Category: Encouragement

  • Hope..a re-post

    Hope..a re-post

    I realised that hope is not as easy to define as I once thought and can be easily misunderstood. My own hope in the past was not always properly formed and I think when I reflect back was either a false hope, misguided optimism or wishful thinking on my part. So when things did not…

  • Then…

    Then…

    Morning friends, I don’t normally do a re-post at the weekend but this word “Then” keeps coming to mind. Then is such a little word but it is can be so powerful. It’s a word which speaks of change. There is a before and THEN something happens which changes the story. In Genesis, we read…

  • Look the Part…Play your Part

    Look the Part…Play your Part

    A #ThursdayThrowback post inspired by the Olympic Games. Look the Part…Play your part. These are the words that greeted me yesterday on a very large boxed package that arrived with my name on it. It was very exciting to receive such a large parcel through the post and then to unwrap it and read those…

  • Active doers..prayer for the week ahead 29/7

    Active doers..prayer for the week ahead 29/7

    “But one who has looked intently at the perfect law, the law of freedom, and has continued in it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an active doer, this person will be blessed in what he does.”James 1.25 NASB “Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me – put…

  • Not forgotten…

    Not forgotten…

    “I thank my God every time I remember you”. Philippians 1.3NIVUK Is there someone God is bringing to your remembrance today. They are in God’s thoughts and He wants them to be in ours and in our prayers. They are not forgotten. Perhaps such a reminder is an opportunity to thank God for them. To…

  • Prayer for the week ahead..22/7/

    Prayer for the week ahead..22/7/

    “Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Rom.12.12 NIVUK Lord, hear our prayer today. May the joy of our salvation and life with you through you son Jesus, His patient enduring of affliction and suffering and His daily example of prayer to you, His Heavenly Father be fixed in our hearts and…

  • Take My Hand..

    Take My Hand..

    These are the encouraging words that the Lord has spoken to our church fellowship over recent weeks through the Holy Spirit. It has been said separately through various people at different times each bringing Isaiah 41 and particularly verse 10. “So do not fear, for I am with you;do not be dismayed, for I am…