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What is wickedness? Western culture’s fashionable thought is that there is no right or wrong behaviour, only what feels right or wrong for you. This leads to a lack of safety in many different ways. This is what God calls wickedness. Basically, a desire for self above His goodness.

Exodus 28:15 (NLT) “Then, with great skill and care, make a chestpiece to be worn for seeking a decision from God. 

Is my cup filled with natural inclinations this morning, or with spiritual need? I lift my cup up to the Creator of heaven and earth who has given Himself to me and I ask Him to fill me so that all of me can be refilled, not just my natural self.

Mother’s Day is the day when many people celebrate mothers. Not everyone feels likes celebrating though. Not everyone is in the space to celebrate. What then?

Building community is one of the greatest, most practical things we can do in life. This is every person’s purpose. Building community means we need to establish trust and responsibility to each other.

How do I rally myself when what’s expected of me is more than what time, energy, or my own strength allows?

“Is this true?” the king asked her. And she told him the story. So he directed one of his officials to see that everything she had lost was restored to her, including the value of any crops that had been harvested during her absence.

Question: Am I engaging with people in constructive ways or am I stealing their joy or their willingness or their efforts by my criticism? Am I being open or am I being a wall? Do I leave a conversation on a good note?

God is forever faithful. He has laws for night and day, for earth and sky and the only one who can change those laws are Him. If you believe that, you can believe God is also always faithful to His people.

The way we live and pass on a legacy leaves our primary imprint. What is worth cultivating and what needs to be shed? What race are you running? Are you even running in the right race? This race doesn't finish here on earth. The finish tape is the entrance to the everlasting.

Feed Surely On God's Faithfulness and do good.

Keep digging those wells. Don’t let little things like slander or stone-walling prevent you from being who you are and doing what you know you should do. Don't allow arguments to get in the way or discouragement to have a voice. God is biggest.

Mark 4:39 (MSB) Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm. What a beautiful picture. Imagine that moment and stay there briefly.

The steps we take are as significant as the timing. When we seek God, we can trust that even though we don’t yet see the outcome, God is directing our inspiration, each step, and the timing, to complete what He has fashioned us to achieve.

I need to be thinking how I bring the light of Christ wherever I go, into every room. I need to be thinking how I bring the righteousness, peace and joy of God's kingdom into every conversation. I bring the kingdom of God to earth through my words and my conduct.

God’s favour doesn’t go off like a bad apple. It remains. When we seek Him and we trust Him for our choices and actions, we can rest in His goodness for us.

Why is the putting to death of my own desires so pleasing to God? Because without holiness I won’t see Him. He is pleased when sin has no domination over me. When I submit myself to His Spirit I am deciding to kick away from myself whatever it is that separates me from Him.

Learning why Jesus Christ makes all the difference makes all the difference. Our relationship with Him is where the best of our life from.

Building analogies are poignant because we can see life through their construction. Whatever construction type that speaks to you can speak to the way you’re building your own life.

There are many occasions in life where turning point choices are made. We don’t always realise they’re turning point choices until later. So how can we be sure we will make the right choices?