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“Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.“ John 20:29 Thomas refused to believe that Jesus had been resurrected from the dead despite the testimonies of all his friends. He wanted hard, tangible proof before he believed. “But he replied, “I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my…

Just because we are Christians doesn’t exempt us from going through hard times. As sons and daughters of God, we will go through trouble. We live in a broken world. We have an enemy who wants to destroy us. But even though hard times are a part of this life, we can be guaranteed that we will not go through those difficult times alone. The Lord Jesus will be with us and will deliver us in those…

Happy Easter weekend to you all! As we celebrate what Jesus did for us by dying on the cross and then conquering death by raising from death I want to share something with you. I came across a quote that ministered to me. “Setting Barabbas free never made sense to me – until i realized…Barabbas is me.” Barabbas was guilty. He deserved his sentence. His very name means, “Son of the…

If there is one truth I want you to hold on to in times of fear, it’s that God is for you. When fear, hopelessness, stress, and anxiety and so much more engulfs us we can hold on to the truth that God is for us. I think of David who echoed these very words. He was in one of the darkest and lowest moments of his life when he declared that God was for him. “You have kept count of my tossings, put…

What do we do when there are parts of our lives that are barren, that don’t seem to be producing anything, that seem to be dead? Areas that are supposed to be producing fruit, areas that are supposed to be alive?! All throughout scripture we see what God did with His servants who were barren so the first thing we need to do is remind ourselves that our God is not the God of barrenness. He is not…

“Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the…

Hi friends. I hope your year has started off with a bang. Happy new year to you all! The new year brings new opportunities for us, new experiences and also an opportunity to make more ground on what we have been working on last year or the past years and to see things completed that we have been working on. As we keep moving forward with the things God has put on our hearts it can be really…

The year is nearly over and God wants you to lay aside the old narratives that you have been living by to this point. We all gravitate to the strongest picture in our minds so if that picture is negative that is what we will gravitate towards. But like I said, God has a better picture for you, He is writing a much better story for you but you must accept it. You must resist the negative story…

Have you ever felt forgotten, ignored, put aside? This is a rhetorical question off course because we have all felt this or something like this at one point or many times in our lives. But people are people, we are not perfect, so it is quite normal to feel this. People will forget us, ignore us, put us aside and we have done the same. But this is not the case with our Lord. He doesn’t forget…

Hi Friends I was on a kids camp a few days ago and it was fun being one of the facilitators. We had never been at this camp site before and there were a whole host of new and challenging activities for the kids to do. It was great to see the kids have fun. But when it came to the different activities we did there were some kids who excelled and some who didn’t. There were some kids who were…

We all face challenging and impossible situations. But in those times how do we respond? Do we respond with fear and doubt, or do we respond with faith, believing that God will make a way? What do we believe in our heart of hearts as we stand before a seemingly unmovable mountain? The truth of the matter is that nothing is impossible with God. No matter how great the storm God is greater. Don’t…

Is there something you have been waiting on God for for a really long time? Are you at the end of your rope and about to give up because nothing seems to be happening? You have prayed, you have waited and waited and waited and still nothing. But I want to encourage you to hold on a little bit longer, to wait a little bit longer. There is something I have been praying about for a really long…

There are hard situations that we encounter that have the potential to take away our hope. Maybe you are reading this and you are on the brink of losing what little hope you have left. But take heart because when hope seems to be gone the Lord is your hope. When it seems like there is no reason to hope I want to encourage you to keep hoping. Remember that the enemy WANTS you to abandon hope. He…

“Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for in you my soul takes refuge; in the shadow of your wings I will take refuge, till the storms of destruction pass by.” Psalm 57:1 ESV This scripture has been speaking to me this week. As I was going through a situation it provided me with the confidence and strength I needed. What trouble are you going through currently? Because in times of…

“There is no wisdom or understanding or counsel against the LORD. The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance is of the LORD.” Proverbs 21:30,31 Happy new year to you friends! I hope you had a great time during the holidays and that you are expectant for a great new year. I want to talk about strength today and the scripture I shared above really spoke to me. Because in…

“Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!” Psalms 31:24 ESV God has amazing things in store for us but we need to learn to wait on Him. There is an appointed time for the fulfilment of His promises so in the meantime we need to slow down. A lot of people miss what God has for them because they rush. Instead of waiting on God they take matters into their own…

God wants you and me to believe in Him wholeheartedly. He wants us to trust that He will do what He has said He will do. I have been challenged in this lately. I have been challenged to trust Him wholeheartedly even though there is no evidence of breakthrough in sight, even when the circumstances around me are saying the total opposite of what He promised. I have been challenged to not let the…