So, the last 10 ten or days have been real tough, Satan has been throwing absolutely everything he could at me, raising all my insecurities, my family problems, my uncle dying, work situations etc Thursday in particular was tough, the morning had been amazing as God had made sure i was looked after financially and removed that anxiety from me and i was walking on air seeing His power in such a practical way. Just before i finished work, My sisters came into my work attacking me verbally and I had felt so deflated that i just didnt want to go to small group that night. Anyway, we did go, and completely just prayed over everything later that evening we were driving home and suddenly something clicked (-remember its me we’re talking about so sometimes it takes longer for me to “get” things!) Everytime God raises me up, the Devil tries to knock me down twice as hard. As the words left my mouth, a mini van overtook us on the dual carriage way and on the back of it was written “The Devil made me do it” and a picture of a devil. I could view this as a coincidence-if i believed in them however, this was no coincidence it was like he was there saying “yeah Lucie im causing you pain and loving it, watch your back” but if you ask me, it’s him that needs to watch his. I have God fighting for me, who does he have? Erm…..oh thats right, no one! Amen
” in my youth group days, I had seen all too many wild would-be Jesus radicals fall by the wayside because they never had been trusted with the adventure of revolutionary living. When I was a youth leader, one of the high school kids who had ‘given his life to jesus’ got busted only a few weeks later for having acid in school. I remember asking in disappointment, ‘what happened bro? What went wrong?’ he just shrugged his shoulders and said, ‘I got bored’ God forgive us for those we have lost because we made the gospel boring. I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it’s because we don’t dare them, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what are they to do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?” Shane Claiborne
http://cocmedia.org.uk/cocaberdeen%20podcast/20101121%20pm%20Kul-dip%20Bal%20The%20Trigger.mp3
This is a recent sermon from a guest speaker who was both incredibly hilarious (if you could’ve seen him jumping around, you’d have been crying with laughter) and incredibly powerful with what he was speaking about. As a technical note, he goes from really quiet to really loud frequently, and thus there’s a bit of crackle on the microphone. But persevere and the message will knock your socks off…
God is win.
So here’s picking up a testimony that I’ve already shared. But it has a small part two which just happened.
As you know I found a training course that seemed to be right for actually taking a step forward into using some of these things God put in me.
The plan was formed to go home, do the course, another course, generally become very skilled at drawing and use a year of that to spring board into what’s next.
Then I hit the snag of having no money, and no way of getting that kind of money together without taking quite a side step. After all it took me a while to last year to realise no one normal was going to employ me and then get just enough money from cleaning and gardening before sailing came round again. I had a bit of money but not enough.
One evening I lost it and asked God in a state for the money and a future after finding out that the course was going to be even more money than I thought. That same night I got a text through from someone saying that God had told them to give me money. I looked through the figures and it was exactly what I needed… or so I thought.
On coming home I just went to buy the course and software and found out that firstly I didn’t include VAT in my counting and secondly the course price has gone up. Oops.
This would have been a bit of a delay if I hadn’t got a cheque through the post. I have no recollections of this but apparently I didn’t cash a cheque from last years sailing. My dad just put it in the bank for me and it’s cleared just in time for me to purchase the course.
I really have no recollection of loosing that cheque. If it weren’t down on paper that I had lost it (as it wasn’t cashed) I don’t think I’d believe I had. However if I had cash it last year I would certainly have eaten it. So I’m glad. Really glad.
To be honest the last few days I’ve been too nervous to start the course. Thinking ‘man this is heaps of cash’. Of course I’d forgotten that I don’t really have a right to think like that considering the circumstances it came in.
Anyway I’m thankful to God
And hey… where’s all your testimonies got to?
left eye twitches occasionally
left eye twitching increases
both eyes twitch
left eye twitches minimum of once a minute
other bits of body experience occasional periods of twitching
eye twitching makes sleeping hard
eyes won’t close for trying to sleep
lack of sleep makes for general dislike and increased eye twitching
the small sleep gained are accompanied by mildly harassing dreams from past life
dreams cause days to have bad taste
dreams increase in distaste
(finally) pray on knees by bed in short enjoyable conversational form
wake up next day with no twitches and no bad dreams
have good day
twitches occasionally come as a reminder to sleep in a normal non oppressive form
pleasurable life continues as normal
nice
praise be to the mighty, worthy, kind one
Hey all - I’ve started a blog, thought it might be of interest to you guys as win will definitely be flowing! Follow me :)
During the summer I sent off a letter to HM Revenue saying that I wanted the money they owed me. Along with it I sent my P60, which according to many sources is inadvisable ’cause they can get lost and never be seen again. So instead of finding somewhere to photocopy it I declared God’s goodness and grace over it and popped it in the letterbox. Many months passed, I repeatedly declared God’s grace over it. Today a lovely cheque arrived in the post! God is so good :)
Hi folks,
I just got this from Amy last night thought it might be helpful to put it up. The bit in brackets are added from me for avoiding confusion. Quite possibly we need to have another (shorter) chat about if the wording works or not. Generally this isn’t something set in stone. We haven’t got them on a mountain in a cloud.
I’ve been thinking. If the general feeling towards the blog name has changed we can easy change it.
‘win’ is mostly just a joke. But if your looking for some of the thought behind it, (worth noting that there isn’t very much thought behind it) it would be God is win because God is good all the time and all the time God is good, and by grace God is in us. Mostly if someone gleefully cry’s ‘Win!’ they generally mean ‘by golly I think thats good’. Of course if you want a debate on prosperity, Joseph Prince, or anything the likes, cool, may the chat begin. But if you are concerned about the theology of the statement ‘win runs through our veins’ I’d probably just suggest thinking about something else for a while till you forget about it. I struggle to feel bad about the name because I was much amused by Justin saying it on the night it came about.
However it would be easy to change the blogs name (possibly for communications sake). So feel free to send me some feed back on this. fb or my email (anitajeanstewart@gmail.com). Or lets chat on monday about it.
Alex is now going to be mostly looking after the blog. So if you want to put a testimony up then just email him it davethespidermonkey@hotmail.com or if you know how just put it straight up. Testimonies of nothing but you offering prayer to someone and them saying no is even fine. Lets get the ball rolling on encouraging each other to step out of the comfort zone and love some people. Please do help Alex out by writing him your stories when he asks or even before he asks.
Values…
We value relationship/ family over agreement.
We want to know God intimately, know who he says we are authentically and express it powerfully.(Know God, Know who we are in God and who He is in us. And live that out)
We are not defined by experience but by God and expectation in His promises. There is always more.
Bless, empower and develop leaders in all areas of society in Aberdeen.(We want to bless the city! And see it transformed. We’re looking to do so by getting along side people and encouraging them, amongst other things)
(win)
Watch this. It’s ridiculous. Praise Jesus!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1054293832792
Alex
