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Just a Teaspoon at a Time!

Teaspoon at a timeSometimes it can look like God doesn’t hear us, and that our mountain isn’t moving.  I used to think He didn’t hear my cries and that my mountain of marriage problems was never going to budge.  However, my mountain did begin to move, not all at once, or that I could even see, but in small pieces, sometimes as tiny as a teaspoon at a time.

MARK 11:23 – I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.

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Love is…. a man who wipes away your tears even when we left Him hanging on the cross for our sins

The Bible tells us that God’s love is as vast as the ocean. I believe that we all need to have a revelation of this vast ocean of love which our Father has for us.  Why not ask God to show you and help you understand just how wide, how long, how high and how deep His love really is?  Then accept His love and become firmly rooted and securely grounded in it.

Jesus stood, He cried in a loud voice “If any man is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink!”

Drink from the Living Water
Drink from the Living Water

He has accomplished everything on the cross that you will ever need.  So go to Him and drink in His love, believe that it is for you. Allow Him to quench your thirst.  Receive what the Holy Spirit has for you IN FULL! Then spread that love and joy to others, including your husband! Do it in submission to the Lord.  He is your Life, your Breath, your Fortress, your Rock and He will keep you sane!  He’s everything that you will ever need!

Remember, the same Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead is alive inside YOU!  He can supernaturally put life back into your dead marriage, He can transform a love which is dead and He can bring it back to life.

Be Rooted in His Love

The Creator of the universe opens His arms wide to you, His little girl, He invites you to come to Him, just as you are and He longs for you to experience His love, during your time here on earth.

So my prayer is that:

“Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong”.  And that “you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep His love is”. Ephesians 3:17&18.

I pray that your Abba Father will reveal His love to you personally, today. He is waiting for you with arms wide open, run into His warm embrace.

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Fruits of the Spirit – Peace

If this 3rd fruit of the spirit was more evident in marriage, the fabric of families would not be so easily torn apart by the peace-thief who causes conflict daily through things like parenting, money, sex, personality differences, unconfessed sin, stress, frustration and so much more. So many couples are hurting deeply because they have not yet learned how to find and apply God’s peace to their marriage.

Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God.” Matthew 5:9

Unfortunately too many couples are intent on being peacekeepers instead of being peacemakers. So many times I’ve heard the saying “The least said, the easier mended”, which can be good advice when we are feeling angry and bitter. At these times we are better to speak less and think more until we have calmed down because we cannot take back hurtful words spoken in anger.

However, God tells us we are to “declare…all the counsel of God” Acts 20:27 and to “do so in love” Eph 4:15.  This means we have to speak up, in love, to our spouses, and tell them everything God wants them to know as revealed in His will, and to do so in love.

I was once a “peacekeeper” instead of a “peacemaker” because I would smooth things over in order to avoid conflict.  I hoped difficult conversations would just go away, I avoided all confrontation. Unfortunately, because I was like this, I would allow things to build up inside me which then caused a lack of peace and eventually turn into bitterness and inner anger. What I achieved was a temporary cover up but not true peace.

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A peacemaker, however, will work through the problem, confronting the issue until a resolve or compromise is achieved. In order to be a peacemaker, we need to continually yield to God’s Spirit as a result of our relationship with Jesus. So when there is stress, frustration, tension, trouble arising in your marriage, you need to choose to bring it to God first in prayer. Sometimes a quick, “God, help me and give me peace by your Spirit.” is all we may have time for and as you whisper that prayer, God will give you what you need in that heated moment. Talk to Him right now for transformation in your marriage, tell Him those things that are causing conflict and ask Him to help you, as you do so, you are allowing the Holy Spirit to strengthen you with God’s peace.

“To be spiritually minded is life and peace.” (Romans 8:6)

Remember how Jesus could sleep through a storm, totally trusting in God. Peace is a calm state of mind, resting in God’s care, not upset by the chaos around us. Jesus told us that the world offers no real peace because it is ruled by the god of this world, Satan. Only an intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ can bring real peace. “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27)

It is essential to stay focused on God and the truth of His Word, trusting Him. “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.” (Isaiah 26:3)

Keep trusting Him and you will have peace which transcends all understanding. Philippians 4:6-7

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The Kids Are Alright, Not

There may have once been a time when “The kids were Alright” but how things have changed since “The WHO” posed for this famous album cover. With the arrival of the internet, the dog fight to keep our kids safe on-line has never been more fierce. So many parents are worried sick about the aggressive assault of pornography and is it any wonder, considering that this is the first generation to have total unlimited access to Hard core Pornography.

You have to be 18 years or older to get into a strip club, but an 8 year old can log on to some of the worst, obscene and perverted hard core pornography for free. All delivered and packaged to the way they want it – without  leaving the comfort of their own bedrooms.

In an article from the Mail On line, David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has reminded the main UK internet service providers BT, Sky, Talk Talk and Virgin Media that they have a moral duty to act responsible and install blockers that will stop kids accessing pornography, which is fair enough. However, the main assault begins at home, it’s not the responsibility of Sunday school or the youth club leaders, Covenant Eyes or Net Nanny. Proverbs instructs us as parents to TRAIN UP our children and not to pass the buck or take the easy way out by brushing it under the carpet and hoping that it will mysteriously go away.  So how do you begin the Porn Talk with your kids? Read the link that we have provided, it’s a great starting point to help you with this.

Gen3x – Fighting Pornography Together “Hear, O Israel, Ye Approach This Day Unto Battle Against Your Enemies: Let Not Your Hearts Faint, Fear Not, And Do Not Tremble, Neither Be Ye Terrified Because Of Them. ”Deuteronomy 20v3

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Fruits of the Spirit – Joy!

Do you remember that little Sunday School Chorus?joyful child

I’ve got that joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart

Where?

down in my heart

Where?

down in my heart!

I’ve got that joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart, down in my heart to stay!

It’s so easy to sing that as a child, with none of the cares of the world on our shoulders, but as we get older, it is not so easy to sing those words through heart breaks and trials and really mean them.  Wouldn’t it be amazing to be full of joy in a world which is fearful, full of worry and discouragement.

In John 15v11, Jesus said to His disciples, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full”

Being joyful, is not the same as being happy, because happiness is an emotion and God does not want us to live by our emotions all the time.  True joy comes from being in an intimate relationship with your Abba Father. He is the channel through which all the fruits are given, and when we abide in Him, we will produce pure joy.  Jesus says in John 15:5 –  “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit”  – this includes “full joy”, it is the second on the list of the fruits of the spirit.

In the Bible, (KJV) “joy” appears 158 times. God loves a joyful heart. So many of us have looked on God as being very serious, judgemental, solemn and even angry. Many religious people are like this and go around with serious faces all the time.  However, supreme joy is God’s nature and character!  It is everywhere we turn around, birds singing in the trees, new born lambs leaping in the fields, beautiful flowers blossoming, streams trickling and even the rays of sunshine, or the colourful rainbow when it rains!  God “gives us richly all things to enjoy” 1 Timothy 6:17

JoyThe word “rejoice” also appears 198 times in the KJV of the Bible, which means to feel or have joy. Philippians 4:4 says “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!”  

Because we have Jesus as our rock, joy will continue to flow through us even during suffering, because we know this is limited to our short lives and soon “there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying” Revelation 21:4.  

So, “Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven” Matthew 5:11-12

As Christians, we have much to be joyful for, we are sons and daughters of the King of Kings, we are going to live with Him for eternity.  So I urge you, when you are feeling low or like no-one cares, as a little child, go to your Daddy who waits for you with arms wide open, then  “Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full!”  John 16:24

I pray that your “joy may be full” in every circumstance.