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Today my heart aches for true communion! When will people learn to see with the eyes of their Spirit rather than looking at things in the flesh, the physical! I really just want to be with a community of people who know how to love and encourage eachother, building eachother up on love. I have discovered a new word in Hebrew this weekend: Tove! It is translated into english as good, but as with

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How do you spell "journaling"? Is it with a"ll" or just one "l"??? Anyway, no matter. This week, yesterday to be prescise, I was listening to the "OneThing KC" podcast, and Dwayne Roberts was interviewing Becky Tiribassi. She was talking about how 20 or so years ago she made a committment to spend 1 hour a day in prayer, and her experience of following through with that committment. One thing

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I hate that every time I have blogged, pretty much since coming back to Australia, I have been complaining and whining. I really am glad to be back, but I also really need to have a space to blah! and debrief with myself, and this is it. So once again you get to hear how great and terrible Ben's life is.I am totally stuck. I am so just about to give up! I can not do this any more. I am totally

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It has been quite a while sonce I last posted...as usual! So much has happened since then. I cant even remember all that has happened, but ill write about those things that God has on my heart now. In it all, I am very excited about what God has in store for me, for Australia, and about the part that I have to play out in the future of this great country.Ill start with this, copied from the

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For the last two or so months God has been whispering to "Ben" about tithe...Whenever Ben has had a job he has tithed financially, probably even more like 20%, but he does not really care about money at all. Ben does not care if he has no money, or if he gave it all away, or if he was rich...so Ben believes that God has been proposing an interesting idea to him. Tithing time! If Ben were to tithe

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so i probably sholdnt be telling you this, and if you are planning on becomming my sworn mortal enemy, well please dont read any further....I hate spiders!!!!!!!OMG!!!!!I hate them. satan definately created spiders just to creep me out!So I was happily going to bed about 30 minutes ago, that was until I saw the spider on my ceiling...and im not kidding, it was literally going to eat me! Now for

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It's just after 2am, Thursday monrning. I am in bed, and i was going to sleep thinking about my desires. I desire to be holy. I desire to be pure. I desire to love God with all I am and have. I desire to love people in the same way I love God. And then as I thought about desire and God, I had a thought. Now I will not make a theology out of this thought yet, but in the last 30min or so as I have

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The church I am going to, Hope of Glory, is quite connected with IHOP. They have an account with the Forerunner Bookstore, and place different orders and shippments all the time. And because there is alot of new stuff that I dont have yet, I am going to place an order with them, depending on how much shipping will be. So I have to get a list together of the things I want to get, so I thought that

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There is something happening in the earth. God is on the move, and there is nothing stopping Him. There is a turbulance coming, and it's not just coming in the Spirit. There has already been a turbulance in the Spirit for years, but now is the time when the Spirit is breaking into the earth, into the physical, into our world. This turbulance is going to remove all the rocks that get in the way of

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So I was going to start out with somehting like ..."Well, for all of you out there who dont care about me, Sunday was my birthday!"...but then I thought that that would sound like whinging and after attention. Well, ok, I am after attention, so even thought your late, you can still tell me how much you love me and send me money and stuff like that! Two from PKI, my fellow collegues, have decided

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Rom 11:28 "From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God's choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; 29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable."This is a couple of verses from a section that is talking about Israel being cut off from the Olive Tree in the wisdom of God, so that the rest of the world could be grafted in,

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Last night I had a dream. I never remember my dreams, but this one is still pretty clear in my head. I was, I think, at Bridgetown, and Kirk Bennett was there with a bunch of people. He was doing his preaching thing, and everyone around was responding with intercession. It was really intense. Anyway, Kirk was preaching out of Daniel 9, which just happens to be a chapter we are studying, and when

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We have decided to do an open study of a number of chapters from different books, and just stay within those chapters (for the while at least). So im excited to see where this goes. This morning im just reading through each of the chapters and writing about what sticks out at me first from each, then ill try to pull all those thoughts together. Lets go...Joel 2:OK, so there isnt really one verse

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Today's chapter is Eph 4 (I think). Anyway, thats what I looked at, and there is so much goodness in it that I could go on for a long time, but due to the fact that I have just got up and have to be at work in about 40min, ill keep it short(-ish).So the main thing that really sticks out at me is that the body (the Church) does not grow in love until everyone supplies what has been given them (by

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Im doing a study with KT and some others, and todays chapter is Matt 26. What stuck out at me the most is at the beginning of the chapter. In Chapter 25 Jesus is telling his disciples parrables about how they need to be wise and responsible with what they have been given. We need to have oil, and enough oil to see us through the whole night. We need to invest what we have been given wisely, so

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Its 11:15pm on Thursday night, and i have been in bed for ablut 2 hours now, but I just cant sleep. Im so restless! Im tired, but I cant fall asleep. Im not even close to falling asleep. My mind is racing, but there are no thoughts. So here I am, blogging about nothing in the hope that whatever is in my head might come out as I type. No luck so far.(thats the pause while I think about what to

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So, yesterday I started the Internship with FORGE, and I just thought that id do a post explaining in a little more detail what that is going to entail for me in this coming year.There are 4 parts, streams if you will, to the Internship. The Intensives, the Intern Gatherings, Coaching, and a Missions Placement.The Intensives: These are 3 separate, yet progressive, times throughout the year,

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So im here at home alone, my first day off work in a couple of weeks, and I have no idea what to do. Ive got the intern dinner tonight for the internship that im doing this year, and im looking forward to meeting everyone. But anyway, for now, here are some more pics of Jabs.The "Man' and his BeastJabs rockin out on his drum kit

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This last week I pretty much chose to be away from the Lord. Not like I woke up in the morning and said to myself, "Ben, today I think that im going to be separate from God", but rather just that I did not choose to be with Him at all. And I know that there were times when I felt God calling me away, but I chose not to go. Why are we (I) so stupid, that even when we (I) know God is calling us (me

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"How much do you really know about yourself until you've been in a fight?" I have no idea, cause i've never been in a fight, except with my little bro, and that doesnt caount cause he's my little bro and I always beat him up in a playful way. And I always won. And I always will win. And so will every other "oldest" out there. So none of you youngsters try anything.Well, I nearly got into a fight

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Yesterday afternoon I downloaded all the videos from Jason Upton's website. I had had them all before, but so tht I could have more space on my computer for recording 48's, I deleted them all. I think that there are some new ones there for thoes of you who are into Mr Upton. And anyway, I spent the night at my frined, Ben's, place last night, and getting up before him, I decided to watch some. So

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So anyway, today I got around to taking a bunch of photos of stuff around my house to post for you guys. More specifically, pics of my little bro and everything "Jabby". But cause computers are so stupid (and yes, it is the computers fault!), I have no idea how to put them up on the web. I know how to put pics on my posts here at blogger, but I want to put 10 or so up, and they are large pics. So

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Ive been thinking about so much lately (and been really lazy about blogging it). There has been so much emphasis and value placed on my generation to be independant, to have it all together and be able to do it on our own, when we really have no idea about anything, and cant really do anything on our own. I think that dependance is the total opposite of how God created us to be. we are supposed

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Why can’t I abide in Jesus love? For the most part I can stay in joy. I can stay in peace. Patience, well, sometimes I struggle there. I find kindness a fairly easy thing. Ill let you decide on goodness. I think that I fail more times than I overcome with goodness, but can I justify that with human nature? With faithfulness, I am very faithful to the things that I want to be faithful to, while

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This little piggy went to market. This little piggy went home. This little piggy had roast beef, and this little piggy had none. And this little piggy went wee wee wee wee all the way into Ben's stomach for breakfast. Yes, I did it. For the first time I ate a pig. As part of the clinical trial I am doing, I had to have bacon for breakfast, so i did. And it wasnt very good! For all of you flesh

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It's 10am Monday morning, and I have just returned from a lovely weekend away, in hospital. I am now officially a human lab rat. Along with 15 or so other guys, this weekend I participated in a clinical trial for this new rhumatoid arthritis drug. They are testing it to see what effect it has with the consumption of food. There are 3 weekend long sessions that we have to participate in. The first

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It was about 4:30am (although because Australia has just gone to day-light-savings time, it felt like 3:30am) and I was cleaning a medical clinic, one of Dad's contracts. All of a sudden everything that has been going on inside of me over the last couple of days became words in my head. I cant remember what all the words were, but I know that they concluded that I was drowning. I believe that I

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This last week has been crazy! To start with the conferrence that Graham Cooke spoke at was amazing, but it aslo wore me out. So I was tired from that, and so much to process. And then on Tuesday morning Dad had a double hernia opperation, so I have been having to get up a 4am to run the cleaning business for him. Now in theory I dont mind doing this, but I just cant handle getting up that early

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Where do I start...so much has happened over this last weekend. First I shall start with Bird Flu. All I can say is bla bla bla...As I was cleaning with Dad this morning, a lady called up the radio station we were listening to terrified. There was a dying pigeon in her driveway, and she was terrified that it was bird flu. The show host went on to say that the station (probably the most listened

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So it's Wednesday morning, 10:21 am, and I have just got home from cleaning with Dad. I am pretty tired cause I didnt sleep too well last night. I spent a couple of hours yeaterday afternoon sticking large sheets of cardboard to the walls of my room. Well I only got one wall done actually. I used this awesome stuff called Art Gum "Rubber Cenemt". You know that stuff that "they" use to stick your

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Hello all those of you out there in Blogland this fine evening. I have come upon a dillema tonight, and the remedy is in my sight but out of my reach. I am in dire need (or so says the consumer who lives inside my head) of a sparkleingbrandfanglenew digital camera. I have decided that there are far too many opportunities that hopelessly pass me by every day, and all I can do, without a picture

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Tonight I feel like I am actaully at Home again. Not home, being the house I live in, but Home, the place I live in. Mum and I went to this small church that every Sunday night between 7pm and 9pm do an intercessory worship set, using Harp and Bowl. It wasnt the familliararity of the worship style that made me feel at home. It was the atmosphere of hunger, a deep desire for more of the presence

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I went to church this morning. I debated all night whether to go or not. One of my good friends was going to be there, and I knew that I needed to connect with her (she has recently arrived back from Africa, and is just about to go to India for 2 months). But I also knew that it was going to be very comfortable and dull, and I just didn’t know whether I wanted to even go back into an environment

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...this is not a blog...this is not my blog...this is not a blog...Ok so im just going to keep telling myself that cause "im never going to get a blog", am I!!!Anyway, here I am, and here's my blog. Instead of sending out a long email, im just going to try to post a blog at least once a week (im not quite as dedicated as Sheena).So anyway, here's the frst post. Enjoy.It is now 7:30pm on Thursady,

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