A place for encouragement and refreshment
Colours of the Rainbow
Sometimes I feel like the psalmist when he writes, ‘When I consider your heavens and the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is the son of man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?’ Psalm 8:4. Creation […]
Yesterday we were looking at the power that is ours when we ‘reckon ourselves dead to sit but alive to God in Christ Jesus.’ Romans 6:11. It’s the power to live life from the Christ life within, and to ‘walk as He walked’ 1 John 1:6. So here, at the heart of our new life […]
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 […]
In recent blogs we have been reflecting on the fact that God is a God of truth, that He always speaks the truth and that His words of truth are a sure foundation for our faith and life. More recently, in our post modern world however, we seem to be in an age that is […]
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 […]