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If you're interested in finding out more about how to encounter the presence of God in stillness and silence, then this ...
05/03/2024

If you're interested in finding out more about how to encounter the presence of God in stillness and silence, then this is a great book to read.

It's really engaging and accessible because it is written by someone who has roles and responsibilities one can easily relate to (including being a wife and a parent) and thus is empathetic to the challenge of making space for solitude in the midst of ‘full’ lives.

Through personal stories and scripture, Ruth Haley Barton reflects on 1 Kings 19 which tells of how the prophet Elijah, despairing and depressed, is renewed and revived through hearing the still small voice of God and encountering His transforming presence. Each chapter ends with a prayer practice to have a go at.

23/11/2023

True Story. Today one of my beagles wee-d in the toilet. 🚽

Now let me stop you there. ✋

Before you get all excited and ask, “wow, how did you train it to do that?!” 😮 🤔

It was all over the floor. 💧 🤦‍♂️

SATURDAY SONGAs the week draws to a close here is a song that I came across this week which has really blessed me.I like...
11/11/2023

SATURDAY SONG

As the week draws to a close here is a song that I came across this week which has really blessed me.

I like it because the three verses express something about who each person of the Trinity is in relation to us. I like that it acknowledges we are sinners who had “hopelessly lost our way”, yet are now the Father’s own who hunger for his healing and grace, and respond in praise “falling before Your throne”.

Have a read and a listen. And may you be blessed by the truth it conveys.

https://youtu.be/ehsgNqE-wlU?si=N2L8x5yoF-aApAKf

Wonderful, merciful Savior
Precious Redeemer and Friend
Who would have thought that a Lamb
Could rescue the souls of men
Oh, You rescue the souls of men

Counselor, Comforter, Keeper
Spirit we long to embrace
You offer hope when our hearts have
Hopelessly lost our way
Oh, we've hopelessly lost the way

You are the One that we praise
You are the One we adore
You give the healing and grace
Our hearts always hunger for
Oh, our hearts always hunger for

Almighty, infinite Father
Faithfully loving Your own
Here in our weakness You find us
Falling before Your throne
Oh, we're falling before Your throne

You are the One that we praise
You are the One we adore
You give the healing and grace
Our hearts always hunger for
Oh, our hearts always hunger for

Songwriters: Dawn Rodgers / Eric Wyse
Wonderful, Merciful Savior lyrics © Capitol CMG Publishing

If my beagles were to engage in spiritual disciplines, I reckon one they’d certainly turn their nose up at would be FAST...
08/11/2023

If my beagles were to engage in spiritual disciplines, I reckon one they’d certainly turn their nose up at would be FASTING. Beagles love food! And mine certainly exercise no restraint whenever there is something to chow down on.

Like my beagles, fasting is something I’ve largely given a miss over the past 22 years of following Jesus. I have fairly regularly practiced abstinence (giving things up for a season) but fasting (depriving the body of food) is one I have only dabbled in sporadically.

Early last year I found myself, on some weeks, taking a day where I would intentionally miss lunch and spend that time praying into three specific things for God to breakthrough. This included: needs of others known to me, family situations and provision in the local church. God in his kindness answered many of these prayers, sometimes quite remarkably.

In recent months I started listening to the Rule of Life podcast from Practicing The Way and specifically the four part season on fasting. This has inspired me to have a go again at fasting and to explore how this could become part of a regular weekly rhythm as I seek to pattern my life more and more on the way of Jesus.

It’s been fascinating to learn that for over a millennium and a half it was normal for Christians to fast two days per week (usually Wednesdays and Fridays) from sunset to sundown. For the majority of Christians in the West, post the Enlightenment, fasting has not played a big part (or any part) in our spiritual rhythms. And yet Jesus fasted and assumed his disciples would…. What might it look like for the church here in the UK to rediscover this ancient spiritual discipline? Might it not only deepen our walk with the Lord individually but also be a catalyst for much needed renewal in the church and revival in the land?

Is the Holy Spirit stirring you to explore this spiritual discipline in your walk with Jesus?

I’m currently facilitating the four week experience ‘The Fasting Practice’ by Practicing The Way. It’s a great way to explore this spiritual discipline and I’m finding much delight and blessing through learning, reflecting and practicing fasting with six of my church family who are hungry for God. It’s well worth checking out.

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