Making an impact in your world doesn’t depend on your big degrees or titles. Who would have thought that this once shameful all-by-herself woman can set her whole city on a transformation exercise? But she did. In just one day. Her encounter went viral. So what led to that? Like we pointed out in the …
What areas of your life will you be uncomfortable with if I asked you to tell me about it? The Samaritan woman found herself in a conversation she termed “personal”. As we’ve seen so far, she’s been in a discussion with Jesus – the Jewish stranger man she met by the well. He’s talked so …
A boy hung on a cliff, and looking down, he cried out for someone to save him. Jesus came around, looked up to him and said “release your hands from the rope and come.” “Do you have something to catch me with” the boy replied. “No,” Jesus said. Just come. The boy turned his face …
Have you experienced this? You’re walking down the road, with the sun smiling hard on your face, and your throat itches for water. Then you stop at the next shop and buy a bottle of soft drink. You quickly pour it into your mouth, and down your throat it goes. Your body feels cool immediately. …
Have you come to a point of exhaustion, and you wonder where to run to? If you love nature like me, you’ll feel like shutting everyone out, and just going to a place where you’ll gaze at the stars or moon or river or trees… To focus and breathe out. Or maybe, you turn on …
“Thou hast created us for Thyself and we are restless until we rest fully in Thee.” (St Augustine) Do you need rest? Rest from a life of endless searching. Are you thirsty? Longing for something to fill the void in your soul. Have you discovered the fountain of true satisfaction? A fountain that never runs …
Act fast! Are there areas of your life in which the world screams those two words into your ears? Get into a relationship, fast. Get married, fast. Join that group, fast. Say that word, fast. I know, most times, you want to trust God. You want to do His will. But waiting for Him to …
What if she lay on her bed, sleeping? What if she sat with her girlfriends by the corner of the house, giggling over the latest gossip? What if she strolled out to “see the daughters of the land?” Her name will not be known today. On that fateful evening, this fair damsel set out on …
She walked out of his room different. Her innocence tampered. Her virginity shredded. Her purity crushed. It wasn’t planned. She simply went out to visit – to see the daughters of the land, to mingle. And she drew some eyes. Guess who got interested in her? The prince of the land. I imagine other girls …
Lockdown, isolation, stay-at-home… These words line up the lips of everyone this period. And for you young lady who have been withdrawn from school/work friends and activities, you might feel lonely. Isolated. Physically and emotionally. You also wonder… “When will all this end, and what next?” “And for now, where do I turn to? What …