Prayer Journals

I watched my daughter knit a really beautiful cardigan. She was nearly finished when suddenly she began a very painful process of unravelling what I thought was a magnificent piece of work: It looked like a ‘masterpiece’. I begged her to keep it, but she told me that there was a defect in the handiwork. […]

Poem: by Jean Bryan Stop shovelling dirt unto my coffin. I’m here for a reason, not born for nothing. It’s not time to seal up my tomb. It was God who took me from the womb. As I lay here, I may appear to be dead. But I remember what the Word of God said.

WORD: Turning A Broken Story Into God’s Glory Another favourite Scripture of mine is found in Isaiah 54:5-6, where it says, ‘Fear not…You shall forget the embarrassment of your youth; You shall not remember the reproach of your past life anymore. Because Your Creator will become Your Husband; The Lord…is His Name. Yes, you felt

People of God, it’s always good to occasionally stop, and evaluate our life’s journey. Asking and tackling intimately challenging questions is a great place to start. Where and when did these wounds originate? At what stage in our lives were these poisonous seeds planted? Matthew 13:24-43 tells a story about someone who planted good seed

The Promise laid out in today’s text, is not just there to make us feel good…this is our remedy against all of life’s distresses. It says, ‘For I Will Restore Health To You… I Will Heal Your Wounds, says the Lord’, (Jer 30:17). Today, inscribe your own name within this promise because God is speaking

We cannot predict God or direct Him about how He ought to speak. There is a ‘Now Word’, a ‘Prophetic Word’ for the season you are in. The Hebrew word for this type of prophecy is ‘Naba’: It means to discern, speak or declare what the Lord is saying about your present and future life.

I often describe my own life as a rollercoaster of disappointments. Yet, these experiences have kept me grounded, in faith, in wisdom and in hope. My disappointments has activated me to find the ‘Secret place of the Highest God’ (Ps 91). As I write this journal to encourage you, it comes to mind that there

When I think of David, I don’t just see a shepherd boy with a sling, or the famous, victorious King of Isreal. I see a man who was shaped in the shadows of disappointments. His wisdom did not come cheaply… It was carved into him through betrayal, rejection, loss, and the long wait for the

Turning A Broken Story Into God’s Glory Many of us reading this journal today have carried great dreams and expectant hopes. However, instead of ‘signs and wonders’, we have witnessed our desires unravel in unconventional and unfamiliar ways. This unfamiliar response has left us feeling disappointed. Disappointment is more than just a fleeting feeling: It

WORD: Turning A Broken Story Into God’s Glory To commence this journal, I have decided to start off in an unusual way. Instead of using the story of a woman, I’m going to explore some of David’s life events to introduce some deeper issues at work in the lives of God’s people. Although there are