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"But the LORD is faithful, He will establish you and guard you against the evil one." [2 Thessalonians 3:3] Trusting God is easy when times are good; when we are healthy and happy, prosperous and protected. But how do we rest in His sovereignty when we do not understand His plan? Sometimes we can ask God to take something away and instead He will give us the strength to walk through it; and that’s the part of following Jesus nobody really prepares you for. Because sometimes w

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire." [Hebrew 12:28-29]

When we know where we stand with God, we don’t have to spend our lives trying to control where we stand with everybody else.

"Come near to God and He will come near to you." [James 4:8a]

"To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behaviour and perverse speech."

Psalm 71:23: "My lips will shout for joy, when I sing praises to you; my soul also, which you have redeemed." As we grow older, stuff happens: we develop more aches, pains and illnesses and our mobility may not be as good as it once was. We can look back on our younger years when we seemed to breeze through activities with ease and without discomfort or pain, and long for those days of our youth again. Sometimes, as we age, we can feel less useful, and for some it can feel li

The gospel invites us to stop measuring our love for God and start resting in God’s love for us.

"The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the LORD of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest field."

For whoever does not love their brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

Have you ever had a time in your life when you have prayed to God, but He appears silent?

"We love because He first loved us." [1 John 4:19] Recently I was asked by a dear friend, "How do you love someone you cannot see?" It's an honest question and I totally understand this dilemma, because I wrestled with this same question before I truly knew Jesus. A lot of people quietly struggle with this, but often won't admit it, because they think everyone else has figured it out already. They hear believers talking about "relationship with God" yet internally they feel b

Acts 2:1-4: "When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them." At times during the busyness of the day, I long to be alone without phone n

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heaven." [Ecclesiastes 3:1] I love this famous poem describing the different seasons, the facets of life, and the sovereignty of God over all things. Our lives are packaged into different seasons; and no season, whether good or bad, lasts forever. Every season is part of a broader and meaningful plan, ultimately aimed at making "everything beautiful in its time" (Ecclesiastes 3:11). There will, however

When His Spirit is present, we don't just survive, we breathe, we rise, we live free.

God made us specifically to be ourselves and not so we can emulate someone else. We are "fearfully and wonderfully made," and every day of our lives was ordained and known by God.

"Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother and sister has something against you, leave your gift in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift." [Matthew 5:23-24] Haven't we all had a feeling of not belonging? Maybe at school you were the last to be picked for the netball or football team. Or you weren't invited to the "popular must go to" party. Or you were excluded from a lunch get t

At dawn, history shifted forever.

"Hosanna" is not just something we say, it is something we live.