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I can feel the fire burning in my heart. There is a principal of first the natural then the spiritual but in this case it does not work. If I want to get hungry in the natural I don’t eat. If I want to to get spiritually

Simeon was righteous and devout man, the Holy Spirit was upon him. He was a man who heard from God,yet it doesn’t say how. He knew he would not die before he saw the consolation of Israel. The consolation of Israel being that Israel would be consoled,

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it to you even when you have forgotten the words. Anon

Just reading these words I can feel the longing to know the words taught by the Spirit. I know I have known them in the past, but i have salt in my mouth and I long for more, I want more of the Spirit. It is knowing

We seem to spend a lot of time waiting and yet we are incredibly impatient. Maybe if we were more patient we wouldn’t have to wait so long – or at least we wouldn’t notice. I try think of it as an opportunity to think, watch and

Of all the titles of God, this is one of my favourites. The revealed of mysteries. Daniel spoke it out when he was bought before king Nebuchadnezzar. I often think of what seems like the impossible task of not only interpreting a dream but to also tell

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask

I disappoint myself at how easily I will be swayed here and there by situations that I face. Though i know the truth, and it is not matters of truth that sway me, it is the situations that make me feel like I am drowning, the situations

Have You ever felt like you are constantly fighting fires? As soon as you finish one there is another demanding your attention, and if you pause to look around you can see that there are many fires to be fought. Fighting fires leads to anxiety and a

Can you say with the. Psalmist, how lovely is your dwelling place, oh lord almighty.This is a place he wants us to go, this is a place he wants us to find, to experience, to look for the paths that will take us there, to listen to

Chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. The Saints that Peter is addressing have been scattered into various regions and he goes onto say that they are chose according to the foreknowledge of God the Father. Now to be chosen is to be picked out,

As Peter introduces his letter, he addresses it to those who reside as aliens. In some translations it says strangers. An alien is a foreigner: a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country. And so we owe no

Take away the stone…so they took away the stone How sensitive are you to bad smells? I personally am not over keen but travel to Africa has certainly enlarged by idea of how bad smells can get. But no smell i have come across is close to

Father I thank you that you have heard me. How many times do we pray and we do not even consider whether God has heard us, and actually come away in doubt ore than faith that he has heard us. Why does it seem so difficult to

Our hearts are so delicate and we must guard them so very carefully. For there is an enemy out there who will try and destroy us, and sadly, using other believers to wield the sword. The writer of the proverbs had something when he said above all

John 11:6 So when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was The obvious thing to do would be to act immediately when you hear that someone is ill, especially in those days when a sickness could easily

John 7:38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. I have often wondered what this means, that we should have rivers of living water flowing out of us. There is a dynamic in which we

Failure can feel like a punch in the gut. And when it keeps happening it’s tempting just to give up. But you can’t; you must ‘get up again.’ Failing doesn’t make you a failure, quitting does. H.E. Jensen said, ‘The man who wins may have been counted

Dont you want to be part of something that is bigger than you? I imagine that the early disciples joined Jeus because they knew that he was different and that they were caught up in something more than themselves, the sense of destiny was murmuring within and

When Jesus said that we can come to him and never hunger and never thirst it is difficult to imagine what this is like when you are in a Western society. We have so much to eat and drink and so much choice. Having recently read ‘The

I have been thinking about what happened when the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost and just from a casual reading you can see that the coming of the Holy Spirit causes a reaction – there are various adjectives describing people when they come into contact with the

I know that in the church stream that I am involved in we tend to not look at the traditional church calendar and it is only because of our involvement with ‘church’s together’ that I am aware of the upcoming Pentecost Sunday. I have also been focusing

During the next few decades there will be two distinct moves of the Holy Spirit across the church in Great Britain. The first move will affect every church that is open to receive it, and will be characterised by a restoration of the baptism and gifts of the Holy Spirit.

2 Corinthians 1:21-22 21And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us, 22and who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. I love the word when it strikes you as

The Bible says my King is the King of the Jews. He’s the King of Israel. He’s the King of righteousness. He’s the King of the ages. He’s the King of Heaven. He’s the King of glory. He’s the King of kings, and He’s the Lord of