I had a headache.
Then a six-year old prayed for healing.
He prayed in tounges.
My head doesnt hurt anymore.
He's six!

I applied for a job.
I had an interview.
I got the job.
I work at curves.
You should join.
I get commission.

i recently started praying by list, and i am still amazed at tangible results

since i began praying by list, which encourages continual intersession, and praying untill something happens, i have seen Gods hand on situations.

my mom just got accepted into a program where she will be a certified tutor. praise the Lord!

how annoying is this, i dont blog for a week then write 3 blogs in one day! sorry...read them all though please...some are funny and some are sobering...

blast...

my friend fell, fell into the enemies lies, fell into agreement with the world, fell back into drugs, fell hard.
she was doing so well, and lost it in one bad desition.
i am so angry

blast...

yet theres hope! hallelujah theres hope!

i just got off the phone with her, she admitted shes weak and needs helps, and admitted that she needs to rely on Gods strengh. shes agreed to go to treatment, pray for her.

now I call all my friends in the downtown eastside friends, becuase thats what they are, but with sarah, its authentic friendship, not that the other ones arent, it just seems more so with sarah...when im bored and have nothign to do i go to her house not becuase im obligated to but becuase i want to...we have genuine fun together!!! this friendship is one of those devine friendships...

it all started a couple years ago. i was not in the war college yet. i was downtown with cariboo hill temple street van, and i was wearing a camp sunrise staff shirt. she noticed it and mentioned she once worked at jacksons point. we got to talking. i then prayed for her almost every day and didnt see any more of her. infact along with cleaning my room found an old journal where i mentioned her in... went to work at camp sunrise, and often the Lord brought her to mind and i would shout up a prayer, then i was in the war college and met a nice girl named sarah, it took me about a month to realise it was the same person (she on the other hand new right away, and still makes fun of me for not realising it!, in my defense she looked WAY different, lost a lot of weight, lighter hair...) for the last year we have been friends...i went through some rough stuff during the year, and she encouraged me to persiver, at grad she said something i will never forget "im proud of you". all year the Lord told me to get in a disipling relationship with her, i compromised and just met with her as friends, i wonder if i was obedient in the first place, she would have not fallen...at grad i mentioned to her we should get together for a structered time of disipling and she was all for it, this time i will be obedient to the Lord most high.

Im in the middle of cleaning, and by cleaning I mean throwing out old junk, my room at my moms. And I just have to write some of the humor down!

I threw out all my old high school yearbooks, becuase really I dont need them...but looked threw the comments one last time...here is one of the comments from my ninth grade yearbook

"Party hard this summer, and maybe if church doesnt give you anymore bad
influences you'll smoke up with me again, you are so fun when you are high, your
fun sober too"

At least he credited my change to the of the church...[Jesus]

Along with this cleaning I came arcross an old journal. Here is one of the songs I wrote.

"My tears are falling for you, The love I felt is still here, Torn away our love
is gone, My tears are shattered, Our love is tarnished, My tears are shattered,
Nothing but the memories to hold on to, The memories of pain and of sorrow,
Those happy times have disappeared, It felt like only yesterday when you were
here, Holding my tightly away from fear, I weep when I think of you and I cry
when I dont, My tears are shattered, Where is the hope?? Shattered tears,
Shattered tears, Shattered tears...."

Im sure theres some righteaus redeeming available, but its a good laugh!!!

I also found an old portfolio from my high school photography class...the cover of this portfolio had some crosses, name of Jesus, etc, yet also sported some Pantera and Slayer (bands of demonic orientation) hmm, looks like I didnt have my priorities set yet! Inside this portfolio where some photos I took, and I had forgotten this passion I once had. But mixed in with the Nicole Brindle originals where some photos I had stolen too...hmmm...

Okay, Im going to go back and clean the rest of my room! Cheers

Boundless Magazine is out!

Read it...

So yesterday we, The War College, had our graduation. Good times.

Rather then sharing it all, becuase I really dont want to type that all out! I'll brief you with a sample.

So after the dinner we head over to a worship meeting. I had Haven Peters, a beautiful six year old girl, on my shouldiers while praising the Lord with the dance. A few songs into it, we begin singing "Majesty" where upon being awed by the beauty and presence of the Lord I bowed down. As much as my focus was on Jesus and my body was no longer in control, for my spirit had taken over, I was also aware that I had a 6-year old on my sholdiers and still consciencly knew that if I fell to the ground, Haven could get injured...so I kneeled down and proceeded to gently take her off my shouldiers, expecting her to run off and dance with someone else. (She is a warfare dancer!)...to my surprise though she stuck around. As I was kneeling and bowing down, I feel these small, delecit hand rest on my body, shortly followed by Haven embracing me tightly. Wow, I have never felt compassion like that before. Even cooler, she continued embracing me for like 20 minutes. Remember this is a 6-year old girl who normally would run off to play elsewhere cuz what I was doing was "boring"...this was clearly the spritis doings.

Furthermore, Havens five year old sister Serene comes to us with a warfare flag, symbolising restoration, and waves it over us for minutes.

I recieved alot of healing from these two small children that night.

I tell you, these girls are so intune with the spirit. They know whats going on.

Whats really cool is I didnt meet the Holy Spirit until I was 14, these girls have a decade on me. And Im excited to see the accellerations and the advancement of their spiritual walk!

God grant it!!!!

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Shes back on the bloggin scene!

Friday August 19th 7pm

Worship Celebration for the War College Graduation.

You should come.

Why not?

Okay, theres only a few deadly sins left...(again...ALL sins are deadly)...and I have realised now this might be a problem, for I am back in the downtown eastside with limited internet. So to please everyone, including myself, I will do a quick rundown of the remaining.

Anger - Dont sin in your anger
Sloth - Dont be lazy

When it comes down to it, sin leads to death. So dont sin.

For you fans of the Be A Hero portion of the deadly sins, the remaining of those were...

War Affected Children
and
Orphans on the Street.

Both are wrong. Both need to be made right. So cry out for justice.

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Envy

I made the following definistion up...so be aware it holds no ground. But I figure jelousy is wishing you had something someone else has, and envy is wishing that other person didnt have what you want. Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation. Why are we envious of others? Why are we letting the enemy have this one? Instead of desireing what others have, why not praise the LORD for what He has given them?

Envy is such a silly tool of the enemy. God has this perfect plan for us. He has our lives planned out for our good and His glory. Satan would love nothing more then to screw with our minds, think our lives arent as good as the next persons. Dont give the Devil that kind of credit!...Repent of evny. Thank God for the lives of your friends, and Thank God for the traits, satus, abilitys and situations He has given you.

Aids and Plauges.

I dont physically have "Be A Hero" here with me. (It is packed right now) so the following quotes will not be word for word. But here is a sample of the Aids and Plauges reality.

Every 5 minutes, someone in the States between
16-24 is infected with the HIV virus.

A witch doctor in Africa once informed her paitents
that to cure Aids one must sleep with a virgin. The fruit of this was
people rapeing and killing infants.

One story in "Be A Hero" goes along these lines.
A missionary was walking the street in Africa and came to a dumpstar only to
find a child no more then a month old, dead in a bag.

Worldwide: UNAIDS estimates that as of December 2000,
there were an estimated 36.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS (34.7 million
adults and 1.4 million children under 15). Since the epidemic began, an
estimated 21.8 million people have died of AIDS (17.5 million adults and 4.3
million children under 15). www.aids.org

An estimated 5.3 million new HIV infections occurred in
2000. During 2000, HIV- and AIDS-associated illnesses caused deaths of an
estimated 3 million people, including 500,000 children under the age of
15. www.aids.org

In the United States: According to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are between 800,000 and 900,000
people living with HIV. Through December 2000, a total of 774,467 cases of AIDS
have been reported to the CDC; of this number, 448,060 persons (representing 58%
of cases) have died. www.aids.org via (Source:
Centers for Disease Control - CDC)

Repent of envy. Get educated on AIDS. and. Do Something

Pride

Here is a 'deadly' sin (allthough i remind us again, ALL sins are deadly, not just a select seven) we here often. Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride can manifest in different ways...its all about me, I did it, Im so good...tend to be some of the common ones...but pride is really much more. Pride is also failing to admit when we are wrong. Failing to admit we need help. Failing to seek guidence. Holding on to some stuff becuase you dont want others to think differntly of you. Pride can also manifest is false humility, stubborness, and shame. I beleive the biggest weapon the Devil holds is that of pride. Pride is what led King Uzziah to his downfall.

We tend to look at pride as almost normal, because almost everyone has issues with it. But thats not normal. Normal would be true humility for thats how God intended for us to live. Friends, we must repent of our pride, we must walk out a humble life. It can be done. And when it is...well when it is its just better.

Persecuted Church

If you are reading this its very likely you live in a country where we have the freedom to worship. China, Bangledesh, and Iraq to name a few, get imprisoned, tortured and martyred for their faith. We dont often hear of the injustice of this issue, but it is reality. In countries like these there are underground churches, were everyday saints risk their lives to pray, worship, fast, and commune with God. If you've been made fun of for beleiveing in Jesus, or are in a lower social class, or have been mocked, thats nothing compared to what are brothers and sisters are receiving in countries without freedom of religion.

Pray for them.

Before I continue with my seven deadly sins series...did anyone else watch the lions game tonight? we just won our 6th game in a row

Gluttony

Gluttony is the desire to consume more then is needed. This is another sin we as the western world are guilty of. Im sure you have heard the following statistic many times, but its true. 20% of the world consumes 80% of the food, and 80% of the world comsumes 20% of the food. Do that math...its doesnt add up. Fast food chains are all about up sizing or supersizing when the regular size is more then enough. And the fruit of an over consuming nation is overweight citizens and heath problems.

Children in Chains

Child labor...untill reading Campbell and Courts "Be A Hero" I had forgetton all about it. When I was in grade school I remember hearing all about kids my age being foced into work, getting beat doing it, and being sick all the time. But over the years I forgot. Being reminded of the injustice of it all I now cant forget it. And I dont want to forget untill there is justice brought.

These two "seven deadly sins" arent as closly realated to the other two...however the challenge remains the same. Repent of gluttony, this may look like no more upsized meals, fasting a day a week, one portion meals. And bring justice to the children. No more Nike.

Please add more companies that envoke child labour so I can discontinue my shopping there....

Lust

Lets get serious. Lust is marching its way into youth and children, allthough I want to empasis we mustnt forget about lust amungst adults its just as real. Lust includes premarital sex, masturbation, fornication, prostitution, insest, sex with animals, some of todays fashion, internet porn, playboy magazines the list can go on.

God created sex to be a beautiful thing. He created it to be an act of unity. The Devil has perverted it and has now become some common act where the outcomes are often unplanned pregnacies, AIDs and other diseses. Do we realise that if we had never come into agreement with the Devils counterfeit there would be no AIDs!

Sex and the City

Do we realise the seriousness of the sex trade? I know I didnt till I read "Be A Hero" by Campbell and Court.

"After
being robbed of their childhood by the two weathiest men, the little girls were
subjected to a sweries of rapes lasting through the night." The next morning
they were taken across the Windsor border in the United States. Stripped, each
was given a number on her back right shoulder with a black felt marker and
pushed into a large room behind the stage in a club. They werent alone. Sukan
and her partner were overwhelmed by the sight of 19 8-10 year olds, all naked,
all numbered with the black felt marker. This night was to be a slave

"Sukans eight year old life was hawked for a forty two thousand
dollars-the highest price ever paid for a prostitute at this
site"

Thats not right. What can we do? We can start by repenting of lust and crying out for justice.

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Its the online version of the now extinct Edge.
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I am going to blog about the 7-deadly sins. Allthough be aware that all sins are deadly.

The idea of 'deadly' sins was created by the Church. Years ago the Church desided it needed to create a division between those sins which were considered 'minor' and could be forgiven without the saccrement of confession and those that were 'major' or deadly and needed to be brought to confession.

Yet, understand that the above is stricly theological, and not nessessarily what I beleive.

I wasnt planning on including the following in this series of posts, but then it came to mind, and now it will be included.

In Wesley Campbell and Stephen Court's book "Be A Hero" there is a chapter in which they have created a different set of deadly sins. One will be included in each post aswell.

Greed

Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain. In the western world I think we are espesially guilty of this sin. We tend to think the more we have, the bigger our house, the newer our car or the better paying career we have the better our lives are. Im guilty of it right now. Im sitting here typing and thinking about the pants I wanna buy. As if I dont have enough? Friends, lets live simply. Live only with what we need. Deny yourself and saccrifice. And to go with a recent post of mine, tithings a good place to start.

Dirt Poor

Here we are living in greed...yet in undeveloping countries there are people living in dire poverty.

"The lives of 17 million children were needlessly lost in 2000 because world
governments have failed to reduce poverty levels."

This is reality. What are we going to do about it. How about repent of our greed and sponser a child.

I was talking to a couple girls the other night and they were talking about boys, internet boyfriends, older boyfriends, stuff like that. There were 4 of us. One, who is 15, has been dating this 22 year old guy she met on the internet. Another has been hurt by every boy she liked. And the third was too busy posing for the guys with us to join the conversation. Before I go on to my point Im going to rabbit trail a bit.

Relationships were created by God. Created to glorify the LORD, created to bring companionship and love to the other, created for the good. The Devil has perverted it. He has made a counterfiet...one that people mistake for the real thing. Girls (and guys im sure) are being trapped into lies. Lies that being hurt is okay. Lies that being in a relationship with an older guy is allright when your only 15. Lies that a relationship means fighting and arguing. Lies that life sucks if your not in relationship. Lies that its all about image. Those are lies! The truth is relationships are a beautiful thing created by God to bring hapiness, safety, power and love.

We have a disire to be in relationship, becuase God created us that way. He created us to be in perfect relationship with Him through Christ. If you dont have that relationship filled, there is an emptyness. That emptyness needs to be filled and thats why the Devil counterfeited Gods creation with relationship that lead to distruction. Dont fill your emptiness with a counterfeit, make sure it is filled with Christ.

Back to my point. So at this part of the conversation I desided to redeem it. We made lists of qualities we are looking for in husbands...not boyfriends. There was nothing on these lists that said mean, jerk, abusive etc...they were nice, funny, kind, honest etc...so I said...why settle for less? We are we compromising for less?

Furthermore, on my list the top was faith. Has to be christian. Two of the other girls quickly agreed. This was the first time I met them, and I was like, rad your christian...20 minutes later this one girl was like so I have a question about God. Which also was great because this was the first time I had met her, and she asked some deep questions regarding, faith, hell, can you get to heaven if...etc. This was one of the few youth groups this summer where there was some theological conversation. It was encouraging seeing 14, 15, 16 year olds so interested.

then...
(sorry for the long blog...keep reading though please!)

One of the girls was like, ya I used to go to the Morman Church. I got excited for the Morman Cult is one of the few cults and other religions im educated on. And she was like and a few years ago I realised its a bunch of bull, asked my friend "do you really beleive this" and i left. Narly! So once she came to the conclution that she didnt beleive in the morman faith, she converted to the Christian faith....but then at one Christian meeting she went to she was taught that all religions are right. I could argue that this other meeting was infact NOT Christian...but point is she thought it was. Here she was taught that all religions are all puzzle peices and at the end of the world we will see the big picture! This, friends, is what the next generation is being taught, and agreeing with. This girl is convinced there is no true faith, yet all faiths are right. Now thats bull! Do we really beleive that?? There is only one peice to the puzzle. One Way. Christ.

did you allready forget about the relationships part of the blog...cuz i did!
your thots welcomed...

Happy BC Day.
What better place to celebrate BC Day then in its capital city!

attention all martyrs
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