UNBLOCKING THE WELL OF THE LIVING WORD

READ PSALM 26-30 SUGGESTED PATTERN Read Psalm 26-30 with your spouse or household  then re-read Psalm 29 again with spouse or household, then spend 2 mins in silence focussing on  Psalm 29 asking the Lord, the question “What does this text mean?” then 2 mins in silence asking the Lord what He is saying to… Continue reading

PSALM 21-25 SUGGESTED PATTERN Read Psalm 21-25 with your spouse or household  then re-read Psalm 22 again with spouse or household, then spend 2 mins in silence focussing on  three verses, Psalm 22: vs 1,27,28 asking the Lord, the question “What does this text mean?” then 2 mins in silence asking the Lord what He… Continue reading

PSALM 16-20 SUGGESTED PATTERN Read Psalm 16-20 with your spouse or household  then re-read Psalm 19:1-14 again with spouse or household, then spend 2 mins in silence focussing on  Psalm 19: 1-6 asking the Lord, the question “What does this text mean?” then 2 mins in silence asking the Lord what He is saying to… Continue reading

PSALM 11-15 SUGGESTED PATTERN Read Psalm 11-15 with your spouse or household  then re-read Psalm 11 again with spouse or household, then spend 2 mins in silence focussing on  Psalm 11: 3-4 asking the Lord, the question “What does this text mean?” then 2 mins in silence asking the Lord what He is saying to… Continue reading

SUGGESTED PATTERN Read Psalm 6-10 with spouse or household  re-read Psalm 9 with spouse or household, then spend 2 mins in silence focussing on  Psalm 9: 7-10, then 2 mins in silence asking the Lord what He is saying to you personally through Psalm 9:7-10 and then share together with spouse or household. One person read… Continue reading

See previous post “APPLICATION” Read Psalm 1-5,  re-read Psalm 2, focus on  Psalm 2:8,9 Psalm 2:8,9 “Ask of me and I will make the nations your inheritance, and  the ends of the Earth your possession. You will break  them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like  pottery.” It is not often… Continue reading

INSPIRATION This Lent devotional is partly inspired by Esther de Waal’s (1) Lent book, ”Seeking God’ (that was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent book, 40 years ago in 1984)  and her comments on Benedict’s Rule,(2) which was written just under 1,500 years ago for disciples following Christ in a prayerful community. Benedict was born in… Continue reading

  Our hearts are like wells. They are to be guarded for they are a well spring of life. How did Jesus guard his heart? He woke up early in the morning to talk to his Father, and the psalms were clearly his prayer book.Matthew Henry says concerning the Psalms: “There is no one book… Continue reading

How is your prayer life?  I would like to summarise some of the main points in a chapter from Lou Engle’s book, “Digging the wells of Revival” He says (1) that chronos prayer is “the ‘day in… day out’ prayer that seems to have little effect but in truth it slowly fills the bowls of heaven. Kairos prayer on the… Continue reading

On Monday we visited the house that shook in Arnol, in the 1949 revival. Amazingly we were all (100 of us) invited into the front room by the owners, who told the story. On the following day, on the Tuesday we heard testimonies from some of those who remembered the revival, including Donald John Smith,… Continue reading