Tag: In His Presence
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Life after 50
The above scripture is an apt description of how live ought to be lived after you turn 50. There is something significant about the age 50. You have lived the first half of your life and it is assumed that you have seen it all and done it all.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Creating fulfillment at midlife
All living things have essential emotional needs that must be met for them to thrive, flourish and be fulfilled. When these emotional needs are not fulfilled in sufficient balance, they are unhappy, unfulfilled, dissatisfied, restless, unstable, over-emotional, anxious, or greedy.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Lower the bar of your gratitude this month
One of the man reasons why we fail to practice gratitude is that we set the bar of gratitude too high. We selectively focus on the big things that we have presented to God and are yet to receive answers for. If those requests remain unanswered, we complain and fail to give God thanks.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: What are your expectations?
Expectation is a strong belief that something will happen or be the case. To expect something means to regard something as likely to happen. It means to believe that something or someone will arrive soon. It implies a high degree of certainty and usually involves the idea of preparing or envisioning.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Different but similar
Several years ago, I attended an all-women’s career development program at the Harvard Business School in Boston. Seated in a hall were about forty women of different Nationalities in different countries and continents. We were asked to introduce ourselves and share our life’s journeys. As I listened to speaker after speaker tell their story, I…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: The secret chamber
Telling people what human teachers have taught us might be of some help to them, but the most impactful words are spoken by those who have been taught by the Lord. The times we spend in God’s presence is like going into a secret chamber where treasures are kept. God’s presence is the secret chamber…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: At the name of Jesus
When my last child began to walk just before she turned a year old, we noticed that her legs were curved inwards. Now, I understood that medically, there was nothing wrong with having bowlegs; I had in fact seen a few children who grew up that way and became beautiful adults with bow shaped legs.…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: HE IS RISEN!
Whilst on earth, Jesus told His disciples about the death He would suffer and how He would rise after three days. He told them several times to prepare their minds. Yet, on resurrection morning, certain women amongst those who had followed Him closely, went to look for His body in the grave. They did not …
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: Do business till I come
Before His departure from earth, Jesus Christ commanded you to do business for Him until He returns, and He will ask you to give account of your stewardship at His second coming. “Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make…
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: IT IS FINISHED
It was a very sad and hopeless day in Jerusalem on this day over 2000 years ago. The One whom the Jews believed had come to deliver them from Roman oppression had just been crucified on a cross between two criminals. The disciples were in panic mode. Some of them had fled and gone into…