Stay tuned for more frequent blogging by I - (yes I know I've said that before, but this time just might be different - Im trying to live a more disciplined life- of which blogging may prove to be fruit of that....)
*** funny story - I had this saved in my drafts, thinking i had posted recently - turns out I never posted this (ht:cts) - so this post is over a week old.




I had a War Room shift tonight and I guess the Lord took me on a little bit of a journey. We visited some places of the past, current places and emotions, and the places yet to come (both personally and corporately). There were ups, there were downs, some of these places were great moments of victory while others were times of defeat, emotions included love, hate, joy and sorrow - but the one constant through it all was HIS presence.

"We can NEVER escape from your presence" Psalm 139

And now, I am still here in TWR, my shift officially ends in 20 minutes and I don't want it to. I don't want to leave - I am really enjoying the Presence of God and as such do not want to leave it, and if I could I would stay forever...

...the reality is - I CAN STAY FOREVER, actually I don't have a choice in the matter, for I can never escape the Presence of God - the challenge though is recognising it (and honoring it) outside of this place, recognising Him in our lives, in each other, our neighbours, the poor.

It is also in recognising His presence in our daily living, and honoring Him, things like Salvation, Repentance, Sanctification, Holiness and Joy would be on the rise.


Lord, open our eyes, give us Kingdom eyes to see you. Oh Lord, we want to recognise you in our daily living, in our coming and our going.





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How is Nicole?

Overall great, with slight inconviences of not so great, but as I said, overall things are superb.



Still chewing through Jeremiah, with some added Hosea while I contemplate my way through covenant.



Re:cre8 - our community building coffee drop-in - has been going well - if you want to check it out, fire me an email and I can hook you up with details.



The War College is now in full swing - check out our blog, right hand side, for some student details. Our best year yet I'd say. Applications are fast coming for the next year too, the War Cry session - get your applications in today... http://www.thewarcollege.com/ .

This week...well lets just say its a week Id rather not re-live.

Yet the Lord is good, and His love endures forever.

This past week was filled with grief and sorrow.

Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, His love endures forever.

A friend of mine relapsed....
I received some hard news...
It seemed like everyone I needed wasn't here...
I feel mis-understood....
Good friends of mine are quarrelling against each other, and thus causing division (it really stinks too)...
A guy I know killed himself....
Too many of my friends are hurting, really hurting...
and I'm fed up with it all....

(not too mention homelessness, poverty, famine, slavery...that I am being too self-centered for the momemnt - to eventually make a point - to add to my list of bad things for the week)


But you know what, in all of that God is still God.

I had a great time worshipping this week. Something I've always said is that worship (which can be argued is a branch of holiness) really just makes things better. You see, a bunch of crap happened this week, and sure I could look at it all, dwell upon it and decide - yup things suck. Or I can worship the Sovereign Lord. It is only in a place of worship, only when your eyes are completely on Him that things fade away. In a place of true worship all I can think about is the King, all I can do is look in my lover's eyes and be at peace and be still. In a true place of worship I have undivided focus, nothing steers me away from my God. See, in worship you are humbled and bowed down before the Throne so you can't actually see the storm going around you - all you see are His feet in a place of humility and his eyes in a place of worship.

I think that's why its so important to be in continued worship (or continued holiness), for that way the things that so easily distract and bring us down can have no authority. Worship looks like abiding in Him.

So even though it seems like there is darkness and pain and death everywhere - remember worship smashes all of it and life shines brightly.

Worship...hard...now.

Peace,
Nicole

ps - Can I just tell you I am super super super tired and in just under two hours I can crawl into my own bed, and not sleep on some rocks and in the cold.! PTL

That said - I would go camping again in a heartbeat!