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“THEY KISSED!”
“THEY KISSED” was
“trending” on Twitter
immediately after the
royal smooch on April
29, and didn’t leave
the trend topics for a
good while.
For the Twitless uninformed,
that means a lot of people
were talking online about Will
and Kate’s kiss – the iconic
moment on the balcony – for
a long time.
It was the climactic
celebratory moment of the
day, in front of the cheering
thousands.
Jesus said hosts of angels
celebrate when people turn
to God. Squillions of angels
go wappy when someone
realises that they are loved
by God and, knowing the
emptiness of their own way,
turn to Him.
Then the angelic beings all
start tweeting, flapping, pulling
heavenly party poppers – or
whatever they do.
Why? Because it’s the
triumph of truth, the landslide
victory of love, poured out
lavishly from God upon a
returning son or daughter. It’s
another major, electrifying
SCORE! in the great and
serious and terrifying and
beautiful game plan of God
to save people.
When anyone turns to
God, like the balcony kiss,
it heralds the start of a
wonderful and permanent
– in fact, eternal –
relationship. The start of
a never-ending love affair,
an undying romance, an
ecstatic union.
It’s good to see the
crowds in London enjoying
themselves, and all the
street parties going on.
But the angels’ rejoicing
puts all these festivities
in the shade; they know
that a person turning to
God and discovering the
powerful reality of His love,
is something that’s really,
really worth celebrating.
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CRIME On the decrease
Crime-fighting
Street Pastors
VIOLENT CRIME in
Kingston-upon-Thames has
dropped by almost half in
the nightspots, and that has
partly been attributed to
Street Pastors in the area.
Police superintendent,
Paul McGregor, praised the
Street Pastors’ work and
said they’d won “respect and
gratitude”. He continued
“They’ve contributed to
making Kingston a safer
place. I’m confident Street
Pastors will continue to play
a vital role in reducing crime.”
Hosting over 20,000 people
every weekend, Kingston
is one of London’s most
popular nightclubbing destinations,
yet since Street
Pastors have been working
there, crime as a whole has
fallen by 25 per cent.

‘Don’t
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give up’
A voice in the dark on a
freezing night rescued
Chris from the brink.
THEY SOLD the
TV and the X-box.
Now they had only
a Birmingham flat,
empty except for one
bed, and a heroin
habit each. Chris
Needham and his
twin brother James
were down on their
luck.
“It was the middle of
winter with no heating”
says Chris, now 29. “We
could see our breath.”
Being penniless was
a new experience for
them. They’d always had
plenty of money from the
age of 12 when they first
started to deal drugs.
Chris was the youngest
of four boys, younger
than James “by a whole
minute”.
“Dad was an alcoholic”
says Chris. “He left when
we were 11. Mum was
mentally ill. When the
dog died, her mum died,
and Dad left, she lost the
plot.” For the next seven
years, she was in hospital
more than she was at
home.
The four boys fended
for themselves. Mates
of Chris and James’s
older brothers, “looked
after them” by supplying
drugs for the younger
boys to sell.
“We were industrious”
says Chris. Profits from
the school playground,
then Birmingham’s
nightclub scene at the
weekend, made the
brothers rich. “We had
‘Pringles’ tubes stuffed
full of cash” recalls Chris.
And both boys had
growing drug habits of
their own: “E’s at the
weekend and weed to
come down.”
There were some
heavy episodes: a gun
pulled on them in a local
park, the time James
was beaten up by some
bouncers. But they survived:
“James was the
muscle, I was the mouth”
says Chris. “It worked.”
They steered clear
of heroin because they
saw “smack heads” as
“dirty”. But when they
ripped off a local lad
and found themselves in
possession of 24 grams
of heroin, the brothers
couldn’t resist trying it.
“We smoked an impossible
amount of heroin
that night” remembers
Chris.
As addiction set in,
Chris replaced clubbing
with “getting caned on
crack and smack. I was
a heroin addict for 11
years” he says – 11 years
that led to a freezing flat
in Birmingham.
“The money ran out.
We had no food. My body
was a mess. I was injecting
smack.”
“It was the middle of
the night” remembers
Chris. “James was asleep
next to me. Suddenly –
ping – the room became
warm. I felt someone
was there and sensed a
voice saying ‘Don’t give
up. You’re both special.
Something good is
coming.’”
Chris wasn’t religious,
though sometimes he sat
in churches, enjoying the
peaceful atmosphere. But
comfortable Christians
turned him off. James
thought Chris was “off his
head” when he told him
about the voice.
But another mate told
him about the Jesus
Army house where she’d
been a few times.
“When I walked in”
says Chris “there was
the same peace I’d felt in
the churches – in abundance.
But, flippin’ heck,
the people – they really
cared. They weren’t in it
for themselves.”
Chris barely looked
back. It took him time to
get off drugs, but his new
friends were with him
through it. Some months
later, Chris was baptised
as a Christian. Powerful
prayer and an experience
of God’s power at a Jesus
Army event was a turning
point.
An “unbelievable” and
unexpected blessing
came three years later.
James came to a Jesus
Army festival and to
Chris’s amazement,
“stuck his hands in the
air in the first song”. By
the end of the festival,
he’d experienced God for
himself and wanted to be
a Christian.
Chris was blown away.
But James had seen
the reality of what had
happened in Chris’s life
– and he wanted it, too.
Now they both have a
purpose in life. As Chris
says “I’ve realised that
Jesus died for me – the
weight of that. Also –
these beautiful people!
I owe it not only to God,
but also to them, to live
a new life.”
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SAVED Chris is a new man
“BECAUSE WE’RE WORTH IT”
SO MUCH brain power,
time and trouble (not
to mention $) goes
into making us try to
buy beauty.
Cosmetic company
L’Oréal’s famous slogan
was “Because I’m worth it”.
In the mid 2000’s, this was
replaced by “Because you’re
worth it”. In late 2009, the
slogan was changed again
to “Because we’re worth it”
following motivation analysis
and the work in consumer
psychology of Dr. Maxim
Titorenko.
But whether it’s me, you,
or all of us, every day it’s
the same message: pamper
yourself. Augment your life.
Get whiter teeth. Remove
those wrinkles. Get a superb
all over suntan.
All men now know they can
shave so much better with
that all-important extra blade.
All women now know which
canned drink contains just
the right number of calories
for them (usually as few as
possible).
A mind-boggling array of
consumer goods with one
essential promise: change
the surface and you’ll create
a happier you.
God offers no cosmetic
treatments. His one offer
meets our real need: heart
surgery.
His reality can cut into
our life, exposing who we
really are. Selfishness is
uncovered. Insensitivity and
insecurity come to light, those
dark impulses of our nature
which burrow at our core like
parasites.
God’s love, applied through
the power of the Holy Spirit
He sends, digs out the
rottenness in our lives.
It’s not an easy fix, nor is it
a one off experience; it takes
a lifetime to complete this
surgery. It’s messy, painful
and expensive: God allowed
the death of His Son to
complete the work.
If you want the only beauty
treatment that works, God
offers it to you now. God has
made it possible for us to be
fixed from the inside out.
He seems to think we are
worth it.

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Prayer
People experience
healing through the
power of prayer
IN NORTHAMPTON,
some Jesus Army
members prayed for
their friend when a
scan had showed a
large tumour in his
stomach. After their
prayers, there was no
trace of the tumour.
In London, a Jesus
Army member prayed for
her grandma, who subsequently
recovered from
cancer. Around the same
time, a child at one of
their children’s schools
received healing.
Another man was
healed of a neck problem
at a church event.
Jesus Army member,
Hannah Asprusten, 23,
said: “It’s exciting to see
all the things that God is
doing – and to be a part of
it!”
But it can’t be as simple
as that, can it? Just pray
and be healed? Well, no –
and yes.
The fact is that Jesus
does heal. He did it when
He walked the earth, and
He does it still, because
He’s risen from the dead
and has sent His Spirit
to empower His followers.
Christians can and
should pray for people to
be healed and restored by
the power of Jesus.
Yet not everyone is
healed physically, and
sometimes God
works differently.
Sometimes he
brings peace to
people suffering
in sickness, or
teaches us lessons
through
hard times. If
God were a
“slot machine”
for instant
healing, we’d
soon see Him as
nothing else.
And death is a
fact of life in our
sin-wrecked world, and
will remain so until Jesus
returns and makes everything
new.
But it is right to ask God
to heal. God is good. He
THE ADJUSTMENT
BUREAU will surely
be “must watch”
material for fans of
the Bourne movies.
Matt Damon plays a
senatorial candidate who
falls in love with a woman.
But if he’s going to fulfil his
destiny (and she hers) he
has to let go of her.
The “Adjustment Bureau”
are the shadowy “men
in black” who watch the
universe and are determined
that the way they want the
future to be will prevail.
But the Matt Damon
character wants to be with
his woman, and this is
Hollywood.
Will it all end in tears and
the seeming failure of his
and her dreams, or will they
live happily ever after?
In real life, the unglamorous
sacrifice of our agendas is
sometimes called for.
Witness the soldier in
Afghanistan laying down
his life for his brothers in
arms, shielding them from
the grenade blast with his
own body.
What would have been
the state of America today
loves us. He
knows what’s
best. We can
trust Him.
“HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN ADJUSTED?”
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by JAMES STACEY
STREETPAPER EDITOR
if Martin Luther King had
decided that speaking out
against institutional racism
was too risky?
Would Gandhi have
achieved all he had if he’d
wanted a quiet life?
What about the most
famous person who has ever
lived – Jesus of Nazareth?
Jesus didn’t exactly
relish the thought of going
through crucifixion, the most
obscene of all executions –
but he willingly did so.
Why? Because without his
death on the cross none of us
could be reconciled to God.
The cross was a
nightmare, far worse than
any of us can imagine.
That didn’t stop God, in
Jesus, enduring it so that
our future would be far
better than we deserved.
Jesus said “If you cling
to your life, you will lose it;
but if you give up your life
for me, you will find it” (John,
chapter 12, The Bible).
Is there anything you
wouldn’t – or couldn’t – give
up for the one who gave
everything for you?
If there is, you need to
adjust your thinking. Your
future depends on it.
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Derren Brown: the truth for sale?
I FIND TV illusionist
Derren Brown a wee
bit creepy. What triggers
my reaction to
him is my sense that
he is dishonest in a
damaging way.
In Derren Brown’s recent
programme, Miracles for
Sale, Brown coached a
British man into being
a fake faith healer so
he could convincingly
perform “faith
healing” on
churchgoers
in Texas.
Brown said
he wanted
to show that
these healings
were a big fraud
carried out in God’s
name: God isn’t involved
in the healings that take
place in these Christian
meetings; it’s nothing but a
money-spinning racket.
Criticisms of moneygrubbing
televangelists are
nothing new. I, like many,
despise confidence trickery
in God’s name. It happens
too much and has happened
all through history.
It’s stomach turning.
But Derren Brown
doesn’t just attack the ugly
scams of greedy conmen;
he tars all people of faith
with his brush. There’s no
balance in his programme.
Not a single look at nondramatic
healings that take
place often in churches.
Brown doesn’t interview a
single sane, sensible person
to testify to God’s healing –
and there are many, some of
whom I know personally.
Brown wants to sling
mud all over the place and
he does so very effectively.
He’s sowing the seeds of his
own barren outlook on life:
“God doesn’t exist. Religion
is a fantasy”.
That, in my view, is a
pretty weak angle on a
vast topic that has thrilled
minds and filled hearts for
centuries.
Ignorance is bad enough.
But I think it’s worse than
that.
Does Brown really want
to help people who are being
conned? Is that his main
motive here? Or is it more
about amassing the benefits
of celebrity? Trumpeting
his own powers of sleight of
hand and eye?
Not that Brown’s “powers”
are actually very
convincing to anyone in the
know. His fake stage prayers
ring hollow to someone who
prays and is involved with
true prayer all the time. It’s
like handing me a chocolate
coin and expecting that I
will accept it as a pound.
The hidden motive is
obvious. In the end, in fact,
doesn’t it all boil down to
just – money, Derren?
TO HEAL OR NOT TO HEAL?
SMITH WIGGLESWORTH
PRAYER CARE People pray for each other at Jesus Army events
Anna’s modern
day miracle
The power of prayer brought healing from M.E.
AT THE AGE of 19,
Anna Purkiss
began suffering
from M.E. This
is an extremely
debilitating
illness involving
the immune and
nervous systems.
Anna says “Even
things like reading
or talking to people
wore me out, let alone
any physical activity.
The pain was a major
problem for me: it was
like how you ache after
you’ve done a lot of
exercise, but really badly all
over my body.”
Anna was so ill that she had
to take a year out of university
in the first year. She struggled
to come to terms with a huge
change in life, dealing with
the illness itself and trying to
cope with the sudden isolation
caused by her condition.
Anna was desperate, and
received prayer for healing
at a Jesus Army event called
“Winning Weekend” in August,
2010, in a giant marquee in
Northamptonshire.
“I was prayed for by two
friends” says Anna. “We
all prayed. I cried – a lot! –
and then I fell to the floor,
overcome. I felt peace and a
cool sensation go through my
body, from my toes to the top
of my head. I opened my eyes,
and sat up. I felt completely
normal again; properly awake,
with a clear head, and not in
pain for the first time in three
years!”
Anna was a bit in shock, but
delighted! She immediately felt
better, so stayed until the end
of the event. That represented
a huge turnaround.
Now, almost a year later,
Anna is still going strong: “I’m
feeling really great, and have
managed to do so much stuff.
I have visited people, gone
swimming and shopping,
walked quite a lot, volunteered
at my local primary school. It
feels like I’ve got my life back
– and I’m so happy!”
Although she was already
a Christian, Jesus, the miracle
maker, is now more real to
Anna than ever before.
(1859-1947) was an
early twentieth century
Pentecostal pioneer
from Yorkshire.
When he prayed
for people, truly
remarkable things
happened: some
people regained
their hearing and
sight, and cancerous
growths disappeared,
new limbs even grew.
Despite Wigglesworth’s
remarkable healing gift, not all
he prayed for were healed. His
own wife died six years after
he became a Pentecostal, his
son two years after that. His
daughter, who assisted in his
meetings, was never healed
of her deafness. For three
years, Wigglesworth himself
suffered with gallstones.
STUART PATNELL
is a leader in the Jesus
Army. He remembers
another leader praying
for a friend’s mother.
She had a painful,
long-standing
back problem. She
couldn’t walk properly.
After prayer,
she walked without
difficulty or pain.
“Everyone in the room
JOHN WIMBER
(1934-1997), founder of
the Vineyard movement,
was a “beer-guzzling,
drug-abusing pop
musician”, who was
converted at age 29.
Wimber was
known for his
honesty. In a 1996
article, he told of
amazing healing
success stories, but
was crying because it was so
amazing” says Stuart.
“Her husband fell over in
sheer shock.”
Stuart also has a gift of
healing. Yet he has himself
suffered illness over the
years. “God has given me
the strength to live for Him
and even to pray for others’
healing while I’ve been ill
myself” says Stuart.
also of some sad examples of
people not being healed.
Wimber also had cancer
at the time and said “Some
Christians believe we should
never struggle. If that’s
true, then I’m not a good
Christian. Not only have I
suffered physically with health
problems, but I also struggled
with depression during my
battle with cancer.”

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Bin
Laden –
the bad news
CAN ANY TRUE follower of Jesus have
been out on the streets, whooping,
cheering and celebrating the death of
Osama bin Laden? It’s not conceivable.
It’s not possible. It is like saying that
cats can write sonnets or that snails
can drive cars.
Christians do not glory in death.
They love their enemies and glory in the
resurrected son of God who triumphed
over death. “Love your enemies” said Jesus,
not “Laugh, dance and holler over their
tattered corpses.”
No, the repulsive scenes of crowing
outside the White House and in New York
and elsewhere are the carnival celebration of
the old lie: that violence is a bringer of peace,
rather than a generator of further carnage
and mayhem.
Those who celebrate imperial executions
with joy accept with shocking ignorance
the deadly fiction that a bit of gun-slinging
can deal once and for all with those evil Red
Indians. They worship the power of the gun,
the missile – the might of Caesar, not the
rule and reign of the Prince of Peace.
And yet they may call themselves
Christians; many do.
Bad news. The gospel of Jesus is actually
bad news for those who think they are
already sorted, rather than acknowledging
that there is a bit of Bin Laden in all of us.
It’s bad news to think you’re sorted when
you’re not. To think you’re a Christian when
you’re not.
Jesus came for those who knew they were
in need,
not the ...they may
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whom call themselves
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ALL AROUND the UK on
the day of the Royal Wedding,
people celebrated with street
parties. In Sheffield, a Jesus
Army group enjoyed getting
involved in a street party in
their neighbourhood.
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proved to be a good way to
meet the locals, have nice
food and a good laugh” says
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great day and we made some
new friends.”
They weren’t the only
ones to make the most of
the day. Members of the Jesus
Army in Coventry hosted
a street barbecue in their
area, which was “really wellattended”,
and the Jesus
Army in Northampton also
played host to their local
street party.
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IN MARCH this year, 600
men from all around the UK
met in Northampton for the
Jesus Army’s annual “Men
Alive for God” conference.
One commented: “It’s
unusual to have an event
with just men, but it’s really
powerful. You can go deep
in a different way and face
up to issues honestly. It was
pretty life-changing.”
Meanwhile, women
from the Jesus Army in
Brighton were joined
by women from another
church, Kings Church,
in Medway, Kent, for a
day with an international
flavour. They sang “Glory
to God” in the mother
tongue of the various
nationalities
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NO fear!
Hayley Woods was afraid to go out of
the house. Now she’s more outgoing
than most. She told Streetpaper why.
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“PRETTY MESSY”
is how Hayley, now
25, describes her
childhood.
Her parents
divorced when she
was 7, but before that
she witnessed her dad
repeatedly abusing her
mum.
As if that wasn’t
enough for a seven
year old to cope with,
Hayley was sexually
abused “a few times, by
different people.”
Abuse and bullying
caused Hayley to sink
into a deep depression,
when her teenage
years hit.
She had to start
taking medication at
16 for depression, and
soon discovered that it
had left her
feeling too vulnerable
to leave the house
alone.
“Most of my depression
came from anger”
reflects Hayley, “Anger
at God – why did He
let that happen to me?
I thought it was my
fault. I felt paranoid,
like people were looking
at me and thought I
was this dirty, horrible
person.”
When she was 14,
Hayley had a panic
attack when her mum
went into a shop and
left her standing outside.
From then on,
she developed a type
of agoraphobia. “I was
too afraid to leave the
house on my own.”
says Hayley.
“It carried on until
I became a Christian.
“God healed me.
“I never really prayed
about it, I just realised
one day that I wasn’t
afraid anymore.”
Hayley’s mum and
her brothers had met
the Jesus Army in
Briar Hill years before
Hayley became a
Christian herself. She
was “wrapped up in
her own little world”,
with her boyfriend of
six years and didn’t see
her need of God.
“One day, I don’t
know why, but I asked
my mum if I could come
with her to church”
she recalls, “I remember
looking around,
thinking, ‘you can feel
the love’ – that sounds
cheesy, I know! But it’s
how I felt.”
It triggered in
Hayley a love for God,
and for the Jesus
Army. In 2008, Hayley
was baptised.
“It wasn’t a ‘sparkly’,
dramatic experience.
But as soon as I came
out of the water, I knew
things were going to be
different from then on.
It was a definite turning
point for me.”
But not long after,
Hayley moved into her
own flat and started
spending a lot of time
in the pub and smoking
weed. Her depression
came back, stronger
than ever.
At a Jesus Army
celebration in London,
there was a drama
about Jesus dying for
everyone’s sins, which
moved Hayley to tears,
and caused her to find
deeper forgiveness and
real love.
It was her breakthrough
moment.
“I fell in love with
Jesus” she says, simply.
“I’d never known
anything like this
before.
“God is amazing,
really” enthuses Hayley;
“He’s done so much in
me. He’s healing me of
depression. Recently, I
got prayer from some
friends, and since then,
things have been much
better.
“Through Jesus, I’ve
been able to forgive
people who’ve hurt
me. I would never have
been able to do that on
my own.”
Hayley wants to
share the reality of
God’s love with others.
She is helping to lead
a youth group in Briar
Hill, befriending and
bringing love to young
people who’ve had similar
experiences to her.
What about the
future? “I’d love to see
some of those young
people get baptised,”
says Hayley,
“I feel like all the
things I’ve been
through have been for a
reason.”
AGORAPHOBIA - THE FACTS
AGORAPHOBIA is a term that is used
to describe a number of related phobias
(irrational fears) that are connected to
situations such as:
• leaving home
• entering shops
• being in crowds or public places
• travelling alone on buses, trains or planes
Mind, the mental health charity,
estimates that in the UK there are around
5 million people with agoraphobia.
Agoraphobia is twice as common
in women as men, and the condition
usually starts between the ages of 18
and 35.
For help or information about
agoraphobia, visit the following websites:
• nhs.uk/conditions/agoraphobia
• bbc.co.uk/health/emotional_health/
mental_health
• anxietyuk.org.uk/about-anxiety/
anxiety-disorders/agoraphobia
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Rough and
scrumble!
SCRUM IN BRUM: lively lads in Birmingham last year
Jesus Army youth event “Real and
Wild” lives up to its name
“WHEN THE guys
started to get crushed
up against a huge tent
pole, we had to call off
that bit of the plan!”
says Andy Lantsbery,
24, a leader at “Real
and Wild”, the Jesus
Army’s annual youth
event. The lively menonly
workshop was
part of the event held
in a giant marquee in
Birmingham.
BUDWEISER ‘66’: the
beer to go for at the
moment?
Budweiser ‘66’: it’s new
(has to be good, doesn’t it?)
and it boasts that it’s “lightly
carbonated” with a smooth,
easy taste, which is a
reassuring factoid for those
who don’t like their tastes
“hard”.
Whatever that means.
The TV ad also promises
that the beer won’t “wear you
down”. Make you staggeringly,
pukingly, falling-down drunk if
you have too much, yes. Wear
you down, no.
So how about a swig of
uncreated life, which means
you’ll never die and, in fact, will
“The workshop was
about men being men
and having the courage
to rise up and meet the
challenges that come to
them” says Andy. “The
scrum was a warm-up to
get the lads out of their
inhibitions. It got a bit
rowdy” he says with a
grin. “It was a powerful
few days” he adds, more
seriously. “People’s lives
were changed.”
It wasn’t just the guys
who found the event
electric. “RAW is a chance
for loads of young people
“THE BEERS ARE ON ME”
taste immortality now?
Not a feature you
associate with many food
products, eh?
The woman whom Jesus
met at a well must have looked
at Him gone out when He
started talking about giving
her “living water” to drink (John
chapter 4, The Bible).
What’s living water? It’s
Jesus’ way of saying that He
meets our deepest need in life.
Think about it. You’re
going out to get beered up
again. It’s going to be a great
party night out with your
friends. But will it get you to
that place you want to be?
Deep inner satisfaction? Self
acceptance? Peace?
Did it get you there last
to get closer to God”
enthuses Amy, 19. “People
break out of their comfort
zones, make friends and
get inspired about the
future. I love going to
RAW with young people
who have never been to
church before and seeing
how God changes them.”
This year RAW
is taking place in
Northampton (see the ad
right). “Join hundreds of
young people” says event
leader, Stevo Scott, on a
promo video “as we leave
behind old junk, find new
time? Or the time before? – I
mean in a lasting sense rather
than just a fleeting buzz?
Legions of hung-over
people, vowing “never again”
would agree: No, we never
got there.
If you want to experience
what life’s really made of,
don’t have what everyone
else is having; have the drink
that only Jesus is giving: real
life. Cheers.
Pray (talk to Jesus) like this:
Jesus, I need the life You give.
Thank You for dying and rising
from death, so that I can live.
Thank You for pouring out the
life of Your Spirit. I drink that
life in now. Come and fill me.
Change me and make me
new. Amen.
It was a
powerful few
days. People’s
lives were
changed
ANDY
life in Jesus and together
experience God’s power in
life-changing ways.”
For more on RAW visit:
realandwild.com
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JESUS SAID...
“If you only knew the gift
God has for you and who
you are speaking to, you
would ask Me, and I would
give you living water.”
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