One of the most intriguing exhortations in the bible comes in Paul’s letter to the Romans. ‘reckon (count) yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Paul has been expounding the wonders of grace and then tackles the problem of those who might then say something like, “Well Ok then it doesn’t […]

Yesterday we reflected on how my thoughts and reasoning based on God’s truth and in the flow of His Spirit, can mingle with thanksgiving to build, grow and strengthen my Faith. We saw how Abraham, our Father of Faith (Romans 4:16), used his mind and reasoning to feed his faith, and we remembered how thanksgiving […]

Yesterday we were considering the power that is released, that comes into our lives, as God speaks. Taking hold of what He says, receiving His words and agreeing with Him, as He reveals Himself to us through those words, can have a mighty effect in our lives; renewing our minds and transforming us to become […]

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 […]