Television Interview

Today I was interviewed on Word For Today to appear on Shine Television. We sat in my garden around the outdoor table and had just begun filming when the rain decided to anoint us. Rushing inside we waited enjoying hot drinks and hazelnut slice made by my daughter.

Soon it stopped and after drying the chairs we began again. This time succeeding. The topic was my divorce and subsequent recovery. It was great to recall how God has been my everything over these years. Helping me raise my children in the way He wants them to go, providing finances for training and on going living, being my Companion, my Friend, my Husband. Giving me wisdom and understanding. Being my Comforter, my Reality and bringing me out into a place of healing, freedom and joy.

God never ceases to amaze me.

Further Depth and Progress in Mission

It is exciting to hear back from the Uganda church where the next box of KNOW GOD MORE books are heading. They are going to use the books in their discipleship programme called '360 degrees'. I believe it is open to anyone, including participants from all over the world - so the benefits, the growth in faith in God's majesty and power, will travel out over the globe.

Initially I was tempted to send an email suggesting they use the books only for Ugandian people but the Holy Spirit seems to have other ideas and made it clear to me not to do this.

The extent of God's plan is so often veiled from us.

May God's will be done

Surprising Results from the Book Fair

The Book Fair is over and when all the proceeds were added up - guess what! We were only 90 cents short of our goal of $1664.00. As I walked out of the bank marvelling at God's perfection I reach into my pocket and pulled out - guess what? A one dollar coin.

When I told the other two girls seperately, who had also helped organize the event, they also offered to pay the last 90 cents. And when one of them told one other women from our morning group - guess what? She pressed one dollar into my friend's hand.

God is never short of a dollar or two - or four!!

When God wants something done - He provides for it.

Our next goal is sending a box of books to Uganga! Do you want to help?

Reflections on the beach

A kindred spirit walking on the edge of the waves,
leaping the streams returning to their source,
listening to the soul melody of the waves soothing her heart's desire,
sinking into the rhythm of her Maker.
This is the place of life.
At one with my Creator,
walking in unison, in thought, in will, in love.
Listening to His thoughts as they caress my mind
infiltrating my heart.
I dwell on them, meditate, reflect,
cleanse my own prejudices, foibiles and desires
till I can hold them up pure in His piercing light.
To see His face relected in them.
How clean are they really in His eyes?
Probably filthy like the rags I used to wear
but in my eyes they are bright and shining clean.
Holy Spirit show me where I err
for without Your beam of truth
my heart is sadly decieved
even by my own whiteness.

God's goodness

After a few months of renovations in my new home I am finally starting to get organized. The thing I am astounded with is that so far I have not made any major mistakes. Even the new colour of the walls is just what I wanted. Most of them were too yellow, too grey too something but the one I finally chose is just right in the day and in the night light in front of my fireplace. It looks like melted white marshmellows. God is good. How wonderful it is to know this is all God's amazing provision.

I am a daughter of the King and He is looking after me with such care and love - just as He is for you. I am an heir to all He has in His kingdom and He is sharing some of it with me. He supplies all my needs according to His riches in glory - just as He is with you. I so love that it is according to His riches and not mine. And He really is supplying me. I feel very blessed at the moment in spite of all the normal things that go wrong in life. Just those usual and occassional things that interrupt. For example thieves have helped themselves twice to stuff in my garage and car since I have been here. They even tidily removed my car CD player and all my music! Well I hope they are blessed by them! They are not going to ruin my blessedness. They cannot take away my inheritance in Christ or anything else of real value.

New Vision

God just seems to continually open one door after another. Firstly, usually in my mind. Perhaps this is the main obstacle!!! Then He opens doors out in my environment - ones I may never have thought of before, or ones I hadn't thought were possible - and as I go through there just seems to be more and bigger open spaces.

I get the feeling this will just keep on happening more and more in my life until I finally step over the stream into His kingdom forever. It may seem like a river right now, but as I get closer to the end and closer and closer to God in the meantime, I believe it will just feel like a trickle of a stream when I finally close my eyes to earth forever. I will just be able to step over. Of course I am walking in His kingdom now too! But the reality will be clearer, everything will be clearer and all my questions will be answered - perhaps there will just be no need for any.

So the book fair is this weekend - to raise money to send Books to Missions and two boxes are already on their travels to PNG where they are going to students at a Bible College there. Each student will receive two copies. One for them and one to take back to their place of ministry back in the jungle or on the coast or in the mountains, wherever they are going to be, to give to a fellow worker there. 'Know God More' is all about building faith and my hope is that the book will strengthen them and deepen their love for and trust in God.

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!