Author Archives: Alison

Why You’re Still Single

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I am going through some of my past journals and I came across this revelation that the Lord spoke to me back in 2010, now almost 2 years ago (My how time flies! I remember this season as if it were yesterday!) I felt it was crucial to share this revelation today. By the power of the Spirit, may your heart be open wide right now, to the truth of this word:

Attention, all singles!

Here’s the question:

Ever wonder why you’re still single??

Here’s the answer:

You’re single because God’s not ready to share you just yet.

Settle the question in your heart with THAT answer. It’s the truth. And it’s the ONLY answer.

You’re not single because you’re unwanted. You’re single because you are SO WANTED.

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Singleness and Celibacy

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“Celibacy is a vacancy for God. To be a celibate means to be empty for God, to be free and open for God’s presence, to be available for God’s service.” (Henri Nouwen, Thomas Aquinas)

If you are single, you are called as a celibate. To be celibate is to leave a vacancy for God. To be empty for God, open for His presence to fill you.

If I am a single believer in Christ, I am consecrated (set apart) as a celibate for my First Love, for God alone, unless the Lord leads otherwise in a new season.

Jesus was single. Jesus was a celibate. Jesus had a vacancy (an emptiness) within Him reserved for God alone. Even with this vacancy, this emptiness, Jesus was a fully-realized man. He wasn’t a half-realized man. He wasn’t a half-fulfilled man. He was fully fulfilled as a human, and as a man.

And so it is with us, also.  Continue reading →

[Update] I’m back in New Zealand (and new Address for Donations)

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Well, I left wintery Canada a couple days ago and arrived back into New Zealand after 2 months of travel around Turkey and Canada. I was overjoyed as New Zealand’s mild summer weather and fresh air breeze greeted me as I stepped out of the airport in Auckland, and headed down to Tauranga. Ah, I love this land. I will miss it when my time to leave comes… I will be writing a more detailed update in the near future (most likely in February/March) which will share what is around the corner, on the horizon. So stay tuned for that. Until then, here’s some information about some address changes for donations you send to me.

New Mailing Address for Financial Donations:

For those of you who are a part of my Financial Partnership team (or for those of you who would like to become a partner), please take note of the changed postal mailing address for the Project Funding office for YWAM that processes tax-deductible donations for me. This really only impacts you if you decide to mail in donations (ie: cheques, money orders). You can email the funding office (email below) if you want to ask about other options for payments or visit my website Support page to see step-by-step instructions.

Project Funding Office
PO Box 57100 RPO East Hastings
Vancouver, BC
V5K 5G6
Canada

Phone: 604.436.4433
Fax: 604.436.4466
E-mail: admin@projectfunding.ca

If you need to email the Project Funding office that processes all my ministry financial support, here is their new email address: admin@projectfunding.ca

Feel free to email me at hopejoyfaith@gmail.com if you would like to personally ask me any further questions. I’ll be more than happy to help answer your questions.

God bless you and hope 2012 is treating you well so far!

Alison

Litany (Prayer) of Humility

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Written by: Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val (1865-1930), Secretary of State for Pope Saint Pius X

O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.

From the desire of being loved…
From the desire of being extolled …
From the desire of being honored …
From the desire of being praised …
From the desire of being preferred to others…
From the desire of being consulted …
From the desire of being approved …
From the fear of being humiliated …
From the fear of being despised…
From the fear of suffering rebukes …
From the fear of being calumniated …
From the fear of being forgotten …
From the fear of being ridiculed …
From the fear of being wronged …
From the fear of being suspected …

That others may be loved more than I,
Jesus, grant me the grace to desire it.

That others may be esteemed more than I …
That, in the opinion of the world,
others may increase and I may decrease …
That others may be chosen and I set aside …
That others may be praised and I unnoticed …
That others may be preferred to me in everything…
That others may become holier than I,
provided that I may become as holy as I should…

Others May, You Cannot

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A reflection of the Holy Spirit. This really touched my heart deeply, and I know that this is for some of you. You’ll know right away if this is God’s word for you.

by G. D. Watson

If God has called you to be really like Christ in all your spirit, He will draw you into a life of crucifixion and humility and put on you such demands of obedience, that He will not allow you to follow other Christians, and in many ways He will seem to let other good people do things which He will not let you do.

Others can brag on themselves, and their work, on their success, on their writings, but the Holy Spirit will not allow you to do any such thing, and if you begin it, He will lead you into some deep mortification that will make you despise yourself and all your good works.  Continue reading →