With Grapevine less than half a century of days away i thought i'd write a blog... My earliest and favourite memories come from bible weeks... Builth Wells, The Royal Welsh Showground... this was one week every year where we'd go on a massive road trip to mid wales to spend time with friends, family and church, as I've grown older I've started to realise how important these have been to my growth as a follower and lover of God, be It the Wales bible weeks or M-powered, Deeper or Family Camps in Ipswich, Harrogate and Swansea, or at this point in my life Grapevine, the experiences have shaped my life.
As a youngster i never really understood the purpose of going to meetings, i thought it was about making friends, in part it was but it was something much deeper, it was a subtle yet definitive working of God. I guess for me it wasn't really until M-Powered in 1997 that i started to realise this. The place i was at was not a good one, I had stopped going to church because it wasn't for me, i simply didn't believe that there was a God big enough to be able to deal with all I was... basically i thought i was bigger than God... A very dangerous place to be... i had enjoyed going to wales but the last bible week was 1996 so that was it as far as i was concerned. M-powered came along and Obviously my sister was going with all her geeky Christian friends, yet when Mum asked me if i wanted to go I said YES... so we rocked up at Beaumont Hall near Loughborough for a week that would change my life and redefine me through my own eyes. On the thursday of the event a fella call Steve Gambil was preaching, we'd just had an amazing time of worshiping God and there had been a call for people to recommit their lives to God... now i was there in tears and recommitted to God, apologised and asked him to wipe the slate clean. As Steve got up to speak he said he had a word from God for me...WOW the one and only living God wanted to talk to me... me the one who had told him he wasn't big enough... God said that he'd saw my hand when i recommitted my life and that he'd given me a heart of response and that i wasn't to let any coolness that i thought wasn't cool stop me from worshiping God... he then went on to talk about breakthrough but those words have stayed with me ever since... that day has stayed with me, that week, the friends, the loving people i know now because of this... the God i now know more and more and more each day.... WOW... so in 46 Days, 22 hours 30 Minutes and handful of seconds, thousands of people will come together and have an oppurtunity to be changed forever but why wait...in half and hour i'm off to church, where just over 100 people have the chance to change and be changed and be challenged...
God Bless
and thanks for Reading
Biggie
Love never fails
10 years ago
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