Been thinking a lot about my calling to be a Salvation Army officer over the last few days at Roots...had a chance to chat to Neil Webb from the territorial candidates dept about none residential training which is something I've been thinking and asking God about for a bit. He didn't make it sound appealing at all lol in fact I felt very put off while he was talking to me. He asked if he could pray with me which was fine with me and while he was praying I felt so strongly that God was saying no to this and that I just had to have patience and wait for His timing, not try to speed things up. Thinking about it, it seems better to leave it be until Scot has left college, he will then be 18 and going (hopefully) to university which would probably be away from home anyway. I guess 5 years will pass in no time, I will have paid all my debts off in 18 months time (yippeeee) and can learn to drive, get saving etc Also I will learn tonnes at my church and we have loads of stuff to do, loads of unsaved people in Swinton and surrounding areas to mither for God, I want to be a part of that.

On Sunday at church Ian has asked me to speak on the following verse from Psalm 130 vs 5

"I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I put my hope"

I could waffle for hours about this as Jesus has done so much in my life, there have been so many miracles that have happened to me since I got saved and so many times that God has just stepped in and made things right, so many times when I have had to cling on to God as my life was falling apart....how to fit it all into however long I am speaking for. I don't want it to just be about me, I want to be encouraging to all my friends at church to trust God for everything and to know that He alone is the only hope we can trust and have. Theres loads of things flying round in my head, giving me a flippin headache lol.