By Ps Stephen on
1/09/2009 4:53 p.m.
I found this on a web site the other day and liked it - it was free to paste and copy so added it here for you to see... things to pray every day. 1) Plead the blood of Jesus over myself, my family, and my possessions. This prayer places me under His covering, protection, and grace.
2) Pray for angelic protection around me and my house, my car and possessions, and where I am working. I don't want to be blindsided by the enemy when I'm not ready...
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By jimshaw on
9/06/2009 11:49 a.m.
Family, we are begining a series based on First Corinthians and the thought Ive been getting about the church in Corinth is - did they love their city enough to change?
God loves cities. We are going to live in one forever. I think it was God who said seek the peace of your city and you will prosper. Do we love our city? If we dont may be we aren't prospering a we should be.
If you dont love you wife, your marraige wont prosper, youll always be thinking about it negatively and you'll receive no blessing from it, right? So the same with our great city of Manukau. If we dont love it and its people, we'll be tormented every day instead of blessed ever day.
So dont hug trees - love people and the city and prosper!
JIM
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By Ps Stephen on
23/05/2009 3:04 p.m.
 One of the challenges of life is to continue trusting in the Lord. Often we read of people in the bible who started well trusting in the Lord but then as God blessed them they began to trust in the blessing rather than to continue trusting in the Blessor.
Can you see the irony in this verse?
Deu 28:52 They will lay siege to all the cities throughout your land until the high fortified walls in which you trust fall down. They will besiege all the cities throughout the land the LORD your God is giving you.
God points out that you are in the land I gave you but now you have started trusting in walls - rather than in the one who gave you the land on which you built those walls.
What about this verse?
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By Ps Stephen on
14/05/2009 11:54 p.m.
 I was listening to the bible on CD in my car yesterday and this verse stood out. Jesus is saying Woe! In other words you stuffed it all up - to the teachers of the law because they got real picky about one thing in peoples lives but forgot about the real important stuff. He says the tithe on the mint from their garden but forgot to show mercy and justice. Are there times in our lives where we get hung up on the small legalistic insignificant stuff and forget the important things. Maybe we get really carried away with our job/career and forget about the family or we go to church every week and yet fail to forgive that person... Hey food for thought. Deal with your camel - you can do it!
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By jimshaw on
14/03/2009 6:13 p.m.
In Revelation Gods Word says the time will come when God will judge all those that destroy the earth. Woa! What is that. Hope that dosns't mean the poeple in the Amazon with matches to clear the forest. Or Kiwi people who chop down totara trees or shoot possums. Who are these people that dare desecrate Gods earth?
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By jimshaw on
16/12/2008 11:18 a.m.
Elijah is such a 'star' in the Bible, In fact hes such a star still, that Jewish families leave out a chair for him at two of thier annual celebrations each year. He reperesents Gods intervention in thier lives and hope.
It is easy to forget that he was just human like you and I. In fact James the Lords brother, reminds us (5.17) that he was a man of like passions as us yet his prayers we so powerfully answered by God.
This must have been a good news and a great encouragment to James a 'mere man" who grew up with Jesus the perfect one in the house!
James, Elijah you and me, have this in common - humanity and the ability to be powerful in prayer!
Selah
JIM
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By Ps Stephen on
17/10/2008 12:00 a.m.
 I was reading this morning from Matthew 6 and thought I'd share with you some thoughts on the power of prayer.
We all love verse 19 "for power went out from Him and touched them all" but I never realized till now that Jesus had just finished an all night prayer meeting. Verse 12 "He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God."
He then came down and appointed the 12 apostles and then goes off to minister to the people and all power went out from Him.
How important prayer is!
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By jimshaw on
6/05/2008 11:06 a.m.
Hi Guys,
Im not sure I do "blog". If blog is just ramblings of the mind to fill in time of web readers.
But I would like to thank all the church family for your kind wishes and prayers lately.
Maybe BLOG is Beloved of God in which case we are all bloggers!
Have an awesome day!!
Jim
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By siouxsiewoo on
3/05/2008 11:22 p.m.
 OK, if you're interested enough to read what I have to say... GOOD ON YA!!!  Hope whoever you are you know at least in some measure how much you are loved (ooh gooey) and doted on (more goo) and watched (stalked actually) by the living God (aka Creator, Craftsman Supreme, Indescribable I AM).
What the crazy!!!! Everything has a creator, and you are God's ultimate creation. You and your specific features, your crazily individual way of doing things, seeing things, the list goes on. I'm fully in love with this God so send me a query if you wanna know more about why I'm convinced there's no better life on earth than one spent KNOWING HIM [GOD] AND MAKING HIM KNOWN.
If ya know me alre ...
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