good point

I’m with you on the punctuality thing Sandy…..nice to hear from you BTW/

i think the trigger thing discussion was actually about the sexuality/christianity thing though 😆 😆 😆

well i handled a trigger quite well last night i think …..

iwent to church with meg

and the preacher, a woman, in the middle of her message, dogged (amongst other things) homosexuals,

once upon a time, i would have gotten up and walked out never to be seen in there again, but i stayed and listened to the rest of it ,

mind you, it helped that earlier in the week, i was in one of my many ‘god times’ and had a snippet of sunday night,

i knew i had to have prayer and go up the front at the end (you know, the traditional pentecostal response to a message)

and sure enough, although it did not come with the outward punch as in my little vision, i did receive, almost verbatim, the ‘word’ as in the vision, and was a tad moving, shocking and more moving lol

and meg ….. well she was sitting in the pew, and i will let her tell the rest of the story

it is all your fault meg lol

so i am glad i overcame my trigger and stayed

i realised some years back, but i guess with pride etc i have not practiced what i had learnt, that a preacher or anyone for that matter can say one or two things wrong, cos they are speaking out of themselves (the flesh)and not from the inspiration of god (being led by the ‘spirit’) but the rest of what they are saying could very well be ‘spirit’ led…… hence i stayed

and i am glad i did.

Will i attend that church now? Not likely, but there are other reasons for that.

Poor Tez,

I think I really dropped him in the deep end. 😆 But I did admire him for staying. Tez, if you’d said you wanted to go after what the lady said in her message, I would have been out of there with you so fast!

I did feel a twinge of annoyance and that’s the second ‘strike’ against that church for me as homosexuals were mentioned in last weeks sermon in a mildly derogative tone as well… *sigh*

So Tez went out on the altar call (something I don’t feel that I can do just yet) and I stayed in my seat and prayed quietly, I felt that a certain person amongst those praying for the respondents should be the one to pray for Tez and I kept saying “It’s him, it has to be him!” So I was pleased when that’s exactly what did happen…

I joined in, from my seat, praying for Tez (and I will admit, for his protection, too) and then I realized I was crying! Why? Because I was praying in tongues which I had not done in such a long time…

I’m sorry if those here don’t ‘believe in, or trust’ those things, I don’t want to come off sounding all ‘religious’ or ‘special’ but it was a special, sweet time and I felt good for having been there.

I know, and understand Tez’s reasons for not wanting to attend that church, and based on some things observed last night, that I won’t go into here, I am still seriously considering whether or not I will continue to go too.