Monday 1st Oct 2018
Today was a landmark day for me..
During a peaceful time with the Lord away from all the craziness, and clamour of the world, He finally revealed to me The Terrible Truth..
With all the boatload of hurt and injustice everywhere around me, I am incapable of solving it all..
Big revelation.. : D
You may feel the same way too.
With every upsetting FB post and news report, an intense desire rises within you to want to help...speak out..do something!!
Well, you can!
Whatever stirs you up and upsets you most of all is the very thing God has put in your heart to address.
It's that simple!
So its just a case of spending time with our heavenly Father to find out exactly what to do and how to go about it..
Knowing God, it'll most likely be something so big, it'll be absolutely impossible in the natural..
That's good. Why?
Because He is a God of the impossible.
If it were possible then we could do it on our own, which of course means, we would get all the glory!
Jesus said in Mark 9 v 23 and Matthew 19 v 26;
"..All things are possible FOR THEM THAT BELIEVE!
So, be encouraged...and just believe..because faith pleases God!"
(Hebrews 11 v 6)
Meanwhile, as well as informing me of my inability to save the whole world, the Lord instructed me in no uncertain terms, to stay focused on the thing that He has given me to do at this time..
This is because, we cannot achieve anything if our fingers are in too many pies...doing this, or that..join with this group...or that prayer meeting.
What then happens we end up being distracted, ineffective..and spread around too thinly to make a difference for any specific cause..
Of course, this is exactly what the enemy wants!
So anyway, I hope that the following account will ignite and encourage you to push ahead with the things the Lord is placing on your heart to accomplish!
VISION FOR TAYLOR HOUSE (WOMEN'S REFUGE)
Having relocated back to the Blackpool area last January, where I grew up, I have ever since, been fervently seeking the Lord about which church to be part of, and what will I be doing next!
Then one day I had an unexpected encounter..
It came time for my car to go in for it's annual service, and though the dealership had given me a lift home, I had to find my own way back at the end of day to pick up my little red Micra..
So, there I was, standing at the bus stop in sunny St Annes (where I live) along with some other folk, when suddenly a young girl came running up pulling a suitcase...all out of breath and in a fluster..
She began asking 'how much the fare was to Blackpool as she only had a pound..'
Well, being unfamiliar with bus travel, I had no idea, but someone piped up something about double that amount, so I offered to pay her fare..
Meanwhile, she began pouring out her story of how she'd started going out with this guy, and everything was fine until she moved in with him, and that was when he'd become abusive, throwing his weight around, even taking away her bank card etc..
Anyway, somehow, she'd found opportunity the flee the situation, and now, here she was, on her way to some friends in Blackpool..
Her name was Taylor, and she was 18 years old.
It was only a short journey back to the garage, but before we parted, I gave her some money and quickly wrote down my number in case further help was needed..
Ever since then, the Lord has been speaking to my heart about the dire necessity for 'safe places of refuge' for such women, somewhere they can find help and also given opportunity to answer the call of God on their lives..
Meanwhile, my attention keeps being drawn to newspaper articles..magazines..TV programmes..with endless stories of abandonment, emotional and physical abuse..not to mention those young girlies that are purposely groomed and abducted into sex trafficking by ruthless bully boys..
Now, as I've prayed, the vision has been formulating..
'Think big!' I heard the Lord urging..So now, the 8 bed house has morphed into more of 'a farm' with a large garden for growing veg and flowers...also fields, plus, outbuildings for the possibility of horses.
These women will come oftentimes, having suffered years of continual abuse and will need time to receive healing and restoration, and in my experience, horses and hurting people go very well together!
Also, gardening is very therapeutic..
So, please will you pray..not just for this project, but that many other churches around the UK will catch the vision and begin to set up houses of their own..also, other places of rehab and help, because our communities are hurting and the time is short!
There are so few Christians places such as this, meanwhile, there are countless lost souls carrying the kind of hurts that only Father God can heal, and the need is great..
Thanks and blessings!
Xx
"..Write the vision and make it plain that everyone who passes may be able to read it easily and quickly, as he hastens by..
For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end (fulfilment);
It will not deceive or disappoint..
Though it tarry, wait earnestly for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day.."
Habakkuk 2 v 2-3 (Amp)
"..It's not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.."
Zech 4 v 6
"..It is written; "I believed, and therefore I have spoken..' since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore, speak.."
2Cor 4 v 13
"..I will instruct you and teach you in the way in which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you.."
Psalm 32 v 8
"..Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths.."
Proverbs 3 v 5 - 6
#Beencouraged!
