Prayer
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Shaken by God
Today we’re finishing up our wee mini-series on persecution – ...
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A Prayer for Boldness
For most of us, persecution isn’t something that we think about ...
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When Prayer Doesn’t Come Easy
Surveys tell us that at least a billion people across the globe have ...
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This is What We Pray (3)
Do you ever feel weak, run down, just … blah? And to make things ...
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This is What We Pray (2)
The difference between right and wrong, good and bad … it’s ...
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This is What We Pray (1)
It’s very rare indeed for anyone, irrespective of what they may or ...
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A Salutary Reminder
Good and evil – we all know the difference … or do we? It’s ...
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God, Are You Listening?
In a world that seems to be a cacophony of competing voices, ...
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Build Yourself Up
As any athlete will tell you, if you want to grow stronger you have ...
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In High Demand
It’s all too easy to fool ourselves into thinking that we’re ...
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The Power of Words
If only we realised the power of our words. I heard someone say once ...
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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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In the Eye of the Storm
The stuff that life throws at us sometimes can be downright ...
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How Much do You Complain?
There’s nothing worse than a whinger, is there? Someone who’s ...
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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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God is Near
It can be difficult to take God’s promises on face value – ...
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Keep Praying
Do you ever feel as though the answers you need just aren’t coming, ...
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The Perfect Landing
I wonder, when you pray – and the research tells us that most ...
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How Not to Fail
Have you ever stepped out to do something for God in faith, all brave ...
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God’s Timing is Perfect
I’ll be honest with you. I haven’t always been that enamoured by ...
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Expect Great Things
I wonder whether when we pray, we don’t sometimes go to God with ...
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How to be Strong
Paradoxically, we need strength the most when we feel at our weakest. ...
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What is Good?
We live in a world of sharp contrasts. Black and white. Tall and ...
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The Lord Gives You Understanding
A friend in need is a friend indeed. There’s nothing like having ...
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The Lord Gives You Power
Have you ever noticed how some people seem to have a spiritual ...
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Faith Above Feelings
Whenever God calls us to do something for Him, there’s a part of us ...
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Seeking Him Out
When adversity slaps you in the face (yet again!) how much do you ...
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Use Your Head
One of the great tensions of following God’s call on our lives is ...
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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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When You Have Nothing to Give
Have you ever felt even just a bit embarrassed at how little you have ...
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Blessed Beyond Measure
What are the blessings that you’re hoping will come your way soon ...
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Almost Dead… But God!
Sometimes God takes us to the brink of the impossible, for us to ...
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Promises Underwritten
So here’s a question for you: Can you trust the promises of God? I ...
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An Audience of One
It’s going on thirty years since my dear old dad passed out of this ...
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My Prayer for You
Today I want to share with you something that I’m incredibly ...
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The Peace of God
Since the beginning of time, anxiety has been a chronic disease ...
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Pleasing God
Perhaps you’re someone who wants to please God, but (and I’m sure ...
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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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Pray for Us
So here’s a useless piece of information: today, this is the ...
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Stepping Out on Solid Ground
Because we’re all human, our hearts are regularly torn between ...
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God Will Never Leave You Short
One of the things that we all should be thinking about at this time ...
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The Greatest Deception
There’s nothing to take the edge off the Good News of Jesus like ...
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The Unfulfilled Promises of God
Let me be honest. I have this secret desire for God to bless me. ...
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I Have Only You
So let me ask you today, what’s at the top of your prayer list? ...
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The Big Mistake
One of the biggest mistakes that we can make in believing in Jesus, ...
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Praying Without Ceasing
So, the question for you today is … in your prayer time, whatever ...
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Black is Still Black
As we look back on the events of history, we tend to judge the things ...
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Criticising Leaders
The more individualistic we become in our outlook on life, the more ...
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A Cry for Help
There are times in our lives when we need God to step in to help. ...
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Making it Through
As we saw yesterday, turning away from what we know is wrong to do ...
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The Greatest Miracle of All
Some would have us believe that following Jesus means wall to wall ...
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Confess Your Doubt
Jesus places rather a high premium on faith – or more specifically, ...
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Free from the Power of Darkness
As darkness creeps across the globe, as this shroud of abject evil ...
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Praying for a Time of Testing
None of us ever wants to call bad times down on our heads, do we? ...
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The Desires of Your Heart
Right now, right in this moment, perhaps you’re going through some ...
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The Peace of God
When you’re carrying a heavy burden, the best thing you can ...
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A Prayer Through Tears
When you’re completely at the end of your tether, where do you go? ...
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Claustrophobia
Have you ever felt locked into a situation or a set of circumstances ...
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The Spring that Never Runs Dry
How often have you been in a situation and prayed, “Lord, get me ...
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A Wing and a Prayer
When you pray, who do you pray to? It may seem like a bit of an odd ...
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At Some Point …
When I turned 50, I decided that if I didn’t do something about my ...
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So Who Is He?
It seems that there are so many options these days when it comes to ...
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What Was He Thinking?
Have you ever found yourself praying for a breakthrough, praying for ...
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A Memorial Before God
It’s sad that nations have to raise up and maintain military forces ...
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Loving People
Have you ever prayed, “Lord, show me someone whom I can help”? ...
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Walking Round the Track
I’ll be honest with you. For the first thirty-six years of my life, ...
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Jesus Appoints the Twelve
I don’t think that any of us ever imagine that God could make a ...
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Jesus Prayed
The most common reason that people give for praying way less than ...
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I’m Not Sure
Yesterday we prayed a prayer giving our lives over to Jesus. But ...
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It’s Time … I Think
Question: are you saved or not? When you stand before God one day, ...
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Looking Back
If God seems to have gone missing on you, then this … this is for ...
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Is Anybody Out There?
When the pain is so bad that nothing makes a difference, God can and ...
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Forgiving the Unforgivable
When your son is hit by a drunk driver and left to die on the ...
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Forgive and Forget
Forgiveness is one of the most powerful forces for change that the ...
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The Heart Grows Fonder
The next time God seems like He’s a million miles away, know this. ...
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You Can Make a Powerful Difference
There are 300,000 child soldiers in the world today … but you can ...
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Lost for Words
If you’ve ever been at a complete loss as to what to say to God, ...
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My Sister’s Birthday
How do you react when God apparently refuses to answer your prayers?
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The Throne of Grace
Question: Are you good enough, worthy enough, to front up to God and ...
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The Power of Prayer
So when you pray, what can you ask God for? Anything – or are there ...
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Ditching the Formula
So-called Christians talk a lot about praying, but not an awful lot ...
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Seek and Ye Shall Find
How serious are you about your faith in Jesus, about having a ...
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It’s Time to Pray
Funny, isn’t it, how you can profess to believe in God, but when ...
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The Lost Cat
Might I ask you today how close, how intimate, how real is your ...
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A Double Helping
It would be really nice if life went along on a nice even keel, but ...
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Oh My God (OMG)
The fourth of the Ten Commandments is pretty straightforward. “You ...
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It is Time
Jesus … it’s a name that means many things to many people. But ...
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If Only I Could Ask
Here’s the crazy thing. We each have something – one thing more ...
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Avoiding
I don’t think there’s a single person on planet Earth who, right ...
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Going with the Flow
So, what are the bits of your life that God wants to be involved in? ...
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Time with God
God is always ready to help us in times of trouble. Do you have time ...
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Coincidence and Prayer
Prayer is a funny thing. Sometimes we turn to prayer as a last ...
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Give Him Your Life
Okay, so we’re hurtling towards another Easter; a bit of a long ...
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Which Way Should I Jump?
Have you ever found yourself rushing around under pressure, not ...
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Full-on Forgiveness
You’ve heard that saying no doubt: “Don’t get angry, get ...
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When the Storm Blows In
I don’t know about you, but the plan that I have for today, for ...
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If You Hear My Voice
One of the biggest challenges we face and indeed the most common ...
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Forgiveness – A Surprising Twist
How to avoid the one thing that can rob you of God’s forgiveness.
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Your Kingdom Come
God hasn’t called us to empire building … He’s called us to ...
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Now Here’s a Crazy Idea
Imagine praying to God for a week, without asking Him for anything.