Your donkeys are safe.

Worry and fear will always distract you from God's call on your life. We can't live in faith while we are full of fear and worry.

When God called Saul to be king over Israel, Saul was worrying about his lost donkeys. He'd been searching for them for three days.

Samuel came to speak about Saul's anointing as king - a major national and historic event. But first he speaks prophetically about Saul's immediate concern - that of the lost donkeys.

“As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them; they have been found. And to whom is all the desire of Israel turned, if not to you and all your father's family?””
1 Samuel 9:20

You cannot flow in what God has anointed you for, if you are crippled by fear and worry. So God comes to address our concerns so that we can focus on what God is anointing us to do.

I want to tell you today, your donkeys are safe. Whatever your donkeys are - fear of debt, loss or the future - God wants you to know, your donkeys are safe. Now rise up in your anointing and serve him.


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It's right in front of you...

“And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.””
Luke 1:76-79

What an uplifting week! In addition to my work with RSVP Trust, I am also a Trustee to a couple of other ministries.

On Wednesday I travelled North to a meeting of Proclaim Trust, the ministry of Barry Woodward. Barry, an ex-addict and drug dealer, has a powerful ministry based in Rochdale. One of the things he's been doing this year is a tour of prisons. During his proclaiming of the gospel 479 prisoners turned to Christ and had their lives transformed.

In addition to that, Barry is aiming to get a copy of his book - Once an Addict - to every prisoner in the UK. To date he has distributed 20,000 copies of that powerful book to UK prisoners. Reports back from some chaplaincies are very encouraging. If you can support Barry with his work click here: http://www.proclaimtrust.org

The next day I was in Sheffield with my friend Martin Garner of Freespirit Trust. He took me to a local café to show me some of his ministry. We went with Anna one of his Trustees. They walk round the estate and just make themselves available to God. Martin has connected with a man imprisoned recently from this area. He has visited him a couple of times and he had an encounter with God. The man is now writing letters from prison and has started a ministry in the prison.

As we sat in the local café we met various people including an alcoholic who is discovering Jesus. As builders and other workers came in and out for bacon rolls, we laid hands on and prayed for various people, right there in the café. A local 'dealer' met with Martin in a corner of the café and I watched as Martin shared the scriptures with him. The man is hungry for God. What a unique and effective way to share to life of God in Christ!

On my return to Stowmarket, I met with RSVP evangelist, Ali Fenning, who told me how she had visited a brothel this week, and by listening to God, she has found favour with the owner and is free to visit and minister to the women there.

When I came into the office this morning there was a message from a lady who was healed of blindness in one of our meetings. Here is a bit of what she says,

My name is Irene and I met you when you were at a healing service in All Saints Church, Cleveleys.

I came away after this service with my whole life changed! I could see faces again after being registered blind for over 25 years

When you shook my hand I saw your face and it is a face that I had seen over the past 6 months when I closed my eyes, this was overwhelming.

I didn't tell anyone immediately, I just had to get home where I went down on my knees and cried for about 15 minutes and thanked the Lord for you being there and filling me with the Holy Spirit.

I read your little book on healing.

I think that the most wonderful thing though is that the Holy Spirit I felt that night when you healed me has never left me and it overwhelms me with abundance in whichever Church I am in.

So, Don Egan, thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thanks be to God! We give him all the glory.

As we move into Advent this week, I am greatly encouraged. I think of all these people, many in very dark and lonely places having a personal Advent as Christ appears in their life. Thank God for the pioneers who make themselves available to God to reach the lost for Christ.

This week I began a daily photo journal - which involves looking for a photo opportunity every day. I'm seeing things I didn't see before. But as I reflect on the great people I met this week, I realised I need to be much more intentional about looking for God opportunities. Like photo opportunities, God opportunities are all around us if only we have eyes to see. I'm off to my local café this week to see what God's doing there.

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