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Judges 6:15-16   “My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family. The LORD answered, I will be with you, and you will strike down all th e Midianites, leaving non e alive ”   We live in a world of qualifications. There is a conditioning that has been inst alled to everyone of us from when we were young without even realising it. To get into seconda ry school, we have to pass certain exams. To get into sixth form or college we have to pass our GCSE’s, and the list goes on and on. We are given exams to measure our capabilities, in the hope that we can be qualified for a job in the future . Even when we finish education, there are interviews, assessments and skills that qualify us.    From this, it has given us the mindset that in everything, if we don’t have the skills or qualifications, that thi ng isn’t within our reach. We assume that without the appropriate skillset , we can’t achieve certain thing s , and with most measures that is t...

Revelation 3: 20   “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me”   I think a lot of us are modern day pharisees. We’ve developed a society where we are fixated on what we can and can’t do in the bible, and we condemn people when we don’t think they fit our own criteria of what a ‘true Christian’ is. But who is in the position to validate our faith if not God? Who has ever fit the criteria of a ‘true Christian’? When we adopt this thinking it’s almost as if we are rejecting the very premise of Jesus’s resurrection. The very foundation of our faith is rooted in the fact that someone died for our sins, so that we may have a relationship with God, not a religion. And I think we must first understand the distinction between the two terms before we can reject this modern-day thinking.   Religion are customs and practices we follow. This can be things like going to church on Sund...

James 1: 2   “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds”   Have you ever not been in a good mood? Have you ever felt like things are just not going your way? If you answered yes to any of those questions, it shows that you are human. Problems occur and things happen that can make us upset, and that is an unfortunate reality we have to face in this world .   For me, one of my resolutions this year is to be more joyful. If I had to make a book about the year of 2024, the title of it would be “ A sequence of difficulties” . In my life, it seemed I was experiencing problem after problem and issue after issue. I couldn’t escape them. The bitter truth is that problems and issues are inevitable, but our attitude towards them isn’t .   At th at time, I was angry at God for allowing all those things to happen to me, but in retrospect I can be grateful to see the work God was doing inside of me, the resilience he was building, ...

1 John 10: 27   “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow me”   Recently I was having a conversation with my friend about how God speaks to us. For my friend, God spoke audibly, through visions and through emotions and for me God spoke through scripture, through people and sometimes dreams. Ironically through our conversation, God was speaking to me. I may not have heard an audible voice, but God was saying to not limit how he communicates. Seeing the different ways God spoke to me and my friend, led me to talk about it today.    Let’s not trap God’s voice through our expectations as to how we want to receive it: God will speak however he desires , we just need to position ourselves to receive the message.   Focussing on the verse, with something so short, a lot is being said. For one, if we are to hear God’s voice, God has to know us. When we say we know someone, we measure them through their character. One of the ways to see if we are known...