Reading Psalm 105 recently I felt it had something important to say to us about thanksgiving as we move on into the new year of 2022, and come near to the end of our 365 days of looking at the power of thanksgiving. It had to do with the value of keeping a journal, and […]

In the past few blogs we have been considering the links between childlikeness, trust and humility. Without a childlike trust in the Lord, I can become anxious. If I doubt His care and His ability to lead and guide me as an incredibly loving Father would, then I take hold of things myself, trying to […]

In our last blog we were pondering Jesus words to His disciples, “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of Heaven.” Matthew 18:1-4. We were looking at the […]

In Matthew 18:1-4, Jesus’ disciples come to Him and ask “who is greatest in the kingdom of Heaven?” In His reply Jesus says “I tell you the truth unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in […]

We read in the gospels that the miracle of the loaves and the fish being multiplied to feed the five thousand, was preceded by the Lord lifting up His eyes to heaven and giving thanks. Matthew 14:19. The same thing happened when He fed the four thousand.  This thanksgiving that preceded the miracle was a […]

In a recent blog we were reflecting on what a wonderful gift of God our imagination can be when it is filled with ideas, thoughts and creativity that are in line with the Lord’s imagination. Equally imagination can lead us down dark paths and into much worry when it feeds on the lies of the […]

One of the amazing gifts that God gave mankind was the ability to imagine, to dream, to picture things that are not immediately present, either from the past or by using information from the past to imagine future possibilities. Because this is the sort of gift that can get us into trouble, we as Christians […]

Today the word that I think that the Lord would have us ruminate on is ‘Mercy’. So I looked up the Oxford Dictionary definition and was blown away. It said, Mercy, n. Compassion shown by one to another who is in his power and has no claim to kindness. then by way of explanation was […]

In our last blog, we looked at the power of our thanksgiving to ‘seed’ the rain of blessing from heaven, in the same way that the tiny spores from the fungus rise up on the breeze and turn water vapour into drops of rain. The power of that picture stays with me, especially since the […]

We watched a nature program yesterday in which we were shown how an amazing, but unseen, event takes place in the rainforest, that causes the torrential rain to fall. We were shown, in this program, how the apparently insignificant fungus, which lives on, or sometimes unseen below the forest floor, is actually the agent that […]