Faith for life

We all experience times when we feel incredibly joyous and being a believer in Jesus seems the easiest thing in the world. However, we all also experience moments of grief, hopelessness and fear. We who know God, who know his heart, know that he does not bring about the difficult times in our lives. He does not bring about our sufferings. On the contrary, he brings our hope, purpose and peace. I think, sometimes, we are all guilty of forgetting where our emotional pain more often than not comes from; the ‘heart’ of satan. Wherever he can, and whenever he can, he longs to bring about our suffering, he longs to see us in despair, beaten down by our fear. And, so often, we are beaten down by negative emotions before we even realise that he is attacking us, and from where the true source of our pain has come! Any chance he has to steal your joy he will take advantage of, and he’ll do it in a cunning way. His attack will look slightly different from last time. It will affect you sligh...

No matter where you live in the world, every year, the Earth experiences four, different seasons. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Spring is when the flowers start coming back into bloom, though it is still cold, the sun finds days to shine. Summer is when we see and feel the sun the most, it’s warmth bringing us feelings of comfort and joy. Autumn is the sign that Summer is almost over, the leaves start falling from the trees in their thousands. Winter brings with it the cold and the snow, and many days of staying inside. When God made the world, he also made these seasons: And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for  signs and for  seasons,   and for days and years,   and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so”. Genesis 1: 14-15 One thing a lot of people know about me is that I do not love Winter...

Waiting is something I have never been any good at. Whether it’s waiting for dinner, my birthday or finally going to Disney world (FYI mom and dad, still waiting...) I get incredibly impatient. When I was growing up my mom always used to remind me that ‘patience is a virtue’, and it still bothers me that I find patience pretty difficult. However, the Bible talks a lot about patience and the fruit that comes from a patient believer. The word of God says multiple things to this effect: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, PATIENCE, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control”.  Galatians 5: 22-23 Life for believers of Christ, involves a lot more practice in the art of patience. Why do we have to be more patient than everyone else? Because rather than run ahead with our own desires and dreams of the lives we want, we wait for God to direct us. That does not mean that we sit around, biting our nails, doing nothing until God majestically appears ri...