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Let Your light Shine: Let Your light Shine: with prayer and petition, go...: Let Your light Shine: with prayer and petition, going before the throne ... : Hello there. How's it going? I hope that you're having...

Let Your light Shine: with prayer and petition, going before the throne ...

Let Your light Shine: with prayer and petition, going before the throne ...: Hello there. How's it going? I hope that you're having a really nice time  doing your things. I was thinking at the breakfast tabl...

with prayer and petition, going before the throne of God.

Hello there.
How's it going?
I hope that you're having a really nice time  doing your things.

I was thinking at the breakfast table, that is a dinner table really, about going before the throne of God. and what does that look like.

I was thinking about the next up and coming weeks, as I say goodbye to the fresh choice team, and hello to the new school I will be at.

I won't be getting a free weekend till the 14th of February.

which seems like a long way away now.
but I digress.
We will our days with so much stuff, it is hard to try and fit it all in.
Somethings are on the back burners, ticking away slowly, while others are just ticking away on the front burners.

Where do we fit Jesus into the picture of it?
Life is short so we better start to live it now.


Prayer, isn't supposed to be a one way street with God, it is a two way street with him. bowing down on our knees, and gently listening to what he has to say.
Sometimes, we listen and sometimes we just talk. but it's the art of being still before him it's what he has to say.

From what I  gather to what the lord is saying, is wait, let go, and hold on.

Since becoming a Christian, at age 9, the lord has put on me, not a burden, but vissons, and words of knowledge,  this is to encourage people in the word.

I find that the more I go to fasting prayer, the more, I have more and more of them.

to the point I have to share with them till I go to sleep.
If I can't sleep unless I tell them to people.

For me, personally having these times alone with God, always puts my own ambitions aside, and gently wait on the lord.
No matter what you're doing today.
Perhaps you do need to do a bit of waiting, to see if the lord speaks, a bit of letting go, or perhaps a bit of holding on.
Chloe

Always time for tea.

No matter where you are or what you're doing.
There's always time for tea.
It might mean that you have to physically stop  and take stock.
You might think I am a contemplative person, and you might wonder why I write, or what I'm up to.
I am 33 years old girl, who drinks alot of tea and coffee.
I escape from the world and write.

And you might be thinking too, if anyone is out there, that can understand your point of view, why is it at times that we dispare and give up just before the dawn?

I am writing this from my heart, which is carefully on my knees praying all that the needs will be some how met.
I do believe in God I do believe that he hears us, though at times it feels like everything is crashing down upon us.
That we hear, all exciting news, about what our friends are doing, and you're like ''what about me?" it's easy to look at others, and have inner joy, for them, and we are called to celebrate with them.
but where is your heart?

I often ask myself now, where is my heart?
 is if given away?
it is carefully kept, ready for the right person?
I am not in dispirit, nor am I giving up.
why then do I wrestle with this?
 what is standing in my way blocking to the way, for my success?
what do I have to bless others?

Pride, that is what is stopping me.
my pride, of many things.
the ball always being in my court, ready for a rebounding bounce.
trust is a huge issue, who I can trust, who won't let me down but yet understand the reason why I am like this.

Escaping, is a big one.

How come I always feel like I'm on the run?

whom am I running from?

My dear friend Melanie, has brought me this book called praying for your future husband, dont' worry my single young men, you're not under threat.
but I am praying that one day, you will be found.

But the lord brought it to my attention, to why am I always running?

I have no idea why, to or what from. but I always feel like I'm on the run.
I just want to be settled, and stop running.

So I ask myself, now, what do I have in myself, to offer?
 what has the Lord blessed me in?
My parents, home, being able to open it up to whoever comes through, our garden, that offers so much love to other people.
Our baking and cooking tallents, to people who come and stay.
Support and love to friends and family.

I am struggling with something, and that bareness, while others are having children, it will take me another year, with a change of medication, to get it back to what it was like.

And that too ofters up prayers from the heart, to not always be like this.

No matter what you're going through at the moment, no matter if there is someone holding your hand, or not, weather there's a night light on or not, weather you're in the year of plenty, or the year of not much.

Be fruitful in every season, this, is a pruning season for me, so when the time comes, and the time will come, I believe in that, I will be fruitful, and one day, all my prayers will line up.
and be answered.
Chloe

Seeing the wood between the trees.

Hi there,
How are you?
I hope that you're good and having a really nice start to your week.
I've been experimenting with Chai teas, and I have made up my own mix, which I'm happy about.
As my friend from Chenia says, ''Not bad for a Westerner.'' best cup he's had all week.
which I felt a sense of pride that I have cracked my own Massala.

This morning I woke up in our wooden house, to mulches going, at 8 in the morning, things could be worse like an out of tune violin, or some bagpipes.

The neighbors are subdividing, in the paddock behind us, and are cutting down some trees, that were planted 20 odd years ago.

We have waiting for this time to come, to have the trees cut down.

Sometimes it's like life, that some how we have trees that block the view of things, things that we have done to ourselves, and other things that just pop up.

It's not until we under go some serious changes, in ourselves that we can see the view. Contempt breeds, familiarity.

We become all to familiar, to how things are.
We don't go with the changes, and we grow stagnant, and time poor.

My quest is, going after the father heart of God, the more we pray and fast the more break throughs we get in our own lives.

To often our churches have preached fluffy messengers, we do weeks on books that come out, follow the latest speaker, or the latest hot topics.
However, it is not enough to just go to church, we are called to help in the church.
Thus we get more out of it.
My friend this isn't a message to condemn, rather than, just encourage you to be of God.
And go to him every day, read the word, every day not only to water your soul, but to, encourage your spirit.

We can face the most serious storms and still stand strong.
We can say to the storm ''we are the storm.'' we are called to have a sound mind.

To pray, hard press into that father heart of God, to build ourselves up in praise songs.

To do fasting prayer, because that's where we see results, and healing.

I have gone through many a thing as a child, but I have learnt to trust the Lord with everything.
Chloe

holding on through the changes.

Hello there.
Today I want to talk to you about, holding on through the seasons of change.
Life is always like a rolling ball, always evolving.
If you sat down with me, and got to know me, you'll find out for yourself, that I find change healthy.
I've resigned over some past jobs, that I loved, I loved it up at the castle, I enjoy working at the supermarket.
But another change is happening, one that will be probably the biggest for a while. is a new job.
It's not that I didn't like where I was, I always find work enjoyable, it's just that new role opened up, and here i was by surprise going for it, as my CV, got passed on by another school.
So I will be leaving the supermarket, in a couple of weeks.

I see this like a stepping stone in our garden, when you walk on them, you are walking up hill, as the place is too slippery, for steps.

I didn't always embrace change, I was often really down about it, like my bestie getting married, my friends having their own children, finding life partners, getting a sister in law. me in hospital.
 over a course of a year, so a big year, but also the best year.

We are called to celebrate with others in both joy and in sadness. Best friends see that, they celebrate a good job, and feel sadness, when you're going through a rough patch.
but it is in those rough patches, we build grit and more determination to stick at things, when everthing is turning away from us.

Jesus is our ultimate goal here. he was forsaken for our benefit. the lord turned away, and didn't help. why because the lord also being the 3 in 1, first loved us out of mercy.

Whether you're out on a high limb or in the valleys, we are both called to love.
Embrace change, it grows you and strengthens you.
Chloe

lifes lessons

Hello my friends.
How are you today?
I hope that you're well.
Well the interview is over, and done, made it through to round 2.
it's just a waiting game now.
I've done all I could do.

The other day I was just talking about doing everything without complains.
well today I learnt my lesson.
my morning didn't go off that well I turned up to the gym, and I forgot my phone.
I ended up waiting. at a cafe on a half hour park, the person didn't turn up, and I was left with a $60 car parking fine, and no coffee.
I've had so many parking fines, I am totally sure they look out for my car.

and the bottom of it all is, that I didn't commit this morning to God, and I got that. was that a lesson I learnt?

We have so much fear, all the time, and my fear was, yes I have a job, but this ticket was over my head.
my plans failed.
Yet, if we rely on him, fully we go before his throne, with the power of prayer in us that he will answer anything we ask.
in his timing.
we are called to pray because it is the very life line in us that connects God to us.
Jesus knows everything, that we need, he gives us the people in our lives to touch with the living word of him.
To love people without limits, without expecting anything back, because who loved us first?
Christ did.
Prayer is about talking to God, not praying at him.
it's not a one way conversation.

and trusting him with our lives, fully, letting go and holding on to the past will crimple us, make us stop in our tracks.

How many times looking back has God brought you through things that you'd given up?
 have you given up on things that the lord has put there?
fully surrendering to him doesn't mean that you are freak, a hopeless cause, rather one that is full of hope.
What is hope?
Hope is something that you seek with everything you have got.
Hope never gives up, it is new each day, each moment of the day, no matter how your day plans out.
Hope is always there.
Well that's me for now.
Chloe

small things comes in small boxes.

Hello there,
How's your day going?
Well I hope.
Today I went to the gym class, it was very good.
And while I was working out for 45 minutes.
I was thinking about boxes, not because my work out partner had just moved down from auckland to study, and she was saying about living inside her suit case and in and out of boxes.
It got me thinking about the boxes and labels we put ourselves under, and live by them, like a sercurity blanket, or umbrella, prepared for the next storm.

We are called in the bible, to live righteously, and not to worry.

So how do we live righteously?

We are given many an ability, to do so, it might be doing things out of love to the person who needs it.
 a word of wisdom, or kindness.

If you think about moving day, you pack up boxes and you unpack when you get to your desination.
 or a trip overseas, you start to save up, you get your passport ready, your money spent on the nessary things to do.
so that you can go away on holiday.
But many of us are still living in the old box, or the old way of life, the past.
Jesus came to free us from it.

It's only now I can see that freedom we have in christ jesus.

We don't live in the past we life for the furture, always having our course on him.

And as you go about your day, spend it wisely.
 and in prayer and supplication, that we are being made perfect in Christ Jesus.

Love with out limits, with no lines drawn in sand, rather let the waves come and wash those lines away.

Unpack those boxes, that jesus, has given us, so that we can live freely for him.
setting our eyes on Christ the pefector of our faith.

No matter what you're going through, no matter if there's a bend a kink in the road, things that go unplanned or catch you out by suprise, jesus is there right to the end.
he's neither in front of us, or behind us, he's not in a distant far away land, but right there with us, through anything we go through.
That's my post for today.
Chloe

do everything without complaining.

HI there,
How's your day going?
I hope that it's been a good one.
Today I there's something on my heart, and it's do with with complaining.
a real life lesson for me was this morning.
where there were a mountain of dishes to do, my parents had cooked, and I went out with a girl friend for tea, and they had just gone to bed leaving the kitchen.
I came home, and saw that there would be have to be done in the morning.
now, they are parents and I have respect for them, but in my head I was thinking. when mum asked me to help out and tidy up the place a bit, I thought well I'll start with the dishes, so I did.
What I wanted to humanly say, ''well they're not mine, I don't want to do them.'' if I was flatting, sure, everyone is suposed to do their own, but I don't want to flat just yet.
Dare I say it, there was bit of self righteous anger going on, when mum asked me to help.
I was talking to a work friend, and we brought up the issue of anger, apparently I make her angrey every sunday.
with the bakery trolley, I won't tell you what she said, but yes I make her angry.
I saw her cry, at one stage.
so my blog post is about doing everything without complaining, that is everything good or bad, do it with all your heart.
and complete the job at hand.
Jesus is the ultamate, goal here, with out him we struggle.
and we back bite, we nag and we complain and wear others out.

with what is it?
Point scoring.
and slient treatment that my friend at work does, and she's not ashamed to do so.
I couldn't judge her, but look on her with a godly love.

Moeses was a great leader, and was a seerer, what is a seerer?
 Someone that over seas problems, no matter go good or bad there were.

and dealt to them fairly.

We are called to do everything in, with the love of christ, to serve and not to serve.

so how are you going this week with that?
 have you thought about serving that other person, by not doing short cuts?
 to offer to buy them lunch because of of a pure heart?

how about that co worker, that thinks you're always good?

well continue to do good.

Jesus, is everything you need, he gives at the right time, nothing is a suprise to him.

he's not surprised by you, when you mess up, when you think life isn't fair. As a young girl I was always wanting fairness, and I still do.
I'd be the fair police.
I really was and I was making a good job of it.
I couldn't get out of speech and drama lessons, one exam led to another and i promised myself that would be the last one every year.
then I climbed both, ladders in the new zealand speech and drama, and trinity collage, drama school in london.

there were no exams.
the only thing to do was, to do my letters and teach it, both my brothers have got theirs, and I well i'm different, I don't want to do teach drama, but happy with how I went.

yes I complained as my parents paid for lessons, yes I wanted to not go, but  so glad I did.

So my challange today is, do everything without complaining and see how you go.
Chloe

climbing the hills.

A little while ago, we did a days trip on the Alps to ocean cycle way.
From what we see on the maps, and read that there's old rail way lines, we thought of a good family exercise.
We climbed a few hills but not big ones, so off we headed, doing some good cycling.
Then we looked at this big hill, and there was a zig zag, through the hill.
Almost like, a good mountain bike trail.

So Mr Matt Armstrong, headed up this hill, mum and I dismounted and pushed it up this hill.
And it got me thinking as ,we we pushing our bikes up, and Matt having enough momentum, to keep on this bike to head up the hill.
This hill was massive, very big. and it got me thinking about breakthroughs.

You might need a break through, right now, big or small, you might be on your knees, believing in one.
 I believe that not only one, or 2 will come your way, many break throughs will come your way. Jesus is always there.
Not matter if you're swamped by the wash of others washing over you, you matter.

We are called to be a light, to others around us.

Does that mean, that we are supposed to be silent if we should speak up?

When does enough become enough?
We can do things, that can help us.
 by writing them down and be done with it, or can have a voice.

And refuse to be a door mat.

99.9% we can trust others not to hurt us, but there's always going to be that 1% that is the missing piece.
Jesus has the answers.
Jesus comes through, every time.
We just need to trust him.

And yes sometimes it's wise to speak up, and tell them, because Jesus gave us a voice, we're called to use it.
we can't go skipping from one thing to another and ignoring, the problem, it will be there in the morning.

Jesus wants us to be free from guilt, shame and disgrace, that people put on us.

or labels, or things on us that others, have put on us, not by our own choice.

Don't suffer alone,  like a bleeding heart, left without air.

Be careful who you give your heart to.
Well it's nearly dinner time.
Much love
Chloe

God only knows

A little while ago, For king and country, wrote a song, "God only knows.''

And they sing about the struggles that we face and go through.
Sometimes we need to have a pause and look after ourselves before we move on.
We can only give out what we can, put in.
If you think of yourself like a well of water, and that water is Jesus, the precious name of him. and if we fully rely on him, we will never run dry.
We have an ebbing flow of christ.
But if we are like that of a dried up well or river bed, what we put in, is only dry and stale.

My question is, to you what sort of well are you?


Are you feeling constantly like a little boat on the high seas being knocked around waiting for the next wave to hit?


Where is your anchor?

Are your senses always on high alert?


Ready to hit that panic button?

Jesus is always there, when you are stressed from the coming and going of life.


What happens if we go it alone?

We are soon to relaise that we can't, it's a bit like going down a give way one way street from the top.

risking it so you don't meet people coming up.

Jesus is always there to guide us, and to hold us when the storm hits.

Jesus is the only one to keep us from going dry in our wells.

The more we read his word, the more we understand the goodness of Christ.

That is my post for today.

We are here for you

Good morning how are you?
I hope that you're having a really nice day.
Sometimes it feels like we're on a one way street.
And it feels like we're on a perminate give way.
Lately I've been having really vivid dreams. and I was talking to my friend, Esther about them.
and she said that they mean something.
My dreams are really quite vivid, so it got me interested in the meaning of dreams.
Does Jesus give us dreams so that we can, process,  them and then move forward in our lives?
Does God, give us dreams as a warning or are they just dreams?
God gave Daniel dreams, and they meant something.
We are all over comers, I don't think, there will be days when we need some grit, we need to get our wheels to turning.
Grit means to stick at it, to keep going even if the wheels aren't turning. What I'm saying is not to give up when there's a break through.
I am looking forward to the year, we can't live in the past, we need to move forward.
I have a disability, but I don't feel any different, dispite my flaws, and my ups and downs, more ups than I have downs.
Jesus has made us flawless, we are loved, and we are chosen, even if our parents, didn't choose us, or maybe our lives would have been different.
If we turend back time what would we have done?
I've been thinking about, going back to hospital, to visit and sit with people who have no visitors.
we have people in there that have no one to come in and call on them and just to sit with them.
When I was born, I just arrived, on my own, with no assistance.
did I feel abandoned?
does that carry with me every day? that there was no help when help was needed?
I can't live in that moment?
I have family yes, who are loved, I have good support, from workers, and health professonals.
so when you're in need, and you have no where to turn.
Turn to God run to him, when the world is turning against you.
Chloe