in terms of witnessing. Then today I woke up and felt God say "speak about my love" and I felt like I would talk to large groups of people because that is what I had been reading in my prayer diary, it was one of the prophecies spoken over me that I would witness to large groups of people and not to be afraid. And today, that oppertunity arose; we were all talking about God and one of my friends who has sprained his hip and has crutches, said he met some Christians when he was out for halloween and one of them spoke about healing and he said to me "Ah I kind of wish I had my hip thing then because they could have prayed for me" so I said "Do you want to be prayed for?" and he was like "Yeah okay then" and so I asked if I could put my hand on his hip and prayed and nothing happened so I asked him to stand and prayed again and nothing happened so I prayed again and this time I got indignant and prayed God 've just made myself look like an idiot here, no, I won't take no for an answer, heal him now in the name of Jesus! And he wiggled his hips and was like "Whoah, I'm healed!" And I asked if he felt any pain and he said no! So I said "You're sure? You're not just saying this?" And he was like "no it doesn't hurt! I'm going on a run tonight now!" PRAISE GOD!
Then he preceeded to tell his friends that God had healed him! He put it on facebook/twitter and wasn't afraid to tell the world that he was healed BY GOD! Awesome!!!!!
Thank you Lord! That is the first person I've prayed for who has been healed! Glory to God! Thank you for using me, for fulfilling prophecies over me for showing your great love and mercy! Thank you so much! Please speak to his heart and everyone around us who witnessed your mercy, please show them who you are, reveal Jesus to them and use me I pray! I pray for words of knowledge as I'm sitting with them, shine your light in our school God! Increase the number of people at the prayer meetings! Do more miracles! Thank you LORD! You are so good to us!
More Lord! Bring revival to this place! Bring my friends to church! Lord do more in our nation! I love you more than anything in the world! Let your will be done!
AMEN!
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Friday, 6 January 2012
Saturday, 23 October 2010
Compelled by Love
Had another awesome day today, went to my friend's house for a couple of hours and she lent me a book called "compelled by love" by Heidi Baker. I read the introduction and was in tears!! It's an absolutely amazing book and if you ever get the chance, read it.
I feel like every day I'm getting one step closer to God; well I suppose I am seeing as every day we're one step closer to heaven! But I mean in my relationship with him. I know I never can and never will fully understand God but each day I learn something new, I learn how to love all over again, I learn what faith truly is, I understand more about our role as Christians on the earth. God is so amazing! He just loves to talk to us, to hold us, to whisper to us!
Anyway, in this book it talks about the "Western world" and how once she got a picture of "us" licking the crumbs from under the table, when there was a glorious feast on the table. It really made me think. Why are we settling for crumbs, when God invites us to a banquet?
I was walking into Tesco's today and as I was walking up to the door, God challenged me to lay hands on the sick and heal them in his name. I then literally walked into a woman in a wheelchair, but I just couldn't do it! I couldn't say to her, "Hi I'm a Christian. I can see your in a wheelchair, please could I pray for you to be healed?" I just couldn't! I doubted. I didn't have the faith. I didn't have the courage. I've been asking for opportunities to tell people about God and for people to be healed, yet here I was, rejecting this God-given opportunity! Yesterday, at youth group, we were praying for my friends back to be healed and we asked her how it was on a scale of 1-10 and she said 6, so we prayed again, she then said 10! And guess what we did?! We said "Really? Wow!"
... What is with that! We pray for faith, for healing, for people to know God and yet we are so surprised when God does something! No wonder we don't see many miracles in the "Western world"! I was talking to my friend's dad today, who was saying that Christians pray for God to heal someone, or to do something and then wait for God to do it, God does it through us; he gave us power and authority, not to just ask him and then sit around and wait, he gave us his authority to lay hands on the sick and heal them; he gives us the opportunities and then speaks through us or acts through us, he uses us for his glory!
Don't worry, it's so much easier said than done! But I want to do it too! I want to go out there, into the world and lay hands on the sick; and they will be healed, to pray for the dead; and they will be raised to life, to pray for the hungry; and they will never be hungry again!
God does these miracles in the bible. He does them in the world. Today. When we fall on our knees and cry out to God to see miracles and healing on a regular basis, it will happen!
But we can't pray and sit in our comfortable homes, lie in our comfortable beds, read amazing Christian books and go to sleep thinking "ah, that was nice, thanks God" and then nothing changes. The world needs change! We can pray to see miracles all we like but until we go out there, and lay hands on the sick as God commanded us to do, we won't see anything!
Where are the believers of miracles, the believers of love. They are out there. Are you one of them? Jesus is calling us to surrender to him and go out into our streets, our neighbourhoods, our towns, and expect salvation for our friends and family. How much do you love your friends and family? How much do you want to see them in heaven? How much more does God love them and want them in heaven!
Have you ever thought "I can't be bothered right now. I'm too tired. My life's just to busy." *Raises hand* I have. Even now, I sometimes feel that it's too much effort, even to pray for the energy! Sometimes, it's easier to not try, to simply carry on as the rest of the world does. But then we miss out on the beautiful things God wants us to experience!
I hope and pray that I never fall into the thinking pattern of this world, that I never stop loving Jesus and loving my 'neighbours' as he wants me too. I pray for more faith and confidence every day that when Jesus says to me "pray for that person". I will. God, would you do that? Please help me, equip me for your plan and for your will. I will do whatever you want me to do, help me Lord! Amen!
I feel like every day I'm getting one step closer to God; well I suppose I am seeing as every day we're one step closer to heaven! But I mean in my relationship with him. I know I never can and never will fully understand God but each day I learn something new, I learn how to love all over again, I learn what faith truly is, I understand more about our role as Christians on the earth. God is so amazing! He just loves to talk to us, to hold us, to whisper to us!
Anyway, in this book it talks about the "Western world" and how once she got a picture of "us" licking the crumbs from under the table, when there was a glorious feast on the table. It really made me think. Why are we settling for crumbs, when God invites us to a banquet?
I was walking into Tesco's today and as I was walking up to the door, God challenged me to lay hands on the sick and heal them in his name. I then literally walked into a woman in a wheelchair, but I just couldn't do it! I couldn't say to her, "Hi I'm a Christian. I can see your in a wheelchair, please could I pray for you to be healed?" I just couldn't! I doubted. I didn't have the faith. I didn't have the courage. I've been asking for opportunities to tell people about God and for people to be healed, yet here I was, rejecting this God-given opportunity! Yesterday, at youth group, we were praying for my friends back to be healed and we asked her how it was on a scale of 1-10 and she said 6, so we prayed again, she then said 10! And guess what we did?! We said "Really? Wow!"
... What is with that! We pray for faith, for healing, for people to know God and yet we are so surprised when God does something! No wonder we don't see many miracles in the "Western world"! I was talking to my friend's dad today, who was saying that Christians pray for God to heal someone, or to do something and then wait for God to do it, God does it through us; he gave us power and authority, not to just ask him and then sit around and wait, he gave us his authority to lay hands on the sick and heal them; he gives us the opportunities and then speaks through us or acts through us, he uses us for his glory!
Don't worry, it's so much easier said than done! But I want to do it too! I want to go out there, into the world and lay hands on the sick; and they will be healed, to pray for the dead; and they will be raised to life, to pray for the hungry; and they will never be hungry again!
God does these miracles in the bible. He does them in the world. Today. When we fall on our knees and cry out to God to see miracles and healing on a regular basis, it will happen!
But we can't pray and sit in our comfortable homes, lie in our comfortable beds, read amazing Christian books and go to sleep thinking "ah, that was nice, thanks God" and then nothing changes. The world needs change! We can pray to see miracles all we like but until we go out there, and lay hands on the sick as God commanded us to do, we won't see anything!
Where are the believers of miracles, the believers of love. They are out there. Are you one of them? Jesus is calling us to surrender to him and go out into our streets, our neighbourhoods, our towns, and expect salvation for our friends and family. How much do you love your friends and family? How much do you want to see them in heaven? How much more does God love them and want them in heaven!
Have you ever thought "I can't be bothered right now. I'm too tired. My life's just to busy." *Raises hand* I have. Even now, I sometimes feel that it's too much effort, even to pray for the energy! Sometimes, it's easier to not try, to simply carry on as the rest of the world does. But then we miss out on the beautiful things God wants us to experience!
I hope and pray that I never fall into the thinking pattern of this world, that I never stop loving Jesus and loving my 'neighbours' as he wants me too. I pray for more faith and confidence every day that when Jesus says to me "pray for that person". I will. God, would you do that? Please help me, equip me for your plan and for your will. I will do whatever you want me to do, help me Lord! Amen!
God has a huge plan ahead; do you want to be part of it?
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