Category: Encouragement

  • My Shepherd..true riches

    From my dear friend Heather: The Lord woke me early with the words: “Stay close to the shepherd”. I immediately thought of Psalm 23. I had only read the first two lines and that was when He stopped me. “The Lord is MY shepherd I shall not want” He said I am YOUR shepherd. He…

  • Counting our blessings

    Counting our blessings

    I woke up this morning with these words in my thoughts: Bless the Lord, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction,…

  • Fruit of the Spirit

    My friend Deb had a picture recently when praying of an orchard with lots of ripe fruit on the trees. She then separately had a picture of an old fashioned juice press which presses the fruit. I used to mistakenly think that the fruit of the Holy Spirit in my life was mainly for my…

  • His Righteousness alone

    Colossians 2 v 6 “As you have received Christ Jesus, so walk in Him” My friend Caroline sent me these encouraging words to share with you today. She said; This verse of scripture stood out to me the other day, as I began meditating on it and studying it some thoughts began to crystallise. I…

  • An atmosphere changer…

    My friend Mary shared a story with our prayer group the other day about being an atmosphere changer. Mary lives at home alone and during the afternoon she had gone into her bedroom and found it was freezing, freezing cold. A really Icy cold. She couldn’t work out why as the heating was on in…

  • Advent Adventures

    Welcome to December everyone. I’m looking forward to reading the great stories and words shared on here by my fellow bloggers in December 😊 It’s going to be my Advent calendar each day dipping into WordPress to read the blogs from people all over the world. Thank you to everyone that contributes. Your posts are…

  • Faith for the race

    Our pastor at church encouraged us a year ago to run the race of faith set before us with these words: You can run a lap of faith; One Step at a time – Mark 1 Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will send you out to fish for people.’ At once they left…