Aslan (Kings of Kings)

Icy winds the ground is dead, lifeless, nothing lives outdoors in that frozen wasteland, it has been like that for a long time, myabe a 100 years. Suddenly something is happening - the sun comes up, the snow and ice melts; the trees lose their frosty imprisonment, the dead ground breaths where once was ice and snow. Now all is green, blue and yellow. The lion from over seas walks in the woods and the land again. Aslan is back, all is well, but there are battles to be fought but we are not afraid because Aslan, the king of kings is with us

Testimony

My father was brought up with his grandparents who taught him that everything was his. When he married and had a son - me - he resented that, and felt rejected. I never felt loved or wanted. My childhood was hell. I had all kinds of fears and phobias, and experienced emotional damage and rejection. I did not do well at school and left with no qualifications. Work was no different. I could not keep my mind on things. So I began to drift from one job to another job. That's the way it was until 1983-4 when both my parents died in the span of ten months. My father left me a lot of money, but I had a few fair-weather friends who ripped me off quite badly.

1985 was the worst year of my life. My situation was hopeless, so I said to myself, "Why don't I just kill myself and be done with it?" It was then that I heard a voice deep inside saying, "Hold on, everything is going to be all right." I thought, "That's it, I've totally lost it, now I'm hearing voices." But the voice seemed so warm and reassuring.

Then I began to drift even more and I became homeless for the first time. Then in 1993 I came to Oxford after walking 67 miles from Birmingham. I went into the night shelter for the homeless. It was a hard time in the night shelter because you had to sleep with your eyes open, because people would steal everything you had. I got a room in a place on Divinity Road and started going to the soup kitchen run by Sister Smith and people from other churches. At the soup kitchen a woman by the name of Janet started talking to me about Jesus.

I thought Jesus belonged to the exclusive club of Peter Pan, Superman and Ewoks out of Star Wars. Two weeks later I was working down by Bonn Square and saw some people from the soup kitchen. They were dancing, singing, doing drama and having a good time. So I walked across the road to where they were. I started talking to two women and told them about my back and how sore it was. They prayed for me and while nothing happened right then, from that time my back started to get healed.

What happened next was very strange. It was as if something reached inside of me and cut me open. All of the rejection, hurt, pain, insecurity and loss came to the surface. I burst into tears, which is something I had not done for about ten years. I was in a lot of pain at this time and the girls prayed for me again. Then, what I can only describe as waves of liquid love just washed over me and washed all that painful stuff away. I felt so warm and loving. I'd never felt anything like it in my life. At last I felt as someone loved me.

I then found out where their church was and went along twice, and to a couple of midweek meetings in peoples' homes. At the second one I gave my life to Jesus. Again nothing spectacular happened. But in the morning I thought I must have died and gone to heaven, because all the weight that I had been carrying had been picked up by Jesus. I felt as if I could float up and kiss the ceiling. There have been good times and not so good times since, but God has always been with me. I am going through a period of transformation at the moment and sometimes it is not easy, but I know that God is with.

While I have been a Christian God has been dealing my emotional damage suffered in the formative years of my life. I used to be dominated by the people around me, crushed, oppressed and depressed. God has been working through these issues in my life at a very deep level. I still struggle with these issues and it is only recently God has been revealing them to me. I need the constant healing touch of God to overcome these problems that still affect my life today.

At last I can see God’s pattern in my life I have been reading the book by Neil Anderson called Bondage Breaker. In this book Neil Anderson shows that we must move in authority that God gives us and healing will come. Last October I was diagnosed with clinical depression and gave it to God straightaway. It was like God uncorked me, since then it is like God has put me back in the front line again. He has given me a new gift of painting, creative writing, leading worship, telling my testimony and writing reviews for the gatehouse for the homeless people. God has done the healing in his time. God has done a lot of healing in my life and I feel there is a lot more for him to do, but I believe that God will finish what he has started.

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (work in progress)


The night is dark inky black, suddenly bright searchlights pierce the blackness. About 300 Heinkels and Messershmits fly in formation. Bombs fall, shrapnel shells burst into the formation of aircraft. Some of the planes are hit by gunfire and burst into flames and crash upon the houses of London below. The year is 1940 this is the Blitz.World War two is one year old. A boy stairs out of a window as bombs fall and explode in the street. A woman runs gathering her four children and rushes out to the Anderson Shelter in the Garden. This is the opening scene from the film The Chronicles of NARNIA,{The Lion, theWitch and the Wardrobe}.

Ever since I became a Christian 13 years ago the one name I have always here is C.S.LEWIS. I have read the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. But this year 2005 the story came to life on the big screen.

The next scene is the train station where thousands of children our being evacuated into the countryside because of the war in the cities. Then we see a beautiful old steam train ploughing threw the English countryside. The children are dropped at a rural station and are picked up by Mrs Macready in an old horse and cart. Then the journey begins to the big old mansion. The children then settle in to big house. One day while playing a game of hide and seek the big adventure begins. Lucy cannot find a place to hide so she runs into the room where the wardrobe is.

The wardrobe stands against the wall of a long room and covered over by a canvas sheet. Lucy pulls off the sheet and enters the wardrobe to hide. Moving further and further backwards Lucy brushes up against fur coats and then begins to feel something that is shaper, bristly like trees. Lucy turns around and she has entered the wintry land of Narnia. Here she meets a faun called Mr Tumnus they have a nice tea together and Lucy goes back to the Wardrobe.

On her return her brothers Peter and Edmund and her sister Susan do not believe her story. Lucy goes back to Narnia later on this time Edmund goes after her and he meets the Witch and he comes under her power. She tricks Edmund into believing it would be a good idea to bring the other children to her palace. The witch then leaves and he meets up with Lucy. They go back together through the wardrobe and Edmund does not tell the truth, at this Lucy cries.

Later on all four of the Pevensie enter Narnia by hiding in the wardrobe after an accident. Mr Tumnus is taken prisoner by secret police, and then the children meet a pair of talking beavers who take them for some shelter. The beavers then tell them that when two sons of Adam and daughters of Eve accept the four thrones of Narnia this will overthrow the witch’s power. The story moves fast, the beavers then say that Aslan the Lion and founder of Narnia are on the move. Edmund under witches spell and rushes of to meet her. Meanwhile Peter, Susan and Lucy find Edmund is missing from the beavers home. They then set out to find Aslan and they do after meeting Father Christmas on the way. Edmond finds the witches castle but is taken prisoner, but rescued before he dew to be killed. Then the witch calls for a truce and demands Edmunds return because he is a traitor. The witch is right to demand this because of ancient law. Aslan permits it because witch does not know everything. Aslan takes Edmunds place and is killed. But Aslan comes back to life, and he rushes to the big battle with some reinforcements that he has set free. He then kills the witch and the Pevensie children are made Kings and Queens of Narnia. They live long time they reach adulthood before going back through wardrobe and they are children again in there owe time. This then is the end of first adventure in Narnia will not be the last but that another story. (not yet finished)