Saturday, 17 August 2013

PRAY THIS SALVATION PRAYER



Pray this Prayer 

Christ Jesus let your presence fill my heart soul life and mind.

Let your glory envelop my heart

Let your Holy Spirit, the Spirit Of The Father, show me and guide me how I should live my life - you Lord created all things, made all things and I want to enter into that place of walking in your will, doing your will, obeying your will and walking in Your Presence.

Cleanse my soul of all evil - I repent right now of all that I have done wrong and ask you to forgive me, cleanse me and put me on the right path despite how difficult it may seem at times - help me to make right choices in life, to be a mouthpiece for good and not evil, to walk with the angels of God and understand righteousness in my soul - cleanse me, purify me and let me draw near to you - I put my full trust in the cross of Calvary where Jesus paid the price for all my wrongdoing, evil and mistakes and folly and everything that does not please your kingdom: cleanse me Lord and wash me clean.  

Help me to understand the resurrection - that Jesus you died for me but also rose again in newness of life in order to bring new life to my mortal body, the eternal life of God for evermore.  I receive this gift right now, by faith, and will walk as your son or daughter in the light of your love from this point onwards and for evermore.

God help me to serve you, know you and to trust in you intimately with my whole life - not just parts, buy my WHOLE LIFE THROUGH AND THROUGH!  

Touch others through my life also - make me an instrument with which you choose to show others your love and glory.

In Christ

x

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Pray This Prayer - A Prayer Of Salvation


To any reading this, Christ is the One True Saviour who can bring lasting peace to your weary soul - pray right now 'Jesus come, come in my heart - forgive my sins and my wrongdoings; help me to love and worship you and understand your presence.  Let me enjoy your love and presence in my heart tonight.  Come, Lord of Heaven and fill my life with the presence of angels, the presence of heaven, the presence of the Lord God Almighty.

I turn my back on sin and anything which does not please you, Lord.  I lift up my eyes into your presence and look to your love to save me, guide me, lead me - far from paths of sin and unrighteousness.  Give me a godly desire to love the things of heaven, to praise the God of heaven and to worship Him with my life for ever more.

Let my life shine as I receive from your Glory; let me receive heaven's love and let that, right now, flood my being.  Envelop me with your true love mighty saviour.  Let me know that my name is written in heaven above, to escape from sin and hell beneath.  Let me know that the blood which was paid out as an offering, a sacrifice, has covered and cleansed my life before you, O Lord.

Let me for ever walk in Your Presence, in Your Love, in Your Joy.

Let me for ever walk closer with thee.

Let me for ever walk in Your Holy Love

Let me walk with the angels of heaven, in fellowship with the saints.

Let me walk with you every breath of my life, every moment I am awake, every thought that I think, every moment that I am awake.

Let your love flow from me into other needy hearts and live that need to hear of the Good News of the Glory Of God on earth, the Kingdom Of Heaven in our hearts and lives, overcoming all the power of the enemy.

Let me rejoice in God my Saviour, my Rock, my Strong Tower, my Refuge In The Time Of Trouble.

O Christ

I give you everything I have; take it and use it and make it thine

Your servant

Sunday, 11 August 2013

Get up, Stay up, and DO THE WILL OF GOD!!!

Feel God speaking to me to do a whole load of things but frankly I don't consistently just get up and stay up enough to do everything which is on my plate, although I know for sure the LORD IS TELLING ME THAT I COULD EASILY FIT IN EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE TO DO IF I'LL ONLY JUST STAY UP, FOR EXAMPLE I DID GET UP BUT COULD HAVE HAD AN EXTRA 2 HOURS OF ACHIEVEMENT.  LIFE IS A BALANCE AND I REALLY WANT TO GET TO THAT PLACE OF PLEASING THE LORD IN ALL THINGS, WHICH IS HARD BUT DEFINITELY NOT IMPOSSIBLE.  'Thy will be done' is our Lord's prayer so it definitely is achievable otherwise it would not be in there!!!!  Lord help me to serve you is my daily prayer - I BELIEVE; HELP MY UNBELIEF' also is my daily prayer.  HELP ME TO BE SANCTIFIED IN HEART MIND SOUL BODY AND SPIRIT AND TO SERVE THE LORD IN THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE

Saturday, 10 August 2013

Another encouragement to stay strong in virginity, and to serve Christ when you are young!

This was written in response to a facebook post


https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151616014724315&set=a.10150579571414315.385485.313039474314&type=1&theater

which said


 Dear admins, Please keep me anonymous . Hi! I'm a 16 year old girl. I am a believer in the no sex till marriage. I dot go to church every Sunday. In fact I don't go often. I have said many things and probably did some things I'm ashamed of. I have had a few boyfriends in the past and all I have done is kissed them. Im still a virgin. Even though I do not go to church every week I want to wait for someone special. The problem is these days all guys want is sex. All my friends talk about what's it like, but it's not me. I want to wait. I have told a few friends how I feel, I don't have many friends I can count on. I just wish more people would see why I want to wait. Please give me some advice. Why do so many people just go an do it to get over. How can I meet people my age that want the same thing and can help me get through this.

And I said


Firstly young lady it's a good thing that you desire.  But where does the logic of keeping your virginity come from?  It comes from God and is God's idea.  In order to follow through on this plan and not get sucked away by some filthy men who want to draw you away from purity I would suggest that you make an effort to begin to pray and to genuinely seek out and find a church where there are similar people like you who want to abstain but also who want to love each other in purity and to build a relationship with each other which is based on Christ and loving Jesus, for he's the one whom we should please first of all!!!  Did you know heaven's glory, comfort and guidance comes to the soul that will seek the Father in prayer and consecration and in offering of your life for His service!!!  It truly is a a JOY to seek the Lord and a pleasure to DO HIS WILL!!!  Think of marriage and a future mate as part of GOD'S PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE and in order to walk in that  you must also LOVE THE LORD and in that He will sort things out for you.     A little encouragement - only last night a friend of mine was telling me that he was amazed to see a girl reading her bible on the train, and through that he went and sat beside her and began talking to her.  Through that a relationship and they are now happily married in my church with two kids!!!  I am not saying every woman needs to get her bible out, but can't you see that the actual process of this woman selling herself out to God was the VERY TRIGGER THAT BROUGHT IN A GODLY MAN.   Seek peace, seek the Lord, and God will worry about the detail of your future relationships.  Plus remember that at the age of 16 you are quite young, so it might be healthy to date a few guys in a safe environment around church people without actually being forced to get intimate with them.  Another example - I was engaged in my early 20s to a girl and in the end things did not work out and we never got married.  It hurt us both at the time, but the fact that we had ABSTAINED FROM GETTING TOO CLOSE SEXUALLY meant that we both were able to move on and rebuild our lives.  God bless, take care and learn to love the Lord God Almighty and He will sort out the rest!!!

Encouragement To Stay Strong In Virginity

This was given in response to a facebook post https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151616126209315&set=a.10150579571414315.385485.313039474314&type=1&theater which read

"  Dear Admin,
Am i normal?? Am a virgin of 21 and nt into any relationship..i feel depressed, ashamed nd stupid for abstaining till marriage, becos i feel i made a bad decision and i dnt hav frndz again coz am still a virgin.most of dem think am 'Old school' its really getting to me becos i dnt hav anybody to talk to most times! What should i do??
Plz dnt include my name ..Godbless  "


My response was this :


There is a game called Super Mario where you collect gold rings and part of the punishment when you get hit is that all your precious collected gold rings get spilled out over the floor and become wasted, unrecoverable. Your precious gift is like that - it is something that you are carrying with you and is precious and you do not want it to become something wasted, something dirty, something useless for the future. People in the world do not value virginity but to Christ it is something of very high value. Believe me there is a BIG difference between someone who is a virgin through choice and someone who is unable to interact with the opposite sex! Christ sees your voluntary withholding of that gift until marriage as something of great price and great value. Just because you do not have a soul partner right now with whom you can share your life, your intimate thoughts and moments does NOT mean that Christ will not move on your behalf if you remain faithful!!! Virginity is a precious, precious gift and one to be highly esteemed and valued and, indeed, treasured. Many women and men are actually, like you, seeking a like-minded partner in these things. Many women and men do despair in these things and give up but equally many treasure and are carrying that gift - be like them!!! It's a matter of the heart and a posture before God - either this IS REAL and it REALLY IS WORTH SERVING CHRIST or we are wasting our time. Personally I just want to remind you that the devil wants to destroy marriages just as much as he wants single people to commit immorality, and ONE OF THE BEST DEFENCES WITH WHICH TO BUILD A STRONG MARRIAGE IS VIRGINITY BEFOREHAND. When I think of my wife and myself and our marriage and the testing times that it has gone through, one of the great stabilising factors in our marriage has been, that although we have had problems, yet underlying it all is a sexual commitment one to another which was evidenced in my virginity before marriage (at age 31, no less). This gives us a great peace and confidence and trust within our marriage that we can relax with each other and not be interfering with each other all the time scared and paranoid that our other partner will go out and commit adultery - no, there is that level of trust that what we honoured before marriage we will also honour after marriage. I was a virgin and my wife was a single mum but she had lived six+ years as a second-time virgin since her born-again experience, so I counted that the same, to me, as a virgin also. Hope that encourages you. God bless and stay strong ! ! ! ! !

Friday, 5 July 2013

Speaking to train commuters about the power and love and grace of Eternal Life.

God has challenged me recently into a type of preaching which I can maintain for long periods of time on a train and really sense the presence of the Holy Spirit very strongly whilst doing it.  It involves beginning to pray out loud but reasonably softly until I can sense God's presence and anointing all around me.  I then often sense the presence of the Lord focusing my attention on one or two individuals within the carriage and, without necessarily making eye contact, keep praying and praising God with them in mind.  I will begin to pray and praise God using such language is as simple as possible and as easy as possible for anyone to understand and I use phrases such as referencing the love and blessings of heaven, taking a sinner from a state of sin into being a saint, converting a sinner from doing wrong to serving the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, being our best friend, being Christ who died for our sins to make a way of escape from Hell to Heaven, how God desires that every single person will love Him and praise Him and choose to receive Everlasting Life etc.  I continue in this manner indefinitely growing in volume and boldness till people in the carriage can plainly hear what I am saying.  I've got some music headphones on and I'm not deliberately trying to make eye contact although obviously as I grow in confidence I can do that too, speaking about the power of God to reach into a heart and a life and convert them from sin to holiness etc.  People genuinely cannot believe what they are hearing on a train but if I do it in a sober-minded, rational way without putting too much emotion into my voice people tend to let me continue as I wish and they don't disturb me or start shouting back abusive language at me.  Sometimes even as a cover I will get a book and be praying out loud and declaring how God can convert a sinner and grant them everlasting eternal life and save them from hell to  heaven, and people are just listening and glancing over but because I have my headphones on and am not trying to push 'in their face' the onus then is on them to speak up and in general no one does.  I can continue for many minutes even when the train stops at stations and the noise level drops to near zero so you can hear a pin prick and every word of my sermonette also.  I really don't hold back but use language that I hope people will use to bring themselves to conversion, including praying part or all of the sinners prayer in order to clarify what a person must do to receive Christ.  I also talk about a person trusting in Christ and putting off cynicism and embracing the love of the cross.  I do cover aspects as the immoral person putting off the ways of uncleanness and embracing the ways of holiness, the adulterous person putting on the ways of faithfulness and fidelity, the man who blasphemes to becoming one who has a holy mouth, a liar to become honest etc.  I really am aiming to give people something to think about and hope that they too can have enough knowledge from what I have said to put into motion something in their lives that they would accept Christ.  My aim is to speak into a sinner's life who has no or little interest in Christ and convince them to bring their heart into the presence of God through faith.  I really tell them what to do and use language of heaven which inspires people to go there but I do mention sin and hell also, contrasting the two often.  The key is to do this 'in the Lord' and have the presence of the Lord strong on my life as I do it, giving me a peace which sinners cannot really understand nor speak against.  I have had business men and women stare me out whilst I am preaching, listening to every word as if they cannot believe their ears.  But they listen and drink in what I am saying and I am praying that an immoral person will truly find Christ and become moral etc and so they know that I am praying for them in a blessed way and I am not some sort of fanatic (all though I am) or lunatic.  It takes boldness to do what I do and I think they are amazed I would have the boldness to do what I do, which earns a certain kind of respect even though they might completely be surprised at the message and have never heard the likes in all their lives.  I also occasionally sit down with someone in mind so when I get going that person near me gets to hear a full sermon whether they like it or not.  Some people have headphones but obviously I have no control over that and don't seek to.  It's a blessing to rejoice in the God of my salvation and I just desire to press in, praying more and more and declaring the works of heaven without compromise to as many people as possible.  I also pray that in time my message will become so strong and powerful that it really will impact people on the train and I will have conversions right there and then.  Right how that is going to work I just don't know but when it happens I will be ready and ready to confound the wisdom of the wise with a foolishness from above using a child-like faith in Christ.  A friend once told me she likewise had a desire to reach out and speak to so many people; I am just putting it into practice.

Friday, 14 June 2013

Street Pastors report

Enfield UK

Update

On Saturday 4th May 2013 ESPs Bevali, Carol, Phil and Richard met at St Andrews Church and considered Jesus' claim to the woman at the well "Whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed the water I give him will become a spring of water welling up to eternal life" (John 4:14). We prayed that many who were finding that they thirsted again after visiting the pubs and clubs would seek out the Living Water of the Holy Spirit.

We drove down to Broomfield Park in Palmers Green to coincide with the end of the family funfair. It was dark and quiet and so we walked down Aldermans Hill towards Palmers Green Station. We talked to Amin at the mini-cab office who told us about some recent muggings opposite the station. Walking up Green Lanes we found that many of the shops and restaurants were open and busy.

Up at the Fox things were quiet but crossing over we found The Alfred Herring pub to be very busy. We met G... who was eager to talk to us and give his opinions on the world. He was particularly keen to tell us that he had been excluded from the pub for breaking up a fight in the past. Over the next hour or so we met him at many other locations, he was clearly not too welcome at the pubs and clubs due to his loudness.

We were also delighted to talk to a Greek man who told us that this weekend was Easter with first light that evening. He is a regular at the Orthodox Church in Edmonton.

Down at "The Live Room" club, which was almost empty at this early time, we talked to Ivan who was one of the door staff. He was lightly dressed in a tee-shirt, we think that it was his copious muscles keeping him warm.

Across the road at "The Inn on the Green" there were more customers and two of the security staff were eager to talk to us. Henry and his colleague are both Catholic, and Phil prayed for Simon's spiritual growth. He told us that if they get trouble it is always from non-regulars from other areas.

Back towards the station outside "The Wishing Well" we met Jake who had been working on the trampoline (taking a lot of money) at the funfair. He was in a good mood and even agreed to go off with Gary to get some drink.

We went back to Southgate where Bevali had to leave us, but Carol, Phil and Richard went down Chase Side as usual. Outside "The New Crown" Phil talked to Edmund who had been seeking God for some time. He had attended St Andrews Church as a child and played Jesus in a nativity play there. He asked Phil to help him pray a prayer of commitment and we commended him to a local Church. We thank God that we were able to offer Living Water to him. His friend (also from the Church School) first claimed to be an atheist but then an agnostic and Richard talked to him about suffering.

We walked down to towards Southgate Station and noticed a boisterous group of about 10 young men. By the time we had got some chips with the excellent minty chilli suace from the kebab shop, they were starting to have some sort of disagreement amongst themselves which culminated in some pushing between a few of them. We waited around for this to calm down and one of the guys actually came over and apologized to us for their behaviour, he said that they were locals. We came close to calling for support.

We met a woman from a Church in Winchmore Hill who was very pleased to talk to us before getting onto her bus with her husband and their chips.

It was peaceful walking back to Church although "The Maze" was quite busy.

Please pray
Please pray for all of those that we talked and prayed with, that God would make himself known to them.
Please pray for G... who we met a number of times this evening. He is an alcoholic and well known in Palmers Green. Pray he will want help and can get into re-hab.
Please pray for those who are vulnerable and distressed in any way.
Please pray for the Police and Emergency Services as they have to deal with incidents.
Please pray for peace and harmony in our communities
Thank you.