Walking with Jesus
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight” – Proverbs 3:5-6. God doesn’t work in the same way we do. We set a fairly straight forward goal. Let others know about it, if necessary, […]
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Over the last few days we’ve been looking at Simon/Peter when he acknowledged that Jesus is the Christ. We’ve also noted from that exchange how ….. Relationship brings Revelation Revelation influences our Identity And our Identity is our Authority And today we conclude noting that ….. Authority gives us Power. I talk about this in […]
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With identity comes authority. I get to make decisions over my kids schooling because I am their father. I have authority to make decisions on behalf of our church, because I am the church’s pastor. A policeman can literally stop you, ask you questions and even put you in handcuffs and take you away. All […]
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Relationship, Revelation and Identity are intertwined more than we often realise. My identity as a father is connected to the fact that I have kids. It’s my relationship with them that makes me a father. My identity as a husband, likewise is rooted in the fact that I have an intimate connection with the person […]
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Yesterday, we briefly noted that it was Simon/Peter’s relationship with Father God, that gave him the revelation that Jesus is the Christ. “Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven” – Matthew 16:17. Revelation, by very definition […]
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When I think of knowledge or widsom, I don’t generally think about relationship. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge” – Proverbs 1:7 When I read this scripture a few weeks ago, what stood out to me was, that wisdom is connected to a relationship with God. That knowledge is relational. I’ve […]
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Proverbs 26:4-5 give us what are seemlingly contradictory advice. Sometime soon, we’ll do a deep dive on why we can fully trust the Bible. I personally used to be an atheist, so I had to work through a bunch of the typical reasons why people reject the Bible. Perhaps, it’s enough, for now to say […]
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I’m not sure how I fully feel about AI. So much is unknown about it and yet it seems that we are going full steam ahead (old tech analogy) with little regard to any kind of guard rails. I heard someone say about chat gpt, that there was nothing to worry about, it’s just a […]
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It is great that you want to guard your heart. Desire, as we are free, is an important aspect of doing/being anything in the Lord. Yet, I would say, that in your own strength (Col 1:29), guarding your heart is near impossible. Colossians 1:29 shows us the perfect partnership between our desire and His strength. […]
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What we say is important and at times, prophetic and powerful. So to avoid being the accidental prophet we must guard our heart. Proverbs 4:23 tells us that, “above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” – NIV. What ‘we do’ would include what ‘we say’. When I’m upset, I […]
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