Time to give some praise for the ZoeCity Team! This site has really impacted my faith. Being able to go online at work or wherever and have Christians there willing to pray and guide me in my walk has been fantastic and a lot of fun too! So many of the messages I have received on ZC have directly impacted my career, my ministries and my devotion to God. I have been blessed in so many ways already from this site and that in itself deserves one huge praise!

Shannon is back!!!! Woo-hoo!!!

Major props to God for the many blessings He has brought Shannon in the last 48 hours! Big Guns Up Stairs has done it again!

Shannon, I'm really pumped up about what you shared with me last night! And the fact that your team is blowing up!

Word!

Hey ya'll. I was on the pray request side last week but wanted to share with you that I received and accepted an offer for the job I was interviewing for. God is so good! Thank you all of you for your prayers!

I'd like to take the time to praise God for something that happened to me 3 years ago on July 7. I was working in London summer 2005 and left my house a little late the morning of July 7. I arrived at the tube station (subway) to see that it had been closed due to a "power outage." My friend and I hopped on a bus and were stuck in the most horrible traffic ever, seemed like forever, barely moving.... Then I got a text from my co-worker that a bus had been bombed outside Russell Square and asked where I was. I just happened to be on a bus and not very far from Russell Square!!! Other people started getting texts that the "power outage" were bombs on the tube trains too. I leaped off the bus and I started heading towards work at the UK Parliament where I would feel safe.

I will never forget when I passed through Trafalgar Square that morning. I was there the evening before for the announcement of the Olympic bid, stood right by one of the Lions, throwing streamers and cheers with all the people in the packed square. As I walked through Trafalgar square the morning of the bombings and I passed that same Lion, I couldn't believe how different the scene was than the night before- people in tears, worried and frantically trying to get ahold of loved ones to make sure they were okay. I will never forget that Lion that had stood there in the celebration and stood there in the tragedy. 3 trains were bombed and a bus. 52 people were killed and 700 injured.

I was not a believer then but it really freaked me out just how close I had come to being on that train. And a few months ago, my friends found out that although there were several trains that left our tube station, the specific train that headed to Parliament was one of the trains bombed. If I hadn't left late, I probably would have been on that train.

A few weeks ago, I was looking at my pictures of the Lion in Trafalgar Square and thinking about how the Lion represents Christ in the Chronicles of Narnia. And I realized that even THEN although I had walked away from God, he hadn't walked away from me. He was there protecting me all that time. And every time I see the Lions of Trafalgar square I think about his small whisper, I was there with you the entire time, I never left your side........

Awsome, Jenny! Thank you for your testimony! It brings chills!

Although I've been a believer since I was a child, as an adult I had felt like he had left me, but when I finally "woke up" I found that I was so busy being such a good Christian, I had actually turned away from Him. Seems oximoronic but true and the glory is all His -- He is so devoted and loves us so much that He just stays close by waiting sometimes (like in my case) very quietly. Sometimes, it takes an exposion and the aftermath to get our attention.

bLESSed

Decided to go home for lunch today. Get into the elevator, small chat with a girl in my building, ended up figuring out we both lived on the third floor.... she commented about how devastating the flood on our floor was.

"Flood?" -JSB
"You're apartment didn't get flooded??" -Girl

I guess the entire third floor was flooded to the point that everyone had to get a hotel. The floor is set up like a square, it just so happened that my side of the square was not affected. The other three sides, devastated.

Huge praise that I didn't have to move out of my apartment and have everything ruined!

It made me think about how God really blesses us. Sometimes he gives us something tangible but sometimes he just makes the everyday annoyances and mishaps "less" in our lives. I am just wondering about all the b"LESS"ings God has given me that I don't even know about. All the car crashes he has prevented, all the dangers, disasters....

When we praise him for the Blessings in our lives, we sholdn't forget to throw in an extra praise for the less, bLESSings too.

WOW, what happened?

I'm not really sure what exactly happened but I guess there was a major malfunction in the emergency fire sprinklers. They ran for over 3 hours and no one knew because everyone was at work.

i have forgotten to get on here and say praises for little Rocco, my sister's husbands brother's child that was in intensive care for so long. he's doing fine and they expect him to live a long and healthy life!

It was a very rough go, as he was premature and facing long odds. right after the birth they said 10% chance of survival!! just shows that nothing is impossible with GOD!

Wow, that is great news! Thanks for taking the time to post this and give praise!