Telling others [ Acts 1 v8 ]

 I recently went to speak at a fellowship,there were just six ladies there,this little fellowship is run by the two Margarets ,elderly ladies,who have served the Lord faithfully.When I go to preach there ,they always request that I preach the Gospel,for these dear ladies have a heart for the lost.They have witnessed to eastern Europeans recently,and mentioned how these people had attended their meeting. One wonders why so many different nationalities are in our country,could it be that God whose world it is,has brought them ,that they may hear the Gospel?. In spite of all the advances mankind has made,this fact remains,people need  Christ, they need to hear the good news of the Gospel,this will never change.nor will the command by our Saviour change,to go to tell,for how shall they hear without a preacher,the fact is they wont. Now I am not saying this to make you panic or feel guilty,but simply that you and I may remember are great responsibility to tell people about Jesus.
A  prayer.../Dear God help us to tell others about Your son Jesus,grant us wisdom in how best we can do this,in Jesus name Amen /

Who knows. [ 1 Samuel 1-2 ]

In 1 Samuel 2 we have Hannah praying ,it is a most wonderful prayer,it came as a response to a prayer  that been being answered,Hannah was a woman of faith ,her faith must have been tested as faith will be.She was despised by her husbands other wife,and she was misunderstood by Gods high priest,but  she heard Gods voice, and believed.She named her son Samuel in honour of Gods faithfulness in answering her prayer,Samuel's name means asked of God.When she prayed for a child she had made a vow ,that if God would answer her prayer for child a son she would give him back to the Lord.Consider the challenge in that vow,so many people make vows or promises to God and don't keep them, ,but Hannah meant what she prayed,and kept her word.But she did not loose out, we often hold back in obeying God,feeling we will loose out, but God is no mans, or woman's debtor,they that honour Him ,He will honour them[ 1 Samuel 2 v30 ], God granted her five more children [1 Samuel 2 v21],God we are told will do exceedingly more abundantly than we can ask or think[Ephesians 3 v21].He did not only deliver Joseph from prison,but he made Prime minister,with power and authority.and when God answered Hannahs prayer for a son,He not only gave her a Son,but a son who would be a prophet.Who knows will happen when we pray,who knows what will happen when we obey,but we can be assured God will respond.
A  prayer....../Dear God help us to pray,in our difficulties,help us when we make You a promise to keep it,let us not be ruled by fear, but by  faith in Jesus name we ask this Amen /

Only one class. [ Romans 3 v23 ]

In   1 John2 v16 we read of the pride of life,it can be a pride in our possessions,power,position or status.Just recently a report has come out on our status.What class are we? the report says that there are seven classes in our country,there used to be,upper,middle, and working class.I wondered when I heard this what class do I belong to?,I come from a working class background, I wonder am I now middle class?. In Hinduism they have a cast system,at the bottom of the heap is the dear Dalit people or as they are better known untouchables. All these things can be seen as the pride of life, I am better than you,at least that is what we think,but it is not what God thinks.At its most ghastly this pride of life manifests itself in racism,mankind is continually inventing areas of life that cause them to feel superior. The Bible tells us that God made us from one blood,we are all by creation, Gods offspring[Acts 17v26-28],when God looks on this world is not with a look of disdain ,but with a look of love.God does class us as sinners we all stand equal before Him,and everyone of us has the same need,to be saved,by trusting in Jesus,the question I would like you answer are you a saved sinner or a lost sinner?
A prayer..../ Dear God  we thank You that You love this world of sinners so much, that You have provided  salvation,through Your Son Jesus. Amen /

Cause and effect. [Ruth 1-4 ]

I believe in cause and effect ,the absuridy of evoultion is it does not really have an answer as to how everything not only came into being,and how everything became what they are. Now I have just started to read that lovely little book of Ruth, I say a lovely little book, yet we have serious things mentioned,famine,being  refugees,death, and desitution. The story takes place at the time of the Judges,the time when God raised up men and a woman, to rescue and rule over His people.Naomi is one the main people in this story,she lost so much,but gained a wonderful daughter-in-law, Ruth.[cp 1v16-18] Naomi and her family had gone to live in the land of Moab,she retuned with only her daughter-in-law Ruth,as she enters her home town Bethlehem ,her neighbours spoke to her,is this Naomi?,and she replies,/call me not Naomi[ pleasent] call me Mara[bitter]: for the Lord hath dealt bitterly with me.Yes she had to drink a bitter cup,but I dont believe she was bitter,or resentful towards God, but she acknowledged that the Lord had dealt with her.To her God was the first cause,if we are going through a trial remember God is has not lost control,we may not understand His ways,Naomi did'nt,but He is in control,He is working out His sovereign will in this world and in His childrens lives.So trust Him ,to even bring deliverance, and blessing into your life,for the end of a thing is better than the beginning.
A prayer ...../ Dear God help us to keep our eyes upon You ,help us to trust in You in every situation in Jesus Name/

Fear of falling. [ Jude v 24;25 ]

Just recently I had a fear of falling, I don't mean physically, I mean spiritually,after all consider David a man after Gods own heart,he fell in the most awful manner, and all the consequences of that fall.Or consider Peter who walked with Jesus ,personally heard His  teaching, witnessed his miraculous power,yet he fell,oh he fell,what a tragedy. So what hope is there me,will I stand the test as Joseph did?,will I  stand and having done all to stand?. One has to be honest, so that others who are struggling may take heart,that we are all in the same boat,prone to wander Lord I feel it,prone to leave the God I love. Alright, what we can we say about this?well it is not a sin to feel like this,it would be a sin to give into those feelings. Paul, he needed an affliction to keep him from pride, what will God send into our lives to preserve our souls?,for He will preserve us, of this I am sure ,we are told we are kept by the power of God,He is able to keep us and deliver us.John Bunyan wrote the following,
                 O world of wonders.I can say no less,
                  That I should be preserved in that distress,
                  That I have met with here,O Blessed be,
                  That hand that from it, hath delivered me.
                  Dangers in darkness,devils,hell, and sin,
                    Did compass me,while I this vale was in.
                    Yea, snares and pits, and traps,and nets did lie
                     My path about, that worthless, silly I,
                    Might have been catch'd, entangled, and cast down;
                      But since I live ,let Jesus wear the crown
A  prayer..../..Dear God have mercy upon us, deliver us from evil without, and evil within in Jesus name Amem/

Pray, pray, pray. [ 1 Thessalonians 5 v 17]

I read these three words yesterday,/Pray,pray, pray/, in Luke 2 v36ff we read of a prophetess Anna who served the Lord with fastings and prayers night and day.She reminds me of a widow woman I knew called Rose,Rose never got out much ,but she prayed continually.We all need to be like these two women,we need to pray,pray,pray,I suppose I consider myself a man of prayer,and yet I know I need to pray more,we cannot slacken in this vital service.There is so much to pray about ,the need is great,the time is short,our needs and the needs of others are ever there.We are not talking about a shopping list mentality,though I do not like that term,we are talking of meeting with God,think about those words ,meeting with God.The God who loves us,with a sacrificial love,whose children we are,and delights when we pray,and listens intently to what we have to say,who assures us that as a Father, He desires to bless us and help us.Unfortunately we often have to experience difficulties before we seek Him,I realise that it is easy to be critical of others,to judge others.,because of there lack of prayer.In Psalm 103 v13-14 we read,/Like as a father pitieth his children,so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him. For He knoweth our frame,He remembereth that we are dust/.This word is not written to judge you but to encourage us all to pray,pray ,pray.
A prayer  ...../Dear God and Father are hearts are full of desire,we hunger and thirst for so many  things,grant us all the grace to love Thee more,and to  seek You continually,in Jesus name Amen /

None so blind. [ 2 Corinthians 4 v4 ]

James Hamilton in his book on Michael Faraday,writes the following,/Great world events were passing under Faraday's very nose in that place, but he did not seem to fathom their importance/ . [Faraday and  Humphry Davy where visiting France during the Napoleonianic wars]This is not unusual in mankind take the Jews ,the waiting people,yes they are still waiting for a Messiah,and yet He came ,they should have recognised Him but in their blindness they did'nt. But the Jews are not on their own , we have passed through the Easter season,also the Christmas season,and yet how few people realise the importance of these seasons. Many people wear a cross who have not given any thought to its meaning,there is a saying ,there are none so blind who do not want to see.There are two factors that account for these things,sin and satan [1 Corinthians2 v14/2 Cor 4 v4 ].It is John who wrote,/And this is the condemnation that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light,because their deeds were evil[3 v19],Satan will do his dirty best to make people focus on the wrong things,to their eternal ruin,as he did with Judas. Yet let us not despair God is sovereign, He will yet move on the hearts of blind mankind by His Spirit,He can use us in this great task of rescuing the perishing, you do realise that as a Christian we are meant to witness to the unsaved?.
A  prayer.../Dear God help use us,to become fishers of men women, and children in Jesus name Amen/