Jesus Commands Us to Go…..
It is a simple command to go……not an option
Keith Green said it in a nutshell (slightly paraphrased listen to the video for the rest)
“Go ye into all nations……..”
The world is not being won today coz we are not doing it, we are at fault………..noone else
You do not need a call to go to nations, you have already been called…..in fact you had better have a DEFINATE call from God to stay if you do not consider that you must GO!!
Controversial agreed but the Word is clear,
He commands us to go it is an exception if we stay.
A Picture Says A Thousand Words
JOHN 4:34-36
35 “You say, ‘Four months more, and then it will be harvest time.’ But I tell you, open your eyes! Look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest right now. 36 Those who gather the crop are already getting paid. They are already harvesting the crop for eternal life. So those who plant and those who gather can now be glad together.
What struck me is that the fields are beautiful, more beautiful than these in His eyes Let us see through His eyes Blessings Cathy
To Ponder…….Excuses
- He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- It is wise to direct your anger towards problems — not people; to focus your energies on answers — not excuses.
Blessings as we serve Him and bless our whole world!
Cathy
About Me
I am a daughter of God, wife, a mother of 6, Pastor’s wife, Childbirth Educator…….
I love God, I love my children, I love my husband, I love my church, I love my brothers and sisters in God.
My interests are varied I am an ex school teacher/ childcare worker now a Homeschooler,
I love children of all colours and creeds.
I love woman, birthing and breastfeeding, I am a Childbirth Educator
I am not afraid of getting dirty, meeting the unlovely, the ungodly the hurt and the ugly
I love beauty colours, fabrics, scrapbooking, little kid’s clothes,
I love doing and being the unexpeceted. I love missions….
I love God, this is my diary of my walk and I hope truth that sets us free
Just a glimpse into my spirit man.
Enjoy.
Why Do We Wanna Go To Manila???
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 – 1960)
My hearts desire is too let my kids see things and experience things, because if their experience is limited purely to our “reality” life will have very shallow depths of understanding and wisdom.
When I was 17 or 18 I led 20 people from the Girl Guide Association to Bangladesh and India, this team was made up of Rangers Rovers and Leaders and their ages ranged from 16-26, we worked with Bangledeshi Rangers and Rovers and we sank tube wells, concreted pit toilets, piloted health programmes and advocated immunisation etc…..we saw the squalor, the poverty, the hunger, the lack of education the sick and dying children and I returned to face my university years with new focus, determination and a new world view.
I remember eating a Pie and dropping it on thr ground, I brushed it of with a shrug and ate it much to the disgust of my fellow students….BUT I WAS A CHANGED PERSON…..I was never the same again, because I knew I HAD to take responsibility, I SAW, I UNDERSTOOD…..
This experience was an under girding or a structure to all that I was to plan, it gave me a world perspective, a poverty perspective, it balanced the materialistic scale in my life. James also was no stranger to poverty his family travelled the world extensively , he had seen the squalor of India and many other places , his parents grew up in the tenements of Glasgow-poverty was no stranger to them either.
When we first started Homeschooling our desire was to be FREE, no hinderances to God at all, take us where you will Lord, we are willing and able to go, our heart’s desire was to serve HIM with our family, wherever, whenever, however……..wow, it happens!!!
Everything in God begins with relationship…….we forge and bury ourselves in people’s lives and this is where we learn to love have empathy and live in another brother or sister’s shoes……relationship is built through Godly healthy alive and free fellowship, this creates intimacy and this is when people can really start speaking into each other’s lives……
As iron sharpens iron!
Many many years ago we spent hours praying with dear friends Mark and Christine Pedder, we were on leadership they were youth leaders, we were peers (same ages and backgrounds) and brother and sisters. Mark and I worked in Children’s Church together for ages and we all learnt to respect and love each other…..we built relationship, we knew each other spiritually (and we laughed…hmmmmmm lots!!).
Mark in Baseco
Christine and James strolling Baseco
We eventually left the church and so did they, but whenever we saw each other it was the SAME…no change no different. Mark and then Chris pioneered a work in Baseco Manila in the slums, it literally felt like we were there, coz they were we were ??!!How??!! Dunno!!??
So we went….. James first then the rest of us will go in Aug 2009……..it was just like an outward manifestation of our relationship with them. We just belong there kinda, coz they are there we are too, like the body is the hands and feet of Jesus, so are we to them……in whatever capacity, whatever depth whatever, we are there to be their hands and feet too !
It just fits!
Our new home in Manila!!! The concrete one on the right
People are horrified at the thought of where we are taking our kids but God has clearly spoken to us about enlarging our kids tent pegs (or their Christian World View) so I will blog about that another time. Great videos and testimony to God’s leading with our children and family.
