Does God Really See Value in Everyone?
Does God Really See Value in Everyone? The question becomes more powerful when we ask: Does God see value in me? Look at some of the people God saw the value in: Moses stuttered. David’s armour didn’t fit. John Mark was rejected by Paul. Timothy had ulcers. Amos’ only training was in the school of [...]
How Can I Examine My Obedience?
Can I examine my obedience to God? Since obedience is part of fearing the Lord, seeking the Lord and doing what’s right…and doing what’s right, seeking the Lord and fearing the Lord are the pre-requisites for getting the good God has intended for us, how can I examine myself to see if I’m obeying God? [...]
What Does God Promise When I Obey?
What are the promises when I obey God? I’ve never preached on this portion of Scripture except when I’ve shared this message. It’s a powerful one to consider. Deuteronomy 28:1-13 (NLT) “If you fully obey the Lord your God and carefully keep all his commands that I am giving you today, the Lord your God [...]
4 Ways to Do What is Right
I’ve found 4 ways to help us do what’s right. Here they are: 1. Let the Word teach you what’s right… 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we [...]
Seeking the Lord
Before we look at seeking the Lord, I need to point out something about fearing the Lord. We’re given three conditions for getting the good God has for us. Fear the Lord Seek the Lord Do what’s right And right away we see that part of fearing God is obeying his commandments…doing what’s right. We [...]
Seek Peace and Pursue it – Day 11
Truth: You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you,all whose thoughts are fixed on you! Isaiah 26:3 (New Living Translation) Thought: When we were in New Zealand, everyone was so laid-back compared with what we were used to in North America. When you signaled to change lanes on a busy motorway, people [...]
Delight Yourself in the Lord
I had the vision of dancing with Jesus. I heard the voice of God tell me he had given me time to write. I was quickly closing in on my word count goal for my novel and we were wondering what God had in store. The kids should be able to adapt to New Zealand, [...]
This is the Way, Walk In It
Wynne Lewis was coming to Auckland to visit his son. I hadn’t seen Wynne since the 2002 FCA International Convention I helped organize. We’d exchanged email fairly regularly since. It was only 500 and some km from Palmerston North, so I thought we’d go up for the weekend. Problem is: they don’t believe in straight [...]
Persevere
Finding a decent home to rent in Palmerston North had been a difficult task to accomplish. Most of the homes we had checked out were damp, moldy and very stinky. Finally we found one. Needless to say we had down graded from our huge four bedroom 4-level-split in Edmonton to a small three bedroom bungalow [...]
Tell Me To Come
It wasn’t that we woke up one day and decided to move to the other side of the world. Before we were married God told us independently that we would be outside Canada. We didn’t know the where, when, why, or how but knew God would reveal it in time and we were to simply [...]
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