Testimonies

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES? DO YOU BELIEVE IN PRAYER?

May 2012

Thank you everyone for your prayers. Yesterday at St A's service the fellowship prayed for me & during the service I felt so much more relaxed & calmer , less fearful. I did share that with everyone. During the rest of the day I did "feel" better &

Praise the Lord

last night I slept so much better much, much less pain & I felt it was a great answer to prayer. Also I know I was being told to "share" when I need prayer, not keep trying to "go it alone".
Also today I was able to get to "Angels" & a governors meeting using my scooter, no rain to prevent me! Getting in & out of the car had been a problem.

PB

When my husband recently started a new contract, he needed our car to travel to and from work, leaving me car-less! I wondered how I would manage getting to and from Church (50 minutes' walk each way) for the various activities I am involved with during the week; how I would take my elderly mother to and from her appointments; how I would shop... But after praying about it, I decided to see the positives. The walks were good exercise and would give me more time to reflect and pray. It was an opportunity to prioritise the activities I am involved in. It was time to ask for help with my Mum from the many friends who offered. I never considered acquiring another car. What a surprise then, when after only three weeks, I was offered an M-reg car as a free gift. I have only had to pay the insurance! It is just what I need to enable me to continue the "good work" which God has called me to do. Thank you, Lord.

May 2012

PRAISE THE LORD for answered prayer

YB’s step-granddaughter had a healthy girl, normal birth, after a caesarean had been expected – thank you, God!

April 2012

It has been a strange year with many highs and lows including a wedding and family illness. Knowing God is with me has certainly given me the strength to keep ploughing on.

Von.

God has sent me wonderful new friendships and an amazing extended family at St Phil's who have supported me through what has turned out to be an amazingly difficult and stressful year. I thank God daily for my children and family, I feel blessed that he has given me His strength to have come through this year. There have been so many more occasions of "one set of foot prints, than two" when He has carried me.

Sarah

Eight weeks ago my nephew Drew fell down a flight of fifteen concrete steps. He was found unconscious at the bottom, and admitted to hospital with suspected brain injury, two broken bones at the top of his spine, a shattered shoulder, a broken arm, and extensive bruising to his body.  It was ascertained after scans that there was no brain injury; his shoulder was replaced, his arm was set, and a collar placed at the top of his spine.

After beginning to make a very slow start to recovery, his blood pressure crashed, and he was admitted to the critical care unit, where he was hooked up to many machines.  His mother, who lived in Canada, and sister also, were sent for and his brother and aunt were at his bedside. 

His aunt was told that if they switched off the machines he would be dead. 

Last week, Drew returned home to his apartment, having been told by the doctors he had no need of rehabilitation and no need of any further medical help. 

DO YOU BELIEVE IN PRAYER? HIS FAMILY AND I MOST CERTAINLY DOES. ALL GLORY TO A MIGHTY GOD.

We don’t have a great deal of money, although we certainly could not think of ourselves as poor, at all and God has ALWAYS given us everything we need. But, still, we have struggled for some time to buy and replace things we feel we need for our family.

We had been lent a small cot before our third child was born (Peter), which was perfect for our needs. However, we also know that Peter would need a bigger cot or a bed before he was 6 months. At 5 months old we were asked if we wanted a friend’s cot bed, quite out of the blue. This cot bed will last Peter up to his 4th or 5th birthday. They did not know of our need for this item, but no longer needed it and wondered if it might be something we could make use of.

Praise God for answered prayer as we had no idea how we were going to afford to fix the problem of no big enough bed for our third child.

Andy, parent

I just want to thank you for praying for teachers on Sunday. I have really felt the effect of these prayers this week. It  has been a more manic week than usual and my partner has been ill, so I have been teaching both classes together for literacy!

Hopwever, I have had a joy in my work that I haven't felt for some time. I also had some unsolicited praise for my work, which has boosted my self confidence.

Andrea, teacher

Last Christmas (2010) we got my wife’s payslip through on the Saturday before Christmas (the pay itself was going in on the Monday before Christmas, 2 days later). This payday was to pay for Christmas food and presents for our children and of course the usually monthly outgoings. However, it was only one third of what it should have been, due to an ‘administrative error’.

So, we got St Phils and various friends to for the situation over the weekend and on the Monday my wife called her employer; she was due to return back to work after her maternity leave hence the administrative error as a line manager had failed to submit the specific form authorising her return to full pay.

We managed to get hold of the right people at her employer – who could so easily have started their Christmas break early or been doing work from home days. We managed to get the pay put into our bank account that day. This was something we had originally been told would not be possible as her employer only made one payment per month to each employee and there were no appropriate managers to authorise a bank transfer.

Meanwhile, some friends had seen our problem on my Facebook page, where I was asking for more prayer support. As soon as they read it, they went to Morrisons and bought us some food – a good 2 weeks worth of mixed shopping. They also bought some presents and even wrapping paper, to ensure our children had something to open on Christmas Day.

Praise God for answered prayer – and His provision exceeding our expectations once again.

The money was paid, in full, on that Monday and we were blessed over Christmas, New Year and into the New Year each time we went into the pantry and saw the food we have been so caringly given – one extra touch from God was that although our friends did not really know what foods to buy us, each of us in the family got something we particularly like and enjoy.

Andy, parent

I awoke at around 4.00 am one morning (I should explain that it is my practice to wake up between 4.00 am and 5.00 am every morning). When I wake I am wide awake and I get up straight away, go down stairs and make a coffee and some toast then return back to bed.  I sit quietly, meditate and listen to what God has got to say to me that morning.  Sometimes I praise Him, sometimes a line of a hymn or worship song comes into my mind and I sing and fortunately I live alone and so I can sing my heart out. 

The morning that we are talking about I, for some reason, decided on waking that I was not getting up, I was going to go back to sleep and have a lie in.  I was in fact unable to sleep and I tossed and turned with one particular matter on my mind. I eventually sat up and it was a quarter past 5 when I looked at the clock, at which point I said “God, if I can’t sleep you kept me awake for some reason, and so you had better let me know what it is”.  I sat quietly and I just waited to hear from Him.  After a time some years of my past life started to come through my mind, things I had done which I was ashamed of and I realised just how black and awful sin is in the sight of God. The more I thought about it I became really distressed and I wept and wept and eventually the weeping came to an end. 

I sat quietly and I started to praise God, to thank him, to tell him just how wonderful he is.  After a time I simply ran out of words telling him how I loved him and quite amazingly to me I started to speak in a language which I didn’t recognise, in fact I was speaking in tongues, and I talked, and talked and talked.  I thought I was never going to end.  Eventually I did end and I said to God “Father, speak to me in your word this morning and let me just hear your voice”.  When I picked up my bible notes the first word that I saw was ‘surrender’ and the reading that morning was ‘how we need to surrender our lives to God and let Him have His way with us’. 

I didn’t get my lie in that morning, but praise God He did wonderful work of cleansing and healing just there that day for me.

anon

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