its scary to enter the battle field

to go to a club on the premis that we like each other and try and communicate Christ.
is it madness, with work the next day and life to play, but no "make the most of every
opportunity"eph5,16(context live WISE) did Christ wait until we all turned round and went
we need you? "For While we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the unGodly"rom5
i am weak at the minute which means in Him i can be strong. please pray for grace and His power

One week in dublin

hows it goin? i have just finnished my first week in dublin, my first full time job in an office. Its actually not as bad as I thought in fact i might even go so far a to say it was a great week. Not just work but being in dublin going out with a few friends and just the totally new experience.

I am living with family friends about 35mins out of the city on the Dart, the kinda over ground tube. They are really sound and Owen is just finnished a masters, mike has just finnished first year at UCD and ruth is doing her leaving cert(A levels) so there is plenty of craic.
Tonight i am going out with Mike to a girl's 21st but he went to a very fancy school so this girl has hired out a big castle on a hill and apparently there will be a free bar for 1hour. Nice
I have been enjoying the guinness, probably a bit too much but the Lord has been gracious

Its weird to be starting a whole new adventure with out some of you guys, it will be a bit different in october when i move into my flat and my two friends for my gap year come back to trinity. i think i will really miss southampton and all the people there, belfast is a bit differnet too with everyone growing up and moving on

as an aside the last night in belfast with Prime Cuts and Plus One from the Scratch Perverts was UNREAL they tore the house down. There was a genius moment when after some really incrediable hip-hop trickery Mark said "they could do with turning it up a notch"
45mins later the place was going absolutly crazy to some rough drum and bass OH YES OH YES and for the second time in as many weeks i felt like i couldnt physically dance hard enough to do the music justice.

yeah so anyway... my hip has been not too good most of the summer, and i had been taking stronger tablets twice a day for a good while but this week i cut it to one a day and am feeling great so hopefully in a couple of weeks i will be back to normal Praise the Lord

take it easy
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just a wee quote from the course i am still doing -genius

I often run to the Word of God for help. "You, Oh Lord are a Strong Tower, a Sure Defense against my Foe."

I seek to destroy the enemy when he first peeks his head around the corner. BAM! Hit him hard initially. By this, I mean, as soon as I sense an uprising of temptation, I open my Bible, or I begin singing a hymn or I call or email my wife or a friend. Be aggressive in the initial stages of temptation.

Havent got it all figured out just yet...

it has been occuring to me over the last week that i really dont have a clue/ cant understand loads of stuff and it just hurts my head to try. so i have come up with a new simpler philosphy for each day;
all i can do is seek God's face and be obedient to Him.
I cant work out why that happened in russia, i cant work out how my friends are going to get to know God, i cant really understand myself a lot of the time but right now that doesnt matter, and even if i did know it all and did some incredible thing if my motives were wrong its meaningless.. so just asking God and trying to listen and do it is enough.

last night a ballynahinch was incredible, it was like all the stuff God has been saying to me this last year and summer was rolled into one serivce and it felt like God was shouting not talking, very intense... so i think i want to be a prophet when i grow up, or i think God wants me to try and work out what that means and see where it takes me... all prayers welcome

SHOUT TO AT THE CEILING TILL GOD FILLS THE ROOM

"When the time comes that you have children and grandchildren, put on years, and start taking things for granted, if you then become corrupt and make any carved images, no matter what their form, by doing what is sheer evil in GOD's eyes and provoking his anger--
I can tell you right now, with Heaven and Earth as witnesses, that it will be all over for you. You'll be kicked off the land that you're about to cross over the Jordan to possess. Believe me, you'll have a very short stay there. You'll be ruined, completely ruined.
GOD will scatter you far and wide; a few of you will survive here and there in the nations where GOD will drive you.
There you can worship your homemade gods to your hearts' content, your wonderful gods of wood and stone that can't see or hear or eat or smell.
But even there, if you seek GOD, your God, you'll be able to find him if you're serious, looking for him with your whole heart and soul." deut 4 25-29

"But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him." sam 14v14

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." jer 29v11-13