The Gospel gives us wings

TRAINING FOR REIGNING
a message I preached at South City Church, Dublin 6/11/11

Trying to suck water from a dried up well in a desert is not what God intended for your life! He came to give you LIFE and LIFE MORE ABUNDANT!

God intends His children to have 'wings to fly' and He gives us them in His Gospel! He doesn't want us just to survive but to THRIVE in Him and to REIGN IN LIFE with our King Jesus Christ...

So have a listen to this vital message on Grace, I hope it blesses you

Jason

Let the unborn live!

Let the unborn live!
"Abortion has an inescapable conclusion—a society in which the powerful determine which humans will live and which will die" Randy Alcorn


'I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.'
Psalm 139v14

You may have been violated and for that there are no words of outrage strong enough to express how wrong that is, or maybe others feel like they have made a mistake .... for some it just does not fit into their '5 year plan' but LIFE is precious, you have no right to kill a baby destined to live...life is sacred, choose life...and life more abundant!

JS

Home after ministry trips to Cork and Killarney

We are just home from a wonderful 6 day ministry trip to both Cork and Killarney with Radical Life church www.radicallife.ie and Living Rock church in Killarney

We praise God for the wonderful friendships we share in those places and the ministry that took place...

God is on the throne!!

Jason

They fasted

They Fasted

On Sinai's mount, with radiant face,
To intercede for heaven's grace
Upon a stubborn wayward race,
He fasted

Once lifted from the miry clay,
When opposition came his way
This soldier-King would often pray
With fasting

A seer, possessed of vision keen,
Who told the troubled king his dream,
Had light on God's prophetic scheme
Through fasting

The prophetess in temple court
Beheld the Babe the two had brought;
For Him she long had prayed and sought,
With fasting

He came to break the yoke of sin,
But ere His mission could begin
He met the foe and conquered him
While fasting

'Set these apart', the Spirit bade.
A spring, that soon vast rivers made,
Broke ope by men who as they prayed
Were fasting

So shall they fast when I am gone;
Was this no word to act upon?
Ask countless saints who fought and won
With fasting.

When we shall stand on that great day
And give account, what shall we say,
If He should ask us, 'Did you pray-
With fasting?'

Poem by Arthur Wallis, found in his book
'God's Chosen Fast'

Dublin you're shaking

Dublin you're shaking
I can hear your heart quaking
There is no point in faking
I know your head is aching

From boom to bust, dreams have hit the dust
What used to be a 'must',
We can now see was 'lust',
Anxious minds are taking time to adjust.

Dublin you're quaking but hold on...
Could this be your making?
In this cold new IMF/EU undertaking
To which we are waking...

Isaiah 61 - The Saviour's Commission

Good news for the poor
The brokenhearted and captives set free
A year of the Lord's favour?
A new kind of dignity...

Thank God for His mission
Which He suffered to achieve
So that now all He requires
Is that I bend my knee to believe...

Dublin you're shaking
I can hear your heart quaking,
Could this be your making?
There is just no point in faking...

Whosoever

For God SO loved the world (every nation, tribe and tongue, including this little girl selling Puja flowers on the ghats of the 'holy' river Ganges at Varanasi...) that He gave us Jesus His one and only Son that WHOSOEVER believes in Him shall not perish but will have eternal life...

Christ died for All Nations....ask of me He says and He will make the nations as His/our inheritance...

Who will go?

Blown away........

Since last Sundays amazing South City Church morning meeting I have been processing something so obvious and yet so deep within me that its only now that it is hitting me.

Last Sundays testimonies in church just blew me away! To hear of God healing Margaret's chronic knee problem and to witness Vitalija moved to tears and almost speechless at the power of God's hand in her family has left me mesmerised, blown away by the love, majesty and Grace of our great and awesome God who stoops down to bless people who look to Him (and even those who don't!)

Today, I just simply recognise that God is good. He is so so so so GOOD! Even when He hides His face from us it has never ever compromised one iota of His goodness or love. To have him reveal Himself in such ways last Sunday must never get 'lost' on us. God is love.

Lord, keep moving by your Holy Spirit in our lives and beyond our lives. Touch the city through us. Rescue unbelievers, shed abroad the knowledge of your Glory and Grace. Heal the sick, set the oppressed free, surprise us with joy and wonder at breakthroughs in impossible situations. Whisper anew in our inner ear today.

God is so Good! Can you see Him today? Wait...His goodness will pass before you!

JS

First love

First love, but First His love.

Clamour, clamour and more clamour. No-one makes me succomb-I just do.
I'll get around to you Lord I promise myself but when this happens I
seldom do.
Information-age idol and busyness mix, why do I bow down to this below
the radar fix?
No demands are made from heaven just eternity's heart cry, no jilted lover syndrome, just our spirits that sigh.

Friends, time is short - to meet, our Maker in awe and liquid love
replete.
Arrest this day, apprehend this hour, arise anew to Christ our great High Tower.
The drug of sleep, its power can keep, us from our God with life most deep.

First love, first love but first His love.

Only then can we capture and make place for the Dove.
Throw off the guilt but not the call, from Father's heart,
first love, our all.