Pursuing Intimacy With God
22nd December Advent Devotion – Meeting Jesus as Lord
Hello, How was it when you were first filled with The Holy Spirit? Can you remember when you met Jesus as Lord? When we meet Jesus as Lord it leads us to surrender our lives or a part of our life to Him. Today we are privileged to meet with Elizabeth as she is filled…
Read More19th December Advent Devotion – Hope lives in the messy places
Hello, Our Son made a poster as a welcome to those who visit their home. It says “The strangest of all things, Hope lives in the messy places.” Our reading today meets Joseph in such a place! I have found myself in such places many times, and talking honestly to God said, “If…
Read More18th December Advent Devotion – Oh the arms of love, they fly faster than I can fall
Hello, Today we consider the prophetic portraits of Jesus as coming messiah given to God’s children who at the time were in exile in Babylon. To a people utterly destitute, extremely poor, lacking the means to provide for themselves in any way – they had been unable to keep God’s covenant; They had lost their…
Read More17th December Advent Devotion – Jesus is our Source
Hello, We meet Mary just as the Angel Gabriel leaves. Having received news of not only her own pregnancy but that of Zachariah and Elizabeth immediately she hurries to a town in the hill country of Judea, to their home. I can imagine her tired and breathless yet bursting with excitement as she sees Elizabeth.…
Read More15th December Advent Devotion – The power of expectations
Hello, We join with Jesus in Jerusalem as a Jewish Festival is taking place. We gather with the crowds inside the city near the sheep gate at the pool of Bethesda with its 5 covered porches. Its mayhem, sick. blind, lame and paralysed people lay on the porches, among them a man who had been…
Read More14th December Advent Devotion – Our Father’s heart
Hello, There are so many facets to God, for me coming to know him as my Father is profound and precious. Each experience of His love for me draws me deeper, shapes and transforms my heart. This miracle is multiplied as he trusts and enables me to carry His heart and bear His image to…
Read More13th December Advent Devotion – Brokenness, Light and Surrender
Hello, Today we join the crowds who sat with Jesus in the temple courts. They and we are hungry to know him more. As he sits teaching us we are interrupted by the teachers of the law and the Pharisees. They rush in, full of anger and judgement with a woman they caught in adultery. They bring…
Read More11th December Advent Devotion – Take Strength; Have Courage
Hello, When I painted this painting my journey was particularly dark. I didn’t feel safe, yet I had the promise of being hidden in Father’s hands. John 10v27-29 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my…
Read More9th December Advent Devotion – A Heart that sees Jesus
Hello, I don’t know about you, but I never tire of seeing the sun rise and set. Every time, the unique beauty catches me in a fresh way. For me the sunrise says, there is a new day, new hope, new mercy. Its also a statement about darkness submitting to light, a promise of ‘seeing’. God has…
Read More8th December Advent Devotion – In over my head.
Hello, Hebrews 11v1 says “Faith is the assurance of things you have hoped for, the absolute conviction that there are realities you’ve never seen. ” In the reading today, Isaiah’s faith caused him to rejoice and celebrate with his people. That is absolute conviction! Its also the currency of our relationship with God. In our…
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