But I want to tell you, in my humble opinion, the greatest devotional that has ever been written was written by Oswald Chambers, and it is called, “My Utmost for His Highest.”
Now, listen to this: It was written in 1917 - one hundred years ago, and it is still probably the most popular devotional in the world today.
But you know something? It wasn’t actually written by Oswald Chambers.
Read MoreThere is nothing worse when you are trying to drive a herd of cattle in one direction and one of them normally at the top, resists and turns the other way.
It is painful for that animal and it also slows the work down.
Stop fighting against God.
Read MoreI don’t know how you are feeling at the moment with the lockdown.
Maybe you have been retrenched?
Maybe you are unemployed?
Maybe you are trying to make ends meet?
I know of a young man who has had to sell his motorcar in order to buy food for his family.
Maybe in your business, you just haven’t got any customers? No-one is buying your product.
Maybe you are trying to work out how are you going to pay the school fees?
How are you going to put food on the table…
Read MoreWell, Jesus paid the full price for your sins and my sins.
He took the lashes on His back and was crucified.
Let us today remember that He is not only our Mediator, but He paid a severe price so that we could be reconciled with our Heavenly Father.
Let us go out today and sin no more because our sins are forgiven.
Read MoreIn my opinion, the intercessor is the greatest ministry of all. An intercessor is a person who stands in the gap for people. We are all called to pray.
I myself am a prayer warrior but…
Read More“God is not a man that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said and will He not do?
Or has He not spoken and will He not make it good?” The Book of Numbers, Chapter 23 and verse 19.
Our anchor is Jesus Christ alone and He will see us through.
You know, I looked up in the dictionary to get the definition of the word, “Hope”, and this is what it is: a person or a thing that gives cause for hope.
Well, our Person is Jesus Christ.
Read MoreOne of my favourite scriptures in the Bible is found in the Book of Romans, Chapter 8, and verse 11. I am going to read it today out of the King James Version:
“But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you”.
Jesus is not dead. He is alive. The tomb is empty.
I have been to Israel many, many times and I have been to that tomb and I want to tell you, there is nothing in that tomb. It is empty. Why? Because the Lord is not there.
He is alive and He has been raised from the dead by the Lord.
Now, if we go to the tomb, the shrine of King David, which even today is revered in Israel, as the greatest king, it is full of dead man’s bones. His remains are in the coffin. It is a lovely place to go to. Everybody is allowed to go there, Muslim, Christian, and Jew.
But I want to tell you – he has not been raised from the dead, but Jesus, your saviour, my Lord, is no longer in the grave. He is alive.
Now, if The Holy Spirit has raised Jesus from the dead, that same Holy Spirit will quicken your mortal body.
What does that mean? Well, the dictionary says that “quicken” means to restore life.
He will restore your life today.
“Christ in you, the hope of glory”. Colossians chapter 1 verse 27.
No matter what is happening in the world, remember, the Holy Spirit lives within you. He will heal you. He will strengthen you. He will uplift you. He will take away that depression, that anxiety, and that fear because Jesus is living in you and today you need to grasp that and then you can go out and you can face the world.
It does not matter about the Coronavirus or any other virus.
If Christ is in you, you have the victory.
Read More“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”
Read MoreDuring this lockdown time, there are many questions and there aren’t too many answers.
We are going this way and that way, to and fro, trying to find out and trying to reason what is happening in the world, but why don’t we call upon Him?
Do you know Jesus’s telephone number? It is…
Read MoreAre you feeling forgotten this morning?
Do you feel that maybe the Lord has forgotten the promises that He has made you?
Oh! My dear friend. Please put them aside.
He will never forget you. He loves you so much.
The Lord says in Isaiah chapter 49 and verse 15:
“Can a woman forget her nursing child, and not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.”
and verse 16 says,
“See I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands.”
That’s right, Jesus was crucified for you and me.
He will never ever forget you.
Psalm37:4 says:
” Delight yourselves in the Lord,
And He shall give you the desires of your heart.”
Now you’re not going to believe what I’m going to tell you but last night I received a letter from England.
The letter is from a lady who is the wife of a minister of a church I attended 56 years ago.
Can you believe that?
I was a mere lad of 17 years old and this lovely lady reminded me that I headed up their youth church in 1964.
It’s been a long journey but I want to tell you that the Lord has not forgotten me.
You Know, when I was 17 years old, I wasn’t much of a success at school.
I was underweight. I was full of pimples. I had no self-confidence.
I used to go out on an afternoon after I got back from school with my dog and I would sit on an anthill, and I would speak to God and I would say to the Lord Jesus,” Lord, I want to be a preacher one day.
I want to preach to thousands of people.”
I used to stand up on that anthill and I would visualize preaching to large crowds of thousands of people.
And you know, I went to see my minister and I told him I want to be a preacher and he said,” Well you’ve got to go to university and you’ve got to study.”
Well, I didn’t have a university entrance qualification and I must confess I drifted off into the far country. I traveled all over the world.
I was a cowboy in Australia.
I was a farmer in Scotland. I went to Zambia and Swaziland but you know He has never forgotten me and He will never forget you because as you probably know, He has given me more than the desires of my heart.
The Lord says in Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5, “I will never leave you and I will never forsake you.”
The Passion translation says,” I will never leave you alone. Never. I will not loosen my grip on your life.”
God bless you today and remember He will never forget you and you will never be alone.
Read MoreIt is a dangerous place. You need to be ready, but it is a majestic place.
And as I walked right up it was a summer day and it was hot, very hot and you get those summer storms in the afternoons.
And as I got up to the high place, a storm came but the storm was below me…
Read MoreMany years ago, when I arrived from Zambia, I didn’t have much equipment, in fact, I had one little Leyland tractor and I was trying to plant a crop of seed maize.
The tractor started giving me trouble and it was breaking down all the time.
I was falling behind. Time was almost up for the optimum planting season and I didn’t know what to do.
And I was standing at the headland one day and then all of a sudden, I heard the noise of a lot of tractors coming on the road.
Read MoreEventually, they allowed him to go.
I think with two or three huge swipes, he dropped that tree, and afterward, you could see, it looked like a plane had gone through that tree.
Why? Because he had prepared himself before the competition.
Read MoreIf you go to a car dealer and you buy yourself a brand-new motor car and that motor car starts giving you trouble, where do you go for the final word? Do you go to some pirate parts place to try to buy something cheap to fix it? No. You go straight back to the manufacturer, the one who made the car, and you tell him that the car is not working and he will sort it out for you immediately. Why?
Because he built it!
Read Morewe had a day of fasting and prayer in the church.
And I went into town to get spares and I walked into that church by myself, in my overalls, and I went up to the altar rails to pray.
And as I was about to get down on my knees, you know you feel that somebody watching you…
Read MoreWell, I want to think back to when I was a small boy. My dad was a blacksmith.
They worked with steel all day.
My dad was in the gym 18 hours a day but yet was one of the most gentle men that I ever knew.
You know, he had a back as wide as a door. He had fingers like sausages. He had a grip like a vice-grip but he was so gentle with me and my brother and sister.
Read MoreI want to tell you about a famous Scottish king. His name was Robert The Bruce.
He was being defeated by the enemy. He had lost everything. He was hiding in a cave and he didn’t know what to do.
And he looked at a spider. A spider was building a web and he was trying to get across from the one side of the room to the other.
And he watched that spider and the spider kept going back and forwards, back and forward until eventually, he got to the other side.
And Robert The Bruce realized that if he continued to persevere he could win the battle. He then went out and won and had the victory.
Read MoreAnd as we walked into the church, just before the church, there were a whole lot of vendors on the side of the road and they were selling fruit and they were selling curios and so on.
And I walked up to one little trailer and there was a lovely looking, old dignified man with a white beard, a swarthy man - but what a kind face he had, and he was selling fruit.
And I said to him, “Sir, are you a Christian?”
He said, “Yes. I am a follower of Jesus!”
Read MoreYou know the Bible says in Hebrews, Chapter 13 and verse 2:
“Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels”.
Sometimes you don’t know who that person is that you are taking care of.
We really need to be sensitive to one another.
Read MoreJesus has gone ahead to prepare a place for you and I and my dear friend, He is coming back again very soon, to take us with Him to our eternal home in Heaven.
We are not hirelings, you and I.
We are sons and daughters of The Living God.
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