When you're being picked up for an event to a place you know not and at a time that you know not, your best chance of making it is to go by the assumption that "it could be any day and anytime" and thus prepare accordingly. Jesus words today in Acts 1:7 are not very... Continue Reading →
GATEKEEP YOUR HEART
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. A gatekeeper does literally what the job title suggests, 'he keeps the gate', only permitting lawful entry. While in most cases... Continue Reading →
PREPARE FOR TESTING
Reference text: Sirach 2:1-11 Verse 1-3 My child, if you come forward to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for testing. Set your heart right and be steadfast, and keep calm, do not be hasty in time of trouble. Cleave to the Lord, and do not depart, never abandon Him, that you may be honored at... Continue Reading →
SEEKING GOD DESPERATELY
Mark 6:33 But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. "A desperate man" and "a seeking man" are two individuals who have an enviable level of enthusiasm. Both are on a mission, and until they arrive at where they desire, they... Continue Reading →
STARTING THE NEW YEAR
We start each new year with targets and highlights we'd be happy to crown the year with. For many of us, the year gone by has whizzed past, unclear of what has happened. It feels some moments were skipped and some points in time lost. While some felt the year was dragging it's feet, others... Continue Reading →
GO UP THE MOUNTAIN YOURSELF
Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and... Continue Reading →
COME FIRST, THEN INHERIT
Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Inheritance often connotes the reception of an irrevocable gift, largely depending on the existence of a unique relationship between the benefactor and the recipient.... Continue Reading →
“THANK YOU FOR YOUR LIGHT”
Following daylight savings, the sun tends to rise later and sets way earlier. Hence, the onset of darkness can catch anyone out. There is a path that I sometimes use enroute to work because it cuts my travel by a couple of minutes. However, as it passes through the town park, there is no lighting... Continue Reading →
SIGNALS NOT TO BE MISSED
Luke 12:54 Then He also said to the multitudes, “Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming’; and so it is. The point at which the cloud is seen rising from the west, coincided with not only the immediate recognition of its meaning, but also the... Continue Reading →