Hey everyone hope you've enjoyed the Christmas celebrations! It is actually Boxing Day here (the day after Christmas) but I'm aware that all my readers are overseas and Christmas will just be finishing!
So how is everyone? How did your day go?
For me it was lovely! Unfortuanately though I was rather tired. The week leading upto Christmas was full of work, so Christmas became like my day of rest tehe. Which I reckon is exactly how it should be, dontcha reckon? Especially considering the lead-up is always so hectic! All the gift wrapping, deliveries, shopping, baking etc etc. Why not enjoy the day stressfree. Easy said than done though I suppose. Anyway so the day started out with us all getting up at about 9oclock. Usually I'm an early bird but yeah not this year tehe-I enjoyed my sleep in. I started this tradition about four years ago where I read the Christmas story in the book of Luke first thing in the morning. So that's exactly what I did and I lit a scented candle. (I bought this box of scented candles like ages ago and only ever use it on Christmas day, so the scent always reminds me of Christmas :D ) At about 10 everyone else was up and so we then opened one present. My second oldest brother and his family come over in the afternoon and thats when we do all the gift opening. So the first present I opened were my chocolates. Thats another tradition out family does. We each get like a box of chocolates. Usually scorched almonds or Roses. I know! As if we couldnt get anymore calories in one day! So then after that we mucked round. Then had Christmas dinner (turkey and the works :D) and then my bro came round yay! Time to open pressies! You should have seen our living room! Absolutely full of wrapping paper. Thats what happens when you stuff 11 people in our tiny lounge :p Absolutely love it. Was fantastic seeing my nephews little faces light up at each gift! I should post photos (yes I will do that just not today sorry folks!) Tehe so after that we had pudding yum! Pavalova, eclairs (fyi its summer here..it was HOOOT!), trifle (my fav), and fruit salad :) Dreamy.
Ummm then half my fam disappeard. (My older bros went camping lol). But algood cos my younger bros and I did what we do every year. Yeap we watched the Grinch Who Stole Christmas and had turkey sandwiches :D. Yumo! So that my friends was my CHristma! How was you guys and girls? :)
Anyway my bro wants to use the comp so will write another time! Maybs when I'm on holiday next week Win!.
God bless H x
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
November
Hi
So here I am finally writing a blog :) I'm gonna include pictures too :) Yeap of our "successful" saffron cake. I kid you not it was literally 2square inches! Like actual. Was such a fail. So the photos are actually of another dish.
Blackberry and Apple Pie :)
I would have a step by step photos but I didnt really think much of it at the time. I do apologise. Next time I will. Promise ;)
Right so hasnt this year gone by so quickly! I cannot beleive that Christmas is like a month away. Its crazy! I havnt even began Christmas gift shopping yet! I feel so behind. This holiday season has snuck up on me. Which I think is great!.Not that it snuck up on me but that Christmas is almost here :D How will you people spend your holidays? For most of you the weather will be cold and mayby even a chance of snow? Sounds rather exciting to me. I often wish I would experience a white Christmas.
So whats been happening in my life, I hear you ask. Well my blogger friends. Absolutely nothing. Hopefully I'll have something to write about next month...
Jokes! This month may have been pretty uneventful like in a physical sense. But in reality (yes I say reality because I believe the spiritual realm is way more real than what the physical eye can see), things are going on. This month I've been learning about faith and perseverence. It's a day by day battle. I realise I need to hold on to His promises now more than ever before. I gotta have faith that His timing is so perfect. And sometimes it feels like everything is going to happen right now, and when it doesnt, you feel crushed. You see lately, I had to step out in faith. The Lord instructed me to do something and I thought this would lead to something else that I was hoping for. But alas it didnt. And it really discouraged me. I had to learn to lean on Him and trust in Him even more. Was rather hard, but through His grace and love I've learnt that times of trial are good and are there to strengthen me. I'm reminded of a verse in Hebrews
"My son , do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives" 12v5-6
and
'Now no chastening seeems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yeilds the fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained by it' v11
So this month has been great actually :). Think I'll leave it at this. I know I've been really slack with my blogs lately. I guess I just run out of things to talk about.
Hmm. Oh I had to say goodbye to a dear friend this month. We've been friends for a good 8 years and I'm really going to miss her. She's been here like all through my teens til now (though I'm still kinda a teen lol) and it's kinda hard knowing she's' not here yet. So yeah I have been spending most of this month with her. We make cool videos and then laugh at ourselves. One day I may share it ;).
What else? Well I've also been working quite a bit over this last week. Which has been good, but quite hard on my body. Got a bit run down and was sick a wee bit. I'm good now, thank Jesus :).
The break-up of the local youth group is on this weekend. So I think I'll make an appearance. I dont go to youth group anymore you see. Felt the Lord lead me out from it for a season. But yeah cos I was a leader etc, I think it would be nice to wish the young ones safe holidays and like spend some time with them. Havnt seen most of them in quite a few months, so quite miss the contact. But algood :)
So do girls and guys have plans for the holidays? Do share with me if you can. Just leave a wee comment :)
What music have you's been listening to lately? My fav at the moment is the song Holy by Matt Gilman and Cory Asbury. Amazing! Heres a link to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxoaq6wBJ8
Anywho, better go ahead and publish this baby :p. Blessings people. Til next time.
H
So here I am finally writing a blog :) I'm gonna include pictures too :) Yeap of our "successful" saffron cake. I kid you not it was literally 2square inches! Like actual. Was such a fail. So the photos are actually of another dish.
Blackberry and Apple Pie :)
I would have a step by step photos but I didnt really think much of it at the time. I do apologise. Next time I will. Promise ;)
Right so hasnt this year gone by so quickly! I cannot beleive that Christmas is like a month away. Its crazy! I havnt even began Christmas gift shopping yet! I feel so behind. This holiday season has snuck up on me. Which I think is great!.Not that it snuck up on me but that Christmas is almost here :D How will you people spend your holidays? For most of you the weather will be cold and mayby even a chance of snow? Sounds rather exciting to me. I often wish I would experience a white Christmas.
So whats been happening in my life, I hear you ask. Well my blogger friends. Absolutely nothing. Hopefully I'll have something to write about next month...
Jokes! This month may have been pretty uneventful like in a physical sense. But in reality (yes I say reality because I believe the spiritual realm is way more real than what the physical eye can see), things are going on. This month I've been learning about faith and perseverence. It's a day by day battle. I realise I need to hold on to His promises now more than ever before. I gotta have faith that His timing is so perfect. And sometimes it feels like everything is going to happen right now, and when it doesnt, you feel crushed. You see lately, I had to step out in faith. The Lord instructed me to do something and I thought this would lead to something else that I was hoping for. But alas it didnt. And it really discouraged me. I had to learn to lean on Him and trust in Him even more. Was rather hard, but through His grace and love I've learnt that times of trial are good and are there to strengthen me. I'm reminded of a verse in Hebrews
"My son , do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives" 12v5-6
and
'Now no chastening seeems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yeilds the fruits of righteousness to those who have been trained by it' v11
So this month has been great actually :). Think I'll leave it at this. I know I've been really slack with my blogs lately. I guess I just run out of things to talk about.
Hmm. Oh I had to say goodbye to a dear friend this month. We've been friends for a good 8 years and I'm really going to miss her. She's been here like all through my teens til now (though I'm still kinda a teen lol) and it's kinda hard knowing she's' not here yet. So yeah I have been spending most of this month with her. We make cool videos and then laugh at ourselves. One day I may share it ;).
What else? Well I've also been working quite a bit over this last week. Which has been good, but quite hard on my body. Got a bit run down and was sick a wee bit. I'm good now, thank Jesus :).
The break-up of the local youth group is on this weekend. So I think I'll make an appearance. I dont go to youth group anymore you see. Felt the Lord lead me out from it for a season. But yeah cos I was a leader etc, I think it would be nice to wish the young ones safe holidays and like spend some time with them. Havnt seen most of them in quite a few months, so quite miss the contact. But algood :)
So do girls and guys have plans for the holidays? Do share with me if you can. Just leave a wee comment :)
What music have you's been listening to lately? My fav at the moment is the song Holy by Matt Gilman and Cory Asbury. Amazing! Heres a link to the song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHxoaq6wBJ8
Anywho, better go ahead and publish this baby :p. Blessings people. Til next time.
H
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Just another rainy day
Hello Lovelies
How have you been this month? I've been rather fantastic :) Okay I'll admit I'm only saying that because I'm in such a lovely mood atm. I'm currently in our kitchen (I live at home by the way, with my folks :) ), in view of the large window, which shows steady rain falling admist green leaves, listening to my amazing brother playing his guitar. He'd kill me if he knew I was writing about him haha. He's really very talented though; it's not often we get to hear him play. In fact, he only came home this month! We hadnt seen him for like a whole year! So yeah I'm very happy to have my oldest brother home :). Suddenly the kitchen comes alive and evey ingredient stored in our pantry is put to use. He loves to cook you see. And he loves to make exotic dishes. Why today we will attempt a saffron cheesecake. Does that not sound so delightful? :D I'll endeaver to post photos when we do it :D
I love rainy days. Especially in Spring. It's almost as if the rain accentuates the green in the grass and leaves. It's so refreshing. It seems so new. Oh how lovely the natural, yet how better the spiritual rain. How the earth cries for water, yet our souls yearn for His Spirit. Jesus, prepare our hearts, our minds, our souls for your great awakening. For the promise of your great Outpouring. Spiritually speaking we are thirsty. Don't you all see it? We need His revival. We must not give up on it. We must be ready. Whenever it rains, I am reminded of the spiritual rain, the latter rain. I'm reminded of His promise to send it. This is just a simple reminder to not give up guys. To keep on fighting :) He is coming.
This month I have actually been soaking up a lot of teachings. I have been very blessed by the IHOP team. No not International House of Pancakes, but International House of Prayer. I know I've spoken of them before. Atleast I have of Misty Edwards, who is a worship leader at IHOP. They are such a blessing to me. I really am in awe of how they have kept the prayer room going 24 hours a day for over ten years. Isnt that amazing! They are just so cool. Anyway, lately I've been listening to Mike Bickle's teachings, he's the founder of IHOP, and have recieved many confirmations on the things to come. Such as the coming days will be very glorious and very terrible. Glorious for those who are ready and terrible for those who are not. This leads me on to report what the Lord has spoken to me lately. During my devotionals lately He has said that "We need new wineskins". To me this emphasises again that we must get ready. We must renew our minds (easier said than done, I know!), and prepare our temple for the new rain. For the outpouring of His Spirit as prophesied by Joel, and later through Peter on the day of Pentecost. You see, some believe that the day of Pentecost was what the prophet Joel was referring to but as Mike puts it in one of his awesome sermons "The day of Pentecost was only a down payment of a far greater fulfillment of this prophecy in the end times before Jesus’ return." The Day of Pentecost in Peters day was only a taste, if you will, of whats to come. As the Lord has told me and as I have mentioned in previous posts; "We must repent, to be restord;" so that the days for us will be glorious and not terrible. I know its hard. I struggle so much. But Jesus He is there to help us. He is there to encourage us. Just trust in Him. Keep fighting the good fight. :)
Anyway this month has been pretty fabulous. I know the last two paragraphs have been rather er intense, but the message will continue to be written in my blogs. I don't intend to write it but it just seems to come out haha.
My oldest brother Karl has had a birthday this month, as well as my youngest nephew. On the 13th of October Benjamin turned one years old. Isnt that exciting! We had a wee gathering at my brothers house. Ate good food (bbq yay! :) ) and hung out with under five yeard old's. Was bliss :)
Well I should go. I know this isnt very long so I do apologise for that.
Till next time.
H.
(Sorry about my grammar and whatnot btw! Its shocking I know!)
How have you been this month? I've been rather fantastic :) Okay I'll admit I'm only saying that because I'm in such a lovely mood atm. I'm currently in our kitchen (I live at home by the way, with my folks :) ), in view of the large window, which shows steady rain falling admist green leaves, listening to my amazing brother playing his guitar. He'd kill me if he knew I was writing about him haha. He's really very talented though; it's not often we get to hear him play. In fact, he only came home this month! We hadnt seen him for like a whole year! So yeah I'm very happy to have my oldest brother home :). Suddenly the kitchen comes alive and evey ingredient stored in our pantry is put to use. He loves to cook you see. And he loves to make exotic dishes. Why today we will attempt a saffron cheesecake. Does that not sound so delightful? :D I'll endeaver to post photos when we do it :D
I love rainy days. Especially in Spring. It's almost as if the rain accentuates the green in the grass and leaves. It's so refreshing. It seems so new. Oh how lovely the natural, yet how better the spiritual rain. How the earth cries for water, yet our souls yearn for His Spirit. Jesus, prepare our hearts, our minds, our souls for your great awakening. For the promise of your great Outpouring. Spiritually speaking we are thirsty. Don't you all see it? We need His revival. We must not give up on it. We must be ready. Whenever it rains, I am reminded of the spiritual rain, the latter rain. I'm reminded of His promise to send it. This is just a simple reminder to not give up guys. To keep on fighting :) He is coming.
This month I have actually been soaking up a lot of teachings. I have been very blessed by the IHOP team. No not International House of Pancakes, but International House of Prayer. I know I've spoken of them before. Atleast I have of Misty Edwards, who is a worship leader at IHOP. They are such a blessing to me. I really am in awe of how they have kept the prayer room going 24 hours a day for over ten years. Isnt that amazing! They are just so cool. Anyway, lately I've been listening to Mike Bickle's teachings, he's the founder of IHOP, and have recieved many confirmations on the things to come. Such as the coming days will be very glorious and very terrible. Glorious for those who are ready and terrible for those who are not. This leads me on to report what the Lord has spoken to me lately. During my devotionals lately He has said that "We need new wineskins". To me this emphasises again that we must get ready. We must renew our minds (easier said than done, I know!), and prepare our temple for the new rain. For the outpouring of His Spirit as prophesied by Joel, and later through Peter on the day of Pentecost. You see, some believe that the day of Pentecost was what the prophet Joel was referring to but as Mike puts it in one of his awesome sermons "The day of Pentecost was only a down payment of a far greater fulfillment of this prophecy in the end times before Jesus’ return." The Day of Pentecost in Peters day was only a taste, if you will, of whats to come. As the Lord has told me and as I have mentioned in previous posts; "We must repent, to be restord;" so that the days for us will be glorious and not terrible. I know its hard. I struggle so much. But Jesus He is there to help us. He is there to encourage us. Just trust in Him. Keep fighting the good fight. :)
Anyway this month has been pretty fabulous. I know the last two paragraphs have been rather er intense, but the message will continue to be written in my blogs. I don't intend to write it but it just seems to come out haha.
My oldest brother Karl has had a birthday this month, as well as my youngest nephew. On the 13th of October Benjamin turned one years old. Isnt that exciting! We had a wee gathering at my brothers house. Ate good food (bbq yay! :) ) and hung out with under five yeard old's. Was bliss :)
Well I should go. I know this isnt very long so I do apologise for that.
Till next time.
H.
(Sorry about my grammar and whatnot btw! Its shocking I know!)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
I'm gonna rant...
Hello wonderful bloggers.
Wow that sounded rather positive eh? Okay so like my title post I'm gonna rant. I'm unhappy. Hahaha na I'm actually joking. I'm actually resonably happy. I'm just battling. Life is good...some of the time. It is a daily battle to follow Christ, dontcha think? Like seriously to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh...it's hard. Each day we have to (and want to most of the time ;) ) choose God's way and not our way. My struggles at the moment...oh I have sooo many! I'm not gonna name them all, because that would be a bit too full on for you lovely readers (well that is if you guys and girls even read this anymore...havnt had comments in a while :( ), but I will talk about a few.
About a month ago (I probabley did blog on this but I cant remember..so sorry for repeating), the Lord gave me a word on being humble and going the extra mile. At first I was like sweet I can do that...and then I came across a few situations that seriously tested me. Two days after my birthday, my friends had planned a surprise birthday party for me...that I actually missed! :( I got so upset and cos I was away (about an hour away from my town), I lets say reacted rather harshly. I was upset cos I was away and I was missing out on my own party. And my fam didnt seem to care, like they were like "You'll get there when you get there" kinda, "The party will re-start when you arrive" and they just wernt rushing home, like I was hoping them too. And yeah I was just a mess in my emotions! And I said something which I regret. And I know what your thinking, 'Hannah calm down, everyone blows up every now and then" etc. But no. I think I was more upset because I was upset. Because what was coming out of me, was indeed what was in me. You see situations like that, bring out what is really in us. My reactions didnt show um Christ-like qualities if you will. It showed stubborness, selfishness, pride etc. It was ugly! :( and that annoyed me. LIke I know we're all gonna slip up but yeah I guess to be honest, I'd thought I'd past those particular struggles...yeah its hard. But I'm gonna keep fighting on cos I love God, and He loves me and He wants me and I want HIm.
I have to keep striving to be more like Him. Need to get stuck into Word more and more to renew my mind! ahhh lol. Right anyway thats kinda my rant to be honest/. THought it'd be much longer but yeah.
Soooo...now its SPRING! As in all the blossoms are out and we've had crazy winds etc!
Oh just randomly have you American folk heard about the earthquakes we've had here in NZ. Been pretty crazy! Like there's still earthquakes happening. And then mums been hearing from the Lord that it isnt over and we can expect to see more earthquakes around the world, in countrys such as Canada, Italy, New York and Philippins. SO please pray for these countries that God will have mercy and that people will begin to repent. Sigh. We cant give up peeps. We gotta keep perservering for Jesus. We gotta keep fighting.
Peace. :)
Wow that sounded rather positive eh? Okay so like my title post I'm gonna rant. I'm unhappy. Hahaha na I'm actually joking. I'm actually resonably happy. I'm just battling. Life is good...some of the time. It is a daily battle to follow Christ, dontcha think? Like seriously to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh...it's hard. Each day we have to (and want to most of the time ;) ) choose God's way and not our way. My struggles at the moment...oh I have sooo many! I'm not gonna name them all, because that would be a bit too full on for you lovely readers (well that is if you guys and girls even read this anymore...havnt had comments in a while :( ), but I will talk about a few.
About a month ago (I probabley did blog on this but I cant remember..so sorry for repeating), the Lord gave me a word on being humble and going the extra mile. At first I was like sweet I can do that...and then I came across a few situations that seriously tested me. Two days after my birthday, my friends had planned a surprise birthday party for me...that I actually missed! :( I got so upset and cos I was away (about an hour away from my town), I lets say reacted rather harshly. I was upset cos I was away and I was missing out on my own party. And my fam didnt seem to care, like they were like "You'll get there when you get there" kinda, "The party will re-start when you arrive" and they just wernt rushing home, like I was hoping them too. And yeah I was just a mess in my emotions! And I said something which I regret. And I know what your thinking, 'Hannah calm down, everyone blows up every now and then" etc. But no. I think I was more upset because I was upset. Because what was coming out of me, was indeed what was in me. You see situations like that, bring out what is really in us. My reactions didnt show um Christ-like qualities if you will. It showed stubborness, selfishness, pride etc. It was ugly! :( and that annoyed me. LIke I know we're all gonna slip up but yeah I guess to be honest, I'd thought I'd past those particular struggles...yeah its hard. But I'm gonna keep fighting on cos I love God, and He loves me and He wants me and I want HIm.
I have to keep striving to be more like Him. Need to get stuck into Word more and more to renew my mind! ahhh lol. Right anyway thats kinda my rant to be honest/. THought it'd be much longer but yeah.
Soooo...now its SPRING! As in all the blossoms are out and we've had crazy winds etc!
Oh just randomly have you American folk heard about the earthquakes we've had here in NZ. Been pretty crazy! Like there's still earthquakes happening. And then mums been hearing from the Lord that it isnt over and we can expect to see more earthquakes around the world, in countrys such as Canada, Italy, New York and Philippins. SO please pray for these countries that God will have mercy and that people will begin to repent. Sigh. We cant give up peeps. We gotta keep perservering for Jesus. We gotta keep fighting.
Peace. :)
Friday, September 17, 2010
Officially 19
Hey folks!
Yeap I'm finally nineteen. (Okay so 'finally' isn't really the right word, it's not like I've been waiting to turn 19 haha.) Yeah not sure what else to say to be honest. Hope you guys are algood :) Think I'll just leave it at this as I havnt got very much to say..and I have like 3hours left of ma birthday so I'm gonna celebrate lol. Not sure what I'll do, mayby sleep haha.
Yeap I'm finally nineteen. (Okay so 'finally' isn't really the right word, it's not like I've been waiting to turn 19 haha.) Yeah not sure what else to say to be honest. Hope you guys are algood :) Think I'll just leave it at this as I havnt got very much to say..and I have like 3hours left of ma birthday so I'm gonna celebrate lol. Not sure what I'll do, mayby sleep haha.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
August baby..
Haha dont ask why I put baby there...just felt like it :p.
So how are you lovely bloggers!? So today is the 25th of August! And that means by the grace of God, I've been saved for officially 4 years. How totally awesome is that! :) Praise Jesus, for keeping me this long. I honestly don't think I deserve it. God is sooo good to me! :) It overwhelms me sometimes. Sigh what a beautiful Savior we have :).
OKay so over the weekend, I went to a missions camp. This was my fifth year at this camp. (It was the camp I was born again at :) ). God was/is so good. ON the first night during worship, one the speakers felt to say, that if anyone was inspired (as in by Holy Spirit) to like prophesy etc, they should come up. And at this point I was having a wee bit of a battle haha. You see last week during my devotional, the Lord gave me a word and it was "We must repent, to be restored". (btw my lovely blog readers please take heed to this word, we must all get ready for Him. He wants a holy, pure bride people. I love you guys and so I say this in love, as much as I can through a post, please get right before your Savior. He loves you so much. If the word makes no sence to you, then please pray on it. Ask Him about it :) ) Anyway I was thinking to myself, "Do I go up Lord, and tell these people, your word?" And while I was debating this, a man called Ben (I know him from previous camps and whatnot), came upto me and said he had a word for me. This is the jist of it: "I just saw you on the top of a mountain and you were sounding a trumpet. You have a message for the people and its to show what they need to do next. You have a zeal and you will lead them." Praise Jesus! He is so good (And this kinda irrelevant but then honestly like two minutes later, another guy came upto me and said "I just have a word for you. 'You are called to the nations'." Again thankyou Lord!) So then I knew that I had to get up and deliver the message, and by Gods grace, I did it. Cos yeah I'm not a publice speaker aye. Well Gods changing me haha. He is good. That whole weekend, people got word after word for me. God is soooo awesome! Really like I dont ask for it ya know, He just gives if to me. Brings me to tears. Sigh He is good.
I also found it encouraging how most of the sermons were about the coming revival. That was so encouraging. I met so many people who are looking for it too, ya know. Like where i'm at, as in where i live, and who I'm surrounded by, have lost hope in revival. And flip, it frustrates me sometimes, (I know, God so needs to help me with that amongst like soooo many other things! haha) But yeah I must persevere, I will not give up! Jesus. Just gotta keep my eyes on Jesus. I want Him. I want a heart like David and like Mary of Bethany. I want my eyes to forever be on Him. Oh precious Jesus, lead me Lord into your arms! Please pray for me fellow bloggers!
So what else is new? Um well my role at work has changed ever so slightly. Instead of just making sandwiches (which personally I didnt mind too much, kinda got into a routine), I'm now moved onto the baking part. So now I'm doing all the breads, quiches, scones, cakes and well more interesting things. So I'm pretty stoked about it to be honest. While I'm waiting for revival, I may as well learn some baking haha. So yeah. :)
What else? I'm not sure what else to put here. Think I'll leave it at this. :)
Strive to enter the narrow gate people :) Run to the arms of Jesus :)
So how are you lovely bloggers!? So today is the 25th of August! And that means by the grace of God, I've been saved for officially 4 years. How totally awesome is that! :) Praise Jesus, for keeping me this long. I honestly don't think I deserve it. God is sooo good to me! :) It overwhelms me sometimes. Sigh what a beautiful Savior we have :).
OKay so over the weekend, I went to a missions camp. This was my fifth year at this camp. (It was the camp I was born again at :) ). God was/is so good. ON the first night during worship, one the speakers felt to say, that if anyone was inspired (as in by Holy Spirit) to like prophesy etc, they should come up. And at this point I was having a wee bit of a battle haha. You see last week during my devotional, the Lord gave me a word and it was "We must repent, to be restored". (btw my lovely blog readers please take heed to this word, we must all get ready for Him. He wants a holy, pure bride people. I love you guys and so I say this in love, as much as I can through a post, please get right before your Savior. He loves you so much. If the word makes no sence to you, then please pray on it. Ask Him about it :) ) Anyway I was thinking to myself, "Do I go up Lord, and tell these people, your word?" And while I was debating this, a man called Ben (I know him from previous camps and whatnot), came upto me and said he had a word for me. This is the jist of it: "I just saw you on the top of a mountain and you were sounding a trumpet. You have a message for the people and its to show what they need to do next. You have a zeal and you will lead them." Praise Jesus! He is so good (And this kinda irrelevant but then honestly like two minutes later, another guy came upto me and said "I just have a word for you. 'You are called to the nations'." Again thankyou Lord!) So then I knew that I had to get up and deliver the message, and by Gods grace, I did it. Cos yeah I'm not a publice speaker aye. Well Gods changing me haha. He is good. That whole weekend, people got word after word for me. God is soooo awesome! Really like I dont ask for it ya know, He just gives if to me. Brings me to tears. Sigh He is good.
I also found it encouraging how most of the sermons were about the coming revival. That was so encouraging. I met so many people who are looking for it too, ya know. Like where i'm at, as in where i live, and who I'm surrounded by, have lost hope in revival. And flip, it frustrates me sometimes, (I know, God so needs to help me with that amongst like soooo many other things! haha) But yeah I must persevere, I will not give up! Jesus. Just gotta keep my eyes on Jesus. I want Him. I want a heart like David and like Mary of Bethany. I want my eyes to forever be on Him. Oh precious Jesus, lead me Lord into your arms! Please pray for me fellow bloggers!
So what else is new? Um well my role at work has changed ever so slightly. Instead of just making sandwiches (which personally I didnt mind too much, kinda got into a routine), I'm now moved onto the baking part. So now I'm doing all the breads, quiches, scones, cakes and well more interesting things. So I'm pretty stoked about it to be honest. While I'm waiting for revival, I may as well learn some baking haha. So yeah. :)
What else? I'm not sure what else to put here. Think I'll leave it at this. :)
Strive to enter the narrow gate people :) Run to the arms of Jesus :)
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
There endeth July
Greetings to you beautiful bloggers! I hope you've all had a wonderful month :)
So I just had a quick look-see at my previous blog and am reminded of a familiar chapter in Ecclesiates.
"To everything there is a season...A time to kill; And a time to heal; A time to break down and a time to build up. (Ecclesiates3v3).
Quite honestly, I feel that while writing my last blog, I was going through a 'break down' if you will. Okay it wasn't as bad as that sounds. I just think that...well to everything there is a season. And right now I'm going through a building up- praise Jesus! I mean lately (I'm talking like the last few weeks), I just have a thirsting for the Word, I want to spend more time with Jesus. Quite honestly, I feel as if I was just saved. :D
I want to be ready for his visitation, for His coming. I know in my spirit we are running out of time. My mum actually got a word recently that I know I should share and it is this "Tell my sons (thats means daughters too :) ) to get ready." Fellow bloggers , and whoever else reads this, please know that the biggest revival that this world has ever seen and will ever see, is just around the corner. And following this, will be the harvest and then the return of our sweet Savior. I'm also reminded of a word the Lord gave me a few years ago. "Tell them I'm coming very soon". Unfortunately not one of us knows the day or hour, but all we are to do is quite simple- Get ready!! Guys, (I'm referring to all by the way, the word "guys" in NZ is like slang for 'people' :) ), we must all repent. We must all get right before our God, before our King. Please people, dont take this lightly. If you know (in fact you will know) your not right before God, then do something about it. Dont wait for a camp, or for some international speaker on revival to visit your local town or city, or even a spiritual experience; please begin now to 'rend your hearts and not your garments' (Joel 2v13). Run into the arms of Jesus 'for He is is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness..' (v13 cont.). Now is the time guys. Oh how glorious the days :).
To be honest, I didnt think I was even going to write about all this. I was actually going to write on 'renewing the mind' (something I've learnt quite a bit about recently), but hey I just write as God leads :). He is so good. Lately actually, I've been memorising useful verses from the Bible, and praise God, it's been so wonderful to be honest. I've quite enjoyed it. I have even got my boss (who's not even a Christian) to help me. My mum helps too, but yeah with him being a born and bred Kiwi, he helps with pronounciation for some words :)
So yeah life is good atm. Don't get me wrong, I'm still battling. But what I'm learning, is to expect failure. As in, to expect to muck up. You see, I've always been one of those people, that will idk decide on a change if you will (like no more tv for example) but yeah sometimes you can get trapped into watching something. But instead of just giving up, I'm gonna let Jesus pick me back up and try again :)
Actually reminds me of a funny incident, last night our television broke. Isn't that funny?! A year or so back God spoke to us about 'removing our idols' and quite frankly, the television was an idol in our household. (oh btw only like my parents and I are saved in my household, just so you know. Dont worry though Gods got His hands on my bros :p). It's only been like 24hours but they're definately beginning to notice the effects. But hey, if your not gonna listen to Him, then he'll do stuff like let your tv break :p tehe. Oh just so you know, I'm not completly opposed to watching tv. I just see it as a time waster, sometimes. And annoys me how it can actually run a household :( Oh and the content isnt exactly godley these days too unfortunately :( But yeah like I do watch movies (quick thankyou to Ashley Weis for your blogs as they have encouraged me quite a bit lately, especially round this topic of movies ect:) ) and sports sometimes :)Like you should check out this website called Pluggedinonline.com for movie reviews. They'll tell you whats really in the films, from a good Christian perspective.
To be honest, I am surprised that it is 5pm and I'm writing a blog. I never write blogs at this time. It's like 8 hours too early :P tehe.
Oh I just made pumpkin soup for like the first time ever. I'm quite estatic to be honest. I love pumpkin soup! So yay ! :)
Should probably leave this blog as is now. I'm really just babbling :).
Take care lovelies. Stay in Jesus :)
So I just had a quick look-see at my previous blog and am reminded of a familiar chapter in Ecclesiates.
"To everything there is a season...A time to kill; And a time to heal; A time to break down and a time to build up. (Ecclesiates3v3).
Quite honestly, I feel that while writing my last blog, I was going through a 'break down' if you will. Okay it wasn't as bad as that sounds. I just think that...well to everything there is a season. And right now I'm going through a building up- praise Jesus! I mean lately (I'm talking like the last few weeks), I just have a thirsting for the Word, I want to spend more time with Jesus. Quite honestly, I feel as if I was just saved. :D
I want to be ready for his visitation, for His coming. I know in my spirit we are running out of time. My mum actually got a word recently that I know I should share and it is this "Tell my sons (thats means daughters too :) ) to get ready." Fellow bloggers , and whoever else reads this, please know that the biggest revival that this world has ever seen and will ever see, is just around the corner. And following this, will be the harvest and then the return of our sweet Savior. I'm also reminded of a word the Lord gave me a few years ago. "Tell them I'm coming very soon". Unfortunately not one of us knows the day or hour, but all we are to do is quite simple- Get ready!! Guys, (I'm referring to all by the way, the word "guys" in NZ is like slang for 'people' :) ), we must all repent. We must all get right before our God, before our King. Please people, dont take this lightly. If you know (in fact you will know) your not right before God, then do something about it. Dont wait for a camp, or for some international speaker on revival to visit your local town or city, or even a spiritual experience; please begin now to 'rend your hearts and not your garments' (Joel 2v13). Run into the arms of Jesus 'for He is is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness..' (v13 cont.). Now is the time guys. Oh how glorious the days :).
To be honest, I didnt think I was even going to write about all this. I was actually going to write on 'renewing the mind' (something I've learnt quite a bit about recently), but hey I just write as God leads :). He is so good. Lately actually, I've been memorising useful verses from the Bible, and praise God, it's been so wonderful to be honest. I've quite enjoyed it. I have even got my boss (who's not even a Christian) to help me. My mum helps too, but yeah with him being a born and bred Kiwi, he helps with pronounciation for some words :)
So yeah life is good atm. Don't get me wrong, I'm still battling. But what I'm learning, is to expect failure. As in, to expect to muck up. You see, I've always been one of those people, that will idk decide on a change if you will (like no more tv for example) but yeah sometimes you can get trapped into watching something. But instead of just giving up, I'm gonna let Jesus pick me back up and try again :)
Actually reminds me of a funny incident, last night our television broke. Isn't that funny?! A year or so back God spoke to us about 'removing our idols' and quite frankly, the television was an idol in our household. (oh btw only like my parents and I are saved in my household, just so you know. Dont worry though Gods got His hands on my bros :p). It's only been like 24hours but they're definately beginning to notice the effects. But hey, if your not gonna listen to Him, then he'll do stuff like let your tv break :p tehe. Oh just so you know, I'm not completly opposed to watching tv. I just see it as a time waster, sometimes. And annoys me how it can actually run a household :( Oh and the content isnt exactly godley these days too unfortunately :( But yeah like I do watch movies (quick thankyou to Ashley Weis for your blogs as they have encouraged me quite a bit lately, especially round this topic of movies ect:) ) and sports sometimes :)Like you should check out this website called Pluggedinonline.com for movie reviews. They'll tell you whats really in the films, from a good Christian perspective.
To be honest, I am surprised that it is 5pm and I'm writing a blog. I never write blogs at this time. It's like 8 hours too early :P tehe.
Oh I just made pumpkin soup for like the first time ever. I'm quite estatic to be honest. I love pumpkin soup! So yay ! :)
Should probably leave this blog as is now. I'm really just babbling :).
Take care lovelies. Stay in Jesus :)
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