Personal Devotions: Warning – And Recommitment

I started out this morning by reading Psalm 51, which is David’s confession and repentance of sin after adultery and murder.  I wanted to comment about it, but really it speaks for itself…. 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 [...]

How Prepared Does the Church Make People for Marriage?

Another pondering question –  (The concept taken from a friend’s blog) – how prepared does the church make people for marriage?  Thinking about the fact that people say that the statistics about Christian marriages ending in divorce rivals or equals those about marriages among people who do not profess faith.  I started to think about [...]

Question: Why do you blog?

Got into a heated discussion with someone who suggested I stop blogging because I have too much of my life on public display. I disagreed. I blog for social reasons as well as to testify to God’s goodness to me.  I blog because I have gotten major support from the blogosphere as I go through [...]

Personal Devotions: RESURRECTION!

I have been meditating and praying since yesterday’s blog post on the theme of resurrection.  Today I have been reading John 11:1-44 – the death and resurrection of Lazarus. Now most of us know the story – Lazarus was the brother of Mary and Martha, and it says that this Mary is the same one [...]

Personal Devotions – Acts, Call to Repentance and Prophetic Words

Today I spent about an hour reading a couple chapters in the Acts of the Apostles – just being swamped with how Paul and the others were directed by the Holy Spirit, protected and sustained by Him and were able to proclaim the Message of the Way to the Gentiles.   I thought of my [...]

Personal Devotions Series: Test of Faith

Continuing with my personal devotions series, here we have Abraham being asked to sacrifice his son, Issac.  The passage is taken from Genesis 22:1-19. 1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. How many of us would be as quick to say “Here I am,” to [...]

Personal Devotions Series: Psalm 91:9-12

9 If you make the Most High your dwelling— even the LORD, who is my refuge- 10 then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent. 11 For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; 12 they will lift you up in their hands, [...]

Personal Devotions Series: Prophetic Challenge

God told me a great way that I could stay on top of my personal devotions – blog about what He has said through his word!  So, I’ll start today and see what happens… God has been stirring me this morning – I read 2 Chronicles 18:1-27, where the prophet Micaiah has prophesied not just [...]

Infusion: The Parable of the Tea Bag

Yesterday morning God spoke to me as I was making my wife’s cup of green tea. I noticed how the tea, in its nice pyramid shaped bag, started to quickly colour the hot water I had poured into the mug.  As it sat in the water steeping,  I suddenly had a flash of insight. On [...]

I Thought I Understood

A couple years ago a new friend of mine, Phil Iszatt, from England, came with his wife to Barbados for a vacation and a rest for health reasons.  While there, he consented to minister prophetically in one of our meetings.  When he came to me, he said, among other things, that I would be acquainted [...]