Righteousness, peace and joy

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit …Romans 14:17 The context of this verse is actually with regards to cleanliness of foods and what one must or must not eat. Bu
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Full Up!

Today, I would like to encourage us to look at Scripture and to learn from those who we know were full of the Spirit. Jesus in Luke 4:1 – “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, 2 where
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Freedom!

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 2 Cor 3:17 Last night, we watched a brilliant rendition of the big story of the Bible at our children’s school. The hilarious musical kept us clicking our finger
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Conviction

8 When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regards to sin and righteousness and judgement: 9 in regard to sin, because people do not believe in me; 10 in regard righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no long
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Help in prayer

26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit in
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Follow the Leader

6 Paul and his companions travelled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. 7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spir
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Spirit of truth and revelation

Today, I would like us to read a set of verses in 1 Cor 2:9 – 15 and to be in prayer, first for ourselves and then for others, especially those who don’t know Christ. Here’s why: there’s just too much to make sense of in this worl
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Glorifying Christ

14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you. 15 All that belongs to the Father is mine. That is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what he will make known to you.’ John 16:14-15 In May 201

Stoke the fire

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. John 4:23 The whole thinking behind the name of this devotional column, Stoke t
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Pushing Doors

6 Paul and his companions travelled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. 7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spir
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