It occurred to me recently that there’s something immensely relaxing about being blessed. Knowing how God has blessed me and continues to bless is something that takes a great deal of pressure off. It takes it off because He is more interested in me being a blessing to others to reflect His character. He provides […]
Read More Resting in BlessingWhat’s inside tends to emerge outside under pressure. It is one reason why tough times come to see what’s inside. To be honest, sometimes what’s inside is a whole heap of stressing. Stressing about outcomes that may happen. Stressing about how I will look after things. So to help protect myself I ensure that there’s […]
Read More Confessing About Stressing: When It’s Hard To Be A BlessingI like the concept of being being a channel of blessing. I like it because it recognises that we are part of a flow. I am a recipient of this blessing. God has lavished His love on me, every morning I get to enjoy new mercies if I have the mind and heart to embrace […]
Read More A Little Bit More on Channel of BlessingSo there’s been this theme on the blog recently about being a blessing. It wasn’t planned. It was just a roll that kept rolling and this hymn came to mind in the light of that. I will come back to it soon. Meanwhile consider the song words carefully and see if you are a channel […]
Read More Make Me a Channel of BlessingApparently someone said it is more blessed to give than receive. As that is the case, givers must be hugely blessed indeed. Recently I had the privilege of being a part of a special family birthday brunch. The person celebrating the birthday is not my blood relative, but because of Christ and the impact they […]
Read More The Honour In Being A BlessingPeople are really interested in themselves. Not everyone, but a large number of them. Just ask the right question and immediately they will be off and running about themselves in some capacity. They will hog the conversation and by the end of it almost forget how they started, such is their interest in themselves. That […]
Read More Making Room For Others To Be A BlessingCustomer service operators (CSO). They are quite the breed of humanity. Their task can be thankless. There was one in particular at place I frequent. On one occasion I endeavoured to utilise a voucher scheme and because of technicalities as to how the voucher could be used, I ended up causing a large queue. That […]
Read More Be A BlessingAnd God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 The blessing to be fruitful keeps bugging […]
Read More Be Fruitful – A Personal Consideration (The Fruit Series 05)And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:28 Humans are created to be fruitful. It’s […]
Read More Be Fruitful – The Human Instruction (The Fruit Series 04)But the woman became pregnant, and the next year about that same time she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her. (2 Kings 4:17 NIV) The fourth chapter of 2 Kings does not mention anything about Kings. It does remind us however what it is to live in the sovereign rule […]
Read More The Kings II 04 – The Real King, The Prophet and Provision
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