Time

I've been thinking a lot about time recently and wonder just where it goes - the weeks seem to go into one and it doesn't seem 5 minutes ago that I was thinking about christmas 2008 and now next week is the carol service for the kids club so where does time go.

Sorry I haven't blogged for such a while but going through a bit of a crisis at mo what with one thing and another and just do not know what to do for the best however one thing I am sure of this that God is my Strength, my Shield and He will protect me whatever happens.

Things that I need some prayer about is my job situation - I am set to lose £200 a month as from 04.01.10 and that has a bit problem re where I live so having to look for somewhere else to live - stress. My health is causing me concern - I just don't seem to feel well and haven't done for months and finally my future - is it to be an ending to my relationship with my partner of 7 years or will he have the courage to commit - I just don't know.

Please pray for me and pray that God will continue to give me His Strength

Thank you

Prayer Patrols

After going to the Northern Congress of the Salvation Army in September I got chatting to someone re prayer patrols in the Newcastle Area - after a long chat I said to the volunteer that I would pray for them and for more recruits to come along.

Since I have been ill I have been doing a lot of thinking and this is something that I feel that I could be involved with in my local area. Please pray about this and whether its what God would have me do

Thank you

I haven't been able to blog for a while partly due to just being so busy with one thing and another - but over recent days I have been unwell with a cold/flu bug which has caused me to STOP, and although I dislike being unwell and unable to get out of the house I have time to relax.

On wednesday morning I felt prompted to go to a Praise and Worship Meeting in Staple Hill - I wasn't going to go as really wanted to get the house cleaned however God had other ideas and I thought that if there was room in a car for me then I would go and gosh was I blessed and challenged - God is so powerful and mighty and moves me so much that I know that God has planned what I will do before I even know what it is. I am attending a "Design For Life" course at Sunbury Court this next weekend and it is my prayer that God will direct and guide my life. Sometimes I do not feel that my occupation is going right and keep having doors shut in my face but I do pray that at somepoint soon the door will open and not shut but its only through God's guidance that this is going to happen.

I was listening to a track of a new CD and it has these words:-

Speak O Lord, as we come to You

To recieve the food of Your Holy Word.

Take your truth,; plant it deep in us;

Shape and fashion us in Your likeness,

That the light of Christ might be seen today

In our acts of love and our deeds of faith.

Speak O Lord, and fulfil in us

All Your purposes for Your glory

Holiday Club 2009

Its quite a while since I've put on a blog so thought that today was a good day. This morning we had the family service for the holiday club and Carol spoke about Joseph and assisted by Alan who was fantastic with all his different kinds of hats - God has a plan for each of us.

Last week it was the holiday club - the evening before I felt so nervous that I didn't sleep but knew that God was in control and He was going to bless everything that happened. Praise God we had roughly 50 children a day, we were looking at the Scripture Union Material called Showstoppers and it tells us that God has a plan. On the last day we were looking at the Death and Resurrection of Jesus and we watched part of the miracle maker - the children were watching the film so much that you could hear a pin drop. Its my prayer that the children would have learn't something about Jesus in the week and that He loves each of them very much.

This morning (Sat 18.07.09) as part of working with children with the salvation army I had to attend a child protection course entitled "Safe and Sound" which (thank you Pete) was good and so important that anyone working with children should attend, anyway at the end of the course Pete read a few verses from Mark. It so happened that these verses are the same verses that I have used at every meeting with the Holiday Club leaders so felt that it was very much God leading me and guiding my thoughts.

God has been talking to me big time of late and telling me that I should be working with childrens ministries on a full time basis and the other week He gave me to opportunity to speak with Carol about where I thought God was leading me. I am going on a Design for Life course in October and I pray that God will reveal exactly what I am to do and what age group.

At the end of a very busy week at work and also in the preparation of Showstoppers (holiday club) I feel exhausted but some words have just come to me

Be still for the presence of the Lord the holy one is here

and I need to rest and be still so that I am recharged for tomorrow

Sue

Catch up time!

I haven't been able to get round to doing a blog recently. A couple of weeks ago I found out that I was to return to my substantive role within Avon and Somerset Constabulary - this totally knocked me and with the thought of losing around £200 a month I felt that I was sinking into a state of despair but God has been so faithful and I have had such a lot of good friends supporting me (you know who you are). While I was away visiting James last weekend I really felt that God was speaking to me during the morning service at church that I was to do christian work full time as a Childrens Ministry Worker. Upon speaking to Carol last evening I am more convinced that this is where God wants me to be - I am very open to his leading and its my prayer that He will direct my path.

Do prayer for my mum as she goes into hospital for an operation on the 02.07.09 - thanks

A childrens chorus called I'm Special was quoted to me on the phone last evening and its true each one of us is special to God.

My work this last week

I have been somewhat frustrated in the last week with the way the constabulary look after or rather do not look after their staff. After working in one department for almost a year on a development opportunity and enjoying myself I was given the bombshell last week that I would have to return to my previous job with a loss of over £170 per month - My first reaction was God is with me and He will help me with this - my second was - thats not fair when we are so busy and the other department hasn't a lot to do. I do know that with God's help that He will bring me through this working situation and I know that God has something better lined up for me.

A song that springs to mind is "Jesus is all I need, Jesus is all I need, I'll follow where he leads, Jesus is all I need

I am the Gate

Jesus said "I am the gate", I was very challenged by this morning's service and really felt God's presence throughout the whole service. Satan wants to come and destroy but Jesus is stronger and as we sang "Nothing can seperate us from the love of God" I knew how true that is. The door is there is be opened to each and everyone of us - all we have to do is step through it.

I was planning the Jam programme for the next term the other day and thought about using the "I am" sayings of Jesus - really feel that it is right to use that theme and that has been confirmed as Alan and Carol have been using that for the morning meetings as well - I know that God will bless each child and each leader.

God is good and feel that He is moving within Pill Corps and doors are opening all over the place - May we glorify God in everything we do.

17 May 2009

Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in his wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim by the light of his glorious face.

This is a chorus that we sang at the army this morning and although I was distracted by someone during the service I was there to worship God and to concentrate on what was being said. Alan spoke on Jesus being the Light of the World and that we need to walk in the light instead of walking in the darkness - I was very moved by what was said - it was when it was suggested that we close our eyes and concentrate on Jesus and what was Jesus asking you to do so that you can walk in the light instead of the dark.

God is good and I know that I need to spend more time with God....................he has a plan for my life - I know it and I feel it.

Moving in the power of God

After going to the army this morning I came away with the feeling that we need to allow God to move within us for us to be effective for him and I thank God for the way in which he moves in my life. A song has become very special to me and has the following words:-

You are my strength when I am weak

You are the treasure that I seek

You are my all in all

And its in my weakness that God is there carrying me through situations just like in the footprints poem.

this week

This week has been a bit busy with trying to get organised for moving house - albeit its only around the corner and now have gone down with a flu type bug.
We had our cell group last evening and we have been looking at Altars - I believe that God is really doing a work in me and challenging me in lots of ways

Work

I work currently as a Crime Enquiry Officer but this is only on a temporary basis - I just trust god to reveal what his plan is for my life is and in what particular direction he would have me go.

I am in a relationship with James who lives up North in lovely Newcastle upon Tyne and we have been together for almost 7 years. With both of us being christians I do feel blessed to have such a great person in my life who loves me

about me

This week has been somewhat busy with work and planning but I have been so blessed at how God is working in my life. This morning I went to a Prayer School in Bristol and my eyes were opened as we looked at prayer and whether we were Sunbathers, Surfers, Ice Cream Sellers or Snorkelers and that its ok to be you as we are all different and we all tend to pray in different ways. I felt that I was more a Surfer but then again sometimes a sunbather. Everything we do need to be surrounded in prayer and that includes where God is leading me. I feel that God is leading me into some kind of childrens ministry and so I pray that God will reveal to me in the coming months some clarification that that is what he wants me to do.

Only by grace can we enter

I have been a christian since my early twenties and am a soldier at The Salvation Army in Pill in the North Somerset area. I have been attending here for over a year and have recently taken over leadership of a childrens club called "Jesus and Me" - we have on average about 15 children coming on a regular basis - I am so blessed with the children coming who are keen to learn something of God's love for them.