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Psalm 119:60 “I will hasten and not delay to obey your commands.” If God has spoken, we must not delay, put off, or procrastinate. We must act. Oswald Chambers said: “Never intend to look up a word. Do it now.” He knew from experience that intentions – however well-meant – do not necessarily lead to…

John 15:4 “Remain in me, and I will remain in you.” In the 1940s, Eric ‘Bash’ Nash started holiday camps for boys at Britain’s top boarding schools. They had a huge influence in due course on the Church of England, raising up future leaders like John Stott, Nicky Gumbel, Archbishop Justin Welby and many more.…

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE! Matthew 8:3 “Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. ‘I am willing,’ he said. ‘Be clean!’” In 2005, a 16-year old girl called Katie Davis, left her comfortable middle class life in Tennessee, to go to an orphanage in Uganda. Three years later she set up her own orphanage…

John 17:15: “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.” Jesus had just eaten his last meal with his disciples, knowing that within 24 hours he would hanging on a cross. We can be sure that what he prayed for them was…

Philippians 2:7 “He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant.” Have you noticed what the above verse is saying? Compare it with what is said about Jesus in verse 6: “being in very nature God”. Those words ‘in very nature’ mean ‘having the essential characteristics of’. In verse 6 we might…

Matthew 5:14,15 “You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.” On the toptens.com website, it lists the world’s top…

Esther 4:14 “Who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?” God plucked Esther from obscurity and placed her in a unique position, as queen in a foreign land, to save her people from annihilation. That was her destiny and calling, which she stepped into and lived…

Deuteronomy 30:19 “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life!” From 1933 to 1937, Viktor Frankl completed his residency in neurology and psychiatry at the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital in Vienna. But it was during the war when…

2 Corinthians 3:14-18 “But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read… But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away… And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory,…

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE Psalm 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God.” On a cold winter’s morning in January 2008, an experiment was carried out in a Washington metro station to assess the behaviour of commuters. The idea was to analyse people’s reactions to a busker playing the violin. Variables such as the…