By Neil Anderson September 11 John 16:13 When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth It’s not hard to know the truth if You are the truth, and speaking with authority would come… Read More ›
INSPIRATIONAL DEVOTIONS
LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES
By Neil Anderson September 10 Proverbs 23:13 Do not hold back discipline from the child Some children are effectively disciplined when they must experience the natural consequences of their disobedience. For example, if your child fools around and misses his… Read More ›
PERSEVERING TRIBULATIONS
By Neil Anderson September 9 James 1:2, 3 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance There certainly are a lot of distractions, diversions, disappointments, trials, temptations and… Read More ›
ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR EMOTIONS
By Neil Anderson September 8 Psalm 109:26, 30 Help me, O LORD my God. . . . With my mouth I will give thanks abundantly to the LORD Nancy was a college student with an inability to express the anger… Read More ›
INDISCRIMINATE EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONS
By Neil Anderson September 7 James 1:19, 20 Let everyone be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God Another unhealthy way to respond to emotions… Read More ›
SUPPRESSION OF EMOTIONS
By Neil Anderson September 6 Psalm 32:3 NIV When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long Suppression of emotions is a conscious denial of feelings (repression is an un conscious denial). Those who suppress… Read More ›
GOD’S INDICATORS
by Neil Anderson September 5 Proverbs 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life I played sports as a young man and I have the scars on my knees to prove it…. Read More ›
LIFE ON THE CUTTING EDGE
By Neil Anderson September 4 Hebrews 11:33, 34 . . . Who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness… Read More ›
MANAGING OUR PROBLEMS
By Neil Anderson September 3 1 Timothy 3:4 [An overseer] must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity A pastor friend of mind came face-to-face with a parent’s worst fear: His… Read More ›
OUR FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE
By Neil Anderson September 2 Ecclesiastes 8:5, 6 NIV The wise heart will know the proper time and procedure. For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter I had dear friends who were being used by the… Read More ›
LIVING IN HARMONY
By Neil Anderson September 1 Romans 8:38, 39 I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be… Read More ›
HEARING VOICES
By Neil Anderson August 8 ICB NOTE: This post is unintentionally misleading in a small but important way. The author is NOT suggesting any and all voices in ones head are demonic, but rather that any voice which does not… Read More ›
A Love Letter For My Father
Originally posted on Vine of Life News by Lyn Leahz “Why do you complain, Ya’akov; why do you say, Isra’el, “My way is hidden from Adonai, my rights are ignored by my God”? Haven’t you known, haven’t you heard that… Read More ›
DO NOT BE DECEIVED
By Neil Anderson July 14 1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals” Is it really possible for Christians to deceive themselves? Yes, it is very possible. We deceive ourselves when we think the… Read More ›
Do You Want To Fall Head Over Heals In Love Today?
Lyn Leahz ©2012 Sadness and loneliness weighed heavy on my heart that evening a few years ago as I sat on the edge of my bed talking with the Father about some things that were on my mind. It was… Read More ›
My Mum's amazing message
I was the most fortunate of kids! I was brought up with a Mum and Dad who loved God. Being the youngest of five, (I had twin sisters but sadly one died of TB when she was only one year… Read More ›
SURVIVING A CRISIS
By Neil Anderson Luke 11:17 A house divided against itself falls Satan’s strategy is to use a problem situation to put you and your spouse at odds with each other. Jesus said, “A house divided against itself falls” (Luke… Read More ›
Against All Odds
Amazing and extraordinary things happen to all of us through our journey here on earth; some very good and some very very bad. In January this year I wrote a blog entitled “Consequences”. In that blog I fictionalised a story… Read More ›
PRAISING GOD
by Neil Anderson May 9 Psalm 100:4 Enter His gates with thanksgiving, and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him; bless His name Praise and thanksgiving are part of every level of prayer. They are continuous as… Read More ›
THE PROPER USE OF WORDS
By Neil Anderson May 3 Ephesians 4:29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those… Read More ›
Mysteries; Great and small
WOW! Mysteries – I love em!! – Well sometimes anyway – I must admit that the mysteries of the computer make me frustrated, angry and despairing!! But other mysteries well that’s another matter; the mystery of creation; the universe; the… Read More ›
NEW AGE DECEPTION: New Age Thinking part 2
By Neil Anderson April 19 1 Timothy 2:5 There is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus The fourth unifying factor of the New Age Movement is a cosmic evolutionary optimism… Read More ›
NEW AGE THINKING part one
By Neil Anderson April 18 Psalm 83:18 NIV Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD–that you alone are the Most High over all the earth The New Age Movement is very attractive to the natural… Read More ›
THE POWER OF THE BELIEVER
By Neil Anderson April 14 John 8:32 You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free When I was a boy on the farm, my dad, my brother and I would visit our neighbor’s farm… Read More ›
The Leaning Tower of You
By Greg Laurie Workers laid the foundation for one of Italy’s most famous structures in 1173, a tower designed to stand next to a cathedral. During construction, however, they discovered the soil was softer than previously thought, and the tower… Read More ›
Way way down deep!
Don’t you just love computer viruses?? A few weeks ago – the old laptop started to do strange and amazing things – like not shutting down – then shutting down 1/2 way through something! Then it started dropping things off… Read More ›
THE REALITY OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD
By Neil Anderson April 11 1 Peter 5:8 Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour Here’s another common misconception about the spiritual world that must be dispelled: What the early church called… Read More ›
CONFRONTING SPIRITUAL OPPOSITION
By Neil Anderson April 10 Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly… Read More ›
A Real Place
By Greg Laurie THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013 “And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” —Matthew… Read More ›
Got the guilts? You can fix that.
As I get older I am realising more and more just how forgiving My God is. When I look back on my life and see the incredibly stupid decisions and mistakes I have made and how I have botched up… Read More ›