The verse that always comes to mind when thinking about prayer is Philippians 4:6, ‘Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus’. For the last […]

Yesterday we wrote that, in our conversations with God, it is good to ask the right kinds of questions. We made the statement that ‘Why?’ questions are often not helpful, but we do need to qualify this because even a ‘Why?’ question can be helpful in our dialogue with God if it is asked with […]

Yesterday we were sharing from the scriptures the truth that God is like the potter to our clay, and we were reminding ourselves that the hands that are moulding us are not the hands of just any potter, they are the hands of our loving heavenly Father. The fact that we have quoted God saying […]

In the book of Isaiah, we read both of God speaking to His people prophetically, and the prophet Isaiah, responding to His words and praying for His nation. At one point he reminds God of all the times when He did amazing things to rescue His people, and then he acknowledges the bad state that […]

Over the last two days we have seen how keeping an attitude of gratitude, keeping a thankful heart towards God, can help us to stay flexible. It can help us to avoid being locked in to rigid views about what should or shouldn’t happen, both in our own  lives and the lives of others, or […]

In the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, that magnificent book for adults that children enjoy too, the encounter the four children have with Mr and Mrs Beaver in the beaver’s house is beautiful. It also contains some wonderful truth. C S Lewis had a marvelous way of describing profound things about the Lord, and […]

A while ago now I bought a small Monkey Puzzle tree in a pot, for Mark. We like Monkey Puzzle trees and, although we know they are slow growing, we were looking forward to it becoming a beautiful tree. We replanted it first of all, into a very large pot, to give its roots plenty […]

Thinking more about yesterday’s blog and the power of Jesus’ life in us, I was reminded of the promise that Jesus made, when He stood in the Temple in Jerusalem on the last and greatest (most important) day of the feast. We are told that ‘Jesus stood up and cried out in a loud voice, […]

I had a dream last night, a strange dream. In it Mark and I were at a public swimming bath, and when we got into the water, all the water drained away. In the dream I knew that this was a ‘manifestation of the presence of God’ and felt quite excited by it. All the […]

This blog is really a post script to No.224, published ten days ago on ‘Thanksgiving and Holiness’. It is a post script because I very recently read a paper by Bob Mumford entitled ‘Stepping over the Threshold’, in which he shares some really illuminating insights into what he believes is happening, both in the world […]