Pour Out In Me PJ

There is a recession going on and we can choose not to be a part of it. This is one of the powerful gifts God made us with. I am in the world but not of the world. My dependence is not on Wall Street nor the White House rather my dependence is on God and he has never failed me yet. So wherever there is fear and worry I replace them with faith and thanksgiving. I choose not to be a part of the 'party of hopelessness' I will instead attend the 'party of faith, love, thankfulness and hope'. The choice is also yours. By a single choice I can make one spirit dominant in my life. The spirit I choose to rule is the spirit that God gave me..."For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."-2 Tim 1 : 7 Ignite the spirit you want to rule in your life. The choice is yours.

In the book of St. Matthew chapter 26, there are ten verses which give an account of Jesus’ tormenting experience in the garden, verses 36 to 46. Jesus was going through a very difficult time in his life. In a similar way we all go through difficult times in our lives and at times feel like we are at our wits end. The common ground between Jesus’ struggle and ours is that, we expect those who are close and dear to us to support us when we are having problems. We expect them to offer words of encouragement and pray for our deliverance. We expect them to watch with us and quite rightly so. In the book I am currently writing I talk about the beauty of endurance we discover after we have endured our times of hardship; when we have battled long and hard with life and come out victorious. In Matthew’s account of Jesus praying in the garden, we are told that Jesus took three of his closes disciples and requested of them to watch with him. He left them and went away to pray saying, “O My

"The Lord will perfect that which concerns me." - Ps. 138 : 8 Today I read this scripture once again, only this time was quite different from all other times. I have always read it and apply it to my life only, but this time around I was asking myself, 'what about the other believers to whom this verse applies?' The other "Me" which means you. Surely the Lord will perfect that which concerns them too and that includes you. God desires to bring to completion and fulfilment everything which concerns his people. I thought for a moment about the many issues facing some of our people. Some are having issues with punctuality, integrity, discipline, leadership, sexuality, greed and obedience and the list goes on and on. I am even annoyed at times at the seemingly lack of accountability among some of our church leaders. Does it mean that God will perfect that which concerns them too? The issues and concerns we face with our churches and the people are many and vari

I have been treated badly in recent times by persons who really should be the 'keepers of my soul' and people who claim that they 'love' me. On more than one occasion I was tempted to reciprocate the treatment. It takes great strength to love and restrain oneself, especially when you know you are not deserving of the ill treatment. The bible reminds us that we ought to ,"...Love our enemies, bless them that curse us, do good to them that hate us, and pray for them which despitefully use us and persecute us;" -St. Matt. 5:44 God expects that even when others are 'deserving' of our bad treatment and have fully earned the right to be 'hated', that we will love them and love them without discrimination. Think about it, it is so difficult to even forgive and love those we call friends whenever they hurt us, more so an enemy. Anyone who believes it is easy to bless those who curse us should think about it carefully. Quite often when we ha