A FRESH START
It is wonderful to know that you and I can make a fresh start. A fresh start is the opportunity to start all over again. It is a new beginning. With God in our lives we have the privilege and the opportunity to make a fresh start each day of our lives.Lamentations 3:22-23 Because of…
LEAD ME TO THE ROCK
David knew one thing for sure and that was that God was the Rock on which he could rely and stand firm. He may have been shaken and rattled by the magnitude of his situation and circumstances, but he knew that there was a Rock. He knew that God was faithful, and he knew that…
DAVID FOUND HIMSELF FEELING OVERWHELMED
When we are going through difficult times, we can feel overwhelmed. Sometimes we face situations that can feel overwhelming. These are times when we feel out of our depth or desperate. David spoke out about the way he was feeling. Psalm 61:2’When my heart is overwhelmed…’The original word for the word ”overwhelmed” is the idea of…
HOW TO STAY POSITIVE (PART 3)
F. REMEMBER THAT THERE IS AN ETERNAL DIMENSION THAT WILL EVENTUALLY OVERSHADOW OUR TEMPORARY EARTHLY EXPERIENCE.Sometimes we think that this temporary earthly experience will last forever. When we are going through challenging times, it can feel like things cannot or will not ever change. The truth is that our earthly experience is temporary and constantly…
HOW TO STAY POSITIVE (PART 2)
C. TURN YOUR WORRIES INTO PRAYER.Prayer brings value into our lives, even if we don’t see immediate response. Sometimes our own anxious thoughts can overwhelm us and paralyse us. But as we take these issues and concerns and begin to pray about them, the weight and burden of them is carried over to the Lord….
HOW TO STAY POSITIVE
A. FOCUS ON THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD AND NOT THE PREVAILING INFORMATION.In challenging times, we need to be able to differentiate between truth and information. Information will always be unreliable and changeable, and the truth will always be reliable and certain. Years ago, when I was in the military, I discovered that rumours had…
STAYING POSITIVE IN CHALLENGING TIMES
WE ARE LIVING IN CHALLENGING TIMESWe are certainly living in challenging and uncertain times. Someone recently wrote to me and asked me why we can’t go back to the way things were in the world, 30 to 50 years ago, when there was law-and-order, fear of God, justice, morals, respect, and all the things which…
HE LIFTS UP THOSE WHO ARE IN TROUBLE
Psalm 27:5’For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; In the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock.’Trouble is that inevitable part of life. It is completely unavoidable not to face some sort of trouble in the course of life….
HE LIFTS UP THE HOPELESS
Psalm 40:2’He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.’Those who are battling with a sense of hopelessness are also close to the Lord’s heart. Hopelessness, depression, and burnout are things that the Lord wants to lift us…
HE LIFTS US UP
THE LORD WANTS TO COME AND LIFT YOU UPYears ago, my Grandmother painted a picture of the Good Shepherd leaning down over a precipice (cliff) taking hold of a lamb that had got lost and stuck on the side of a mountain. It was a painting that left an impression on my young mind. It…