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DECEMBER 2024 When December comes around, we are reminded daily that Christmas is around the corner. In the southern hemisphere everything that can shut down, has closing functions and does shut down. Amid the noise and business it is a challenge for the believer in...

  2 Corinthians 8:9 says, “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.” WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE RICH? This Bible verse is not referring to money or...

  LIVING IN GOD’S WILL / ETERNAL PURPOSE As we have seen, God chose us before the creation of the world to be “united with Christ, holy and without fault in His eyes; adopted into His own family, purchased to be His own people … so we would praise and glorify...

  In the prayer Jesus taught us as his disciples to pray (Matt. 6:9-13), two of the six petitions concern the will of God.  In the first: “May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” we ask God to subdue everyone and everything on earth to His will and...

  “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but  a spirit of power and of love and of sound judgement and personal discipline (abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self- control).” (2 Timothy 1:7) Paul encourages...

  Sometimes, in life, Abba Father God says “No” to our prayerful requests. It is difficult when we cannot get what we want or what we think we need. Sometimes our Lord, in His infinite wisdom, removes something from us that He knows is not good for us, but we...

  I am teaching a series of Revelation in our church, which has been quite a challenge, yet it has encouraged me greatly, that Christ will always remain victorious, and we need not fear the future when we LOOK UP to Him in prayer and trusting faith. In Luke 21...

  All over the world people of every culture and race are facing difficulties, hardships, fear, persecution, loss, hunger, wars, insecurities and distress. Yet the words of Jesus encourage us in John 16:33 - “…in Me you have perfect peace and confidence. In the...

  Busyness is productive. It requires creativity and it produces fruits. But being too busy robs us of our peace and calmness. How do we know the difference between being too busy and being productive? Martha was a do-er who did not want her guests to go hungry....

  In Matt. 17 we read how Jesus was transfigured on a high mountain, and when he and Peter, James and John came down from the mountain; they approached a crowd of people. Verses 17 – 21 state – ““And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and,...

  Paul wrote in 2 Cor. 6:4-10 – “… as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and difficulties… We have been beaten, been put in prison, faced angry mobs, worked to exhaustion, endured sleepless nights, and...

  To recap: God is love. Because He is love, He decided to make us, so that He can express His love. In love, He prepared all we would ever need to live and love as He loves. This included removing sin and the consequences of sin, so that nothing will ever...