Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. PR17:9. There is power in forgiveness. It was God’s forgiveness of our sins through Jesus that we have been reconciled to the Father, with no recollection of our past sins. The slate was wiped clean. When we overlook a fault and […]
LORD, my heart is not proud; my eyes are not haughty. I don’t concern myself with matters too great or too awesome for me to grasp. Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself, like a weaned child who no longer cries for its mother’s milk. Yes, like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, […]
Better a dry crust eaten in peace than a house filled with feasting-and conflict. Pr 17:1. Peace brings harmony into your life whilst conflict will rob your peace to bring discord into your life. There are people who strive for wealth and fame at all costs but cannot find peace, and sadly how often we […]
Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. PS 126:5. All the best things in life are worth working for. When you resist temptation to the point of breaking, you will breakthrough. When you struggle but continue with a disciplined life to keep studying, or practising, you will succeed. When it seems […]
The apostles left the high council rejoicing that God had counted them worthy to suffer disgrace for the name of Jesus. And every day, in the Temple and from house to house, they continued to teach and preach this message: “Jesus is the Messiah.” Acts 5:41-42. We are so blessed that we can live our […]
Kind words are like honey – sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. Pr16:24. Your words are life. A few short words can change your total outlook or the outlook of somebody else. As life seems to get busier, people seem to have more time to express their dissatisfaction rather than to pause […]
Peter and John looked at him intently, and Peter said, “Look at us!” The lame man looked at them eagerly, expecting some money. But Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold for you. But I’ll give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!” Acts3:4-6. […]
‘In the last days,’ God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Acts 2:17a. God has not empowered us to recant the past but to create the future. We have not been empowered to win verbal encounters but to release His Spirit through prayer and the laying on of hands to change the […]
Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. Acts 2:3-4.When God fills you with His Holy Spirit, it is suddenly, it is […]
For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them […]