YIELDING OURSELVES TO GOD
We can ‘yield’ ourselves to many things. This may be things that honour God, but also they may be things that do not. We have to keep a check on our lives. In the older Bible translations the word yield is used but in newer versions the word yield is replaced with the word offer….
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YIELD?
The word ‘yield’ is not a modern word, nor is it a word we hear every day. But it is a word that can help us as we pursue a closer more intimate relationship with God. We started off and looked at how yielding means surrendering our lives to God. The word yield is a…
THE JOY OF YIELDING
In our relationship with God there is a wonderful aspect in which we can yield ourselves to Him. It’s not always something people readily understand. Our lives can be so busy and consuming that we never learn the art of yielding ourselves to God or we just don’t include it in our daily Christian lives….
GOD WANTS TO RESTORE YOU TO YOUR HIGH PLACE
SIX THINGS THAT GOD WANTS TO DO FOR YOU – BEYOND EXPECTATION!(Point 6) 6. GOD WANTS TO RESTORE YOU TO YOUR HIGH PLACE Isaiah 58:14 ‘and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth, and I will feed you with the heritage [promised for you] of Jacob your father; for the…
GOD WANTS YOU TO FLOURISH
SIX THINGS THAT GOD WANTS TO DO FOR YOU – BEYOND EXPECTATION!(Point 4 and 5) 4. GOD WANTS YOU TO FLOURISHIsaiah 58:11‘You shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.’ The Living Bible says: ‘Like a well-watered garden!’ What picture do you see when I say the words: ‘A…
GOD WANTS TO SATISFY YOU
SIX THINGS THAT GOD WANTS TO DO FOR YOU – BEYOND EXPECTATION!(Point 2 and 3)2. GOD WANTS TO SATISFY YOU Isaiah 58:11 The LORD will satisfy your soul in drought. Not only does God want to guide us continually, He also wants to satisfy us. The word ‘satisfy’ is usually used in association with food. When we eat we…
BEYOND EXPECTATION
Where is your expectation? Are you living with expectation? Have you lost your expectation? We need to live lives that are full of expectation. Look what the Word of God tells us:Ephesians 3:20Now to Him Who, is able to do superabundantly, far over and above all that we dare ask or think, infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts,…
HIS GOODNESS AND HIS LOVE
We need to see God as a God of goodness and love. Some versions of the Bible speak of His loving-kindness. His loving-kindness is ALWAYS available to you.Psalm 23:6 ‘Surely Your goodness & love will follow me all the days of my life.’Can you see this picture in your mind’s eye of His goodness and…
A DELIVERER
How often in life we need a deliverer. How often we seem to get to that place where nothing short of a deliverer can make a difference and change the situation we find ourselves in. How often we get to that point where we realise that only divine intervention can rescue and free us from…
AN ENDLESS SUPPLY OF COMPASSION AND MERCY
He is the source of all the compassion and mercy you long for. Somewhere within our human frame is that hope that we will receive compassion. We know that we make mistakes and don’t always have the right attitude and secretly we hope we will receive or be extended compassion. HE comes and gives us…