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 […]
We’ve all had them. Those unwelcome invitations to go and test drive a car, to view a time share option, or to visit a sale room where there is some gift incentive to tempt us to part with money or time that we don’t really have. We usually bin those invitations or at least put […]
Today I think we should stay a little longer with Pauls’ encouragement to the Ephesians to ‘Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks to God for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus’, and to look at it in the context of being continuously filled with the Spirit. […]
We have now been focusing for 40 days on all the different ways in which being thankful keeps us in faith and connected to our wonderful heavenly Father. We can see how, in all the different challenges that life throws up for us, thanksgiving enables us to receive and enjoy the Holy Spirits’ help. I […]
In blog number 28 we were looking at the need to ‘remember’ – with thanksgiving – all that the Lord has done for us in our past. We saw how often, when Gods’ people didn’t take time to remember and thank Him for His faithfulness, they would go astray, and God was particularly concerned that […]