The day with dianne Louise

““Blessed [with spiritual security] is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the LORD And whose hope and confident expectation is the LORD.” ‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17‬:‭7‬ ‭AMP‬‬ I must rely on the Lord, for He is taking me in dangerous waters. I have never been here before, but He has. Yesterday I travelled to a place called Hetauda to look at land and property that can be used to create what God has put on my heart to do. It was challenging, the manager of the property did not want foreigners doing what I believe I am called to do. Yet, the property there is exactly what is needed. I need wisdom and favour! Divine favour! Only God can give what I need. We had a Nepali driver take us, he was ex-army. I sensed he carried grief like a burden. I had my young colleague talk to him about it while I prayed. He did and now I trust what he said was enough. The road to this place was tortuous. I reasoned that it would be too difficult to have a business in Hetauda and live in Kathmandu. Howev...

“Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭22‬:‭6‬ ‭NIV‬‬ I am a living testimony to this verse. As a young child I had an encounter with the Lord and grew up hungry to know Him. I have a passion to know Him more and love Him as He loves me. When my children were small I taught them to pray, to love the Lord and to come to Him. I must trust that these lessons stayed with them. Jesus is the best friend our children can have. His Holy Spirit is the best spirit for them to know. In all teh books ever written about powers and authorities, none is better than the gospels about Jesus. He walked in divine power and authority. Love your children enough to impart Jesus! Amen!

“So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.”  Galatians‬ ‭6‬:‭9‬-‭10‬ ‭NLT‬‬ People will annoy us and cause us to withdraw a pace. What would God have us do? Remembering we are sowing. What harvest do we want? “Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.”  1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭14‬ ‭NLT‬‬ What does Paul say about the weak? Cast them off? No! Take tender care of those who are weak, in fact be patient with everyone. This is hard for me. People who are older in the Lord, I expect them to be strong in faith. However, many are not. I have to be tough on myself to walk in faith. You might say, “she is a tough old bird!” I am but I am counselled by Paul to be patient and ki...

“The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.” ‭‭John‬ ‭10‬:‭10‬ ‭NLT‬‬ These are the words of our saviour. He tells us there is a thief, his name is Satan. If you have become dull to spiritual truths and believe there is no such being you are misguided. If the Son of God says the thief is real you better believe it. Better than the thief is Jesus who says He has come to give us a rich and abundant life. He is not talking about worldly riches He is talking about the life you can know when He is at the centre. He is our peace in any storm, He is our way in dark valleys, He is our life when death attempts to consume us. When Jesus is at the centre He goes before us and gives us the ride of our lives. He is a constant adventure. I just listened to a testimony from a young Christian woman who is Japanese and who the Lord led to open a restaurant in the area recently destroyed by catastrophic flood in Nepal. She cooked for the ...

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭8‬ ‭NLT‬‬ I just awoke after a not so good dream about my son-in-law. I will not dwell upon it but rather pray for him. He has been a good husband to my daughter and a good father to their children. He is a clever salesman in his field of work and I honour him in all these endeavours. Today I received word that I will receive an unexpected financial payment for my support given to a Pakistani refugee here in Nepal. I am blessed and grateful. It will be used in the next venture. However, these are both worldly things and cannot consume my mental energy. I must put the Lord’s plans before me. He is more concerned about souls. I am learning to love the lowly and be available to pray and support them. Paul goes on to encourage the Philippians to follow his exam...

“Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results.”  James‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬ ‭NLT‬‬ It is good to be honest and transparent. We are not very capable at this. We hide and justify, pretend that it was the other person’s fault. The stories that exist in our heads are all pantomimes. The only alternative to confession of sin is righteousness. Not my own but living in the work Jesus has done for and in me. If you don’t want to confess sin, don’t sin! If we struggle with confessing we can pray for the Holy Spirit to help. ‘Lord please orchestrate a place and time for me to confess’. Last Sunday I was sorely offended by the wimpish behaviour of a friend. I was so tempted to gossip, but went to the Lord and sprayed it out to Him. Another person was vindictive about how and when we should pray. It came from a religious spirit. It also upset me, but again I went to the Lord. I pr...

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”  Jeremiah‬ ‭29‬:‭11‬ ‭NLT‬‬ This is a part of God’s word to His people after they had been exiled in Babylon. He said they would be there 70 years and then He would return them to their own land. This is God’s word to me today in 2026. I must trust Him and His word. If He says He will do something, He will do it! Amen! I am seeking the Lord for the way forward to the plan He has given me. I need His wisdom, provision and guidance. I will continue in prayer until I see the next step. His ways are best! Amen!

“Give your burdens to the LORD, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.”  Psalms‬ ‭55‬:‭22‬ ‭NLT‬‬ This verse is sandwiched between a lament about the betrayal by a trusted friend and a statement about the outcome for that treachery. We are not told the circumstances around the betray but if we look at David’s life portrayed in 1 and 2 Samuel and 1 Kings, we see betrayal at the hands of his son Absalom, and Ahithophel, or it could have been anyone else whom David trusted. It is hard to imagine that David wished his son to hell when he was so devastated at his death. We all face betrayal at some time. We expect a friend to cover us and keep our confidences, and they don’t. Often there is a hidden motive. A self-preservation or greed or even offense. Our God is the only faithful one. He keeps our confidences. He looks out for us and covers us. If we take our grievances to Him He goes before us. He solves all. Others will face Him! His vengeance is...

“But you, dear friends, as you build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God, expecting the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life. Have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; have mercy on others but with fear, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.” ‭‭Jude‬ ‭1‬:‭20‬-‭23‬ ‭HCSB‬‬ Jude was a brother of Jesus. He has spent that last 16 verses speaking against false believers, their attitudes and behaviours. Now he encourages the true believers. Do you make time for those who doubt and are weak in faith? Do you find their moaning difficult? Do you find their self-preoccupation challenging? Then have mercy! Don’t criticise or judge.  We need to rescue these! Challenge their faith by all means but do it in love. To do this we must spend time with the Lord and be charged up in faith. Amen!

“Keep creating in me a clean heart. Fill me with pure thoughts and holy desires, ready to please you.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭51‬:‭10‬ ‭TPT‬‬ I am grateful that the Lord has given me a new heart, a heart that wants to please Him. I am grateful He has given me His Holy Spirit within that instructs me and guides me. However, I cannot take Holy Spirit for granted but honour and treat Him with respect. It is Him I must please, not myself. As I come to prayer with gratitude for His goodness and His purpose for this day I am blessed with an awareness of Him. He is good! Thank you Holy Spirit for your presence. You are my holiness, my goodness, my righteousness. Thank You for Your direction today. Lead me and guide me as to how to please you today. Amen! 

““Remember to observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.”  Exodus‬ ‭20‬:‭8‬ ‭NLT‬‬ There are some Christians who believe they should respect the Sabbath, while others do not. What is the truth? When Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment was, He replied: ‘to love the Lord your God with your whole heart, soul and mind, and there was another like it, love your neighbour as yourself’.  He was often accused of breaking the Savbath, according to religious traditions. What did the apostles teach? Hebrews talks about another rest, that rest is found in Christ (Hebrews 4:9-10). Paul admonished the Galatians for trying to earn points by observing special days (Gal 4:9-11) and he also dealt with this in his epistle to the Colossians 2:16-17. So what should we do on Sunday? Remember the Lord and gather to celebrate Him. Christ is our rest! Amen! Sunday is a day when I go to church and spend time with friends to eat and relax. 

“This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.” 1 John‬ ‭4‬:‭17‬ ‭NIV‬‬ I have to remind myself, always, to live in God’s love for me. As I abide in Him I love. If I am not abiding I do not love, I tolerate. Toleration comes to an end and then I become nasty. I speak unkindly. I am not representing Jesus but rather my flesh. I, daily read an excerpt from Watchman Née, a Chinese minister who spent most of his life in prison. He had a deep understanding of the scripture and what it meant to be a Christian. He talked about living out of the light inside. I liken this to having the Lord’s compassion and loving from that. The light he talked about was the illumination that the Lord gives. We are called to be lights. However, if we do not abide in Him our flesh is in control and there is not light within us. As I fellowship with the Holy Spirit within He shows me the Way of Jesus, as I allow Him to pray thr...

“We are human, but we don’t wage war as humans do. We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. We destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts and teach them to obey Christ.”  2 Corinthians‬ ‭10‬:‭3‬-‭5‬ ‭NLT‬‬ I have been presented with a problem. Unknown to me my colleague invited along his father to Sindhulpalchok. His father has a drinking problem. The area we are in has a problem with alcoholism. I am seeking to minister into that problem and have been, it seems, compromised. If that was not bad enough my colleague took his father with him to the school we are running a program on trafficking. When he showed me the vidoe of the classroom and I saw his father sitting in the classroom I was horrified.  It seems I have a decision to make. I spoke to my colleague in private and told him it was never to happen again. He agreed! However...

“And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.” Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭19‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Paul is writing this to the Philippians who had given to him generously. They were already givers. He was responding to their generousity.  Imagine someone gives you a generous gift, right out of left field. It is way beyond anything you could imagine. You were in need and they were promoted by God to send it to you. How grateful would you be? This was how Paul was. I want to be the recipients of God’s promptings to give because He then blesses ‘preseed down and shaken together will be poured onto my lap!’ I want to experience His abundance. On Monday I went under prompting from the Lord to a Methodist Seminary School to sponsor a young man from an area called a Mugu, which is in the North West of Nepal. This young man was from a Tibetan tribe here in Nepal called Karmarong. He had never met me before and he wondered...

“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” Proverbs‬ ‭4‬:‭23‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Do we really take this verse seriously? Are we too easily angered? Are we too easily wasted by popular opinion? Are we more responsive to negative comments from others or do we relish the positive? I am on the bright side of the fence. Even when bad things happen I look for the seed of change. I might be laid out for a short while but pull back and seek my God in what is next. I read a Napoleon Hill book over the past few days and he was much like me in attitude. It was written in the mid 1900’s but is very relevant to attitudes of success. A positive mental attitude is one of the attributes he speaks about. My heart is really the dwelling place of my God and I must see things from His perspective. I cannot allow bitterness, resentment, self-pity etc to dwell there. He is none of those things. As you read the Old Testament and in particular the book of Kings you see the kings who wer...

“The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you.” Romans‬ ‭8‬:‭11‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Imagine the great power exerted to raise a man who had been brutalised and drained of blood. Jesus Himself, raised a young man, a young girl and Lazarus from the dead. They died of natural causes. However, Jesus, the Son of God, was whipped, crowned with thorns and crucified. Yet, the Holy Spirit, entered Him and raised Him from the dead. Nothing is beyond our God’s power to reverse! No sickness or disease can destroy what is filled with His power. He is great and there is none like Him! We can take this scripture as medicine. It is full of life! As often as we would take medicine take this verse and speak it over your life (I am talking to me also).

“Then he said, “Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand.” Mark‬ ‭4‬:‭9‬ ‭NLT‬‬ This verse comes after the parable of the seed and the sower. We have heard it many times but do we fully understand? We can apply this to sharing the gospel with unsaved people, but we can also apply it to ourselves. How many times have we been at church, heard a message and gone out and forgot what it was all about? This testimony indicates the condition of the soil in our hearts. The condition of the soil is our responsibility. How do we keep it receptive to good seed? We keep it fertile by keeping watch over what we allow our hearts to engage with. Do we spend our time watching movies, playing games, or reading novels? Where does the word of God fit in our lives? Are we engaged in the ministry God has given us? Do we know what that is? Sharing the gospel! No you do not need to be an evangelist to share the gospel! What authority do we accept? Is the Lord Lord of our lives or are we? Are we ...

“Put on the full armour of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭6‬:‭11‬ ‭NIV‬‬ When Paul wrote this and the passage following I wonder if he was reminded of a passage in Isaiah 59:17 “He put on righteousness as his body armor and placed the helmet of salvation on his head. He clothed himself with a robe of vengeance and wrapped himself in a cloak of divine passion.” ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭59‬:‭17‬ ‭NLT‬‬ Here Isaiah was speaking about the Lord.  Why would God need to put on a helmet of salvation? He was going to deliver His people. It indicates a determination to save His people. He did not need to remind Himself of salvation through Christ.  Again why would He need a breastplate of righteousness, He is righteousness! Perhaps Paul wanted us to remember we are clothed in Christ, in a newness of life. As we abide in Him He renews our mind, our mind is to be used for a divine purpose. As a Paul exhorts us in Colossians: “Think about the things of h...

“The LORD replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Exodus‬ ‭33‬:‭14‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Here the Lord is speaking to Moses. A few verses earlier God had said He would not go with the children of Israel because they were a stiff necked people. They had mourned at this and stripped off their jewellery and humbled themselves Moses had told the Lord he would not go unless the Lord went with them. God relented.  There are many instances where God changed His mind about destroying the people after they had humbled themselves and a man had interceded for them. Intercession works! We need to see our role as intercessors. Our nations need us! God will hear our prayers! Amen!

“Remember this—a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop. You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don’t give reluctantly or in response to pressure. “For God loves a person who gives cheerfully.” And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others. As the Scriptures say, “They share freely and give generously to the poor. Their good deeds will be remembered forever.” For God is the one who provides seed for the farmer and then bread to eat. In the same way, he will provide and increase your resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you. Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous. And when we take your gifts to those who need them, they will thank God. So two good things will result from this ministry of giving—the needs of the believers in Jerusalem will be met, an...