My work team

Love this team comprising Bill (our Director), Sarah (our Manager), Roslyn who I job share with and then three blokes Travis, Rob and Andrew.

Fanatic

Today I was driving Angel home and a funny man was grinning a HUGE grin at me and then when I politely smiled back, he held up his Bible and waved it at me. Oh, so he was a Christian and had seen the stickers on the back of my car, which say "Miracles happen" and "no Jesus no peace, know Jesus know peace" and possibly even caught sight of the cross and the soldier in armor on my dashboard. He was so incredibly excited. Then we both turned right and I overtook him to show him my car stickers again. He drove past me and I waved at his beaming face. Oh what a nutter. I guess I will see him again in Heaven. Glad my stickers made his day. Wonder why he didn't have any.

My super kid Angel

This is what Angel did in Superkidz at church this morning.

Neil's wife Sue told me how much they love having Angel at Superkidz and how well she fits in. She told me I had done a really great job with Angel. I have brought her every week this year so far.

Then she asked me if I really felt what I was doing was from the Lord and I said yes. I felt so sad, but I really do. Then she said that I needed to get on with my life, that it could not stop because of Angel. Such a sad conversation. We both love her to bits and can see what a blessing church is for her. She loves it. She loves to sing their worship songs and say prayers and a big "amen" at the end. We were both so sad thinking of the possibility of Angel not coming back regularly because of the state Julz is in.

Oh Lord, my heart is really sad tonight.

Lars 1st Bday Party at Hungry Jacks

Had a really nice quiet 1st birthday party for Lars today at Hungry Jacks. It was just with Kylie, Brett and their two boys, Annette and Gabby, Mel and her two boys and us. It's so much nicer having just a few people.

Angelina at church

Gosh Angel is growing up

Choose life

Well today mum sent an awful email to Julz, Dave, Lori, Erik, Marcus and I about vampires. I know what she was implying - that Grunde is a vampire who is sucking the life out of Julz. What a sick thought to ponder. It troubled me reading her quoted text. I just got home and typed up a response. I'm sure the Holy Spirit led me in replying. This is my response:

What do i think? ... I think it's weird content mum. I think it's am unhealthy focus on the demonic personally. I prefer to speak life instead of death and focus on how awesome God is and the fact that when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, His Spirit lives inside us and as the Bible says "Greater is He that is in us than he that is in the world".... "the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives inside us". Jesus is the name above every other name - at the name of Jesus EVERY knee will bow and EVERY tongue confess that Jesus is Lord. What may look impossible to man, is possible to God. All things are possible to him who believes.

No situation and no person is beyond the reach of God's hand, no matter how messed up they may look to us. His love is unconditional and He's waiting for us to pray and intercede for these people. When we take our eyes off Jesus, we lose hope. When we don't make time to read His Word and spend time in His presence, like a branch that doesn't get water, we wither and die.

In the same way God miraculously healed you and delivered you from death, He can do the same for anyone who is sick in any way, whether it be physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, etc... God is no respecter of persons - what He has done for others, He will do for those we pray for. He delights in our prayers and the times we put our complete trust in Him over everything that concerns us. A promise He gave me personally is Psalm 138:8 - He will perfect ALL that concerns me.

There are loads of people in this world we can look at and see problems in. I don't think anyone is perfect and without issues. I think often we we focus on the negatives, the devil lures us into thinking things that don't line up with God's Word, when in actual fact the Word of God should be our focus. It brings life to our bodies and health to all our flesh. It brings hope into seemingly hopeless situations. As soon as we start confessing the negative thoughts, we partner up with the devil and curse with our mouths and speak death. Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21). We can choose to either tear down or build up, comfort and edify. I choose life.

Sold

Selling loads of stuff lately. I recently put a pair of shoes up on ebay that Julz gave me and i listed them for $99. Today a chick in NSW sent me an email asking me if I would consider selling them to her as a buy it now option. I asked her how much she would like to offer, she said $14o! I couldn't believe it. So of course I said yes and she transferred the money tonight. Sweet! The shoes were Jimmy Choo gold strappy heels. They were really nice shoes made in Italy. Amazing though that someone is willing to buy second hand shoes at that price.

Stirling motto

The motto of the City of Stirling is Be Sterling is spoken by King Richard in Shakespeares Richard II, Act 4, Scene 1. Sterling means a mark of excellence; to stand every test; of genuine quality; the highest standard of valuation. As such, to Be Sterling is to be dependable.

Classic photo

Sold my dining suite today

Some guy called Tom bought my dining suite for $270 today. Sort of wishing I had put the price up. He definitely got a great deal. Wow, my house is really getting spacious. On Monday the real estate lady is coming to photograph my house so it can be advertised for renting and then ultimately sold. So sad letting go of this beautiful blessing. It is weird how we can get so attached to things that we cannot take to Heaven. Mum has graciously let me move some things to her house, which is amazing seeing i've been sneaking car loads in beforehand :-) haha ... but I am going to sell the big things and almost everything worth anything.

Angelina 2 yrs, 9 mths old

Took this snap today while Angelina was eating her porridge for breaky. Gosh I just love her so much. So hard to explain to her I am leaving again and this time for longer :-(

Subsequently...

Well, interestingly after that dream I had earlier in the week, a BIG problem arose yesterday. While Julz was at my house, the AMA lawyer rang her. He had some bad news. He told Julz she would have to pay the HUGEST amount of compensation to the practice she worked in as a consequence of cutting her work contract short, resulting in loss of income to the practice. I think it was $1.2M, well some absolutely phenomenal amount that left Julz in shock and sobbing. She could barely communicate with me. I could see she was utterly devastated. She put the kids in the car and drove off sobbing.

Well that is one sure way to kick start my prayer life. As soon as she left, I began praying intensely. I carried on for over three hours almost non-stop until I was so tired I simply had to go to bed. When I woke up, I started praying in tongues again, then prayed scriptures over for for over an hour, then went to work and kept pleading the blood of Jesus over her and asking God to intervene. I text messaged her at lunch time to ask her how she was and to let her know I had been praying for her.

Well my Lord and Savior, the one I love and adore and put my trust in with problems too big for me, intervened. He gave Julz incredible favor with her new boss who is great friends with the AMA boss and together they came up with a solution. They decided they would come at it from a different angle - they would threaten to take legal action from the point of view of damage to Julz' career and her need to have time off work due to stress. Over six months, Julz had meticulously documented every concern she had with the practice and they believe that her former practice is unlikely to bring the matter to court or they will be exposed for their lack of compliance with AMA standards and run the risk of damaging their reputation even further.

I now understand why I had that dream of me with the big sword. I was fighting all these demonic suckers coming against Julz with the sword of the Spirit, aka the Word of God. I was winning the battle I was facing. God showed me I would have victory when I prayed His way.

PRAISE THE LORD!!!

Prizes

I entered two competitions with HBF today - one is to win a $200 bike force voucher, the other is to win a $300 sports fever voucher. The prize is drawn 15 April 2011, so they will have to notify me by email to let me know when I win :-)

Websites blocked at work

So, my workplace has blocked access to facebook, ebay, gumtrees and the quokka. I think it is a great idea so employees don't waste time. I'm surprised other places don't do this.

Tough night

Last night I went to sleep early because I was really tired. The strange thing is I found myself in the weirdest dream. I walked into a place where I was surrounded by demonic things and I found myself immeditaly muttering "in the Name of Jesus I bind you..." and "I plead the blood of Jesus over you..." and each time i said that, i could hear a small popping noise, as though something was dying each time i said that.

I was holding a big sword and i started to swing it horizontally across the room. I saw all these horrified demonic faces watching me as i did this. Some had skull faces, others had small shrivelled heads that looked like semi-human faces, others had fangs and ugly teeth, some had red eyes, all of them looked disgusting. Somehow I was in the middle of a battle and I was winning. I was slaying them one by one. I woke up feeling really pumped up spiritually. Gosh what a night!!! Funny how we can just have random things like this happen every now and then. The spiritual realm is very unusual!

Sold my lounge suite today

Feeling weird that some guy called Hayden is coming tomorrow with $250 in exchange for my lounge suite. I'm planning on moving my single bed into the lounge room and putting the covers and cushions on it to sort of breaks the shock of it all. I have four weeks left before another season begins.

Last night I went to YWAM and caught up with Elisama and Christopher from Mexico. So great to see them both. I just love them so much. I asked Elisama if there was anything he needed and he said he just wanted some soap and insect repellant. He shared with me how in Mexico God had spoken to him and told him who to ask for money to pay for his fees to Perth. The amazing thing is that one couple told him God had given them a dream in which they saw him and gave him money! So then that was definitely from God. I told him my testimonies about being led to go to US and how God had gotten me a great job to pay for it all. We had such a bond last night. I felt sad after I had hugged him and kissed him goodbye. Life is such a journey.

Map guy

Saw this little guy in a training presentation at work - totally love this piccy :-)

Espanol

Realised this week how much Spanish I have learnt when I came across a bag I have with a spanish phrase on it. After reading it I was able to interpret it without a bilingual dictionary! Wow. It says "Soy chico pero mi corazon es grande", i.e. "I am small, but my heart is big". Funny thing is Google Translate translates it as "I'm a boy but my heart is big". Hahaha

Then today at work, I came across a webpage with some writing in Spanish and I could understand bits of it :-) Here it is: