Jesus told his disciples: ‘Don’t worry or surrender to your fear.’ John. 14:1 TPT. Later, Paul would give instructions like: work out your salvation, make every effort to put on,…
Jesus’ brief, but highly impactful, life birthed a new-life movement empowered by the Holy Spirit. The learning curve of this Kingdom-compliant life was steep. It involved a radical departure from…
God is love. His story is a story of eternal, undiminishable, unconditional love. The vaguest of distant memories of that perfect love and likeness in which we were created, is…
One could say that, in the earliest opening days of the church, the Holy Spirit was ‘on the loose.’ He ignited the apostles with vast measures of faith and power…
A couple of weeks ago, my husband read Romans 8:31-34 at the beginning of our church service. Two phrases in particular gripped my heart: “If God is for us, who can be…
The unleashing of the power of the Spirit was not limited to a fire and wind event at Pentecost. That was just the announcement of His arrival. What followed were…
Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit the church expanded daily. The many Jews joining the number, plus the number of non-Jews, meant that the former belief systems represented were…
Jesus ascended to the Father. The Holy Spirit came. The first Gospel message preached, ushered 3 000 souls into the newborn Church of Jesus Christ. The eleven remaining disciples became…
God loves the unexpected, the element of surprise. He provided Abram with a ram for the sacrifice. He opened the Red Sea for a safe and dry escape from Egypt.…
Ever since the ascension of Jesus and his promised return in glory, the church has looked and longed and waited, grown tired of waiting, cried out for answers, invented scenarios…
-our confidence- Some of Jesus’ last words to the disciples were: ‘you will receive power.’ And so, on the day of Pentecost, Peter, ready-fire-aim Peter, mouth-engaged-before-brain Peter, stood before several…
-our provision- From Old Testament Judaism governed by the Law of Moses, to the breaking in of the Kingdom in the person of Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God,…