Last Christmas I was so sad as I walked around a garden centre looking at all the Christmas decorations and paraphernalia, because I could only find one small ‘nativity tableau’ table decoration. It was the only thing in that centre that held any reference to the true meaning of Christmas. A few years before I […]

Quite often in our blogs we have been looking at the benefits that staying in a place of thanksgiving brings to us. Today I want to focus on what happens in the heavenly realms when we give thanks. We know from 1 Chronicles 16:41,42, and 2 Chronicles 5:12-14 (see blogs 324 and 325), that thanksgiving […]

In Luke 10 we read about Jesus sending out 72 of His disciples into the harvest field of Israel. He gives them His authority to go in His name, to heal the sick and then to let people know that ‘The Kingdom of God is near you’. (verses 8,9). They come back overjoyed at all […]

I love the thought, that some of us, like Heman and Jeduthan, could be chosen and designated by name to be ‘thanks givers’ in the body of Christ, 1 Chronicles 16:41,42. In Ephesians 4:11,12, we are told that we have prophets in the body of Christ who prophesy, who’s task is also to provoke all […]

A friend recently brought to my attention two people in the bible of whom very little is known, but who I believe are very significant for us as we come towards the end of our year of ‘Thanksgiving’. They are found in 1 Chronicles 16:41,42, and they are called Heman and Jeduthan. They, with others, […]

It is so, so difficult these days to know what the truth is about so many things that are happening in our world. To know which part of the news is ‘true’, which politicians are telling ‘the truth’, and which bits of information we are not being given, when we are being fed a particular […]

Have you ever found it difficult when a fellow Christian, who seems to be in a good place with God, feels able to do things that you don’t feel are right? Or the other way round you are doing/ have done something, or have a view on something, that other Christians feel are wrong, and […]

As I look back over the last few blogs, I am realising afresh that, in many situations where our faith is challenged, so is our relationship with the Lord. Staying in a place of ‘Thanksgiving’ is, at these times, a wonderful way of keeping my heart open to the Lord. It is a way of […]

A few days ago we began exploring Psalm 78, a Psalm which in its 72 verses details God’s peoples’ unfaithfulness, sin and rebellion (unhappy reading), as well as His goodness, mercy and faithfulness (happy reading). I noted that a couple of things (at least) leapt out to me as I read it, things of great […]

Yesterday, we looked at how thanksgiving for past blessings and mercies can open a door of hope for us in our ‘todays’.  A door of hope that will lead us into faith for all that we need, and all that we believe He has promised us. We looked at how Abraham believed for the impossible […]