Opening Doors

Christy and myself lead an outreach team around England just before Christmas, with our last location being Brighton. Before we went we had arranged a place to be able to stay cook etc. Sadly it all fell through with less than a week to go, so we were left in an unfortunate position of having to decide what to do as we were technically homeless for our last couple of weeks. So we did all we could do, we took some time with the team and spent time praying and listening to God. We felt God say that we should still go, and that we should spend the next 3 days fasting, so we did.

God is pretty amazing; in those 3 days we travelled to Brighton and spent time walking round the city asking God to open doors and where we should go. By the end of those 3 days we had somewhere to stay, somewhere to cook and somewhere to shower. God is so faithful.

I certainly experienced a new level of His faithfulness during these few days. As a team we followed what we felt he was saying to us and every time we knocked on a door it was opened to us and we had a positive response back. We felt very strongly we should be in Brighton and the only way we could have managed it on our budget was for God to open up places for us. I am so grateful for who He is and it made me think back on one of the last things Joshua said to Israel. “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled.” (Joshua 23:14 NIV).

For Christy and myself it is also really exciting as we feel Brighton is somewhere God has called us to be long term, and this has helped us to connect with a number of new people in the city. Which is something else we have been praying for. It felt like this was a push for us to see something happen in Brighton, It felt like our time shifted something for us in what we feel God has called us to do.