Category: From the Heart!
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Confrontation
I’m the first to admit (like most people), I do not like confrontation. But sometimes it’s simply necessary. God calls us to boldly confront evil, and he gives us everything we need through the power of his Holy Spirit.Elijah was a man who trusted God so he had extraordinary courage. He was utterly fearless in…
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Smells Like Sheep!
The word integrity comes from the Latin integer meaning ‘whole’. It describes an undivided life, a ‘wholeness’ that comes from qualities such as honesty and consistency of character. It means acting according to the values, beliefs and principles we claim to hold. Former President Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Western Europe during…
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Your Jar Will Never Be Empty…
There’s a beautiful story in 1 Kings 17 about the faith of a widow and the faithfulness of God to supply our needs.Elijah put a widow to the test and asked for food during a devastating drought. She tells him that she and her son were about to eat their last meal and then die.…
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Thirsty?
The psalmists in Psalm 78 gives us a sad commentary of how God’s people responded to their miraculous rescue. In spite of God’s provision, they ‘sinned even more’, rebelled and ‘whined like spoiled children’ (vv.17–19). God helped them anyway. He ‘rained down showers of manna to eat, he gave them the Bread of Heaven’ (v.24). This…
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Spiritual Nutrition.
Prayer is, “spiritual nutrition”. Just as the body needs physical food to survive , so the soul needs spiritual food to thrive. Prayer is our spiritual food…it nourishes us. It strengthens us. Prayer is also powerful. It is, as Charles Spurgeon put it, “the slender nerve that moves the muscles of omnipotence.” Prayer has the…
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Find a Paul AND a Timothy…
Every believer in Jesus has a story – a testimony. We have to ‘tell the stories’ (Psalm 78:6). The psalmist says, ‘We will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord, his power, and the wonders he has done… to teach their children, so that the next generation would know them… and they…
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Be Real…
Having a relationship with God does not protect us from difficulties. The psalmist in Psalm 77 was in distress, and ‘awake all night – not a wink of sleep’ (v.4). He felt that God has rejected him and that he would never experience God’s favour again (vv.7–9). God wants us to be real with him.…
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Short, Fat, Bald & A Hooked Nose!
In Acts 14, the apostle Paul speaks of ‘all that God had done through them’ (v.27), in spite of his many limitations. For starters, his appearance was very unimpressive (2 Corinthians 10:10). One description of Paul’s physical appearance at this time (in a second-century document called ‘The Acts of Paul and Thecla’) describes him as,…
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From My Living Room to Gods Throne Room…
Over the last few weeks I’ve seen several social media posts asking if we should worship and praise God because he first loved us or because we really do love God. I thought the question was quite interesting. What im going to share is deeply personal. something I’ve not shared before. When I first became…
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Be Sure, Know and Be Assured…
How can you be sure that you have been forgiven? How can you know that death is not the end? How can you be assured that you will have eternal life? We can be sure. We can know, and we can be assured because of the historical facts of the life, death and resurrection of…
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