Message #3672

[ecuworrier]

well last night was fun!...  i go to a non christian barbecue and kindov enjoy a bit of craig with them ... it's one of those lovely things about the Blessing of hospitality the person who invited me comes from a family that has some sort of foot in the door of the church and my host somehow is very comfortable with church stuff somehow a bloom comes over them... i discover that they have a great gift of hospitality ... it's great to be invited i feel touched... it's a celebration of another person who i know very slightly and almost feel embarrassed to be so very invited as i hardly know them they are indeed very shy!... and me well card pressie? i am needing to watch pennies again... GOD comes in with a brilliant inspiration!... i find a beautiful feather on the floor on my way.... once there ... i am having to clockwatch slightly as ... i discover i have a gig to go to...  someone i know a christian has a christian band and is playing .. i had forgotten when!...  so i leave the party a little reluctantly but glad some friends of person have arrived...

i arrive at gig with complete GOD's perfect timing i notice a whole pile of christians are there... i ignore them completely! well mostly one or two get a hi in... and sit at the back of the venue to listen!... the gig is good!... afterwards... well after that band played i am standing there really on a mission not to speak to the chrisitans i know!... i see them all clumped together and just well really want to stand next  to some non christians..... my wish gets granted as GOD keeps bringing folks to stand by me outside having a fag and i find i say many prayers!...

in the venue one of my favourite of the christians comes up to me to engage with me... they seem very detremined to find out what i have been doing...  i am not sure why oh until what a day i had had i remember... oh and find out they have a headache ... i pray GOD does headache gone!... i ask them what they were doing the answer surprises me a little... i am thinking this is weird but hey GOD wild goose chases for Heaven perhaps? i seem determined to have a grumble about chirstians and sociality and do so i have a suspicion that everybody is about to exodus and that indeed turns out to be the case!...



one of th eissues i have with the other christians is that i know they come listen to the band that is christian and then leave... the reason i am here is that this christian band has been deliberately conceived to reach out and meet halfway non christian audiences to do music and then let the music do the talking and they make themsleves very available to be chatted with afterwards... so not the ususal evangelical church raised christian then,,, they love GOD and are less enamoured with experience of church... but the christians i find myself in th eroom with have a completely different ... indeed my chirstian friends do not hang out... i reflect on the peculiarity on the way home.. this exciting adventure of being with a group of christians.. with a sense of expectancy it brings a sense of release ... yes christians Jesus people are different they have a different experience .... are Jesus people any different?

well today it was rather odd thinking about it ... GOD is good!... in church a cameo weird scenario happened.. i rushed to say hi... and as soon as i got profile i did stop and said oh no it isn't you or something....  and went somehow straight into Ministry with GODEFFECT! ...well ...after  lunchtime prayer meeting i get to hang out with Holy Spirit manifesting person who i thought it was earlier.. and we do a kinda prayerwalk/chat and that's kinda nice cos they are talking about stuff... they used to go to our church and have shifted base elsewhere... so it's nice that this space has an overlap!... it's just that well i can't say that i don't somehow have been given new folks in these roles by a Loving Father GOD!...

we have an interestingly long buildup... a rough discussion about church leaders being a focus for Spiritual attack... i hget Zechariah references thrown at me about striking shepherds,,, i point out that it is GOD that strikes down the shepherd.. and that little avenue disappears! i have been pondering this and almost trips off my tongue that thing about ... oh here we go it's in the reading i showed you up above... it's the promise of GOD for an evermore king or leader... flesh itself is not the way it goes ... sorry sir sorry if you thought it was different... it feels though it would be so much easier if we had a flesh for ever model of Jesus acting out the GOD Himself version that would throw oiut a whole pile of stuff... and i cannot help thinki8nhg to those of you inclined on the resolute and (is it ?) natural defense of patriarchy as the pinnacle of wisdom and good humanity and great models of GOD might prefer this as a model after all what would it take for GOD to provide a flesh person completely unable to perish whatever the attack and be complete expert... we could all choose our own perhaps... certainly this model has its appeal.... meanwhile the whole idea excoites me of Jesus indeed ruling over earth for evermore... the struck down removed shepherd ruling for evermore from Heaven... ever present ever watchful? ever available to tallk to? in a form... well it's that one to one thing that omnipresence..  GOD doesn't do queues you know GOD doesn't do heirarchies of who can speak who cannot...

when the christian can't win then it does a demon,,, i pondered this earlier it;s called spiritual abuse... it's along the same lines as you can fool some of the people some of the time but you can't fool all  the people all the time ... i have jhust been pondering this on my way here a prayer and two and bob's your uncle!.. a bit of a thunder brother's theme...  yes tthey (and yes it could well be more than one person identitiy known? not known? i have an inckling inkling is not enough!) have been praying stuff blocking me singing in church so that i can't sing... and yes it is demonic...  i can't sing what they are singing for reasons i expect i have gone over previously... but that's a wholly different issue all together!...
... and yes it is a demon and now GOD has trained me for the lookout... there is so much to look into as i bide time with GOD waiting for the next move of GOD... it is depressing....  but GOD made Ministry Awesome!  and i have started to deal headon with the force that keeps manifesting itself i have been grumbling about on someone.... Praise the Lord!

  oh the talk i completely ignored and had a fabulous read of Ezekiel 21....  looking up the one ref to Luke 1 and further on into Luke 2... yoiu see GOD's plan really is to rescue us if ...

lunchtime prayer meeting my lift shares a bit about a talk that i know i did not want to hear! it's somehow reduced to pluses and minuses ie things agreed and disagreed... me i don't even want to agree with what i might agree with i mean how is whether we agree or disagree with a point of view gonna set some people free... all it seems to tell me is what folks is gonna have conversatiions about or not and the more prepared we is to engage with folks without shrieking to the coverns.... well... does christianity really have to live out like the spanish inquisition before we got to exchange names?.... is exchanging names just a ploy to lull people into a false sense of security before they get wacked over the head... oh don't get me wrong some folks need a pretty good pillow fight before they gonna take the rest seriously but oh yes here it comes again... the rest of what.... there's me reading EZ 21 and suddenly... bang there's Jesus 'I come not to condemn...' and hey the rest is history!

hey i was thinking about this the other day... the whole witch hunting and witchburning stuff of the C16/C17... 

ok until then here's a conversation of the day i ignored... should christian get involved in politics or not?..... what a bore/// i went outside for a fag till it was all over... bible refs guuys... how about up some stakes hey come on guys you read some bibles... come up with some refs why might you should get involved in politics why should you not ... and what should you avoid... hey it's eazy...  look forward to your answers on a postcard...


dear Lord!!!

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

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