James at Home

Reason and belief will always be challenged. It is not left alone even for a moment. We are constantly checking our frame of reference. I’m driving I need to check my surroundings and I’m living I need to check the time. Am I in a place of refuge and safety or am I in a place where I need to save my self from danger? This is what I have experienced lately. I am not alone in this hope filled world of doubt and fear.   Both changes and staying the same is fear inducing and needs to be tackled with faith. I am a child of the living, not the God of the dead. Where I am each day matters and I need to set my sights on this achievement alone, that I am found in Him. I am found with hope and will always be a child who is greatly and wonderfully loved. I set my eyes upon this, that I am sound in Him, that I am sound with love in my heart for God gave away closeness to His only son to have me in Him. Even when my heart is torn between grace and feeling unworthy I am found at the centre of...

  Trouble - a Testimony of Hope When we call on God he answers us with peace. I can assure you of this. With a shout of triumph we call on God’s hand to deliver the lost from their shame and help the widow in her pain and ask the orphan to come home and wait for the day our enemies made our foot stool. See our heart is an organ, instrument and reservoir for others to see I am made in the image of God. Let’s take a look at the testimony of Jesus. Sent out into the wilderness, Jesus fasted 40 days and did not think to rile against God rather submitted to the Spirit of the Lord and gave himself to God in worship. We think he was lonely and not able to survive a day with out eating of God’s hand. Yet God enabled His son to prosper in the wilderness even to overcome temptation to look down on those who are in trouble.  What is your testimony you wonder. Can you fast and pray? Can you ask and seek? Are you able to sing? Or shall there be freedom to share before you share? Let m...