The JOURNEY of Knowing Christ
Our salvation encounter with Jesus Christ launched us on an amazing journey.
The journey’s large centrepiece is the call to constantly know Christ more, and to not lose sight of that, regardless of the landscape changes in our life-journey.
The centrepiece influences how we experience the present, face what’s ahead, and interpret what we’ve come through.
The video, The JOURNEY of Knowing Christ is about seizing the centrepiece. It’s a good focus for the start of the new year, and will make a difference to the way we journey through it.
Watch the 8-minute video, The JOURNEY of Knowing Christ.
Always joyful
Rejoice always. Really? We ask the same question when we read pray continually or always give thanks: Is it doable? And yet we know God doesn’t tell us to do without empowering us for the doing. So the bigger question is: how do we do always joyful? Pray continually...
Always thankful
Our “new creation” life is radically different from our old one. One of the big changes is the new freedom to “put on” a heart of gratitude…..to be an always thankful person. My earlier post, Sacrifice of Thanks, mentions that the spirit of thankfulness is bigger than...
Sacrifice of Thanks
Saying thanks to the Lord for his good gifts is right, but is only one part of the spirit of thankfulness. The larger part is the celebration that HE IS GOOD. This level of thanks doesn’t always start with a happy dance, as when something good has happened. It might...
Pray in the Rain (10)
Our prayer licence in Christ permits declaring in prayer. It can be spontaneous, but it’s the prepared ones that shape and strengthen us most in using declarations. This Pray in the Rain post should be read in tandem with the earlier one explaining the ‘runway’ for...
Pray in the Rain (9)
The Pray in the Rain prayer type we’re going to aim for is ‘declaration’, an authoritative announcement that lines up with God’s desire to break through stubborn resistance. It might seem as if the route we’re taking is heading in a different direction, but our...
Pray in the Rain (8)
Trouble and its assistant, bad news, appear in different shapes and strengths, and show up regularly. If inner rest could be bottled and sold, it would be a global winner. But we need much more than a survival tonic. We need a supernatural, inner well-being beyond...
Pray in the Rain (7)
The past two Pray in the Rain posts have been about ASKING, and the importance of advocating answers that agree with the Lord. This post fits the same prayer type, but is different from ‘ordinary’ asking. How is intercession different? As with all prayer, there’s an...
Pray in the Rain (6)
The previous Pray in the Rain post was about ASKING for God’s help. In the anchor scripture (2 Chron 14:11), Asa advocated the answer needed by giving God reasons, viz. trust in him, his honour, their covenant relationship and his unmatched power. God’s answer was...
Pray in the Rain (5)
A cry for help in a crisis. A request for an iPhone upgrade. Asking guidance for the future. Asking grace to cope with the present moment. A mom praying for her sick infant. A team asking for mission breakthrough. A group praying over broken marriages. Just a few...
Pray in the Rain (4)
A coming, terrible judgment and a great salvation that has its well-spring in Zion, reaching all nations and destroying “the shroud that enfolds all people” (Isaiah 25:7). The prophet gives his message and then prays: a prayer of trust (the key to inner peace in the...
