Here’s what my Uncle Malcolm had to say about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit comes to stay. Not as in the Old Testament when the Holy Spirit came for a period on people. We cannot receive more of the Holy Spirit than we did at conversion, for the Holy Spirit is a person. The … Read more
Trembling and glowing, I am transformed Into the daughter of the King. The Father’s heart embracing me; Radical devotion sparks; The daughter in me cries, “Daddy!” in helplessness. I will follow this love, The One which never will forsake. The Bridegroom yet I see, At the table, my presence awaits. Quaking, love embraces me And … Read more
https://www.gotquestions.org/Spirit-baptism.htmlhttps://www.christianity.com/wiki/god/how-can-i-understand-the-idea-of-god-the-father.html This week’s blog is all about baptism in the Holy Spirit, this is my account of how it happened to me. After my baptism, I joined the church and started going to the weekly Agape meal, which was a meeting for church members. Every week we would have dinner and worship together. On only … Read more
Shortly after I became a Christian, I started receiving a flow poems of worship to God, which I wrote down, sometimes they came as songs and other times as poems. This went on for about two to three years. I also often had dreams, some of which came true. I was falling in love with … Read more
Soon we were going to church all the time, telling everyone about it (especially me!) It seemed the most natural thing in the world to tell everyone, but some of them thought we were crazy. To me, if God said something in the Bible, He was big enough to do it, because He is the … Read more
Titus 2.13, Romans 15.13, 1 Peter 1.3-5 Jesus Christ is our Living Hope, because we have the hope of eternal life in Him. Because of His resurrection from the dead, we have hope that we will also participate and share in eternal life with Him, through His blood. If Jesus had not risen from the … Read more
I have created this section to pass on the sermon notes of my Great Uncle Malcolm Rowland and will be sharing them from time to time, so that he might be remembered. When my Father passed away, as I was clearing out his office, I found a small, old notebook. It turned out to be … Read more
Isaiah 11.1, Acts 22.8, Matthew 2.23 Matthew 2.23 says that the Messiah will ‘be called a Nazarene.’ Jesus lived in Nazareth as a boy. On His family’s return from Egypt, so he was brought up there. The word Nazarene is translated as ‘holy’, indicating that the Lord would be holy. Nazareth also means ‘the flower … Read more
Psalm 130.4, Daniel 9.9 https://www.biblegateway.com/ https://www.theartofprayer.net/blogs/names-of-god/elohay-selichot I now encountered the God who is ready to forgive, so much so that He made provision for our forgiveness in Jesus, sending His own Son to die on the cross for us. He planned for it! ‘He was slain before the foundation of the world.’ From the beginning … Read more
Matthew 11.19, Luke 7.34 https://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-friend-of-sinners.html It was at this time that I met Jesus, who relates to us as sinners without judgement of our character and circumstances even though He knows everything we have ever done, He accepts and saves all people, no matter what we have done, no one is too sinful or bad … Read more