Finally Home - Mercyme

Says it all...nothing to add!

I'm gonna wrap my arms around my Daddy's neck
And tell Him that I've missed Him
And tell Him all about the man that I became
And hope that it pleased Him

There's so much I wanna say
There's so much I wanted You to know
When I finally make it home
When I finally make it home

Then I gazed upon the throne of the King
Frozen in my steps
And all the questions that I swore I would ask
Words just won't come, yeah

I'm so amazed in what I've seen
So much more than this old mind can hold
When I finally make it home
When I finally make it home

And the sweetest sound these ears will get to hear
The voices of the angels
When I finally make it home
When I finally make it home

Evan Almighty & Prayer

I Love this Film Its absolutely fantastic.
But there is one part in this film the i love more than any.

When Morgan Freeman appears to Evans Wife Joan

"Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?

How many of us can relate to this? So often we pray to God with a specific request and we expect everything to work out, but God answers in ways we cannot even begin to understand. often it can seem that our prayers go unheard, but God hears everyone of them no matter how small and will provide the answers when the time is right for HIM!!
How many of us have prayed for patience with our own children or our work colleagues or someone else only to find ourselves being impatient or frustrated on your next meeting. Funny how these situations occur like that and how often!!


When we pray are we praying expecting God to do something or are we expecting God to do something that we want to see done. When we pray for an opportunity to use the gifts given by God are we praying with preconceived ideas of what we want. I know that I have prayed like this and in all likely hood will probably do so again.

When I pray I will pray expecting God to do something, but I will also be asking God to remind me of my prayers, to give me that little nudge in the back to say "Oi you asked"!!!

Weekend!!

Well I'm in for a busy and fun weekend.

We are finally off ice skating. I have been promising the children this since before Christmas and have been telling the little ones that i can skate......but that was 15 years ago!!!! so we will see!!
We are also visiting one of our friends to work on some songs, and added to this, the best bit Sunday morning and Sunday night Services!! I am really looking forward to it.


Anyone else doing anything Interesting?

WE or I…does it really matter??

Over the last 2 years God has been telling us to sing we not I on songs. This was to focus us on the body and not on the individual…However this has been a source of much consternation among some of those with in the church….

Personally I felt that if we all sang I what did it matter we would be one by all singing I. Over time it has become an annoyance because half the church sings I half sing WE our music leader sings I and WE, but the words on the screen probably say we.

What I have come to learn is that it is not the I or the We that matters it’s about doing what God wants. If God says go Left we go left if he says go right we turn right.

Can you imagine if Noah didn’t do what God Said or what about Moses, what about Paul…eventually!!? How about Jesus what if he didn’t do what God said? It doesn’t bear thinking about does it. But look what happens when you do as God Says.

I am sure that each of us has a great story to tell of an instance when we have done as God said. The results are usually amazing and spectacular, Miracles happen and life takes on new meaning.

Haiti Earthquake

No-one could have failed to have heard or seen images about the disaster in Haiti, and my heart breaks when I see pictures!!

But when these things happen you will hear a lot "where is God in this?" but this got me thinking, you see I Know where God is and I know that his heart is breaking just like ours!
God is right there in Haiti!! he is in the hearts of the survivors, he is in the hearts of the rescuers,HE IS RIGHT THERE in the midst of the suffering and you wont have to look far to see him.

Look at the picture above and tell me God is not there!



****Final thought: Why does no-one ask "Where is the Devil?" just a thought! ****

Make a difference!

Today my journey to work took alot longer than normal, why? because of a 30 yr old woman on a motorway bridge who wanted to jump. This of course saddened me when I found out as during this period I was getting frustrated stuck in traffic!.

But it got me to thinking about the state of our world.
Whilst many of us are going about our daily lives of to work then off to church and carrying on like normal, there are thousands of people who are struggling just to get through each day who are really in need and don't know where to turn. How bad must things have been to want to jump from a motorway bridge.

Where does the blame lie? the blame has to lie firmly at the feet of the church, God called us to go to ALL men so who do we go to? who have you shared a little of the gospel with today? who's life could you have saved? What sacrifice have you made? personally today I cant remember sharing any thing spiritual with anyone outside my church - I cant remember yesterday or the day before either!

The church (in general!!) spends so much time trying to make sure that they have something for every one, Many churches are even run like a business even though attendances are falling, trying to cover their cracks with pretty decoration's that they are forgetting the real purposes. I do realise that there are many out there who are working for Gods purposes and are doing a fantastic Job, but until the church starts to show Jesus, how many more are going to want to take that jump? How many more are we going to lose.All the while we bicker about doctrine and rule and regulations, concentrating on things other than our mission the world is turning and people are suffering.

I may be naive but I truly believe that if we as Christians spent more time concentrating on the task given and less time looking at our differences finances, steeples, or whatever! then we could really make a difference and less people would fell like they suffer alone.
We can make a difference there is evidence to show........Just look at Jesus. He came to earth with a specific God given Mission and carried it out perfectly and look at the difference he made!!

"As the Father has sent me, I am sending you."

Chosen Few?

The problem I have with some religions is that they are limited. Some believe that only a certain number of people will go to heaven, some believe that you can only got to heaven if you have undergone certain rituals.I believe that there was only 1 proviso. To believe that Jesus is Our Lord and Saviour.

The type of people Jesus Chose to follow him were ordinary folk like you and me, none of them had any wealth to speak of. His disciples were Fisher men, tax collectors and a zealot(That we know of) the rest were probably average joe's as well.. warehouse men, street cleaners, Lawyers, Waiters - whatever!! He didn't limit it to the rich or poor to the intellectual or the idiot he didn't say that you had to be confirmed he didn't say that you had to go to confession every week - he never mentioned purgatory, he didn't limit it to 144,000.

He calls us all but there is a price to pay...it will cost us our lives, Everything we do needs to be for the purpose of GOD - When I go to work ....go for God, When I do things with my children do it for God...when I am playing in the music group....Play for God!
only when we do it for his purposes, can the Kingdom of God really come on earth!

^{Luke 9 -57} As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."

⁵⁸Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

⁵⁹He said to another man, "Follow me."
But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."

⁶⁰Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

⁶¹ Still another said, "I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say good-by to my family."

⁶²Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."