Friday 22 February 2008

How is best to Serve God?

I was asked by my lovely fiance to put together some pearls of wisdom for some publication that she was putting together. But i thought i would share them with you also...


8 Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, [a]
we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts.


This verse is the personification of what it means to be a Christian. The 4 lines should really strike a chord with all Christians. It speaks of adhering to God’s laws, waiting for God to comeback, praising his name and speaking of the only desire to our hearts being for God. We should all take great comfort in knowing that the words of Isaiah here are what we all feel. What is being said here is the order in which God should be praised. We should be adhering to God’s rules first and foremost, without this base, the rest of praise and serving for God would not work, secondly waiting. We have all waited for God, regardless of what stage of our walks is on. God teaches us patience. But we know, thirdly, that God’s name and his works and perfect will is the desire of all of our hearts.


Use this verse as a motto for today, try and walk in its format. Obey God, wait for his action and have his Name and knowledge that he is perfect at the centre of our hearts. With this base, a holy empire will be built.


In His name - Mikey

Wednesday 20 February 2008

I'm coming back...

OK, so I had started to write some new ones and had planned on storing them up so that I could do a few series here, alas however, it wasn’t to be. Obviously something I had said wasn’t to be published simply because my work computer died and I managed to loose everything.

However, I am encouraged to see that this site is still attacting hundreds if not thousands of visitors per month and its encouraging that the words that I used some 12 months or more ago are still having an impact on peoples lives.

I’m not going to do a full sermon today, but what I will do is just leave you with a thought about the sermons coming up. I do have a series saved on my computer at home, and one which I hadn’t finished giving to Dell road church before I hurt my ankle late last year.

What would you do if everything you knew or loved just got wiped away within a couple of days? What is it that you would think if you just woke up one day and you had nothing? Not a penny, not your family, not even your health. What would you feel? Pain? Anger? Resentment? How about these feelings – Happiness? Joy? Peace? Serenity? Not too close to the top of the list are they. Over the next few days (could turn into months but we’ll see) we’ll be looking at this in a bit more detail For now, if you wanted to prepare, read Job chapter 1-4.

(i might even post the first one today... we'll see).

In Christ’s Name
Mikey