DIGGING DEEP.

I've been finishing off a book by John Glass, head of the Elim Pentecostal Church in the UK, called Building Bigger People which is basically his life message to the church over the last few years. It's full of wise biblical teaching and some good real life stories as illustrations. One such story was told to him by Dr. Paul Yonghi Cho about his frustrations of being delayed by building works in his city that seemed to be taking ages to complete. When he asked the foreman why the work was so slow, he was told "Because we intend to build big we have to ensure that we dig deep." John Glass goes onto say that "God loves BIG and has called his church to largeness, favour and growth, but if there is one thing that God prioritises over BIG in the economy of his kingdom then it is DEEP."

That's one of the main reasons I'm studying for a Master's degree. I desperately want to build big but I know the time is right to dig deep first. At the moment I'm just finishing off a lot of digging in the book of Judges.

   The illness I came back from India with was finally diagnosed after tests as Campylobacter a form of gastro-enteritis caused by food poisoning. Although I thought I had rid it from my system, one of the side-effects has been waking up in the middle of the night with extreme pains in my chest. So I ended up in Morriston Hospital in Swansea all day yesterday for checks and examinations to make sure I hadn't had a heart attack.I should have been enjoying a day at our caravan with my wife! All clear, but the pain is in the gullet region so I'm on a course of tablets and I'm having some more blood pressure and ECG readings this week.