Yesterday we were looking at the ‘amazing grace’ of which we are recipients, not just the one off event when I was born again, but the amazing grace which is transforming me day by day. As in John Newton’s wonderful hymn, there is the – ‘Amazing grace that saved a wretch like me’ – and […]

We have talked a lot in these blogs about the fact God has ‘decided’ to make us like Jesus. He has ‘predestined us to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brothers’.  This is good because we also know that ‘God is for us…..and will along […]

Today I believe the Lord is giving us a link between the last two blogs. We ended the blog the day before yesterday quoting Jesus as He encouraged His disciples saying, ‘I tell you the truth if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “move from here […]

‘”Further up and further in” cried Jewel and instantly they were off again’. Those of you who have enjoyed the Narnia books of CS Lewis will recognize the cry from the last chapter of ‘The Last Battle’. It seems to me it could echo Paul’s heart as he wrote to his friends in Philippi “ […]

This morning I felt that the Lord was wanting us to thank Him for our ‘impossibilities’. I had been listening to a song which listed some of the miracles in the bible, and some of the amazing things that the Lord has done for His people. I got to thinking that, inspite of the fact […]

Earlier this week we were talking about praying in the powerful name of Jesus and about the Lord’s promise that ‘He will do whatever we ask in His name’ John 14:14. We know that James tells us that we need to ask aright and we believe that staying closely connected to the Lord by our […]

We have now been on this journey of thanksgiving for six months and it struck me that we can summarise some of the things that the Lord has been teaching us, very simply. Thanksgiving creates connection like nothing else, both in human relationship and also particularly with our God. Remember how in Romans 1: 21 […]

Yesterday we were talking about using all the names of God to build our faith in who God wants to be for us, as we ask Him for different things. I do believe however that the main reason that Jesus told us to ask ‘in His name’, the name of Jesus, was because it is […]

Yesterday we were looking at the wonderful truth that we have a heavenly Father who wants us to ask Him for the things that we need. We see in those passages in John’s gospel, where Jesus is encouraging the disciples to ask for things, that He includes that powerful little phrase ‘in my name’. He […]

ASK is such a funny word, such a small word and yet full of meaning and power, particularly when it comes to connection and communication, and so it’s no surprise that Jesus had quite a bit to say about asking. Jesus said “I tell you, anyone who has faith in me will do what I […]