"Let the Morning bring... your unfailing Love."

Good afternoon! Yes I am awake and writing this blog after 24/7 prayer week and no I am not sleepy either! What a blessed time we had this week, just taking time to be quiet with God. What a privilege.

But before I talk about my experience in the prayer room, I just wanted to share with you the awesome time we had yesterday in the Grid. For those who don't know, The Grid is the group of young people aged 11-14 in our YP. We only have a couple but they are a great group and through them God is really blessing me. So we have been going through the Sermon on the Mount teachings and we spoke about how Jesus taught us to give. So first of all I asked them to make a trumpet! Yep a trumpet, okay it was only out of cardboard and tin foil but all the same, it made a noise. We then were treated to a very dramatic performance from come Pharisee/rich man, Captain Gary as he boasted and bragged about how wealthy he is and about how much he is giving to charity. This almost was met without any hesitation with a sound of blowing our trumpets at him, it was such a fun way to get the message of not blowing your own trumpet when you give but instead be humble and give all you can quietly. I really ask you who are reading this to pray for Eston's Grid, we have just started up and I know through your prayers great things can come through this group of youngsters.

When we think about prayer there are so many types of prayers or there are so many different aspects we include in our prayers. We pray for forgiveness, strength, wisdom. We pray for individual people or our church or for the Salvation Army. We pray for situations around the world and in all of this it is almost like we are asking God to give or replenish something that isn't there at the moment. Of course there is nothing wrong in that whatsoever but over this week I have been praying so many prayers of thanks and praise to our God. Whilst in the prayer room, I set the scene by putting some background music on and the CD I frequently picked was the International Staff Songsters; "Let the Morning Bring" and the title of the CD was taken from Psalm 143; "Let the Morning bring me word of your unfailing Love." What a truth that is, when I would wake up in the morning at a ridiculous hour to walk to the prayer room, God's love to me is evident. First of all he blesses me with the most wonderful people in my life, my wonderful family, my wonderful Girlfriend, my wondeful church family both in Wellingborough Salvation Army and Eston Salvation Army. I then think about his calling on my life to serve him and I think of all things he has provided me to do this task, my God is a God of Love and Grace and he doesn't enjoy watching me flounder in the deep end. He Loves me! Then I think of the greatest showing of Love of all, I think of Calvary where God sent his Son to die for an unworthy sinner such as me, that's Love. How wonderful it is. But it doesn't stop there, it is unfailing. He will always love me no matter what I do, He will continue to bless and Love me each new morning I wake.

Well another week is upon us, I hope you have a good one! Please get in touch if you have anything to say about the Blog or if you have any questions about Essential or the Salvation Army or whatever! Do get in contact. God Bless.

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