Neil was down visiting family this morning so I was asking God what He had in mind for me to do today 😃 After I finished reading my Bible I decided I would spend a little time soaking ❤️ (I might have mentioned this book before, but I learnt how to do this practice by reading a brilliant book called ‘Soaking in the Spirit’ by Carol Arnott – it’s fab ❤️🙌)

Honestly I was feeling a wee bit funny this morning and I found it really hard to concentrate. (I’d had a wee chat with someone recently that left me feeling a bit flat afterwards. Nothing bad happened in the chat at all, I think it was maybe a wee spiritual thing that I just needed to brush off) I tried to soak for around 15/20 mins and in the end I was apologising to the Lord for being rubbish today and stopped 😩 I prayed and brushed off anything that might have made me feel a bit off and then decided to watch a YouTube video from Dwelling Place’s service a couple of weeks ago. My sister, Kathryn was teaching about extravant worship and it was just what I needed to hear! It was so good, and the perfect way for me to spend time with Jesus this morning ❤️🙌

As I’d been watching I kept seeing a picture in my mind of me walking Biscuit along the river, and I wondered if God might be inviting me to prayer walk that way today, so I got the dog ready and we headed out. As I’d been wanting to soak with God earlier, I thought I wouldn’t pray by asking anything from God, but instead I would just worship as I walked ❤️🙌 And so that’s what I did!

I walked along the river, and noticed a wee line of new trees that have been planted along the grass verge. I saw that some of them had little plaques on them so I went over for a wee nosey and found out they have been planted by ‘The Zachary Geddis Trust’ which I don’t know too much about, but I think it is raising awareness of mental health issues particularly in men in our area ❤️ I asked the Lord if mental health might be an area He want’s theonehundredyearsproject to be involved with in the years to come?

When I reached the end of the river path I felt like I should head on up into town and continue to worship up through the centre. I was being quiet, but I sang and prayed my worship all the way around town – it was wonderful! I remembered God had given me a couple of pictures over the last few years about what would happen in peoples’ hearts as worship was released in our town which encouraged me to go for it ❤️ I loved it!! And I felt much more like myself afterwards 😃🙌

When I was walking back down town towards home I bumped into a friend who has stepped out in an obedience response to God by opening a business in town with his wife! We had a great wee chat! As he was talking I thought the Holy Spirit was prompting me to pray for him and his wife, particularly for their business, so I offered and he said he’d love that 😃 It was a cool wee moment in the middle of town 🙌

As I headed on home I suddenly put some pieces together and realised that their new business is right in the spot that God has been speaking to me about and what Amanda and I are praying into in our ‘circling of Coleraine’ 🥳🙌 So cool 😃😃😃

What a brilliant, redeeming, morning spent in the presence of Jesus 🙌