Peace And Tranquillity

The day before yesterday I went to see a man who claimed to have a powerful healing ministry. I have to admit by the time I left I was pretty convinced. He prayed for me twice that evening, the first time I sort of swayed backwards and forwards and the second time I was, as my mum calls it, flat out. I must make the point now that the person in question, Davey Falcus, did not push me, I just sort of fell over. I had always believed myself to be someone who didn't fall over but this experience has obviously changed my opinion somewhat, whenever in previous years I have experienced the Holy Spirit I have I either stayed standing or already been sitting down. Anyway yesterday Davey was going to be doing a healing service, and something was holding me back from going. I felt tired and hungry and just basically down, however my wife convinced me to go. It was quite a good thing she did because I got a lot from the service. I believe that the reason I didn't want to go was because the devil didn't want me to go. In the end as I went I got healed for something that has been effecting me for about 2 years, I felt more peaceful and calmer in myself. I believe that God has healed me of this as well as healing my back which has been painful for about a year and now seems to be good again. I feel I should mention that all glory of healing goes to God and Davey constantly reminded everyone there that it was by God's power that all were healed. Well anyway I think that is it for now.

Thanks for reading, God Bless you all,
NL

Panic At The Disco

So I am panicking somewhat, I have no idea what God has planned for me and it is getting closer and closer to me and my wife moving. Currently we have no place to live, I have no job, and I have no clue. I am also lacking interviews which would be handy right now. On a not so dark side I have just received an application today for a job near where my wife will be working which would be rather handing, as well as an email from a job I didn't get to say that they would like to tell me my weak points with my interview technique. I can feel that God is most definitely testing me greatly at the moment and I am unsure as to whether I will succeed with him or fail by myself. The only thing that is giving me much hope at the moment is the thing my brother said I mentioned in my previous post.

Thanks for reading, God Bless,
NL

Dreaming Daze

This morning I had an extremely uncomfortable dream. I woke up about half an hour earlier than I was supposed to and got up because of it. The dream was rather unpleasant to say the least. Anyway I am starting to believe that the reason I was to apply for the course was firstly a test of faith and secondly to help me find another job that I only discovered while attending an interview for a position that was to go with the course. Though I would have prefered to have had it a bit easier my brother pointed out the other day 'God helps us, he doesn't spoon feed us.' God puts us on the right track, he guides us but he doesn't allow everything to be to easy for there to be a stimulating challenge. Sometimes it is hard to see what God has planned for us and in the end only he can know what he wants for us, but he does give clues occasionally. I feel confident that even if it turns out that this second job isn't the one planned for me there is something out there for me. I am sure there is a job or a course with my name on it, it just may not be so obvious at the moment.

Thanks for reading, God Bless,
NL

Searching For Rocks To Stand On

The job I thought God had for me I failed to get, however he may have opened up an opportunity to get a job at my brothers church. Also as a quick update my wife finally has a job and we are going to be moving soon. I should probably apologise now for not keeping you updated on what has been going we have been going up and down the country for the last few months so I haven't been near a computer much. I went to the zoo today with my wife, mother, and one of my brothers, I have never been so it was quite exciting for me.

Thanks for reading, God Bless.
NL

Listen To The Words I Speak

Yesterday I discovered that listening to God is as important to speaking to him, I realised that it is rather rude to speak to someone without letting them respond. So basically all Christians need to pray then wait and listen. I tried doing this today but I didn't hear anything, aparently it takes practice, but I did have a great sense of peace. So even though I didn't get what I wanted from the experience it helped me in another way. Tomorrow I have an exam which is basically my only chance to get into a University course, my grades at school are not good enough to get me in on their own but if I can pass this assessment and interview then I will be getting into a course I really feel God is pulling me towards. This course is fitting with the job I mentioned ago so I would be moving southwards. To my Christian readers I ask you to pray for me, to any non-Christian readers I ask you to pray for me, or at least think about me tomorrow.

Thanks for reading, God Bless,
NL

Though I Know You Don't Believe

The other day I found out my wife's sister has an exam on the 30th so today I sent her an email saying that I would pray for her that day, though she is unsure what she believes the responce I got was very positive from my point of view. All she said was 'Oh thank you! So sweet' but the fact that she didn't reject the idea felt very important to me, my wife is often worried that her family won't find God and won't see his love so any step towards success means a lot. I am glad that she felt my prayer would be useful to her, even though she perhaps doesn't believe.

Thanks for reading,
NL

Forgiveness

No matter how much we as humans give into our desires and commit sins God still chooses to forgive us. Why? Because he just does. God chooses to forgive our sins no matter how many times we sin, no matter how many sins we commit no matter how many times we do something we can't even forgive ourselves for God still forgives us. He loves us and wants us to be happy and so when we sin he forgives us. The only difference between us as chrisitians and the rest of people is we try to avoid sinning, I will admit that this is still very hard but we try and we can ask God to help us with this. To be honest we are no better than other people because we all sin even if we try not to, I myself often sin, I try so hard and ask God's help but quite often I fall into the same patterns of things like not respecting my mother and telling lies. To be fair God chooses to forgive us because he just wants to, he has no reason to, there is nothing that forces him to but he just does. I think we should all try to take example of this, even the non christians, and try and forgive people when they upset us and hurt us, when they do something they shouldn't and when they do things that offend us, just relax, keep chilled, and forgive them (even if they don't say sorry).

Thanks for reading, God Bless you all.
NL