May the Lord bless you
I have been thinking about God’s longing and desire for each one of us. God is a good God and He wants to see certain things take place in our lives. It is as though God is focused towards us. In the same way we should be focused towards others. Often we are so self-consumed and self-orientated that…
Nearer to God
Have you ever heard someone say: ‘My son/daughter is getting closer to me as they are getting older’, but the truth is that the child has lived with the mother or father all his life. It is like this with us. We live with God all our lives BUT there is another dimension altogether. It is…
The difference between the presence and the manifest presence
God’s presence and His manifest presence are not the same. We can have the one without the other. We know that God is here, but we can remain totally unaware of it. Only as we become aware of His presence, is His presence manifest. God wants to show Himself to us. We need to make ourselves…
God will never leave us
God wants us to seek Him. To reach out for Him and to find Him. He is not far away. Acts 17:27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. Acts 17:28 ‘For in him we live…
Nothing can separate us from God
David understood this: Psalm 139:7–12 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far…
God is here
It is great to know that we can always have God near to us. God is here. Wherever we are, God is there. There is no place where God is not. No point is nearer to God, than any other point. Nobody is any further from God or closer to God than any other person. This needs to become alive in…
A life of worship
Revelation 4:11 ‘You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.’ Ultimately our very lives should be an act of worship. This can only be a reality when we get to that point where we…
For in these I delight
When we discover this we discover a great treasure and God takes delight in us when we come to this reality. 1 Corinthians 1:31 “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.” Galatians 6:14 ‘May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ!’ There is no one in heaven who…
Laying down our crowns
It is so easy to think that all we have achieved is to our personal credit when in fact everything is a result of God’s favour and grace towards us. We can develop a ‘self-made’ attitude. Such an attitude is actually a form of pride. We need to get to that point where we are so moved…
A crown is a powerful symbol
A crown is the traditional symbol, usually worn by a monarch. The crown traditionally represents power, legitimacy, victory, triumph, honour, and glory, as well as immortality, righteousness and resurrection. It is only on highly significant occasions that, in England, the crown is brought out from the Tower of London and placed on the head on the…