PRIVILEGE OR RIGHT?
“I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. "But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. "If my people would but...
VOTE FOR JESUS
“Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Eph 5:20 (NKJ) Change is inevitable. So whether we like or are prepared for it or not, it still happens. As an interested party in British politics, I dare say that I can...
HOPE IN GOD
“Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life. He who despises the word will be destroyed, but he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” Prov 13:12-13 (NKJ) In our spiritual journey one important fact we soon learn is that...
GOD GIVES GOD TAKES?
“But the woman conceived, and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had told her. And the child grew. Now it happened one day that he went out to his father, to the reapers. And he said to his father, "My head, my head!" So he said to a servant,...
HOPE THROUGH YOU
The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. Rom 8:19 (NIV) When James (not his real name) heard God’s command to proceed to the thick jungle on the outskirt of his town and preach to the trees, he was very puzzled, but still chose to...
HE STILL ANSWERS PRAYERS
“In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.” John 16:23-24 (NIV) The people...
WHO WOULD YOU SERVE?
“And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will...
FAITH AGAINST THE ODDS
“The sceptre of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous, for then the righteous might use their hands to do evil.” Ps 125:3 (NIV) Was it something we did? Where did we go wrong? Is God punishing us for a past misdeed? Those were the...
THE GREAT HOPE
“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. “Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself, just as he is pure.” 1 John...
MAKING GOD’S BLESSINGS COUNT
“Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and...
