God expects more from Us!

 A den of merchants and Robbers?

One has always felt uncomfortable with the Sunday book store in the Church and despite the need for it, it becomes a king of religious hypocrisy when we are encouraged by some to keep the sabbath and feel okay trading in the confines of fellowship!

Jesus was not to pleased with what He saw in the Temple in Jerusalem, the abuse of the religious leadership turning a Holy building into another outlet for business and His words spoken that they were in relation to what the poor suffering Prophet Jeremiah had to put up in his day!

God wants us to be a people of applied faith, not Church going and not in a religious system of rules and rituals #, but to free in the indwelling holy Spirit to be alive and active, with no fear of people? Respecting the laws of the lands that we are in as long as they do run contrary to God's laws!

Jeremiah 7:3-11,  Matthew/Levi 21:13,  Luke 19:45-46,  Hebrews 4:12,  Revelation 2:19.

Living in the Age?

 When the religious and the leaders tell us Lies!

With God there is never anything new under the sun when it comes to human failures, times may pass for a long time, but it all just comes around again and again for another generation to deal with?

Today many Church leaders have lost their way, but not because of external pressure, but their own choice in leading millions astray in false ideas and doctrines, trying to justify one sin so they can cover up their own lack in what ever area that Satan has tempted them in!

We are up against it, so that is why we need the holy Bible to read and study and prayer to get our guidance without needing any intermediary?

Jeremiah 5:30-31,  2 Corinthians 11:13-15,  Colossians 2:8,  2 Timothy 4:3,  2 Peter 1-2.

Joe Biden and Police Reform!

 More of the Same?

One is hoping for justice and reform in the United States in relation to the hundreds of black people that get murdered by the police across the states each years and the years before?

George Flyodd has become and International symbol of U.S. Police brutality and yet one cannot be too sure if the new President will keep his word and we see that only white people are allowed to right and invade the Capitol?

But justice will come in some form as many believe the United States is in decline, and Donald Trump made it happen, since no one any longer listens to the U.S.?

It is a sad situation, but this is the way that leaders go with power, they exploit and abuse it and justify sin, while claiming to be many things that they will never be! Prayer will help us and fighting in congress or what ever parliament that is yours to do so without violence?

Exodus 23:2,  Psalm 45:4,  89:14,   Isaiah 59:4,  14,   Amos 5:7,  John 16:8,   Ephesians 6:14. 

Don't Panic?

An opportunity to Reflect!

This is not a great or good situation to be in at this time, with many dying around us but it is a time when we can reflect on what God is doing for us?

Not all is lost and much can be gained, being with family may rebuild lost bonds or show us the worth of our relationships that may have been hidden by the busyness of our hectic lives?

In our reflection we get to be parents of our children helping them to faith through games and others from the Bible, if not ourselves improving our prayer time and study and praising God with the music that we have gathered over the time of our conversion!

1 Chronicles 16:10,   Psalm 5:11,   31:7,   63:11,   89:16,   149:5,   Proverbs 24:17,   Isaiah 12:3,  Luke 15:10,   Romans 5:11,  Philippians 3:3,  1 Peter 1:8,   Revelation 19:7.

Love and Forgiveness? One.

Lacking Today!

Forgiveness would help solve many issues today in our world and society, and it is lacking on an individual, national and idealistic level! Our world is full of rights, civil, political and judicial, but nothing ever really seems to get sorted?

People lack trust in the selfishness of a want, must have society that demands more and more tat? Tech is out of date the minute we use it, designer clothing is nothing more than some ones name of a third world produced product!

Where do we stand in all of this, with Gods dynamic faith?

Prayer is good and we need it, practicing charity and doing good works, volunteering does make a change! 

But preaching the gospel and telling others about what Jesus has done for us is the best of all, because it sows seeds that will change lives, today, tomorrow, next year!!!!

Psalm 130:4,  Ephesians 1:7,   Colossians 1:14.

Acid Attacks. One.

Three year old Attacked!

The depravity of the human heart has no bounds to its wickedness, this is the first reported attack on a child of this age and it is not clear what the motive was, if there really can be one!

We have covered this subject before, but it is one that needs to be reconsidered in relation to its continuation in the U.K., where the police lack the means to fight crime and this is playing into organised crime?

Prayer for believers is key, witness of Jesus for those who have come out of gangs is essential, working with the community to try to mediate and to rid our street of this hatred!

Genesis 6:5-7,  Numbers 16:26,  Psalm 1:1,  Matthew 13:49,  2 Corinthians 7:10,  2 Peter 2:7,  3:17.

Summer Opportunities? One.

Prayer and Witness!

This is a great time of the year to share our faith with others and also to start something new in our prayer lives?

Good weather and holidays brings people out and there is almost unlimited opportunities for us to start a conversation, make new friends and listen to others problems, before we take not and go home to pray or share with our fellowships!

We will be rejected by some, but others will want someone to listen to their situation as someone listened to ours that lead us to faith in Jesus!

Psalm 145:2,  Proverbs 15:29,  Matthew 6:1-4, 6,  Romans 12:2, 12,   Philippians 1:19,   Hebrews 10:10.

EASTER. One.

Garden of Tears.

If you ever get the opportunity to visit the Holy land on one of those Church tours, this is one place worth visiting! It is not much, but for believers it is great place to remember the cost that Jesus paid for us, even the shedding of tears to blood and that well before the Cross/stake/tree!

Jesus went to pray on that little hill and He took His Disciples, of course he knew the sequence of events that were to follow! He knew those loyal men were weak and physically tired and would fall asleep! He knew what Judas was up to and the men of violence were on their way!

With this we open the events of three days that have changed the world, because of the so many individuals who lives like our who have been changed for evermore! The question is what are you going to do with this opportunity to seek, confess, and repent of your failure?

Knowing that a loving unconditional God will forgive you and never bring to book again that sin?

Luke 22:39-47,   John 12:27,   18:1-9,   Romans 8:32,   Hebrews 5:7.

Irma and 9/11.

Today is the 16th Anniversary of 9/11!

Meanwhile as one disaster is remembered another is ending hopefully with the monster storm Hurricane Irma, which has killed well over 50 people so far across the Caribbean and Florida?

Irma has been bad, but it has ben nothing like this eventful day in New York 16-years ago, which left over three thousand people dead, when two commercial airlines where hijacked and crashed into the twin towers!

Many people will ask why, why do these things happen? Some are the results of bad foreign policy and broken promises, while other could be blamed on the continued ignorance of burning fossil fuels that are messing up our weather?

These things are bad, but what is even worse is not knowing God and Jesus of Christmas came to set all free from the darkness!

Deuteronomy 29:22,  31:17,  Proverbs 3:25,  Jeremiah 16:10,  Luke 13:4.

Prayer?

Many Kinds!

God is not limited to hearing us cry out to Him, to give thanks, to praise Him! Humanity likes to jeer God and make Him small and far away, to undermine the people of faith as nutters, weaklings losers?

Prayer does help in our times of need, wither we are praying for our own situation or that of another!

Born-again believers know already that our relationship with God, through Jesus His one and only Son allows us to see the miracles, the impossible at work all the times and everyday!

Our God is near and not limited, He answers in His time and He gives what is needed to meet each situation!

Genesis 13:8,  19:7-8,  Exodus 10:17,  Job 42:8,  Psalm 5:2, Matthew 6:9,  Romans 8:26,  2 Corinthians 13:7,  2 Thessalonians 3:2,  Hebrews 13:8,  3 John 1:2.

In times of Trouble? Two.

Believers have it Tough!

The world always thinks to be a Christian, to be born-again is for the losers, the weak? But we know that the truth. it is the world who are the weak, cowardly losers!

This is proved by their refusal to believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the forgiveness of their sins by a merciful God, who they need to repent too, as once we too did!

It is hard to be a believer, because we will get troubles from the darkness of this world and Satan! But we have the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, who strengthens us daily to rebuke the devil in Jesus name to pray for others, to forgive them and to love without hate!

It is a tall order, but its rewards far outstretch anything this world could ever give us!

Ephesians 3:16,   Matthew/Levi 6:13,   Philippians 4:13.

Sinning. Part-Two.

Lead us not into Temptation.

Jesus said, 'That it was not what we eat makes us dirty, but what is conceived in the human heart!'

Satan/The Devil knows all about us, since it was He who deceived our mutual grandmother Eve in the Garden of Eden so long ago! He knows that sin binds us to wants, food, pleasure, lust, power, money, all the weaknesses of the human nature.

Jesus was no exception to being attacked by His arch enemy Satan, when He was tempted out in the desert! But Jesus leaves us this example and knowledge along with that bases of prayers to build upon, that we can stand up to His evil devices and his various agents who seek if we are believers to lead us astray?

Genesis 3:1-5, Matthew 4:1-18, 6:13, Mark 7:15-20, Luke 11:4, 2 Corinthians 11:14, James 5:7, 17.

STAMINA. Part-Two.

Can you keep up with It?

Endurance marks out the calling and the life of Born-Again believer, we are always pressing on for the promised prize. We cannot afford to look back, because we already know our past life is of no worth only Jesus now is our destiny.

Keeping it daily is through reading the bible and applying it in to our own situations, we also pray and study the word to get more strength.

If we do not do these things and retain this knowledge of Jesus Victory in our lives we will fade away and may be in danger of loosing our hope of Salvation. It is tough to be a Christian, because we say, 'No constantly to what the world says it wants.'

Psalm 37:24,  28,  Jeremiah 32:40,  Hosea 12:6,  Matthew 10:22,   John 6:39-40,  Galatians 5:1.