So, it's been a while and I'm very sorry! I've been meaning to update this for a while, but it's been a very busy time, (well, kind of!) and we don't have internet in our house yet!
So here are the updates:
1) I've moved. I am now living in Chichester, in a place between the hospital and Sainsburys! If you want the exact address, ask me for it!
2) I am now a member of Grace Church in Chichester and am one of the leaders of the youth group: xtreme, for age 11-15.
3) I recently went to Newday, which is a soul survivor type thing, and all the youth group got baptised in the Spirit and were touched. Score!
4) I have just got a job at an esso Garage working Thursday and Saturday.
I think that about sums up basic news? On to more exciting things then!
Right, well at Newday, in one of the meetings, I had the need to go to the toilet. Now for anyone who knows me, you know that I suffer from Collitis, which affects the bowel, and is just not very nice. It's lifelong, and can, in extreme cases, cause Cancer. It's not curiable, only treatable, and put plainly, the treatment hasn't worked on me.
Now before you all start thinking I'm totally healed, I'm not, but believe me when I am I intend to have an insanely huge party in celebration, and some serious praise and thank you time to God! So yeah, be ready for that party!
But anyway, back to the story.
So I've gone to the loo, and I specifically hear God's voice in my head saying "Richard, get back in the meeting now", now I hate being called Richard, its just not who I am! Rich is who I am, Richard is what I get called when someones annoyed with me. lol.
So I head back into the meeting...and the guy on stage is saying words of knowledge. He is saying a person name, then saying something about them, for example:
"James, God knows what is going on in your family, and his hand is upon it, trust him"
It was pretty exciting, but I didn't think anything more about it as I stood in Worship. Then, he said this:
"Richard, You will be healed, and God is going to use it to confirm the wonders he is going to do in your life"
I fell to the floor and burst into tears. God had confirmed something I had been waiting for confirmation for.
When you suffer with something like Collitis, because it isn't life threatening, there is a part of you that thinks, maybe, its not meant to be healed? Maybe, because I can cope, its alright?
But you know what? It is God's plan. Matthew 10:1,8 says this:
"He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness... Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give"
This same authority belongs to us. It is God given, we cannot do it in our own strength.
The Collitis will never go if I keep trying to struggle and get rid of it by my own strength, only God can heal it, only he can take true control, but the authority he gives me, allows me to do things through him.
I popped up to soul survivor the other day, and David Carr was preaching. This guy, is like being in the presence Peter or Paul of the Bible. He has that kind of authority and power about him, and we saw many healed that night he preached, and he has many incredible stories. He couldn't read or write until he was 18. His seen people healed of Aids, his seen people have cancers removed, and it is all varified by doctors.
But his main point? He is just a man, but he knows the authority of Christ in his life, and all of us have the ability to see the same things happen, if we just have love, compassion and faith.
I know I will be healed. I also know, that I will see many other healed through me, beacuse I believe in the authority of Christ, and that through him, all things are truely possible.
Blessings,
Rich
So here are the updates:
1) I've moved. I am now living in Chichester, in a place between the hospital and Sainsburys! If you want the exact address, ask me for it!
2) I am now a member of Grace Church in Chichester and am one of the leaders of the youth group: xtreme, for age 11-15.
3) I recently went to Newday, which is a soul survivor type thing, and all the youth group got baptised in the Spirit and were touched. Score!
4) I have just got a job at an esso Garage working Thursday and Saturday.
I think that about sums up basic news? On to more exciting things then!
Right, well at Newday, in one of the meetings, I had the need to go to the toilet. Now for anyone who knows me, you know that I suffer from Collitis, which affects the bowel, and is just not very nice. It's lifelong, and can, in extreme cases, cause Cancer. It's not curiable, only treatable, and put plainly, the treatment hasn't worked on me.
Now before you all start thinking I'm totally healed, I'm not, but believe me when I am I intend to have an insanely huge party in celebration, and some serious praise and thank you time to God! So yeah, be ready for that party!
But anyway, back to the story.
So I've gone to the loo, and I specifically hear God's voice in my head saying "Richard, get back in the meeting now", now I hate being called Richard, its just not who I am! Rich is who I am, Richard is what I get called when someones annoyed with me. lol.
So I head back into the meeting...and the guy on stage is saying words of knowledge. He is saying a person name, then saying something about them, for example:
"James, God knows what is going on in your family, and his hand is upon it, trust him"
It was pretty exciting, but I didn't think anything more about it as I stood in Worship. Then, he said this:
"Richard, You will be healed, and God is going to use it to confirm the wonders he is going to do in your life"
I fell to the floor and burst into tears. God had confirmed something I had been waiting for confirmation for.
When you suffer with something like Collitis, because it isn't life threatening, there is a part of you that thinks, maybe, its not meant to be healed? Maybe, because I can cope, its alright?
But you know what? It is God's plan. Matthew 10:1,8 says this:
"He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness... Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give"
This same authority belongs to us. It is God given, we cannot do it in our own strength.
The Collitis will never go if I keep trying to struggle and get rid of it by my own strength, only God can heal it, only he can take true control, but the authority he gives me, allows me to do things through him.
I popped up to soul survivor the other day, and David Carr was preaching. This guy, is like being in the presence Peter or Paul of the Bible. He has that kind of authority and power about him, and we saw many healed that night he preached, and he has many incredible stories. He couldn't read or write until he was 18. His seen people healed of Aids, his seen people have cancers removed, and it is all varified by doctors.
But his main point? He is just a man, but he knows the authority of Christ in his life, and all of us have the ability to see the same things happen, if we just have love, compassion and faith.
I know I will be healed. I also know, that I will see many other healed through me, beacuse I believe in the authority of Christ, and that through him, all things are truely possible.
Blessings,
Rich
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