Monthly Archives: December 2023

Dec 12 2023

Israel trip in 2022 – 6. Galilee crops

See these bananas? There’s loads of them growing by the side of the road. I think there must several square kilometres of them.

Isaiah 27:6
In days to come Jacob will take root, Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit.

Here’s also where a whole load of olives have been harvested

Here’s a view from the road.

So I walked from the youth hostel part of the way around the radius of the Galilee, but only a bit below Capernaum.

Only thing was, before I left, I slipped down some stairs at the hostel and banged my knee on the hard granite floor. Although painful I went off walking. After 10kms of walking I decided to go back, it also getting dark.  Only the next day it started to hurt.

I had this Rav Card. Its like the London Oyster card for the tube. Buses are now cashless and I didn’t know. I got the card, but hadn’t put any credit on. A bus arrived and wouldn’t take my shekels in cash. A kind local Arab guy sat near the front got up and tapped his card allowing me to ride home for free.

The next day I didn’t go out, as my knee was really sore, so spent time hanging out on the roof top and reading, and praying my knee would heal.

This time I didn’t get to go back to see Jesus places like Capernaum as I needed a day to recover, then go to see Mount Tabor to see the place of the transfiguration.

1. Items in the wrong places – 2. Galilee rooftop chats of faith – 3. Storms and the Queen’s funeral – 4. The town about the rejected stone Rosh Pina – 5. Who might witness Jesus’ return before anyone else? – 6. Galilee crops – 7. Soon…..

Dec 10 2023

Asbury revival beginning predicted in 2018

I discovered this article from (December 2018) 5 years ago, about how the Lord was going to touch young people in Universities:-
https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/74231-prophecy-god-is-about-to-pour-out-his-spirit-on-universities?fbclid=IwAR3fGu2n5ovoZvGwEI3lOKCUCpGj7fjxua3yZaZEuQXhw1fCs9Iym6C3NMk

As I am part of the charismatic movement, I’m keen to know what’s spoken in the past gets realised.
The Asbury Revival that happened this year seems to be the wonderful fruit of this.

Dec 7 2023

Debunking pathetic boycott Israel campaigns

So propaganda like this I see quite a lot. This was posted by someone from Denmark.

Its been shown both in the Muslim world, or by the extreme left and Muslims living in the west.

Its highlighting that a group of well known brands are giving money to Israel, and by stopping business to them will “help the cause of Palestine”

Lets dismantle this.

Mcdonalds. They are an American company of course. There’s Mcds in Israel, who employ Jewish and Arab staff. And not in the Palestinian territories but a lot of Arab Muslim nations like Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Jordan and more. They operate as a franchise. I don’t recommend you support McDonalds in the Middle East, as there are thousands of smaller restaurant businesses run by Jews and Arabs that are loads better.

KFC. This is an American company, also operates as a franchise. This opened in Israel some years ago. Then they shut. Not because of political reasons. They just didn’t do very well as there are plenty of local fast food places.

Coca Cola. I wrote on this a little while back. You can get Hebrew branded Coke made in Bnei Barak (Israeli city) or Arabic brand coke made in Ramallah (Palestinian city) Its made under licence and sold most parts of the world. If you want you could get some kind of generic cola drink instead.

I’ve not been to Ramallah. But its were the Palestine authority government is for Fatah (not the same as Hamas who run Gaza) This picture above is from Ramallah. On the left some coke is being delivered in a van (Palestinian cars have white or green licence plates, Israelis have yellow) On the right, there is a big poster with some Arab lads drinking Coke.

Starbucks. US company. Tried running in Israel and it failed. Too much competition. Israelis would rather support their own cafes. I think they do ok in UAE and Saudi though.

Nestle. They are based in Switzerland. I think their products are sold in Israel, but Israelis tend to buy their own home grown food.

Cadburys. This is a British company started in Birmingham by a Christian family. I’ve never seen Cadburys chocolate in Israel, except in Arab shops where it had Arabic language versions made in Egypt and imported.

Israel makes a lot of technology products. HP, Apple, Intel, Motorola, Cisco, Qualcomm, Google and Microsoft have significant research and development done in Israel. As well as indigenous tech companies like Waze, Amdocs, Monday.com, NICE systems are Israel start ups.

If you want to boycott Israel you will have to throw away your favourite gadgets.

Like it or not. Israel is here to stay. Israel’s Messiah is also coming back to Jerusalem one day. Stop hating and get used to it.

Dec 2 2023

Fruits of revival seen in Portsmouth UK

I thought I’d show you what I have observed over the last few years in my home city of Portsmouth.

This is Langstone Church, I went here in my youth. I remember seeing many people commit their lives to Christ, baptised and married here. In recent years, it got smaller and its future was uncertain. Now its been taken over by Christ Central (in 2022) which is part of New Frontiers church, so its being used to reach the community again.

This is Kings Church. This was my main church from 1998 to 2009. This is a great community which I really loved, which is part of Assemblies of God. That year I left the UK to go and do ministry work in Israel.

They were in a small community centre, then bought an abandoned snooker hall, which then was too small. They got to acquire another church which was facing extinction.

This is Living Waters in Titchfield, a delightful oldy-worldy pleasant village 15 miles from Portsmouth.

This was also previous a different church that became defunct.

This is St Margaret’s Church in Southsea. This is my current church. This was abandoned, empty and in poor shape but revitalised.

So the common pattern I see, is new churches spring up, starting using a rented or less formal type meeting place, and take over large traditional church buildings.

I’ve been part of many churches, which are independent, Assemblies of God, Church of England, Messianic Jewish and Calvary Chapel, there’s multiple subgenres of these groups, as I’ve lived 4 years in Jerusalem Israel, 6 in London and before and now 3 years back in my home town of Portsmouth.

I like bringing people along to church that don’t yet know Jesus, or chatting to Christians not going to any church currently.

If you are in Portsmouth and want to know about my church or my faith, feel free to get in touch with me.