“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...

“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...

“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...

“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...

“He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel.” Psalm 103:7 (NIV) God proclaimed in Isa 55:8-9 that His divine ways and thoughts are characteristically higher than our limited human ways and thoughts. Therefore, since we human beings are...

“So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.” Hebrews 10:35 (NIV) The world has only recently experienced the devastating impact of loss of confidence in its financial system and many are all still reeling from the economic tsunami it has so far...

“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.” John 12:24 (NIV) How do you define success? This question may seem simple enough, but a concise understanding of its...