If.....

Someone once said "If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin". This life can be full of what if's? The "if" can be the stumbling block.

Cross formula....

3 nails + 1 cross = 4 given. Nice!

an unending Kingdom!

PCC now meets at 6am each Thursday to interceed for our government and all areas of society affected by it's laws and decisions. We also pray for church members, their families and for those in our community who are not in relationship with Christ. We have in particular been seeking the Lord about the mountains of influence eg. health, education, banking, media etc.. Isaiah 2(1 -3) makes good reading as we pray into these spheres of influence. Have a read at them. "...the mountain of the LORD'S house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow into it...". A mountain as a prophetic symbol indicates either a kingdom or a government which amounts to the same thing due to the fact that a kingdom is a form of government. We understand from scripture that the Kingdom of God knows no end!(Luke 1:33).

God is with us....

Many people ask, "How do I come to terms with my times of suffering, times when it has sometimes felt like God has left me and I have been all alone?" Well, whilst as Christians we are not immune to suffering, God can draw positive things out of our suffering (Romans 8:28). Even if this does not make full sense of our suffering, it does bring a positive dynamic from it, as to some extent it cancels out the sense of waste we often feel from “the years that the locusts have eaten” (Joel 2:25). In Psalm 23 the Lord promises to be with us or as one commentator put it - God our Shepherd "confronts" the pain and trial with us! We were never meant to go it alone. Lean on Jesus today. Whatever the situation, Abba God is with us.

Power for living

2 Peter 1:3-4 says "3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires". These verses really grab me. Father God has supplied us with His power and knowledge to withstand temptation. Having been implanted with the divine nature we have been given the desire and power to do God's will.

Faith is not a wish!

I quote from Mick Turner's article on faith, "Faith isn’t so much about having a big idea. Faith isn’t about how much belief you can muster up. Faith isn’t like spiritual childbirth, where you experience the pain of labor. It is not about trying to create the future by believing it will be so. Faith is not the Christian version of a wish. It is not about speaking something into reality. Faith is different. Faith is about substance. It’s about knowing what has not happened will certainly happen. Not because you will make it happen but because God has promised it will be so. It is a conviction about things unseen. It is the promise of a better world, a better future – a better you".

Led into darkness to find the light!

Exodus 20:21 says "And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was". While the people continued to stand afar off - afraid of God's wrath, Moses drew near unto the thick darkness; he was made to draw near. Moses of himself would not have ventured into the thick darkness if God had not called him, and encouraged him, and, as some of the Rabbins suppose, sent an angel to take him by the hand, and lead him up. So it is with our Christian journey that we are sent into dark situations just to find that we have been called there to discover the light of God's amazing presence.