It is more important that you pray, even when your prayer is just a phrase, a sentence, a breathe. It is important that you pray because your father in Heaven longs to be with you and prayer is the means through which we experienced life with the father. Jesus teaches a few things about what...
The followers of Jesus must have noticed something about how Jesus prayed that led them to ask him to teach them how to pray. Even though they were from a culture that had regular prayers, there was something about how Jesus prayed that was different and drew them. It is that Jesus enjoyed prayer. For...
Jesus has been inviting us To follow Him and become his disciples and learn from him so that we can find rest. But The biggest impediment that hinders people from following Jesus is hurry.it is the greatest enemy of spiritual life in our day the evidence of our souls being hurried is how busy we...
“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” This was an unpopular message of Jesus. In fact, so many people stopped following him when they heard him teach or preach like this. This is a message so unpopular in our culture of self-gratification and do-whatever-you-want...
It seems that for Jesus and later the apostles it is never enough to just believe. We are called to believe and put it into practice. To be not just hearers but also doers of God’s word. Practice is an integral part of discipleship and transformation. You do not become all the things God has...
Here is the thing, here is the mystery and good news. Through faith in Jesus Christ, we are a new creation. God has already called out of us who he created us to be. When God looks at you he is not seeing anxious Betty, or lustful Edgar or prideful John. No, he is seeing...
To become like Jesus we must carve out time and space to spend time with Him. This is learning to practice the presence of God, learning to be in 2 places at once. At work and with Jesus, at the shopping malls and with Jesus, everywhere we are and also with Jesus. This is the...
As we spend our time with Jesus, as we obey Him and not ourselves and our cultures through the power of the Holy Spirit we become like Jesus. Our demeanor and desires begin to even be replaced. Everything we see in Jesus. The life we see in Jesus that we so desire we soon become that. Jesus had no anxiety, completely at peace. Jesus was full of joy. He was full of faith even in trying times. Jesus was completely one with the father. He was patient, gentle, good. Everything that we desire in Jesus as we spend time with him in obedience we become through the power of the Holy Spirit. Yet here is the catch, we cannot desire the life but not the lifestyle of Jesus. The life we see in Jesus is a result of his lifestyle. That is why he invites us to apprentice under him. He literally is inviting us to take his lifestyle upon us.
The church is may change how to do church but we should never change our ‘why’. If so, we must accept that we are doing something entirely different. So why does the church exist? To point the world to Jesus as the fulfilment of Scripture, all of God’s promises. And the promise of God is...
Don’t quiet the praise when you find yourself in the middle of your changed life and not so changed life. Don’t quiet the praise when you find yourself in the middle of the freedom God has given you and feeling not so free or even being persecuted. Don’t quiet the praise when the patterns of...
