Behold I will do a new thing!

 Dear Christ followers, we serve an ALMIGHTY and powerful FATHER.  HE can do anything HE wishes.

In HIS amazing kindness and love for us, HE has granted us each our free will.  And we have this in abundance.  Most people choose to use their free will to their own advantage.

However, as children of GOD, we need to use our free will to serve our Mighty FATHER in Heaven.

When we serve the LORD we need to do HIS will.  Our will should not come into the equation at all.  

This is a very hard thing to accept, but in truth, to give the Glory to GOD, we need to die to self and to ask GOD that HIS will be done in our lives, rather than our will.

This is the way to eternal life and happiness.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that YOU can do anything and have done amazing miracles in my life and in the lives of many around the world.  Today I humbly pray that YOUR will be in my life.  Fill me with YOUR Holy Spirit and show me the way YOU want me to live my life to give YOU the glory.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay truly Jesus Blessed today!

Jesus died for our sins!

When Jesus came to this earth, HE added humanity to HIS deity.  JESUS is GOD!

Jesus died without sin on a cross, taking all of our sins and being punished for all the sins we have committed.

As children of GOD who have accepted Jesus as our LORD and SAVIOUR, we simply cannot go on sinning.  It is as if we crucify Jesus all over again.  If we are truly filled with the HOLY SPIRIT, we are convicted by the HOLY SPIRIT every time we sin and we should not continue in our sinful ways.  

GOD knows that we are born sinful, but here, the writer of Hebrews is talking about habitual sin.  

If, for instance, we are given to sinning in a particular manner, repentance means that we recognise our sin and that we turn away from it.  

This does not mean we will not sin again.  What it means is that our habitual sin should now be actively on our minds.  In the knowledge that it is wrong, we pray to the LORD to help us to keep from sinning in the same manner.

If we are not convicted of our sins, it is a sign that we have not truly repented.  

Let us examine our lives and see where we habitually sin and task ourselves to be convicted not to keep doing it again and again. 

Children of GOD are not sinless, we should sin less as our faith grows!

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU for JESUS CHRIST, my LORD and my SAVIOUR.  FATHER fill me anew with YOUR HOLY SPIRIT and I humbly ask that the HOLY SPIRIT convict me every time I sin.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay faithfully Jesus blessed today!

The Glory of the LORD!

 The Glory of the LORD will be established on earth.  In the meanwhile, whilst we wait for the return of Jesus to this earth, we need to know that GOD keeps all HIS promises.

Every prophesy of the Messiah coming to the earth to die as a propitiation of our sins, has been fulfilled.  The prophecy that Jesus will come again and that HE will  rapture HIS Church has not yet been fulfilled, along with the prophesy of the rebuilding of Jerusalem.

However, let us be in no doubt that these events will take place.

What we need to do is to be ready to receive Jesus when HE comes.  Whether HE returns now or in the future.

Are you ready?  If not, then it is time to believe in Jesus and accept HIM as LORD and Saviour of your life.  Repent and be saved.

We may not have tomorrow!

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER I thank YOU that I believe in Jesus Christ as my LORD and my SAVIOUR.  I humbly thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay faithfully Jesus Blessed today!

Do not be conformed to this world!

 Dear Christ followers, as children of GOD we have repented of our sins.  This means we have done a one hundred and eighty degree turn from our sinful lives.

Having faith in Christ and the promise of eternity with GOD in Heaven, we now need to no longer be conformed to this world.

We need to renew our minds and look ahead to storing up for ourselves treasures in Heaven rather than on earth.  No longer can we be living the lives we once used to live.

Now our focus needs to be on our salvation and the salvation of those around us.  We need to worry about serving the LORD and not our "old desires and lusts".

The things of this world should grow strangely dim as we seek to know our FATHER better and form a better more sustainable relationship with HIM.  

Today let us resolve to grow our faith and let us ask our FATHER to indwell us and to overwhelm us with HIS powerful HOLY SPIRIT.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I humbly thank YOU for saving me from my past sinful life.  I pray that today you overwhelm me and indwell me powerfully with YOUR Holy Spirit.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

I lift up my soul to YOU!

My soul belongs to the LORD!  HE is my refuge and my strength.  In HIM alone I place my trust.

And what a privilege it is to be able to call our CREATOR GOD, my FATHER.  

Without Jesus in my life, my life is meaningless and empty.  As my walk with the LORD grows and grows, the things of this world grow strangely dim.

Today I am truly thankful to be child of GOD.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER thank YOU that YOU are my FATHER.  Thank YOU for loving me despite all my sinful ways.  Thank YOU for saving me through the blood of JESUS.  I am so grateful to YOU for everything YOU have done for me.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay gratefully Jesus Blessed today!

YOUR word is a lamp for my feet!

 Our FATHER has given us the Bible.  It is GOD inspired, inerrant and it is the Truth.

It is an instruction manual for life and how to live our lives and how not to live our lives.

The Bible is meant to be our "google" for every problem or every situation that we face.

I have found that the best way to read the Bible, if you have never done so, is cover to cover.  Once you have done that at least four or five times, you can then go to the New Testament and do John first.  It is such a wonderful reference to use when spreading the Gospel. It confirms from the first verse that Jesus is GOD and the Word and the Truth and the Way and the Life. 

My favourite chapters of the Bible change constantly, but Romans is my "go to" book for reading and learning the nature and character of GOD.

I often quote Romans in my writings for my family.  I particularly love Romans 10 verses 9 and 10:

"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved."

Then Romans 8: 28:

"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose."

But truthfully the Bible can light up our world, particularly in these ever darkening times.

Read it dear Christ followers.  And read it often.  It really does give comfort and reveals the nature and character of our FATHER in Heaven!

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, today I thank YOU that I am able to read YOUR word and allow it to be a lamp for my feet and a light for my path.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Every good gift is from GOD!

 Dear Christ followers, we are so blessed and so priviliged to be children of the MOST HIGH GOD. 

Our FATHER never changes.  HE is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.  With our FATHER we always know exactly where we stand.  HE is Holy.  HE is loving.  HE is forgiving.  HE is longsuffering.  HE is slow to anger.  HE is merciful.  He is kind.  He is just. 

Nothing about GOD changes from generation to generation and HIS promises stand.

We can be very certain that Jesus will come again because Jesus came to this earth the first tim,e and it is promised by GOD that HE will return to this earth.

We can be sure that the rapture will take place.  Regardless of whether you believe that this will be pre, mid or post tribulation.  It will happen.

With all of this knowledge, we start to see the character and nature of the FATHER whom we serve.  And our desire to be with HIM for eternity should grow daily as we see the world around us changing as it grows darker and darker.

Let us thank our FATHER that we are HIS children and let us grow in our faith daily through our prayers and the reading of HIS Word.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU that YOU are my FATHER and I worship and adore YOU.  I know that YOU are faithful and that YOUR word is true.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay faithfully Jesus Blessed today!

GOD - ALPHA and OMEGA!

Dear Christ followers, firstly may I wish you all the most Jesus blessed New Year.  I trust that our FATHER will remain uppermost in your hearts and minds.

I have found over the past years that my faith has grown exponentially as I have learned to understand the magnitude of the CREATOR GOD we serve.

As I have understood how I am being refined by our FATHER, I have also come to understand how much refining I needed and how much more I probably still need.

But through it all our CREATOR FATHER has been merciful, loving and kind.  I am eternally grateful to our FATHER for what HE has done in my life.

With that said, I truly wish you all the same depth and breadth of love that I feel for GOD.  HE is my all in all.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER, I thank YOU for the way YOU have refined me over the last years.  I thank YOU for being the ALPHA and the OMEGA.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed in 2024.

Who can fathom GOD?

GOD has set eternity in the human heart.  GOD made everything beautiful in its time.  But who can fathom what GOD has done from the beginning to the end?

Dear Christ followers, how privileged we are at this juncture as 2023 becomes 2024, to be able to call ourselves children of the MOST HIGH GOD.

Our FATHER created everything from the beginning. Our FATHER worked out our salvation.  Our FATHER forgives our sins, all we have to do is to accept Jesus Christ as our Redeemer.

Our FATHER created the seconds, the minutes, the hours, the days, the weeks and the years.  HE gives us 2023 and GOD willing, 2024.

As we enter into the new year, let us celebrate not the new year, but rather what our FATHER has done for us and in our lives.  HE has set eternity in our hearts.  And as believers in Jesus Christ, we know where we are going to spend eternity. 

Therefore, as we close out this year, let us kneel down and worship and praise and give adoration to our CREATOR FATHER.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER thank YOU for 2023 and thank YOU for eternity to come with YOU.  FATHER we adore YOU and we worship YOU and we give YOU all the honour and praise and glory for loving us and for giving us salvation through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, our Comforter.  We thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Bless the LORD oh my soul! Worship HIS Holy Name!

 Dear Christ followers after such a difficult year I realize how faithful and good and kind and loving our FATHER in Heaven is.

Without the love and mercy of our FATHER, this year would have been an absolute disaster on so many fronts.  But our FATHER in Heaven has stayed true and faithful and I owe HIM honour and praise and glory.

Tonight I bow down and worship the HOLY Name of our FATHER in Heaven.

HE has loved me through the darkest times and brought me out of the miry clay to a place where there is hope and a future.  HE has held me tightly in the darkest of times.

All blessings I offer are to my ABBA FATHER and JESUS and THE HOLY SPIRIT.  Truly my REDEEMER lives.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER I humbly thank YOU for YOUR tender mercy YOU have shown to me.  I thank YOU that in my darkest times YOU have held me so tightly in YOUR loving arms.  All through these times, I have known that YOU never left me nor forsook me.  I thank YOU in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay amazingly Jesus Blessed today!

Wait upon the LORD!

 Dear Christ followers, it is so easy to become impatient whilst waiting to hear from GOD.  But we are called to wait upon the LORD.  And we are promised that if we wait upon the LORD, our strength shall be renewed and we shall mount up with wings like eagles.  We will run and not be weary and walk and shall not faint.

So let us resolve to pray to GOD and then to wait for GOD and not to run ahead of ourselves without the guidance of our FATHER in Heaven.

Prayer:  ABBA FATHER thank YOU that I can wait for YOUR guidance.  FATHER I humbly pray that YOU teach me to wait for YOU and to renew my strength whilst I wait for YOU.  I humbly pray this in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ.  Amen.

Stay truly Jesus Blessed today!