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We live in a broken, fallen world. The perfection that God intended got contaminated by sin bringing with it death and destruction, corrupting the image of God in each of us. Now it has to be said that none of this, nothing of the resulting difficulties that are going on in your life, my lifeContinue reading “Navigating storms”

I wonder what comes to mind when you hear the word ‘testify’. The word is often used in a legal sense but it basically means to give evidence, to bear witness. In order to testify to something, in this legal sense, to say that something happened or something is truth, you have to have witnessedContinue reading “Occupying the land”

Many years ago, my mum visited Israel and brought me home a little mat. We always called it my prayer mat but although it has moved with me many times, it has spent most of its life folded up in a cupboard. My mum was a faithful prayer warrior but I always thought this wasContinue reading “Lord, teach us to pray!”

In the last month or two, God has brought up the subject of value several times. Recently, I sat down to contemplate what I feel my values are and got distracted by the question, “What is your value?” In the ensuing conversation, which in reality was me listening to the answer to the question “WhatContinue reading “What are you worth?”

As I write this, I am awake early on Thanksgiving morning in Colorado. I have had these thoughts swirling around in my head for weeks ever since God showed me a rusty key that he said he had given his people. When I asked him what they key was he said it was thanksgiving, thatContinue reading “Gratitude”

Some days I find myself totally full of faith and all systems go, others not so much.  On those ‘not so much’ days, sometimes I have felt the panic literally rising up and have to fight to get it back under the control of my faith in Jesus, and then on other days I feelContinue reading “Standing firm”

This morning I asked God what was on his heart and this was his response: I am saddened by how many of my children are burdened by anxiety and stress due to their circumstances that they are carrying themselves. I am saddened that they are not coming to me but are “soldiering on” alone, weighedContinue reading “Help!”

As I was reading scripture recently, a little phrase kept jumping out at me. It resonates with what I have experienced of God myself. He is the one who leaves nothing to chance, who pays attention to detail and it is one of the things that makes me feel safe, knowing that he has allContinue reading “It’s Not All About You!”

The phrase “hook, line and sinker” comes from the idea that a fish may not just take the bait but could take the hook, the weight and the fishing line too. The phrase is used when someone ‘swallows something hook, line and sinker’, i.e. they are completely taken in, particularly by a deception of someContinue reading “Taking the Bait”