I was inspired by reading a recent blog by Kris Vallotton on “How to become courageous when fear is surrounding you”. He talked about the power of thanksgiving in both battling with our fears and anxieties, strengthening us and giving us courage. You can read it on https://www.krisvallotton.com/how-to-become-courageous-when-fear-is-surrounding-you At the end of his blog he […]

We wrote yesterday, about how we are God’s secret weapon to bring His light and love into a dark world. How we, as citizen’s of heaven, are His ‘Trojan Horse’ because we carry His Glory, into this world. We said that understanding who we are spiritually, and what we carry, was of utmost importance if […]

We are probably all familiar with the story of the Trojan Horse, and how the Greeks used it to enter the city of Troy and win the Trojan war. It is now often used as a metaphor for getting yourself, someone else, or your ideas inside an enemy fortress, or domain, in order to ‘win’ […]

We said yesterday that one of the things that might confuse us, in our walk with the Lord, was the mystery of God’s timings and how they are often so very different from ours. Sometimes it feels like we are praying for something for a very long time. At other times we may feel that […]

Thinking further about Jeremiah and his complaint, we can see that the main focus of the enemy’s attack on Jeremiah was to cast doubt on the character and the goodness of God. This was an attack on Jeremiah faith, fundamental to his good relationship with God, and his ministry as God’s prophet to the nation […]

We wrote recently about the fact that our God is an extremely generous and extravagant God, willing to release to us all that we need to live an overcoming life. [Blog 279]. And yesterday we talked of the need to avoid letting a spirit of entitlement sour our relationship with the Lord. Is that a […]

It seems to me that one of snares of 21st century living is the increase around us, and sometimes in us, of a culture of entitlement. Of course this has always been there in human nature. As a child you get a wonderful present at Christmas from an aunt or a grandparent and you are […]

Slow me down? I hear you say, I need something to speed me up, especially after covid, and isolation and staying home etc. Well it is probably the case that, while for many people life ‘slowed down’ during covid lockdowns, for many others it became relentlessly busy. I would also like to postulate that even […]

Sometimes our very extravagant God (see blog 279) needs to provoke us with fresh challenges in order that we will pull on Him for all the blessings and resources that He has for us. As we mentioned before, He loves to fill the hungry with good things, and there is nothing like a new situation […]

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 […]