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But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a

What are you afraid of? The first thing you will think of is a natural thing, maybe spiders, maybe the dark, maybe worms. But there are many more things. They become walls, penning you in, constraining your path, getting taller and taller, blocking out the light and

Luke 1:37 Nothing is impossible with God. I read it and I feel an excitement stir within me as I start to dream of what could happen. Your initial reaction may be, but that’s selfish, but it depends on what you are dreaming about and where your

On spending time at IHOP Kansas City and thought about the history of the place I realise that the prophetic foundation and the company of prophets that were established in the 80’s and later disbanded has not changed. There has been a metamorphous, but its essence has

The lord is my light and my salvation – of whom shall I fear. Darkness brings out fear, it is hiddenness. When it is dark we cannot see what is in front or behind and we are cautious. My children hold on tight to my hand when

We are called to live by the Spirit of God, the enemy will try and make us live by the flesh. Our battle is to stay in the Spirit.

Our lives and decisions are based on knowledge and intuition, even intuition is a type of knowledge, it is a knowing inside. But there is something that surpasses knowledge, and yet we can know it. Biblical knowing is experiential, it is not an academic thing. My desire

And everyone did what was right in their own eyes. It was the end of an era, the period of the judges had finished and the people were without a leader, the standard by which they measured their actions was their own eyes, their own heart their

Follow me and I will make you….fishers of men, and however that is worked out in your life, the fishing of men will take many guises with each person, but in each of us our lives are to fish for men, are lives are to overflow with

Follow me and I will make you, the words of Jesus. But we don’t believe the words. Or is it we don’t trust the one who made the promise? Or we dont trust fully and we hedge our bets, a bit of trust jn the Lord and

What is the one thing you would ask for? A new computer, a new car? New house, help in your marriage, new job, God to save lots of people? Healing in the church? They are all great things and nothing wrong with praying for them. The only

Blessed are those who keep your statutes and seek after him with all their heart (psalm 119:2) It offends our senses but the Lord isn’t available to casual seekers. Though if we call and ask him into our hearts he is there, there is a place of

When Simeon is in the temple and Jesus is presented to Him, he prophesies to them that this child will cause the rising and falling of many in Israel, to be a a sign that will be spoken against so that the thoughts of many hearts will

Have you ever come across people who are like chameleons – they change depending on the situation they are in. Ultra friendly in a moment and then cold and harsh in another. Spiritual schizophrenia – rooted in insecurity in who you are in Christ. Who am I

The situations of our life can create tension, without tension nothing can move. Think about the muscles in your arm, as you stretch out and pick up something, the muscles are tensioned. There is no movement without tension. With a bow and arrow, you draw back the

The extravagance of heaven and the extravagance of man…..not necessarily the same thing! We want the lord to be extravagant but we want him to be extravagant in the way that man is – possessions, things, new car, house – and though we are made in his

Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you ; he rises to show you compassion. It is funny how you can read it, and it doesn’t touch the sides. When you can read a profound truth and you can see the truth of what it says,

I try and avoid it as much as I can but somehow it finds me and I know that I must work with it and learn what I need to learn. My prayer in in the middle is Lord let me learn this quickly. I am amazed

I feel it daily, a compulsion to preach. Yet like a damned river there is nowhere for the flow to go. An damned river will find an overflow through necessity, so I feel a need to overflow. The natural place for the flow has been blocked, yet

The matter was one of life and death. The fear of death cripples so many. Fear cripples so many. But this was a matter of life and death, he was afraid as it was his only daughter and he loved her very much. He was afraid that

So, what does it look like when the power of the Lord is present? There are no flags raised high, no bells being sounded, no special herald who comes with trumpet and fanfare. But the power of the Lord was present. Did Luke know this by his

While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying,

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. (1Cor 15:58) Therefore….so what came before? The beautiful chapter on the resurrection of the dead. This is our hope, Jesus the

Every year at this time I remind myself of the ‘reason for the season’ though I would look at it during the year and often try and think about it this season is a particular focus and an opportunity to think about what happened. Jesus drank from

luke 4:1 [Jesus] full of the Holy Spirit….led by the Spirit You have to be full to be led, more of him and less of me. I know that the more I have of the lord the greater I sense his leading. But how easy do we/I