Our God is a Faithful God...

Our God is a faithful God! He is always with us, every season of our lives, every minute of the day and every area of the world!!

If I wake up in the middle of the night I can talk to Him and know that He is there. On the busy street as my thoughts turn to Him, He is there.

What an amazing God!! That someone so powerful, mighty and incredible takes time to go everywhere with me!! As I looked at in couple of blogs ago, He is a God that cares for me, but as if that wasn't enough He goes everywhere with me! I don't deserve even a second of His time let alone the fact I can call on Him whenever.

How ridiculous?!

He is always there, He is always listening, He cares and He loves us, yet He is the greatest and most high!

My God is amazing!!

I love it when those seemingly small truths come back to hit me in the face and I realise over and over again how incredible they truly are!

Too often do I become complacent with those truths, I love fresh revelations of His love!

Running the race, not alone, but together...

"When we get together, I want to encourage you in your faith, but I also want to be encouraged by yours." Romans 1:12 (NLT)

I was on Skype earlier to my friend who has been out in South Africa for about 4 months now and having just got off of it, it is time to reflect...

The above verse written by Paul is such a challenge to us,to encourage one another in our faith and to help each other run the race. When talking to my friend I am continually inspired to change my bad characteristics, to push myself more and to seek God further; as I see her faith grow more and more I want mine to do the same. When I see how God has provided for her out there, and how she is so dependent on Him I can't help but be inspired, and I'd like to think even if it is only small I can inspire and encourage her to continue and increase what she's doing already.

Running the Christian race doesn't have to be a lonely one; for one, we have God right beside us, running by our sides as it were and secondly we have our brothers and sisters running too. When others lag behind it may seem easier to continue running, but if we're to do as Paul writes, we need to go back, pick them up where they've fallen and encourage them to continue, because you never know, that kindness may need to be returned when we fall ourselves.

In a world so bitter and mocking it is important that we spur each other on, that in times of trouble we say that little encouraging word that can make all the difference.

When was the last time you encouraged someone? I know for me, it was far too long ago!

Take one challenge today and encourage someone, spur them on in the race and run along side them. If you legs feel weary and you're struggling to carrying on, there's a God who loves you and there's people running with you, who love you and will pick you up and help you.

"So take a new grip with your tired hands and stand firm on your shaky legs. Mark out a straight path for your feet. Then those who follow you, though they are weak and lame, will not stumble and fall but will become strong" Hebrews 12:12-13 (NLT)

A Great BIG God cares about tiny, little us...

So I may not have blogged in a while and the expectation to write something profound is probably quite high, but I only have something simple to say, profound in its own right.

Our God is a GREAT BIG God who cares about the little things!

As I stand on the precipice looking down at the next few weeks of future-defining exams and essays, God once again stands beside me and holds me back from blindly jumping!

I've lost sleep due to stress and the more I try to revise the more upset I get as nothing goes in and nothing happens. Today as I sat down and began to revise I simply asked God to bless my revision session and to make my brain work and absorb and remember things-it was a pretty desperate prayer and in some senses I was already feeling defeated, but my God is not defeated! Exams don't scare or deter Him.

So as I began revising, talking it through to myself I remembered a technical word and was amazed at how I remembered it. As I looked it up to double check I rejoiced at the fact that I remembered, call it luck, call it coincidence, call it nothing ...but it was God! My brain is so fried and yet He helped me remember a word from so long ago.

Although my God is a great big God He cares about the smallest of things that mean the most to us. He cares about all our worries, problems and desires.

A God bigger than the universe cares about lil ol' me and about lil ol' you!

He may be a great BIG God, but He cares about the little things and has a BIG heart for You.

1 Peter 5:7 "Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you." (NLT)