I met a Christian friend of a friend the other day. One of my old YWAM (Youth With A Mission) friends told me a friend of hers was coming down to Brighton for a holiday & a bit of a pray. She asked if I would mind meeting up with her for a milkshake and a chat.
So we did...
I met her by the pier, didn't even know her name when we first met. I took her to a place in the North Laines called 'Lick' - a frozen yoghurt place! (Stinkin' good!)
She shared her testimony with me. She was in a Psychiatric hospital after a lot of time on drugs and into dodgy stuff. She told me that a Rev. came into the hospital to offer communion to believers and her and a friend she had made took communion with him. Then a guy that was Schizophrenic would come and share Jesus with her at her bed side. He was the only person within the whole of Guildford that cared for her, the only person who loved her, prayed for her and cared for her.
I was so challenged on how God can use any follower of His Son if they are willing to serve His Son. He used a Schizophrenic lover of Jesus to share His Son in a Psychiatric hospital!
My God is Awesome!
He accepts people where they are and offers them a leg up to a better life!
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
God - The Football Fan.
Some times God speaks to people in dreams. Many of my friends tell me of dreams that they have had and how God had been using those dreams to speak to them about something coming up in the future or about a certain situation that they were facing at that moment. I rarely get dreams, although admittedly I have had a couple recently. That doesn't mean that I always remember what happened in them though!
However, God speaks to me in a different way when I sleep. Every now and then I wake up in the middle of the night or early morning with a single word in my head. This single word is usually a word that I do not know the meaning of, either because it is in a foreign language or it is a 'upper-class' or 'academic' word. I then write that word down and crawl back into my beautifully warm and cosy bed. When night mysteriously transforms into day I will go on a quest to find out the meaning of that word (not always as easy as it sounds!) It proves for quite an exciting start to the day. Of course occasionally I do not get to look up the word in the morning and spend the whole day with the literal 'Word of the Lord' resounding like a gong in my head, like someone had pressed the 'pronunciation button' on a dictionary.
The last time I had this was about two days ago. I woke up with the term 'Bofana! Bofana!' in my head and a compounding excitement in my heart. All of the English linguistic scholars reading this will know that this is not English. In fact it is not even a European language. Where does it come from then!? South Africa!
If you have ever been to a South Africa world cup football match you may have heard the phrase 'Bofana! Bofana!' shouted by an over excited lunatic of a football fan... No? I haven't been to a South African football match either. 'Bofana! Bofana!' means 'Go Boys! Go Boys!' Xhosa (pronounced kosa [The K has to make a clicking noise like when you hit a ping pong ball with the paddle!]). It can also be in the singular too, 'Go boy! Go boy!'.
This exciting cry of 'Bofana! Bofana!' came at a time of drowning in a sea of summer madness with the need to be swimming quick & easy laps, facing various struggles & pressures in my personal walk with Jesus and with wanting to have more intimacy in the lives of those around me and with the Father.
The cry of 'Bofana! Bofana!' was and is an exhortation, a plea for determination, persistence, consistency and a drawing near to the guy that walked all over the stormy sea of Galilee.
Feel the endearing cry of the Father as He shouts from the sideline with excitement and longing 'Bofana! Bofana!'.
"Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them round your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favour and good success in the sight of God and man." - Proverbs 3:3,4
However, God speaks to me in a different way when I sleep. Every now and then I wake up in the middle of the night or early morning with a single word in my head. This single word is usually a word that I do not know the meaning of, either because it is in a foreign language or it is a 'upper-class' or 'academic' word. I then write that word down and crawl back into my beautifully warm and cosy bed. When night mysteriously transforms into day I will go on a quest to find out the meaning of that word (not always as easy as it sounds!) It proves for quite an exciting start to the day. Of course occasionally I do not get to look up the word in the morning and spend the whole day with the literal 'Word of the Lord' resounding like a gong in my head, like someone had pressed the 'pronunciation button' on a dictionary.
The last time I had this was about two days ago. I woke up with the term 'Bofana! Bofana!' in my head and a compounding excitement in my heart. All of the English linguistic scholars reading this will know that this is not English. In fact it is not even a European language. Where does it come from then!? South Africa!
If you have ever been to a South Africa world cup football match you may have heard the phrase 'Bofana! Bofana!' shouted by an over excited lunatic of a football fan... No? I haven't been to a South African football match either. 'Bofana! Bofana!' means 'Go Boys! Go Boys!' Xhosa (pronounced kosa [The K has to make a clicking noise like when you hit a ping pong ball with the paddle!]). It can also be in the singular too, 'Go boy! Go boy!'.
This exciting cry of 'Bofana! Bofana!' came at a time of drowning in a sea of summer madness with the need to be swimming quick & easy laps, facing various struggles & pressures in my personal walk with Jesus and with wanting to have more intimacy in the lives of those around me and with the Father.
The cry of 'Bofana! Bofana!' was and is an exhortation, a plea for determination, persistence, consistency and a drawing near to the guy that walked all over the stormy sea of Galilee.
Feel the endearing cry of the Father as He shouts from the sideline with excitement and longing 'Bofana! Bofana!'.
"Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them round your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favour and good success in the sight of God and man." - Proverbs 3:3,4
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