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Tim, our Team-Leader and Pastor introduced me to a very special place last week. It is called Nash Point and is about 15 minutes by car away from where I live. We had a nice walk around there and then each of us took 45 minutes by himself to talk to God and read the bible. This was a very intensive time for me. God showed me several verses in the bible which really encouraged me! After the 45 minutes, Tim and I met again and talked about our experience and what God has told us. This then was very encouraging for both of us. Let me share one of the verses with me, that has impressed me the most:

How precious is Your steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge and put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. They relish and feast on the abundance of Your house; and You cause them to drink of the stream of Your pleasures. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light. [John 4:10, 14.]
(Psalms 36:7-9 - Amplified Bible)

It was a very precious and encouraging time Tim, God and I shared with each other and I’m really thankful for it. May we repeat that soon!

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From my humble point of view.

From the 16th to the 18th of August Emerge Wales had this conference running, that was called the SLOSH FEST. Because I have signed up to receive their newsletter, I knew SLOSH FEST would be on, months ago. I was really looking forward to it and to what God would do there. Why was it called SLOSH FEST? Well, let me quote their website:

“Slosh Fest ‘07 is looming! An opportunity to be filled to over flowing with the new wine of heaven like never before! I dont know about you but I’ve had enough of our efforts. I just want to be overwhelmed with Holy Spirit. I want to enter into the finished rest! I want to experience the pleasure of God!

See there’s no need to stay dry anymore the Holy Spirit is not going away but coming in realms and waves of glory as history unfolds. Joel’s army is going to be an army that experiences the mountains flowing with milk and new wine! We’re about to see He has invited us to eat at His table of wine until our cup overflows, even in the midst of war! Ha ha! Our efforts are not necessary! Shoobie doo! He made us righteous!”

So it was all about drinking from the wells of Salvation, drinking the New Wine, drinking the Water of Life that flows out of our bellies, …. simply drinking from God. It was not meant to be a teaching conference, or a “taking notes”-conference as John Scotland liked to describe it. The speakers weren’t invited to satisfy some peoples hunger for more head knowledge. There were simply there to help us drink.

When I went there the first night, it all was a bit strange to me. And don’t get me wrong here. I’m used to strange and weird manifestations or a noisy church envroiment. That wasn’t the point. There were other things going on the first night, that I could not agree with and that were really off the line so to speak. And sorry folks, you can not back up everything you do with “Those who don’t have a religious devil anymore, will be able to deal with this.” To be honest, I found that the first night of this conference was the most religious event I ever went to. I do have the gift of discernment, and that was what I discovered there the first night.

Well, anyway … I went there again on friday afternoon and to me surprise it felt and looked like as if I was on a completely different conference. The whole atmosphere was better, I didn’t feel all this pressure and manipulation anymore and one could really sense God in the house. So, I don’t know the reasons for this, but all I can say is, that the conference sessions on friday and saturday were a real blessing to me. I had two times were I was totally “lost in Him”. I was “whacked in the Holy Spirit” as the guys from EmergeWales used to say all the time. I had some real quality time with my Heavenly Dad and I was introduced to many new people from Barry that I didn’t know before. I will definitly go to another conference with Emerge Wales. Hopefully they will have Joshua Mills over again, cause I would love to sit under his ministry for a couple of days.

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The sunday at the beginning of the week in which I planned to move to Great Britian I had applied for a job with one of the most established companies in Britian. I applied for it online and didn’t really expect them to come back on me very soon. I applied for a number of other jobs with other companies, while I was still in Germany. But none of them would invite me in. On Tuesday I took the plane to Britian and arrived at my hosts house late in the night. The next morning their mobile rung and it was the company calling whom I had send my application to. They were asking for me for a 5-minute interview on the phone. God helped me with that and I answered all the question this fellow had. After the interview was over, he invited me over for a “face-to-face-interview” to their main office for the next monday, the 6th of August. Wow, that was really fast.

Friday the same week I met with some folks from NEO-Gibby team. We had a really blessed time of prayer and one of the girls had a vision. She saw me as an embryo in a mothers womb and she interpreted as follows: “In this vision you’ve been fed through the umbilical cord and you were in a womb. That means, you can rest. God is going to provide for you and you are in a safe place!” This really encouraged me.

The interview was a test at the same time. The tried the speed of my typing and how many mistakes I would make while I’m typing fast. The whole interview thing went on for about 1,5 hours.

Wednesday night I used the bathroom. I sat there and prayed. God talked to me, saying: “Do you really want this job at “….”? You know I can give you a better job, right?” And I said: “Yes, I know that. But I just think I wanna start somehwere. I could still apply for other jobs while working there.” And then He responded: “Alright, be prepared. They’re going to call you tomorrow and tell you, that you have been accepted as a new employee.”

Thursday morning I took a shower. During washing my hair, God told me: “Be quick. Prepare yourself, “…..” is going to call you soon and tell you that you have been given this job.” As soon as I was ready showered I went downstairs and told my hosts to please turn their mobile on, cause I believe the company is going to call to tell me, that I have the job, because God told me so. Andrew timed the next minutes. After 34 minutes the company called and told me, that I have the job and that my first workday will be the 3rd of September 2007.

I’m really impressed how God is managing all this here. The next thing I believe I’ll see, will be a very good accommodation. A very good flat or shared flat somewhere in Gibbonsdown, Barry. I’m sure I’ll find that soon. Glory to God!

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