yesterday at home and family we were encouraged to consider the importance of friendship and test our artistic skills through rhythm and rhyme.
my love is to use words to express, adress and ornate. so i gave myself homework.

Friendship, what can one say about friendship,
that is Honourable noble and true.
I consider myself a connoisseur
I have a friend or two.

Relations come like the bible
in chronological form and line
but friendship is drawn from the pages
grows, ferments like the sweetness of wine.

In life on many occasions
we suffer hardship, worry and fear
friends, they just pick us up
when the weight is to heavy to bear

Encouraged to continue
even just a smile will lighten the load.
A touch, a hug, a kiss of love
and my heart becomes their abode

Natural friendship is a constitution
something in us inborn.
man made it can be severed
just a word, a deed, friendship torn.

So long as i live, on this earth created for me
A friendship I know nere will be lost
a friendship that will stay with me forever enplanted
through the blood shed on that cross.

Friendship will deepen through nuturing
developing a closeness that endures,
through prayer i can pour out my hearts desires
to the friend who cares and who me knows.

prayer warrior

James 5 verse 10 brothers as an example of patience in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Our prayers are that the suffering of our beloved sister Annie Wheeler will be relieved, in lystra a man crippled all his life was healed why because he had the faith of God in him, a man who had never walked in his life jumped up , the people witnessing this shouted the Gods have come down but we know it was one God the God of love who heals, pray for annie in the way of the prophets not in the earthly sense but pray in and through the spirit of God right now. Also pray for comfort for the family of Ellie Durston in their sad loss of both grandparents in car accident, Pray for jennifer and Dave for speedy recovery for Jennifer that she may be restored whole to the jennifer we love and cherish in our church family.

We have so much to praise God for all the time, but i wonder sometimes are we so blinded by the secular world around us that we miss out on Gods glory. I am talking about what God is doing in our own area, sometimes we get so tied up in what should be happening we are not looking for the signs of what is happening, in the past week alone I have evidence of God working in south ashford in a mighty way that will not only influence the locality not just england but the world itself, lets get excited. Blade a great child of God even in his youth having such influence locally that word spread and he now has air time on kfm radio station promoting christian music in a way that will reach out to many younger people, Gods message is getting through because God has faith in Blade, God knows Blades heart, a young man devoted to his Father with a passion to share all that God has granted him. Shanna a wonderful child of God who is being used mightly in spreading Gods beauty that is within her has qualified to represent the country in the miss world competion, Shanna will not represent the beauty of Gods creation solely for her own Glory but God has faith in Shanna and she will be used the world over to promote the Glory of God because others will see the beauty of God in her, These are just two of our children from the same womb of woman who has devoted her life solely to God, through praise, worship, and persistant prayer, When we honour God with our lives, God has faith in us, God is not a taker he`s a giver, when he knows us and we know him in a personal way his giving overflows, as right now Abby heart is bursting in her own words how can I thank God in words my heart is bursting with praise of him, she finds her solace through psalm 117. These are our brothers and sisters the family of God, lets catch the fire thats burning over our own town over our homes over our lives, and praise God in a mighty way. Lets not be people pleasers when music to our ears is Oh your so good you do good and we become so puffed up that Gods glory becomes but a shadow behind us, lets be solely Gods pleasers and wow watch this space.

Where do you begin to say thanks for all blessings poured out on us this week. 26 people all different in attitudes, ages, needs, having a wonderful week together in perfect harmony.
Within families brought together through heritage such a sense of unity is very rarely achieved, Luke 12v 52 speaks of division rather than peace within families. Brother against father, daughter against mother, inlaw against inlaw and this is evident in the world around us. My experience this week of family life was the reverse such caring such love such sharing is something very few of us will forget. Although the amount of commitment Susan and Ian put into making our days into the most enjoyable week we could have and we thank God for them, the family as a whole also made the week a time to be remembered. I can clearly see where Paul was coming from in his letter to the Colossians chapter 3 v15 let the peace of christ rule your hearts since as members of one body you were called to peace. I am certain the angels are rejoicing in heaven right now because it can only be through our love of God as a family that the fruit of the spirit abounded within our group, psalm 133 puts such love into music, (how good and pleasent it is when brothers live in unity, it is like precious oil poured on the head,) how greater annointing do we need than that. I thank God for my church family and may the annointing remain in our midst for ever. Amen