Part 2 – LIVING IN GOD’S FORGIVENESS
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 separate...
Part 1 – LIVING IN GOD’S FORGIVENESS
The Greek word in the Bible translated as "forgiveness" means "to let go", as when a person does not demand payment for a debt. In the Old Testament the cost of forgiveness to the sinner was prominent. In Leviticus 4 & 5 Moses taught the Israelites God's...
LET US RUN WITH PERSEVERANCE
We start our walk with God with the miraculous experience of total unconditional pardon, rebirth and reconciliation with our heavenly Father. What joy, what peace, what lightness of being – how we love Him then. But this is just the beginning of "the...
EYES FIXED ON JESUS
Matt. 14:28-31 says – "Peter called to Him, "Lord, if it is really you, tell me to come to you, walking on the water." "Yes, come," Jesus said. Peter walked on the water towards Jesus. But when he saw the strong wind and the waves, he was terrified and began to...
Training with Christ
The Apostle Paul urges young Timothy to train himself in godliness (1 Tim. 4:7). Interestingly, Paul uses the word "train" from the original Greek word "gymnazo," which means intense training, like professional athletes do. Through Paul, God urges us to train...
CONFIDENCE IN GOD’S FAITHFULNESS – PART 2
Twila Paris sings a song which says - "You (Lord) have been faithful when I have been faithless, Oh UNENDING FOUNTAIN OF GRACE..." Christ is indeed a Fountian of faithful grace and love! What difficulties have you been going through recently in your life? When...
CONFIDENCE IN GOD’S FAITHFULNESS – Part 1
Recently I have been drawn to God's steadfast faithfulness in the book of Daniel. Daniel and thousands of his countrymen were deported by king Nebuchadnezzar, to a foreign land called Babylon, after their homeland Judah was conquered. In Dan. Chapter 1, we read how...
Abraham part 6 – Well of Living Water
While studying the life of Abraham, I was drawn to the fact that wells were springs of life and provision. Hagar was the mother of Ishmael, who was born to Abraham when Sarah became impatient for a child and gave her servant to Abraham to conceive a baby. Sarah...
Abraham part 5 – Instant obedience
Abraham loved his son Ishmael whom Hagar bore, but Isaac was the miracle son Sarah gave birth to, and through whom God was going to increase and bless the nation. Even though Abba Father God also loved Ishmael and blessed him, Isaac was considered the "only"...
Abraham Part 4 – “HERE I AM”
God kept His promise to Abram and Sarah and gave them a son, whom they called Isaac. At this stage of Abram’s life, God had changed his name to Abraham, which means “father of a multitude”. Abba Father God would increase the nation and generations through Isaac. “Some...