A new era!

Hi Everyone

This is my first official blog on my brand new blogsite. It is all very exciting and one hardly knows where to begin. Firstly I want to say a huge thank you to Dan Dexter and Hayley Geurts for updating the Bethany website. It looks awesome! Please make full use of this site for information, preaches you may have missed, Cutting Edge news, Refresh dates etc.

We are living in amazing days and there is the smell of Spring in the air. We all know what Spring brings; sunshine (hopefully), longer days and more importantly new life. This is a new season for Bethany Community Church. God is changing the atmosphere amongst us. We are seeing more healings, the church is gathering more people and we are starting to see new life in the form of baby Christians. I have not known a time like this and yet it feels like we are just in the starting blocks. It says this in Isaiah 43:

18 “Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
20 The wild animals honor me,
the jackals and the owls,
because I provide water in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland,
to give drink to my people, my chosen,
21 the people I formed for myself
that they may proclaim my praise.

There are new streams flowing and the thirsty are being satisifed. However the key verse is 21: That they may proclaim my praise. In all that is happening at the moment we honour and praise our Dad in heaven. It is all for His glory and not ours. It is His presence we seek and not His benefits. As we seek His presence first everything else follows. Continue with me in our pursuit of God's face and then stand back and see what greater things He will do amongst us here at Bethany and in our community.

For His glory!

Neil