Exploring Scripture

Today's thought: God wants to put things on your heart; some bringing joy, others bringing pain. 

Today's thought: Heaven beckons us to approach with whatever is on our hearts. 

Today's thought: My circumstances are but a part of the great arena of God's purposes. 

Today's thought: We are genetically designed to observe and listen twice as much as we speak. 

Today's thought: Faith connects us to Jesus; love demonstrates that connection.

Today's thought: Restrictions will help to focus the mind and heart on how to respond deeply to the important things. 

Today's thought: Taking full possession of the inheritance is a dream that needs to live within us. 

Today's thought: You and I are caught up into something greater than we can manage ourselves.

Today's thought: God's grip on us is far greater than our grip on him. 

Today's thought: The internal evidence of the Spirit is undeniably real and tangible. Seek until you know it for yourself. 

Today's thought: The seal of the Spirit bears the image of Christ. Is he visible in me? 

Today's thought: Move from scepticism to a child-like faith, then sense the power of 'the word of truth.'

Today's thought: Better to map out your day with God in the morning than to mop it up with him in the evening. 

Today's thought: Medieval theology has it that the organ of conception in the virgin Mary was her ear. 

Today's thought: When we come to Christ, initial expectations are both challenged and corrected. 

Today's thought: John the Baptist said, "He must increase and I must decrease" (Jn. 3:30). 

Today's thought: What we have been brought into is far greater than our own personal worlds. 

Today's thought: It is not about what we get; it is more about who we become. We are the treasure. 

Today's thought: This is definitely a case where the end is going to be far better than the beginning. 

Today's thought: The Devil still divides and brings fragmentation. Christ, on the other hand, still unites and draws together.  

Today's thought: Revelation comes when God is about to do something purposefully. 

Today's thought: Learn to live with the mysteries of God. Be content that you don't know everything. 

Today's thought: Wisdom is both to be learned and practised. One without the other doesn't work.

Today's thought: What God gave us in Christ is inexhaustible. Plunge again into its depths.

Today's thought: The moment you believed, all your sins were forgiven. Receive it and doubt no more. 

Today's thought: Be ever thankful for your redemption, but be mindful and tremble always at the cost. 

Today's thought: A good hearty dance takes your breath away. And so it is with this one. 

Today's thought: When you find yourself in the Son, you find yourself incredibly loved.

Today's thought: Do not ever get used to grace. It comes with far more purpose that we can imagine.

Today's thought: Behind everything is a Father who, in deep joy, purposed me into his family. 

Today's thought: In all your service for God, don't ever lose the sense that you are primarily his child. 

Today's thought: I am on the receiving end of a decision that I learned about, but never saw happen. 

Today's thought: The realm of the holy is the realm that God loves and lives in.

Today's thought: Before the earth was born, he whispered your name.

Today's thought: If this be so, where am I most at home? 

Today's thought: We take on the likeness of that which resources us. 

Today's thought: Heaven is a lot closer than you think. 

Today's thought: God has already spoken powerfully and creatively into your future. 

Today's thought: We live by every word that comes from the mouth of God (Deut. 8:3).

Today's thought: Collecting other people's ideas produces mainly froth whereas deep reflection on the truths of God produces fire in the heart. 

Today's thought: There Father and the Son are totally committed to you, and it cost them dearly. 

Today's thought: Let this sink into your heart today - God is excited about you. 

Today's thought: Only the peace that comes from God can bring true wellbeing of soul.

Today's thought: A sure knowledge of our weakness keeps the pure beauty of grace before our eyes. 

Today's thought: Our surroundings have a significant effect on us. Remember to day and tomorrow that you are 'in Christ' with all that this implies. 

Today's thought: Today, do not live under the various labels that others have put on you. You are a saint. 

Today's thought: My own will takes me so far, and often astray. The will of God opens up vast horizons. 

Today's thought: When we are long gone from this earth, what will we leave behind us? The younger saints among us think in terms of 'personal fulfilment'; the elder saints thin in terms of 'legacy.'  

Today's thought: Often, what we think of as being a restriction, can be an opportunity for greater service. 

Today's thought: Before we walk towards the platforms of ministry, remember that nothing in ministry is free. Only grace is free to us, but even that came at a cost to the Father and the Son.