After one of my disciples called me up high requesting a free ride and meal the other day I had a brilliant thought...

"I want her to know that I wont just drop anything for her, but I need her to know that I will drop everything for her"

I didnt give her a ride, or buy her a meal. I was to angry. I said she could bus down, and eat something at our place, and sleep over...so she did.

I am getting angrier with sin. Thats for sure, i used to be pretty soft and easy, but now I am beginging to get intentional about showing justice...and sometimes its gotta be in hard love.

In 1 Corinthians Paul talks abotu kicking hypocrite Christians right out of the Church. I dont know if I can go that far. Well litrallly I cant becuase I have no authority to, but if i did, i dont know if i could. Its a hard place. I think of this girl im disicpling. She professes Christianity yet lives a double life...and allthough there is some good fruit appearing, she is still choosing to partake in sinful activity. I would never even think about kicking her out of the church, or not allowing her to squad or whatever, she is my friend. Grrr, i dont know. Its pretty tough.

Anyways,
so i sliced my hand up pretty bad yesterday. i can barly do antying...even typing is an issue. its on the palm of my hand.

Ill put together a good post one of these days soon!
Until then

Soak in the Lords blessings.

Im not much of a crier. Except for when it comes to goodbyes. I got to say bye to wonderful Salvation Army Officers today. Captians Steven and Corrine Cameron are off on there way to Regina Saskatchewan this week. I praise Jesus for the wonderful leadership, prayers and support they have bestowed while in Victoria. I thank Jesus for them. God Bless Ya Captains!

Hey Friends!!!

Do you love Jesus?

"If you love me then you will obey my commands"

- Jesus

"The Spirit of the soveringn Lord is upon me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to free those wrongly imprisoned, set the captives free, return sight to the blind, to comfort the broken hearted...etc

-Isaiah 61 (kinda paraphrased becuase I dont have a Bible near)

"If you love me then you will obey my commands"

-Jesus

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Pray about it, and will whatever He says, obey and dont be a Jonah!

Today I made a new friend. She came over to our place for squad/cell/whatever we are going to call it. At first it was Beracah, I, our friend, and our new friend. Our new friend was allready pretty open with us, which was pretty neat. She shared with us that she had been raped by her mothers boyfriend, that she first got high when she was six years old, and that she spent some time in a jouvenile group home for troubled teens...on top of some other unjust stuff. Oh ya, she is only 14.

This makes me so angry. It makes me angry that young girls are getting raped and abused. It me angry that my friends are getting raped and abused. It makes me angry that a young girls image of "father" is a rapist. FUCK! Im angry.

And Im sorry to all teens, and parents, and whoever else who reads my blog and is offended by the offensive language. I was tempted to delete my swearing, for im not one to swear...online. But I am too angry, so it shall remain.

This conversation with my new friend, led nicely into what the Holy Ghost had instore for the evening. You see, Beracah had this wonderful idea of a justice wall. To put up a bulliton board, and make a collage of some awarness, and stats and stuff. We pulled out some newspapers, printed some contraversial pictures from online (aborted fetus', child prostitues), and started it. It was a great way to hear what our friends are passionate about. We proposed the question of what makes you angry? And recieved ansewrs of, crystal meth, drunk drivers, animal abuse, child abuse. We shared some stories from "Siren Call of a Dangerous God" a book I have just begun reading by Geoff Ryan, corps officer 614 Toronto and from "Be A Hero" written by Stephen Court (corps officer of 614 Vancouver) and Wesley Campbell. The injustice that was read hit everyone and made us think. One of my freinds asked to borrow "Be A Hero" (a teen who has dropped out of school requesting to read a book...now thats a mirical in itself).

Then we all went outside (where we did cause a fire - exibit A) for a while. After some fire and wrestling (exibit B), one of our friends chose to go back inside while the rest of us hung around outside. When i went in later, I found him on the couch reading "Siren Call of a Dangerous God". Im excited to see where God is going.

Exibit A (notice the remnints of a fire under Joey's head - oyvay...proff that teens, lighters and an abandoned matress dont work)

Exibit B

INJUSTICE...GOD DAMN IT!

This is what Andy Mac does on his spare time. Sorry ladies, looks like he's taken. And Andy, you should know better, no romacnce till August!
Hey this is Kyle with some balloons from my surprise party tonight. I was thougholy surprised!!! And this is proof of my 4 leaf clover find!!!

Here is our place!

This is our living room.

This is our bedroom.

This is our front room. So that door that is open is our front door, then you are right into the living room. Straight ahead is our kitchen (you can see the stove in the picture)

And my favourite part of the house!!! Our walk in closet!

I got thinking, what if we were in truley abiding with the Lord...all day everyday? What if we talked EVERYTHING through with Jesus. Even the simple things, "Jesus, what should I wear today" "Jesus, can I eat this" "Jesus, which route should I take to work" "Jesus, how should I do my hair today"....Imagine the possibilities. Without asking Him what way to get to work, we may potentially miss out on a divine appointment, or even get hit by a car. Now, I know thats going extreme, but really.

I was thinking about this alot this morning and then thought, why dont I? I say im abiding, yet Im not asking him weather I should have an orange or an apple...now I know this sounds somewhat ridiculus, but when it comes to these things, Im still relying on my own disires, as opposed to always seeking the Fathers. And I started to wonder why I didnt ask for Jesus' opinion. I suppose it is because I think he will say no. Like I (key work I) might want to have an apple, and wont want to ask Jesus if I should, thinking he might say no, have an orange. So I dont even ask...when really Jesus could fairly well say apple...becuase the Lord isnt out to get us...its not like, that just because we want something automatically means He doesnt want us too. I know this sounds somewhat petty...but really, I guess abiding really means ALL OF YOU with ALL OF HIM...including the little daily things.

Dont assume the Lord will say no...we are on the same team anyways. He does not have plans to harm or hurt us. His plans and His ways are perfect and good.

Poker night at the Walters-Wulfing-Brindle residents!

Myself and the lovely Tasha Chooi!!! Isnt she lovely!

Did you know that I found 2...count them TWO...four leaf clovers in less then 24 hours. I know I amaze myself too! I have never found one before...it was awesome.

Hmm, what else is new. Well today marks the one week aniversary of Beracah and I living in our new place! It is swell. The best parts are when people come over without calling just to visit. its so great. we had our first guest spend the night last night. and we have had some community meals. our neighbors totally get communtiy too. this one guy fred, he lives next door, we had our bike out one morning. (because i get home at 8am and beracah leaves for work at 9am) unlocked becuase it was shuch a short time before the other person used it, and he locked it up with his lock and his key becuase he didnt want it to get stolen, he was totally watching out for us, it was so kind. he is an amazing man! he is about 70, and when we first met him his first words were "if you need anything, just let me know, im here to help"

did i blog that im working part tiem at curves again? well i am...still got my rad job though. im at work right now getting payed to tell y'all how its going.

im trying to think of something great to say...and one would think i have something becuase its been four days since my last update...but i suppose i dont.

Jesus is teaching me about intamacy with him...who would have ever thought, that I, Nicole Brindle, would reach this point with Jesus...im loving it....he is taking me on levels far beyond my understanding...wow!

Oh and its my birthday on Friday!! woohoo!

Nope I don thave anything else to say...so here is a picture! God bless y'all heaps and heaps!

I played the wife today, which inevitably means Beracah was husband. Shall I explain. Today, while Beracah was hard at work 9 - 6, I stayed at home and did the laundry, banking, cleaning and cooking. Haha. I didnt do it alone though, I had a friend with me the whole time! Oh man, if you didnt know better one might think we are. I mean at the moment we only have one double bed, while we wait upon two single's, so you walk into our house and if you dont know us, all you see is us doing eachothers laundry and banking, cooking for eachother, and you look in the bedroom to find one bed, with one set of bedding! Halarius. I work nights and she works days so its not totally dodgy....just really funny. And besides we are girls. But its still really funny!

So Andy and I went to the local highschool to have lunch with some of our friends. After we had lunch, two of the girls (one a previous friend, and the other a new friend I made just today) desided...WITHOUT MY INFLUENCE I MUST ADD (shocker i know)....to skip the last two classes. Since they were going to skip anyways, I figured, hey why not spend the afternoon with us. So my one friend (who will remain anonymus for her own protection) and my new friend, Andy and myself walked all over town doing boring errands, but deepening relationships. Then we headed back to my place (its so cool saying that) to chill. Andy left after a bit and the three of us desided it would be awesome to cook Beracah dinner when she came home from work. And awesome it was. It was so fun making it with this annonymus person.

We like to keep things simple. Our mission out here in Victoria is simple, move in, get jobs, and makes friends. Up until Sunday we were great at the getting jobs and making friends part. The moving in...not so much. We didnt get possestion of a place in the communtity we were called to until Sunday. Prior to that we were miles (it seemed with the lack of vehicals, and the poor transit system) away. We tried not to let it stop us, but it definetly hindered. There were days we didnt leave the house becuase of distance, and money and time. But as soon as we moved in, things picked up hugely! I had been stuggling with some doubt about hearing the Lord right and some confustion of what He wanted, but once we moved into the neighborhood...BAM...shalom came upon. And wow, in the last 36 hours I have felt more established then the last month (can you beleive I have been there this long!!!! Today marks my one month aniversary of moving to Vicotira). In the past 36 hours, I have had more effective disiplship then i have in the last month. In the past 36 hours, we have had our first meeting in our home, our first communtiy meal, and we are having our first squad tomorow, none of this happened in the past month. Things are going fantastic! Thanks for your prayers! Being incarnate is key.

Oh, one cool thing about our place is we have desided no TV (that was a simple disition) and no internet. I have had much more fruitful and deep rations without the distraction of it. Like there is no more "If you hurry and finish you can check your email" and I only had TV for a couple weeks but there were many times I would "Hurry so that I can be finished by 7:00 to watch America's next top model" or whatever. Now, I without those distractions I have understood intamacy with Christ on a new level...still learning this one. And I have picked up reading!!! Something I NEVER do. But tonight after my anonymus friend left, and Beracah was getting ready for bed, and I had about an hour to kill before I had to leave for work, I picked up "Aggressive Christianity" By Catherine Booth and Cory Harrison, and gave it a good read. Its been a LOOOONG time since Ive been excited to read more. Man LIFE IS GOOD!

Sorry for the long post...I cant help it...God is too good!
Bless you all!

HAPPY SEVENTEENTH TASHA CHOOI!

so where is nicole you are wondering...im still here, i havent been blogging lately becusae i have been busy moving into my very own (and beracah) place.

its sooooo werid having a rental agreement, hydro bills, having furniture, only living with one other person, having to buy stuff like bleach, comet, shower curtains...its just all sooo werid....but so much stinkin fun! i love it.

let me try and descibe our place...ghetto, definetly ghetto! our screen door stays open by a peice of twine wrapped around a poll, one of our cupboards hits the light when you open it, our window can only lock if you push it really hard and in a certain angle and with a stick, and we have allready found 3 varietys of bugs.

there is no place like home!!

seriously, its an awesome place...i still cant believe it! its sooo werid!!!

today was our first offical day. we got keys on june 1, but were house sitting until today. so today Beracah was off doing a dance cell, and I was home (thats werid to say that) dancing alone when we had our first offical visiter. i mean we have had people over all day, but we invited them, or they were giving us furntiture, but my friends ashley and tasha came over just to come by, it was so fun!

so anyone can come visit!
6-304 langford street

Jesus is teaching me to run into His arms these days.

I got an email from my friend Mark today and he said this after exlplaining some of the warfare he is experiencing "I'd rather be in a chaotic spiritual battle, than falling asleep at my desk." I would have to agree with him on that one.

Today we had a meeting with some people from the ARC in Victoria. We ate lunch in there cafiteria and it was just like at home eating at harborlight. The guy we were meeting with asked us about the War College and stuff....then he asked (but he was joking thinking it doesnt happen) if we have classes on kicking out demons. We told him actually we do, and we have a guest teacher fly up to teach it. Then he asked (agian trying to crack a joke), so how is the class taught, like with exhorsisms...again we said, yup they are. It was really funny.

At this meeting, I also learned that there is a man with a potasium addiction...and aparently it can be quite dangerous. So you will see this guy, walking down the street wiht handfulls of banana's...the detox for this guy, is no banana's cold turkey. (This is not a joke)