Raising the dead

Have a read of this!

http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk/accounts/m/mccormack-ian-s1-all.php

Please join me in praying that by the end of the year we will see God's fullfilment of His word;

As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
Matthew 10:7-8

Listening Servant

I was reading an article today entitled "Listening Servant" by B. Patterson and it had a few interesting things that I'd like to share with you

The first was;

The opposite of love is not hate, but apathy- being uninvolved, detached, unrelated. (Did anyone else feel that in our services this weekend - or was it just us who attended the MCD Easter Camp last weekend where we saw God's Glory... be gone Satan!)

The second;

I won't hear from God unless I am first willing to ace on what I've already heard. God hides himself from those who refuse to obey, so that "they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!" (Mark 4:12)

Another was;

Jesus said, "Ask whatever you wish and it will be given you". The condition for that kind of answered prayer is in the line that precedes it: "If you remain in me and my words remain in you" (John 15:7)

Hopefully that has given you a bit of a challenge today

Answered prayer comes from His living in us and our living in Him.

Freedom Day!

If you're in Melbourne today, drop in to Box Hill gardens across from the Box Hill Salvation Army today from around 2pm

We're celebrating 201 years since Wilberforce's victory against slavery - unfortunatly it still exsists today - come along for awareness and what we can be doing about it today

Hope to see you there

Details;
Saturday 29 March2-5pm,
Box Hill Gardens, Nelson Rd
March for Freedom at 4pm

Including Jumping Castle, Sausage Sizzle, Facepainting, Games.
PLUS WIN A NINTENDO DS (if that appeals to you!)

Love God!

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28

Consuming Fire!

Check out http://verysalvo.blogspot.com/2008/03/consuming-fire.html for a challenging and inspiring blog!!

Fire up!!

When you loose what you love

‘When they walk through the Valley of Weeping … They will continue to grow stronger.’

Psalm 84:6-7 NLT

When you lose what you love, you go through five stages:

(1) Denial – ‘No, it can’t be happening.’
(2) Anger – ‘God, why are You permitting this?’
(3) Bargaining – ‘Lord, please make it go away.’
(4) Depression – Silence and withdrawal.
(5) Acceptance – ‘Not my will but Yours be done.

’Whether it’s the loss of a child, a marriage, a job, your health, etc., when you turn to God, He’ll give you the grace to embrace it, grieve it, express it, release it, and go on to become stronger. Sometimes we seek quick relief by releasing it before we’ve gone through these stages. That’s because we fear the process.

We’ve been taught that any show of emotion is a show of weakness, so we stuff it. But we only stuff it into our emotional rubbish bin, then spend all our time and energy sitting on the lid, trying to keep the contents from spilling out. ‘You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free’ (Jn 8:32). It’s knowing and embracing the truth, including its painful aspects, that sets you free. You must be willing to forgive. But until you come to grips with your loss, including any injustice of what was done to you, you are not ready to forgive. When you rush to forgive, you forgive only in part and you’re released only in part.

Are you running from pain today? Are you trading it in prematurely for some other feeling? That’s not God’s way. Jesus said, ‘You will weep and mourn … but [eventually] your grief will turn to joy … and no one will take [it] away’ (Jn 16:20-22 NIV).

The Great Physician - How great is our GOD!!!

He is risen!!

Jesus is alive - you'd better believe it.

We've just finished the best Easter camp ever!!! In the week leading up to camp, a few of us had been told by God that He was going to do great things - and He did!!!!

From the first session, people were making decisions about giving their lives to God and to take Jesus' sacrifice as their salvation! Throughout the whole camp people were finding Jesus and God was really kicking people around telling them in a very powerful way to "get your life right with Him - now!".

On Saturday, we all went out into the community for different things, some did chalk drawing on the footpaths, others cleaned ovals and the post office steps, others did some handing out of Easter eggs while sharing the good news of the Easter story - their way to salvation while trying the 'good test'.

The first person I came across we gave an egg to and they tried the good test and were convicted of their lies, stealing and blasphemy so repented and asked Jesus for forgiveness and gave their life to Him - salvation!! I thought this was going to be an amazing day... but it didn't turn out to be a huge day for salvation's, but had some great conversations/arguments with some older members of the community....

On the way back to the camp, one of the guys had a sore wrist, so he got his mate to pray for him and it was healed in Jesus Name!! How awesome!!

From there, in the next half an hour we had 7 healings in total - the wrist, shin splints, an infected nose, a sore shoulder, a sprained ankle, more shin splints, two sore throats and God was glorified!!! Jesus is awesome - He is able to heal anything!!!

It continued, it didn't just end there, we had all the kid's praying for each other and more healing were witnessed through out the weekend (see http://whollyholy.blogspot.com/ for other details) and also included things like injured hamstrings, and even a badly sprained and possibly broken wrist. After this wrist was completely restored she even showed off and did a handstand, which apparently she had never been able to do before - WOW!!

The nurse on camp had it easy - bit of a holiday for her in my opinion....

This camp was awesome, we had the healings, people giving their lives to God and people set free from hurts and abuse, the list just went on - there was only 70-80 of us there but sooooo much happened - God is AWESOME!!!

If you don't believe me, come and check God out for yourself - or find someone else who attended the Melbourne Central Division Easter camp and ask them!!

God is more than good - do you know this for yourself?? Search after Him today - and tomorrow!

"As you go, preach this message: 'The kingdom of heaven is near.' Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give."

Matthew 10:7-8

Do you know anyone that has just died that doesn't know Jesus to let them into Heaven....