From Category: verse
The story goes something like this: Israel was in a 3-year-long drought. Elijah accused the people of Israel of “limping between two options” of worship; at that time, between God and Baal. It doesn’t sound too different from our society today. It’s frighteningly easy to pick and choose aspects of different gods or idols (which can be anything).
To determine whose god was real, Elijah and the prophets of Baal gathered at Mount Carmel. The god who lit their altar on fire would be proclaimed as true. Baal’s prophets prayed to their god for hours and hours. They cut themselves and walked around their altar and cried out to Baal. But he did not answer.
Elijah dug a moat around his altar and poured twelve jars of water over it until it was soaking wet. Then he prayed to the God of Israel - the true God, the only God. God sent fire from heaven to burn up the whole altar - the wood and the water and the offering and even the stones.
Elijah poured twelve jars of water on his altar. Sometimes it feels as if there are a never-ending series of water jars being poured out on our lives. One trouble comes, and then another, and they’re all compounded to cause much stress and suffering.
Sometimes it feels like we’re stuck waiting for God to show up. Sometimes it seems as though He’s late. Surely I’ve learnt whatever lesson it is You wanted me to learn by now? Surely You’ve taught me dependence through this trial? Surely we can move on to the easier part, to the bit that I’m yearning for? I know I should learn patience and trust but I think I’ve got that figured out. I’m ready to move on out of this valley.
But instead of the trees clearing, another jar of water is poured out, and we’re sent sprawling back. At first, those knocks can leave us reeling, but it’s easy to become bitter and cynical. I guess this is my life now. Forgive me for wanting something so mundane. Everyone else is obviously in on some blessing that I’m not. Have you forgotten about me, Lord?
But the ending is sure: our God is mighty and powerful. He can send down fire from heaven to burn up every trench of water. He is in control. There is nothing too big for Him. He sees all things and knows all things. He is slow to anger, and abounding in love. He loves us more than we can know. He will save His people.
25 October 2020
God sent Elijah to live by a brook in the wilderness, and everyday He would send ravens to bring him food. What faith that musthave required from Elijah. It reminds me of the Israelites in the desert, who depended on God day by day to provide manna for them to eat. To a lesser extent, I experienced this financially last year, and it was both terrifying and freeing. Elijah had no backup plan or extra food in case the ravens didn’t show up the next day; he relied fully on God to provide for him.
It’s so easy to be lured into the world of smart personal finance and investment portfolios, and to compare salaries and savings and interest rates. To an extent, I suppose these things can be good; we are called to steward our money well. But when we have so much money that we can afford to save and invest, I think it can be easy to forget where it came from, and how dependent we are on the Giver. He sustains and cares and provides for us. One day and then another, step for step, He is there, guiding us through whatever obstacles come our way.
I used to think Elijah was quite rude to ask the widow to first make food for him when there was so little left. How difficult must that be, especially as a mother, to give up the last bit of food for a stranger? But her willingness to oblige is a testament to her faith, which is rewarded. Again, God provides, and again, his provision is day by day. He doesn’t send a great shipment of flour, but promises that what little she has won’t run out. I wonder if she was worried, those first few days, when she returned to the jar for more flour, and then the next day for more again. Was she worried this phenomenon would end?
Sometimes I feel like I’m at the end of my rope, and I just want to give up. My energy is low, my motivation is an inch from the floor, and I don’t know how I’ll get through the next day, let alone the one after that. But God sustains. On those days, I have just enough to get through the first day, and then just enough to get through the next. And before long He is leading me out of the valley again.
Elijah doesn’t answer the widow’s question, which is one we've surely all asked before; “Is this calamity judgment for my sin?” The book of Job provides insight, but I was also reminded of a lesson from the Equip Project podcast; by the power of the cross, we will never face the judgment for our sin, but we do face the consequences of sin. I’ve found this an important distinction to remember.
Returning to Elijah’s story, although he doesn’t comment on whether her son’s illness is brought on by the widow’s sin, he does clearly acknowledge God’s sovereign power in the matter. The happy ending demonstrates God’s total control over everything - even death itself.
Returning to Elijah’s story, although he doesn’t comment on whether her son’s illness is brought on by the widow’s sin, he does clearly acknowledge God’s sovereign power in the matter. The happy ending demonstrates God’s total control over everything - even death itself.
17 October 2020
“Do you not know? (This is amazing news.)
Have you not heard? (This is life-changing news.)
The Lord is the everlasting God, (God is eternal; He is the same God today, yesterday and tomorrow, and His promises stand for all time. He knows everything because He has experienced all of history; all of time. We don’t experience time in the same way as Him; He is beyond time.)
the Creator of the ends of the earth. (God made everything; He knows how everything works and where everything goes. He is a creative God who loves what He has made and takes pride in His work. You were created for His purpose; you were formed with care and placed where you are for a reason.)
He will not grow tired or weary, (Our God is Mighty; He is all-powerful. There is no problem too big for Him, and nothing that He cannot do. He is our Rock of Strength and we can depend on Him in all things, at all times.)
and his understanding no one can fathom.” (His ways are above our ways; we cannot always understand why bad things happen and how He will work them for good. This is one of the things I’ve struggled with most in my faith but over and over, He has proven to be faithful. God will work all things for good. One day we’ll see that all along God has been with us, leading us along the best path. But blessed are those who do not see and still believe; let us be counted in that number; we pray for faith.)
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“Do you not know?Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
And His understanding no one can fathom.”
----- Isaiah 40:28.
07 April 2020
I wrote this on another blog in 2017, but wanted to post it here too.
So often, we allow our thoughts and actions to be dictated by what others think. We are the generation of social media; of carefully tailoring what we do and do not put on Facebook or Instagram. If you’re anything like me, that Instagram caption takes some thinking time before it’s posted; Is it funny? Is it cool? Is it grammatically correct? Maybe you’re not as shallow as I am regarding Instagram captions but chances are you’ve still gotten caught up caring what others think about you. Maybe it’s not online; maybe you care about what other people will think about the clothes you wear or the model of phone you have. How pretty or handsome they think you are. And let’s dig deeper: getting back grades from college professors, being promoted to the ‘A’ Team in sports, getting a standing ovation for a musical performance. Our talents can very easily become idols. Even when we have the best intentions, we can still put our focus on the wrong thing. I was meeting my boyfriend’s parents for the first time a couple of months ago and I was terrified. For a week beforehand I was obsessed with what they would think of me. It wasn’t until we were about ten minutes away from meeting them that a post popped up in my newsfeed: “You are a daughter of the King of Heaven.”
Identities
See, that’s the thing: other people’s opinions shouldn’t matter because they are not the ones who get to define you. As a Christian, your identity (how you are defined) is found in your status as a child of God.
So, I am a girl, a geologist, a ballerina, a foreigner, a student, somebody’s sister, somebody’s daughter. But none of these labels matter in light of my true identity, the only label I want to wear: I am a loved child of God, Maker of Heaven and Earth who loved me so much that two thousand years ago, before anyone on Earth had the slightest inkling of my existence, He sent His Son to die on a cross for my sins.
I am a child of God. That is my identity. That is the label I wear. Every other label that someone puts on me is meaningless in comparison. Their opinion of me, whether they hold me in high esteem or think me about equal to the scum on their shoes; it doesn’t matter.
At the end of the day, we live in a world filled with sinners and sin. If we try to derive our identities from things or people of this world, we will get hurt. We will be seeking validation and substance from things that cannot give that to us. God is the One who created us and has planned every detail for our lives. Surely then, there is no better place to find our identity than from Him?
In Romans 8:17, Paul writes that we are “co-heirs with Christ.” What a privilege! It’s so easy sometimes to lose sight of that amazing fact – that we are co-heirs with Christ, children of God. I find it such a relief whenever I get bogged down by the inane and frankly unimportant niggly things of this world – I am God’s child. That is the most important thing. That is the most important part of my identity.
Talents
I touched on the idea of talents becoming idols a bit earlier. This is an interesting concept – one of those classic ‘get the balance right’ lessons. So we know that God has given us all talents and that He intends for us to use them to His glory (check out the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-30). But we also know that we are to have no idols before God. It took me a while to realise how easily idols are actually made. When I was younger I almost skipped past that commandment, assuming that since I didn’t pray to any golden calves I wasn’t in any danger of breaking it. Of course, our idols can be a lot more subtle than that.
And what is more subtle than dedicating yourself to that sport you play so well, working hard and trying your best the way the Bible tells you to? If this is a talent that God has bestowed upon you do you not then have the responsibility to use it? Well yes…and no. See, there’s a difference between glorifying God with your talents and becoming so caught up in your talents that you make them your new idol.
For me, this manifests in academics. I often have to remind myself that God’s plans are a lot larger and a whole lot better than my own. So I might plan on diligently pursuing a first-class honours degree but if that’s not what God has planned then I need to accept that He knows best. Sure, He has blessed me with some academic ability and I should not waste that gift but I don’t think it’s right for me to get so hung up about grades and exams that they replace Him.
All these talents are gifts from God.
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17)
God is the One who has decided to bless some of us with athletic prowess, others with a mind for numbers, for someone else it is languages, another hospitality, another kindness, another gentleness. Let us not forget who it is we are serving.
Golden Stars and Grey Dots
If you haven’t heard it already I would strongly recommend you read ‘You Are Special’ by Max Lucado. In a quick summary: this is a story about wooden puppets called Wemmicks who are carved by the woodcarver Eli. The puppets stick stickers on each other; golden stars for those they liked or grey dots for those with less desirable traits. One day, Punchinello, a Wemmick covered in grey dots for his clumsiness, meets another Wemmick called Lucia. Lucia has no gold stars and no grey dots. She is void of any stickers, void of wearing the labels of any other Wemmicks. When Punchinello asks her how this is, she explains that she knows Eli, the woodcarver, who tells her she is special just as she is.
This is a beautiful children’s story but I feel it’s one that resonates with us all. When we know God we are no longer defined by the labels other people stick on us, whether they are good or bad. Those stickers fall off us, they cannot get a foothold because we know that in the eyes of the One who truly matters, our God and Father, we are already loved, exactly as we are.
To conclude
So, after all that rambling do you see what I’m getting at? It’s all just a big circle, looping back to God over and over again. You are already loved by the One who loves you more than anybody else could ever dream of loving you. That’s why all these earthly thing (people’s opinions included) don’t matter; only God matters. Love Him, love His people and love yourself. Love, love, love.
God made you. He knit you together in your mother’s womb. He knows the plans He has for you. He created you for a reason, and He has a purpose for your life.
No matter what anybody else thinks you can rest in this truth: He loves us.
Remember: as much as this applies to you it also applies to others. Judging others and labelling them is a sin I fall into very easily and something I am trying really hard to improve. I have no right to judge others. I can only try to love them with the same love that God has for me.
So often, we allow our thoughts and actions to be dictated by what others think. We are the generation of social media; of carefully tailoring what we do and do not put on Facebook or Instagram. If you’re anything like me, that Instagram caption takes some thinking time before it’s posted; Is it funny? Is it cool? Is it grammatically correct? Maybe you’re not as shallow as I am regarding Instagram captions but chances are you’ve still gotten caught up caring what others think about you. Maybe it’s not online; maybe you care about what other people will think about the clothes you wear or the model of phone you have. How pretty or handsome they think you are. And let’s dig deeper: getting back grades from college professors, being promoted to the ‘A’ Team in sports, getting a standing ovation for a musical performance. Our talents can very easily become idols. Even when we have the best intentions, we can still put our focus on the wrong thing. I was meeting my boyfriend’s parents for the first time a couple of months ago and I was terrified. For a week beforehand I was obsessed with what they would think of me. It wasn’t until we were about ten minutes away from meeting them that a post popped up in my newsfeed: “You are a daughter of the King of Heaven.”
Identities
See, that’s the thing: other people’s opinions shouldn’t matter because they are not the ones who get to define you. As a Christian, your identity (how you are defined) is found in your status as a child of God.
So, I am a girl, a geologist, a ballerina, a foreigner, a student, somebody’s sister, somebody’s daughter. But none of these labels matter in light of my true identity, the only label I want to wear: I am a loved child of God, Maker of Heaven and Earth who loved me so much that two thousand years ago, before anyone on Earth had the slightest inkling of my existence, He sent His Son to die on a cross for my sins.
I am a child of God. That is my identity. That is the label I wear. Every other label that someone puts on me is meaningless in comparison. Their opinion of me, whether they hold me in high esteem or think me about equal to the scum on their shoes; it doesn’t matter.
At the end of the day, we live in a world filled with sinners and sin. If we try to derive our identities from things or people of this world, we will get hurt. We will be seeking validation and substance from things that cannot give that to us. God is the One who created us and has planned every detail for our lives. Surely then, there is no better place to find our identity than from Him?
In Romans 8:17, Paul writes that we are “co-heirs with Christ.” What a privilege! It’s so easy sometimes to lose sight of that amazing fact – that we are co-heirs with Christ, children of God. I find it such a relief whenever I get bogged down by the inane and frankly unimportant niggly things of this world – I am God’s child. That is the most important thing. That is the most important part of my identity.
Talents
I touched on the idea of talents becoming idols a bit earlier. This is an interesting concept – one of those classic ‘get the balance right’ lessons. So we know that God has given us all talents and that He intends for us to use them to His glory (check out the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-30). But we also know that we are to have no idols before God. It took me a while to realise how easily idols are actually made. When I was younger I almost skipped past that commandment, assuming that since I didn’t pray to any golden calves I wasn’t in any danger of breaking it. Of course, our idols can be a lot more subtle than that.
And what is more subtle than dedicating yourself to that sport you play so well, working hard and trying your best the way the Bible tells you to? If this is a talent that God has bestowed upon you do you not then have the responsibility to use it? Well yes…and no. See, there’s a difference between glorifying God with your talents and becoming so caught up in your talents that you make them your new idol.
For me, this manifests in academics. I often have to remind myself that God’s plans are a lot larger and a whole lot better than my own. So I might plan on diligently pursuing a first-class honours degree but if that’s not what God has planned then I need to accept that He knows best. Sure, He has blessed me with some academic ability and I should not waste that gift but I don’t think it’s right for me to get so hung up about grades and exams that they replace Him.
All these talents are gifts from God.
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17)
God is the One who has decided to bless some of us with athletic prowess, others with a mind for numbers, for someone else it is languages, another hospitality, another kindness, another gentleness. Let us not forget who it is we are serving.
Golden Stars and Grey Dots
If you haven’t heard it already I would strongly recommend you read ‘You Are Special’ by Max Lucado. In a quick summary: this is a story about wooden puppets called Wemmicks who are carved by the woodcarver Eli. The puppets stick stickers on each other; golden stars for those they liked or grey dots for those with less desirable traits. One day, Punchinello, a Wemmick covered in grey dots for his clumsiness, meets another Wemmick called Lucia. Lucia has no gold stars and no grey dots. She is void of any stickers, void of wearing the labels of any other Wemmicks. When Punchinello asks her how this is, she explains that she knows Eli, the woodcarver, who tells her she is special just as she is.
This is a beautiful children’s story but I feel it’s one that resonates with us all. When we know God we are no longer defined by the labels other people stick on us, whether they are good or bad. Those stickers fall off us, they cannot get a foothold because we know that in the eyes of the One who truly matters, our God and Father, we are already loved, exactly as we are.
To conclude
So, after all that rambling do you see what I’m getting at? It’s all just a big circle, looping back to God over and over again. You are already loved by the One who loves you more than anybody else could ever dream of loving you. That’s why all these earthly thing (people’s opinions included) don’t matter; only God matters. Love Him, love His people and love yourself. Love, love, love.
God made you. He knit you together in your mother’s womb. He knows the plans He has for you. He created you for a reason, and He has a purpose for your life.
No matter what anybody else thinks you can rest in this truth: He loves us.
Remember: as much as this applies to you it also applies to others. Judging others and labelling them is a sin I fall into very easily and something I am trying really hard to improve. I have no right to judge others. I can only try to love them with the same love that God has for me.
07 October 2017
College is right around the corner! (Or quite possibly already under your feet if yours likes to make an early start.) So what does that mean for a Christian in college? Well, plenty: the end of a summer quite possibly fuelled by camps and conferences which have left you on a spiritual high, maybe a move to another city, returning to the classrooms and lecture halls ready for loads of learning ;), meeting new people or catching up with old friends, a new routine (for studying and socialising).
But as Christians, we are called to more than the daily slog; we’re called to take up our crosses daily and live out our lives for Jesus. We are meant to be the bright lights and stars in this dark world, shining for the Lord, spreading His love and the Good News and trying every day to live like Jesus did. Read on for some reminders that’ll hopefully help you as you try to imitate Christ in your college life.
You’ve may have heard this verse quoted before but I’m going to do it again because it’s so applicable: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Philippians 4:6).
It’s so true! God cares about the lilies in the field and the sparrows of the air, He’s not going to forget about us! He loves us with a crazy momentous love that’s far too large and great for our little human brains to understand but He loves us!
I think we’ve all become control freaks, whether we recognise it or not, and we refuse to wholly fully trust in God. We always make our own Plan B’s and we have back-ups and we struggle about in the sand trying to do things our own way. But our God is a loving God who we can trust to take care of us and all our problems. In fact, He calls us to give up our problems to Him; “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28).
Our God is bigger than any problems we may face in our time in college; be they exams, finances, friends, relationships, living out the Gospel, God is in control. What a great comfort we can find in that! Our God can handle them all!
Think about it. How many Christians do your friends know? In my college it’s a pretty slim chance they’ll know more than two or three devout Christians their own age. That means that the way they see me living my life is playing a large part in the kind of image they form about Christianity. That’s a massive responsibility!
And let’s add to this: This is a 24-hour gig. There’s no time off. At all times we are called to live like this. We can’t pick and choose the bits of our lives that we want to live in a Christ-like manner and the bits that we’d rather ignore Him. It is all for Him. As the song goes: Jesus, all for Jesus. All I am and have and ever hope to be.
Now, I mess up so much. It saddens me to think of the amount of times I’ve missed or spoiled an evangelism opportunity because of my own embarrassment or just sheer ignorance. And chances are you guys mess up a good bit too (no judgment guys, just yanno, we’re all sinners). But we can pray to God for help. He’s not going to leave us on our own. With His help, we can strive at all times to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel.
It is easy to love those who love us back. It requires a lot more of us to love those who annoy us, those who are rude to us, those who are strange and won’t boost our super-cool factor.
Jesus calls us to love our neighbours and that means loving even those who are difficult to love. How difficult is it really to give someone a smile? A smile is such a small gesture but it can have such a big impact. Be kind and compassionate and love your neighbour as yourself.
When I first started college I spent the first few months doubting myself. I can’t remember the amount of times that I had to tell myself that I deserved to be in college just as much as everyone else around me, no matter how much cleverer, funnier, friendlier, prettier or more exciting they were.
We are children, loved children, of the King. He loves us. He will care for us. He will never leave us. And that’s the blessed assurance we cling to.
“The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
– Zephaniah 3:17.
““For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.””
– Jeremiah 29:11.
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
– 2 Corinthians 4:18.
But as Christians, we are called to more than the daily slog; we’re called to take up our crosses daily and live out our lives for Jesus. We are meant to be the bright lights and stars in this dark world, shining for the Lord, spreading His love and the Good News and trying every day to live like Jesus did. Read on for some reminders that’ll hopefully help you as you try to imitate Christ in your college life.
1) Remember God is with you. Do not worry. He is in control.
First and foremost, remember that we have a Mighty God who is capable of all things. Through Him all things are possible. You’re not alone in this momentous task. God has sent His Holy Spirit to help us. He’s not leaving us out on our own.You’ve may have heard this verse quoted before but I’m going to do it again because it’s so applicable: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” (Philippians 4:6).
It’s so true! God cares about the lilies in the field and the sparrows of the air, He’s not going to forget about us! He loves us with a crazy momentous love that’s far too large and great for our little human brains to understand but He loves us!
I think we’ve all become control freaks, whether we recognise it or not, and we refuse to wholly fully trust in God. We always make our own Plan B’s and we have back-ups and we struggle about in the sand trying to do things our own way. But our God is a loving God who we can trust to take care of us and all our problems. In fact, He calls us to give up our problems to Him; “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28).
Our God is bigger than any problems we may face in our time in college; be they exams, finances, friends, relationships, living out the Gospel, God is in control. What a great comfort we can find in that! Our God can handle them all!
2) Conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel.
We are called to be ambassadors for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20). This is both a privilege (we are co-heirs with Christ! Us! Me! With all my sin and fumbling through life!) and a responsibility. If we call ourselves Christians, then every day we are witnessing to those around us. It’s amazing how much people pick up, even sub-consciously, just from how we live. The lifestyle choices we make, the way we interact with others (both those we know well and those we don’t know at all), whether or not God is our top priority in all situations; these are the subtle yet so extremely powerful ways in which we are witnessing to those around us.Think about it. How many Christians do your friends know? In my college it’s a pretty slim chance they’ll know more than two or three devout Christians their own age. That means that the way they see me living my life is playing a large part in the kind of image they form about Christianity. That’s a massive responsibility!
And let’s add to this: This is a 24-hour gig. There’s no time off. At all times we are called to live like this. We can’t pick and choose the bits of our lives that we want to live in a Christ-like manner and the bits that we’d rather ignore Him. It is all for Him. As the song goes: Jesus, all for Jesus. All I am and have and ever hope to be.
Now, I mess up so much. It saddens me to think of the amount of times I’ve missed or spoiled an evangelism opportunity because of my own embarrassment or just sheer ignorance. And chances are you guys mess up a good bit too (no judgment guys, just yanno, we’re all sinners). But we can pray to God for help. He’s not going to leave us on our own. With His help, we can strive at all times to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel.
3) Love your neighbours.
College can so quickly become a social game. That’s great! I love my college friends and I don’t see anything wrong with hanging out with them. In fact, I feel quite strongly that God has given me this group of friends to be a witness to and to talk to them about Him. But what about the lost and the lonely? The people immediately labelled as too ‘weird’ or ‘different’ to talk to.It is easy to love those who love us back. It requires a lot more of us to love those who annoy us, those who are rude to us, those who are strange and won’t boost our super-cool factor.
Jesus calls us to love our neighbours and that means loving even those who are difficult to love. How difficult is it really to give someone a smile? A smile is such a small gesture but it can have such a big impact. Be kind and compassionate and love your neighbour as yourself.
4) God loves you. Don’t doubt your self-worth. You are a child of the King.
At the end of the day, the call of Christianity is “Come home.” From there, from inside God’s loving arms, we grow each day and become more and more like Him through the work of His Holy Spirit, through studying the Bible, through spending time with God in prayer. God loves you. The Maker of the Universe, the divine God who is the only God, who knows all things and sees all things and can do all things, He loves you and me! How crazy is that.When I first started college I spent the first few months doubting myself. I can’t remember the amount of times that I had to tell myself that I deserved to be in college just as much as everyone else around me, no matter how much cleverer, funnier, friendlier, prettier or more exciting they were.
We are children, loved children, of the King. He loves us. He will care for us. He will never leave us. And that’s the blessed assurance we cling to.
Bible verses
I don’t know about you but for me all of this can get quite overwhelming. So I’ve included some Bible verses to help:“The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
– Zephaniah 3:17.
““For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.””
– Jeremiah 29:11.
“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”
– 2 Corinthians 4:18.
Prayer
My prayer for you this new college season is that you will grow in your love for God and for those around you. I pray that you will settle well into your colleges and that you will be able to join Christian societies and churches that will further encourage you in your walk with God. I pray that you will always know how deep and how wonderful God’s love for you is.07 September 2017
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