God's Got This One

I'm going to be a little soppy here, and this is against what I usually like to do when writing or posting in the public domain but I'm just going to come out with it....I'm in love.

Most of you know it, some may not know much about it but there is a girl who I am crazy about, who I cherish every second of being with, who I can't get enough of even if it is just on Facebook chat, who I think is the most beautiful person to ever existed in the whole wide world (Jesus aside), who makes me laugh, who encourages me, who loves me more than I could have imagined a girl loving me. 

We live in different countries, we are from different continents but we both know Jesus, we both accept Him as our Lord & Saviour and we both desire to love Him above all others. The different country thing is something we want to change but the more we find out about being in the same place, the harder we realise it will be. This has been very hard & discouraging at times and it has been especially hard the last few days as we find out even more.

We feel God has brought us together and called us together and we are trusting Him in this but it is hard for us both.

Tonight I went out to spend time with God and He showed me several things.

Firstly, I have become so consumed with the worry about this and thinking about this that I had forgotten what God has actually put me here for...to worship Him and to glorify Him. I have not been doing that in this situation.

Secondly, I have been chasing fulfillment in being in the same place as my love rather than in the arms of my first love, my true & eternal love, Jesus Christ. This has led to me being unhappy as only Christ can fulfill us and further away from glorifying Him.

Thirdly, God is SO BIG. There is nothing He cannot conquer and nothing that even comes close to standing against Him. If this is God's Will as we both believe it to be then He will make this happen in His perfect timing. It is so easy to forget that.

I feel a lot better now Praise God, He has led me back to where I need to be, where I should be which is focusing on Him and His Perfect Love and loving Him with every ounce I have and achieving what He desires me to achieve. He will sort out the rest because He is Good and can give us more than can ever hope for or imagine and He gives us good gifts. God has got this one and I look forward to seeing what He does. One day we can look back at this post and Praise God for His Power and faithfulness!

Maybe you are consumed by something that is distracting you from what you are meant to be doing, maybe you are chasing fulfillment in the wrong thing and maybe you are overlooking God's Power in the problems of life.

If that is you then maybe God is speaking to you through this post, urging you onwards to His arms where He will say, 'I got this one!'.

What do we expect?

In PCY last Friday one of the leaders told us that he was going to Pembrey Park in Llanelli to set up for the treasure hunt at Camp. I'm always excited for Camp but I think this has kicked off the real countdown in my heart this year. I'm always so excited for Camp because some of the most amazing things I have seen God do have come on Camp.

However, I was challenged by my attitude. Why don't I get as excited everyday for what God can do? God just as present everyday as on Camp, He is just as powerful everyday as on Camp.

To trust in God is surely to be expectant that He will do incredible things.

Jesus said in Mark 11:24-
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Let's put our trust in God's amazing power and see what he does! Let's get excited!

A Chilean Miner's story

I was reading Alpha News yesterday and it had an interview with the miner who was in charge of prayer, by the end of their ordeal 22 of the miners had come to faith in Christ...this is a section of the interview that blessed me and I hope will bless you too. It also fits in nicely with the suffering themes I've done this week :)

'We began to pray every day. We'd hold hands in a circle twice a day at 6 o'clock and 12 o'clock. We began to be touched by God's Spirit and as I led the prayers, somebody began to say 'Amen, amen, amen'.

I thought who's that? Who's praying? And God suddenly brought him out. Osman was his name and he said, 'Lord, I used to know you, but now, if you take me out of here I will serve you the rest of my life'.

'Good', I said, 'Lord now I have a disciple. Hallelujah!'

So that's how it began and we began to pray every day. I taught each one how to pray - and even taught them songs. It's a wonderful thing to sing when you're happy but it's even better to sing when you are in a crisis. You feel the presence of God come in there...

The whole atmosphere began to change under there and this invisible God would visit us. He doesn't need doors to come into a mine. He doesn't have to perforate a rock to go in. He just came into the mine where we were. That's our living God, He responded to our prayers'