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...