You are not alone…

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes will be saved” – Mark 16:15-16

As Christians, we should have a passion to spread the good news of everlasting life in heaven, with the living God to all people. But I’m not here to preach to you about what you should be spending your time doing; who am I to do that? Today we will look into scripture to reveal what it says about how we are never alone on our mission to be game changers in this 21st century world.

The ascension isn’t about the absence of Jesus, but of his eternal presence on Earth. When Jesus left his disciples, he left them the Holy Spirit. An angel spoke about it and said, ‘”The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.’ Ephesians 3:17-19 tells of the true power of God.

Through the power of the Holy Spirit, you will have the power to go about and spread the news of the gospel and change the world; just like the disciples. I have thought of various ways the Holy Spirit helps us in what we are called to do.

1 Corinthians 12:12

‘Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.’

With the new year came new years resolutions and media campaigns telling you how to get the perfect body, house, life and a myriad of other things.

Where does your self-worth come from?

The Bible teaches us that no matter who we are, God’s eternal love still reaches out to us.

This verse tells us, we are all of equal importance in Christ’s eyes; just in the same way every part of the body is equal importance. The passage goes on to say,  ‘if the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?’.

If you take anything from this post, remember that God loves and cares for you whoever you are, no matter your race or gender. The Lord your God has a great plan for your life.

A week without God

Ever since deciding I want to live my life to praise the Lord, I have never considered what life would be like, without the knowledge of his abounding, unending love for us, irrespective of what we have done. God is my strength that keeps me going through the week.

Take some time this week to consider where God stands in your life and I would like to leave you today with the following verse from Paul.

‘I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.’ – Galatians 2:20

Final Thoughts – Bible Verse Tuesday #6

We weren’t sure what you would think about this new style of series but from the response we have received, you have benefited for these shorter, but still relevant and meaningful posts. I myself, who wrote a large chunk of the series, had the chance to talk with a couple of you and ask why you preferred shorter posts. The overall consensus was that as you can read the whole post in your email browser and you don’t need to load a second page if you enjoy the first paragraph, it can be read where ever you are and whenever you like. Also, because the posts are short, you can read them when you just have five minutes or so to wait for something, and still learn something valuable. As this post style was such a success, you can look forward to seeing it again, in another series coming soon.

Going back to the series we are just drawing to a close, I would like to return to the Bible and review what we have learned over the last month or so. There have been five wholesome posts in this series and I hope that you might have learnt something new.

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” – Matthew 4:4

After the introductory first post (#1) , we dived straight into Gods word, starting with the book of 1 Peter, chapter 5, verse 7 (#2). From that verse we learn that as we go away into our place of work, in this busy world of ours, we can tell God about all of our worries that our causing us unnecessary stress and he will take care of them. In the third post (#3), we looked at a famous verse from 2 Timothy and discovered its true meaning. Post number four (#4), was one of contemplation, we encouraged you to think about if you had ever full comprehended the true mean of Philippians 4:13. Finally, the penultimate post in this series (#5) was on two connected verses in Romans 8. Again, this was rather like the aforementioned post,  as we wanted you to try to understand the extent of what Paul is saying.

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