The Christian life is one of renewal. God is all about moving forwards, upwards, and making things better. After all, that’s why He sent Jesus – so that we could have a renewed life. No matter what has happened in your life – a tragedy in your childhood, or just a clumsy mistake yesterday – God says that you can begin again.
Do you pray every morning? Or, maybe you pray every evening. Or perhaps you don’t pray very much at all. If so then this quote is definitely for you.
“A day without prayer is a day without blessing, and a life without prayer is a life without power.” – Edwin Harvey
If you struggling to find something worth reading this week, then this quote from D L Moody may help you. “The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.” But it won’t achieve its purpose if it remains unopened.
If you are worried about your fuel bills then this quote reminds us that these days will pass.
“And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and its lamp is the Lamb.” Revelation 21:23.
Talk to any competitive athlete, and they will say that the crowd’s encouragement played a significant part in keeping them going to the winning line. Who can you encourage this week in their Christian journey to help them to see the finishing line is in sight?
Do you read your Bible regularly? If you do then good because it is the greatest book ever written. But do you spend enough time to let God’s word sink deep into your heart, mind and soul? If you do, you will soon see that the Bible is God’s treasure map. And the treasure is getting to know God for yourself.
This week in our series ‘The Unveiling’ we meet Jesus the revolutionary. In Luke 22:52, Jesus himself asked the question of the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders, who had come for him, “Am I leading a rebellion, that you have come with swords and clubs?”‘ So what is so revolutionary about Jesus? It was probably that he told us to ‘Love our enemies’.
“This lost world will never be reached and brought back to loyalty to God, until the children of God wake up to the fact that they have a mission in the world. If we are true Christians we should all be missionaries” (D L Moody).
This week, as you read your Bible, perhaps you should think about this quote by Saint Augustine [who became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in AD597]: “The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.”
This week try to remember who invited you to go to church in the first place. What would have happened if they hadn’t asked you? Pause for a few minutes and then ask yourself Is there someone you should be inviting to church this week? If so then why not ask them?