As I wrote yesterday’s blog I was impressed again with the fact that when God speaks things happen. In the very first book of the Bible at the start of our world, as we know it, the phrase ‘And God said’ occurs eight times, Genesis 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,24,26), and when – ‘He said’- amazing things happened. Jesus […]
One of the reasons that we began this year of daily blogs on ‘thanksgiving’, was that we had a sense, like many others, that the Lord is preparing His church for revival. The word ‘revive’ simply means ‘to come back to consciousness, existence or to life’. Our word revive is from the same route as […]
In yesterday’s blog we wrote about how our God is a God of truth. Unlike any human being, and clearly unlike the devil, He only speaks truth into our lives. Accepting and believing what He says to us and about us is, in fact, our main source of faith, because ‘Faith comes by hearing and […]
Yesterday we saw from Psalm 16, how closely David walked with God when he was in agreement with Him. The question is – ‘What exactly are we doing when we agree with God and why is it so important that we do? Then when we have understood that, we can look at how we can […]
I have to go back to Psalm 16 again this morning. It really is my most favourite psalm, and there is more for us in it today. In the verses which we quoted yesterday, from the end of the psalm, ‘You will show me the path of life; In your presence is fullness of joy, […]
We finished yesterday’s blog about sacrifice with the words – Thanksgiving will help me to accept the invitation to ‘offer myself again as a living sacrifice’- to do life God’s way. My renewed mind will remind me that I am going to get so blessed in the long run, because His will for me is […]
I feel excited about today’s blog, because I believe it is in God’s heart to give us an invitation. One that I hope we won’t be able to refuse. So! Talking about personal ‘sacrifice’ is not likely to draw a crowd. Sacrifice is often associated with death, like the death of those in the wars […]
It occurred to me today that ‘thanksgiving’ can be active or, in polite society, something that is almost passive. May be someone in your household has borrowed a book or something impersonal and, in passing, they put it back on the table by you, saying casually, “By the way there’s that book I borrowed a […]
During this current pandemic, many of us have experienced ‘shut doors’, places where we have been denied access. At the height of our ‘lockdowns’ this has affected care homes, churches, childrens, playgrounds, clubs and pubs, even countries and so much more. Even when places were not completely closed access has often been limited, and conditions […]
When we began this year of thanksgiving, I had no idea how absolutely fundamental, and essential, thanksgiving was going to prove to be in our relationship with the Lord. We started with Psalm 100:4 ‘Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the Lord […]