In Psalm 138:7 the poet says7, “By your mighty power I can walk through any devastation.” Many English translations render this phrase as “walk in the midst of trouble.” The Hebrew word is tṣārāh and it means trouble, distress, anguish; a situation or time of extreme discomfort; dire straits.
It’s great that God’s power can get us through but don’t you wish when it came to tṣārāh that there was an opt out button?
Ah, but what if these shadowlands are place we will receive unexpected favor and revelation of the Father’s heart? That's how it was for Ezekiel, who, while he was trapped in captivity and poverty and national depression, sees the heavens open and has visions of God.
If we’re willing, in that desolate place, God may give us the most powerful spiritual experience of our life—these troubled places may be God’s choicest place for revelation!
I Can Walk Through Any Devastation
June 10, 2018 • Graeme Sellers
Upside Down Kingdom
December 30, 2018 • Dirk Duhlstine
God says: 1. If you want to be great… be a servant 2. To find yourself…you must die to yourself 3. To get back at your enemy…you should love him 4. To become rich… give money away God's kingdom is an upside down kingdom! When we clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience and love…which is clothing ourselves with the person and nature of http://christ...we’re clothing ourselves for battle.
Words Create Worlds
December 23, 2018 • Graeme Sellers
Our words create worlds. The words we speak shape and create world we live in. Words have always created worlds. It’s true. How was our world made? Words. Ten times in the creation account of Genesis 1 we read this: “And God said…” Their impact is captured in Genesis 2:1 “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.” Gen. 1:28 reports that we are made in God’s image, so why should it surprise us that our words have creative power as well? God would urge us to listen to ourselves, to pay attention to the words we speak and the worlds they create.
What's the Point?
December 16, 2018 • Graeme Sellers
What’s the point of this – the Sunday morning church gathering that is, for many of us, a regular part of our lives? What if the point isn’t what we think it is, or is more than we imagined it is? God isn’t afraid of honest inquiry or the fierce conversation, and the answers to this question may surprise and delight us!