faith

Thank you for clicking through. I would love to pray for you and to send you additional information to help you. I try to email weekly but often its only every two or three weeks. Once I get your details I'll also send you an initial email with some helpful stuff too. A million blessings - David.

Prayer is not magic.  (I hope I explain this right)  In just the same way you wouldn’t expect holding your tongue right to move God, neither is there power in just saying a prayer – at least not if your faith is in the prayer.

What I’m trying to say is that our faith must be in God Himself, and prayer is how we express that faith.  But if our faith is in the concept of praying – then it’s a bit like thinking prayer is some magic formula or silver bullet.  That’s not how it works. 

Dear Friends,

Yesterday I got to go geo-caching with some friends and that was heaps of fun. I've never done that before and really enjoyed that. You should try it some time.

Does God answer prayers for rain .......... He certainly does. In the last couple of years, we have been involved in a couple of miraculous events where God has heard our prayers for rain and delivered. Of course prayer for rain is not the only thing God listesn to, He is willing to hear any prayer that is prayed from a humble heart that trusts Him or needs Him.

Below are a number of articles and links which tell the stories of what I call Drought Busters, prayers for rain that were answered.

Dear Friends,

I trust this week has been good for you.  Things have certainly been happy and joyous for me.  I took my son for a drive this week to see the saltworks about an hour from where we live.  It was quite amazing seeing huge piles of salt about 30 to 40 metres high.  Quite incredible really to think that all that was in the oceans only a few weeks or months before. 

During the prayer meeting at our church today we looked at our prayer goals for the year, and to be very honest, they don't look very realistic and without God's help they certainly would be very unlikely. We are praying that we will outgrow our small building and have too many people to fit in. So today we decided to believe God and not look at the human circumstances but to stretch our faith and see mighty things come to pass.

If you never step out in faith, nothing will ever happen. Since we started a few days ago to really test God and step out in faith, things have got worse. This is actually a sign that our prayers are working because it means the devil is resisting our prayer and if we persevere and breakthrough we will have the answer we are believing for. One of our brothers was rushed to hospital in an ambulance and another brother has come down with a mystery illness that the doctors have not been able to diagnose. He also had his pet dogs poisoned maliciously.