Read Exodus 15 This week we are thinking about the Israelites after their amazing and miraculous escape from Egypt across the Red Sea and God’s provision of a dry passage between walls of water on either side. The Egyptian army had floundered in the tumultuous waters as the sea returned to its place and they […]

  This time we are going to look at the name El Shaddai, which means Almighty God and again we shall look at this name in relation to Abram. El Shaddai, the Almighty, all sufficient God is a precious name showing the goodness and grace of our God. This name occurs 8 times in the Old Testament. […]

  Last time we looked at how amazing our Great and Mighty God is. We discovered. How our Great ‘I Am’, Yahweh or Jehovah has myriad names throughout the Bible. We saw how the Creator of Heaven and Earth is God in three persons, working together to form the Universe and all there is in it, […]

The first revelation in scripture of God’s character is the fourth word in the first book, Genesis. “In the beginning GOD…”! (Genesis 1:1) The Hebrew for God here is Elohim. It is like a mark of authorship, ownership, His signature if you like. For example… ‘Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen’. ‘The Bible written […]

I expect some of you have heard of Saeed Abedini and are praying for him and his family. He is an Iranian convert from Islam to Christianity and he has been in prison in Iran for his faith for three years with no immediate or even long term hope of release. His home is in […]

  This week I want to take you back to the exile of Judah to Babylon. Imagine how it must have been for the families of those first noble young men like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, whose names were changed by king Nebuchadnezzar, in honour of the pagan gods he served, to Belteshazzar, Shadrach, […]

Did you, like me, have dreams of what you were going to do for God, when you first became a believer? I was full of ideas of doing great things for Him. In retrospect I’m so glad that my dreams didn’t come true, because His ways and His thoughts are so much better than mine. […]

Have you ever asked yourself why you were born into the family you belong to, into the country you live in? Have you ever asked the question, ‘Why did you choose me Lord to be Your very own? Why out of all the people in this world rushing down the wide path to Hell, did […]