Category: Encouragement

  • Overflow with hope..prayer for the week ahead

    Overflow with hope..prayer for the week ahead

    “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15.13 NIVUK Father God we thank you that you are our hope and our hope is fixed on a firm foundation of our…

  • Overflowing…

    Overflowing…

    Overflowing is the word the Lord has brought to my heart at the start of this year. I had a picture whilst in church during our worship time of a waterfall and the Lord spoke to my heart that this was to be a year of overflowing but in ways and in places that we…

  • Advent Love letter for you..

    Advent Love letter for you..

    My friend Jan wrote this letter for me many, many years ago. It blessed me and I hope it blesses you today: A love letter from God From the beginning of time to the end of time – I love you; For the times when you felt that I was far off and distant –…

  • A Deep Deep Deep Joy..a repost

    The advent theme this week is Joy so there are naturally a number of posts being written on the theme of “joy” and given it’s the season “to be joyful” I thought I would “joy-n” in…🤪 Do you need some joy in your hearts today my friends? A re-discovering of the joy in knowing the…

  • Joy in the hard times…

    Joy in the hard times…

    In this season of life: Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, YET I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be…

  • Peace this Advent

    Peace this Advent

    Tomorrow we light the second Advent candle which represents peace. “Then the Lord said to him, “Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die.” So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it The- Lord – Is -Peace. Judges 6:23-24 JEHOVAH SHALOM Shalom Peace means rest, harmony, wholeness, completeness,…

  • Hope this Advent

    Hope this Advent

    Continuing the theme of hope this week as represented by the first candle of Advent. I have come to realise 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,…