Treasure

I have just finished reading a book called 'The ultimate treasure hunt' by Kevin Dedmon. I loved it.you should all read it!

I think to myself, alot of the time I might wonder why i'm a christian but what does that then look like? I'm a christian because God loves me, is phenomenal and can offer me something so much better than what I see. If we cant access what God promises us, then life is so so boring. I know that God can do amazing things and I know he can do them through me. There have been times when I have heard about people going on 'treasure hunts' to give people words of knoledge,prophesy and healing etc. this facinates me and its something I want to be part of.
 When I first got to Essex, I was so inspried to do this. How crazy is it that we can pray, then go out somewhere and meet with someone because God has told us. I prayed that God would speak to me. and he did. I have had a quite a few examples of this, but I will go in to detail of two.

Walk to the shops
I wrote down on my peice of paper before I left the house 'Shops at the end of the road','Red' 'trolley' and 'old lady'.   As soon as I stepped out of my front door a lady with an Asda trolley was walking up the pavement infront of me. Which is very unusual as we live ten mins away! My heart pounded and I explained to her about my list and asked if there was anything I could pray with her for, she said ok apprahensively, but that she was in need of a job, we prayed together that God would bless her with a job! So I  then walked to the shop at the end of the road, whilst in there I saw a lady in a red shirt and just knew God wanted to say something to her. I left the shop feeling nervous and not knowing what to say, praying for God just to help me out! As she then left the shop, I called to her as she walked past me 'Excuse me, are you called Sandra?' and to my suprise she said 'Yes I am,why?' at this point I wanted to like jump around!!! I kept my cool and said ' I know this sounds crazy but I have come here today because I felt God was telling me that he wanted to let you know that he knows you by name and loves you' she responded in quite a relaxed way and said ' Yeah, I think I know that' it was quite sur-real to be honest but amazing at the same time. I didnt have anything else to say to her, I wish I had and next time I will make sure I dont just get over excited and then say ok, God bless, bye! haha. Its hard to focus!! But i'm super excited to learn how to listen better!
London waterloo
On my jounrey back from my weekend home, I was praying up on the train, asking God to give me opportunities to speak to people at the stations. I felt God saying to me a few things. I looked out for some of the things on my list, one of them being 'waterloo station'. whilst there I was searching for my 'Toy lamb' clue. I walked up and down for about ten mins, feeling in my heart that there must be a toy lamb somewhere, maybe a small child carrying one? I walked past this little shop and saw a toy lamb for sale!! I went in, thinking I might see someone buy it or in the shop I could speak to. There was no one apart from the shop keepers, so I thought, it must be them! I showed them my list,they were both foreign and were finding it hard to grasp what I wanted from them at first. eventually I explained that I just wanted to bless them, and could I pray for them? It turned out the guy was a muslim and started to thank me for my obedience to God. He said he thought it was very good and I would be welcome to stay in the shop all day! I laughed and said, I was here to bless them specifically.I got talking to the philipino lady, she seemed so interested by everything I was saying. she then told me that she was a christian and had been going to church. I suddenly felt God put an image of a small baby in my head. I asked her if she had a small baby. she explained that she had just Lost her baby. I asked If I could pray with her for that situation and that God would bless her with a new child. it was amazing. God is amazing. thank you!!!!
I also saw a man in Costa who had caught my attention whilst I had been walking up and down trying to find the toy lamb, I told myself that If he was still there after I had found the toy lamb I would go over. He was still there... I walked over and started with 'Hi, do you mind if I join you' He said, no not atall, sit down' We had abit of small talk, which is rather unsual in those situations and I then explained about what had just happend in the shop. I explained that I didnt have anything specific on my 'list' for him but that I felt God wanted to speak to him, I just felt drawn to him to show him that he was special ! He said ' do you know what, I just came here today on my own, because ive just come out of a long term relationship, im actually going through abit of a soul searching time' I said wow, well I think God wants to speak to you! We chatted for about an hour, throughout the conversation a few things were given to me. He said 'Are you a phsycic?' I said no not atall, I just love God and he speaks to me!I knew he had a brother and sensed that he had some alcohol issues, I also felt really prompted to give him my bible. he said that he had just been to WH smiths and was searching hard to find something interesting, in his head he had told himself he would try to get hold of a koran. he said that he would now read this! and thanked me so much for it! He also spoke about how he always wished he could go to church etc, because when he walked past he found it to be peaceful. I dont know how me meeting with those peole has affected their lives and relationships with God, But I pray that they will all come to know him,love him and live for him. I'm still hopeing that one day I will see someone give their life to christ in those moments, I think one key factor is that I didnt ask any of them if they wanted to! I'm still learning so much.

thankyou so much lord for the supernatural ways in which you want to show people your love,truth and grace. Please speak to me more this year and help me to be bold in your love.
My heart for this year is to show people that they are treasured by you Lord.
Bring on 2012! Woo!!!

:)