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Holy Spirit breaking through!

God is good!
(You say, “All the time!”)

Yesterday and today I’ve been at the Worship Central London event with Fairy and a gang from our church. We learnt lots and had a great time, but by far the most exciting thing for me was what happened in the last worship session tonight.

I’ve been struggling for ages with feeling emotionally detached from God. It’s been a long time since I’ve tangibly felt the Holy Spirit, and although I feel fine in the “head” part of my relationship with him, I’ve been missing the “heart” part. It has felt like, whenever I pray, I’m talking at God rather than meeting with him and hearing from him. The only times I’ve really felt close to God have been when I’m leading worship, which isn’t a healthy state to try and serve in.

Tonight though, something broke through. I was worshipping God and giving him everything, when suddenly it just clicked, and I felt a wave of the Holy Spirit running through my body. It wasn’t dramatic or overpowering, but it felt like the beginning of something big. I’m excited about what God might do next!

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The Eastons go East

this year we decided to send out a christmas letter to let our friends and family know about the exciting stuff that has happened this year. sadly we couldn’t send this to everyone we know because we didn’t have everyone’s addresses and because of the printing and postage costs! so here it is for your delectation!

Hello beautiful friends!

We hope this letter finds you well and we hope that you are looking forward to the Christmas break.

As most of you know, Serena, Farrah’s sister was healed of cancer in June. She had been diagnosed with terminal cancer almost two years ago and was told that there were no more options to help her. Continue reading “The Eastons go East”

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No more cancer

“Aslan,” said Lucy, “you’re bigger.”
“That is because you are older, little one,” answered he.
“Not because you are?”
“I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.”

Prince Caspian – Chapter 10

Every day God seems a little bit bigger! We’ve been praying for this day for years now, but when it finally came yesterday, we struggled to believe it at first. But God is really big enough to cure cancer!

Continue reading “No more cancer”

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to shame or encourage?

“you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.”

— obi-wan kenobi

a point of view is a powerful thing. i’m thinking in particular about the examples of famous missionaries who gave up everything for God. Continue reading “to shame or encourage?”

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listening to God

just had an awesome small group, thinking about listening to God.

i’m feeling really challenged to shift my paradigm of life, if such a thing is possible! would be great to be listening to God the whole time and hear what to do even in the little things! i’ve realised that my current attitude to activity is very selfish, hence not really bothering to listen to God in case he wants me to do something!

i realise that change is hard, but i do want to make an effort to listen every minute of the day, and hopefully this will biff the passivity out of the way, and the change will be self-sustaining!

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passivity journal strikes again!

so I was meant to be keeping a passivity journal. sadly I’ve been too passive..

so here it is. today I have read my bible and I’m going to help out at church with the computers and go into college for my viva, which is scary. then fairy and I are going rock climbing!

in general a good day. I do need to pray and maybe write in my prayer journal, then I’d have done all the things I’m meant to do in a day!

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a new year

so this is the start of a new year. i’m looking forward to it very much, hopefully getting stuck into my phd and hopefully church will keep moving forward and getting more and more exciting. this year is a year of HOPE across the country, which is a great mission, aiming to bring hope to many people who are in need.

God spoke to me on sunday about priorities. the passivity issue is effectively just an issue of having incorrect priorities. i dislike the whole “new year’s resolution” thing because it seems a little contrived, but the new year is at least as good a time as any to start something new. i’m going to keep a private prayer journal as well as a public blog, so i can look back over it and see how God has answered my prayers. i’ve done it before and was amazed by the experience, so i’m now going to make it a priority.

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passivity

hi all! here beginneth my passivity journal!

we talked about passivity at our church small group this week, and i need to be active about not being passive! i’ve decided to keep a log of when i’ve been passive and when i’ve been active. the activity of keeping a log is the first step to not being passive, because i actually have to do something! fun!

today i was sitting in church and didn’t feel like going to talk to anyone. then i realised that was passive and i’d have to write it down, so i went and talked to someone, and it was actually ok! i still found it hard, but it was the right thing to do. as i keep going with this i’m hoping it’ll get easier.

i didn’t do everything on my to do list this weekend, but it did do more than i would usually do.

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bad news

we’ve just heard that farrah’s sister, serena, has got cancer again. this is a bit of a bummer. she really doesn’t want to have chemotherapy again, and we don’t believe she should have to. we believe God is calling us to pray for a miracle, so she can be healed and not have to go through the nightmare treatment again.

if you are a person who prays, would you please find time to pray for serena; pray that she would be healed by God, and quickly, so she doesn’t have to suffer the ordeal again. pray for strength for her and her family, and pray for faith in all of us to believe God can heal her. if you want any more information, do get in touch with us.

thanks.

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dubai is cool! and very hot!

hi geezas! greetings from sunny dubai! farrah and i are out here visiting my sister elle, her husband ben and their little son harry. he’s gorgeous! we’re not sick of him yet after three days ;o)

it’s a bit muggy here but very warm, and much nicer than the -2 degrees we had in england last week! enjoying having a holiday from work, it’s our first proper holiday since the honeymoon over a year ago. but then, our friend paul pointed out that last month was his first proper holiday since his honeymoon 12 years ago, so we musn’t complain!

just signed up to facebook as well, it’s really good. can’t believe they give you unlimited photo storage! no more flickr, i reckon. took me a while to remember my oxford alumni address, though. oops.

it’s really funny, i had a prophetic dream a while back. it was about sitting here in dubai typing my livejournal on elle’s computer. i was confused at the time because i hadn’t yet signed up to livejournal, but now it makes sense! not a particularly helpful prophecy, i guess, but good to know God still has an interest in me!