Reaching those in need (Working with the unseen)

We give thanks for all you're going to do what we want to partner with you in your spirit Lord father. As we hear from them father. I pray that you sterile Hearts For Your Glory in Jesus name.

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What? Thank you so much for inviting us to come today and thank you so much for working with young people who even get into the nitty-gritty of what is Wes to. I just thought I'd share personal privilege. It is to walk alone so I can people amazing that way. It goes, people walk him stuff happens and the way that young people are willing to open up my life to us to share with us. But in that moment, God comes in with his wisdom with his healing and sometimes with his silence just to sit alone. So I'd so I'd like to share I'm not going to go if you're interested.

Has just been mentioned, we've grown. We've got a lot to do the Boiler Room days. We've been going out for 27 years, I haven't worked with a stylus for that long, but I've worked alongside them with different charities in always be drawn to what we're doing. Primarily we watching stools with young people but we do side work and now a GP surgeries and do. So I'm in some pieces hospital and Karen who isn't his? I think she's jealous that I might not be joining us, I'm online but she's one of our amazing volunteers who comes alone and what's with us with the young people. So what's been in the Forefront of all the weekdays is walking a side alongside young people and my family's experience well-being and mental health need. So we support them in that. We do this in a relation. Why? So we think it's very difficult when you explained to her what to do or we talked to them people. We will come so it doesn't really sound like you're my text, but you know what? It is. I'm so, if you want to see the next, so, this is what we doing at the moment. I say, we have relations, put workers in primary source, we have early intervention, employ me. We now have a team of counselors across primary and secondary school. We have the hospital a massage for prescribing projects as well. I was going to a young people, all things. So often wakes up when you read the stories of Jesus, he go in the mess. I think. Maybe I need to call us if he was his side and sometimes the language and all the hoo-ha a piece that I pray, that's what we do for our young people, so I don't impact. So just you just in a small area is, and this is our impact of stained glass, man. We haven't gone through the exam season then, unless we know it's a Time, season does have an impact on our young people people and delivered by 14,000 sessions with those young people and interesting, they, which I'm sure will be no surprise to any parent or anybody. Young people, anxiety, and self-esteem, top of the list. I wouldn't just say it. Young people, actually, if I'm being honest, Exhausting self-esteem, Just A Moment of clarity. The name is the stats of what we do, as a whole lot of these West project. Narrow it down, just to the the project at some pizzas and some pieces. We we do what we consider to be closest to the nhs's. Not. But we can see what was young people from h721. So if I need you to self harm due to attempted suicide to try and do it, say I'm we know but the young people that's going through that is only going out from being able to sit with them in that place. Gives them a space. Gives them a chance to be heard makes a massive difference. What we then do is we are with them. When I come home, I'm here for them on going supposed to stop when the change happened. So if you like when you're all scared,

So, how we do that? Exercise walking alongside of my sounds and from years of experience that taking time to build those relationships. With themselves with their families, makes a massive impact on their lives. We focus on the young person who they are notebook lifetime. I come from and being a prison chaplain. I'm from the future holds. With some young people that very aware of the reasons, I brought them to a in a very, very well but it was a moment. And what we want to do is to bring hope hope in the darkness and despair hope in the horrible reality of their experience. That might be a way through her last fitting to find the best place on a brighter. Future is always hope. For me is why it's the hope that this is to say, I might be the beginning of a service coming. This is just how it feels in this moment. I know it's a new day coming. So a few little stunt again from a project. I'm in some places and all those AC3 young people had for a. Of time afterwards, astounds me, every time is that when young people reach out for help and I have that is full of sessions, they don't end up back and Ina. So all those admits, it's so I spent 260 hours spent in with them in the community is to be able to see that she's going to

I've been part of the hospital project now. Hi, yes. It's and I've had been very privileged to be able to go into the hospital and meet location people. I'm sorry. I just wanted to share a few things that I've experienced and I think one,

Family, I should say, we went in a young person. Got to see her on several occasions. Go to play games with her in that sense, just bring height and kind of, she was in the hospital for and he kind of great. I'm so just being able to sit with her full an hour or so. I play some games and talk about life. And when she wanted to talk about what the future would look like, and the help and support, she would like to see for herself what was in that space being able to connect with her family and her sister who was, who was carrying on and answer the way this developed.

And when it came to this junk ass moving on from the hospital, the family reached out and asked actually, this is effects of the system, really quite a lot is anything you can do in terms of supporting her. So we agreed to meet up and have some sections out in the community house with Jerry like follow-ups and just and I talked to her what she was going through and just give her space but she could feel had as well and just as she was working as well about this breaking heart. There's different young person that came to mind again with one of our team, members of my staff and Karen young passing and Mountain. In the hospital.

And they also follow up as well. So we agreed, when you started meeting up in the community, you went for coffee and stuff like that.

And I think it was the second time meeting this young person. The impression showed up was just you just say the whole demeanor. Life is just nothing stirring by just really bringing that really heavy this nothing good. And that was the weather was coming out of the show and then we sat and we start spend some time just looking into it will actually does bring you home. What is it that you do enjoy? And we came back to music music was something that they really seem to have a passion for boiled it down to okay. With what I said about me to the point of well as would really like to learn how to play the guitar and through all section. You can see this young person just I mean, you should have been that. It was quite quite the changeover came to me was completely down to leaving the sessions. Being serious about wanting to go home 1 a.m. to help find a guitar at the unicorns. By next time you see me but One Love Story from Atlanta but I was a young lad that I so I'm in Ina and it was one of those days that was just for him.

All I could say I'm blessed and he didn't, we stop by for 45 minutes and all he needed was to sit in silence cuz life is too busy and I realized I'm helpful. So I have to do the my school quit saying, I'm sick without even playing on my phone for this boy, which might let him stay tonight and he threw his the Johnny. What's out that he really wants to become a mechanic? But because he's done so great, we stay at school. He didn't think that was an option but we managed to find him an apprenticeship and every now and then he messages me and I think open her what's going on. But now it says to tell me in to show me like his latest certificate.

And now he's in a much better place. And I dare to ask him about that, really Oakwood 45 minutes and he said, he said if you imagine, I could use you charge me to be at like to pull the strings from you is not another word for said that and I could go and get help from school and then you realize that. Gave him the strength to veilstone get the help. So amazing. So I will pray for Our young people is Jeremiah 29 verse 11. Pro speed note sahami plans to give you a hug and to give you a future. I'm waiting for people with my redneck style times and it's going to be so we we love it. The current volunteers for us. If anybody else would like to, please come and see us and please pray for us when we got some important, if you want some cuts and spouse house, but thank you so much for partnering with us and for standing in the hospital. Thank you.

Are all the kind of things you want to run away from if you have to be giving up second time now, a long time in a cup. Yes, it was. And I believe you told me, it was ice will 9 x 12 when she eventually turned off, she said I was sitting outside every time.

Just sitting, what do you turn up? Cuz people give up on people and chat some people listing. I'm done. Gave up on those people. You applying for on those people. You're trying to reach if you run out of yourself, that's the time you need to run in to go. That's the moment. You see what I got? No, I got no more energy to give. I want to give up right now because some of these guys are into people's lives, but that's not just for east to west. Fonts for go to church today.

Yeah. Okay. So I'm just going to give a short children's address today building a pond or series of dealing with the unsafe interesting and really kind of registering to the list of things. A lot of the stuff that we do with in life, goes on inside an inside here and that's you said very, very messy, anybody like that we liked or didn't like but you know what that's pressed into it. So I want to talk a little bit just very briefly about taking steps of vice and actually I'm going to do the memory bus now. So shut up. We do a memory verse every week and for everybody who remembers the memory of us you don't have to be here last week. If you know Hebrews 11 verse 1 And you got a chocolate.

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Fun dealing with the Unseen. I want to talk about having a bigger picture for the National Portrait Gallery. That is a beautiful place, some lovely pictures on the wall. And there are some pictures that are so big. They wouldn't fit in your house that are enormous pictures. Not when the office started, painting The Embers, what you think that picture was? You think I had an idea? And what did they start in the corner? And when Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the whole picture in mind? Or did he just have a little bit of

No, I'll see whether you and one person in this room should recognize this building. Is anybody else recognize this building? And I used to live in? This is the highest rate of cooking standing Spencer gallery.

I'm, he wanted to put Christ in the center of his Community Christ, preaching at the Regatta in cooking. I'll show you a picture of it is on the wall. In the actual museum is the actual picture. Is the actual picture. You're looking at a guy, but he's not finished. It's not finish because he didn't finish it. You never got around to finishing. But you know what? You can see evidence of things to come. You can stop to see the bigger picture. I need Chucky's real. Well, these are some of the parts that would have been part of the cooking ragazza in the middle of it. And I want you to imagine, you're bigger picture, whatever is in your world, whatever you do, whatever you got is your bigger picture that you're taking Christ with you. Think about how I'm going to ask you to close your eyes for a few months. Now there's just some where you go to a place, you can meet people, that might be a place that you work. It might be a place that you do some voluntary way, but think about a place of destination,

I'd like you to imagine sitting there, not just you and whoever you would normally sit down with, but having Christ sitting at the table with you having Christ in the presentation with you. Sandy Spencer painted this picture Christ preaching, at the cooking Regatta.

Christ in your meeting Christ, in your conversation, Christ in your workplace, you know every time you and I going to work every time you and I go somewhere we should be taking Christ with us.

I don't know whether you feel uncomfortable about that picture. I see you picture going to Uber or something that you might be thinking. It was this person. There might be some colorful language if I take them into a meeting at work.

Cleverly put it on, sometimes language is colorful, but Jesus would still have been there instead of being there. Celestite Christ, take the presence of God, his son or wherever we find.

And I want you to picture just lie. When are you getting a bigger picture? Cuz the bigger picture is not just a conversation, is a bigger thing going on. Sometimes people are just looking to see what they are reliable. Sometimes people are looking to see what you'll fight. Sometimes people are looking to see whether you're consistent with doing what you say and saying what you do. I'm talking to the whole generation in the room there whether we're 12 2252 102, it's lame. Applied. People are looking to see whether we are willing to be soaked Androids, in our community, and our work place where we live.

So I want to encourage you to have the bigger picture. I also want to encourage you to think about who you are, cuz you are a unit. You all units, just like snowflakes of unique. You are unique, a many many, many years ago. One of our young people in our youth group. Came, back from Jose, we met you in Serbia.

Never been to Serbia.

Well, I don't remember it. So I took a picture and there was a picture of them with the pasta. That looks exactly like me. You know what even know this person. I'm not even sure. I want to say the same to you. Every one of us has a unique fingerprint. Everyone is different. Even if you are different Even if you're on the tentacle twin, you're still different. There's something you need two different about you. Got us, a plan and a purpose for you. And that's gets in you that you need to use. But sometimes, we don't like to be. Seen as gifts. But you know what? Your gift to your family, your gift, your friend, your gift to the church. Your gift to the community and use those gift and hide them. Is there a lady who Helen Keller? Some of you may have heard of a blind and deaf? I really struggled to help us to learn anything cuz they didn't realize that she had a great brain. And so I thought I'd Until you realize that she could talk to Helen Keller, go to degree a degree without sight and without hearing Do you know one of the site and she made these days? It says the only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. This is a woman who is blowing. So she's speaking from a position of authority to sign. The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but movie Dutch, have you got a vision for your, what place have you go to Vision? To see something change? How do you being able to Envision miraculous change, where you are with what you do? Because this is true. I know the thoughts that I think too with you says the Lord. Thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope as a future and a hope, not only for us. But for the people he does not know how desperate someone situation is. There is still a hope. In the natural, we might go, I don't see it. That's what we have to pry into the supernatural.

Let, let let me encourage younger to ask us to close our eyes can cuz it's interesting that the two messages condo over to Sharon's. Blended and merge them, that's just the goodness of God. And I looked at some of the the countries that joined us design. The weather in Tarkio, South Africa, spying know why it's related to some of the countries that joined us. But I want to pray for all of us who were watching whatever country you're in whether you're in the room while you're watching license. Father I pry. Especially I want to come to, you father. God is able to do more than we Oscar. Imagine So follow me come to you with all. Let me call it a nice one, just needs a little tidy up or it might be a complete mess. We come to you with our circumstances or situation, or maybe we stand in the Gap and in to see if we stand in the gap for a friend's, those we know which I look at this mess, not to wear any better, but we would you give us a bigger picture. Would you shine a soft soap into situations and circumstances? Would you Cause your spirit to come was your spirit to move, Open the Eyes of My Heart that we might see you.

In Jesus name, I do want to say this because I know this price that I've been soaking about maybe you don't know. Maybe you think life such a mess in it.