Greetings from Heathrow (and thankfully NOT Terminal 5!)

Heathrow airport is great...apart from one thing, there are hardly any seats to be found, and so, I'm consigned to a space on the floor for the 4 hours before i can check in to my flight which leaves this evening.
So far, this journey has been nothing if not hassle free...a few moments have even had me rejoicing in the goodness of our God. Sometimes, the little things in life that could seem like coincidences are the places that I like to see God working...a few examples of which I've seen in the last few hours!

My bag is pretty full for my trip over here, I'm taking a few extra things which means that I don't actually have a lot of room for my own stuff! On top of the necessities for an African adventure, I have a guitar and a kids play parachute (the latter of which is taking up no less than HALF of my rucksack). The flight from Belfast to Heathrow had a baggage allowance of 20kg, and despite my best efforts a month ago to try and convince them to give us a little bit more, this was where our allowance stayed. The unfortunate thing was that they told me my guitar also had to be taken into account in this 20kg allowance, and it weighs about 8kg alone.

Now, when i weighed these two items last night, they came out at around 25kg total, and after adding a few things to the bag this morning, I just decided not to weigh it again for fear of actually knowing how overweight I was going to be.

Amazingly, on arriving at the airport today, the girl at the check in desk weighed my bag and sent it through and didn't give a second glance at the guitar before waving it through too. She didn't weigh my guitar and add it on to the amount, which saved me about £50! (It's £7 extra for any extra kilogram you have in your luggage)

Then, I got to Heathrow, and, as I said, no seats... I just came into this internet point, intending on spending £2 for 2o minutes of internet (pricey!) I went up to a machine, which proceeded to eat my £2.... Then I realised that someone had already put in £6 and then left. I only had to add another £2 into the machine for it to give me a voucher for 120 minutes of internet (which guarantees me, not only internet until i check in...but a seat too! :D)

These things are small. These are small moments in a day that it's easy to miss, when it's easy to miss the working of God. But my prayer is that my life won't be a series of small moments of seeing God's power, rather, that I will see God working in BIG ways, in incredible ways, ways that I couldn't have imagined. Ephesians says:

"I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms." Eph 1:18-20

The same God that raised Christ from the dead is that God who is present right now. The God who did this great work, is the same God who can do the same today. We just don't expect as much. In 1 Corinthians 4:20, it says "The kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power", and in my Bible, I have written beside this verse 'Let's see the power then!' This is what I want, I want this trip I'm just embarking on to be a time when I experience God power in it's fullness, not just in these small, seemingly insignificant things, but in the BIG things. The things I read about in the Bible and wonder if they could ever really happen to me.

Let's see the power.