Use your gift
‘God has given each of you a gift.’ 1 Peter 4:10 NLT The Bible says: ‘God has given each of you a gift from his great variety…Use them well to serve one another. Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God himself were speaking through you. Do you have the gift […]
How Jesus dealt with sin
‘Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.’ John 8:11 NKJV ‘The scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery…they said to Him, “Teacher,…Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?”…Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He […]
How God leads us
‘Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.’ Psalm 119:105 NASB The words ‘Your word is a lamp to my feet’ mean you’re supposed to walk according to God’s will and not your own thoughts, wishes, or impulses. The words ‘and a light to my path’ mean you can’t […]
The story of your Bible
‘“The word of the LORD endures forever.” Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.’ 1 Peter 1:25 NKJV In the fourteenth century, there was not a single copy of the Bible in English! It was available only in Latin, the language of the clergy, and those were chained to the podiums […]
Focus on your God-given vision
‘I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.’ Acts 26:19 KJV When God gives you a vision of what He wants you to do, you will have to go against the flow of the world. Society wants to keep you in a box. Most people are married mentally to the status quo. They want what was, […]
Steps to overcoming your worries
‘I know that you can do all things.’ Job 42:2 NIV Steps to overcoming your worries Job lost his wealth, his health, and his children. The book he wrote is a conversation between himself and God. At the beginning of it, Job says, ‘Hear now my argument’ (Job 13:6 NIV). He is asking, ‘Why has […]
How is your giving
‘The amount depends on how much the Lord has helped you earn.’ 1 Corinthians 16:2 TLB Jesus said, ‘If you have not been trustworthy in handling worldly wealth, who will trust you with true riches?’ (Luke 16:11 NIV). In other words, if you are not faithful to Him with your finances, He will not trust […]
When you feel drained
‘He makes me to lie down in green pastures.’ Psalm 23:2 NKJV Drained Drained-Even when you’re living right and doing all the right things, life can still be draining. We have all received post addressed simply to ‘The Occupant’. Sometimes you’re drained not because you did anything wrong, but because you happen to ‘occupy’ the […]
It’s time to pray
‘In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.’ Psalm 77:2 KJV Here are two important prayer principles: 1) Talk to God when troubles surround you. If you’re like most people, good times can make you trust in yourself instead of God. It’s the troubled times that drive you to your knees – a bad medical […]
It’s time to pray
‘Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.’ Psalm 51:7 NIVUK It’s time to pray-Do you remember when most restaurants had opening and closing hours? It was their schedule, and not your appetite, that decided whether you ate or went hungry. Not anymore: now you can pop into many of your favourite eating places […]