Stillness


He leads me beside still waters. …. He restores my soul.
Psalm 23:2-3


Have you realised how difficult it is to be really still inwardly? Today I have set aside extra time to spend with God because I have been ‘on the run’ with guests which was great fun, but now that the house is quiet I need to re-group. I need the stillness that will stop my brain from running 100 miles an hour, mulling over the list of ‘things to do’ before I leave home for 10 days. How long does one have to sit quiet before one’s soul actually finds that quiet place? I once heard an international speaker say that when she goes to spend time with God at her cabin on the lake it takes her 3 days to quieten her mind so that she can hear from God. I can believe her!

Stillness is something that our world is very short of today. We are helped to be kept busy every waking moment. Even the children are over-stimulated constantly by television, computer games, after school activities many times a week, not to mention lots of homework for even little ones. That used to be something that only came with going to high school! How do the children ever learn to be still I wonder?

Taking time with God will bring the stillness we need for a healthy life. Not just a quick read through a daily devotional and a perfunctory “bless me, bless them” prayer, but really taking time to allow God’s stillness to permeate our innermost being and so restore our soul. To make this a regular discipline is to invest in your own life. Each time you do this you make a deposit into your spirit and you become “strengthened with His might in your inner man”. Ephesians 3:16. Overcome peer pressure to be ‘busy’ with things and get in touch with stillness. It will restore your soul. There is a beautiful verse in the Old Testament…. The Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says this, “ONLY in returning to me and waiting for me you will be saved. In quietness and in confidence is your strength”. Isaiah 30:15.

Prayer:
In the stillness Lord, it’s good to sit
Your presence feel, your love to know
Your hand on my head in blessing and power
Lord guide my thoughts this morning hour
I need you so. JS 1983

Makeover


You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God’s likeness – righteous, holy and true. Ephesians 4.24 NLT

At the risk of seeming very shallow I have a confession to make! My most favourite types of TV programmes to watch are the genuine makeover shows and the home improvement makeovers. The people ones are definitely the best. You know, the girl from the chicken farm given a whole new look which she couldn’t afford to give herself; or the guy who has been hiding under a mop of long hippie-style hair and beard for 20 or more years. Suddenly, by the snip of the scissors and the whirr of the razor he is transformed from a “walking bush” into a new person with a handsome face which hadn’t been seen for years. The audience is delighted and the “model” is visibly amazed and pleased with what has been done for them, not to mention the delighted husbands, wives, family members and friends.

Did you know that there is a makeover that takes place – or is supposed to take place – in our Christian life. The Christian makeover is one that affects us from the inside but it should have it’s outworking in how we behave. It is usually not as instantaneous as the TV makeovers because ours is a ‘work in progress’. (Have you seen the T shirt – “Be patient with me, God isn’t finished with me yet”?)

The more we yield ourselves to obeying God’s word, the more change we will see in our lives. The fact that we are a work in progress, however, should never be an excuse for continuing to “live like the devil” as my friend says, and say that we are a Christian. Certainly, just because we have come to Christ for salvation does not mean that all of our behaviour will be Christian. Sadly this is what often gives Christians the label of “hypocrites” by those outside of the church. It gives those who choose not to believe an excuse for not committing their lives to Christ. People in the world know what

Christian behaviour should look like, – that’s interesting, isn’t it! May we not be a stumbling block to those God is speaking to, and wants to speak to, about salvation. Let’s read the verses before our key verse today. …… Since you have heard all about him and have learned the truth that is in Jesus, throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception. Instead there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes. (verses 21 – 23).

Our part is to co-operate with the Holy Spirit in the process of changing us into the likeness of Christ. The key is a change in our thoughts and attitudes. We have to learn to have the mind or attitude of Christ (Philippians 2:5) and this can only come as we study the life of Christ and other scriptures which teach us how a Christian should live. (Romans 12:1-2).This means that we become more and more controlled by the Spirit of Christ and less and less by our own flesh. The difference is like night and day! Listen to this……“When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure, idolatry, participation in demonic activities, hostility, quarrelling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, divisions, the feeling that everyone is wrong except those in your own little group, envy, drunkenness, wild parties and other kinds of sin….When the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.” Galatians 5:19-23.

“What counts is whether we really have been changed into new and different people.” Galatians 6:15

Prayer: Dear Lord, please forgive me for the times I have lived out my life in a way that does not honour you. Help me to co-operate with your Spirit and throw off the old nature and put on the new one so that I become like Christ. Amen.

Thoughts - 2


…...bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
2 Corinthians 10:5b

Do you have a situation in your life that looks hopeless? Did you know that you can ask God to show you a scripture (God’s thoughts) to speak into that situation and watch your thoughts change? When your thinking changes then your faith for change can grow.

Many years ago in Papua New Guinea, Colin and I found ourselves in a very difficult situation. We had accepted a new position on the proviso of certain conditions being fulfilled by the company we were joining. They agreed so we had given 3 months notice to the mission we were serving and were getting close to the end of that time, when we received word that the company did not plan to fulfil certain things which we had requested and taken as part of our guidance. It was a very shaky time for us. God convicted me to fast and pray and at the time he gave me a verse from the psalms “They cried unto the Lord …..and he brought them to their desired haven.” Psalm 107:28-30. This inspired faith in me that God was going to work the situation out for our good. As my husband went off to speak to the head office people about this, I had to bring my thoughts into captivity to the obedience of the word that God had given me by believing it. A very relieved Colin returned home that night with the situation resolved.

Our thoughts are the very things by which we stand or fall, succeed or fail, live or die! Does that sound strange or even far fetched? Perhaps, but let’s take a look. Proverbs has much to say about the words we speak and the power of the tongue. (There are 31 chapters in Proverbs. It’s a good idea to read a chapter of Proverbs a day and it will take you through the whole book in a month.) There are many gems of truth you will find to challenge you.

Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matt. 12:34). Our thoughts, (what is in our heart), give rise to what comes out of our mouth. Have you ever had some words pop out of your mouth in a time of anger and you’ve said, “Whoops, I didn’t mean to say that.” Maybe you didn’t, but the thought was in your heart all the time or you wouldn’t have said it. It is very important that we take control over our thoughts lest they come out of our mouth in a destructive way.

How can we control our thoughts? We can conquer them, but, like everything else in the Christian life it will take faith and patience. The thing we have to do is to line up our thoughts with God’s word. If our thoughts are in contention or disagreement with what God says, then we have to captivate them, change our mind and declare what God’s word says is truth and my thoughts must submit to God’s word. For example, if I am timid and fearful there is a word that supersedes my feelings of fear. It is found in 2 Timothy 1:7; it says this, “For God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” (some versions say self control).

To speak out the truth of God’s word in the face of an onslaught of negative thinking will bring great breakthrough in our lives. The prophet Habbakuk is a good example of that (Habakkuk 3:17). He decided that if he saw lack and failure on every side and if everything went wrong, he was going to praise God and proclaim that God was his strength and would deliver him. I want to be like that, do you?

Prayer: Dear Lord God, help me to look for your words of hope when I find myself in difficult situations. Help me to speak words that bring life to myself and those around me. Amen

Accolades


……You gladly honour each other, but you don’t care about the honour that comes from God. John 5:44

Our world, for the most part, has a great attraction, even fascination with the rich and famous – what they are wearing and doing, where they are living and going. This fascination sells magazines and gives the paparazzi its living and in doing so feeds the fame frenzy that makes the lives of its subjects miserable.

Accolades are showered on ‘the man or the woman of the moment’ – Emmy awards, Tony awards, Grammies and Oscars, but soon the music fades and they can be left floundering for their sense of identity, because the fame that held it in place is gone. I was just watching an interview with a young woman who had been a child sitcom star and when she was fired she was lost. Because she had no vision of a future and was just looking for quick money she made some decisions which took her into ‘work’ that has ruined her reputation. I am sure she is not alone in this.

Jesus was very aware that the accolades or adoration of men could be here today and gone tomorrow. In fact this proved absolutely true in his own life. One day they were hailing him as their king and the next the crowds were crying “crucify him”. This is why Jesus based his life upon the honour he received from God rather than any honour that came from men.

Where do you look for your approval? It doesn’t hurt to ask ourselves that question now and again. In the passage today Jesus is telling the resistant leaders that he is the one who could offer them eternal life (vs 39 – 41) yet they refused to come to him. They were searching the scriptures yet because their eyes were blinded they could not see

that he was the one of whom the scriptures spoke. The prophecies were many that pointed to him being the one but perhaps they thought the messiah would honour them for their position. Because he did not, but rather criticised them as hypocrites for the most part, therefore their pride was hurt so they rejected him. They looked for the accolades and the approval of men (John 12:42-43).

Jesus warns us that if we follow him we will probably be rejected by the world in general. He was and so shall we. Our identity needs to be firmly grounded in who we are in Christ. I am a child of God, beloved, accepted and valued. To know this in my heart will keep me on firm ground when I run into rejection from the world.


Prayer: Heavenly Father, please help me to be more eager to have your praise and approval than the approval of my friends and even my family. Help me to know how valuable I am to you and to live like the child of the King of kings and Lord of lords. Amen

Inspiration


All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right. 2 Tim. 3:16


Many people, even Christian believers, find it difficult to accept the truth of this verse, that the entire Bible is inspired by God. One thing is certain, God’s word has to be taken in faith, we can never work it out with our own natural thinking, because on the surface there would seem to be contradictions.

In my early Christian days I was teaching Bible in schools in New Zealand and this was something that I had to deal with as I came to teach the story of the flood. I wrestled with God on this. I knew that I needed to teach truth, and that I needed to teach it with conviction, yet I could not understand how the whole world could be flooded. At some point during that process I felt that the Lord revealed to me that if I began to decide which parts of the Bible I would believe and which parts I would deny as being truth (because of my own lack of understanding), then I had a problem. If I decided only some was true then how could I believe any of it. For me, it had to be all or nothing. I would take this verse in 2 Timothy to be truth for me, that all scripture was inspired by God.

I would rather err on the side of faith than unbelief. Jesus said that in order to inherit the Kingdom of God we have to become like little children (Mark 10:14-15). Little children take things at face value. They are accepting and trusting and that is the kind of faith God wants for us. I know that some people would call that naiveté but I believe that we need to please God, not people.

As I read John 11 today I was fascinated to see how God can put inspired, prophetic words into the mouth of a hard-hearted Jewish priest who was out to kill the son of God. There was an argument among the religious leaders after Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead. These men were worried that Jesus was becoming too popular and they were going to lose their followers and their control. (John 11: 45 – 53). During the discussion Caiaphas who was the high priest that year said some prophetic words – “Let this one man die for the people.” The following verses show us that he did not think of those words himself, but God had inspired him to say it.

This may seem unimportant but in the way things work it was quite important. God is a God of order and I believe it was important for these words to be spoken by the appointed high priest even though the man’s heart was murderous. God respected the position that Caiaphas held at that time and made sure that the prophetic words came through ‘the proper channel’ if you like. All through scripture there are similar examples. We just have to look below the surface with an open heart and a mind that is teachable, then the Holy Spirit will show us what is true (John 15:26).

Prayer: Dear God, help me to have childlike faith that will please you and a heart that is teachable so that I can know your truth. Amen

Timing

Read John 11:1-44

Although Jesus loved Martha, Mary and Lazarus, he stayed where he was for the next 2 days and did not go to them. Verse 5

If you have ever experienced having to withhold a pleasure, a privilege or some needed help from your children for the purpose of discipline, or long term benefit, you may understand that it was not easy for Jesus to wait 2 days before going to help his friends. Knowing that his friend was sick and that the 2 sisters would have to face his death and all the grief associated with it must have been very difficult for Jesus. Knowing that God had a plan which was for his ultimate glory may have made it a little easier.

By the time Jesus arrived Lazarus had been dead for 4 days and the sisters and their friends were grieving deeply and probably very confused as to why Jesus had not come to them sooner. They knew he could heal their brother. But Jesus wanted to show them something greater. God’s glory and power was going to be made amazingly and unmistakably clear when Lazarus was raised, not from his sickbed, but from his grave. Many people believed in Jesus after this miracle.

Waiting for God to act is never easy. It is a test to see whether we will “be anxious for nothing” (Philippians 4:6) or whether we will try and work something out for ourselves. There are some things in life that we can work out in our own way, but waiting for God’s way is always best because then we have a testimony and God gets the glory. Sometimes our hands are tied as Mary and Martha’s were, and there is nothing we can do except watch and wait for God’s timing. The book of Ecclesiastes tells us that there is a time for everything (3:1).

Psalm 27:14 says this, “Wait patiently for the Lord, be brave and courageous, yes wait patiently for Him. Hebrews 6:12 speaks of us receiving God’s promises through faith and patience, and the need for patient endurance so that as we continue to do God’s will we will receive all that He has promised.

Waiting for God’s timing is difficult but the wonderful thing is that we can ask Him to help us to wait patiently. It does not please God to withhold something from us – sometimes He needs to prepare us to receive the answer, sometimes He wants to develop and strengthen our character and faith a little more, or perhaps He wants His power and glory to be made more clear through His timing. We must remember that He always wants the best for us. We are His much loved children, He is our wise and loving Father.

Prayer: Dear Father, this waiting time is hard for me. Forgive me for my impatience and help me to patiently wait for your best. Help me to trust you for you are faithful. In Jesus’ name. Amen

Receiving Life


“I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.”
John 10:10

I have just been reading an update from a friend whose nephew has recently received a bone marrow transplant in the form of stem cells dripped into his body. The success of this procedure depends upon his body receiving these life-giving cells which will replace the leukemia- diseased cells. If his body rejects them, then I suppose his life will gradually slip away, robbed by the disease. Therefore it is absolutely vital to his continued survival that he receive this gift of life.

As I thought about this young man, I realised how exactly like that it is for us. Without the life of Christ being received, our lives are destined for death. Of course our bodies will all die one day. This is just our earth suit to contain our spirit, which is eternal. But our spirit man needs to receive the gift of new life through Jesus Christ in order to live in eternity with Him.

For many people this is a difficult concept. It is something which needs to be received by a faith which is based in the truth of God’s word. “And without faith it is impossible to please God, for whoever would approach him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” Hebrews 11:6. People live as if this life is all that there is. Their motto is “eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.” But, as the TV ads say, “but wait, there is more!” I believe that our time on earth is purely a preparation ground for eternity. Finding eternal life does not depend on the good works or good lives that we live here, it depends entirely upon receiving the pure life of Christ in exchange for our sinful life. A life inherited from Adam, a life tainted with sin that is not acceptable to God.

It is quite a helpful analogy to think of this young man’s disease-ridden body which is going to let him down unless he finds new life. It is just the same for us. We cannot stand before God in our own goodness and say “Here I am.” A holy God, cannot look upon sinful man. That is why God went to such lengths to make the way for us to have new ‘stem cells’ – the implanted life of Christ to replace our own. Now we live our life through His gift of new life to us.

“Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave him great pleasure……. He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son and our sins are forgiven. He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.”
Ephesians 1:4-8

Will you choose to receive the gift of His life in place of your own. If you have not already done so, I invite you to pray this prayer.

Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of life through Jesus Christ. Please take my old sinful life and replace it with the life of Christ. I ask your forgiveness for all that is past and I thank you for new life through Jesus’ death on the cross. I choose to walk in this new life and ask your help to do this. In Jesus’ name.
Amen

If any person lives in Christ, he is a brand new creation. Old things have passed away and all things have become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

Shipwreck


Cling tightly to your faith in Christ, and always keep your conscience clear. For some people have deliberately violated their consciences; as a result, their faith has been shipwrecked. 1 Timothy 1:19 NLT

The harbour in Hong Kong is very busy with all kinds of vessels from huge container ships to small sampans and everything in between. Many hours of my years here have been spent on various ferries. There is a ferry which plies between Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon peninsular – just a short ride, then there are the ferries to and from Macau, previously a Portuguese colony in the Pearl River delta, but now, like Hong Kong, it is a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China. This 1 hour trip I have done many times but most of my ferry rides have been the 25 minutes between Hong Kong central business district and where I live on Lantau Island, near the airport. Many of the ferries service regular passenger routes to other outlying islands.

Just recently on the front page of the newspaper there appeared a picture of one of the large ferries stranded high and dry on the rocks. Amazingly, in the middle of the day, the ship’s captain, (for reasons unknown at the time of writing this), had taken a wrong turn and the result was a shipwreck – fortunately salvageable and no serious injuries.

The apostle Paul wrote to warn Timothy that it was possible to suffer a shipwreck in our faith if we don’t listen to our conscience – the voice of the Holy Spirit within us. 1 Peter 5:8 warns us to be very watchful because the devil, who is constantly out to trip us up, goes about like a roaring lion. He sets traps for us in order to ‘bring us down’, cause us to take a wrong turn and shipwreck our faith.

It is important to stay in relationship with God, praying, and reading and obeying, His word. This will keep us in tune with our conscience which is our ‘spiritual radar’. If we take heed of what our conscience is telling us we won’t be shipwrecked.

Even if we do get shipwrecked we may be salvageable, but there is always residual damage – consequences to be born, wounds that could have been avoided which then need to be healed. If we walk in obedience to God’s word these things can be avoided. God’s ways are always for our good, He doesn’t want to spoil our fun or cramp our style, He wants to keep us from unnecessary painful experiences. Jesus said, “I have come so that you can have life in all its fullness.” John 10:10.

Prayer:Heavenly Father, please help me to listen to my conscience and stay close to you so that I will not be in danger of shipwreck in my life. Amen

Rainy Days

…..whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
James 1:2-3 NLT

As I write, another wet day is coming to an end. It reminds me of my childhood when we used to sing that little rhyme, “Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.” I wonder if children still sing that? I know there are many parts of the world that would dearly love a good downpour, but at this time of the year in Hong Kong (spring/summer), we get more than our fair share, and with it often comes lots of inconvenience. Black rainstorm warnings are an advisory for people to stay indoors, schools don’t open, or the children are kept in school if the warning goes up when they are already there. Red rainstorm warnings are also a time of needing to be extra careful, as flooding and landslips can occur, as in black storm warnings.

One of the little sayings my husband, Colin, has is, “Into every life a little rain must fall,” meaning that not every day is bright, sunny and trouble free. We all have times when we want the ‘rain’ of difficult circumstances to just go away. When we do experience the ‘rains’ of minor inconvenience it requires extra effort or adjustment on our part; perhaps attitude changes or acceptance of difficulties for a time which may require lifestyle changes. But then there are the ‘rains’ which cause flooding or landslips in our lives. These we would much rather do without. Not only are they an inconvenience, often they are downright overwhelming. Bad news of loved ones, ill health, accidents, death, loss of job or other major life-changing things that come. Sometimes we just want to run away.

How we handle these things when they come is a great test of our character. Often we feel, “Why me, God?” But we are not protected by God from every negative life experience because these trials, although not sent by God – contrary to popular opinion – are allowed by Him and are usually times of great character building. How we react can often give us a good idea of our Christ-likeness – or not! Verse 4 of James chapter 1 goes on to say, “So let it (your character) grow, for when it is fully developed you will be strong in character and ready for anything.” Mmmmm!

Have you noticed that often the people with the strongest character are the ones who have faced much adversity. The other thing we can often see is whether they have accepted it and let it do a good work of building their character, or whether they have resented it and become bitter. As Christians it is very important that we allow God to develop us. We all have need of character-building, not one of us is ‘there yet’. God knows exactly how to do that for each of us.

What rain is falling in your life right now? Can you see it as a blessing, an opportunity to grow in character, or are you resisting? God doesn’t ask us to endure things alone. All we need to do is tell Him that we need his help and we will have it. His grace is there for us and we need to avail ourselves of it. Can you make it an opportunity for joy?

Dear Father God, help me to see the bigger picture when the rains of adversity fall in my life. Help me to allow you to develop my character for your purposes and your glory. Amen

Riding High

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall rise up on wings as eagles; they shall run and not grow weary, and they shall walk and not faint. Isaiah 40:31

As we travelled home on our 500 seat catamaran ferry last night we watched a Macau hydrofoil ferry join us. They are speedy vessels but as we trundled along in the speed limited zone of the harbour, we were actually running ahead of it – much to my husband’s delight! Not for long though. Soon it accelerated and, as it is designed to do, it rose up out of the water balancing on its ‘water wings’ and sped off into the night. What makes the hydrofoil so fast is not just the large turbine engines that propel it, but the lack of drag in the water which the hull of a normal vessel has. It looks rather like its balancing on stilts.

I am inclined to think that God wants us to be able to rise up in life and move with the same ease as the hydrofoil but unfortunately that is not often the reality and I pondered the reason why. Why do we drag along in the waters of life sometimes getting swamped by the waves? I think it’s because there is too much drag – we are riding too low in the water.

God has told us the way to overcome that. If we will take time to wait upon the Lord – spend time in His presence, away from the world’s pressures – we will be empowered to rise up and “fly on wings like eagles”, far above the things of life that would pull us down. Jesus said that we are in this world but we are not to be of this world or to put it another way, we are not to act and live as the rest of the world does (John 15:19). We now have a “super-natural” life through the Holy Spirit who comes to live in us and empower us for this new life. This new kind of life supersedes the natural life but we have to spend time with God to allow it to be developed in us. Our thinking has to be changed from this world’s way of thinking and we have to line up our thinking with God’s word (Romans 12:2). We do that by spending time reading and studying the Bible and coming into agreement with it. We have to let it “speak to us”. We cannot try to work it out with intellect because it is ‘spiritually discerned’ (1 Corinthians 2:14). The spirit of God is waiting to give us understanding but we have to make time to be with God.

It doesn’t mean that we will never have times where we drag along, or even times when we feel like the waters are over our head, but growth in our spiritual life will result in our faith being strengthened and this will reduce the drag in our lives and lift us up out of the heavy waters of life as we learn to trust God and do things His way.

Prayer: Dear Lord, help me to make time to grow in faith and understanding of your ways so that I can rise up on eagles wings above the storms of life. Amen

A Life Entwined


All who eat my flesh and drink my blood remain in me and I in them.
John 6:56

If you have ever been totally shocked, and at the same time totally repulsed and confused by someone’s words, you will know exactly how the people hearing these words from Jesus may have felt that day. What an absolutely shocking thing to say! They were not cannibals and besides, the laws of Moses forbade the drinking of blood. So what was this man talking about?

Jesus was saying that if he was received for who he was, the Son of God, and if by receiving him and allowing his life to become entwined in theirs, they would have eternal life. Of course Jesus’ earthly body was raised up into heaven and he will come again in the clouds – every eye will see him (Revelation 1:7), but if we receive him by faith and abide in him (John 15), we will have the life and power of the living Christ within us. What an amazing thought that is!

Jesus said that when he went back to the Father, his disciples would do the same works that he did on earth and even greater works (John 14:12). That includes us who believe and trust in him today. How can this be? Because the life of Christ is filling and energising our bodies (Colossians 1:29).

At the last supper, Jesus spoke of the bread representing his body and the wine, his blood (Mark 14:22-24). The apostle Paul also used this symbolism when he taught about Holy Communion (1 Corinthians 11:23-25). Partaking of communion is a reminder to us of Christ’s covenant of love and peace with us. It also reminds us that we are partaking of his life.

There is a wonderful scripture in Acts 17:28 which says that “In Him we live and move and have our being.” That is how God wants us to live. As we learn to be more and more aware of His moment by moment presence with us, we will be living the entwined life. This is a life filled with divine possibilities for “nothing is impossible with God”. (Luke 1:37).

Prayer: Lord Jesus, I want to learn how to live a life that is daily entwined with yours so that my heart beats to your beat and so that I do what you want me to do. Amen