Category: Encouragement

  • Biscuits 🍪

    You’ll be pleased to know this isn’t a post about giving up biscuits (cookies) for Lent but rather about the unusual ways God sometimes gets our attention and speaks to us about big things. I love the fact that the Lord loves to engage with us. He speak to our hearts and sometimes brings a…

  • Surrounded by God

    Surrounded by God

    In the night I awoke with these verses from Psalm 91 in my thoughts and immediately felt a sense of God’s peace and assurance that His arm of protection was shielding me as I was nestled in a place of security. As a mother hen gathers her chicks underneath her for warmth and protection so…

  • No bargain basement in God

    Following on from this week’s post about the good gifts that God has for His Saints, I am going to share a picture which my friend Deb received which may bring some further insight. Deb had a picture of a very large retail store which was stocked full of loads of items on the shelves.…

  • Good gifts from our Father in Heaven

    Hi all, my friend, Heather sent me these encouraging words today which I want to share with you too. I hope you are blessed. I awoke this morning with 2 scriptures which came to my mind quite clearly. The first one was 1 Corinthians 2 verse 9: “No eye has seen, no ear heard or…

  • Open Sesame!

    Those were the words that came to me last night as I was sleeping. I was immediately taken back to the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves. I can remember being fascinated when I was young by the story of Ali Baba and the forty thieves who hid all their treasure in a…

  • A Covering of Love

    When Adam and Eve sinned and stepped outside of God’s glory, God made a covering of animal skins for them because their nakedness made them vulnerable to their changed environment. They had tried to cover themselves with fig leaves but God knew that fig leaves alone would not give them enough covering for warmth and…

  • 00:00 the midnight hour

    I had a dream the other night which was so vivid. In the dream my daughter burst into my bedroom and shouted loudly for me to wake up, wake up..you have overslept. I woke bolt upright in a state of confusion. I couldn’t understand why I had slept through my alarm which I had set…