Testimonies
Testimonies of the impact of God’s Word in people’s lives from here in Solomon Islands and also around the Pacific.
Pastor from Malango connects with UCB Solomon Islands
Connecting with people, Churches and Organisations is one of the great opportunities that we get with The Word for Today devotion, it allows people from all walks of life to connect with God. We received this encouraging testimony from Coxwain when he connected with a...
International Mother Language Day Event
We received this encouraging testimony from Coxwain in The Solomon Islands, about an event that he attended celebrating International Mother Language Day, and how he had the opportunity to engage with people about The Word for Today, he also shared about one...
When you feel inadequate (2)
‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.’ 2 Corinthians 12:9 NKJV First, acknowledge your inadequacy to God. Joni Eareckson Tada, a quadriplegic, says, ‘Deny your weakness, and you will never realise God’s strength in you.’ God told Paul, ‘My grace is...
When you feel inadequate (1)
‘Not that we are adequate in ourselves so as to consider anything as having come from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God.’ 2 Corinthians 3:5–6 NASB The fear of inadequacy is a state of mind in which you think your best is not good enough. Usually, it originated in childhood when our parents,...
How to influence and impact others
‘Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry.’ James 1:19 NIV There is no magic trick when it comes to influencing and impacting others. The Bible gives you the formula, and here it is: (1) Try to listen carefully. The truth is that people don’t care how much you...
The blessing of unanswered prayer
‘When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives.’ James 4:3 NIV
Mark Batterson writes: ‘According to legend, King Midas loved gold so much that when Dionysus granted him a wish, Midas asked that everything he touched would turn to gold. At first, Midas was delighted with his request, but when he discovered that his touch made food inedible and his embrace made loved ones lifeless, he stumbled upon what sociologist Robert Merton called “the law of unintended consequences”. Like Midas, getting what we want can result in undesirable consequences. So much for the Midas touch. Sometimes an unanswered prayer is God, in His sovereign wisdom, sparing us the pain of unintended consequences. Sometimes God allows what His power could prevent. Most of the time that causes us a great deal of temporal angst, but someday we will owe God as many thank-you’s for the prayers He did not answer as the ones He did.’
James writes, ‘You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.’ (James 4:2–3 NIV) CS Lewis said, ‘If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where would I be now?’
Batterson continues: ‘Many of our prayers are misguided. We pray for comfort instead of character. We pray for an easy way out instead of the strength to make it through. Many of our prayers would short-circuit God’s plans and purposes for our lives if He answered them. Maybe we should stop asking God to get us out of difficult circumstances and start asking Him what He wants us to get out of those difficult circumstances.’
SoulFood: 2 Sam 7:18–11:27, Lk 6:17–26, Ps 118:1–9, Prov 18:4–6
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