Thoughts and Other Things

We’ve all come to terms with the fact that not all things in our lives will happen over-night. We’ve grown to realize that sometimes we’ll miraculously leave Egypt in one night but sometimes we’ll take forty years to get into Canaan. So we’ve learnt that we need patience as a fruit of the Spirit because we’ll have to wait for some miracles. But the issue is not just the waiting, but how we wait. Just a day ago God impressed in my heart the issue of waiting without anxiety for His promises, He said “anticipate without being anxious”. He was re-teaching me a few things about His promises concerning offering and it really refreshed my spirit. To anticipate is to expect something; and this is the life of faith, we live constantly expecting the answers to our prayers and the fulfilment of God’s Word in our lives. We live like the disciples after Jesus had ascended into heaven. They had to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Holy Spirit; not knowing when and how He’d come, but they k...

One thing I learnt early this year is that God will close some doors. I know the ‘general Christian formula’ is that if doors open it’s God and if they close it’s the devil. We give that fallen angel too much credit. A story I like in the Bible is that of Elijah in 1 Kings 17; not his popular encounter with the widow at Zarephath, but how he got to her. “ 5So he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. 6The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook. 7Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. 8Then the word of the Lord came to him: 9“Go at once to Zarephath of Sidon and stay there. I have commanded a widow in that place to supply you with food.” Last year I had the privilege of sharing the gospel and discipling at a few schools in my area. Evangelism is something quiet close to my heart and I had prayed and God had open...