Jasmine

“When you empty yourself of you, God fills you up with more of Him.” Living a life of faith is messy.Like the widow in the story of Elisha who poured out the last of her oil into the jars in front of her (you can find her story in 2 Kings 4:1-7), all God asks […]

That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? Matthew 6:25-27 It is so easy to worry, isn’t it? Family, work, health, money… There are so many things that can

“You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.” Psalms 23:5 Reality is a strange thing. It is solid, dependable, sometimes beautiful, sometimes plain hard and sometimes all this together.Reality right now means having to live life at a slower pace to others

“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24 I remember well watching my daughter playing with her friends when they were little. Beautiful little girls running around the house and garden

“You Galileans!—why do you just stand here looking up at an empty sky? This very Jesus who was taken up from among you to heaven will come as certainly—and mysteriously—as he left.” Acts 1:9-11 MSG I remember as a child staring up at the sky and enjoying the dizzy feeling that came afterwards when I

“God, the one and only— I’ll wait as long as he says. Everything I hope for comes from him, so why not? He’s solid rock under my feet, breathing room for my soul, An impregnable castle: I’m set for life.” Psalm 62:5-6 MSG Life can be hard, and doing life with people can be messy.

I started my day like most others, cup tea in hand and opening my bible ready to read and hear God’s voice. It was a bright Good Friday morning and I started on Mark 15. In it was a deep yet quite short account of Jesus trial before Pilate moving on to his crucifixion. But

“This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT What does the word ‘new’ mean to you? The dictionary defines it as ‘Produced, introduced, or discovered recently or now for the first time; not existing before.’ I

“Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.”Proverbs 4:25-27 (msg) I woke up one morning with the word direction on my heart.What is direction? The dictionary has two definitions of it. 1.

“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness