James at Home

Now the favour in your life will carry you so far. Where will it carry you? To love. Now love looks like something. Often love takes the form of submission to another and their will. Yet coming to know the one who made you is the first step in coming to favour that flows.  Rivers start with a trickle and end in a stream. The collective of so many droplets of water can cause the stream to bulge, bursting its banks. This bulging can be related to the formation of character in our soul. This soul flooded with love is favour again and again pouring through.  The first part of love is to see we are made in the image of God and then made for His glory. These two cement the first of which is grace upon grace then acting upon this revelation, we all seek the glory of God. So what is the power we seek? Is it just that we are to be known by Him and make Him known by love? Let’s look at this.  It’s profound that love can take us deeper into the foundation of the gospel. Love can fin...

Work in the way of great love and leave a place to remember. I’ve been able to spend time in Rarotonga this week with family and meet some amazing families and people who love this place much. They have traveled from all over the world to see a people who relax into the island life.  As I reflect on many folks we have met while traveling, we have grace enough for us to engage and bless those around us. God has enabled me to see I am a seed in the hand of God. I listen to him speak and say I love you to each of his children. I have been able to say this to a few through our conversations and been able to show love. We are able to share a piece of paradise with the people of the islands as we journey back home on Wednesday it will be a place we want to come back. For who knows how long we will be away. Who knows the time or place. We are resting in the understanding God will guide and we will lead many to him.  With each of our interactions we have been blessed to see Gods hand ...

I was use to walking along the road with no one to guide me in which way I was to go. Now I see the way is a narrow road, not broad, that leads to life (John 7:13-14). I am able to see a piece of grace as a gift from God’s hand, not a limitation that restricts me from seeing his love. So I press forward toward the goal of receiving Christ as my inheritance. This I do, forget what is behind and press forward toward the heavenly calling we have in God’s son Jesus (Philippians 3:14).  For I was once lost in sin, unable to see, deaf from all the drowning noise of chaos and lost in my own pride of life. I thought I was alone because there was no one who could save me. Yet I was only dead due to a decision to forget who I as made to be. I am now in the light, not of life alone, but also of God’s grace. I leave my baggage of tormented soul to enter a new age of transformation. Like a butterfly I used to crawl, now I saw above the wind and lift up above the waves.  In the start o...

  Photo by  Osman Rana  on  Unsplash Words and fear have links that lead to going down the wrong path too easily. Where as we know that God can lead us into circumstances that prosper us and not harm our soul if we trust Him. This article is focusing on Him and our response to His way to gain fruitful interactions with others. Let’s explore this topic. First, I want to explore the topic of grace. Grace can take many forms. It has my hand, it takes my hand, I hold on to the grace of Him who makes a way. See I look for God’s grace and yet he extends it to me. I search for grace and yet it looks for my love. I open up myself to it yet I search only in Him I seek. Yet grace doesn’t over extend itself to me. I need to accept it and I have trouble if I don’t. So I conclude this paragraph saying I am not alone in this struggle to serve others. I seek Him to unveil my grace to others. Second, the topic of grace enables us to serve others in a way that give people a choic...

  Photo by  Josh Hild  on  Unsplash Sow my word to all who listen son, Sow my love to those in need, Sow my love in the garden of Hell, Sow it in my hope of gaining you.

Image from: https://www.freepik.com/author/memajflorin Not all believers hold this aspect of faith, though He is coming back to establish a place of worship and prayer on Earth as it is in Heaven. So what are we, the body, to do in the mean time? What are we to say to those around us in hope for love to make it’s home in our fellowship? We have an important task to undertake. It’s called love the lost.   Each person can see and be seen in life. Each person can use their gifts and abilities to bless and curse each other. We get to choose. Yet so often we fall into the trap of going through the motions that we forget to bless and reject the curse. Remember when Jesus cursed the fig tree and it died for not bearing fruit? (Mark 11:12-25) This act of being blessed isn’t just a nice word, rather it’s the very act of love needed to bring about the promise of God in this body we have called Christ’s body here on earth. Each person uses a portion of love God intended to give and allows ...