A few months ago I found myself praying: ‘It’s Your Way or No Way’ My thoughts took me to Exodus 33:15 –  where Moses said: “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.” I felt a sense of wanting to go deeper – I no longer wanted to …

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To Alice Bailey (1880-1949) pioneer of the New Age movement and a revered figure in the United Nations was attributed the famous ten step charter – a ten step plan for a new world order which insisted upon the removal of all Judeo/Christian traditions.  At the time this seemed inconceivable.  Just 74 years later, every …

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God speaks to me in different ways, can be through something that I see (mostly on one of my walks) which will suddenly jump out at me and become a little teaching parable or through a portion of Scripture perhaps, which though read a thousand times, one day will impact me in a way it …

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How did Abram feel when God asked him to leave his country, his people and his father’s household and go to the land God would show him? (Genesis 12)  We are told ‘Abram left, as the Lord told him’.  Was that decision instantaneous or did he struggle to make that choice to leave? Change is …

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Kairos (definition): A perfect, critical, crucial moment; a time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action or decision (words or movement); an appointed season. The time that God acts.  Creates the opportune atmosphere for action. “Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and …

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There is a hidden tribe in Mexico called the Tarahumara Indians, who are considered the world’s greatest ultra-distance runners.  They compete in their own unique running race called rarajipari which is fast-paced, ran barefoot and can last anything between 24 and 48 hours.  ‘They call it the game of life.  “You never know how hard …

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Every race requires persistence, perseverance, endurance, the will to press on.  Every training programme will push beyond our current abilities and stretch us beyond our capabilities.  If it were charted on a graph the line would not be straight; it would go forwards, backwards, up and down and sometimes feel like it’s going nowhere.  Life …

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‘Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us’  Hebrews 12:1 The Christian Journey is compared to a farmer working the ground and planting his seed, to a soldier being trained for battle, to a builder setting down the right foundations before constructing and to an ATHLETE being trained and running this race …

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Realigning my steps, my lifestyle to the narrow way requires me to change, like the needle of a compass which needs readjusting to ensure it is pointing north.  An arrow which is slightly veering to the right or to the left will miss its target; in the same way we need to ensure that our …

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I have been pondering ‘the narrow way’ for some time now.  What exactly does it mean to follow the narrow path? One of my favourite poems is the one written by Robert Frost; The Road not Taken, part of it reads: ‘Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled …

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