New Church Last Year, New Job Recently

Things were getting a bit too overwhelming with the kids so I've joined a Pentecostal church on my street!!!  We literally walk to church which is great!!!  Plus I've time for fellowship with the saints before and after church which I didn't before as there was so much driving involved.  And I'm now in the ministry band and available to help which I wasn't before either.  So things are good and job is fine; I've started a new job as a trainer at JustIT in Liverpool Street (www.justit.co.uk) doing apprenticeship as well as corporate IT training.  All is fun!!!  Getting up early to pray also (hence this email at 330am!!!).

Heartbreak for Christ

Philip Anderson You have done a good thing, sister! Saved or not, it's really not easy to find a partner for life who will truly love and care for you. The moment you step into an alliance which is not of the Holy Spirit you will feel your heart being dragged away from Christ and if you had let that go into immorality (intercourse with that other person) then you would have found VERY QUICKLY your heart would grow cold to God, and hard as well towards the things of Jesus Christ, and inside you would have literally 'died' as we are either 'alive' or 'dead' to Christ. I too have been through a painful process where I got engaged to 'the one' for it not to work out, and the process was terrible. She was a Christian too, and it affected her as much as me. We dated on-off for 3/4 years but couldn't make it work so we had to got our separate ways. A long time after I DID marry and I now have been married 12 years and have SIX healthy children, including twins, and a stepson as well as a WONDERFUL MARRIAGE. But I had to WAIT and FIGHT for it - it did not come easy. Please walk the NARROW PATH for Jesus Christ as the REWARDS are there for you and I believe EVERYTHING YOU NEED IN LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS will be provided for you and the heartache of the past will come to an end. Jesus has GREAT PLANS for us and if we SEE IT THROUGH Christ's love will envelope us. And another thing - although it might seem that there's a lot of love and immorality going around in the 'unsaved world' yet one thing strikes me more and more as I go on as a married person - there are MORE AND MORE SINGLE PEOPLE IN SOCIETY - why??? Because it takes Christ and real grit to enter into a life-long commitment with another person, date that person PROPERLY, marry that person CLEANLY and then go on and be FAITHFUL to that person FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS!!! It's easy to jump into bed with someone but to live for Christ and to marry a Godly spouse and raise a Godly family; that takes guts in today's society and I believe with all my heart sister that God has called us to such; to live as examples so that people can SEE CHRIST IN US BY THE LIFESTYLE THAT WE LIVE not just THE WORDS THAT WE SAY. So I encourage you, temptation will be everywhere but your Christian friends are right and I THANK GOD FOR THEM that they have spoken into your life and you have done a BRAVE THING in repenting and takeing NOTICE of them!!! I pray for you that you have a WONDERFUL LIFE and that you SEE THIS THING THROUGH as, honestly the rewards are worth it both spiritually but also physically on this earth. I have such stability in my walk with Christ and sexually a relationship with my spouse which I am sure many sinners would be envious of - and really Christ is at the heart of it.    <<Response to this post http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151376490139315&set=a.10150579571414315.385485.313039474314&type=1&theater >>

Dating is going out for a meal/coffee in order to get to know someone, but you're not courting until you commit to that relationship as exclusive with the intention of finding out if you want to MARRY that person!!!  Courting is a process of WOOING the other person and finding out as much as you can about them and SPENDING TIME WITH THEM and LOVING THEM with the long term goal of them becoming your partner in Christ for life, which is completely different to dating which is really DECIDING IF YOU WANT TO COURT THEM!!!   Hope that's clear and God Bless in Christ Jesus!!!