Things Too Wonderful

My young daughter had her first experience of The Deep End this weekend.

Not that she hasn’t been swimming before: but the pool we regularly go to is one depth all the way across, so she can stand up.  This weekend she opted to join in my son’s ‘Stupid O’Clock’ (7am) Triathlon training in a different pool.  She set off quite happily doing a slightly wonky front crawl, but stopped abruptly halfway across and when the coach walked back to see what the problem was, she informed him in no uncertain terms: “That end’s deep.  I don’t go deep.” Continue Reading »

Disappointment is not sin.

Definitely not.  It is hope deferred, which the Bible says ‘Makes the heart sick’ but it is not sin.  Which of us doesn’t get disappointed once in a while?  We live in a fallen mess up world and bad things happen and sometimes God doesn’t answer our prayers in the way we expect (or hope) and we are bound to get disappointed once in a while.   We don’t like to admit it, because, well we just don’t,but sometimes even as Christians we can get disappointed the way life is working out; Continue Reading »

I love the book of Habauk.  It’s only three chapters long, hidden away among the minor prophets, but it contains one of the greatest statements of faith in the whole Bible, and lessons you would pay a fortune for online!

Habakuk was around about the same time as Jeremiah.  Tough time in Israel’s history! It was probably at the end of Josiah’s reign or soon after.  Josiah had found the book of the law in the Temple, and for a while God’s people had turned back to Him and were living according to His instructions… but not for long!  They were back to their old ways: sin, degradation and a total disregard for God (sound familiar?) Continue Reading »

Healing and miracles seem to be very much on God’s agenda at the moment!  Not only the ‘outpouring’ in Florida which I blogged about a few days ago,  but all over the place there are stories of people being healed miraculously by the power of God.  It’s exciting stuff, and like so many others I am so desperate to see God doing more

Like the kind of stuff He did at a meeting I was at this Sunday.  It was a ‘City Vision’ Celebration.  All the Churches (who wanted to) in the city met up, the praise and worship lifted the roof and the presence of God was very tangible.  (’Where there is unity, the Lord commands a blessing’).  Then the visiting speaker got up.  An interesting guy, Free Methodist by ‘denomination’ (not that that has anything to do with it),  very non-emotional, very to-the-point, and so in touch with God it was unbelievable!  (I want to hear God like that when I ‘grow up’!!)  He is often used by God to bring healing and release to people, and he announced that God had told him to pray for two groups of people before he preached - the first; people with muscular diseases. Continue Reading »

Healing Revival in Florida!  Have you been watching it?

Oxygen tanks left behind on stage, kidneys completely renewed, broken bones with no sign of any injury, cancers vanished!  Even the most hardened of sceptics cannot ignore what is going on at he moment.  People are even being healed as they watch the meetings online or on TV! (see testimonies below) Continue Reading »