Food for thought

5th June 2011

"Will power does not change men. Time does not change men.
Christ does."

Henry Drummond

 

 

 

 

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Here's another of my new songs.... Prodigal Son

You did it all

 

 

 

 

 

5th June 2011

The Lord is saying. Did I not say I would never leave you nor forsake you. I have come through for you once again and always will. Do not fear the future, there is no power on earth or in heaven that can seperate you from my love and my ability to rescue you. My plans for you are very wonderful. You are learning to believe and to step out. There is no limit to where I will take you in Me.

 

 

The Kingdom Upside Down.......

 

Act 17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

In fact these disciples of Jesus were'nt turning the world upside down. The world was already upside down.... they were turning it the right way round but the people had been living the wrong way round for so long it looked like upside down to them.

When Adam and Eve sinned the whole world was turned upside down. Jesus came back and started to put it back to how it was in the first place. He spoke the word of truth into the atmosphere. Blind eyes opened, the lame walked, the deaf heared and the captives were set free.

We as followers of Jesus are also called upon to turn the world back the right way round. We do this by speaking the truth into the situations. Where there is sickness, we have been give the authority to heal, where there is hatred we bring God's love. Where there is darkness we bring the light.

For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; 2 Corinthians 10:4

 

Kingdom Upside Down...

 

a song of Shirley

 


THERES A STORY THAT'S GOING ABOUT A STRANGE ONE THERE IS NO DOUBT
ABOUT A KINGDOM THATS NOT LIKE WHAT WE KNOW

WHERE THEY SAY THE WAY TO WIN IS TO LOVE YOUR ENEMIES IN THEIR SIN
IT SEEMS THEIR KING CAME AND STOOPED THAT LOW

THEY TELL ME IF I JOIN THEM IN THEIR WAR , MY WEAPONS WOULD BE MIGHTY AND MY VICTORY SURE
BUT THEY DON'T USE FEAR OR HATE NO MORE


LOVE MELTS HEARTS OF STONE
A GENTLE ANSWER CAN BREAK A BONE


IT SEEMS STRANGE IN THIS KINGDOM UPSIDE DOWN
COULD IT BE THAT IT'S THE RIGHT WAY ROUND


I HEAR THIS KINGDOM'S RUN BY LOVE, ITS KING IS AS GENTLE AS A DOVE
THE HIGHEST MINISTERS CHOOSE TO SERVE THE SMALL

THE HUMBLEST TAKE THE HIGHEST SEAT THE MASTER'S WASH THEIR SERVANTS FEET
AND WISDOM IS THE GREATEST WEALTH OF ALL


THE PUREST DIED UPON A TREE SO THE WORST OF US COULD GO FREE

IT SEEMS STRANGE IN THIS KINGDOM UPSIDE DOWN


LOVE MELTS HEARTS OF STONE
A GENTLE ANSWER CAN BREAK A BONE

IT SEEMS STRANGE IN THIS KINGDOM UPSIDE DOWN
COULD IT BE THAT IT'S THE RIGHT WAY ROUND


THEY SAY THE MORE YOU GIVE YOU GET BUT THOSE WHO HOARD END UP WITH LESS
THAT'S NOT THE MATHS I LEARNT AT SCHOOL

THOSE WHO FRET FOR THINGS LOSE OUT, FORGET WHAT FREEDOM'S ALL ABOUT
TO ENTER LIKE A CHILD IS THE RULE


IN THIS WORLD OF CONTROL AND GREED THE RICH LIVE WELL WHILE THE POOR STILL NEED
MAYBE IT'S THE WORLD THAT'S UPSIDE DOWN

LOVE MELTS HEARTS OF STONE
A GENTLE ANSWER CAN BREAK A BONE

IT SEEMS STRANGE IN THIS KINGDOM UPSIDE DOWN
COULD IT BE THAT IT'S THE RIGHT WAY ROUND

 

 

 

 

 

Prayer Requests

Please pray for Dave Hinton as he makes his film "How the West was won" It will be a great testimony to God's power working in His faithful people. This film looked like an impossibility but is rapidly coming about with the resources required being supplied .... WATCH THIS SPACE.... THIS IS GOING TO GET INTERESTING.....

 

Thanks again for your prayers. I am back at the bookstall now and my fear was that people would have forgotten, but I have been as busy as ever. God bless you all. Shirley

Bernard is confused and tormented please pray for peace and no pain. His daughter doesn't want him to go to the hospice, because she wants him to be at home with his family at this time. Pray that they can cope well and Bernard is relieved from his illness.

 


Please pray for M who is on all sorts of tranquillisers and anti-depressants that she will be able to have a vision for the future and that she come into the full potential of all her talents and be set free in her mind completely. Her greatest need is to be able to be free from negative thoughts in the morning.

 

Please could you continue to pray for A's son that he will stay free from drugs and from the people who encouraged him in the past to take them. Please pray for his complete salvation in Jesus.

 

 

Please continue to pray for Jack who has cancer.

 

 

 

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