Thoughts on Fasting

I have been thinking a lot about fasting. I came across this quote today:
It’s not the fast that God blesses, rather God blesses the motive of the heart and the intentions of the heart. I think fasting is an outward tangible expression of what is happening in a man’s heart. I think when a man […]

Desire

“I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or […]

My Secret For Achieving The Best Year Yet!

I hope that the Christmas and New Year break has been a relaxing and a rewarding one, spending time with family. Apparently we have had the driest summer on record! The grass is proof of that – brown as.
Today, I want to stir you up to expect and dream for this coming year. We all […]

The Perfect Gifts For You!

Merry Christmas!
from my family to yours.
Isn’t Christmas such a perfect time to celebrate God’s incredible gift to us?
In New Zealand, Christmas is celebrated in summer so there is no snow, snowmen or lots of lights. But we still see God’s Christmas mark on nature. He decided to bless New Zealand […]

God is ……

God is so much more than we realise isn’t he?
He so wants for us to seek Him out and find out MORE about who He is and His plans for us.
At the beginning of this year I had one prayer on my heart - from Psalm 34:8 “O taste and see that the Lord […]

Love is GRAND!

My Hubbie and I have been married for 15 years yesterday!!!! WOOHOO~~~~~~
We had a very romantic lunch on a veranda of a historic villa amongst a gorgeous country garden!!
No Kids! (sorry darlings) and it felt like the real world was far away.
Isn’t it good to ‘get away’ in the middle of the day.
Well Christmas […]

Do You Find It Hard To Memorize Scripture?

I have come across an excellent resource that has helped me memorize Psalm 1 in 6 days (one verse a day).
It is a little ebook written by a man called Dr Andrew Davis. It is free!!!! - Here is the link where you can download it -An Approach to the Extended Memorization of Scripture By […]

How to share knowledge

Do you know that there are two ways to share knowledge?
1. For mere knowledge sake - just in order to show the person what you know.
2. For love’s sake - in order to build up the person listening to you.
Here is the scripture for this -
1 Corinthians 8 v 1b “Knowledge puffs up but love […]

Don’t Have Enough?

Do you think that you DON’T have enough? You don’t have enough money - always seem to be struggling?
Do you think that you DON’T have enough energy?
What about your parenting? - Never enough patience or wisdom to deal with those daily issues that pop up?
How about the homeschooling? - Do you feel like you are […]

What Does God See When He Looks At You?

This question has been stirring around in my mind for the past week. What does God see when He looks at me? I asked Him to show me what He sees. I have put this into a series of articles for my Becoming Beautiful e-zine - You are welcome to join up - It is […]

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