Category: Living Life To The Full

Yesterday, we had a look at Nehemiah’s prayer. Did you notice the last line? Give your servant success today by granting him favour in the presence of this man.  Nehemiah 1:11 This man? Which...

This is naturally me. I am not good in a crisis. Everyone close to me knows that. I freeze. My body closes down. I’m screaming and panicking inside but I’m rooted to the spot....

When Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, writes to King Darius to warn him that the people have restarted the building work, he includes this phrase in the letter – The work is being carried on with...

Famous last words. The last words spoken take on a special significance. Like these famous last words from Sir Isaac Newton – “I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as...

So to finish off the story of the powerful man with an illness….he was cured. And came to see that there is only one true God – Now I know that there is no...

1 Kings 4 has a beautifully poetic quality. It’s bursting with happiness and prosperity and security and optimism. It’s what it feels like when all is well with the world. The descendants of those...

When the time drew near for David to die………  1 Kings 2:1 So this is it. The time has come. David is putting his affairs in order. He is saying his final words. He...

So we’re nearing the end of the book of 2 Samuel and we’re nearing the end of the life of David. And what a life it’s been! A man blessed and empowered by God...

Kids can be so cruel, can’t they? It was ever thus. I expect you can remember be teased at school for something or another. Other kids can always find something to tease you about....

The Lord gave David victory wherever he went.  2 Samuel 8:6 and 14 We don’t find this easy to understand, do we? The brutality of it all. Philistines, Moabites, the people of Zobah, Edom,...