It is just good to have good friends. This week it's been great as we've had Rachel, Ben and Seb (3 amazing youth workers of Steelroots Ministry) round to have breakfast and pray together every morning before/ starting off work. It was a strange concept to get my head around that we wouldn;t have to eat a proper nice full english or at least a very civilised croissant, orange juice and coffee type of breakfast - no apparently it did not need to be posh...wheetabix all round. There's just something I do find a bit strange about meeting up socially to eat a bowl of sloppy brown cereal - but that's my issue to get over.
It has been really good to get down to the table and get on with praying first thing...and amazingly possible to be able to spend a good chunk of quality time with God even with 2 small children under our feet...and thanks to a brand new ELC garage (happy 1st Birthday Elijah xx)We've been able to share vision and feel stronger and more together as a team. Most importantly of course it was great to have a session of praying for our washing machine...trivial to some it has been the most frustrating of problems. I'm not sure if I have documented beyond the sock blockage and mentioned the squeeky drum and then an ok wash and then another blockage which we could not find but managed to clear itself but not before it had flooded our floor one more time. So it sat there in the corner of the kitchen and got prayed for and now is behaving just fine....THANK YOU GOD
Also and amazingly on Elijah's birthday on Monday we had a system of Elijah tried to open his presents and we let Holly open cards. Amonst all the mess of torn paper on the floor I noticed a little note which said something like 'however you need to spend it' in a friends writing and twigged that lying next to it in all the rubbish was a cheque from 2 of our good freinds. They had just decided to bless us with £200 - they have done that before at one of our horrendous financial times I remember and the amount they gave us paid EXACTLY for a freezer we'd just had to buy even though we couldn't afford it. This month - after a year of being debt free we got into a big financial mess again - the thing that tipped us over was the £120 for the washer to be fixed and £80 (I can not believe it can be this much!) for getting rid of the naughty squirrel who has knawed a hole in our roof just because he would like to stay in our loft :# So this cheque covered these unexpected payments we were crippled by. What an amazing ministry to write cheques that bless people that much! I really felt that this was a sign that God was looking out for us in this but knew that wouldn't totally shift the damage but then last night we recieved another cheque from a friend which specified it was for us and not for GoldDigger - which again just makes me feel safe knowing that God is on our case. I need to remember God DOES know our bank balance - of course he does but sometimes we are just so stupid about remembering that if he knows everything then that includes what remains a secret between me and the call centres of HSBC.
I must write about the day in Top Shop...it was amazing...It will be done shortly...or maybe I have done...I forget
It has been really good to get down to the table and get on with praying first thing...and amazingly possible to be able to spend a good chunk of quality time with God even with 2 small children under our feet...and thanks to a brand new ELC garage (happy 1st Birthday Elijah xx)We've been able to share vision and feel stronger and more together as a team. Most importantly of course it was great to have a session of praying for our washing machine...trivial to some it has been the most frustrating of problems. I'm not sure if I have documented beyond the sock blockage and mentioned the squeeky drum and then an ok wash and then another blockage which we could not find but managed to clear itself but not before it had flooded our floor one more time. So it sat there in the corner of the kitchen and got prayed for and now is behaving just fine....THANK YOU GOD
Also and amazingly on Elijah's birthday on Monday we had a system of Elijah tried to open his presents and we let Holly open cards. Amonst all the mess of torn paper on the floor I noticed a little note which said something like 'however you need to spend it' in a friends writing and twigged that lying next to it in all the rubbish was a cheque from 2 of our good freinds. They had just decided to bless us with £200 - they have done that before at one of our horrendous financial times I remember and the amount they gave us paid EXACTLY for a freezer we'd just had to buy even though we couldn't afford it. This month - after a year of being debt free we got into a big financial mess again - the thing that tipped us over was the £120 for the washer to be fixed and £80 (I can not believe it can be this much!) for getting rid of the naughty squirrel who has knawed a hole in our roof just because he would like to stay in our loft :# So this cheque covered these unexpected payments we were crippled by. What an amazing ministry to write cheques that bless people that much! I really felt that this was a sign that God was looking out for us in this but knew that wouldn't totally shift the damage but then last night we recieved another cheque from a friend which specified it was for us and not for GoldDigger - which again just makes me feel safe knowing that God is on our case. I need to remember God DOES know our bank balance - of course he does but sometimes we are just so stupid about remembering that if he knows everything then that includes what remains a secret between me and the call centres of HSBC.
I must write about the day in Top Shop...it was amazing...It will be done shortly...or maybe I have done...I forget
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Wow that's so amazing mand-God is so awesome and really does supply all our needs according to his riches in glory!!! - loved praying this week too- wish we could do it all the time! x
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