No.151. Thanksgiving and revival. We have been on our journey of thanksgiving now for five months. It’s a journey I believe that God initiated. A journey of transformation whereby as we have been turning to God in thanksgiving throughout these months, our faith has been growing, our friendship and fellowship with Him also, and our […]

We were looking yesterday at John’s journey from being a ‘son of thunder’ to being a father figure in the early church who urged those first Christians to greater love for each other. He did this by reminding them in his letters of Jesus’ new commandment, and by pointing them to the sacrificial love that […]

Yesterday we finished with the thought that thanking God for my brothers and sisters helps to transform my thinking about each one and increases my love for them. Every time our love and understanding of each other increases it is a fulfilment of Jesus’ prayer of John 17, and we can be sure therefore that […]

This week, we have been recognising the spiritual authority that we have when even just ‘two or three are gathered in Jesus name.’ We have also seen that there is synergy, as well as safety checks, in finding the ‘mind of Christ’, or discerning the will of God in the company of our fellow believers. […]

‘There may be trouble ahead’ was a song we heard a number of years ago in an insurance advertisement. Something similar may have been in Paul’s mind as he set out to write to his Christian friends in Corinth. His first letter shows that, as they used to say in Lancashire, there was “trouble at […]

When Jesus declared to Peter that he was going to build His Ekklesia and that the gates of hell would not be strong enough or able to withstand it, Matthew 16:18, He was letting Peter know something of the authority that His people were going to carry on the earth, the delegated authority that is […]

After Jesus had declared that He was going to build His Ekklesia on earth with power to breach the ‘gates of hell’, He also said “I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be […]

Yesterday we were discovering that, as we thank the Lord that ‘in Christ’ we are now seated in the heavenly realm, we can expect to become more and more aware of what Jesus Himself is praying for us. We know too that because the indwelling Holy Spirit is praying in us and for us, we […]

The last two days we have looked at two specific reasons why we can be very thankful that Jesus rose from the dead and has now has ascended to the Father. We have been considering the encouraging truths that we have two members of the trinity interceding for us and within us, as we journey […]

One of the things that has happened because Jesus has ascended to heaven is that the Holy Spirit has come in a different way than He did before the crucifixion. Jesus promised His disciples “I will ask the Father and He will give you another counselor to be with you forever”. John 14:16. He explained […]