‘Good people live right...’ Proverbs 20:7 CEV Eventually your life will be summarised in a single sentence. What will your ‘life sentence’ be? If you live intentionally, people at your funeral won’t be left to wonder. Will you get it all exactly right? No. But, ‘Good...
Treasure Your Family
‘...thus shall the man be blessed...’ Psalm 128:4 NKJV If you’re nice to others but not to your own family, you have a problem that needs addressing. So read what this man did: ‘The children were loud, cranky, impossible. I was tired and fed up... I decided...to run...
Reprogramme Your Mind
‘...Let God transform…the way you think...’ Romans 12:2 NLT Behind everything you do, there’s a thought! So if you’re serious about changing your life, you must change how you think. That’s not easy, and it doesn’t happen instantly. Imagine a ship with the automatic...
Insights into Ageing (5)
‘The fear of the Lord adds length to life...’ Proverbs 10:27 NIV Respect for our elders has traditionally been a strength of our culture. However todays’ western influence sees this respect increasingly replaced by the worship of rock stars and sports figures. How...
Insights into Ageing (4)
‘The fear of the Lord adds length to life...’ Proverbs 10:27 NIV Don’t let fear dominate your later years. Don’t let life’s ‘unknowables’, such as finances, health, loneliness, loss of friends and family members, get you down. The Bible says, ‘...You do not know the...
Insights into Ageing (3)
‘The fear of the Lord adds length to life...’ Proverbs 10:27 NIV Ageing well requires that you stay flexible. The Bible says, ‘...Clouds always bring rain; trees always stay wherever they fall. If you worry about the weather and don’t plant seeds, you won’t harvest a...
Insights into Ageing (2)
‘The fear of the Lord adds length to life...’ Proverbs 10:27 NIV The secret of ageing well is staying young at heart, staying close to God, and staying fully engaged with life. The mirror isn’t your problem; how you see yourself is. Have you noticed how some older...
Insights into Ageing (1)
‘The fear of the Lord adds length to life...’ Proverbs 10:27 NIV When asked about the benefits of living to be 100 years old, one man smiled and said, ‘There’s very little peer pressure.’ Thanks to medical science more and more people are living into their eighties...
Your Weakness
‘...He knows how weak we are...’ Psalm 103:14 NLT Any weakness you refuse to deal with will draw you towards the wrong things and set you up for defeat. To live victoriously you must recognise that: (1) Your weakness can emerge at any time. Anything you allow to take...
Have You Found Your Reason for Living?
‘...but if it dies...’ John 12:24 NKJV One day a depressed woman jumped off a bridge into a river. Without thinking, a man standing nearby jumped in to save her. But ‘our hero’ suddenly remembered that he couldn’t swim, so he started thrashing around and screaming for...
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Keintiman, ketergantungan, ketaatan (2)
‘Anak tidak dapat mengerjakan sesuatu dari diri-Nya sendiri, jikalau tidak Ia melihat Bapa mengerjakannya.’ Yohanes 5:19 Ketergantungan adalah hal kedua yang mendefinisikan hubungan Yesus dengan Bapa-Nya. Corrie ten Boom biasa berkata, ‘Saya hanyalah sarung tangan,...
Intimacy, dependency, obedience (2)
‘The Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees his Father doing.’ John 5:19 NIV Dependency is the second thing that defines Jesus’ relationship with His Father. Corrie ten Boom used to say, ‘I am just the glove, Jesus is the hand that fills it and...
Keintiman, ketergantungan, ketaatan (1)
‘Sebab Bapa mengasihi Anak dan Ia menunjukkan kepada-Nya segala sesuatu yang dikerjakan-Nya sendiri.’ Yohanes 5:20 Ketiga hal ini mendefinisikan hubungan yang Yesus miliki dengan Bapa-Nya, dan merupakan pola untuk hubungan yang perlu Anda bangun dengan Tuhan:...
Intimacy, dependency, obedience (1)
‘For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does.’ John 5:20 NIV These three things define the relationship Jesus had with His Father, and they are a blueprint for the kind of relationship you need to build with God: intimacy, dependency, obedience. First:...
Berkat itu bertahap
‘Suruhlah mengumpulkan seluruh Israel ke gunung Karmel.’ 1 Raja-raja 18:19 Bab terbesar dalam kisah hidup Elia terjadi di Gunung Karmel. Saat itulah ia memanggil api dari surga, mengalahkan para nabi Baal, dan mengembalikan hati orang Israel kepada Tuhan. Kata...
Blessing is progressive
‘Gather all Israel to me on Mount Carmel.’ 1 Kings 18:19 NKJV The greatest chapter in the story of Elijah’s life took place on Mount Carmel. That’s when he called down fire from heaven, defeated the prophets of Baal, and turned the hearts of the Israelites back to...
Perbedaan antara Abraham dan Petrus
‘Tetapi ketika dirasanya tiupan angin, takutlah ia dan mulai tenggelam.’ Matius 1 4:30 Ketika Petrus melangkah keluar dari perahu atas perintah Yesus, ia melakukan sesuatu yang belum pernah dilakukannya sebelumnya; sesuatu yang ajaib—berjalan di atas air. Selama ia...
The difference between Abraham and Peter
‘But when he saw the strong wind and the waves, he was terrified and began to sink.’ Matthew 14:30 NLT When Peter stepped out of the boat at the command of Jesus, he was doing something he had never done before; something miraculous—walking on water. As long as he...
Are YOU feeling unqualified?
‘The God of Heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build.’ Nehemiah 2:20 NKJV With its walls torn down, Jerusalem was defenceless against her enemies. So, Nehemiah assembled a team to rebuild the walls. He had no training for this...
Apakah ANDA merasa tidak memenuhi syarat?
‘Allah semesta langit, Dialah yang membuat kami berhasil! Kami, hamba-hamba-Nya, telah siap untuk membangun.’ Nehemia 2:20 Dengan tembok-temboknya yang runtuh, Yerusalem tidak berdaya melawan musuh-musuhnya. Jadi, Nehemia mengumpulkan tim untuk membangun kembali...