Joy is such a significant part of our faith. It is a huge part of who God is and of the atmosphere of heaven. God created us and Jesus redeemed us, to bring Him joy. Our faith is one that has joy at its heart, because joy is an essential part of who God is, […]

Today I have in my minds eye the picture of a watering hole in the desert, and the scripture Psalm 42:1. The psalmist likens himself to a deer longing for some water, only he is longing to find the refreshment of meeting with God. He is wanting to find himself in Gods’ presence. These verses […]

We might ask the question, What’s in a name? In our culture a name is just a name, something we are given soon after birth to identify who we are in a family. In some cultures it may have an aspirational  meaning for the persons character or future life, but it does not in any […]

A further thought for us today, coming from the whole understanding of our being seated with Christ in the heavenly realm, is about the effect this can have on how we pray. If we are seated with Him and know that He has all authority and is interceding for His people, then we too can […]

We looked yesterday at the wonderful truth that God has raised us with Christ to be seated with Him in the heavenly realm. Ephesians 2:4-6. We were thanking the Lord for the confidence we can have in the knowledge that we are completely accepted by the Father, and that He now sees us ‘in Christ’. […]

Paul starts his letter to the Ephesians with a wonderful explanation of the gospel, and the amazing truths that God had revealed to him about salvation and what happens to us spiritually when we become Christians. He writes to them of their having been dead in their sins and then made alive through Gods mercy […]

So here’s a question. What if God wasn’t good? What would your life look like? It’s amazing isn’t it how we take it for granted that God is good? Goodness and God have come to be almost synonymous in our western world today. But it wasn’t, and isn’t now, always the case that gods are […]

No.45.Appreciating Our Father God. Yesterday we were thanking our heavenly Father for all the things that He does for us, so today I felt that we really needed to look again at the biggest thing of all that we have to thank Him for, and that is that we have been bought with a price, […]

Over the last few days we have looked at the place of thanksgiving, in our relationship with the Holy Spirit and in being filled by Him continuously, and then in our relationship with Jesus, in walking with Him day by day, and letting Him help us with our cares and burdens. Today it felt like […]

Today we are looking at another wonderful invitation. This time it is given by Jesus, and directed to the ‘weary and burdened’. It’s that amazing invitation to come to Him and find ‘rest’ Matthew 11:28. It feels like a very good  invitation for our day, because it is clearly not just speaking to the physically […]