Is the light switched on or off?

After a very interesting week, it came to 7:04pm last night and something happened that I have started getting into the habit of. I was just about to get up and preach what I felt God was putting on my heart, however, after organising, thinking and planning the service, my mind was all over the shot. 


So I simply said, God could I have a little bit of peace please? 


Well....that was it, I felt my mind clear, my thoughts focused and my anxiety at peace. 


I spoke on Whether we really are Christians? And that we must be born again of the Spirit of God to be fully in a relationship with Jesus. Then I moved on to how once we acknowledge where we are in the process, either, never switched the light on before, or switched it on but would rather be in darkness, or actually we need to humility and strength to say I'm struggling here but I'm standing with Jesus the light. Although he may show me as messy and all the mess in my life, I'm doing what he want's standing next to the light!


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There is a hole in my shoe

Your walking along and all of a sudden you feel a stone in your shoe.

How did it get there? There is a hole...there is the answer.

So today I have a significant hole in my shoe and it is right on the seam, so every time I change gear in my car, the whole is there. When I bend my foot, it is there, the hole isn't just a hole, the whole shoe is flawed. 

Anyway, what am I going on about, a shoe!?

Well, when we have a hole in our lives, in our spiritual lives or general everyday lives, what can fill it if it cuts directly on the seam? 

We should be constantly allowing God to not only build us up and encourage us, but when there is a problem, is there first thing you do when a hole appears is to try and fix it yourself? 

Rather instead, we should be filling ourselves with God and His Holy Spirit, otherwise the seams will destroy the whole shoe = Us!!