It’s a strange thing that happens when I give thanks, I see things very differently. Giants and big mountains become opportunities for a miracle, and irritations become like the grit in an oyster’s shell , they become the opportunity to create a pearl. I first learnt that lesson many years ago, but it is of […]

We have been sharing about the joy and benefit of learning to ‘wait’ on the Lord as a lifestyle; of finding our strength renewed as we journey through the day, learning to catch the thermals of His love. This is described in the Passion Translation as ‘wrapping our hearts in His’, Psalm 25:5, and we […]

So, over the past few days we have been looking at how important thanksgiving is when it comes to ‘keeping in step’ with the Lord, through busy times, overstretched times, through those challenging times, and through times of trouble. Yesterday I came across some verses in another psalm that seem to gather all those thoughts […]

We have been considering how ‘giving thanks’ keeps us walking in step with the Lord. It keeps us connected in faith with Him, through busy times, overstretched times, and it keeps us in good relationship with Him through those challenging times of deciding what is the right way for us, in the face of some […]

Yesterday we reflected on how thanksgiving helps me to say ‘No’ to things that are too much or do not seem to be what God wants me to do. This opens up a fresh vista – that is that thanksgiving is a means of protection, a defense. We have considered over the last few months […]

Yesterday we were looking at how pausing to give thanks to the Lord regularly throughout our day can help us to keep in step with the Lord and to accomplish all that the day holds at His pace. Nevertheless I am sure that we are all aware how easy it is to overload the system, […]

Do you ever look at the diary and think ‘I’m not sure how I’m going to manage all the demands or find the time needed for everything this week!’  Sometimes when we look ahead at a busy week, we can rush into things trying to ‘get ahead’ or at least ‘stay on top’ of things. […]

In the family of God we are encouraged to ‘give no offence either to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God’. 1 Corinthians 10:32. Paul is of course referring here particularly to whether it was ok to eat certain foods. The antidote he said was to take part in a meal with ‘thankfulness’. […]

Faith is a great mystery. I don’t mean ‘saving faith’ but the faith that moves mountains or that sees healings and miracles. We know that it is God’s power that heals, but even when Jesus had felt that power leave Him for healing He said to the woman who touched Him, “Daughter, your faith has […]

Yesterday we were thinking about how our personal sense of spiritual poverty could be a blessing, in that it was the spiritual equivalent of hunger pangs, causing us to go to the Lord for sustenance. Psalm 36, from which we quoted yesterday, could also be the Old Testament answer to another of the beatitudes, ‘Blessed […]