The day with dianne Louise

So we must not get tired of doing good, for we will reap at the proper time if we don’t give up. Galatians 6:9 HCSB Giving up is the wide road. Yielding to what tempts us to stray is the chickens way out. You know where chickens end up, under the chop. Today our countries are plagued with an outpouring of evil. If it is not one group shouting for 'rights' it is another wanting to steal our freedom. Christ alone is our source and supply of freedom. Amen! In the midst of all this we see evil tyrants plotting destruction. Our world is fast coming to it's end, so don't give up now, eternity is fast approaching. The Lord is returning for His bride. One who has washed her garments in His blood. He alone makes us pure. He alone gives us life. Nothing, apart from Him brings life. Seek life, eternal life. Seek Him!

There is an occasion for everything, and a time for every activity under heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1 HCSB Knowing the right timing can be challenging. Being out of time can be frustrating. King David was anointed to be king at a young age but there was a time period. After he defeated Goliath he was given the King's daughter in marriage. He may well have thought he was on his way, until...the women started singing about Him being greater than king Saul, then jealousy entered Saul's heart and he was determined to kill David. Then David became a man on the run for years and years. We know David's anguish through the Psalms. Just when all was lost, David became king. Yet kingship had its problems, David's son Absalom decided he wanted the throne and again David was on the run. He had to wait for God to restore him, and He did. As we read David's life, a man loved by God had a terrible time. When we consider the Son of God, He also had a terrible time, and He was t...

The Lord is the One who will go before you. He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.” Deuteronomy 31:8 HCSB These words were spoken by the 120 year old Moses to the nation of Israel as they were about to cross the flooded Jordan led by Joshua. Moses had been with the people for 80 years and was staying behind to die. God had told him he was not passing over into the promised land. Moses had submitted to God's decree and watched from the mountain. The age of the people passing over the river was no greater than the 40's except for Joshua and Caleb who were both in their 80s. The previous generations had died in the wilderness because of their faithlessness 40 years prior, when they had their opportunity to pass over the river and failed because of unbelief. Today these words ring true. It is God who goes before me. He makes the way plain for me to follow. I can trust Him. He loves me and has a plan for me, a hope amd a f...

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort. He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3‭-‬4 HCSB Our experiences give us compassion, at least they should do. As we suffer and our God comforts us we can go on to comfort others. The words: 'in all our afflictions' is comforting in itself. It is not just some of our afflictions, it is all. I know when others share with me how God has been with them through their trials, I am comforted and assured, 'God will be with me!' I suppose this is why having a testimony is also important. Being willing to share your experience through a trial makes you believable and not just a machine. This is particularly true about preachers. You need to do more than expound the scriptures, you need to live them and show them in your lives. Bein...

Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 HCSB How did Paul know that love was greater? Here was a single man who had no intimate experience, an apostle who spends a lot of time on the road and whose teaching was straight as a pole. Yet, as you read Paul's epistles you cannot argue, this man must know the One of whom he speaks and has an intimate relationship with Him. The love Paul does indeed speak of is the love of God. The love of man is fickle and dependent on how others treat it. But the love of God is constant and does not withdraw. We see so many murders and a lot of domestic violence. Why? Where has the love gone? It has been replaced by hate. Hate makes us do things we will later regret. Hate divides families and friends. Yet God's love never fails. Last night I played Miss Marple in a Murder Mystery Party I wrote. It was a great success. No-one guessed the murderer. The red herrings were successful ...

Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13 HCSB I don't know about you, but there are times I wish this verse did not exist. Why? You might well ask! Think about it in your own life. Are you a person of faith? Then faith is important to you; are you a person of hope? Then hope fills your soul. Myself, I know the love of God and am called many times to display it. Yet at certain times, and with certain people it is hard. If we examine the full chapter 13, we discover: love believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things, love never fails. For us, personally, there are those who offend us and tempt us to defy these scriptures. I've got one right now. I have a friend who is making life difficult for me. However, this person is displaying issues that need resolving. What is causing him to behave this way? There are always reasons why people do what they do. Their behaviour can make us walk away or try and ...

Listen! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and have dinner with him, and he with Me. Revelation 3:20 HCSB This scripture is often used for the unsaved, psintings have been done of it as it is very famous, but it is taken from the letter to the church at Laodecia. The beginning is not pretty. Lets look at it: “Write to the angel of the church in Laodicea: “The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Originator of God’s creation says: I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going to vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, ‘I’m rich; I have become wealthy and need nothing,’ and you don’t know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked, I advise you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire so that you may be rich, white clothes so that you may be dressed and your shameful nakedness not be expo...