Extravagant… meaning – Immoderate; exceeding the bounds of reason; profuse, wasteful; exorbitant.  [Oxford Dictionary]. When I was a child, being a post war baby, being ‘extravagant’ was not a virtue. Whether you were extravagant with the amount of sugar you put in a drink, the amount of money you spent on clothes, or the amount […]

We spoke yesterday about how singing is a blessing to God, a gift to us and also a weapon in our armoury against the atmospheres that the enemy, ‘the prince of the power of the air’, Ephesians 2:2 NASB, creates all around us. I mentioned too that I believe it is also a key to […]

I think singing must be very important to the Lord. As I glance through the concordance at the occurrence of the word ‘singing’ in the bible, it becomes clear that whenever anything eventful happens, when ever God acts, or is present with His people, there is singing. In heaven itself the singing must be wonderful […]

Yet again my morning walk gave me the inspiration for today’s blog! This time I was struck by the beauty of the mellow autumn colours, in the very welcome morning sunshine As I was thanking the Lord for the lovely view ahead of me I just felt the Holy Spirit reminding me that there is […]

I was walking this morning in the wood nearby here, and became aware of many, many small oak trees. They varied in height but some were barely waste high. Then I looked up to see the full height of the oak trees that had shed their acorns to enable this vast little army of oaks […]

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 […]