Intimacy with God
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Be Holy
I marvel at the amazing things that elite athletes are able to ...
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Peace All Around
I wonder, what battles are you facing at the moment? A struggling ...
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The Promise of Peace
There are many things in this world that promise so much – career, ...
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Even More Grace
It seems these days that a wife leaving her husband for another or a ...
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More than Sufficient
Have you ever jammed your finger in a door? Your day was just going ...
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Transformed by God’s Glory
I wonder, as you look back on your life, what are the things – the ...
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God’s Glory Come Nigh
There’s something about a sunny day that just lifts your spirits. ...
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Follow the Leading of the Holy Spirit
Allowing someone else to lead us, in this day and age, is for many an ...
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Please the Spirit
Okay, can I ask you today to take a deep breath and ask yourself: How ...
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What’s in a Name?
Do you, like me, sometimes struggle to remember a person’s name two ...
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You Can Still Win the Race
You and I will possibly never be the fastest, smartest, or most ...
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Will You Compromise?
Sometimes we’re faced with an ethical dilemma. On the one hand, you ...
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Where do You Stand?
Have you ever noticed how, when life’s toddling along well, you ...
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The Rulers Losing Their Power
If you look around the world, there are more than a few despots ...
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Strength, Love, Refuge
Do you know how sometimes you meet someone and they seem to have ...
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I Love You Lord!
There can scarcely be anything more frightening than an earthquake. ...
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New Words, Old Words
Whatever language you happen to speak at home, new words and phrases ...
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Have a Pure Heart
We’ve all had that experience when someone not only does something ...
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Is God Even Listening?
Have you been asked for advice and, as you were sharing your ...
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Eyes to See
It’s really quite striking, when you stop and think about it, how ...
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Humbling Yourself
We’ve been chatting this week about achieving greatness – true ...
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Shifting Our Priorities
Serving others is something that, on the one hand, we know we need to ...
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A Radical Rethink
A lot of the bickering that goes on in this world is about who’s ...
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Holiness 101
Can I ask you today just to stop and think … what’s the highest ...
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Sanctification 101
Cleaning up your act, whatever act you’re needing to clean up in ...
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Have You Ever Wondered, Why …
Have you ever wondered why sometimes the joy you once had, the joy ...
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A Cleansing from Within
When you stop and think about it, we know instinctively that our ...
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Be Open to God
When we head down the wrong path, when we know that what we’ve done ...
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You Can Rely on God’s Integrity
What do you do when you find yourself in a tough spot feeling ...
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The Evidence of Your Faith
Have you ever wondered whether people notice that you’re different? ...
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The Recipe for Peace (5)
Peace is about more than dealing with the stuff that happens to you ...
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The Recipe for Peace (1)
So many things in life can rob you of your peace. But right up there ...
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In the Eye of the Storm
The stuff that life throws at us sometimes can be downright ...
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What God Won’t Bless
There are times when God feels a million miles away. And that’s ...
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Why Bother with Holiness?
Being good, doing good, can be hard going. When everyone else is ...
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Is the Bible a Fairy Tale?
Let’s be honest, this thing those Christians call “the Bible” ...
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Your Strength Comes from God
There are times in life when no matter how hard we try, how much ...
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Don’t be Trapped
The thought of being trapped, in whatever form that may take, is a ...
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A Greeting from Sosthenes
We live in a world that focuses on the superstars … on the ...
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How to Recognise a Lie
When you think about it, our ability to recognise a particular path ...
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God is Near
It can be difficult to take God’s promises on face value – ...
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Travelling Into Fear
So, when fear strikes, how do you respond? On the one hand, the ...
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When You’re Shaking
Fear is far more common, far more widespread, far more prevalent that ...
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Waiting Differently
How much do you enjoy waiting for things to happen? Something good, ...
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Praise Him with Passion
Can I ask you, when was the last time you praised God? And when you ...
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Take Your Sabbath Rest
Welcome to Saturday, the day upon which God commanded His people to ...
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Keep Going
When we’re fed up, we want to give up. Our strength fails, our eyes ...
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Press Into God
Okay, so you’re out there slogging away, working your little heart ...
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Teach Me
One of the greatest signs of humility that any of us can ever have is ...
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How You Travel Through Life
How far do you travel each day? Perhaps you commute to and from work. ...
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Know the Unknowable
Do you ever look up at the vastness of the night sky and marvel at ...
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This One Thing for You
Yep, it’s the weekend – hooray! Hopefully the chance for a bit of ...
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If Only …
Each of us has to decide many times each day whether to do good ...
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Bow Down to the Lord
Every now and then, God chooses to speak to us through some ...
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Don’t Forget To …
Our own sense of wellbeing tends to go through stages. Sometimes with ...
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You Can Depend on Him
Emotions are a huge part of who we are, absolutely. But when they go ...
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Love is Never Wasted
Have you ever done someone a good turn and then been miffed when they ...
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What God Really Wants From You
Like anything, Christianity can be turned into a lucrative business. ...
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Something to Remember
It’s almost a given that when we’re facing adversity, fighting ...
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The Perfect Landing
I wonder, when you pray – and the research tells us that most ...
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God Encourages Those Who are Troubled
The word ‘affliction’ isn’t a particularly nice one. It’s ...
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Make Yourself Pure
God makes some powerful promises to those of us who put their trust ...
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To Whom Can You Compare Him?
So it’s Sunday, for some the end of one week, for others the ...
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The God Who Carries You
In a world that revolves around success, it can be difficult to shake ...
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A Plan for Tomorrow
It’s funny, isn’t it, that although we know that one day we’ll ...
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Satisfaction for Your Soul
Contentment. Satisfaction. Fulfillment. Those three words speak of ...
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How to be Strong
Paradoxically, we need strength the most when we feel at our weakest. ...
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An Instrument of the Lord
The rescuing hand of God is a constant theme throughout the Old ...
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What is Good?
We live in a world of sharp contrasts. Black and white. Tall and ...
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How Will You Know?
You always need to be wary of those who claim to have some special ...
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On to Greater Things
When troubles come your way, do you ever wonder what part God played ...
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Give the Lord a Chance
Imagine that you’re digging for diamonds. Month after month of ...
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Know God’s Will
The single greatest malady amongst God’s people in many parts of ...
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Finding Rest
You don’t often hear people in my position talk about the fact that ...
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God’s Call
Anyone who’s ever set out to do something for God will know how ...
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God Will Stop at Nothing
Have you ever found yourself wallowing in the consequences of your ...
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Satisfied in Dry Lands
We all yearn for a sense of deep satisfaction with our lot in life; a ...
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Is Your Faith Growing?
So, how do you know whether or not your faith in God is growing? Is ...
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The Power to be Like God
You, no doubt, have days when you feel absolutely invincible – on ...
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An Awesome Responsibility
It seems to be one of those fundamental laws of the universe that ...
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Having a Curious Mind
Have you ever felt that you’re living life in a rut? You know what ...
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True Maturity
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like it when other people ...
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Back to Job
It’s easy to be hopeful about your future when the going’s good. ...
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Protracted Singleness (1)
Whilst most people end up married, that’s not the case for ...
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Martha or Mary
I regularly have days that are so full, so busy in doing the things I ...
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Guilt and Anxiety
Guilt over the mistakes you’ve made in the past and anxiety over ...
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Have a Drink
Have you ever woken up one day and found your faith in Christ to be ...
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Encourage Each Other
No doubt you’ve had the experience of feeling a bit down, and then ...
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Know Christ, Like Christ
As a father, there have been many times over the years when I’ve ...
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God Enjoys You
Have you ever wondered to yourself, “What brings God joy?” I ...
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The Time is Now
How often in our lives have you and I put off something that we know ...
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God Shows His Love for Us
Here we are … It’s Good Friday. The worst and the best day on the ...
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The Jealousy of God
Might I ask you today, what’s the one thing in your life that ...
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The Oil of the Spirit
Have you ever been sunburnt? I remember as a child, a few times being ...
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Don’t Grow Stale
Every relationship in our lives at some point is at risk of growing ...
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I Messed Up – Now What?
When was the last time that you felt ashamed of what you’d done? ...
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The Tip of the Iceberg
Success is a word that we all like to embrace. After all, who ...
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Enjoy without Complaining
You know how it is … out of all the important things in your life ...
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Lend Without a Return
In this day and age, the deal is that when you invest in something ...
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One Soul at a Time
If you’re someone who joins me daily in this Fresh devotional ...