Giving thanks – the fragrance, the music, the poetry, the crown …..
It is an awesome thing to be a Christian. I continually marvel at the life God has opened up to me by connecting me with Himself through Jesus. Truly the Christian has been put in such an awesome place of relationship with this totally astounding being that is God that deep seated gratitude cannot possibly be wanting in their life. There is so much to be thankful for, isn’t there? We need to be thankful for who God is, we need to be thankful that we are in relationship with Him, we need to be thankful that we have met Jesus, that we even understand who Jesus is, we need to be thankful that we are saved, that we are filled with the Holy Ghost.
We need to wake up daily with glad hearts that we are a part of the family of God, Read more
Resistance, prayer, and good running shoes!
Last year, I decided I would run the Paris marathon. Well, perhaps, considered running would be more apposite. Here’s what happened. On a normal day when all seemed to be well with the world I got on a train to Brussels and happened upon someone I knew and liked travelling in the same compartment as I. We got into conversation, in the course of which she told me she had started running in the Paris marathon.
She really got my attention when she told me she had been somewhat like me, a zero exercise person, great lover of the couch, for whom physical activity was rushing to catch the bus. Then one normal day, when all seemed to be well with the world, she decided to get in shape, and, train for the marathon, which she did. She made some mistakes of course and sustained a foot injury, but all in all, she had done very well.
Well, that set me thinking that perchance Read more
Why I preach.
This Saturday night as i sit in the presence of the Lord before service tomorrow i am deeply moved, and in fact the only reason i am writing this is to release some of the intensity of the moment; how do you weep on screen? I have always wondered, since i began to get close to God, what on earth does He see in us?
Why does He bother? No do not give me the theological answers to that, I know them, i can recite them. But aren’t there those times when despite what you know, you still are dumbfounded and confounded by what you hear, sense and see, you still are speechless and incapable of a coherent explanation?
Not surprising, after all can the Most High fit into our neat boxes? It has pleased Him in His greatness to make Himself accessible, so accessible that some will even accuse us of anthropomorphism, never mind. Yet there are those times when you are so overwhelmed by the consciousness of His Person, that you can only sit, kneel, worship and weep. Read more
public squares and praise
I stood on the balcony of my hotel and looked out towards the square beneath with the passing cars and pedestrians making their way to work. A simple scene on an ordinary spring morning in a European city, yet something struck me differently. I looked and it occurred to me that God sees this all the time. I have taken a snapshot of a particular moment in time in a place I will soon leave, and lose sight of; yet God is aware of this all the time. I suddenly broke into song and into praise, deeply conscious of the vast superiority of God’s perception, vision and sight as compared to mine. I was humbled, as I recognised how partial my viewpoint is, how restricted my knowledge of things can be ; God in His omnipresence sees all, hears all, knows all. I am a short term observer of partial reality, but God….
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pastor bola olivia ogedengbe,
The Theophilus Company,
ABBA HOUSE, Paris,
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