“The fear of the Lord adds length to life… (Prov 10:27) Don’t let fear dominate your later years. Don’t let life’s “unknowable such as finances, health, loneliness, loss of friends and family members, get you down. The Bible says. “…You do not know the path of the wind… how bones are formed in the womb… […]

“The fear of the Lord adds length to life…” (Prov 10:27)Ageing well requires that you stay flexible. The Bible says, “…clouds always bring rain, trees always stay wherever they fall. If you worry about the whether and don’t plant seeds, you won’t harvest a crop (Eccl 11:3-4 CEV) Certain things are inevitable in life. Clouds […]

The fear of the Lord adds length to life (Prov 10:27) The secrete of ageing well is staying young at heart staying close to God, and staying fully engaged with life. The mirror isn’t your problem how you see yourself is. Have you noticed how “young” some older people are, and how ‘old’ their peers […]

“The fear of the Lord adds length to life” (Prov 10:27 NIV) When asked about the benefits of living to be 100 years old, one centenarian smiled and said, “There’s very little peer pressure.” Thanks to medical science we’re living to our eighties, nineties and beyond. But living longer means dealing with the realities of […]

“My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations” (Gen 17:4) When God promised Abraham and his wife Sarah that they would have a son, Abraham laughed in unbelief and replied, “Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is […]

“Do not be anxious about tomorrow…” (Matt 6:34 AMP) Most of the stuff we worry about never happens, or turns out better than we anticipate. Worry like faith, is a spiritual force. Like a magnet, it attracts the very things we fear, clouds our judgment and distorts our perspective. God never intended us to carry […]

“And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall be corrupt by flatteries, but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits” (Dan 11:32) When God moves you from the level of merely being blessed to becoming a blessing, you will be able to affect individuals, communities, cities, nations and […]

“Do you not know that in a race… but only one gets the prize? Winning the prize Requires Running the Race Potential is like soil. It must be worked and fed to produce fruit. King Solomon referred to this process of releasing the fruitfulness of man when he said, “The purposes of man’s heart are […]

…before any plant of the field was in the earth… (V5) Potential Doesn’t Guarantee Performance. God made everything with the ability to produce fruit or to reproduce itself. Yet, the potential to produce does not guarantee performance, nor does the quantity of fruit guarantee its quality. You may have a good idea that produces mediocrity […]

“Before any plant of the field was in the earth…” (V5) The old woman smiled as she entered the small, hot room. A blaze of colour met her eyes African violets of many shades of pink, purple, white, red, and blue, and variegated mixtures of these colours, filled the room. The room had not always […]