When Illness Can Be a Blessing in Disguise
Not long ago I became ill with a horrible virus that included dizziness, nausea, vomiting, temperature, chills, weakness and loss of appetite. I was in bed quite a bit for about 3 or 4...
Category: trials
Trusting God When You Can Do Nothing More
When I was 18 years old I had to go and collect my A level results and found that I didn’t have the grades I needed to get into university. I didn’t know what...
Remember What God Has Called You To
When I was first married, my husband was a youth pastor. I remember thinking to myself that it would be really hard if he ever became a pastor of a church because we’d have...
Getting God’s Perspective
More and more often I find myself praying either for someone else or myself to get God’s perspective on a situation. I have come to realise that many of our problems are caused by...
3 Good Things From Bad Times
On Sunday I led the children at church in a few songs, and one of them was a very old favourite of mine which I’d taught my kids, and since they liked it I...
Keeping Serving When the Going Gets Tough
Have you ever been serving God and run into difficulties or opposition? It is very tempting to move to ministering somewhere else when those things happen, but read what Alistair Begg says: ‘When one...
A Verse to Memorise: God is Our Refuge and Strength
‘God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.’ Psalm 46:1 I love this psalm – it is so comforting and reminds me of the power and majesty of God. Yet He still stoops...
Learning from Christ’s Suffering
That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. Phil 3:10 I often wonder how we really have fellowship in Christ’s...
Don’t Look at the Clouds… & UK Fellowship Friday
I was up in the night several times from 4am onwards with little ones. Just as I was thinking I might get a small amount of sleep, another one woke up crying! So I...
Responding to Trials with Worship
Worshipping is not the first thing we really think of when we are going through a difficult experience. But I was really struck when I was reading Job the other day, that he was...
