Dear Abba,
Father,


The day You took my rib away, You left my heart open and exposed and vulnerable to that woman You brought to me. Oh God, who is she? (I’m thinking of naming her Eve). I can’t stop thinking of her! She fills my thoughts and my senses, can’t even finish naming the animals, mending the fences!
Can’t concentrate, got to get to my mate. Oh God, what have You done? Can’t remember what it was like without her around, I need her touch, I need her sound. Ah, do You mind if we skip our walk tonight? I’ve got a date (we’re seeing the sights), gonna show her those pretty northern lights! And a new animal I’ve found, he actually moves by hopping around! Oh hey, gotta go, gotta flee, I’m meeting Eve for lunch, you see.
Love, your son,

Adam



Gen:2:23-25



















ApostLes
PrOphets
EVangelists
TEachers
PastoRs
Saints







The goal of all leadership in the Body of Christ is to present Him with a pure and mature Bride, mature in pure love! He wants us to arrive at a place in our walk where we bring no harm to anyone, either by our words or our deeds, or lack of them.
All leadership should model the Love of God. Indeed, God is the One who grants authority to those in leadership and because He is love, when leadership ceases to operate in love, they cease to have authority! In fact, just as God tells us NOTHING will separate us from His love, we should say this of our love for one another! When He says He will never leave or forsake us, we should say this to each other. When He says He was bruised and chastised for us, we should suffer for each other, when we bear one another’s burdens, it is often the other’s sins we are bearing, in love. Becoming a people who love as He loves is my great desire and His.

So today is your Birthday?
Well, what can we say? Hey!
This we will do –
We will celebrate you!
Yes you! Are so wonderful to us!
So don’t you mind if we make a fuss!
You’re worth it, you know!
Just watching you grow!
You can have your cake and eat it too,
as we join together to celebrate you!
We love all the things you say and do,
We gather today to show our love for you.
There’ll be guests and gifts
and games not to miss!
But YOU are the biggest gift of all –
It’s for you we cheer!
So let’s make this clear –
We thank God you’re here!
Without you we just wouldn’t be the same,
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY! And this we proclaim –

Hooray! Hooray for you!
For there’s no one quite like you!



Joh:3:7
Luk:15:7

Thank You Lord for Ann Marie and Nick and Lynn
Thank You for Morris and Rose Marie and Tim
Thank You for Denis and Gisela and Joy
And I thank You for Martha and Yvonne and Roy
Thank You for Mustafa and Kathy and June
and Robert and Elizabeth and John and Liz
Thank You for Norman, Brian and Mark and Timmy
And Georgina and Katrina and Tommy and Jimmy
Thank You for Camilla and Nano and Eamon
And Annette and George and Sheila and Julie
And all those You’ve touched through us on this trip –
Word of Life, Bethel Temple and Liberty Christian Fellowship
May all be found pleasing in Your sight, Yahweh
May they honour and serve You alone all their days
And may they never cease to worship You and give You praise.


Rom:16:21-23
1 Cor:16:19&20
Col:4:7-17






This poem is to remind me that I must never forget, our mission, the Church, is people.






“We are not called to deliver sermons, but people” – Reinhard Bonnke

And now for something completely different –


Not you know



End the in that



Go must you



Flow the against?



Trend the buck?



Alone stand?

Phi:2:12

I’m not Mel Gibson
Or “Ahnold”
I don’t have the money or wealth of
“The Donald”
I don’t have the good looks of
Tom Cruise or Brad Pitt
And I may not have
Steve Martin’s wit
But what I do have
Fame can never replace
For Oh God,
I have Your love and Your grace

And most of all, oh God it’s true
Most of all, oh God, I have You!





Psa:116:1 119:46