Following Jesus can only be fully realised when we commit ourselves to do it within and alongside a loving community of believers. This includes both corporately in large gatherings and in smaller groups around tables. The Invitation to follow Jesus is an Invitation to community. Which flies against our culture’s over-emphasis on individualism. In community,...
We would like to be formed to be as generous as our father in heaven is. Generosity is more than just being able to give but is a posture of our hearts. Generosity is who our father is; it frees us from the hold of possessions and money and allows us to enter Kingdom Joy....
Again, Kenya is a few weeks to its big elections. We are not to be unengaged but our engagement is to be different. It is incidental who wins the elections. Because for us, it is settled in Heaven and on Earth who is our King and we are called to be fully devoted to Jesus...
True power serves love, not the other way round. Where the presence of God is, so is his power to heal, restore, and cast out evil. Yet it is all for love because God is love. We are called to become love, that is the only true context for God’s power to be demonstrated. Like...
Jesus promises that anyone who believes in Him will have streams of living water flowing from them referring to the Holy Spirit. He also promises that anyone who believes in Him will do what He did and even greater things. Many of us intellectually accept that statement but often disqualify others and even ourselves. Are...
When God pours out his Spirit we receive authority to speak his word. The spirit of God and the word of God are always tied together. When God speaks the word, the Spirit creates. When the Spirit fills us, it causes us to speak in the same authority as Jesus. Sharing prophecy in the church...
The father is more than willing to pour out his Spirit. And it is for anyone who will ask. You do not need to know any more than you know today to receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a person to be in a relationship with, not a power to be harnessed. He...
Jesus was very excited as he talked about us receiving the Holy Spirit. This promise excited him, that as it was always to be from the beginning, God would be in all of us. That our bodies would be temples of the Holy Spirit, filled with the Spirit of the Sovereign Lord. We would contain...
Jesus came and did what the first Adam failed at. He conquered the devil. Through his life, ministry and finally death and resurrection. And this victory was a victory for us all. Yet, it was not just a victory for us but also a showing us how to fight and win. If we want the...
