It's been a while...

Well, so much for blogging every Monday! Anyway, I feel the urge again :-)

I've been in Wales, on and off, for 6 weeks with Roy and Melanie Fields of Run With Fire Ministries. I first hooked up with Roy in 2008 when he came over from the States for a UK Tour. This was planned to last 2 weeks and actually lasted 2 months as requests came in from churches once Roy was here.

Over the last 3 years we've continued to meet up and play together. I keep an eye on his itinerary and when something jumps out at me I just go, and we do it all again! (My wife is an amazing, Godly, understanding woman. I direct the reader to Proverbs 31:10-31.) So, I've been to the States a few times, across Scandinavia, to Zimbabwe and, just now, Wales.

What an awesome (in its proper sense, not like a cheeseburger...) time! What was scheduled for 4 nights in Cardiff became 6 weeks based in the City Temple but also travelling out to other churches in the area, again, as requests came in. So great to see God moving upon hungry people across the South of Wales night after night after night!

Currently Roy and Mel are preparing to go to Australia and New Zealand before returning to Wales in May for season 2, this time we will be based in Swansea City Temple.

One of the wonderful things, for me, has been to see how people respond to the songs on, "The broken". You sit at home and strum and write something, which is all well and good, but unless that song helps people connect with Him, for me there's not much point doing it in the first place. That's why I write songs, for corporate and personal worship; for the Holy Spirit to touch people. I've been so encouraged! I see people "getting" a song, being touched by God, and inside I'm going, "YESSS!!!" Go Holy Spirit!! Seriously, if this album had been received with just a shrug I'd have been left wondering how I'd got it so, so wrong, spent all that money, wasted all that time... But when my wife and I decided that I should, indeed, go to Nashville and record, we believed we were doing that which God wanted us to do. And it was SCARY!! It still IS!!

Often, God asks us to take a step before we know where our foot will land, before there is any sign of the necessary provision, when those around you are saying that what you are doing is foolish at best, or just plain wrong at worst. That is when you have to really know your heart. That is when we have to decide whether it's "my" idea or God's idea. And the toughest thing about these times? Your decisions can only be judged, ultimately, by their fruit, which comes afterwards...

I believe Wimber said that FAITH is spelt R-I-S-K?? Indeed it is!