Back from Durham....

Hey guys,

Here I am getting around to updating regarding my trip to Durham, the conference we attended was called Freelife and was hosted by Emmanuel church.

On the wednesday, Julian and I flew up from Stansted airport to Newcastle then got picked up by the church leader, Alan, to go on to Durham. We arrived at the very first meeting which began at about 7.45pm. Marc Dupont was the main speaker throughout the conference and did all the evening meetings. It was a great time where everyone there was just going for the prize! Some of the worship times were brilliant as we entered the glory of God. :-) I stayed with a great guy called Dave and he is currently doing FP at the church, it was great spending some time with him, getting to know him.

Something that was really great was that there were lots of different churches from around the area there and there was such a great sense of unity! :-)

On the Saturday there were workshop/seminars by each of the speakers one before and after lunch (each speaker did the same workshop twice so people could benefit from two). Julian was doing a seminar on 'Sharpening your prophetic gift' which I helped him on, I spoke about words of knowledge and my experience of them. i really enjoyed speaking in the setting as it was really relaxed and a fun feel to it!

After being with all of the guys from Durham, especially Dave, we had made good relationships and I really felt like we had been on a journey with them. All round a really good time!

Now i am just getting prepared for going to South Africa on the 2nd May... I am really excited about going, I have never been to SA and have heard pretty much only good things from people who have! Today I have just got all my tickets printed up and readied for a week on monday! (As a little side I want to say thanks so much again to everyone who a contributed towards the flight cost - I have now recieved £515 - Wow! God provides)

Julian and I will be going to a few conferences one of which is this: Prophetic Encounters 2011

Also Julian has asked me to prepare a few bits to speak on whilst I'm there and I am going to speak on us being Significant in the Kingdom as children! I keep getting revelation of things to include which is really cool. :-)

I will hopefully blog again before I go, but until then Adiós Amados !

Up Noooorth....... to Durham

Hey,

I am off to Durham for my next trip away with Julian tommorow! Yay. Can't wait, we are going from stansted airport and flying up to Newcastle to then be picked up to go on to Durham. :-)

I just wanted to say a massive thankyou to everyone who has been praying for me as I really do value each and every good word you say. Also to say thanks to those who have contributed finacially I have currently recieved £335 - Wow. You have all been so generous with what God has blessed you with and I am seriously blessed :-)

Love as always party people :-)

Cornwall not Poole .....

Hey guys, well here is the first post regarding my first trip away.

I originally had thought that the conference we were going to was in Poole, I was thinking sweet... not too long to drive maybe 3 and a half hours drive give or take... however I found out this was not the case, but actually the man leading the weekend (Matt Hosier) was from Poole, however..... the conference was in a small village/town in Kilkhampton, Cornwall. Roughly about 7 hours driving, so my guestimate was a little bit out! :-)

Anyway... what a brilliant weekend it was. I picked up Julian in the morning and set off down the M1, after a couple of stop offs at services and a chat to a guy who had this crazy windpowered lyingdown bike/trike that he could go up to 50mph down the beach on, we arrived in Kilkhampton.

Just having some time with Julian to chat, understand and know each other a bit was so valuable and I really enjoyed it. Julian is such a genuine and happy person to be around, a really awesome dude! He spoke on the Saturday morning and evening and God was really there. In the evening meeting Julian got me up on my feet and I gave a couple of words to people which was a new experience for me, but was brilliant fun! :-)

For me the biglearn of the weekend among other things is that it is only by the grace that God gives that weare able to do anything from the very normal and sometimes boring things to the supernatural, life changing and inspiring kindom of heaven coming on earth.

Love it!

See you soon!

Fun Travelling Times.....

Hey guys, I thought I would share this with everyone as I originally emailed it out to people I have email contacts for, but I've heard that a few people would like to know a bit about what I'm up to recently so thought it would be a good idea to put it on here! :-) Copied below is the email I sent out:

'Hi everyone, I hope you are well.

I am emailing as I would love your support in a few specific things in my life that are coming up.

I was intending to speak to people individually but I keep forgetting so I thought the best way to communicate it was if I wrote an email.

So the reason I am emailing is because I have got a brilliant opportunity to travel with a great guy who is known well as a prophet and also has an incredible ability to bring and host the presence of God in meetings.

The opportunities are both in England (currently 4th -6th March & 24th -27th March) and also to South Africa in May (2nd -17th). There may be more dates coming up as well. I feel that God has instigated this opportunity for me and I am really excited at the opportunity to learn from someone who carries awesome gifts and a wealth of knowledge for me to learn from. I am going to be jumping in to all that God has got for me through this opportunity.

What I would really love, is that you would be praying for me, as God prepares my heart and I prepare myself for the trips. It would be brilliant if you could pray for:

- God to get my heart ready to receive and retain all that He has for me

- That I would keep a soft and open heart to be receiving and learning

- Protection and safety for the dates given

- Any other good things you want to pray for me are always appreciated!! :-)

Also, I would love you to consider whether you could help financially towards the ticket to South Africa, whether it is a small or large amount. I need to raise around £700 for the plane ticket. If you are not in a position to give, please could you pray that God provides for all I need.

Love to you all, and massively huge thanks for your prayers in advance.

May God get you with His outrageous love!!

Matt Davies :-D'

So there it is exciting stuff :-) I will keep you all updated on here and blog about the trips I go on.... one is already overdue from the first trip, but it will be with you soon! Love to you all. :-)

Camper resto

Hello... Just for anyone thinking they would like to know how the campervan is coming along..... some exciting stuff.

I am posting progress on a VW forum here's the link:

http://www.ssvc.org.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=73397

It may seem long winded but you get a good feel for the restoration! :-)

Enjoy and see you soon! :-)

Whats going on????

What isn't going on? Definitely update time, I felt like I wanted to share a bit about whats been going on in my life.

It seems like the past few weeks/months have been mental. I seem to have a lot on my plate and truthfully am unsure of how I am managing to keep it all together and slowly managing to do all the things I am.

I have got some work doing building labour which is an hour's commute away so the days I work are long, am looking for alternative work as I don't think I can keep it up full time.

A lot of my thoughts are tied up in getting the campervan moved forward, I started to restore a 1967 Splitscreen campervan with my dad at the end of last summer and when my dad died at the beginning of the year I became project manager!! So I have been doing a lot of learning and had the responsibility of finishing it. I'm so thankful to one of my really good friends dad 'Mark' as he has given me the confidence, encouragement and time to help me know that we can finish it! The picture below is pretty much what it looks like currently, you can see there is a fair way to go!

Then there is my increased responsibility in the youth group 'Revelation' that I help at, with preparing the next teaching series we will be doing and also more talks/workshops to the groups we have, it gives me such a good place to get better in speaking to groups and grow in the gifts i have got. I'm so passionate about seeing the younger people get involved and see them walk out their lives with the one who IS everything! Jesus :-) Also being involved int the church band playing the drums and other percussive things has been such a great outlet in creativity although sometimes very frustrating!

So as you can see these are just extra things on top of everyday life that I'm doing, sometimes I feel exhausted other times I wonder when I can do more of the things I love, I think I just need to get a healthy balance between all the things I do whilst keeping some time for myself.

ANyway I think thats enough of me for the moment. Phew!! See you soon. :-)

Free Missions Trip to Africa!!

So I have entered into this missions trip, with Reinhard Bonnke. Looks pretty cool in the last decade they have seen over 52 million people come to Jesus! And thats only the ones that were recorded!

http://freeafricatrip.com/?fbid=ZO6uhtiS6Mz