So one of my major dilemmas at the moment:
FLIGHTS!!!
So last night I was having a bit of a search and seeing if I could switch my return on 2 January from SIN-PER to SIN-MEL and thus save me the domestic flight between PER-MEL. I found that there was a flight that landed back in just after 11am on Tuesday the 3rd so I thought what the heck, I'll just arrive to work late.
Well God had way better plans.
I got into work this morning & called the KrisFlyer service centre to see if I could change and noticed that when I went online to get the flight details, other flights were available ... including the flight I wanted originally, arriving on 3rd Jan just before 8am ... and A380!!!
So after they told me I could change it online, I set off on my task ... then I hit a snag ... couldn't update my DOB??!! So another call and this time they wanted to cancel my ticket, then I had to wait 3 weeks for the refund but they could then book me onto the SIN-MEL flight. I was really nice but said I can do it but why does my system not allow me to change my DOB so that I can finalise the new flight details?!!
Anyway, the guy called me back a couple of hours later and he had it sorted. They rebooked me from their end and I am now flying direct SIN-MEL, on the A380 and I chose my seat ... 77K - the original seat I had when I flew with them when the A380 first came out to Australia!!!
I'M SO FLIPPIN EXCITED!! I just couldn't praise God enough for this AMAZING miracle AND blessing!
The guy on the phone said that there were only 6 seats available ... like hello ... did he not realise that there were NONE for the last few months ... 6 is FANTASTIC!
Not that some of the other matters which are sending me to my knees have resolved themselves but this is a step in the right direction ... now for another above and beyond miracle for my flight to Singapore - major sale ... ANYTHING will do ... 26 December not that far away!! =D
xoxo
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Monday, 5 December 2011
Learning to let go
No matter how many times ... I still struggle in giving it over to God.
I just don't understand how I take things to heart (so flipping quickly) and then do my head in trying to work out how people can be vague!
Not everyone realises they are vague ... and really this is where I'm trying to work out if people are being vague or really just being rude ...
Yes, such #firstworldproblems
For that, I am thankful that if this is the only problem I foresee in my near future, then I am truly blessed!
xoxo
I just don't understand how I take things to heart (so flipping quickly) and then do my head in trying to work out how people can be vague!
Not everyone realises they are vague ... and really this is where I'm trying to work out if people are being vague or really just being rude ...
Yes, such #firstworldproblems
For that, I am thankful that if this is the only problem I foresee in my near future, then I am truly blessed!
xoxo
Sunday, 4 December 2011
Time
Wow - why do I get sucked in every time!!!
The enemy will get to you when you least expect it or when you've got your head together and re-focused on where God is leading.
I will PRAISE through all things ...
I will PRAISE at all times ...
HIS love never fails ...
HIS love never runs out on me ...
xoxo
The enemy will get to you when you least expect it or when you've got your head together and re-focused on where God is leading.
I will PRAISE through all things ...
I will PRAISE at all times ...
HIS love never fails ...
HIS love never runs out on me ...
xoxo
Holy Spirit DSLR
My beautiful friend Christine gave me this term & I'm now going to run with it.
When you think about it, it's super powerful!
We where WhatsApp for awhile tonight and it's so amazing (well not really) just what God had put into our hearts.
I am reading through Priscilla Shirer's 'One in a Million' and certain parts were jumping out at me.
22 sleeps until Singapore and I know without a shadow of a doubt that some life changing moments are going to happen.
They may not be obvious ... but they'll happen.
He is the God of the above & beyond ...
Oh I so cannot wait!!!!!
xoxo
When you think about it, it's super powerful!
We where WhatsApp for awhile tonight and it's so amazing (well not really) just what God had put into our hearts.
I am reading through Priscilla Shirer's 'One in a Million' and certain parts were jumping out at me.
22 sleeps until Singapore and I know without a shadow of a doubt that some life changing moments are going to happen.
They may not be obvious ... but they'll happen.
He is the God of the above & beyond ...
Oh I so cannot wait!!!!!
xoxo
Thursday, 1 December 2011
History
Nothing terribly profound for the first day of December (which scarily also denotes 30 days until my birthday!!!)
I'm finding myself in a similar position to what I found myself going through back in July after Hillsong Conference so I decided to read what I wrote back then ...
SO GLAD I DID - not just read it but that I wrote stuff down back then.
Some of those blog entries were so profound.
God is in CONTROL ...
Nothing to FEAR ...
Looking FORWARD to what is to come!
xoxo
I'm finding myself in a similar position to what I found myself going through back in July after Hillsong Conference so I decided to read what I wrote back then ...
SO GLAD I DID - not just read it but that I wrote stuff down back then.
Some of those blog entries were so profound.
God is in CONTROL ...
Nothing to FEAR ...
Looking FORWARD to what is to come!
xoxo
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Fear
I love how God will speak through friends and how at times it may not click immediately but when it does ... it's like ... duh :p!!
So my friend sent me this excerpt from Max Lucado's Fearless:
(p 85-86)
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always.
One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy, then fear, disguises in the grab of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out but disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot solder. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious, reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology but to your amazement, despite superior victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering, your anxiety becomes dread ...
Quickly you make rash decisions. You miss your last allies; hope and trust. There you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
Pi realizes that fear cannot be reasoned with. Logic doesn't talk fear off the ledge or onto the airplane. So what does? How can one avoid that towel-in-the-ring surrender to the enemy? Pi gives this counsel:
You must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of the word upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
OH MY GOODNESS
When I read it, and my spirit was open to receiving it ... BAM!!!
So now just wait and see ...
So my friend sent me this excerpt from Max Lucado's Fearless:
(p 85-86)
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins in your mind, always.
One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy, then fear, disguises in the grab of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out but disbelief and disbelief tries to push it out. But disbelief is a poorly armed foot solder. Doubt does away with it with little trouble. You become anxious, reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology but to your amazement, despite superior victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering, your anxiety becomes dread ...
Quickly you make rash decisions. You miss your last allies; hope and trust. There you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
Pi realizes that fear cannot be reasoned with. Logic doesn't talk fear off the ledge or onto the airplane. So what does? How can one avoid that towel-in-the-ring surrender to the enemy? Pi gives this counsel:
You must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of the word upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
OH MY GOODNESS
When I read it, and my spirit was open to receiving it ... BAM!!!
So now just wait and see ...
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Seasons of change
So interesting times
Seasons come and go ... in weather we know that there are distinct seasons (supposedly for Melbourne anyway!) - Summer, Autumn, Winter & Spring ... the season flow into each other (again when we don't have El Nino gracing its presence)
In our journey and walk with God there are also seasons.
Seasons of blessing and abundance and also seasons testing and refining in preparation for the next part of the journey.
After so much going on, it's fairly evident that I am in a season of preparation and transition. Oh goodness ... what does that really mean?
In Acts Chapter 1, verse 7-8: " He replied, "The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere - in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.""
This recounts the story of when the disciples were asking of Jesus as to if it was time for Israel to be freed.
What a parallel to our own journeys - how often do we ask of Jesus, is the time right for something to happen? It's not that He wants to withhold this information from us, He just wants us to trust in His ways, His timings, His plan ... if our hearts are in tune with Him, if we have that open & trusting relationship with the Holy Spirit, then our plans are likely to be exactly that which God has already set before us.
In the OT, in the book of Daniel - 2:21-23 "He controls the course of world events; he removes kings and set up other kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the scholars. He reveals deep and mysterious things and knows what lies hidden in darkness, though he is surrounded by light. I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors, for you have given me wisdom and strength. You have told me what we asked of you and revealed to us what the kind demanded."
God has always been and will always be in control - should we truly submit ourselves to Him. He will not force Himself, His plan on us - it takes our faith, our choice to trust in His ways.
Ps 1:2-3 "But they delight in the law of the LORD, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do."
A season for me is being prepared to be ended whilst another is at its dawn. I only need to continue to have faith and trust in Him and ALL will be revealed and come to pass.
xoxo
Seasons come and go ... in weather we know that there are distinct seasons (supposedly for Melbourne anyway!) - Summer, Autumn, Winter & Spring ... the season flow into each other (again when we don't have El Nino gracing its presence)
In our journey and walk with God there are also seasons.
Seasons of blessing and abundance and also seasons testing and refining in preparation for the next part of the journey.
After so much going on, it's fairly evident that I am in a season of preparation and transition. Oh goodness ... what does that really mean?
In Acts Chapter 1, verse 7-8: " He replied, "The Father alone has the authority to set those dates and times, and they are not for you to know. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere - in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.""
This recounts the story of when the disciples were asking of Jesus as to if it was time for Israel to be freed.
What a parallel to our own journeys - how often do we ask of Jesus, is the time right for something to happen? It's not that He wants to withhold this information from us, He just wants us to trust in His ways, His timings, His plan ... if our hearts are in tune with Him, if we have that open & trusting relationship with the Holy Spirit, then our plans are likely to be exactly that which God has already set before us.
In the OT, in the book of Daniel - 2:21-23 "He controls the course of world events; he removes kings and set up other kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the scholars. He reveals deep and mysterious things and knows what lies hidden in darkness, though he is surrounded by light. I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors, for you have given me wisdom and strength. You have told me what we asked of you and revealed to us what the kind demanded."
God has always been and will always be in control - should we truly submit ourselves to Him. He will not force Himself, His plan on us - it takes our faith, our choice to trust in His ways.
Ps 1:2-3 "But they delight in the law of the LORD, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do."
A season for me is being prepared to be ended whilst another is at its dawn. I only need to continue to have faith and trust in Him and ALL will be revealed and come to pass.
xoxo
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