Trip to China May 2013

We have been blessed to be able to go back to China for three weeks during May. Another young man came with us which was great. We went back into the area where we worked before and it is was so good to be able to encourage others in their work and to be encouraged by them. We had many opportunities to impart the goodness, the joy and love of God to whomever the Lord brought us in contact with. We were blessed to hear of testimonies of healings after prayer and to see what the Lord is doing in those areas now. And as usual on trips such as these, the Lord teaches and grows yourselves in areas that need some growth, so it is all good!

We had a wonderful team of people taking care of the Wednesday group here for the three weeks we were away and to see and hear how that all went as people stepped up another level in what the Lord was calling each one of them to do, was amazing. As He calls, He enables. Just wonderful to see how God is changing and growing each one of us and enabling us to fly in the gifts and talents he has given. From glory to glory!

Thank you to all who stood with us during this trip in prayer, in finances, in encouragement. It is so wonderful to know we are not going alone wherever He sends us, but there is a team going with us.
Without you on the journey, we would not be able to do what the Lord calls us to do.

And in the airport in NZ as we arrived home, I saw a sign which read "As one journey ends, another begins" and now onto the next journey the Lord has for us. For Jim and I, we are at peace that the Lord has called us to 'settle' more here in NZ and that the Wednesday groups is very much where he wants us to put our time and energy and also to whatever doors are opened for us to go and share around the country. Jim begins a full time job in June which is fantastic to have some regular income coming in but it is also a job which will allows flexibility as the ministry may demand, so that is just wonderful.

The baby's been handed over

Several weeks ago the Lord shifted us out of the 'home office' into the 'market place' and in the process a spiritual shift happened - one of letting the 'baby' go, a releasing and handing over the batten, so to speak to others. In this process the nests that WE ALL have been in have been stirred up, shaken about, and pushed out, to fly in ways that perhaps we were too afraid to do previously. The amazing thing with God is that He knows the timing of all of this and where each one of us is at and what we can handle. Yes there has been a fluttering of wings in panic. Yes, we have had a few weeks of challenge as authority and structures get changed and challenged, frustrations coming to the fore, but love helps us overcome, love helps us to forgive, love helps us to see the good and not the dirt, love helps us remember our own failings and yet forgiveness and grace that the Lord has for me, that I can give to others, remembering it's the glory of G...

How do we honour?

This morning I am pondering how we truly show honour to people? I was thinking about how to honour some people and the Lord said to me “Sarah honour them the way you want to receive honour.” I found that really interesting as it made me question as to what I see as honour toward me in my own life. While mowing the lawns I came to see that honour is actually shown more deeply from people when it is given from the heart, sown by that particular persons love language perhaps and so often we don’t receive the honour that people are giving us if we are expecting it a certain way. For instance the other day a beautiful lady in the Lord gave me a couple of very small roses to wear on my clothes. It was so beautiful and so touched my heart and spoke volumes to me and the honour and love she was showing me because she had thought of me. Often we miss the love and honour someone is trying to show us because we see it from how we expect to receive ...

Will you play the piano - will you spit and touch a man's toungue?

We had our worship group the other night and to begin with I saw someone playing the playing so I asked if anyone could and would play the piano because that is what I saw happening in the spirit. I may have been wrong in the what I saw but I stepped out in faith but alas no one stepped forward to play the piano so Jim played it and I believe in this the Lord was teaching us some valuable lessons. Jim cannot play the piano at all but he was willing to be used. This morning I was reading in Mark 7:32-35 "There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on the man... Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him "Ephphatha!" (which means, "Be opened!). At this the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly. I was reminded of the other night ...

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Dear friends and partners, It is time to have a break over the Christmas and New Year Season. Thank you for all your support and encouragement over this past year and in all that the Lord has been doing. It has been an amazing year full of challenge and change and seeing God do all that he said he would do as we stepped out in faith in what we believed he was saying and seeing him come through. It has been an eventful year! We wonder what will be revealed over the next month or two? We are excited about 2013 and as He shows us more we will keep you to date step by step as He reveals it. So far just continuing on the words of 'preparing for expansion' and more recently believing for 'surprising and perhaps radical changes' but have no idea what that looks like yet. So its like opening Christmas presents as you shake the package, get excited about what it is and try to work it out but just make guesses, but at the proper time all will be revealed. :...

Photos from the 22nd of October

A beautiful rose to be....

Yesterday I felt this need to go and buy a rose, it was not something I had planned but just felt let by the Holy Spirit to go and buy a rose bush and so I went and they were all on special because it is really the wrong time to plant them, the only ones left were the diseased, not wanted cheap ones which were $9.99 instead of $24.99. I didn't know why I had to buy them, but I just did and I ended up buying five and then felt I needed to put aside an area in my garden as a special rose garden. After sharing with this to Jim this morning the word came as to why I had to buy roses. Roses are one of the hardest plants in my opinion to look after and care for, they take a lot of work. You have to prune them, you have to regularly cut them back and cut off diseased branches, they can be prickly and cause pain, they need regularly spraying to keep the bugs off them and then they may only flower once or twice perhaps more in a season for a seemingly short time compared to a...

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