March 25, 2014

Luke 21:34 Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.

There is a lot more that we have to take care of other than making sure we are fit, having a party and living to the max!

Our bodies are vessels in which our souls live. It is the soul that we have to take care of because that is what God has created and what will live forever.

Excessive eating and drinking may feel good at the time but imposes a great stress on our bodies which gets us (our souls) down and we need much more to bring us out of those downers.

Focus on where we will end up with our souls and not where our bodies will end up…

March 24, 2014

Proverbs 25:14 Whoever falsely boasts of giving is like clouds and wind without rain.

If you want to go down the route of boasting about all the good things that you do when you have not actually done them, you are following in the footsteps of the evil one.

If you promise all manner of great or good things and never actually deliver on those things, then you are doing exactly what Satan does to us every day.

Just as Satan tempted Christ in the wilderness, we too will be tempted to follow his lies and deception. Look at them as being those clouds that never bring rain… useless and empty!

March 23, 2014

Matthew 25:40 And the King will answer and say to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’

One of the best thing about having true friends is seeing them get involved in your life with others. If someone does something good to me, I know my true friends will take note and respond accordingly.

When I moved from Africa to England I lost contact with a lot of good people; slowly but surely I am getting back in contact with them and amazingly seeing how God has changed each of them.

God it at the centre of all of our lives; give Him the control He deserves as He tries to encourage us all to live together in His arms!

March 22, 2014

Psalm 22:22 I will declare your name to my people; in the assembly I will praise you.

We often think about how we should tell others about Christ, how we should go out to the unbelievers and spread the Gospel and how we should get more people into church…

But what about the people who are already in churches; many of them need encouragement and support. Far too often people ignore what is in front of them for the bigger picture.

Talking about God to people in your church may sound like it should be the normal thing to do, but how much of that is actually done between fellow worshippers?