Be bold, be strong

I had something all worked out to write about today but am going to save it for another day.  That's because today I'm going to write about my experience at our ladies prayer breakfast this morning.  

I am not a morning person it's not easy getting up early on a Saturday morning when there is no school run to do but I headed off just after half past 7 for the walk up the hill to Church.  The sun was shining it was a lovely winter morning.  I just love it when the sun shines it just makes my spirit soar.  

The bacon rolls were as delicious as ever after a coffee, a juice and fellowship with the other ladies I was really relaxed.  

Over the last couple of weeks I have been thinking a lot about prayer as I have been talking to my after school club children about the different ways we pray and last weekend I attended a Sunday school workers training day at which we looked at different and creative ways to engage children in prayer.  At our quarterly prayer event last weekend we focused on praying for our community and in particular areas of our town that are the most in need and areas that  do not have housegroups.   

We talked more about this today and different people shared experiences of where they have prayed for other people and seen positive outcomes.  

During our time of prayer I had a word from God for the group.  I have not had such a clear word come like this and I was a little bit nervous about speaking it out loud in front of everyone.  But the word was that we should be open to accept God's help when we speak to people.  That we should accept his advice like when he said to Joshua to be strong and courageous because God is with us and if we call on Him he will help guide us.  We should be bold and not afraid to step out in faith.  

I feel this is a great challenge to me to have faith to trust in this way.  To be open to guidance in our conversations and relationships with people.  It reminded me of just before Christmas when I thought it would be nice to send my mum a bunch of flowers as a Christmas present.  It was about a week until Christmas but I felt it in my heart that if I was going to send flowers it had to be today.  So I looked online and was able to get same day delivery so I did it.  I did not know it but it was just what my mum needed that day to receive those flowers another day would still have been great but would not have been the same.  

It was amazing to see God's hand in that situation and I look forward to more experiences like this.