WOW! God is so surprising!!!

Since spending lots of time with God during the Christmas holidays it has been on my heart to help get my new book KNOW GOD MORE out into the mission fields.

I gained confirmation when my youngest daughter came home from Uganda after looking after baby orphans for 5 weeks. She had attended a church while there and almost the first thing she said when we were still at the airport was 'Gosh Mum, they really need your book KNOW GOD MORE over there.'

I grinned. I felt so excited 'I know!' I said, 'God has been speaking to me about this.'

When I mentioned it at a leaders meeting for our women's group three other women wanted to become involved. And so now we are about to launch 'Books for Missions' (if we end up calling it this! If you have a better idea let me know!) And we will raise money to send KNOW GOD MORE books to English speaking missions. Perhaps you would like to join us.
You can donate books through my website annelaidlawministries.com . Just label it carefully so I know this is what it is for - otherwise you will receive it in the post!

God is so exciting!

Kick Addiction

Perhaps it's time to introduce my books and explain why I wrote them.

Kick Addiction came about after the work I had done with a client who had a severe addiction. Her addictive behaviours had lasted over ten years and they were destroying her life. She had been to psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors and tried government agencies, but nothing had worked. She rang and asked me if there was any hope. I knew in God there was, and so I said yes. The book is the result of the work we did together over a year. She is now totally free.

I soon realized the insights God gave us that resulted in dramatic changes in her life could be translated into other lives too. Hence the book! We’ve used Kick Addiction now in courses in Auckland for five years and it has changed many more people’s lives. God is so faithful.

New Understanding

While I was away on holiday soaking up the sun, sights and silence at Taupo God reminded me of a Scripture He had given me a few years ago to define what He wants me to do. It is in John 21 when Jesus is restoring Peter and giving him his ministry. After asking Peter three times if he loves Him, Jesus says 'Feed My lambs...Tend My sheep...Feed My sheep'. Hence my books 'Know God More' and 'Kick Addiction' and the ones I have written waiting to be published. I am answering my call to feed His sheep and I have also tended them for years through my counselling practice and 'Kick Addiction' courses to help people become free.

But now God was saying something new. Something I had not thought of before. He asked me 'Who are My lambs?'

Prior to this, for six months last year I had worked part-time as a counsellor at a Counselling Centre with mainly non-Christian clients and I had been amazed by the lack of basic wisdom within their lives. I was starting to see the need of writing a book for the secular market but somehow could not reconcile this with my calling.

God's question changed all this.
Who are His lambs? They are those people who are going to be His sheep. They just don't know it yet!! His lambs need to know more about His ways so when they are called to be His sheep they can hear His voice.

Once again God has surprised me!