Find encouragement and insight for your walk with God through these devotionals.
Last week I spoke about spending more time with the Word of God, truly reading through it from cover to cover. Remember the Bible is not 66 different books, it is one book with one message, and if it is read in compartments certain parts of this message gets lost or distorted. Today I would […]
Currently I am listening to a couple of teachings of renowned Christian teachers that I look up to. I admire their knowledge of the Word and their way of interpreting it. I enjoy listening to them as I can see that they are very close to the Lord. But the more I listened to them, […]
I received a lovely email about a young man and an elderly man who decided to have a competition. They wanted to see who was going to cut down the most trees in one day. The young man was quite excited about this competition as he was the stronger of the two by far. They […]
As I said my boys are still small. And when the youngest started to walk, his favorite place in the house was the stairs. I think for any parent it is enough to give them grey hairs! Because he would simply walk over to it and start climbing the twenty stairs. Now and again he […]
My two boys are currently small and those of you with small children will know that they love watching animations. And at their age, they can watch the same animation over and over and over again! Now although I do watch it with them the first time to ensure that the film is okay for […]
We are currently discussing the ways in making your ‘home’ here on earth steadfast against any storm it may face. We have discussed making Jesus your foundation and your family your bricks and now we are looking at yourself and how you can also influence the strength of your home. We have discussed various things […]
As I have mentioned before, if your foundation (your faith) is rock solid and you built your house with Jesus as the cornerstone and time with your family as your bricks, then you are ready to face any curveball that life can throw at you. At least you know your house will stand. Now looking […]
If your house’s foundation is right (your faith in God), and your cornerstone is right (Jesus Christ), and your bricks are right (quality time with your spouse, children and close family), then you can start living in your house. You can be right to weather any storm, because your house would be strong enough to […]
We are discussing the bricks in our lives in order to have a fulfilling life, a life that can weather any storm and still come out strong at the other end. God should be our foundation and Jesus Christ our cornerstone. On this foundation and cornerstone we can start building our house. The bricks we […]
We are discussing the different things that can occupy your time and with which you build your house (your life). There are things that can be regarded as building your house with straw, because when you go through a difficult time in your life, these things that you spent your time on, will not help […]
Last time I discussed the stick in our lives, the thing that is more solid than the straw in our lives, but less important than the bricks and that is our work. Our work is important and should be done to the best of our ability. Our work also consumes a lot of our time […]
We have been discussing the different things in our lives that take up our time, but are things that will not stand the test of time when we truly face storms in our lives. There are so many, but I am simply touching on a few. Another one that most of you most probably have […]
I am sure that most of you know the story of the three little pigs. But for those of you who don’t, in short it is about three little piggy brothers who still lived with their mother. When it was time to leave the house she gave them some advice, told them to build strong […]
While I am busy writing about this theme of waiting on the Lord, He reminded me of a text verse that is so relevant to our discussion: Isaiah 40:31 – “But those who wait upon the Lord will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow […]
Waiting is difficult as I have mentioned before. When we moved into our new home four years ago we planted our garden and couldn’t wait for everything to start to grow! We looked forward to the trees we will have in our garden and all the shade it would provide. Day after day we would […]
We are still continuing on the theme of waiting on God. We’ve discussed a few examples such as David and Paul, but in fact there are quite a number of them, for example Abraham, Jesus, Joseph, to name but a few. Abraham had to wait for years and years, before the Lord blessed him with […]
The timing of certain things in our lives is important. I have mentioned previously that we need to be in sync, otherwise things can turn out differently as it should have been. Just look at a child anxiously waiting for his birthday. You can turn all the clocks and calendars in the house to his […]
Welcome back. As we discussed in the previous blog, it is very difficult for us to wait. We don’t like waiting and we would rather jump in and start than wait for the ‘gun’ to go off. No wonder we often get false starts at the Olympic games. Everyone wants to be the quickest out […]
What do you think is one of the most common things that aggravate people? Yes, unfair treatment, yes, corruption and crime, yes, if you are being lied to, but one thing I can know for certain that everyone has experienced some or other time in their lives is to wait. We as humans cannot wait […]
We get so used to the ordinary that we seldom expect anything more. We go through the motions and do not expect something amazing to happen to us. And it is the same when we try and seek God. If and I mean to stress, if, we make the time to seek the Lord we […]