haha...GOD sorts out memory...

i was telling this anecdote to a friend over the w'end...

there's a cafe that i've been hanging out a bit in...  and quite often i've been there over the last few months there's a great lump of a young guy who hangs out seems to be there loads ... anyways i've already taken a dislike to his biglumpness as in useless big lump... like i say he's there quite a lot and overhearing snatches of conversation with other folks... just well has not warmed me to him not one bit! it's just that lumpiness.... a couple of visits ago he shared my table and that was time for me to go... he's overweight and huffs and puffs and takes up a lot of space... well how is a girl supposed to concentrate on the finer things of why she is in a cafe with all that big puffing billy stuff going around just 3 feet away me did i pray about him well couldn't get away fast enough!!!... space invasion or what!...  ok well next time i'm in i spot him there aggenn! as he turns round i see he is sporting a t-shirt with some writing on it.... 'Jesus loves you but i'm his favorite' my first thought is oh he is a christian ... followed by.... well i smile at myself ... i quite like the idea of Jesus' favorite being this great useless lump!  Jesus picks His friends just so! Jesus' favourite is everywhere i have just spotted him again! now i know he is Jesus' favourite has kindov softened my attitude to him i note him hanging out with another big lump with big useless irritating conversation that i overhear!

ok back to the backwards momentum of yesterday... i'm sure i should have done something more useful than what i did ... i had just translocated from another church... i had finally made it to a church that GOD had a few weeks previously indicated that GOD wanted me to visit.... and on that day after  i find that this church has undergone major surgery losing a substantial part of it's recent heritage... and still i smile even though one of those who has left is telling me all about ... without the detail some pretty dramatic events resulting in an exodus... it's starting positionj is kindov not enormous.. so i am pretty curious as to how a chuirch manages to continue under these big changes ... but like i say something withing felt GOD was up to something... and the bits that were excised even though i felt closest to them the spiritual (yes the small s) direction they had found themselves persuaded by seemed to well lead into darkness... clearly the new influences were with someone needing some companionship and the good folks the great and the good i could somehow even wigth sporadic association somehow understand their need for support... but ohonestly .... let this be a lesson to you! we i we you on ly need one friend in these places of pressure and eyes wide open for one influence and that is of course our lovely Saviour Jesus... as soon as we start looking elsewhere we will find well elsewhereliness... !!! and that is what has happened...

 to continue the journey... i found myself in brave new world place a place of fractured past and broken futures there was a vision once and now dunno what it was... but folks hey it's vulnerable out there and there are many forces of desire to interfere in GOD getting GOD's GOOD NEWS OUT THERE some paths are pretty much stonier than others and sometimes it sure is not enough to sit in a room with friends and friendly faces we gotta actually get more to GOD we got to know GOD for sure more than we know ourrselves and those around us....  and sadly a way got waylaid as GOD entered a time of potential Testament of just such stories... a journey that.... look let me share something... someone who sadly is no longer with us a stout christian in theri time was preoccupied and blurted out one time you know what there are people who pray for christian marriages to be broken up... you know what ,,,, it got a bit of a yawn out of me on the one hand but the notions of Spiritual Warfare were not lost on me... so ok how do you like the notions of the thunder brothers at work... no not over my time my town... well i know now for a fact have learned that there was quite a lot of sentiment of this direction on this community and the individuals... just the time to get it on with ... new friends? for support? no for GOD... to look into the EYES OF GOD and see what there is to see... instead a grand hijacking took place ... and now there i sat at the back... you see i could see something was wrong when i met folks... or they avoided me i could tell... something had happened in fact i had seen first hand and folks lived in fear when Jesus loves them and has all the man power and fight power that is needed! look as far as christian marriage is if it's GOD's knows better than you do then look to GOD on that ... don't be an oppressor or a doormat... anything else is just well marriage for better for worse and really GOD does have your best interests at heart better than you know them yourself ... it's n ot about the status of the world that counts oh no it is thoughj about what GOD CAN DO AND DOES .. GOD's PLANS are wide out and various and sometimes they are a bit mysterious but GOD says... OBEY and yours is not to reason why... cos once you do that and ask advice of your friends well you might as well read the book of Job once more i mean how 'sacred' did GOD hold the institution of marriage of Job the holy man of the story? if that institution was more holy than Job hisself then well... hey GOD is truely Gracious and will GIVE GUIDE LEAD AND CORRECT!... and i like the way GOD counts GOD's self the more importANT  Authority on everything there!... me i sat and looked on i could see something had shifted and there was more discernable about THE CHRIST in this case... i chatted to a few and prayed a lot i even offered to pray for ... but i know that well this was a wounded community and the idea of being prayed for was a little well anxiety provoking ... but hey i got a number of folks added onto prayer lists..... i did have an interesting moment though... one of the stalwarts that i reckon understood about Jesus have themselves been through some pretty challenging times and i noted a new liason when i was praying sharing the message GOD has put on my heart for these folks.... someone makes that comment... salvation comes from the person the patching up of relationship... hey sometimes that helps loads and sometimes that is what the doctor (GOD) ordered but my message is about the Relationshjip of GOD the Father of Jesus the Saviour the ultimate mender of broken hearts... no matter whose elses... and all the rest well that is just human affairs innit?


GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,