Tonight I just felt like writing. I'm not really sure about what. I just want to write. This coming Friday night we are having an All Night of Prayer at New Mercy Church. Four other girls and I are taking one of the last sessions of the night and it is on Dreams. So of course preparing for our session has put a lot of questions in my mind. What is my dream? What God-given dreams do I have?
I have always wanted to write. I really want to write a Christian Fiction Novel about true love. Not just your ordinary Romance novel but a book that illustrates the Love of God through the love that a man has for a woman. One time I started to write this book called, Divine Rose. It was going to be set in Belfast, Ireland 1912. See, Divine was a wealthy girl of 18 or 19 who was engaged to a wealthy young man who did whatever business in New York. Divine's fiance, Charles, boarded the Titanic and we all know what happens to the Titanic. Charles doesn't survive unfortunately. So Divine is left in Belfast, Ireland to care for her sick mother. Her mother is very sick with a bad case of Pneumonia. On her death bed, her mother begs Divine to accept Christ into her life. Her mother dies and Divine hasn't accepted Christ. In the process of making funeral arrangements for her mother, Divine meets a brother and sister who work at the funeral home. These two befriend Divine and help her in any way that they can. I only wrote up to the part where Divine had met the two characters. But it was going to go on to a point where she realized that she didn't have quite as much money as she thought and that she would have to sell the house and all of the nice things that she owned. She would be left penniless pretty much. Throughout this trying time of her life as she struggles to stand on her own two feet the brother and sister are there for her the whole way. Despite her resistance to their help, she ends up giving in and allowing herself to love and be loved. Through the love that she receives from these two characters she also experiences the redemptive love of her Savior Jesus Christ.
If I ever have time...I may pick that story back up.
Let's see...another dream is for me to be able to share the Gospel with people who have never heard the name of Jesus.
I do dream of getting married, serving and living for God side by side with my husband and raising children to do the same.
I dream, most of all, of making a difference. I dream of helping others know and believe that they are precious in the Lord's sight and that God has big dreams for them as well.
Well...I really have to go now because it is nearly 2:30 am and I need to get some sleep sometime tonight.
Till next time,
Heidi
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Friday, 22 January 2010
Women's Conference - 23rd January 2010
Women's Conference tomorrow 9:30 to 3:30! I'm excited. May the women go expecting change and transformation. It is my prayer that women who need healing would be healed; that need deliverance would be delivered; that need direction would be directed; that are broken hearted would be mended; that all of the women who attend would be changed forever! :D
All women come along to the conference at Partick's Burgh Halls.
All women come along to the conference at Partick's Burgh Halls.
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Flashdrive
Today is my day off and I didn't make it to the College this morning to see if my lecturer picked up the flashdrive. Please be praying. I really need those 4gbites of storage not only for college but for church and personal use.
Today I'm typing the second part of "Entering the Promised Life" series Pastor Mike preached a few weeks ago. Check it out on Sermon Central at www.newmercy.org.uk
Be Blessed,
Heidi
Today I'm typing the second part of "Entering the Promised Life" series Pastor Mike preached a few weeks ago. Check it out on Sermon Central at www.newmercy.org.uk
Be Blessed,
Heidi
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Near mid-January already!
Central College News:
Already into the fifth week of the second block, one block and eight weeks to go till I finish the HNC Admin/IT course. Today I had my first assessment (exam) in Recording Financial Trasactions class. It went well. I enjoy that class; it's very straightforward.
I have a Stress essay to write for the 25th in the class called Developing Skills for Personal Effectiveness...and I have yet to start. Eeks! :D Haha. The essay is about the causes of stress, symptoms, and how to prevent stress. One of the causes of stress is procrastination. Haha...I think I'm going to be stressed writing this stress essay! LOL.
I've lost my flashdrive...ahhh! On Friday I was in ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) and was putting some files I needed for the class on my flashdrive. The whole class I kept saying to myself, "Don't forget it!" But I forgot it. I didn't realize I forgot it until later that night when I wanted to get something off from the flashdrive. I keep the flashdrive in a small black leather purse; I was hoping that it was still in the room, that it had been put in lost and found, or that my lecturer picked it up. On Monday morning I went to the room: no flashdrive. I went to lost and found: no flashdrive. I went to my lecturer's office: no lecturer. :D She is not in until tomorrow first period. I'm hoping that she has the flashdrive.
New Mercy Church:
Last Sunday night Pastor Iliya led a Healing Service. Wow! What a service! People were really touched. I believe that there was more emotional and spiritual healing rather than physical healing. The presence of God was very strong that night as well. The worship was excellent. That night the worship team took about ten minutes even before the service began to seek God...and it really made a difference.
On the 23rd of January there is going to be a Women's Conference in Partick. Susan Comiskey is going to be the speaker. I'm really excited. The men had several conferences in the last year...and finally the women will have one of their own. I pray that this conference will bring us closer to God and put us on the path to becoming great women of God in prayer, in our actions, in our attitudes.
Street Evangelism starts back up on the 30th of January. Temperatures have been so cold that we've not been out. I'm excited to get back on the streets taking the Gospel to the nations within Glasgow! :D Please be praying that we will begin to see the fruit of our labor.
Other News:
I was blessed with a lovely visit from my parents during the turn of the New Year. It was very nice having them see where I am and what I am doing. I'm also very glad for the warm welcome that they received from the people of New Mercy. I also received lots of goodies from friends and families back home...thank you! :D
Till next time...Be blessed!
Heidi.
Be blessed all!
Heidi
Already into the fifth week of the second block, one block and eight weeks to go till I finish the HNC Admin/IT course. Today I had my first assessment (exam) in Recording Financial Trasactions class. It went well. I enjoy that class; it's very straightforward.
I have a Stress essay to write for the 25th in the class called Developing Skills for Personal Effectiveness...and I have yet to start. Eeks! :D Haha. The essay is about the causes of stress, symptoms, and how to prevent stress. One of the causes of stress is procrastination. Haha...I think I'm going to be stressed writing this stress essay! LOL.
I've lost my flashdrive...ahhh! On Friday I was in ECDL (European Computer Driving Licence) and was putting some files I needed for the class on my flashdrive. The whole class I kept saying to myself, "Don't forget it!" But I forgot it. I didn't realize I forgot it until later that night when I wanted to get something off from the flashdrive. I keep the flashdrive in a small black leather purse; I was hoping that it was still in the room, that it had been put in lost and found, or that my lecturer picked it up. On Monday morning I went to the room: no flashdrive. I went to lost and found: no flashdrive. I went to my lecturer's office: no lecturer. :D She is not in until tomorrow first period. I'm hoping that she has the flashdrive.
New Mercy Church:
Last Sunday night Pastor Iliya led a Healing Service. Wow! What a service! People were really touched. I believe that there was more emotional and spiritual healing rather than physical healing. The presence of God was very strong that night as well. The worship was excellent. That night the worship team took about ten minutes even before the service began to seek God...and it really made a difference.
On the 23rd of January there is going to be a Women's Conference in Partick. Susan Comiskey is going to be the speaker. I'm really excited. The men had several conferences in the last year...and finally the women will have one of their own. I pray that this conference will bring us closer to God and put us on the path to becoming great women of God in prayer, in our actions, in our attitudes.
Street Evangelism starts back up on the 30th of January. Temperatures have been so cold that we've not been out. I'm excited to get back on the streets taking the Gospel to the nations within Glasgow! :D Please be praying that we will begin to see the fruit of our labor.
Other News:
I was blessed with a lovely visit from my parents during the turn of the New Year. It was very nice having them see where I am and what I am doing. I'm also very glad for the warm welcome that they received from the people of New Mercy. I also received lots of goodies from friends and families back home...thank you! :D
Till next time...Be blessed!
Heidi.
Be blessed all!
Heidi
Monday, 28 December 2009
Gift of Love
This is an email I sent out recently...I constantly need to be reminded about what Christmas and being a Christian is all about...
For God so LOVED the world that he GAVE...(John 3:16)
Hi Everyone! Tonight was an interesting night for me. I started out at 6:30 toward the church to meet Nana and John for Elderly ministry. While we were at the church waiting for the other team members a man knocked on the door and let us know of a woman who had fallen outside the church. We brought her in to give her some tea and bisquits. She was extremely drunk and was crying as she went on about her pet rat that just died. She wanted to know why we came to her and why we wanted to help her. When we gave her the tea she could hardly hold it still in her hand. In fact, she kept spilling it all over her top. Then she angrily got up only to fall to the ground and spilling the entire cup of tea as she did. Again she started to cry. We helped her up again.
It was so sad to watch this poor lady wallowing in her drunkenness, lonely and sad. When we brought her outside and told her that we needed to go see the Elderly she got profusely aggressive and started saying that we were throwing her out because we had better things to do. She started cursing and calling us names. We led her to the side railing so that she could guide herself home. As we crossed the street she was still yelling at us from the side walk. How quickly she turned...from hurt like a kitten to anger and aggressiveness. This is a type of situation you are not taught how to handle in Bible College. How helpless I felt. YOu want to help this person..but in their state there is nothing that you can do to help them.
Then we went on to the Elderly home where a team go from the church once a month to visit. Tonight we were making Christmas cards with the group of elderly that show up when we come every month. Christmas is a time when we should be surrounded by the ones we love. Tonight I realized...I guess I always knew but it never hit me like it did tonight...that for some people this time of year is a very lonely and depressing time. As we were making Christmas cards one elderly lady, Mary, started crying and saying how that nobody comes to see her and that she is always so lonely. My heart went out to her tonight.
A friend of mine just recently said to me in an email, "Everything is love Heidi. It starts from love, and ends in love. God is love, if you do not know God, you do not know love."
In 1 John it says, Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love.
To myself I say, "Be a doer of the word and not just a hearer only".
For God so LOVED the world that he GAVE...(John 3:16)
Hi Everyone! Tonight was an interesting night for me. I started out at 6:30 toward the church to meet Nana and John for Elderly ministry. While we were at the church waiting for the other team members a man knocked on the door and let us know of a woman who had fallen outside the church. We brought her in to give her some tea and bisquits. She was extremely drunk and was crying as she went on about her pet rat that just died. She wanted to know why we came to her and why we wanted to help her. When we gave her the tea she could hardly hold it still in her hand. In fact, she kept spilling it all over her top. Then she angrily got up only to fall to the ground and spilling the entire cup of tea as she did. Again she started to cry. We helped her up again.
It was so sad to watch this poor lady wallowing in her drunkenness, lonely and sad. When we brought her outside and told her that we needed to go see the Elderly she got profusely aggressive and started saying that we were throwing her out because we had better things to do. She started cursing and calling us names. We led her to the side railing so that she could guide herself home. As we crossed the street she was still yelling at us from the side walk. How quickly she turned...from hurt like a kitten to anger and aggressiveness. This is a type of situation you are not taught how to handle in Bible College. How helpless I felt. YOu want to help this person..but in their state there is nothing that you can do to help them.
Then we went on to the Elderly home where a team go from the church once a month to visit. Tonight we were making Christmas cards with the group of elderly that show up when we come every month. Christmas is a time when we should be surrounded by the ones we love. Tonight I realized...I guess I always knew but it never hit me like it did tonight...that for some people this time of year is a very lonely and depressing time. As we were making Christmas cards one elderly lady, Mary, started crying and saying how that nobody comes to see her and that she is always so lonely. My heart went out to her tonight.
A friend of mine just recently said to me in an email, "Everything is love Heidi. It starts from love, and ends in love. God is love, if you do not know God, you do not know love."
In 1 John it says, Beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love.
To myself I say, "Be a doer of the word and not just a hearer only".
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Letter to God
Dear Father,
First and foremost, I want to thank you for a new day. You have made this day and I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Now, I am just now looking out my window and I see heavy snow falling to the ground. The clouds in the sky have disappeared behind the layers of snowflakes that are falling from them. The rooftops of buildings all over the city are frosted with glistening white. Thank you, Lord, for this delight.
In your word, Psalm 139:2 it says, "Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up; Thou dost understand my thought from afar." You knew that at this time of year I am longing for home; that I have had many memory filled thoughts of winters and Christmases past. One sweet memory is that of snow at Christmas time. It has been snowing now off and on for about four days. I think that we will see a white Christmas. Thank you Father. Thank you for knowing my thoughts and considering them at this time of year.
You are great. The verse after the one above in Psalm 139 says, "Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down, And art intimately acquainted with all my ways." Thank you. You are "intimately acquainted with all my ways". Wow. That is amazing. How much I mean to you that you take such notice of my ways. Thank you, a million times, thank you.
I love you Lord. You are my God. You are my everything. Without you I am nothing. Thank you for caring...even about the little things.
In Jesus Name, Amen!
Your daughter,
Heidi
First and foremost, I want to thank you for a new day. You have made this day and I will rejoice and be glad in it.
Now, I am just now looking out my window and I see heavy snow falling to the ground. The clouds in the sky have disappeared behind the layers of snowflakes that are falling from them. The rooftops of buildings all over the city are frosted with glistening white. Thank you, Lord, for this delight.
In your word, Psalm 139:2 it says, "Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up; Thou dost understand my thought from afar." You knew that at this time of year I am longing for home; that I have had many memory filled thoughts of winters and Christmases past. One sweet memory is that of snow at Christmas time. It has been snowing now off and on for about four days. I think that we will see a white Christmas. Thank you Father. Thank you for knowing my thoughts and considering them at this time of year.
You are great. The verse after the one above in Psalm 139 says, "Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down, And art intimately acquainted with all my ways." Thank you. You are "intimately acquainted with all my ways". Wow. That is amazing. How much I mean to you that you take such notice of my ways. Thank you, a million times, thank you.
I love you Lord. You are my God. You are my everything. Without you I am nothing. Thank you for caring...even about the little things.
In Jesus Name, Amen!
Your daughter,
Heidi
Thursday, 10 December 2009
God, the lover of our soul!
God is so good. I am reading the book, "Captivated" by John and Stasi Eldredge best-selling author of Wild at Heart. It was a gift from my dear friend Reena just before I came back to Glasgow in August. I started reading it then but put it down for a couple of months. I just picked it up again and started reading.
Lately, I've been crying out to God for more passion for him...more love for him...more something. :D Ever been there? Anyway, the chapter I picked up at was about how that a woman's soul longs to be romanced...longs to be pursued. Often times hurts and wounds from the past put walls up in our hearts causing us to think that we obtain no beauty worth pursuing. However, if we would stop and ask God to reveal to each one of us the beauty of the very center of who we are...we would find that we are very beautiful in the eyes of God...so much so that he has been pursuing us since we were little girls. And even more so as we become women...he wants to romance us. He doesn't only want to be our King, our Lord, our Savior, even our Father, he wants a more intimate relationship. He wants to be the lover of our soul. He wants to romance us.
Anyway...in this chapter they were talking about these things and they were explaining how God romances us in different ways. Think of ways that your heart was romanced as a kid: "horses in a field? Was it the fragrance of the air after a summer rain? Was it a favorite book?...The first snowfall of winter?" I could name a million things...but I relate with the last one. I remember being a little girl so excited for the first snowfall of winter. I would sit by the window in our kitchen and just watch...anxiously waiting for the slightest hint of snow. And when it came...oh how excited I was...my heart was abounding in hope fulfilled.
So as I read this chapter I thought to myself, "How does God want to romance me here? IN Glasgow? I'm not near the ocean where I feel the closest to him...It doesn't snow very much here...What glorious wonders of nature are there to behold God's silent pursuit of me?"
After I put my book down, I shut the light off and attempted to fall asleep. However, because of my awful habit of drinking coffee right before I go to bed, I lay sleepless in Glasgow. ;-) So I got up, put my laptop on, signed on here, uploaded my pictures from yesterday's Pantomime, and Wham! It was like a brick hit me in the head.
It wasn't the crashing winds of the seaside, or the stillness of wondrous mountains, or even a snow fall through which God romanced me yesterday; it was through art. That's right...art. Yesterday I went to my first Pantomime at the Pavillion Theatre here in Glasgow. Just before the show started I was mesmerized by the grandness and outstanding architecture of the auditorium. It was absolutely amazing. I felt like I had been transported through time two hundred years ago. I was excited just sitting in my seat...before the show even started. Little did I know...God was romancing me. :D He was romancing me through the simple things in life...things that others may have grown accustomed to. I remember turning to my friend and college mate, Valerie, and saying, "I feel like I've been transported two hundred years back." She looked at me funny and said, "Huh. Maybe I felt like that the first time I went to a Pantomime. I'm not sure."
So...I just wanted to share that. And encourage someone who may be having a hard time seeing how God could possibly romance you. Sometimes it's the simple things. Look out for the simple things in life that thrill you...that could just very well be God luring you into a smothering romance. ;-) whether you are a woman or a man! :D
Lately, I've been crying out to God for more passion for him...more love for him...more something. :D Ever been there? Anyway, the chapter I picked up at was about how that a woman's soul longs to be romanced...longs to be pursued. Often times hurts and wounds from the past put walls up in our hearts causing us to think that we obtain no beauty worth pursuing. However, if we would stop and ask God to reveal to each one of us the beauty of the very center of who we are...we would find that we are very beautiful in the eyes of God...so much so that he has been pursuing us since we were little girls. And even more so as we become women...he wants to romance us. He doesn't only want to be our King, our Lord, our Savior, even our Father, he wants a more intimate relationship. He wants to be the lover of our soul. He wants to romance us.
Anyway...in this chapter they were talking about these things and they were explaining how God romances us in different ways. Think of ways that your heart was romanced as a kid: "horses in a field? Was it the fragrance of the air after a summer rain? Was it a favorite book?...The first snowfall of winter?" I could name a million things...but I relate with the last one. I remember being a little girl so excited for the first snowfall of winter. I would sit by the window in our kitchen and just watch...anxiously waiting for the slightest hint of snow. And when it came...oh how excited I was...my heart was abounding in hope fulfilled.
So as I read this chapter I thought to myself, "How does God want to romance me here? IN Glasgow? I'm not near the ocean where I feel the closest to him...It doesn't snow very much here...What glorious wonders of nature are there to behold God's silent pursuit of me?"
After I put my book down, I shut the light off and attempted to fall asleep. However, because of my awful habit of drinking coffee right before I go to bed, I lay sleepless in Glasgow. ;-) So I got up, put my laptop on, signed on here, uploaded my pictures from yesterday's Pantomime, and Wham! It was like a brick hit me in the head.
It wasn't the crashing winds of the seaside, or the stillness of wondrous mountains, or even a snow fall through which God romanced me yesterday; it was through art. That's right...art. Yesterday I went to my first Pantomime at the Pavillion Theatre here in Glasgow. Just before the show started I was mesmerized by the grandness and outstanding architecture of the auditorium. It was absolutely amazing. I felt like I had been transported through time two hundred years ago. I was excited just sitting in my seat...before the show even started. Little did I know...God was romancing me. :D He was romancing me through the simple things in life...things that others may have grown accustomed to. I remember turning to my friend and college mate, Valerie, and saying, "I feel like I've been transported two hundred years back." She looked at me funny and said, "Huh. Maybe I felt like that the first time I went to a Pantomime. I'm not sure."
So...I just wanted to share that. And encourage someone who may be having a hard time seeing how God could possibly romance you. Sometimes it's the simple things. Look out for the simple things in life that thrill you...that could just very well be God luring you into a smothering romance. ;-) whether you are a woman or a man! :D
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