It must have been something for Mary to have had the amazing and largely unconventional visit from Gabriel. The next recorded incident in the narrative makes me chuckle. Can you imagine it. Lizzie just hears her cousin go “Hello Elizabeth!” and literally something drops in her Spirit and she’s up and at the races talking […]
Read More The Comfort Of A Word Of ConfirmationIt’s a delight to post this blog at this time. Many years ago my Mum was a big fan of my work. She would notice how many different ideas I would make a note of and encourage me to keep these. She saw me take part in school plays and encouraged me to keep it […]
Read More My Mum: Because She’s A Big Fan Of My WorkAbraham, Jacob, Gideon and Mary. Not names you would usually associate together but they have something in common. They had a divine encounters that allowed them to find out who God called them to be. Sometimes it came through a name change. Sometimes it came from an angel, yet in each case the person in […]
Read More When God Tells You Who You AreStability. People like stability. It’s not that we don’t like change – honest. Some change we welcome with open arms. Yet as long as there’s stability it makes things alright. What is offered with Jesus ruling from the throne forever is not just stability – it is something that expresses itself in full righteousness. It […]
Read More It Will Never End (Part Two)He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” (Luke 1:32-33) There are times where a simple statement will have me transfixed. This is one […]
Read More It Will Never End (Part One)What were we like before shame? It’s such a powerful state to find yourself in. So crippling. The combination of feelings of embarrassment, fear and withdrawal prevents any chance of full acceptance and true intimacy in a wider sense. Sometimes it’s something within that causes it – a response to an incident for example. Sometimes […]
Read More He Takes Away The ShameThe human condition is funny. A number of times you read in the Bible, an interaction take place where God, directly or through a messenger tells someone a number of points, all of which ends with a final outcome far greater than the current situation. Yet the listener always misses the point because they’re stuck […]
Read More Missing The Point – Why Sometimes We Should Just Shut UpThere is a need to focus on the need for Jesus. I recognise how easy it is to get distracted. The problem of being distracted is that even if you’re doing noble things, they miss the point. There are a lot of noble things going in the world that miss the point. That point chiefly […]
Read More What Matters After The DistractionsI had a bad day. When I get bad days I have different responses. Sometimes I become morose and there’s little that can drag me out of a low. Sometimes I distract myself with loads of other work. There are times I even talk it through with Jesus. As we sit and talk it through […]
Read More Questions and StuffIt doesn’t require someone whose paranoid or an alarmist to be aware of the fact that the world we live in is not always safe. Indeed news bulletins often point out just how unsafe we are whether by reports of burglaries or kidnappings, the viewer is brought into a keen understanding that anything can happen. […]
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