I am so sorry i have not posted for a long time, so much has happened and even now I struggle to thik what to write and where to start, so again I encourage you to pry deeper =)
OK since the last double whammy post i have been through 2 new weeks of lectures one on he 'Fear of Man and the Fear of the Lord' and the other on ' the Holy Spirit'.
Both have been incredible in their own unique ways. The 'Fear of Man and the Fear of the Lord' well as you can probably guess is in the title. The hwole week was based on getting rid of the fear of man and bringing on the fear of the Lord. It is very hard to go into lots of detail as the teaching itself was very simple but very powerful. It was full of lots of proclaiming and something wonderful i learnt was this.
'To proclaim brings new revelation of God'.
This revelation brings on joy, it brings on peace, hope, it increases faith, love. I find myself finding it easierm to hear the Holy Spirits prompting in words, pictures and scriptures. It something that strengthens you up and creates a Holy Boldness inside which soon expresses itself externally in worship, adoration and action. It becomes as natural as breathing.
I found it very interesting that when we do these things how much the Holy Spirit WANTS to speak to us, so often we just bypass any thought, scripture, picture that comes into our head as just our foolish human thinking or coincidence. I have have found it is is these exact thoughts more often than not are coming straight from God to us - and we are rejecting them. There is obviously room for discernment we get it wrong, but I want to encourage you to take the risk, I found myself right more than not (infact there hasn't been much wrong - WOW).
So if you want to hear the Holy Spirit speaking to you - praise God, adore him, get yourself in a position our being absolutely head over heals for you God, then you'll find that scriptures, pictures and words come easily, because we are in a place to listen.
I also want to really thank you for your prayers. I could go into lots of detail but i'll spare you that and let you make the first move and ask me. But in very shirt myself and many many others found freedom from fears that have plauged our lives for as long as we could remember. God is doing a wonderful work and once again i encourage you to keep praying because your prayers having such a huge impact in our lives you cannot even begin to imagine.
The holy Spirit week was another very simple week (well in structure and message). I could go on for hours about what happened to me so again for the sake of time and you having to read a whole essay of a testimony I want to encourage you to ask me and I will with muvch joy tell you what God has been doing in beautiful detail =)
But I will tell you what I have learnt. It is so easy to say that the Holy Spirit is a person and not a force, and I used to be one of those people. But so so often we treat the Holy Spirit as an inpersonal force who doesn't really have feelings too many Christians say one thing but truely believe another. The effects it's sad to say are crippling.
So the week on the Holy SPirit has taught me that the Holy Spirit is such a onwderfully close companion who loves us and therefore gives me the freedom and ability to say back 'I love you Holy Spirit'. That makes so much difference. I now can ask to Holy Spirit questions and I can expect answers - further more I get them, with clarity.
Did you know that the Holy Spirit wants us to be aware of his presence and what he is doing and wants us to be sensitive to him and the spiritual world (makes sense since we are spiritual beings) and act on it. I didn't use to, but I do now and I have found it is so wonderfully freeing.
The message seems to be the same at the end of every week. INTMACY WITH GOD THE FATHER, JESUS, HOLY SPIRIT. What a wonderful and satisfying revelation.
I can't wait to share what I learn this week on the 'Father Heart of God'
Blessings.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Prayers, prayers and more prayer
A quick post for you today, just to fill you in with what God has been doing.
Well first things first, thank you for your prayers, I have had an answer from God.
I have been called to Norway to do a School of Evangelism (SOE), along with that I feel God is calling me back to YWAM Carlisle - a long way into future that but I none the less feel a nudging in that direction.
I have also been in talks with many of the YWAM staff and they confirmed in me a leadership anointing and of evangelism. So I would like to ask you to pray for me in these things, that the anointing in me will grow and that I would step into more of my calling. I am so lucky to be in a safe environment in which I am able to freely test the waters (if you like). I would specifically like your prayers in the area of learning how to follow. This is a key area for those going into this type of ministry. I would also like prayer for guidance into the type of leadership ministry this could be (as there are many), I think it is leading into facilitation but I would really like opportunities to put this into practice.
Thank you again for all your prayers, the Holy Spirit is really starting to move in very tangible ways, it is very exciting but very challenging so expect for more to happen and pray for it.
A lot of prayer requests in this post I know but I encourage you that it is having such a mighty affect. Hallelujah.
Well first things first, thank you for your prayers, I have had an answer from God.
I have been called to Norway to do a School of Evangelism (SOE), along with that I feel God is calling me back to YWAM Carlisle - a long way into future that but I none the less feel a nudging in that direction.
I have also been in talks with many of the YWAM staff and they confirmed in me a leadership anointing and of evangelism. So I would like to ask you to pray for me in these things, that the anointing in me will grow and that I would step into more of my calling. I am so lucky to be in a safe environment in which I am able to freely test the waters (if you like). I would specifically like your prayers in the area of learning how to follow. This is a key area for those going into this type of ministry. I would also like prayer for guidance into the type of leadership ministry this could be (as there are many), I think it is leading into facilitation but I would really like opportunities to put this into practice.
Thank you again for all your prayers, the Holy Spirit is really starting to move in very tangible ways, it is very exciting but very challenging so expect for more to happen and pray for it.
A lot of prayer requests in this post I know but I encourage you that it is having such a mighty affect. Hallelujah.
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Double Whammy of Blessings
Blessing 1: Sin and the Cross
So hello again I hope you are blessed - well you should be because your blessed by God to be a blessing (Gen 3:1-2) that is if you don't believe me.
Anyway this is a title for a week long lecture and it was a fantastic time. A big part of this week has all been about taking up our authority in Christ something we came quickly to realise that so many Christians do not do, due to laziness or due to not having a fullness of understanding of the power proclaiming scripture and rebuking the enemy actually has.
So we have had many ministry nights on this topic and Praise the LORD so many of us have found new freedom. But not just that we have found a new found power in Christ as we have come to fully understand that if the power of Christ lives in me/us then we have access to that same power to heal the sick, to bring sight to the blind, to raise the dead (and I am very serious) and so on. This is so liberating as now that I and others are beginnning to understand our position in Christ would you believe it boldness and courage increases like nothing I have ever seen or felt before.
I want to encourage you to know your scripture off by heart (something that has taken me too long to realise how important that is). Also I want to encourage you to proclaim scripture as proclaiming I have found brings new and fresh revelation of God himself, this in turn brings freedom, peace, joy, hope, it increases faith. It quite literally transforms us.
I want to leave you with somethign that really challeneged me and opened up my eyes to new freedom and liberation. I hope it makes sense, PLEASE PLEASE ask questions if you don't understand, because if this confuses you and you don't seek answeres you may fall and I do not wish that upon you with all my heart.
Blessings brothers and sisters
In the beginning we know there was two trees inthe Garden of Eden the 'tree of life' and the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil'. Before the fall adam and eve were living in LIFE. The tree of the knoweldge of good and evil isn't a bad tree which many think it to be, when God created everything it was either good or very good (see genesis). The problem is that adam and eve grasped at something they should not have grasped at. They grasped at trying to be God (knowedlege of good and evil). So now to this day we are stuck in this mindset everyday at trying to be our own god, and self sufficency. This God never created us to be.
The lie of satan is that the christian life is about jumping between two branches. When we dopn't do things such as a quiet time or when we don't say our prayers, or if we don't read our bible, we are so quick to condemn ourselves and we jump to a condemnation branch. So we seek forgivness and jump back to the forgiveness branch and what Christians are doign is jumping between these two, but that is not life, that is a vicious cycle. NOWHERE in the bible does it say 'I will will comdemn those who forget to read their bible' ect....
We have made it about rules and regulations:
- don't dance
- don't smoke
- don't lie
don't this and don't that
When the Christian life is about what we do do. It's not about rules and regulations that is law that is death. Jesus didn't come to help us obey the law or to stop us doing bad stuff. Christianity is about Jesus coming and meeting all the obligations of the law and leaving them on the cross.
"come to me all you who are tired and heavy laidened and I wil lgive yourest" (Matt 11: 28-29)
"I have comer that they may have life and life to the full" (John 10:10)
This is what Jesus came to us. He is giving us back the tree of life that adam and eve first had in the garden of eden. What is life? To know God and to be in relationship with him.
Amen
FRANKS OVER AND OUT
So hello again I hope you are blessed - well you should be because your blessed by God to be a blessing (Gen 3:1-2) that is if you don't believe me.
Anyway this is a title for a week long lecture and it was a fantastic time. A big part of this week has all been about taking up our authority in Christ something we came quickly to realise that so many Christians do not do, due to laziness or due to not having a fullness of understanding of the power proclaiming scripture and rebuking the enemy actually has.
So we have had many ministry nights on this topic and Praise the LORD so many of us have found new freedom. But not just that we have found a new found power in Christ as we have come to fully understand that if the power of Christ lives in me/us then we have access to that same power to heal the sick, to bring sight to the blind, to raise the dead (and I am very serious) and so on. This is so liberating as now that I and others are beginnning to understand our position in Christ would you believe it boldness and courage increases like nothing I have ever seen or felt before.
I want to encourage you to know your scripture off by heart (something that has taken me too long to realise how important that is). Also I want to encourage you to proclaim scripture as proclaiming I have found brings new and fresh revelation of God himself, this in turn brings freedom, peace, joy, hope, it increases faith. It quite literally transforms us.
I want to leave you with somethign that really challeneged me and opened up my eyes to new freedom and liberation. I hope it makes sense, PLEASE PLEASE ask questions if you don't understand, because if this confuses you and you don't seek answeres you may fall and I do not wish that upon you with all my heart.
Blessings brothers and sisters
In the beginning we know there was two trees inthe Garden of Eden the 'tree of life' and the 'tree of the knowledge of good and evil'. Before the fall adam and eve were living in LIFE. The tree of the knoweldge of good and evil isn't a bad tree which many think it to be, when God created everything it was either good or very good (see genesis). The problem is that adam and eve grasped at something they should not have grasped at. They grasped at trying to be God (knowedlege of good and evil). So now to this day we are stuck in this mindset everyday at trying to be our own god, and self sufficency. This God never created us to be.
The lie of satan is that the christian life is about jumping between two branches. When we dopn't do things such as a quiet time or when we don't say our prayers, or if we don't read our bible, we are so quick to condemn ourselves and we jump to a condemnation branch. So we seek forgivness and jump back to the forgiveness branch and what Christians are doign is jumping between these two, but that is not life, that is a vicious cycle. NOWHERE in the bible does it say 'I will will comdemn those who forget to read their bible' ect....
We have made it about rules and regulations:
- don't dance
- don't smoke
- don't lie
don't this and don't that
When the Christian life is about what we do do. It's not about rules and regulations that is law that is death. Jesus didn't come to help us obey the law or to stop us doing bad stuff. Christianity is about Jesus coming and meeting all the obligations of the law and leaving them on the cross.
"come to me all you who are tired and heavy laidened and I wil lgive yourest" (Matt 11: 28-29)
"I have comer that they may have life and life to the full" (John 10:10)
This is what Jesus came to us. He is giving us back the tree of life that adam and eve first had in the garden of eden. What is life? To know God and to be in relationship with him.
Amen
FRANKS OVER AND OUT
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Going where God goes
In my last blog I commented on wanting to tell you where God is leading me.
This I am positive of and I am sure that those of you who know me well what I am about to say will come of no surprise. God has placed on me a real annointing in evangelism, my heart has such a passion to see lost souls found, to bind up the broken hearted and to give the hopeless hope, so while here in YWAM Carlisle I am finding every opportunity I can to put into practice so God can work in me more what he has planned for me. God has been most wonderful in providing many opportunities, tonight even as I write this I am off to support a local church in a youth event and other opportunities involve creating and directing a script for a Christmas play making the gospel more accessible for young people. This is to take place on the Dec 5th so please be praying that the preparations go well and the YWAM team stay well and that the kids hearts are open to the message of the performance.
What God also seems to have been doing is leading me into a very definate calling. My heart is for the nations to the unreached nations where God is hard to come by in the lives of that nations people and of course where God is rare persecution is of course very high. My heart still though is to go to the people who are broken hearted, those without hope, those who need a friend, those who are hungry, those without a home. I want to encourage those
who on a daily basis are persecuted because they left their nations/families religion and beliefs to follow Jesus. Did you know that only 2% of the worlds missionaries go to these unreached peoples and that is not enough I desire to up the average.
I have been asked and encouraged by many to do a School of evangelism in Norway for 9months where i will grow in my annointed calling by God but I will also get the opportunities to lead groups and encourage them to step out and evangelise. Which is very exciting. This school will be for 9months and it is very much a stepping stone to where God is leading me.
So it is obvious that i am asking for your prayers in this. I have strong inclinations that this is right, but I want to be convinced that i may walk forward in undivded faith with God and nothing less. So when you pray and you feel God speaking to you concerning all that I have said I encourage you to tell me and take the risk. I will test and approve all that is given to me so do not be afraid to get it wrong. The bigger risk is to say nothing =) i say this with love and encouragement.
I have also another opportunity that after my SOE to come back to Carlisle and help set up a SOE in the base and to be on staff there and bring God into Carlisle by heling DTS students take risks in evangelism. I would also ask for prayer in this too.
Thank you for your prayers, please continue to spread the message because I can't do this without you.
May the God of all provision provide for you in your deepest needs. Amen
This I am positive of and I am sure that those of you who know me well what I am about to say will come of no surprise. God has placed on me a real annointing in evangelism, my heart has such a passion to see lost souls found, to bind up the broken hearted and to give the hopeless hope, so while here in YWAM Carlisle I am finding every opportunity I can to put into practice so God can work in me more what he has planned for me. God has been most wonderful in providing many opportunities, tonight even as I write this I am off to support a local church in a youth event and other opportunities involve creating and directing a script for a Christmas play making the gospel more accessible for young people. This is to take place on the Dec 5th so please be praying that the preparations go well and the YWAM team stay well and that the kids hearts are open to the message of the performance.
What God also seems to have been doing is leading me into a very definate calling. My heart is for the nations to the unreached nations where God is hard to come by in the lives of that nations people and of course where God is rare persecution is of course very high. My heart still though is to go to the people who are broken hearted, those without hope, those who need a friend, those who are hungry, those without a home. I want to encourage those
who on a daily basis are persecuted because they left their nations/families religion and beliefs to follow Jesus. Did you know that only 2% of the worlds missionaries go to these unreached peoples and that is not enough I desire to up the average.
I have been asked and encouraged by many to do a School of evangelism in Norway for 9months where i will grow in my annointed calling by God but I will also get the opportunities to lead groups and encourage them to step out and evangelise. Which is very exciting. This school will be for 9months and it is very much a stepping stone to where God is leading me.
So it is obvious that i am asking for your prayers in this. I have strong inclinations that this is right, but I want to be convinced that i may walk forward in undivded faith with God and nothing less. So when you pray and you feel God speaking to you concerning all that I have said I encourage you to tell me and take the risk. I will test and approve all that is given to me so do not be afraid to get it wrong. The bigger risk is to say nothing =) i say this with love and encouragement.
I have also another opportunity that after my SOE to come back to Carlisle and help set up a SOE in the base and to be on staff there and bring God into Carlisle by heling DTS students take risks in evangelism. I would also ask for prayer in this too.
Thank you for your prayers, please continue to spread the message because I can't do this without you.
May the God of all provision provide for you in your deepest needs. Amen
Saturday, 7 November 2009
When man prays stuff happens.
Sorry it has been so long since I have last posted. A lot has happened so i am struggling which bits to share. So here we go.
Well since Blackpool we have had 2 weeks of lectures the first week on the abrahamic covenant
(heb 6 1-5 / gen 12: 1-3). This was an incredible week, I think it was so incredible because the message was so simple. The message being:
"And you will be blessed, and your shall be a blessing"
This is the one purpose of God. So you can imagine how this has been shaping all of the DTS students lives. It is very much a weight lifted off, the way we now are beginning to share the gospel has become wonderfully easier and less confusing. We have had plenty of opportunities to put this into practice. The DTS was asked to create a play for a Light Party in place of Halloween which was a huge success - we did it on Noah and the flood. Thank God for the fantastic opportunity to allow us to be a blessing by using our different skills and talents for young people.
The second week was a lecture on the bible, it sounds boring and basic, but this is what God has been doing with myself and the rest of the DTS . To many of us the bible has been unaccessible, it has been boring to us and there has been a common theme of not being able to connect with God through it. We have gone through every book of the bible from Genesis to Revelation in 4 days (hardcore). And we have experience the grace and the joy it gives God to bless us by opening up the scriptures. We have all been praying hard to move deeper into the word, to enjoy it, to find Jesus in it, to find how events join together to lead to Christ. INCREDIBLE. And dare i say it even the geneologies were fun to read.
So i have a couple of prayer requests. Before I came to Carlisle I believed that the power of prayer could change things. Now that I have been in Carlisle for 5 weeks I have seen it transform things. Prayer is a power filled tool, used with caution but used often as we are all finding that it is Gods joy to answer them. So please with what follows pray specifically but confidently that your prayers are transforming the lives of 10 young men and women of God who are going to bring the kingdom of God to the nations in incredible ways.
Prayer requests:
1. We feel we are under attack, so many of us have been seriously ill for the past 3/4 weeks of the DTS, some more than others, but it is stopping us going to the lectures so we miss out, it threatens to take our joy. So I ask that you pray for the Spirit of Healing and Health in YWAM Carlisle.
2. As we enter into a new week of lectures pray that we may focus our everything into what we are being taught. We have a saying in Carlisle. "We pray that God will wreck you", in the positive terms but we really want all preconceptions of God to be destroyed and be transformed by the Living God forever.
3. Thank God for the unity and trust being built up, pray for more of that
4. I will explain this more in a new blog but God is starting to make clear a very specific calling on my life and I need your prayer support for continual clarity and direction from God
FRANKS OVER AND OUT
Sunday, 25 October 2009
3 weeks of YWAM
It has been along time since I have posted and I am sorry, so I want to for warn you now that this oculd be a long one, but I really, really encourage you to make time to read this, as I want to both encourage you with what God is doing in my life and then encourage you to do the same.
You will first off be happy to hear I have settled in very well, untiy is so strong at YWAM Carlisle so that is one very important prayer request answered by God, but I want to encourage you that this unity only grows because without we cannot function and are unable to produce any fruit when we speak Gods truth to the nations.
Right Blackpool. I really want to focus on what God did in Blackpool as God has really moved in some incredible ways. We went to blackpool for a week where all the YWAM DTS in England came together this included a tem from Norway and Milan, there was about 130 people in total, truely awesome. That week was for us was all based on evangelism so there has been a lot of practical work invloved.
So here come the encouraging / amazing bits ....
We did a lot of ministry with each other to encourage, to heal (in all its senses), to prophecy dreams, visions and pictures over each other and I want to encourage you that 130 young people for Christ (including myself) have seen major breakthrough from past sin, generational sin, infirmities, fears and have been spoken to directly from God about our identity, our giftings in Christ and our callings. This is only 3 weeks into a 5 and a half month programme. Make no mistake God has not been wasting time.
I want to encourage you as I have learn't so much about hearing from God, I have been taught how to hear from God simply by submiting my thoughts and the enimies lies to Christ. And let me tellyou it is so much easier to hear God, I have found that Gods voice is usually the first thing you hear and to start with was very strange, why ? because it involved serious risk (what if I heard God wrong and spoke over their life), but more to the point what if I was right, which is the bigger risk to take to try and fail or to disobey?
But i want to encourage you that it is ok to get it wrong, I found myself very very rarely getting it wrong and the more I took the risk in trusting what I heard, saw to be Gods voice, the easier it became, the more God spoke. The more risks I took the more my courage and boldness grew, and grown it has. I used to be afraid to speakto someone in the street about Christ let along pray over them, i was fearful of Man. But if God is for us who can be against us?
Now PRAISE GOD I am able to approach someone in the street and simply talk about the gospel and pray for them, sometimes it's a yes sometimes it's a no. But that is not the point. Yours/my obedience lies in taking the risk, if anything else happens that is Gods grace and purpose and the individuals choice to listen. I have learnt that our responsibility is to proclaim and God does the conviction.
I am sorry this has sounded like a preach, but I really want you all who read this to step out so you can see and experiecne first hand the kingdom of God in your lives in real and seriously powerful ways as God loving uses you to bring people to Christ in ways you feel God can never use you.
I want to leave you with an incredible story of the power and nature of God. Blessings and love to you all.
Jon
During our time in Blackpool we did something called a treasure hunt. In the sense that we sit down and ask God to speak to us on who he would like us to bless in the City, we then go out and bless them. The areas we ask God to speak into are (location/name/need/image/unusual).
So one time when we were doing this God specifically told me about a woman who was sitting inside starbucks, she would have long dark brown hair, she will have a mobile phone and a newspaper in front of her. She will have her legs crossed and will be sitting on her own. So I go with my friend into startbucks and initially do not find her and as we turn to leave there in a corner of starbucks was this woman matching the description God have given me down to her legs being crossed. So I approached her and although she did not want to be prayed for it was incfredible to see how her face accepted and frecognised that although quite scary that I perfectly described her but also her acceptance that something Godly had happened. It is also incredible to think that we often don't believe God can be so specific in our lives or that God speaks to us. I beg to differ as my testimony proves.
Bless you all again
FRANKS OVER AND OUT
You will first off be happy to hear I have settled in very well, untiy is so strong at YWAM Carlisle so that is one very important prayer request answered by God, but I want to encourage you that this unity only grows because without we cannot function and are unable to produce any fruit when we speak Gods truth to the nations.
Right Blackpool. I really want to focus on what God did in Blackpool as God has really moved in some incredible ways. We went to blackpool for a week where all the YWAM DTS in England came together this included a tem from Norway and Milan, there was about 130 people in total, truely awesome. That week was for us was all based on evangelism so there has been a lot of practical work invloved.
So here come the encouraging / amazing bits ....
We did a lot of ministry with each other to encourage, to heal (in all its senses), to prophecy dreams, visions and pictures over each other and I want to encourage you that 130 young people for Christ (including myself) have seen major breakthrough from past sin, generational sin, infirmities, fears and have been spoken to directly from God about our identity, our giftings in Christ and our callings. This is only 3 weeks into a 5 and a half month programme. Make no mistake God has not been wasting time.
I want to encourage you as I have learn't so much about hearing from God, I have been taught how to hear from God simply by submiting my thoughts and the enimies lies to Christ. And let me tellyou it is so much easier to hear God, I have found that Gods voice is usually the first thing you hear and to start with was very strange, why ? because it involved serious risk (what if I heard God wrong and spoke over their life), but more to the point what if I was right, which is the bigger risk to take to try and fail or to disobey?
But i want to encourage you that it is ok to get it wrong, I found myself very very rarely getting it wrong and the more I took the risk in trusting what I heard, saw to be Gods voice, the easier it became, the more God spoke. The more risks I took the more my courage and boldness grew, and grown it has. I used to be afraid to speakto someone in the street about Christ let along pray over them, i was fearful of Man. But if God is for us who can be against us?
Now PRAISE GOD I am able to approach someone in the street and simply talk about the gospel and pray for them, sometimes it's a yes sometimes it's a no. But that is not the point. Yours/my obedience lies in taking the risk, if anything else happens that is Gods grace and purpose and the individuals choice to listen. I have learnt that our responsibility is to proclaim and God does the conviction.
I am sorry this has sounded like a preach, but I really want you all who read this to step out so you can see and experiecne first hand the kingdom of God in your lives in real and seriously powerful ways as God loving uses you to bring people to Christ in ways you feel God can never use you.
I want to leave you with an incredible story of the power and nature of God. Blessings and love to you all.
Jon
During our time in Blackpool we did something called a treasure hunt. In the sense that we sit down and ask God to speak to us on who he would like us to bless in the City, we then go out and bless them. The areas we ask God to speak into are (location/name/need/image/unusual).
So one time when we were doing this God specifically told me about a woman who was sitting inside starbucks, she would have long dark brown hair, she will have a mobile phone and a newspaper in front of her. She will have her legs crossed and will be sitting on her own. So I go with my friend into startbucks and initially do not find her and as we turn to leave there in a corner of starbucks was this woman matching the description God have given me down to her legs being crossed. So I approached her and although she did not want to be prayed for it was incfredible to see how her face accepted and frecognised that although quite scary that I perfectly described her but also her acceptance that something Godly had happened. It is also incredible to think that we often don't believe God can be so specific in our lives or that God speaks to us. I beg to differ as my testimony proves.
Bless you all again
FRANKS OVER AND OUT
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Pre-YWAM
Hello to all who will read the following posts over however long a period I will be writing these posts, if you want to be kept up to date with what God is doing then this is the 'with it' place to be.
First of all I want to thank every single person who has supported me whether it has been generous gifts of money however small it all has helped. For those who have offered up numerous prayers and continue to do so, for those who have supported me by helping put up money raising schemes, and thank you for everyone who has just shown such a supportive interest it has really given me the boost needed.
You'll be happy to hear that ALL the money has now been raised for YWAM (yay), well everything excluding the flights, ut since God has taught me so much about money, patience, putting God first above even the raising of money I have no doubt what so ever that God has got me covered. I leave on October 3rd and I have my first weeks timetable in and all is looking exciting, I even found out that in the second week I will be be off the Blackpool for a week to do some evangelism, so it's all systems go.
I want to share something from the YWAM Carlisle website that really challenged me to the core.
"In the realm of the "possible", here are some suggestions you might consider in raising funds for your fees and airfares. PRAY (Phil 4:6; James 2:26) Spend quality time taking the specific amount of time you need before the Lord. The Bible instructs us that "you have not because you ask not." (James 4:2) Remember also that God's greatest priority is not the finances, but to draw closer to Himself in love. He has no problem with finances, but we need to be praying in the situation that we will be drawn nearer to His heart."
Please pray that the team bonds together and find ourselves easily adjusting, it is going to be a fantastic but mega challenging 6 months.
Franks over and out
First of all I want to thank every single person who has supported me whether it has been generous gifts of money however small it all has helped. For those who have offered up numerous prayers and continue to do so, for those who have supported me by helping put up money raising schemes, and thank you for everyone who has just shown such a supportive interest it has really given me the boost needed.
You'll be happy to hear that ALL the money has now been raised for YWAM (yay), well everything excluding the flights, ut since God has taught me so much about money, patience, putting God first above even the raising of money I have no doubt what so ever that God has got me covered. I leave on October 3rd and I have my first weeks timetable in and all is looking exciting, I even found out that in the second week I will be be off the Blackpool for a week to do some evangelism, so it's all systems go.
I want to share something from the YWAM Carlisle website that really challenged me to the core.
"In the realm of the "possible", here are some suggestions you might consider in raising funds for your fees and airfares. PRAY (Phil 4:6; James 2:26) Spend quality time taking the specific amount of time you need before the Lord. The Bible instructs us that "you have not because you ask not." (James 4:2) Remember also that God's greatest priority is not the finances, but to draw closer to Himself in love. He has no problem with finances, but we need to be praying in the situation that we will be drawn nearer to His heart."
Please pray that the team bonds together and find ourselves easily adjusting, it is going to be a fantastic but mega challenging 6 months.
Franks over and out
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