Steph's poem

this is my friend Steph's poem,and my photo,which I took up at Caloundra of a rock pool,
I often think of this poem,when I feel like complaining about  the temperature my drink is,my husband calls it first world problems, anyway we are trying both to be more creative,hence the combination of photo and poem,I went to a garden center cafe today, no complaints from me either,and inserted in a garden magazine that I was reading someone had placed a poem,great idea! it was about giving people hugs.

Dolphin Tea Time

a couple of weeks ago I went to an intuitive art class, a bit of a stretch for me,however I did enjoy the creative aspect, one night later I had a dream of two dolphins sitting at a tea table.
dolphins are an old symbol  meaning light bearers

 
                                       from a dolphin dream...
                                       Dear dolphins why have you come to visit?
                                       we bring a message from another world
                                       of deep pure waters,of fun and joy,
                                       to remind you to love each other
                                       To sprinkle sprays of light and splashes of joy
                                       Be kindly as we are and look out for each other

                             Isaiah 45 .2 when you pass through deep waters I will be with you.

The dancer

a couple of months ago I prayed for God to give me a word of knowledge for my hairdresser.
I had a dream that I was with my mother and we were dancing and rejoicing. My mother is in heaven now.
I forgot about the dream until my hairdresser told me that she used to dance,and that she used to teach and tour.
I then told her about my dream,we both felt it was unusual I should dream that,but I told her I felt it was about her life and to think about what it meant and I would ask her about it next time I came in. When I returned the next time to have my hair done,she saw my name in the book and remembered what I had said to her.,she then told me that she was thinking of teaching her niece to dance,I then told her how I had prayed for supernatural knowledge for my hairdresser and said I beleive she will be getting back into dance and that it was a gift she had been given.
since then I have  read a book where a lady has visited in heaven and she said that when we dance before the Lord he makes a tapestry of our dance and hangs it in the mansion he has prepared for us.
what a beautiful gift this lady has.

breakthrough means Change

This morning I wrote these thoughts on breakthrough.
I have the breakthrough,step out,don't play it safe
don't be distracted
stop talking about the breakthrough be the breakthrough,ask every day and expect to hear where to go.
do new things.
every breakthrough requires change,you cant expect breakthrough by doing the same things.
faith is spelled RISK
be part of the answer

miracle on peel Island

a couple of weeks ago I prayed in the morning for Angelic host to protect me as I was going out on a boat that afternoon, I went on a cruise to Peel island,it is about 1 and half hours out in Moreton Bay,we arrived on the island and the skipper of the catamaran had said not to go too far as a big storm was approaching,I left my friend swimming and went for a bush walk. I didn't think I had walked far,but I had taken a wrong track and ended up at the next cove,and also I had sprained my ankle trying to get down to the cove. I had been praying for Jesus to help me as I didn't know how I was going to get back to the right beach and I was remembering the warning about the storm.
I walked out onto the beach and met a man camping there with his children,I asked him the way back and explained that I was lost,nice man that he was,offered to take me back to my beach in his boat.
I arrived back just in time as my friend was worried and they had been shouting out my name and were planning to go and look for me,they were so shocked to see me arrive back via the water and not the beach,they called out,it is Gerrie she looks like the queen standing there in that boat,henceforth,they kept referring to me as Queen Gerrie.
I arrived back on the catamaran and looked on my phone at the weather radar, the storm looked bad,the skipper had left the island early to start back,the sky was black,and on the radar I could see it heading straight for us.I had recently read a book where a lady and her husband took authority over the weather went they went on holidays,it  was raining when they left but didn't rain the whole time they were away and started again only when they arrived back.
I didn't fancy being stuck out on a boat in a bad storm ,so I told the storm to go and peace be still,I did this quietly. I watched the storm split and we had only very light sprinkles of rain,no wind and when we arrived back at the dock,there was a beautiful sunset and the waters were so still and peaceful.

Have we forgotten the master of the house

Have we forgotten the Master of the house?

If a person stood on a corner and handed out the keys to your house to people you did not know and the people then came and entered into your house and started using your stuff without even getting to know you, you would not be very happy would you? Even worse would be if these people broke into your house and started using your stuff and ignored you.

Strangely enough this is exactly what is happening in the church of Australia today.

The people are those who are coming to the church or believe they are part of the church.

The keys to the house is Salvation in Christ Jesus. Please don’t get me wrong as you read this. Salvation in Christ Jesus is one of the most important pillars of the church and I would never lower its value.

The people who broke into the house are those that believe they can get into heaven without acknowledging Christ.

Another way of saying this is the church of Australia has become like a bride that goes to her wedding without knowing the groom and then never gets to know the groom.

We treat going to church and getting salvation as being the destination when in fact it is just the doorway. We need to understand why Christ came. Christ came to remove the barrier of sin between mankind and God and restore all things. Because of Christ we have the opportunity to have the same relationship with God that Adam had. This will surprise many but there are now no barriers between us and God yet we get salvation, go to church and then go no further. We sing the songs, listen to the sermons but we have little relationship with God.

So what is my evidence of this.

If a person spends a lot of time with another person both people pick up character traits from one another (Good and Bad). If one of the individuals is zealous for something, the other person can pick up the zeal also. Even their language changes and they start using similar words. The church is not transforming to be like God but is in fact transforming to become like the rest of the world.

The church of Australia is not zealous for the things of God. They might be zealous for the Sunday service but this is not the same. A person who is zealous for God wants to be obedient to God and spend as much time as physically possible with God. Obedience is not displayed in the church of Australia because the church is doing the same things that the rest of the world is doing. In fact, some churches are zealous for sin. The church does not spend time with God in prayer. The bible says that we should pray without ceasing. That means that we should be able to be in prayer with God anywhere and at any time.

Another sign we do not know our God is in our dealings with the enemy. We see so many Goliaths in our nation that stand and mock us and our God. We sit and tremble and say what can we do, it is too hard to deal with this yet it is in prayer that these Goliaths are slain.

Mathew 7:21-23 states “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

When the church of Australia begins to pray we will begin the path to revival. It is in prayer that we will get to know our God. It is in prayer that God will open the cupboards that are locked so we have the tools we need. It is in prayer that we will deal with our sin and righteousness will flood those who are in Christ.

After all who would want to spend eternity with someone who won’t talk to them. Let us start praying today and forevermore. Let us get to know our Father that is in heaven so that we know how to talk with him while we are in His house and also how to talk with Him in heaven.

Stuart

Slough of Despond

Slough of Despond, deep bog into which Christian falls on the way from the City of Destruction and from which Help saves him in the allegory Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
I had a dream two days ago,in which these words came to me Slough of despond or sloth of despond.  I thought of the story of Pilgrims Progress.
In the dream I was on a journey,at one point I was doing fine even running ahead then darkness began to fall,and as it grew darker I began to have difficulties identifying the right way to take,things became indistinct,and I ended up on a path that was a dead end. I had to turn around,the path was very narrow and very high up.sheer drops on either side,it was terrifyingly high
strangely there was a house on the side and I could see through the windows  a lady,I knocked on the door and she called out that her husband would come and help me.I had the feeling this happened often.
The man came to the door to help me,he recognised me and asked  why have you come this way again?
I told him because of my fear and terror I had to sit down and close my eyes,he understood.
I had the sense, despite my terror that he would help me and that  I would be able to continue my journey. I still had a long way to go.
my interpretation was that this could apply on many levels, as we pray for Nations,The Church,Individuals and in my own life.
have we let fear cause us to go into a sloth of despond and so stop us from continuing on our journey ,our calling ?,
as a nation are we looking  at fear and terror and closing our eyes ,as I did in the dream,lets sit and grow still when terror strikes other nations.
The Church ,are we not raising our voices, closing our eyes because we are afraid? hope the rapture comes,it is dark and we are finding it  hard to distinguish the path,our journey is long,it is growing harder to distinguish The  Way.
in the dream I knew help was at hand ,even in a very tight spot.
so should we be praying for help for those who are  lost, or having a hard time taking the right path?
those who are fearful and bogged down in the slough of despond? or the sloth of despond because we do nothing when afraid,
we have been that way before,why do we need to go back there?
blessings
Gerrie