Tag: favour

  • 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 26/2

    Prayer for the week ahead 26/2

    “Rescue me from my enemies, my God; Set me securely on high away from those who rise up against me. Rescue me from those who practice injustice, and save me from men of bloodshed. But as for me, I will sing of Your strength; Yes, I will joyfully sing of Your faithfulness in the morning,…

  • The Ruler’s Sceptre

    I have been thinking about sceptres recently and what they symbolise. Most definitions describe a sceptre as a rod or staff used by a sovereign ruler as a symbol of their authority and power. In the story of Esther, we read that she dresses herself in her royal robes and goes to the King’s throne…

  • Feeling invisible

    Do you sometimes feel invisible? That people just don’t notice you. A visiting preacher from Turkey once told us that Mission begins with Seeing. In chapter 2 of the story of Ruth we read in verse 5 – Boaz said “whose young woman is this?” Ruth who was a foreigner, a stranger, a refugee who…