We had a wonderful Sunday, the Lord made His Presence so wonderfully felt, If you missed the service, you missed out! Natalie Simmons shared a continuation of the series on the beatitudes.  She challenged us to Kingdom living by, acknowledge our failures and embracing the cross. To determine to follow Jesus, seek His assistance and renew our minds.  Real challenge and food for thought.  Don’t miss next Sunday

Yesterday I continued with JJohn’s series on the beatitudes and we spoke about Peace-making as Jesus laid out in Mat 5:9.  This is a much bigger subject than most think and it could have been shared over a couple of Sundays but I managed to get through much.

We saw how we must make peace with ourselves 1^st, then our family and friends, and lastly with society.  We must work toward peace and treat it as valuable.  The word for peace ‘Shalom’ appears 250 times in scripture and has such a deep meaning.

Having a pure heart to see God with is a very, very desirable state of being to me.  It is not something God has placed outside of my reach; it’s one of those things that God gives freely to those who really want it.

We cannot achieve it through work or knowledge; we cannot even achieve a pure heart by following rules; in fact it cannot be achieved externally. A desire for relationship with God happens internally, in your secret history you build up with Him.  It is a dependability on Him that nothing besides being rooted in Him will be good enough.

Yesterday I continued to share on the Beatitudes and we got to Matthew 5:7 “Blessed are the merciful for they will be shown mercy”

Does it seem strange to you that blessing or happiness comes from getting involved with other people?

Today most people think that happiness comes from focusing on ‘THINGS’ … Conversations focus on the latest computers, telephones, best holidays and homes…  Newest clothes and biggest flat screen TV’s… Simply put “Stuff” has become so important that people have been marginalized…

Matthew 5:6, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,  for they will be filled. J

We live in a world today where it becomes increasingly fashionable to not believe that we are sinful; that we don’t need a Saviour; that the devil doesn’t exist and that all we need to do is be…. Be happy; do what u like; don’t bother with what the Bible says; it’s all good; Jesus did the work and we don’t have any responsibility or accountability. All God really wants is for us to be happy. If people don’t have food to eat, don’t worry God will sort it out somehow. If u do something sinful, don’t worry that’s all covered by Grace. This makes Grace cheap.