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  • Small but beautiful..

    Small but beautiful..

    It’s amazing to me still how such a small little island that I am blessed to call home has such a varied and beautiful landscape. It’s not only the landscape that varies but the cultures,dialects and customs too as people settle into their own “tribes” and make their mark across the landscape. If you ever…

  • A first time for everything..

    A first time for everything..

    Being away this week has given me an opportunity to do and try a few things for the very first time. I have travelled over the incredible Ribblehead viaduct on a train (see my photo) eaten a Yorkshire curd tart (a curious mixture of pastry, currants and cheese but absolutely delicious) been to a livestock…

  • Prayer for the week ahead..empathy 13/5/24

    Prayer for the week ahead..empathy 13/5/24

    “Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.” Hebrews 4.15-16 NKJV Father in…

  • Mercy, Mercy..prayer for the week ahead 6/5/24

    Mercy, Mercy..prayer for the week ahead 6/5/24

    And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David!”Matt.15.22 NKJV Do you know someone who desperately needs God’s mercy in their life. This is a short prayer that we can pray this week for someone and their situation. Father…

  • Paid in Full….Debt settled

    Paid in Full….Debt settled

    This time next week, I will be on holiday in the Yorkshire Dales which is one of the most beautiful parts of the U.K. I’m really looking forward to the trip. The last time I was preparing to go away on holiday, I shared this post about a thought that came to me whilst ironing…

  • Stirred hearts..

    Stirred hearts..

    There is a little sentence in a passage of scripture in 2 Chronicles that we could easily miss. It says “He (God) stirred the heart of Cyrus”. “In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, the Lord fulfilled the prophecy he had given through Jeremiah. He stirred the heart of Cyrus to put this…

  • Prayer for the week ahead 29/4/24 Trials

    Prayer for the week ahead 29/4/24 Trials

    “We sent Timothy…to strengthen and encourage you in your faith, so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them”. 1Thess.3.2-3 Father God we pray and lift up those of our brothers and sisters in Christ going through trials, persecution and difficult times to…

  • Prayer for the week ahead…22/4/24…Do not forget

    Prayer for the week ahead…22/4/24…Do not forget

    “But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit. But you, beloved, building…

  • Unravelling..

    Unravelling..

    Definitions: to undo, to separate,to free,to disentangle or to break up, to fall apart,to collapse, to go wrong or to solve, to explain, to work out a problem or mystery Unravelling.. This is the word that the Lord has been highlighting as I have been praying with friends. I sense that we are in a…

  • Prayer for the week ahead 15/4/24…saying No

    Prayer for the week ahead 15/4/24…saying No

    “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope – the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus…