Be my everything

Dream catchers are a very interesting tradition of the Native Americans. Its purpose was to protect sleeping people from negative dreams through the web like aspect and letting positive dreams slip through the hole to the sleeping person below. The negative dreams would actually get cause up in the web and vanish when the first rays of sun struck them.
Coming from someone who has quite an active dream life this is actually quite a comforting thing. As human beings we have a longing to be protected in both our waking and sleeping, we hate leaving ourselves open to being vulnerable. Our God protects us because he cares. Just like the native men who slaved over intricately creating these dream catchers for their children to give them peace..... God grants his children peace.
The forces of evil still exist...but they have no power. Jesus defeated death! He has won the battle. His perfect love casts out fear. If we are afraid, it is from a fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. Our sins are no longer held against us, evil has no place for the family of God. Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand -Isaiah.

 No weapon forged against you will prevail,
and you will refute every tongue that accuses you.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.


God is not just our dream catcher though.... he is so much more than that.
He is our dream maker.

Spirit Break Out

So tonight marked the night where my summer church team met for the first time. God is going to move through the town SO MUCH.
Tonight we engaged in corporate worship which I think is SO essential for Christian's
We are so blessed to be able to experience one and other in community, mirroring God! It it better to live in community, to share and be honest.
There is just something so special about a group of young adults praying for their generation to rise against this sick and cruel world. BOLDLY declaring the Lord as their saviour, their real treasure in their heart. Humbly coming to the majestic creator and just asking to be used as a vessel in his grand plan of uniting all things under him. We recognise that we are nothing without him, he is the only good within us and we owe everything to him.
The most amazing thing about being a disciple, a missionary of Christ is sharing the love we experience daily with others. The fact that this love is abounding and steadfast, for all people. I imagine Jesus just weeping in heaven for us, desperately crying to us to share this love, not to be selfish but give every single breath we have in our hearts to share this love. He is inviting everyone to come and drink from him, to be completely swept in by the waters of his grace and sink in his mercy.
We sang the words tonight "spirit break out, break our walls down" HOW WONDERFUL are those lyrics. This is a generation rising, seeking to know more, thinking of Jesus in our waking and sleeping...desperately pleading that the spirit of the Lord will break out of our hearts and control everything, breaking all our barriers and walls we have spend our whole lives putting him. Funny thing is Jesus' love is the only thing which has the power to do something like that.
Jesus is the only one that could make a sinner like me clean again. Learn how to love again, learn how to be loved.
Young people are just seeming to "get it" more and more these days. They are searching for more and more of Jesus Christ.. "can you hear it...the sound of heaven touching earth."
I pray more of this! I pray that the kingdom will come, will touch earth.. more than that... will cover this earth, that hope will be stirred up once again in this land.

This is from a prayer room me and other team members took part in last summer. We had a little station with just encouraging verses around all walls, it was absolutely amazing to go in there and see all the wonderful promises the Bible gives us.
This is one of my favourites!
Our God is so amazing and so good to us!

keep the faith

Sometimes it feels that the closer you are to God.... the harder things in life get. 

Maybe your friends dislike you

Maybe your home life turns to crap

Maybe those feelings of self doubt and worth are creeping back into your life

Sometimes you feel like everything in the worst is trying to stop you from getting closer to God...

Thats probably because it is. Satan is literally everywhere and he HATES it when you become closer to God and you fall deeper in love with him. 

Sometimes bad things just happen... and we wonder why God lets them happen. There are countless times were I have lay in my bed in tears asking why God has left me like this.

Why God has abandoned me

Lets take Daniel. A man in the Bible who lived for God at any cost. One minute he was serving in the court of the king with three friends then then next he was being thrown into a fire for not worshipping a statue which would have probably have sounded as absurd to them then to us now.

They probably wondered why God would put them in such a great position then throw them into a horrible one straight away. (Haven't we all..)

The Bible tells that that not only were they put into a fire for not worshipping a statue... but that the king Nebuchadnezzar has ordered the heat to be 7 times hotter than usual. Even a guard leading them in to the pit was burned alive! Logically they had no chance of survival but God doesn't always play by the rules of the world.

They survived "the fire had not harmed them nor their bodies. Their robes were not scorched and there was no smell of fire on them."

Sometimes people in life attack us. Satan tried to throw fire at us to break us down when we are feeling most godly. But no matter how hot the heat is turned up God is with us through it all. Sometimes we have to go through the fire to be refined!

No weapon formed against me shall remain.

Zech. tells us "the third i will put into the fire, i will refine them like silver and test them like Gold. They will call on my name and i will answer them. I will say "they are my people" and they will say "The Lord is my God."

God will test us and trial us so that we will become stronger in faith.

There is the old Christian saying which ministers and youth leaders and the like say when they are faced with a person having problems "The Lord will never give you anything you can't handle." It may help for a time but it will not stick. We forget instantly when sometime else comes along that we cannot handle. 

That phrase is so true though. See it as joy when God gives you difficult things. He has chosen you and thinks you are strong enough to handle it. 

He is refining you... he is making you into the man/woman of God that you were born to be!

Refine me Lord through the flame.

All of my life in every season you are still God, i have a reason to sing, i have a reason to worship.

This is what makes it real

There is a quote from C.S Lewis and it goes like this :

"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth you will, nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it."

This is what I plan to do here in this blog. I want to share the truths that the Bible gives us in the most simple and beautiful form possible. I may not be writing a world class novel or painting the mona lisa but I'm trying to show Jesus through my eyes. Which i think is the most beautiful form of art man can attempt.

Jesus has taken me on one heck of a Roller-coaster since he found me but i would not change a thing about it. I've been through a lot looking back. Periods of darkness and anger, feeling as holy as John the baptist and tears, enough to flood the earth one more time may I mention. To me that is what makes it real.

Its the fight. Its the knowing that no matter what can hit me Jesus is still the rock. 

Unmovable. Unchanging. No matter what the situation. 

If i was in this for the righteousness, more authority in church, a higher position is society or the appearance of being intelligent I would have been out a long time ago because i have never felt more unrighteous, humbled and darn right dumb in my entire life. Jesus has taken my well put together life and thrown it out the window. He has quite frankly turned my life into utter chaos.... I have no control over what happens to me next. But that's exactly how he likes it.. :)

I'm not a well put together Christian by any means. I'm just your average girl trying to live in the world but not be of it. (Its a lot harder than you think). Im trying to make sense of what God has planned out for me, I'm living out the greatest adventure anyone could imagine... being a Christian in 2013.