Whatever your situation today, His grace, strength and mercy are more than sufficient for you.

Hang in there, friend.

:)

My class of children have had an important and decisive week of tests this week, so I have been sure to hold them up in prayer.

Today is their last exam, and the child I have been reading/scribing has done so well considering his natural ability and progress throughout the year.

It’s a wonderful feeling, knowing that God has given me the opportunity to sow into that boy’s life at such a crucial time.

Thankyou Lord for bringing out the best in him this week…now let’s BOSS this final day of tests - Amen!!

:D

Reminder to self.

You held my past,

You hold my future,

and thank the stars You hold my present, because otherwise i’d be mad about the fact that I’m feeling like i’ve been hit by a freight train.

I have gotten further in God from giving up than I ever did from trying.

This is the day that the Lord has made;

I will rejoice and be glad in it.

I WILL!

Let’s remember when employing our words and actions that if God is going to use them to help win people, it’s for Him -

not ourselves.

God is revealing some super-soaker crazy golf wacky races stuff right now.

I am psyched.

Time to make a joyful noise for the Lord!

My favourite time of ever.

The reason I am excited.

Enough waiting; Heaven knows this may be more anti-climatic than waking up thinking it’s a Saturday and it’s really a Wednesday.

Myself and another guy from the music team at church have been requested to be in the worship band at a one-off Worship Conference for Youth tonight, hosted at one of the town’s largest churches.

There are roughly 100 churches or so spread across the town, and for us to be asked when we belong to a much smaller Church is truly a great honour; there are numerous worship bands bigger in personnel and more ‘polished’ in sound than ours, yet somehow the two of us were chosen - make no mistake, none of this is bragging; God is so good and this is a wonderful opportunity to sing praise and minister to a multitude of young hearts!!

Oh, I know - “That’s it, Shaun? We waited all this time for that? I mean, it’s cool, but -“

Did I mention that the Conference has been organised and is being taken by interns from Bethel School of Ministry?

Bethel.

I will be spending this evening worshipping in person with people from Bethel, and I am blessed to be playing a part in the music that will soundtrack that worship.

Anti-climatic for you perhaps, but I’m just having all the feels over here right now.

Lord, You present me with such beautiful opportunities. Tonight is going to be AMAZING and You will move in hearts young and old alike. May my God-given gifts be employed by You to bring glory to Your name!

The Lord is so good -

He restores
He reveals
He revives
He renews
He relieves
He repairs
He raises
He reconciles
He responds
He rallies
He rejuvenates
He readies
He reinvents
He refreshes
He reinforces
He renovates
He redeems
He revitalises
He reunites
He reignites
He rules
He reinvigorates
He reclaims

He REIGNS.

And that’s just some of the ‘R’s.

When somebody brings a prophetic word, they are outpouring God’s own words from their mouth.

It’s a lot like a computer; the text and words placed before your eyes that explain things on Wikipedia or reveal your best friend’s secret hurting can be traced back to a simple series of 0’s and 1’s.

So the expression ‘Shaun loves you all’ translates to binary as -

01010011011010000110000101110101011011100010000001101100011011110111011001100101011100110010000001111001011011110111010100100000011000010110110001101100

When we speak prophetically via God’s imparting of wisdom, whether it’s over a specific situation or an entire future, it can be traced back to look something like this -

GodGodGodGodGodGodGodGodGod

Pretty neat, huh.