I want to take the rest of the week to look at an issue I see in the story of Saul. He suffers with a serious self image issue. By exploring his problem with you I would like to show you what we can learn in order not to fail like Saul, but to succeed in life.
The first time […]

Hann

Hannah was in deep anguish, crying bitterly as she prayed to the Lord. And she made this vow: “O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, if you will look upon my sorrow and answer my prayer and give me a son, then I will give him back to you.Â
1 Samuel 1:11 (NLT)

Twice in this passage we see […]

1 Samuel 1:1-9
1 Samuel 1:1-9Hannah’s married life started off so promising, but is now full of dissappointment and tears. Her hearts desire is for children, yet she hasn’t any. Her husband has another wife, Peninnah, who has no problem having children - this only rubs salt into her wounds. Peninnah, from the security of her large family, pours scorn […]

Hi everybody - I am back after a well earned break. I have had a busy yet fulfilling year and now am ready to roll again. Actually to tell the truth I tried starting off a couple of weeks ago and wrote a fab post - then lost it all!! Perhaps God was teaching me […]

 Joshua 1:2
Moses my servant is dead, now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan you and all the people, to the land which I am giving to them - the children of Israel.
Joshua begins his stepping out time. It is his reaching further and growing up time. He is beginning a journey into all that was […]

Hebrews 12:10-13 (New Living Translation)
 For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness.  No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living […]

Hebrews 12:12-13 (Amplified Bible)
So then, brace up and reinvigorate and set right your slackened and weakened and drooping hands and strengthen your feeble and palsied and tottering knees, And cut through and make firm and plain and smooth, straight paths for your feet [yes, make them safe and upright and happy paths that go in the right […]

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Psalm 17:15 (AMP)
 As for me, I will continue beholding Your face in righteousness (rightness, justice, and right standing with You); I shall be fully satisfied, when I awake [to find myself] beholding Your form [and having sweet communion with You].
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I love this verse. It speaks of someone who dreams, eats and sleeps in the presence […]

Psalm 16:11 (NLT)
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 You will show me the way of life,
 granting me the joy of your presence
 and the pleasures of living with you forever.
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This fresh year is full of many surprises, good and bad. We look with hope down the months of the calendar for 2010 (tee hee I have just been sticking stickers all afternoon […]

Psalm 13:3 Restore the sparkle to my eyes , or I will die.
There are many things in this life that make eyes sparkle - Christmas day, fresh snow fall, an engagement ring, the birth of a new baby. The trouble all these things come and go - Christmas day goes so quickly, the fresh snow […]

Romans 8:18
I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth being compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us and in us and for us and conferred on us!
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Life is so tough at times. Sometimes it seems that one things goes wrong after another. Our friends can be […]

Romans 8:14
All who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God
We are no longer slaves, servants, mastered over, separate - we are not even just companions or close friends - we are now part of God’s family. I have been thinking about what is like when families meet up at Christmas time.  […]

‘For all those who are led by the Spirit of God are Sons of God’  Romans 8:14
We are born of the flesh. We know how to eat, sleep, cry, walk, jump and do other bodily functions! How great is it that we who have believed, confessed  and follow Jesus are born of the Spirit of […]

Romans 8:4
So that the righteous and just requirement of the law might be fully met in us who live and move not in the ways of the flesh but in the ways of the Sprit (our lives governed not by the standards and according to the dictates for the flesh, but controlled by the Holy […]

‘but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Sprit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the Holy Sprit’ Romans 8:5
Those who want to live controlled by the Spirit set their minds on and seek godly things. It has nothing to do with the […]