roniya“Live for the glory of God and the good of many.”

Upon arriving in London on Saturday afternoon everyone was content to rest in the room, explore the shops on our street, and catch up with emails at the internet café.  Sunday morning we made our way to the Metropolitan Tabernacle, http://www.metropolitantabernacle.org/, a church most well-known for being the church of Charles Spurgeon.  We were blessed and edified by the service.  It mainly consisted of hymns (Psalms also), reading of the Scripture, prayer, and the preaching of the world.  The congregation numbering around eleven to twelve hundred people had people from many different ethnic groups.  It was neat seeing the different people groups represented in one church service.  The senior pastor, Dr. Peter Masters was ill that day so the assistant pastor led the service and delivered the message.

After the service we were joined by brother Greg Gordon and brother David Ford.  We had lunch together and then went to Whitefield’s chapel.  The church was being used by a Chinese Lutheran congregation when we arrived.  We quietly took a few pictures in the foyer and then stepped outside to look around the church for anything of historical significance.  There were signs outside the church that were a horrible mockery of George Whitefield; signs that had a picture of him and then a picture of something modern, generally of a sinful nature.  It was very, very sad.

From there we went to Hyde Park and left brothers David and Greg to do some street preaching at Speaker’s Corner.  There were several other speakers proclaiming their message.  We moved on to walk across the park before going to Westminster Abbey for the organ recital.  Westminster Abbey is a magnificent cathedral.  The first song was quite nice but the other two pieces were by a modern composer and not quite as enjoyable something by Bach, etc.  But it was a neat opportunity to see the Abbey.

Monday morning we left for the Book Aid.  A wonderful used Christian bookstore that is full of wonderful little gems available at very low prices.  We spent a few hours shopping there before heading back to the central part of London.  One of my favorite finds was an old copy of the Scots Worthies.   I also bought a copy of George Whitefield’s Journals and have been blessed by the first few pages of that book.

Monday evening we were invited to the home of brother Phillip and sister Christina Stellawagen.  They provided a delicious meal for us and we had a lovely time fellowshipping with them.  Brother Phillip assisted with the moderating at both of the revival conferences in Ireland and Wales.  He is originally from Germany and his wife is from Taiwan.  Their four children are tri-lingual (German, Chinese and English).  We especially enjoyed the company of the two youngest girls, Lina (7) and Leanna (4).

On Tuesday we went to Windsor Castle (http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=34) and enjoyed seeing the castle and going to the many shops in Windsor.  Windsor Castle is the favorite residency of the queen of England and it is full of history of the royalty of England.  It really is an amazing castle.  The shops were also quite nice with a variety of tourist shops, second-hand shops, and normal department stores.

One of the challenges of being in London is the urge to see as much as possible during a few days time frame.  As a result of this, a person can spend a large amount of time walking as you go from underground station to underground station and also walk through museums, parks, stores, etc.  By the end of our time in London we were all exhausted.  On our last day we went to the British Museum and the Science Museum.  At the British Museum we saw artifacts from the time of Abraham, Sennecherib, Noah, Jonah, the Persians, Assyrians, Cyrus, the Greeks, Romans, early Christianity in England and Ireland, etc.  One of the most famous artifacts in the museum is the Rosetta Stone.  I enjoyed seeing thousands of years worth of history.  I think the boys enjoyed the science museum a bit more.

Our final outing in London was to Harrods, a famous department store.  It was very busy.  Having been there once before I made my way to the cheapest coffee shop and waited for the others to finish shopping.  We wrapped up the evening with some delicious Indian food.  Jon and Taylor found a small café that served food from India.  It was a good find.

Early Thursday morning we left our bed and breakfast with all our luggage and safely made it onto the underground (subway) and went to the airport.  Overall, it was a smooth day of traveling.  We were all very happy to finally arrive home at 9pm that evening.  It was a wonderful trip full of many good memories.  We’re so grateful to the Lord for His kindness and mercies so abundantly poured out upon us during this trip.  Thank you so much for praying for us.  The Lord heard your prayers and helped us in so many ways.  We praise Him for His infinite goodness towards our small lives.  We praise Him for the many opportunities to be with fellow Christians and also the many opportunities to share about Jesus Christ with those who do not know Him.  We also praise the Lord for the anointed messages that were delivered during the conferences.  Please take the time to listen to at least a few of them.

The grace and peace of Jesus Christ be with you, dear friends.  Seek the Lord Jesus Christ and His kingdom first!

~Joy

On the Friday following the conference we had made arrangements to spend an extra day in Wales before heading to Wales.  Our wonderful friends, Morgan and Vashi, arranged a delightful day tour of Wales that included sites of historical, Christian, and beautiful scenic interest.

We started out driving up into the mountains of Brecon Beacons National Park.  It was absolutely breathtaking.  It was definitely some of the loveliest scenery that I have seen over in the British Isles.  I believe we drove along the road known as the Gospel Pass.  Many years ago preachers would ride their horses across these mountains sharing the Gospel.  One of our first stops was a delightful ice cream shop that makes homemade ice cream.  We also went to Hay-on-Wye (http://www.hay-on-wye.co.uk/default.asp) which has the reputation of being the second largest book shop town in the world.  It was a lovely village full of book shops as well as other interesting shops.  For lunch we had some pasties and brother Morgan treated all of us ladies to our own piece of fudge that was very yummy.   We visited two or three different churches that were of historical significance that sadly I cannot remember.  We went to a very old priory that dated back to the 1100’s that was a really neat place for photography.  One of our last stops was a canal which we couldn’t really see since it was already dark, but maybe one day we will be able to return and see it in the daylight.

We ended out the day going to an Indian restaurant and enjoyed a wonderful dinner of the food of India.  Indian food can be quite spicy so we were a bit cautious in our entrée selections.

After a good night’s rest we packed in preparation for our trip to London.  We left later in the morning and boarded our train for London.  It was about a three and a half hour trip and was very relaxing once we switched to our train in Cardiff.  Upon arriving in London we switched from the train to the underground and made our way to the underground station nearest to our hotel.  It was a bit of a challenge managing all of our luggage and getting on and off the underground but the Lord helped us and we made it safely to our bed and breakfast.  It was a great relief to finally check into our room and then make our way to the kitchen for a cup of tea.  My next blog post will be about our time in London.

We had a lovely time in Wales.  All of us would like to return one day if the Lord permits.  We stayed with a precious couple, Morgan and Vashi, who bent over backwards in serving us and meeting our needs.  We are so grateful to the Lord in providing such wonderful hosts families for us during this trip.  Morgan and Vashi live in Aberfan which is about a one hour drive from Moriah Chapel where the conference was held.  Vashi had a friend visiting her from Bristol for the conference, Nicola, a lovely Christian sister in the Lord.  We enjoyed sweet times of fellowship with these three saints and hope to see them again one day, Lord willing.

There were a few unexpected occurrences that made this week slightly more interesting that it would have been otherwise.  Two of the three vehicles owned by Morgan and Vashi broke down.  There was definite spiritual warfare going on in opposition of the conference.  They rented another vehicle so that would be adequate transportation for all of us in traveling back and forth to Loughor (where the conference was).

Jon and Taylor drove over to Wales from Ireland with brother Steve Evans along with Ryan and Sean.  They had the exciting experience of crossing the Irish Seas on the ferry.  Dad, Jenny and I flew over to Cardiff on the day that the conference started.  When we arrived we went to Aberfan, the small village where Morgan and Vashi live.  After freshening up and eating a delicious Welsh meal we started off for Loughor and enjoyed an hour of sweet fellowship in the car en route to Moriah Chapel.  One positive benefit of having an hour drive back and forth to the conference was the opportunity to fellowship and talk of the Lord as we traveled.

Upon arrival at Moriah Chapel in the small town of Loughor we found the task of registration waiting for us.  It was a busy afternoon as we welcomed people to the conference from all over Great Britain, Europe, America, etc.  Moriah Chapel is the location of where the great Welsh revival started in 1904 under the preaching of Evan Roberts, a young man of the age of 26 who was greatly used of the Lord in that revival.  All of us were involved with serving in one way or another at this conference.  Dad assisted with the moderator, Jon was the photographer, Taylor helped with the videography, Jenny helped with registration and some with the sound booth, and I attempted to work the computer and projector for the worship time (that was very interesting, none of knew how to run the program, but we did successfully use it during a few of the worship sessions).  Jon, Jenny, and Taylor also had the opportunity to do a few special songs on the piano and violin (Evan Robert’s violin).

The church was packed on the first night when brother Paul Washer spoke.  There is a great hunger, especially amongst young people, for the uncompromised Gospel of Jesus Christ that he faithfully preaches.  The Lord greatly helped him in exalting Jesus Christ and the work of Christ in drinking of the wrath of God on our behalf.  At the end of the sermon he offered to talk with any who were troubled about their souls and one man cried out from the audience asking for brother Paul to talk with him first.

On the second day of the conference brother David Legge delivered a good message on faith.  I was greatly encouraged and blessed by this message.

“Faith is the key to every door in the house of grace….Faith is faith in God.  Faith will look after itself when we focus on God and especially on His power.  If you look at yourself you will despair, if you look at others you will be disappointed.  You must look to God.  Hebrews 11:6 – You must believe that God is active.  God is working in the midst of everything.  Faith in its strength comes from God.  If we do not have a word from God on a matter we cannot ask confidently.  Faith is the title deed.  Faith is our handle on the things we cannot see.  Faith is the title deed; I need to present it before God that I do possess it.  Faith is the proof that God is going to come through!”

Brother Yorrie Richards preached a powerful message Wednesday night on Isaiah 6.  The previous night after hearing brother Paul Washer’s message I was on my face before the Lord with that very passage before me.  It was a blessing hearing this older man pour out his heart as he preached about the holy presence of the Lord.

On Thursday I was greatly blessed by a testimony shared by a brother from Ohio.  It is really neat to see the Lord do a work of transformation over the time period of a few days.  This brother truly did meet with the Lord and left the conference with a radiant countenance and a fire in his bones to seek the Lord.  It was encouraging meeting some brothers, both from America, Ireland and the UK who are ablaze for Christ and burdened for their countries.  May the Lord raise up a generation of men who have the fear of God in their lives and boldly proclaim the true Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Most of Thursday was spent on my part seeking the Lord and rejoicing in the sweetness of His presence.  I spent time walking up and down the street in front of Moriah Chapel, sitting on a park bench, and just praising and worshipping Jesus Christ.  It was a really blessed day.  Later I listened to the message by brother Alan Bartley and was encouraged at the burden of the Lord that was upon him while he preached his message.  I recommend listening to his message.

Brother David Legge gave the last message of the conference.  It was a powerful, anointed, word from the Lord on God’s new thing.  I highly recommend that message also.  Both brother David Legge and brother Alan Bartley are from Northern Ireland and have a burden for the Lord to bring revival to their island.  I praise God for His mercy in bringing those two brothers to preach at this revival conference.  At the end of the conference I was overwhelmed at the mercy of God towards His children at this conference.  Truly, He is the God of mercy and lovingkindness.

Notes from God’s New Thing:

“Isaiah 43:16-21.  Are you willing for God to do a new thing?  If you aren’t willing you might miss it.

God is the God of the original.  Vs. 18 – We can learn from the past but we must not be bound to the past.  You can miss it.  The children of Israel could have missed it because they were focused on the past.

If we have a pre-conceived idea of how He must work, we might miss it.

The Pharisees knew the Scriptures but they did not know their God.  It is not the Biblically illiterate that struggle in this area of confining God to their understanding.

The poison of legalism is that it confines God to work in a manner that I am comfortable with.

Joel 2, Acts 2 – The reaction was utter confusion, utter amazement, they were all ill at ease.

Peter was the key to the Gentiles receiving the kingdom of heaven, yet he himself stumbled at God’s new thing.

Jonathan Edwards said that God never does a work of revival without stumbling blocks.

Our convictions should never become restrictions of what God does.

Some of the resistance to revival is based on our ideas of proper order.

How do you distinguish between a genuine prophet and a false prophet:

1. Is the preaching in the movement Christ-centered?
2. Does it oppose sin?
3. Does it affirm respect for the Scriptures?
4. Does it bring an awareness of the shortness of life and eternity?
5. Does it encourage genuine love to God and your neighbor?
6. Does it produce genuine conversions that bring forth good fruit?

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Dublin, Ireland Revival Conference

Busyness and Spiritual Discipline by Paul Washer

What is Christianity by Paul Washer

What is Revival by David Legge

Loughor, Wales Revival Conference

Bringing A New Thing to Birth by Alan Bartley

God’s New Thing by David Legge

Nothing Without Faith by David Legge

The Holy Presence of God by Yorrie Richards

The Lost Gospel by Paul Washer

Links to my picasa albums:

Ireland

Wales

London

I will share the links to Jon’s pictures when he has uploaded them.  He did most of the photography of the trip.

Hello everyone,

I’m going to attempt to catch up on blogging our trip….even if it is over.  I am going to do three sections, Ireland, Wales and London.  I’ve pretty much blogged everything on our Ireland trip but I’ll share my notes from the revival conference in Dublin and how the Lord worked there.

~Joy

Dublin Revival Conference:

I managed to listen to three messages at the first revival conference.  Here are my notes from two of them:

“What is Revival” – David Legge

Our God is holy – unique, there is none like Him nor will there ever be anyone like Him.  We cannot define God! If you want to know what God looks like look at Jesus Christ because He is the incarnate God.

Isaiah 57:15 – Revival often begins with a dissatisfaction with the status quo.  For the fallow ground to be broken there must be a seeking for God.  When revival comes, God comes.  The authenticity  of our desire for revival is measured and is relevant to our desire for God. We must long for God more than anything else!

Do we want God?

Revival is reaching higher for a greater knowledge of God. My goal is God Himself.

Little children, keep yourselves from idols, from ‘its’.  From the things that take the place of God.

[Bro David’s message contained some things that the Lord had taught me only a few weeks previously.  In His mercy the Lord revealed an idol in my life, an ‘it’ that I was seeking more than the knowledge of Jesus Christ.  I didn’t even realize it was in my heart.  It’s shocking how blind and deceived we can be to the idols in our lives.  Truly our cry should be to the Lord to open our eyes and help us to see!]

If you want a deeper knowledge of God you must bend low.  You must be broken. We have been sold the lie that broken things are useless but God uses broken things.  God resists the proud but He cannot resist the humble.  Dying to self and to selfishness will bring brokenness into your life.

You have been crucified with Christ and you’re just playing catch-up with your mind and heart.  You are dead to sin!

If you’re not right with God then you know you’re not right with your brother (and vice-versa).  Embrace the brokenness!  We have the choice of being broken or unbroken. Stay at the cross!

Confession – Keeping in the light and confess your sins when you fall.  Don’t struggle with your sins.  Confess them.

Filling – God will not fill a dirty cup. But if you’re broken and clean then you will be filled

The only life that pleases God is the life of His only begotten Son.

Revival is reaching high for the high and lofty One, bending low, keeping short accounts with God and continuously being filled with the Holy Ghost. And this will be a continual happening in the life of the revived believer.

The illustration of the little girl in bed with the picture of Jesus above her bed and the mirror in front of her bed.  If she remained laying down in the bed than she could see the picture of Jesus reflected on the mirror, but when she set up all she could see was herself. “When I can’t see myself I see Jesus, but every time I see myself I can’t see Him.”

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Busyness vs. Spiritual Discipline– Paul Washer [I highly recommend this message]

Mark 1

One of the greatest tactics of the devil is to make you busy, noisy, to keep you away from times of quiet.

Every Christian who is filled with the Holy Spirit, walking in the will of God and working as one has been gifted, virtue will go out of them.

Jesus knew that He needed to be with His Father.  He didn’t take care of all of the needs of the people before going to be with the Father.  He left the people.  He met alone with God before the day began.

Do you know the night watches?  The Christian life is communion with Him!  When was the last time you just sat quietly and just thought great thoughts about God and delighted in Who He is? And just listened?

Prayer life is thanksgiving, remembering, confession, communion.  One of our greatest needs is to delight in Him and spend time with God.

The most astounding thing about Jesus Christ was His praying.  And that is why His disciples asked Him, “Lord teach us to pray.”  They knew it was His area of expertise.  NO one could pray like Him!  There is no man who has exhausted the powerful resource of prayer.

1 Tim. 4:1 –

1. You must be nourished constantly on the Word of God.  If you want to be used of God it is most important that you realize  that you need to be nourished by the Word of God daily!

2. Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness.  You are called to have a plan to grow yourself in godliness. Matt. 5:13 – Salt has certain characteristics.  A true disciple of Jesus that has an impact on the world will have certain characteristics.

Matt. 5:3-12 – These are the characteristics of a true disciple. We have an impact on the world by having Christ-like Character! Train yourself in godliness.  What we need are young men with character, with integrity, with depth!  The message we share, do we live it ourselves?  Do you want to impress the world? Live like Jesus Christ, live sacrificially as He did.  Have you studied the Scriptures about speech? Godly conduct? Have you studied love?

3. The Holy Spirit

The empowering of the church.  You must cry out for the outpouring of the Spirit of God on your life.

Long, pray, pant for the Spirit of Christ!

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On Sunday evening in Dublin we went to hear bro Paul Washer preach and he preached on 2 Cor. 5:21.  It is the same message that he gave in Wales at the conference.  At the end of this message the first time I heard it I wanted to go on my face and worship the Lord.  I wasn’t able to due to the circumstances of the evening but in Wales….I was able to worship and I saw the Lord high and lifted up and all I could cry was ‘I am undone’.  In His mercy the Lord revealed His holy, holy holy character to me and also the depravity and exceeding sinfulness of man apart from Christ. Oh! How great is the mercy of God towards the most undeserving, wretched, and desperately needy creature – mankind.

Paul Washer (Dublin)

1 Cor. 5:21 – Jesus walked on this earth as a perfect man.  There has never been one moment when you have loved God as He deserves – with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. Never. But Jesus Christ has never had one moment when He has not loved God as God deserves.  He has always loved God with ALL of His heart, mind, soul and strength.

One of our problems is that we do not see how wicked our sin is.  The great problem of man IS that God is just.  It’s not a problem to have a just judge unless you’re a criminal.  God cannot turn and pretend He doesn’t see your sin.  Hell is filled with the justness of God.  How can God forgive wicked men? His Son took on the perfect form of man and voluntarily took on our sins.  God Himself absorbed His wrath in Himself in His Son.  Christ was always the perfect Man.

At the moment when a person believes on Jesus Christ unto salvation they are justified.  The sins of God’s people were imputed to Jesus Christ.  On the cross Jesus took on our sins and God treated Him as the guilty One.

We do not understand that we ought to be condemned.  Because we have broken God’s law, you’re under a curse.  A curse is when God withdraws all favor from a man and pours out His wrath on him.  Matthew 5 – If you’re blessed, it’s only because Jesus Christ was cursed.

God hates evil – this is good news for us.  God is love thus He must hate evil.

The writings of John Flavel on ‘The Father’s Bargain’.

“Use 6. Hence judge, How reasonable it is that believers should embrace the hardest terms of obedience unto Christ, who complied with such hard terms for their salvation: they were hard and difficult terms indeed, on which Christ received you from the Father’s hand: it was, as you have heard, to pour out his soul unto death, or not to enjoy a soul of you. Here you may suppose the Father to say, when driving his bargain with Christ for you

Father. My Son, here is a company of poor miserable souls, that have utterly undone themselves, and now lie open to my justice! Justice demands satisfaction for them, or will satisfy itself in the eternal ruin of them: What shall be done for these souls? And thus Christ returns.

Son. O my Father, such is my love to, and pity for them, that rather than they shall perish eternally, I will be responsible for them as their Surety; bring in all thy bills, that I may see what they owe thee; Lord, bring them all in, that there may be no after-reckonings with them; at my hand shalt thou require it. I will rather choose to suffer thy wrath than they should suffer it: upon me, my Father, upon me be all their debt.

Father. But, my Son, if thou undertake for them, thou must reckon to pay the last mite, expect no abatements; if I spare them, I will not spare thee.

Son. Content, Father, let it be so; charge it all upon me, I am able to discharge it: and though it prove a kind of undoing to me, though it impoverish all my riches, empty all my treasures, (for so indeed it did, 2 Cor. viii. 9. “Though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor”) yet I am content to undertake it. Blush, ungrateful believers, O let shame cover your faces; judge in yourselves now, hath Christ deserved that you should stand with him for trifles, that you should shrink at a few petty difficulties, and complain, this is hard, and that is harsh? O if you knew the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ in this his wonderful condescension for you, you could not do it.”

Hell is absolute perfect justice.  Hell is when you receive from God’s eternity exactly what you deserve.

The Son: “I am able to discharge it.”

Saving faith – you fall upon Christ with a desperation and nothing can persuade you to let go.

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Notes from Wales message (The Lost Gospel):

The discipline of God on the church are the men God has given to her pulpits.  What we need most is the Word of God preached through the power of God.

Revival is pursuing Jesus Christ.  Heaven will be tracking down the glory of Christ and the Gospel of Christ.

2 Cor. 5:21 – one goal: to know Christ.

Everything the Father has ever done He has done for His Son.

“Be made righteous” – the moment that a person places their faith in Jesus Christ, they are declared right with God and when declared with with God, God treats them as right with Him.  When I stand before God I stand having the righteousness of Christ imputed to me and God can treat me as being right with God.

Do you want to know what it is to be under a curse? The very last thing that a man will hear who is under a curse as he takes his first step into hell will be all creation standing and applauding God for ridding the earth of such a creature as him.

[my thoughts on Isa 53 – ‘Surely He hath born our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted.”  Imagine seeing the vilest man on earth who has committed atrocious crimes and God smites him with every curse and affliction possible, we would declare God just in doing that….this is what Christ took on for me.  He was cursed of God in my place!]

You are saved because of what God the Father did to God the Son on that tree.  The wrath of God was in that cup.  Justice will have it’s day with you.  It will either be one Calvary for you or an eternal day of judgment in hell.

Jesus Christ loves men.

Christians need to repent of the Gospel they are propagating.

God saved you from Himself, for Himself, and by Himself.

That one Man on that tree was worth more than them all.

“So he called ten of his servants–and gave them ten pounds. ‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back.’” Luke 19:13

We are doing business in this world for Christ. Each one of us has something of His–a pound which He has entrusted to us–to trade with as His agent. Our life itself, with all its powers, its endowments, its opportunities, its privileges, its blessings, its possibilities–is ‘our pound’.

Our life is not our own. We are not in this world merely to have a good time for a few years. Life is a trust. We are not done with it either, when we have lived it through to its last day. We must render an account of it to Him who gave it to us. Our business is to gather gains, through our trading with our Lord’s money. We are required to make the most that is possible of our life!

“The first came forward and said–Master, your pound has earned ten more pounds!” Luke 19:16

We always find a few of these ten-pound Christians among the followers of Christ. They are those Christians who, from the very beginning, through divine grace–strive to reach the best things attainable in life. They are not content with being merely saved from sin’s guilt, with being mere members of the church. They make their consecration to Christ complete, keeping nothing back. They set their ideal of obedience to their Lord–at the mark of perfectness, and are not slack in their striving, until they reach the mark in heaven. They seek to follow Christ entirely, fully, with their whole heart. They accept every duty–without regard to its cost. They seek to be like Christ, imitating Him in all the elements of His character. They give their whole energy to the work and service of Christ. They lie, like John, on the Master’s bosom, and their souls are struck through, as it were, with the Master’s loving spirit.

These ten-pound Christians grow at last–into a Christ-likeness, a spiritual beauty, and a power of usefulness and influence, by which they are set apart among Christians, shining with brighter luster than other stars, in the galaxy of the church. Their one pound has made ten more pounds! Their high spiritual attainment has been won by their diligent and wise use of the one pound with which they began!

(by J. R. Miller)

Hello again,

We had a blessed day today at the Metropolitan Tabernacle.  I was blessed by the theologically rich sermon given by the assistant pastor.  The service mainly consisted of hymns (5), reading of the Scriptures (at least three passages) and then the sermon.

We met up with bro David Ford and bro Greg Gordon at the Tabernacle and spent part of the afternoon with them.  We went to Whitefield’s Chapel…which is now a Chinese Luthern Church.  We then went to Hyde Park and walked around.  It was nice.  Then we went to Westminster Abbey for the organ recital which was nice….the music was a little modern.  Bach would have been nice.  Now everyone is resting from the busy day and we’re trying to figure out our money.  It’s been challenging buying foreign currency and then keeping straight what everyone owes eachother….so pray for the Lord to help us with that.

Tomorrow we’re going to the Book Aid.  Pray for wisdom for the books we buy.  I’m not sure what we’ll be doing in the afternoon.  I have heard the British Museum is quite large so maybe we’ll go there for a little bit.

Greetings to my dear family! I miss you dearly, Mom, Josh, Jana and Hannah!  I wish you were here!  

Cheerily in Christ,

Joy

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Written Nov 21….unable to post due to a slow computer and lack of time….

We arrived safely, praise the Lord!

Our train ride went very smoothly and there was only a slight bit of excitement checking into our hotel when we realized we had to pay with cash and couldn’t use our credit card.  So Dad and I headed to a place where we could exchange money.  It was a bit of a challenge but the Lord helped us in figuring it all out and now we are settled into our room.  

There is a cheap internet cafe down the street that I am at right now.  From now on our internet will cost…so I don’t know about blog updates but we’ll do our best!

Tomorrow we’re going to Spurgeon’s Tabernacle and Westminster Abbey, Lord willing.

We had a good opportunity on the train to share the Gospel with two young men.  May the Lord do a work in their hearts!

Pray for more opportunities to share the Gospel while we are here in London.

Thank you for praying!  And when we can upload pictures…we will!

Loughor Revival Conference messages I highly recommend Yorrie Richards and David Legge’s messages.  And I heard that Alan Bartley and Andrew Strom’s messages were also excellent. Lord willing…I will do a longer blog post tomorrow.

here is the audio for Paul Washer’s message that he preached tonight

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