...with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness through all generations. I will declare that your love stands firm forever... Psalm 89:1-2This week a bunch of us from the Church here in Cardiff had the amazing opportunity of giving the gospel to over 900 young people in our local schools! Please pray that there would be lasting fruit from what we did.
In June 2006 I decided that I wanted to give a year to studying at Bible College in Cardiff. In the last few months of Bible College I recieved Prophetic Word that God was going to re-locate me.
At that time, Manchester was everything to me. It was home. I was happily rooted. I had many close friends who lived there. I was being used by God in wonderful ways and I was really looking forward to returning there after the course. Clearly I found it very hard to believe that I might not be going back.
After talking it through with my Church elders I realised I must of course be willing to move on from Manchester if it was God's plan. I was extremely challenged on whether my vision was just simply for one city or whether it was for God's Kingdom to fill the whole earth. I was also challenged on whether I was willing to go where ever God wanted me to be.
In the days that followed I spent a lot of time seeking confirmation from God on what had been said. I knew that I had to hear from Him for myself. God took me to 1 Corinthians 16:9 where Paul talks of 'a wide door for effective service' being opened to him. After a week of confusion, fear and a few tears I began to trust in God's goodness.
Throughout the following month God did, what I can only describe as being, a miracle in my heart and in my mind. The Word that was brought was continually confirmed to me by the Holy Spirit in many different ways. Every time I went back to Manchester, from that time on, I saw it as just another city needing Jesus, like any other.
God reminded me that home is not a particular location but is the will of God for your life. I began to get excited, and God spoke clearly to me that wherever I ended up after School of the Word I would significantly
add something and have greater opportunity to build His Kingdom.
My testimony has always been that God has clearly laid one part of His plan out after another for me. And I am happy again to have clear direction from God as to what it is He has prepared for me to do.
I believe God has spoken to me clearly about staying here in Cardiff for the next season of my life. I believe I will be able to add something significant to the Church here, and I am also confident that I will be well looked after.
King's Church Manchester
When looking back over the past 6 years it is clear that my time in Manchester has been a big part of God's plan for my life. I have grown so much and have seen God work through me in ways I could not have imagined.
Manchester will always be a home for me, and of course the Church there will always be my close family. I am humbled at having been a part of all that God is doing in that city, and I am proud to have grown up so significantly in my faith within King's Church.
If you are ever in Manchester, visit them - they are the best people in the world!
Expect a miracle everyday,
Expect a miracle when you pray,
If you believe it God will find a way,
To make a miracle in you today.
The miracle working power of God is not locked up within the pages of bible stories.
Whatever needs you come across today, know that God is able to do immeasurably more than you could think of or imagine!
'If you want a miracle - leave the place of your thinking.'
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave... 1 Corinthians 9:24-27It is easy to notice those who run in such a way that they might win:
- They run harder than those around them.
- They consistently welcome discipline in their lives and they love to learn.
- They are not swayed by oncoming difficulty, temporary present failure or a pathetic history, but are focussed and determined.
- They refuse to settle for anything less than first place.
God has not simply given you the potential to become all that He wants you to be, He has predestined your success.Understand today that God Himself is passionatly 'for you' and let it change the way in which you think.
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. Psalm 139:13-16Yesterday was amazing. My girlfriend became the aunt of a perfect baby boy. I had never seen a new born baby before and so to watch him sleeping, only a few hours after he was born, was incredible.
To hear of all that mum and dad had been through; to know that he was taking his first ever breaths; and
to feel him gripping my finger with his tiny hand: the whole thing was simply a miracle.I left the hospital amazed at how awesome my God is.
