YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE IT WILL LEAD YOU

Hi everyone,

I have just enjoyed being at our National Australian Christian Churches Conference at the Gold Coast, and while there I absolutely loved the time of worship. 

It was in that moment of thunderous worship that I was reminded of my very first encounter with God....

I was a 17 year old girl, and while hanging out some washing, prayed a simple prayer..... "God, I want you in my life." 

That was all I knew.  I wanted Him.

Did I know that He had heard me in that moment?

No.

Was anyone else there coaching me?

No.

But a tiny few days later, I found out that He had heard me as He flooded my soul with the greatest sense of cleansing forgiveness I had ever known.

Fast track 41 years.  I find myself not alone in the backyard praying a prayer that I hadn't realized Heaven had heard.  I'm standing with thousands of worshipers enjoying that same tangible Presence of God that I experienced all those years ago, a few days later from my washing line prayer.

Still loved, still forgiven, but with a massive sense of the hand of God on my life. There has been so much that has happened in that 41 years.  I could never have dreamed the significance of that simple prayer.

And in that huge crowd of worshipers I was 17 again; but with so much more confidence - and whether in a crowd of thousands, or in my own backyard I have enjoyed His Presence over and over again.

Let me encourage you to not despise the day of small beginnings .... You never know where those holy moments will lead you.  The God who hears the roar of thousands at worship also hears the 'one' whether in their own backyard - or in the crowd. 

Until next time,
with love,  Lynda

Timing is everything.... I thought!

Hi everyone,

It's so good to be back here again... It has been way too long.  I imagine in your world, as well as mine things have changed. Before I could write this I had to update my profile as the facts were completely out of date, as well as my hair colour!

My prayer is that in the last few years your life has seen changes that you are happy about.

Grandchild No. 6 - Oliver

Since my last blog post all our children have left town and we have three more grandchildren. We have bought our home and renovated the bathroom and a painted a couple of other rooms.  Jeff has had a change in work life, and my work has morphed into something of a different shape.

I had not planned to pick this up again until another project was finished.  I have been studying for a Diploma for way too long and decided that I would ignore Desert Rain until that was finished later this year.

 How neat.

I hope you enjoy this pictures of our bathroom reno!

But our sense of timing and God's are not necessarily the same. I have been invited to accept some opportunities which have required me to update my online presence.  So here I am.

As we are on the tail end of the Easter weekend allow me to share something that occurred to me.  Jesus Christ is called the Lion and the Lamb.  These are such opposites that it seems contradictory.  How can He be both?

Isaiah 53:7  "He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth."

Jesus stood before His accusers and refused to defend Himself.  He remained silent in the face of the false accusations they hurled at Him.  He didn't fight back when they beat and tortured Him.  In this way He truly was the Lamb, The Sacrificial Lamb that took the judgement for our sin.

Yet in this He was never the victim.  He remained in charge of the whole thing.

Three days later, in the silence of the dawn, He emerged with a roar that shook hell to its foundations.

Revelation 5:5 "....Do not weep.  Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, .... has prevailed..."

Up until that resurrection dawn, 'death' was the final word for every single person that has ever walked this planet.  But now, He had prevailed over it and ushered in a new day of hope where the new final word is Resurrection Life.

He is indeed both the Lion and the Lamb.  He fought and won - for us.  I trust that you are able to receive this gift of His victory over sin and death in your own life.

Happy Easter!
Lynda