PREPARING FOR EXPLOSIVE GROWTH

“Do not be seized with alarm and struck with fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom!” Luke 12:32 (Amplified) The Chinese bamboo plant is a rarity in the plant kingdom. Plant it and for the next five years all you do is water...

THE WILDERNESS EXPERIENCE

“But when God, who set me apart from birth and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not consult any man, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went...

THE TWO FACES OF BROKENNESS

“My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.” Psalm 51:17 (Amplified) How do you recognise a man whose spirit is...

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

“This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit; also Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism. They presented these men to the apostles, who prayed and laid their...

SMILE! YOU ARE IN GOOD COMPANY

“For all these things My hand has made, and so all these things have come into being [by and for Me], says the Lord. But this is the man to who I will look and have regard: he who is humble and of a broken and wounded spirit, and who trembles at My word and reveres My...