A Heart Untroubled

While I am finishing up the book that I am writing, I have been cleaning at a local school first thing in the morning.  I am the only one in the building at that time and I have the opportunity to listen to some spiritual teaching, play my audio Bible or put on praise and worship. Today, I opted for music and I love to crank up the volume and sing my heart out!   I was listening to a particular album and one of the songs came on entitled 'Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So', taken from Psalm 107:2. It really began to speak to me about how Christians and the church at large remain silent instead of saying so!  We are the redeemed!!  That is not something to be quiet about! Do you know what redeemed means... I always think about when I was child sometimes we went to these arcades where you would win tokens and then when you were done you'd take the tokens to a little kiosk and REDEEM them for a prize. The more tokens you had, the better prize you could get. ...

Last night, I just really felt the need to worship.  I messaged a bunch of friends and we got together for a spontaneous session of worship.    I love moments like this, because there is something beautiful in just uniting in worship; no agenda, no planned songs, just a chance to come together and lift our voices, or sit and listen or whatever really. Sometimes, no matter what denomination our church is, there's a set pattern of what Sunday's service will look like - notices, worship, sermon, prayer, final song and off we go to lunch.  Sometimes our own personal devotional time can become an item on our to-do list to be checked off, and we forget that we are in a living and vibrant relationship with the God of now!  (I Am).   We need to recognise that breaking our spiritual relationship down into a to-do list is never going to be satisfying and fruitful (this is not negating discipline, but when we are only going through the motions, it is religion and...

Sometimes as Christians we can come across a new spiritual opportunity in life and we panic! Have you ever had that experience.  Maybe the first time you're asked to pray out loud, or share your testimony. Maybe have a friend who has a headache, and we know we could pray for them; but we think ' I've never prayed for that before !'  We forget so quickly that the Holy Spirit has taken up residence in our hearts and he has most definitely done it before.   If we were playing a Christian version of "Never have I ever...'  We might say: Never have I ever seen someone healed; Never have I ever watched the dead rise; Never have I ever seen God work miracles... But the Holy Spirit would be the one saying: Yup,  I've done that; Yeah that was good fun! and 'I have so seen that over and over and over'. From the foundation of the world he Holy Spirit has been creating, breathing life into dead situations or bodies, comforting, empowering, leading, guiding and ...