Another wonderful thing about being a child of God is that our wonderful heavenly Father helps us to ‘grow up into Christ in all things’ Ephesians 4:15. One of the ways in which He does this is by helping us with, and guiding us through, our problems.  And yes, we do all have problems, it’s […]

It seems to me that the word ‘love’ and the ideas behind it have changed quite significantly over recent years. People still like to read 1 Corinthians 13 on love at weddings, but the modern use of the word love seems quite frequently to have a different emphasis. This can be trivial or major. We […]

It is important that when we are talking about the Lord’s disciplining of us, His children, that we see that He never uses coercion. The Lord never seeks to control us like robots. We said yesterday that there are times when God uses hardship to discipline us. He can also use difficulties and trouble to […]

Discipline, when I was a child, had quite a bad press. There was an acknowledgement that it was a necessary evil.  A teacher for example needed to have ‘good discipline’ in order to teach a classroom full of children who did not always see the point of learning. Being known as ‘a disciplinarian’, however, was […]

Another wonderful blessing of having our God as our heavenly Father is that He promises to be my provider. The first thing to recognise here is that, if I am a child of God, ‘my provider’ is never short of anything that I need. That in itself is worth at least a day’s thanksgiving!!! Secondly […]

A few days ago we were looking at the wonder of having been adopted into God’s family. That means that I know I have a wonderful Heavenly Father. Perfect in every way! This brings that incredible sense of belonging and acceptance and also many blessings that we can now reckon on, as we travel through […]

In God’s family it is so important that we know that we are accepted and that we belong. I am not simply talking here about feeling OK when you go to a church. Sadly many can go to church and still feel that they don’t belong, or that they are not accepted. I guess this […]

One of the wonderful side effects of knowing that I am completely accepted by the Lord, is that now I also know that I belong. I have been adopted into His family and I have a wonderful Heavenly Father. This gives me royal status, I am now a child of the King. Paul writes in […]

I think it’s true to say that all of us, without doubt, want to feel loved and accepted for who we are. We want to feel loved and accepted by our parents, by our spouse, by our friends, by our church leaders and those we lead, those we serve and those we work with. Feeling […]

The bible has a lot to say about Holiness. Early on in our journey as Christians most of us discover that God is Holy whether by reading the Old Testament in the books of Moses, or Isaiah’s call to ministry, (Isaiah 6) or in the Psalms (e.g. Psalm 99:3, 5, & 9). We discover that, […]