Poems and Words of Faith

Reading my Bible Devotional this morning it was  Acts 14 v 8-20

The man had been lame since birth. He had never ever walked. He was listening to all Paul was saying. What was different about this man from some people that were there listening? He had faith.

Paul saw that and said Stand upright on your feet. Now this man who had never walked immediately obeyed Paul and got up and began to walk. How amazing is this. He obeyed and God healed him. What would have happened if he hadn’t had that faith to believe. What would of happened if he had faith but for some reason didn’t follow it through? He would never have had the joy of healing, of walking on Gods earth and knowing the Lord. His life was changed forever because he beleived, obeyed and trusted God.

How many of us have been wanting to do something new, or see that miracle youve been waiting for or go places that you beleive God is calling you to or do things that you beleive God has put on your heart but you just dont follow it through? You beleive God is asking you to do this or that but you dont obey, you dont follow it through. Think of what you will miss.  Dont let the opportunity pass. Grab it and see where God leads you.

How many of you dont know the Lord and want to , you know or feel that God is there , you have heard of Him, people you know follow Him, you might even have heard Him calling and knocking at your hearts door  but you just cant quite follow it through. After all what if i am wrong? Dont let another moment go by without finding out. Dont waste another precious moment of this life wondering. God loves you.

Go for it.

Reading my bible notes today it was about Moses.You remember the story of how Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh to ask him to let Gods people go. Today was about the darkness in the Land.for 3 days but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.

Praying afterwards and thinking upon this I had a picture come to my mind. A person was walking down a path that stretched out in front of them. The light was on them making each step visible  but all around them was darkness. In that darkness ‘things’ were trying to grab that person , reaching out trying to touch them.

My first reaction was could this be a picture of us as Christians. We are walking in the light, Christs light and the dark is all around us always. The devil is always trying to grab at us and trip us up. Cause us to look to him instead of God, to look at the dark and not the light. To cause us to sin and rebel against our Heavenly Father but then I had another thought.

We as Christians are in Gods light, we are all walking down the path of life were God is with us , guiding us and calling us to be Christ’s light to those around us. Maybe that picture was of people in our lives that are in the dark. That don’t know God , that are trying to find him. Could be people at work, friends, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters? Anyone? They need to find God and may be we are the only Christians they will meet, will Christ’s love and light shine through us? Will we share the Gospel with those we meet and love?

I came home from work tonight and I just love the way God confirms things sometimes. I picked up another book that I read on daily notes in the evening and yes you’ve guessed it , it was about Dark and Light. (Dr David Jeremiah – Hope for Today devotionals) Jesus when He went to heaven passed His light to His followers. You are (now) the light of the world….. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven (Matt 5v14-16) Every Christ like word and deed from you dispels an equal amount of darkness. Let Christ shine through you today.

So let’s be obedient to God and let His light shine in this dark world through our words and actions. Let’s share Gods light and love where ever we go.

These days we are so busy with our lives, rushing here and there, jobs to be done, places to go. Do we ever take the time to sit and be with God?  I’m not talking about a quick prayer in the morning , a quick look at our daily bread notes before work or a prayer before you go to sleep I mean taking time out of your day, to give it to God and Be Still. Just to be with Him.

Being still before God and spending time with Him is something we should do every day for many reasons. One reason is  when the storms of life come our way it helps us to get a better perspective of the situation and see it from Gods view to also know that God has the situation under His control that we have nothing to fear. It also gives us peace and joy in the storms. The storms may rage around us but we are free from the effects of them because we know that our Heavenly Father is with us.

Being still before God and spending time with Him shows God that we care. We care that He is there, we care that He wants to spend time with us, we care because God has given us Himself and he wants an intimate relationship with us and spending time with Him will help the relationship grow in so many exciting ways..

Being still before God and spending time with Him also means that we surrender to Him. We let go and give it to God. We rest in Him knowing that He will provide the help, strength, peace and all that we need.

Can you imagine it,  how amazing this is that Creator God, Almighty God, Alpha and Omega  wants to spend time with us?

Why? Why would He? Because He loves us. He went to great lengths to restore us and bring us back into a relationship with Him through His son our Lord Jesus Christ. If we believe in Him, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and our relationship with our Heavenly Father is restored. We are His children and He lovingly awaits us to come and spend time with Him. Amazing.

Doesn’t this get you excited?  He is waiting to meet with us, if we just take the time to come before Him and Be Still.  I get really excited about meeting with Him. To see where he is leading me or what He wants to reveal about something. Sometimes its just about being in His Presence.

Take the time to Be Still and know that He is God. You don’t need to say anything just be still. You will then just know that you are in the presence of God. It takes time, don’t rush. He may speak to you, He may not but you will know you have met with Him.  He may give you a verse or bible passage. He may say something to you. You may feel a little uneasy at first and not sure if it’s you or God but you will soon know if it’s from God. Eg He won’t say something to you that is contradictory to his word.

God does speak to us today, countless people will testify to this. He has spoken to me by giving me scripture. He may ask me something, on 3 seperate occasions He asked me the same question. He has spoken words to me that I needed at that time. He has shown me amazing things through these times. Scripture becomes clearer, it will come alive at that particular time even though you may of read it so many times before. I have  written things down things that He has shown me He has done or will do.  It’s just amazing.

Lets spend the rest of our lives getting closer to Him, Knowing him more, loving him more, hearing him more and fulfilling His plan for us. To share the gospel with others, to pray for others, to be Christs hands, feet and mouth piece on this earth. To see people come to Christ, to heal the sick and do all that He has commissioned us to do.

To do this we need to grow more and more like His son and we can only do that when we spend time with Him, read His Word, trust Him and grow in Him

God bless

Well Christmas is nearly upon us. Decorations have been done for ages, presents almost done. Food shopping still to get?  So much hustle and bustle around the place as people are beginning to panic now as they worry if they have got everything.

It is a magical time of year though. Christmas carols being sung, Christmas plays and pantos. Children getting so excited , in fact the adults do too, I know I do. However, we need to take time to stop and remember the ‘reason for the season’, as they say.

Have you remembered? Have you remembered what Christmas is all about?  What we are really celebrating?

Lets not forget the greatest gift of all.

God who made everything, the universe,  all that is in it,  you and me, He loves us all so  much more than you can ever imagine.

In fact He loves us so much He came into the world as a baby and ultimately to save us and this is what we celebrate at Christmas.

You see there was a time when we walked the earth in peace with God. God gave us authority over the earth to look after it  and have communion with God there was peace and all was well but we were tempted by satan and as Adam and Eve obeyed satan they gave their authority to him. So he became the ‘god of this world’ Sin then entered the world. There is now death, sickness, wars, famines, earthquakes, hatred, etc. you name it. But by Jesus coming into the world, dying for our sins and being raised to life and seated at the right hand of the Father, He has given us (all those that  believe in Him, that are born again into Gods kingdom) authority and power in Jesus name.  So He has saved us from sin, death and the kingdom of darkness. That’s worth celebrating.

So, thankfully God didn’t leave us in this mess we were in , unable to help ourselves  Jesus came as the greatest gift ever , the gift of Himself. He showed us how to live by example. How to have eternal life with Him instead of without. That’s what we celebrate this Christmas . Our Saviour was born.

Do you know that there were over 300 prophesies about Jesus , including his place of birth, life and method of His death, even the amount of money he would be betrayed for.

I don’t know about you but He is everything to me. He has shown me and countless others His love, Grace and Mercy. He has turned my world around , He has forgiven me , restored me , always been there for me, and  I have a relationship with Him and to me  Jesus  is the GREATEST gift of all.

Have  a wonderful Christmas.

Well here goes my first ever blog post !!  I believe God has put this on my heart to do so here goes. I have thought of the subject of trials as it happens to us all and felt led to share this.

I dont know about you but life certainly has its ups and downs. We have all had our fair share i am sure.   Being a Christian does not make you immune to illness, hardship, grief and pain but it does mean that through all those things we have a loving Heavenly Father who will see us through and lift us up in those times. Holding us tightly as we make each step to restoration. As I share with you in my Blogs from time to time what God is revealing to me to say,  my prayer is that this will help us on our journey, that we will grow ever closer to God and realise again that He is the one that sustains us, helps us, guides us and loves us more than we can ever imagine.

When the dark times come and you feel alone, desperate, afraid or not sure where to turn, thankfully God is there. We need to talk to Him in prayer,  tell Him how we feel, be honest with Him. Ask for His help. You see when trials /problems/ill health/debt etc come we tend to spend more time thinking of them (which is natural I know i have been there) but that makes them become even bigger,  rather than taking  them to God first.  By taking them to God we need to leave them with Him and trust Him to make a way because He will. He will bring that hope and healing that we so desperately need. We need to turn our eyes to Him, praising Him, worshipping Him, reading His word as we usually do but more so in times of trouble.  All these things  take our eyes off us and the situations  and onto Him.

How do i know this. Well I have been through quite a few tough times and God has never let me down. I went through a tough time recently and I found myself looking at the situ, not seeing a way out and feeling really low.  I prayed to God to help and He did. He brought friends to my side who prayed, sent texts every day and spent time with me. How i thank God for them.

I told the Lord that I trusted Him, I didn’t understand what was going on but i trusted Him. I praised Him and worshiped Him from my heart. In fact I sang worship songs all day long, read His Word and spent more time than usual with Him.

Things haven’t changed yet but I have. The problems are still there but He has them.  God will supply all our needs, He has promised us that so lets hold onto Him.  Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding and in ALL your ways acknowledge Him.

So wherever you find yourself today, turn to Him, give it all to Him, ask Him to reveal the what you can do or who can help and He will. Spend time with Him that is the most important thing to do . Rest in Him, Sit with Him Praise Him and in His grace and love He will be there.