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Prayer Walks, Staff Network Day 9th of May & Police Day of Prayer 10th May

The last few weeks some of our members have been attending Prayer Walks in London, I managed to get to one with Les Isaac from Street Pastors, Deborah LCPF Deputy Chair and a whole host of community members in the Penge area.

It was wonderful to be welcomed by Pastor Mel who has organised this walk and had event and she quickly put me to work, I went and spoke with members from the Local SNT who where doing an anniversary of the sad murder of a young man in a nearby park from November.  We then quickly got split into groups and off we went praying and walking asking for God’s influence on the streets, in the homes and with the people of Penge.

It was a wonderful event and other members have attended the Croydon Prayer walk as well as the Lambeth and Lewisham walks so many people out praying in the weather and so glad it was so well attended and we all pray it continues.

Tomorrow some of us from LCPF will be at ESB for the launch of the National Staff Network Day, we will be their to let people know who LCPF are, what we can do in way of help, praying for, praying with or being that friend at the end of the phone. If you are at ESB please feel free to come along and have a chat we will be on the 1st floor all day with out stand and some giveaways.

Very importantly with our family from the CPA we also have the National Pray for Police day on the 10th of May, this event is for anyone across the world in conjunction with the Archbishop of Canterbury’s prayer event “Thy Kingdom Come” to pray for the world and all that is happening within it, please have a look at the event (Link below) or feel free to contact us about it.

https://www.thykingdomcome.global/

I hope you have had a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend, for those of you like me that had to work I pray you got home safely and you have had time to enjoy with your families and friends.

God Bless to each and everyone of you, have a safe week and I look forward to seeing many of you on the 23rd October at our event if not before.

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Verse Of The Day?Passover:2018-Sharing the❤️of God wherever we go

Numbers 9:2 KJV

“Let the children of Israel also keep the Passover at his appointed season.”

The Feast of Passover was to be kept as a memorial by the Children of Israel on how they were delivered by God, out of Pharaoh’s grip of bondage in Egypt. The Feast of Unleavened Bread was kept over 7 days & the book of Leviticus tells us, it occurred after the feast of Passover. Passover was to remind each generation of the night before they fled Egypt. They had to gather everything in a hurry & bake unleavened bread in haste, eating it quickly & gathering up their clothes as they did this, so they could leave. Leavened bread contained yeast & it needed to rise before baking. Unleavened bread of course, did not contain yeast. The children of Isreal’s journey from Egypt was to be an arduous one & God was showing them even in this, they were to prepare a sacrifice. The Feast of Unleavened Bread was to focus on the freedom of the children of Isreal from sin, bondage & the rituals of Egypt & also, their coming into righteousness, their sins being cleansed as the passed through The Red Sea, a type of baptism. Yeast represented sin. But the only real way to get  sin out of our lives is to invite Jesus Christ into our lives. He is the only one who can completely remove the yeast, the sin, from within us. He is the only way.

When Jesus Christ, –all God & all Man, “came & dwelt amongst us”, He became the Passover Lamb. John declared “behold The Lamb of God who takes away the sins of this world” when He saw Jesus approaching. Jesus our Redeemer. His sole purpose was to be The Sacrifice for our sins & to bring us salvation through redemption. Moses was sent to deliver Gods people after more than 400 years of slavery under Egyptian brutality. He was sent to serve & to direct the children of Israel on how precisely, they were to prepare for Passover & even, how to eat the Passover meal. Then how to live without the yeast of sin in them from the years of being under Egyptian rule & custom. The children of Israel were to be set apart, a peculiar people. Jesus came to deliver us because there was no one worthy. He came that we might have life & have it more abundantly. We too are to be set apart for His Light to be readily seen in us. He is the freedom that Moses was leading the children of Israel to. Jesus began acting out the plan of salvation by fulfilling Gods promise as the sacrificial Passover lamb. Isaiah speaks of how Jesus would do this; “the lamb before the slaughter & the sheep before her shearer is dumb, He openeth not His mouth. He was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him & by His stripes (every lash Jesus took) we are healed”; silent, Jesus stood before those who persecuted Him. He never protested His perfect innocence. He took the betrayal from one named Judas, who was close as a brother to Him; He took the bad mouthing & He took it when His beloved apostle Peter denied Him. He gave His life as a sacrifice for the atonement of our sins. As the ultimate gift, He laid it down on the cross, no man took His life. He fulfilled His promise & the prophecies from The Old Testiment in scriptures such as Psalms, Isaiah, Daniel, Hosea & again in the New Testament which said “He would rise again & rebuild the temple in three days.” Matthew 12:40 “For as Jonas (Jonah)was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” This is the prophecy of Christ’s death & resurrection.

As Paul stated in 1st Corinthians 5:7 “For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us; Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” Jesus requires the inner truth in each of us. It  matters not to Him how murky it may appear or be. Through true confession to Him, we are able to come and share His body & blood. He wants our true heart.

Over the weekend I received Communion, The Lord’s Supper, at my home because I was not well enough to attend the Service at Church following a medical procedure. I felt so revived in my spirit despite the pain in the right side of my body. Do you know that each time we receive the broken body & blood of Jesus Christ, something happens to the soul & spirit within us? I claimed my healing & wholeness, as I received Communion by faith. Jesus Christ The Potter, keeps cleansing & restoring & sanctifying & healing us. Each time we partake, we should be doing so in memory of Him dying on Calvary for us. It is imperative we take & share Communion, The Lamb who was slain because it is for the removal of our sins and as above states, we are to come & take it “with sincerity of heart & in truth”. The Word of God tells us “let a man (& this is applies to women too) examine himself  & if we think we are not worthy to receive Him through Communion, “God is greater than our hearts” He loves the humility of us admitting we have sinned because we all do “I’m not worthy of  You Lord Jesus but if You say the word, I shall be healed”.

There is also deliverance, forgiveness & love in the body & blood of The Lamb, the breaking of the unleavened bread is Jesus’ body & sharing of the Passover wine symbolises the shedding of His blood. By taking The Lord’s Supper or Communion, we are observing Jesus’s example of what He demonstrated with His apostles, until He returns, something He instructed the apostles to do then passing this down to us, His adopted children. Just as He demonstrated humbleness in His actions during Communion, He also showed the fellowship in the body of Christ. The oneness of the apostles in breaking bread & sharing one Cup, shown by Him as He was serving His apostles & washing their feet. He did this so must we live our lives humbly and our service to God, is to serve others, on His behalf.

When we partake of The Lord’s Supper we are to do so with love & in reverence, not ritualism. We partake with the reality of who God is, what He did for our salvation & how He lives in us, so that we are being cleansed, filled & strengthed. When our struggles against sin present itself throughout our lives & it will, we can surrender our will to God and rely on the power of the risen Christ who lives His life in us & on the power of His Holy Spirit, who fights for us. With Christ, The Hope of glory & His resurrection power working against our sins, we will say with holy boldness & as Paul emphatically stated in Philippians 4:13, was “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!” & “ greater is He that is within me than he (Satan) that is in the world”. As God sent Moses to lead His people out of captivity, a type of sin, so has Jesus died on the cross to set us free from the chains of sin & death. We are to observe & partake of The Lord’s Supper often & in truth, passing on the importance of what why we do this in memory of Jesus Christ to our children & their children, the next generation & also, to those around us, until the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, His death, resurrection & our redemption is shared in the “four corners of this earth only then shall the end come” In doing so we are observing Christ resurrection until He returns & what a day of rejoicing & feasting it will be!

#Share this verse with all you meet today, maybe you know Jesus maybe you don’t but the message is the same,  there is power & healing in His body & blood. Jesus was The Passover Sacrificial Lamb for us, we must continue what He first taught us through Communion at the most famous meal there ever was,The Lord’s Supper.  We are to observe this as a memorial until He returns for us??

Be richly blessed in Jesus name 

Samantha ?

 

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Verse Of The Day?Lies:2018-Sharing the❤️of God wherever we go

Song of Solomon 2:4 KJV

“He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love”

Satan is the father of lies. The Bible declares he was a liar from the beginning. He comes with all subtlety. Sometimes gentle, sometimes rampant but always sowing seeds of doubt. His modus operandi? He masquerades – appearing to be one thing to entrap us, but all he is, is a liar. His Operation command centre- he controls by fear – false – evidence – appearing – real. His sole purpose is to kill, steal & destroy us. God places something over us. He drapes us in it, dropping, sopping, saturating us in it. It is His banner of love. Yes Jesus loves us. There is no other way to tell you. He loves us more than the most passionate love a person could have for another. More than a Parent’s love for their child; Isaiah 49:15 states: “Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.” God will never forget us because of the love & mercy He has for us.

Solomon, the wisest man to walk the Earth, spoke of Gods love as a woman. He loves us so much that despite our sins, He came & dwelt amongst us and died on the cross to have our sins removed. I want to remind each one of us that we are precious to God. “We are the apple of His eye” as Zechariah 2:8 encourages us “For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.” He will defend us because His Word has honour & it is imputed unto Him that He cannot lie.

I want to reach out to those who feel rejected or broken this morning, lonely, even suicidal. God loves you. He will help you & deliver you. Open your heart & minds to Him, He sees you & He will send help to you. Don’t believe the enemy’s lie, you are not alone & you are not forgotten. You maybe a Christian & feel you should not be thinking this way, making it harder for you to reach out to God but He really does understand. He knows us & He knew a day like this would come, indeed, He knew us before we were formed in our mother’s wombs. Come, Jesus has His arms open waiting to embrace us. Don’t stay in the low place that suppresses you, tells you you’re forgotten or rejected & don’t stay silent. Call Him “Father it’s  me standing in the need of You” that’s all the pray we need & He will draw us closer. This might be too hard for us to deal with but nothing is to  hard for Jesus, He wants to carry our load.

#Share this verse with all you meet today, maybe you know Jesus maybe you don’t but the message is the same, you might be at the brink of it all but don’t believe or listen to, the lies of the enemy, Jesus loves YOU??

Samantha ?

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Verse Of The Day?Enquire Of God:2018-Sharing the❤️of God wherever we go

2 Samuel 5:23-KJV

“And when David enquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees”

In everything David did, he enquired of God. He never made a move without seeking God’s direction first & the times depicted in the Bible when he did not ask of God, he found himself in all types of complications. When lust began to consume him, David did not seek God about how to quell or resist that lust which was propelling him to pursue Bathsheba. Instead, he acted foolishly, answering to his flesh & he acted upon his feelings, causing an innocent man to be put to death at David’s request. When pride took over David, he numbered Gods people and God was angry and He dealt with David for this action. Yes, God does grow angry with us but He is also a forgiving God too. We know God dealt with David’s sin but he forgave David.

We need to seek God before we act. On & in, every area of our lives which includes our Spiritual walk with Him, maybe you are looking for a church, maybe moving from a Church, employment or changing jobs, university or apprenticeship, how about how to bring up our children (if we have any); seek parenting skills & direction from The Father who created us. Ask Him, should we adopt or foster, if being natural parents is not an option or choice. What type of bank you should use; choosing a mortgage? Types of holiday to go on, seems simple doesn’t it? How about staying or moving jobs; illness, treatment for sickness, moving homes, friendships groups, what about relationships, should we be in the ones we are in? Unequally yoked, dating someone who does not believe in God, what does God say about this? What’s the next step then? How do we deal with this? What about marriage, separation, divorce facing any of these? Have we enquired of God what to do? Are we facing challenges here? There are darker issues many face of how to get out of crippling debts, addictions tongue cannot repeat but only God sees, maybe it’s adultery, pornography, suicidal thoughts, being involved in or imprisoned because of  crime; the valley that wants to swallow us up. The enemy that wants to destroy us. There is no question God will not answer & there is no battle God cannot deliver us from. We just need to come to Him & speak. If you are yet to become a Christian or new to the faith, please speak to God & seek HIS  direction. This verse is reason why.

When we come away from the will of God, we come against all manner of issues & problems but when we seek God first, He will direct our path. In Proverbs 3:5 Solomon said “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Had David gone up against the Philistines in the valley of  Rephaim the second time, without seeking God because he had been successful the first time and won the battle against them; he would have surely lost because as the Philistines had changed strategy, they changed tactics, from when they first fought David & his army in the same valley, to try & out-manoeuvre David. Just as they changed tactics according to the direction of the enemy, so must we change tactics under the direction of The Holy Spirit. Our weapons of warfare are not carnal, this is a spiritual battle, fought in the spirit realm and on earth, our very lives, is the battlefield. The warfare is not the people we physically see, no, they are strongholds the enemy sets up to attack us in. “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;”. Our weapon is The Holy Spirit, the God in us, amen! The enemy is a spirit also & he looks to inhabit people & situations to agrieve & destroy us. We need to be aware & alert to his manoeuvres Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” The Philistines came to destroy David, but God as his Protector & Shield, The Conquering Lion of Judah, His Commanding Strategist, strong & mighty in battle, directed David, not only to safety but He told David when to move, how to move “And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself” then David, God was saying, you shall move! Most importantly, God told David where HE was going to be in David’s battle “for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.” What a mighty God, He is our Fortress!??

Disobedence causes us to fall into many problems. Trying to do things off our own back & not following the direction or instructions given to us, even when the Holy Spirit is prompting, indeed at times yanking us away, causes us to end up in problems. If David was disobedient, he would have lost the battle but he followed the instructions God gave him & the victory was His “And David did so, as the LORD had commanded him; and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gazer.” If God is for us NO one, nor force of darkness, no weapon formed against us will prosper. The enemy will try, as the Philistines did with David a plethora of times, gosh they massed an onslaught of attacks against him but he sought God on every battle. We see here in this verse it was twice in a matter of days! Doesn’t it feel like that for you? It does me. Trial & battle one after another, just as soon as God gets me through one situation another beast rears it’s ugly head!  The fiery darts will come for us, we have been warned. The attacks will come but in everything, stand firm even if inside we are wobbling & seek God then give Him thanks for the answer before we even receive it! Exercise a tiny bit of faith. Seek Him first & all His righteous & all will be given to us, including the instructions we need to make this life journey “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”Jeremiah 29:13 Seek God then wait as David did, for Him to answer. He will answer us with precision & He will make it clear to us, that what He has told us- is of Him “Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.”

#Share this verse with all you meet today, maybe you know Jesus maybe you don’t but the message is the same, all the answers you need are in Jesus, we seek Him first, for our direction??

God bless & keep you all, in Jesus name

Samantha ?

 

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Verse Of The Day?Merciful Father:2018-Sharing the❤️of God wherever we go

Joel 2:13 KJV

“And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil”

This is the day we turn our hearts back to The Lord because He seeks the true repentance of our hearts and not lip service. When we love someone or something, it derives from the depths of us, some times there’s no words to describe that overwhelming passion we feel when we love. It comes from the very well of our hearts, so too does jealousy, hatred, bitterness malice & unkindness. God sees the inner person, He sees our souls, He sees the sincerity of our hearts.  What is invisible to mankind is visible to God. No one can hide their thoughts or intentions of their heart from Him. The Omniscient One really does know it all. Though countries around the world are in chaos of various degrees & types, Gods Word reminds us that only He, is the answer & we must receive of Him coming to true repentance, by seeking His forgiveness & grace. Out of His great kindness & patience God bids us to come to Him, will we accept His invitation?  This entire land needs healing, both spiritually & temporally. We need to return to true worship & seek Gods mercy, asking Him to deliver us & when we do collectively & individually, “He is faithful & just to forgive us of all our sins” & powerful enough, to heal this land.

Yesterday my Neice Chloe told me “sharing is caring Aunty” when she wanted a biscuit..?  so I’m passing that beautiful word of wisdom to you, #Share this verse with all you meet today, maybe you know Jesus maybe you don’t but the message is the same to us all, Jesus is calling us to repentance & reconciliation with Him. He loves us & more than anything we may “think” He desires from us, the answer is the same- He desires our hearts no matter the condition. He just wants us to come with our hearts open to Him in truth. It begins in each of us. We at LCPF are in continuous prayers for you ??

May The Lord shine His face upon you & grant you His favour, God bless

Samantha ?

 

 

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Verse Of The Day?:2018-Sharing the❤️of God wherever we go

Exodus 25:8 KJV

“And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.”

Moses was instructed by God to build Him an Altar & this specific Altar was to be built in The Ark of the  Covenant of Cherubim. It was to be built so God could meet with Moses & the children of Isreal. A separate place of sanctification & worship. God gave Moses precise measurements & directions down to which tools, wood & precious metals,stones & gold to use; which he followed. The true purpose of the meeting place was what was to be placed inside it. God instructed Moses to place inside the Ark Golden a candlestick called Menorah to be made of pure gold, with a central taller stand & 3 stands of equal height on either side. The candle was to be filled by sanctified pure beaten olive oil & it was to remain lit at all times. It stands before the congregation even now, without the veil and in front of the Testimony of the Tablets of the commandments.
The Menorah’s light shone directly on the table containing the short Shewbread, which was the offering for The Lord. The book of Exodus states it shall be a statue forever unto all generations. The Arc contained:
The Golden Manner Pot
Aaron’s rod
The Golden Incense Altar
The Altar of burnt Offering
The laver of Brass, filled with clean water for the priest to wash their hands & feet in, each time they entered the sanctuary.
The Arc also contained The Veil, which separated The Holy from most Holies. It also had placed within it, The Testimony of The Commandments which God gave Moses to give the children of Israel & (unto us His heirs through adoption into the family of God) finally in the Arc of the Covenant, was a seat.  It was not any seat but it was The Mercy Seat where sins would be atoned & forgiven. Only the Priest could enter into the Holy of Holies were the Mercy Seat was. It was also the place Gods people would confess their sin & the Priest would take their issues to God on their behalf.

Through His Holy Spirit, Jesus who is God, has chosen us to be His Temple, His Sanctuary, which in Exodus was The Arc of The Covenant. His meeting place is in us, His chosen vessels. Psalms tells us we haven’t chosen Him but He us. Our bodies are now the Temple of The Living God, where He wants to dwell & be glorified. We are not to give His glory to any other or worship any other God. His Word & our true confessions, sanctifies is. Our hearts are the offering He seeks. We cannot sancitiy ourselves but David says in Psalms 119:9 ”Wherewithal (how) shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.” Then we know we are doing Gods will & He through His Holy Spirit, will abide in us. There is no need for us to go to the High Priest to meet with God, Jesus tore, ripped in half, The Veil & broke down that partition so we can meet with Him any time, night or day. He is The Altar & we are vessels He wants to be fit for The King’s use. Indeed, The Master’s table. With our hearts open & willing in obedience to Him, He pours into us, His Spirit. In the Old Testament Gods  Spirit was upon His people, today, He wants to dwell & live within us & for us to be true & praise Him.

There is a beautiful song which asks God to “Lord prepare me to be a Sanctuary, pure & holy, right & true. With thanksgiving, I’ll be a living, Sanctuary for You”, let The  Eternal Light of God shine through us wherever we go, like The Menorah Candle which must be lit day & night, burning always as a light to the altar. When His Light is in us, we must do all we can to keep Him burning & give of our best to Him. Our sincerity of hearts are the offering He desires & doing so, He will anoint us to draw souls to His Kingdom. He is The Living God#Share this verse with all you meet today, Jesus is calling us to meet with Him. We have a purpose ??

God ever bless you

Samantha ?