I go to the coffee shop as I don’t like my office. I like the feeling of freedom of being outside of constraints, watching the people. The lady at the counter, who is upset with the bus driver. She has more words per second than a Gatling
Read more →He rebuked the fever, and it left her (Luke 4:39 NASB) Seems kind of simple…yet we often don’t see the reality of this happening around us. I have to ask myself, what are the barriers? Why did Jesus manage to rebuke the fever and we seem to
Read more →because our gospel came to you not simply with words but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. (1 Thessalonians 1:5 NIV) I so want to see this happen, the gospel going out not
Read more →From the moment I saw you, I knew you were dangerous, but I had to keep looking, I had to keep thinking about you. I wanted to touch you, and be with you, yet each time I knew I was dying, atrophy set in. You would have
Read more →Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, (Ephesians 3:20 NASB) I am shocked by my own unbelief. I read promises and think, really? Will you really do more
Read more →Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. (Matthew 4:1 NASB) At the beginning of a new year I try to gather my thoughts, I pray for wisdom for the coming season, looking to see what he will
Read more →We are more influenced by our culture than we think. Subtle changes. Small erosions in the landscape. And like a meandering river cuts it’s way through the valley and discards those bits that are superfluous so our culture discards those bits that are not relevant. Over time
Read more →When it seems like the fight is frantic and you are beating the air, you are left worn out and tired, still aware of the voices laughing, taunting you. Oh God help me to walk by faith and to see what you are doing. Teach me to
Read more →Who also intercedes for us. (Romans 8:34 NASB) After such great truths about our victory and the surety of our salvation it seems to be such a throw away statement, ‘who also intercedes for us’. Yet his intercession is a great assurance to my heart. Romans 8
Read more →I don’t normally do this but I loved the story so much it has it’s own post. The Mirror By Brian Lesnik In a small city in Europe many years ago, lived a simple storekeeper named Moshe. Moshe was a kind man. He was interested in being
Read more →I know one who has constantly given themselves as a friend, given their kindness, been generous and extravagant in all friendships, whether they were deemed as ‘in’ or not. I know one who is thoughtful and pragmatic and is not afraid to say those things that others
Read more →Daily I have to set my mind and my spirit on a deliberate course, to go to the place of being hidden in him. I know we should stay there but at times like these I am checking where I am, I know the course of life
Read more →Excluded from the life of God….because of the hardness of their heart; (Ephesians 4:18 NASB) I find this shocking. The hardness of a mans heart can exclude him from the light of God’s truth. Though there is revelation all around of the glory of God, man thought
Read more →Before I write what I wanted to write a word about the title. It means ‘to tell it how it is’. There are no racial connotations and in fact the earliest form of this expression comes from the Greek philosopher Plutarch (he died around 120BC). Erasmus used
Read more →The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. (John 10:10 NASB) There is a polar difference between the two statements. What would you choose? To be in the charge of the one who can
Read more →For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious
Read more →We often use the phrase ‘speaking the truth in love’, but I’m not sure how much of the time it is truth and how much it is in love, a bit like Bombay chicken, Bombay is not called that anymore and it has as much chicken in
Read more →Why were you searching for me, didn’t you know I had to be in my father’s house? Luke 2:49
Read more →I have always believed in the power of words and have seen their creative power, but only recently the phrase ‘voice activated kingdom’ came to me whilst journaling, others may have used this term but I am not aware of that. A phrase helps capture a large
Read more →“Scarcely had I passed them and I found the one my heart loves, I held him and would not let him go” Song of Songs 3:4 When you find him, don’t let him go. When you see him, don’t take your eyes off of him. Hold on.
Read more →But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be silent and come out of him!” And when the demon had thrown him down in their midst, he came out of him, having done him no harm. And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word?
Read more →Jesus has been praying in the Garden of Gethsemane when the large crowd armed with swords and clouds come to arrest him. A disciple draws his sword, to which Jesus responds. “Put your sword back in its place,” Jesus said to him, “for all who draw the
Read more →I come back hear again and again to remind myself that He is the Shepherd. When I go astray he comes after me and brings me back with rejoicing. He leads me to good pasture, though the path is not always easy, I will trust in Him,
Read more →‘Sustaining all things by His powerful word’ Hebrews1:3 Take a moment and think of all things. Everything in existence, even the bad. They are all sustained by the powerful word of the Lord, that does not mean he endorses evil. But it does mean that nothing exists
Read more →In fact, he goes on and says, “On the contrary, we establish the Law.” This is remarkable. He turns the table on his critics. He says, “Not only do we not nullify the Law when we teach justification by faith alone apart from works of the Law,
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