It occurred to me the other day that our God is a God who loves celebration. He particularly loves it when His people recognise what He has done for them and choose to celebrate enthusiastically. It always seems a bit strange to me that a vast crowd of people can go wild and celebrate when […]

Yesterday we were considering the ‘joy’ that is in the Godhead, over us!!!  Over us His people, The ‘Bride of Christ’. We also looked at our ‘joy’ in the Lord, in the wonder, that the King of all Kings ‘should die to save a wretch like me’.  (William How) For most of us that joy […]

Over the past couple of days we have written about peace and love as hallmarks of our life in Christ. Both of those grace gifts come from the Holy Spirit, our indwelling helper. They are of course ‘fruits’ of the Spirit that grow in us as we allow His life to flow through us, carrying […]

Not so long ago I was chatting with a friend who is going through a difficult time, and he said to me that the thing he most longed for was peace. He felt, I think, that he could do anything, even difficult things if he had peace. The trouble was that he was not happy […]

When the Israelites were travelling through the wilderness, they had the most amazing visual aid of God’s surrounding presence. God made sure that they knew He was with them. ‘By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of […]

Yesterday we were reflecting on the fact that there are times in our lives when we feel beaten up by the circumstances of life, and the Lord does not always change those circumstances but walks through them with us. Sometimes, there are times in our life when there are shadows over us that don’t seem […]