46 days 22 hours 30 odd minutes and a handful of seconds

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
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24-1 Prayer room

I've been blessed recently by a gr8 lass in our congregation who opened her spare room for a whole 24 hours of prayer, it was amazing. I finished work at 2 in the morning and popped down for an hour of prayer... i shared this with our music group last night... its now like i never want to leave... i yearn for that time with God... I'm on fire when I'm near him.. I just want to climb onto his lap and sit with him. in human terms its like sitting watching the football with a mate and a beer. Now I'm not saying this in a heretical way I'm not saying that I've become overly comfortable with God that i forget who he is but that its something i now love to do... I realise he will challenge and push things that in the natural may hurt but he does this so that we can see ourselves thru his eyes. That we may see ourselves as righteous... remember the compliments people give you, forget the insults.... as we spend time with God and we become comfortable in his presence we will learn more of his voice, more of what he wants us to be. I think its important to remember that thru Gods eyes we are as Jesus, thru our eyes we are not there yet, we need to stop picking out the one bad point out of 10 good things and focus on getting right with God, it needs to change but stop pulling yourself down with it... God Love You just as you are and he will meet you right there...
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The Awe Factor of God

Hey guys... writing to you on my birthday about the Awe factor of God, a guy called Francis Chan has a little clip on his website so this is actually his clip not mine. in Hebrews 12 verse 28 the writer writes this

"Therefore, we must be thankful that we have a kingdom that cannot be shaken. Because we are thankful, we must serve God with fear and awe in a way that pleases him."

I can't begin to understand how amazing God, the creator of all we are, all we will be, all we see, all we touch and experience and everything elses, still takes the time to know us, you, me, your brother, sister, mum and dad personally... longs to have a friendship with us. WOW the same god that put the stars in the sky loves me. All I have left is to Worship in awe, in wide open wonder, amazed, and as I worship I get one step closer to true worship, worship in spirit and in truth.

God Bless and take care.

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Dead Before We See the Light...

How many people do you know live in darkness? I don't just mean spiritual darkness but natural darkness. How many people do you know live in a total absence of Light? I would guess that you know very few, if any, the problem is that things cant grow properly without light. Now from a Churchy point of view God has called his people to be light. Matthew 5 vs 14

"Here's another way to put it: You're here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We're going public with this, as public as a city on a hill."

Before we get to that point we need to have seen the light, we need to have been in that point where God can show us his amazing light, I don't want to be dead before I see that light, its a challenge we all must face, to deny God is to deny the light to shine. to accept and Love God is to lay down our lives for His kingdom for His light to shine through us.