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TESTIMONY:
BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL

“I have had the words of 2 Chronicles 7:14. placed on my heart for some time now, and the Lord keeps showing me that this is a word in season as the reality of the climate crisis sinks in: ‘if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land’.

I share this with you because it is central to the testimony I now have regarding the book that Jill has just produced, ‘Bless the Lord, O My Soul’. 

I recognise that the current crisis is so changeable in the hands of ‘My People’. We look to world leaders and people of ‘influence’, humanly speaking, and it is clear that they have neither the ability nor the inclination to firstly, truly recognise the situation we are in, nor the political muscle to really do anything about it. 

‘My People’ – those who recognise that there is a Creator – have the responsibility, the duty, to care for The Creation. If you have no belief system and do not recognise there is something/someone bigger than the crisis, how can you be expected to heed the words of The One Who is Lord over all? 

I felt myself carrying a huge burden, being a part of ‘My People’,  and am seeking to daily live out the words of this text. What then happened to me, though, was that I felt the weight of the burden so greatly that I was focusing on the situation more than the God I know. I was doing the repenting, the changing of my ways of living and eating, but I was not seeking His face. I became aware that I was becoming depressed and anxious. I felt the weight as a priest as I did not know how to convey to others what it is that I can hear God saying. 

Then……… Jill gave to me the copy of her prayer book – a word in season. I read the pre-amble and started to feel myself lifted out of the darkness I had started to feel. 

Yes, I must still repent of what we have done and are still doing to the planet; Yes, I must examine and change my ways of living and eating, BUT – Yes, I MUST seek His face and trust that my Lord, my God will heal the land if and when ‘My People’ heed His call and show the whole of humanity that there is a Creator and this is His Creation. 

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jill – a word in season. 

May we all work together to do God’s perfect will and show the great cloud of witnesses ‘How Great Thou Art’.”

Check out the SHOP tab above, to order your copy.

Bless the Lord, O My Soul is based on the traditional Hebraic way of praying – first blessing the LORD and including scripture, declarations and prayers.

As we lift up our hearts to Him, our focus is then in the right place.

I feel this booklet is very timely with all that has taken place in the last few years.  Let us come above all the circumstances and rejoice in our wonderful LORD.” Jill Gower, Author.

 

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Summer Teaching Programme 2022

We are excited to continue with our Thursday teaching mornings again for this coming summer term.  Jill will be teaching on “Entering the Promised Land” and how we navigate the new season we are moving into.

It’s a new season, but what does that look like for the people of God and how do we move into our inheritance in this new day?

Our BIG Move!

In June 2021, we moved out of Fishergate, the premises we had occupied for over 10 years, and have moved into Antingham Hall! It has been a tough but very exciting move into the Heartsease Estate in Norwich. Do pop along and see us!

Teaching Programme and further News

SEPTEMBER 2021 –

This Autumn Term we will be exploring End Times – what does the Bible actually say? We will be opening our doors for the first time for the Thursday morning teaching with Jill and for Friday morning informal discipleship programme with Cheryl. Friday morning session will also continue to be “Zoomed” as usual.

APRIL 2021 –

WHO I AM – Who Am I? discipleship course TERM 3:  “By their fruits you shall know them”

This term we continue to explore the 5-fold ministry as a foundation for our teaching as detailed in Ephesians 4:11-12 “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up…”

JANUARY 2021 –

WHO I AM discipleship course TERM 2:  “By their fruits you shall know them”

Following on from last Autumn term, this term we will be using the 5-fold ministry as a foundation for our teaching as detailed in Ephesians 4:11-12 “So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up…”

Sessions conducted at Light House will combine the in-house presentation with a live conference facility via Zoom to enable wider participation. Contact us for access codes if you wish to join in. Sessions also available on our YouTube Channel: C2PLightHouse. Please see our ministries page, discipleship course for links to the latest teaching!

NOVEMBER 2020 –

DISCIPLESHIP COURSE PRAYERS – Take a look at our Ministries/Discipleship Course page for our latest declaration prayer to accompany our current discipleship course, Who I Am!

NEW BOOK – “A Journey into Healing and Wholeness” by Robbie Bain. Different readers will find that different aspects of the book appeal to them: for some it will be the teaching which helps us to see healing and wholeness as it is presented throughout both the Old and New Testaments; for others, it may be insights such as the power of the words we speak and the way this can seriously affect our lives and those of others; or the personal testimonies, which show real evidence of how God works in our ordinary lives, besides adding some lightness and humour.  For me, it was the prayers. Robbie writes beautiful prayers which work on their own but, more importantly, act as a springboard for us to make our own personal requests known to God.  Go to our Shop page to purchase your copy!

SEPTEMBER 2020 –

WHO I AM discipleship course TERM 1

We are delighted to invite to you our discipleship course: Sessions conducted at Light House will combine the in-house presentation with a live conference facility via zoom to enable wider participation. Contact us for access codes if you wish to join in. Sessions also available on our YouTube Channel: C2PLightHouse

Ongoing testimonies can be added to our Facebook page. These will provide our Facebook friends with something positive to share on their own networks.

As before, sound recordings will be collated as a completed Teaching Series, and made available later as mp4 files on CD/USB from the Shop.

SEPTEMBER 2020 –

FRIENDS OF CALL TO PRAYER – We are all “Living Stones” in the Body of Christ, each one unique and operates in different ways.   We have been thinking about how we could bring some of our thoughts into being for “Friends of Call To Prayer”.    We plan a fortnightly digital meeting with ‘How’s it going’ chats discussing various things including health and trials of life etc.  We also plan to have social trips out to places of interest: perhaps a trip London; a trip to the coast with naughty but nice Fish & Chips; a visit to the Cathedral – we have many other ideas!  We could always dream of a trip to that wonderful land of Israel!

This will all be part of really getting to know each other and being there for each other.  So, Friends, it’s up to us.  Let’s go and give it all to Him to show us the way.  With Love and Blessings, Geoff & Pat.  Please visit our Ministries page for information.

AUGUST 2020 –

RESOURCES – Please see our Resources page for further free prayers for our young people and blessing prayers that you are welcome to use in your own prayer times.

MAY 2020 –

LIGHT HOUSES – (See our Ministries page for the ministry of Light Houses):
We have been asked to take part in the faithhopelovenorfolk initiative “Picnic Project” and have been asked to arrange a prayer network.  We would ask and encourage you, as an existing Light House partnering with us at Call2Prayer, to join with us in this fantastic opportunity to mobilise prayer for such a time as this! We are expecting prayer requests to come into the Light House, Fishergate and we will then be sending these out to our partner Light Houses.

We have assigned you your own designated Light House Number.  We have also identified a number of areas that need prayer cover and have assigned you a prayer need (or two!).  We would ask that, in your daily/weekly prayers, you please cover the area we have assigned you.  You will obviously want to pray about all sorts of needs but we would encourage you to please cover the designated subject.  Please do feed back to us anything you feel God is saying with respect to your particular area. We can then feed this back to the originator of the request.  You are all invaluable and such a blessing and we are so grateful for your support.

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