8th October 2024
If a mustard seed of faith can move a mountain, what if our level of faith was 100%, the miracles we'd see!
If a seed is in the right soil it grows and shoots up. So it is with faith, must be in God. If it’s mustard seed size it must grow. You must believe the rest is God. Nothing is achieved in un belief.
Every year we get runner beans seeds expecting them to grow and produce beans, not stay the same size doing nothing.
God gives us faith and the Holy Spirit. Don't retain the mustard seed, let it grow.
The disciples couldn't drive out the demon, they lacked faith and belief. If you've got self confidence that's not what you need, you need confidence in Jesus. It's not us but God who changes us, from the inside.
Trust God, obey His Word. Ask for more faith. Feed your faith with God's Word. Jesus needs to be your foundation.
Make sure of what God wants. Without faith you don't know God's will. God sometimes says no.
Not all spirts are holy. Discern and test them. Jesus wants us to share the Good News.
Jesus spoke of two people of strong faith a Roman soldier and a Canaanite woman, they faced death but trusted Jesus to bring life, their faith brought healing.
If you get bad news. Trust God.
If you have an impossible situation, pray. Ask God for the wisdom and faith to move the mountains, acknowledge these problems exist. If you got issues, addictions or problems don't live in denial, acknowledge the truth and ask God to help.
No matter what, God can make a way! We might have got a problem, but the problem hasn't got us!
Abraham became a father at 100. God's promises stand. Stand on His Word, it's your medicine. God promises are with us.
If faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain, what can a body of faith do? We can DO ALL things in Jesus’s name.
Raise up, lift up your head, pray, praise ask and seek! God is speaking to you, are you listening today?
30th September
If you wanted to you can live on junk food, but it won't do you any good!
It's the same for our spiritual health, we can feed it with worldly junk or God's Word.
Jesus gives food for our soul, He said "I am the bread of life"
There are many ways offered in the world but only one Way, Jesus. Works, strength or power won't give life, only by faith in Jesus will we gain spiritual maturity.
At work 400 vicars were at a conference. The sound man said "all these can't save me." He was right! All will stand before the throne of Christ, Jesus can save us.
Taste and see the Lord is good. See if he will prosper and protect you. Ask, seek, knock.
Beware of false doctrine and unwholesome words, conspiracy theories are unhealthy, they get inside your head and take your away from The Truth.
If you don't feed your soul it will wilt and die. We have physical hunger, we feed it; we have a spiritual hunger, how are we feeding that? You can't satisfy it with religion.
In the beginning of Acts we see people were filled twice with God's Spirit, we all need filling and refilling!
Keep going to God to be refilled, open your heart and ask. God is willing to give to those who earnestly seek Him.
Jesus fed 5, 000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fish. They started to follow Him because of the food. Jesus said we need spiritual bread, and Jesus is The Bread Of Life!
You can light candles, wear beads, follow rituals but it's empty, cold and cruel. Instead taste and see that the Lord is good!
You can't hold a spiritual conversation with someone neglecting their spirit.
William Wilberforce fought tirelessly to end slavery. During one rally one lady shouted out "what of your soul!?" in his busy battling life he neglected God, he was a Christian, but he got too busy. We need to watch this doesn't happen to us.
We need to hear God's voice. We, like sheep, wander off, leading to danger. We need to stick with the God Shepherd he'll lead, provide for, protect and bless us all the days of our lives.
Blessings come after obedience, curses come after disobedience.
Don't worry about the news, doom and politics of this world. Don’t listen, don’t get involved. Listen to and obey God, live a peaceful life in Jesus’s name today.
9th September 2024
Our faith is always under pressure. The enemy chips away at us, making us doubt our faith. Sometimes we need to hear something more than once. When God says something He means it. When He repeats it again and again, He really, really means it! For example God repeatedly says: “I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
We are grafted into the vine by Jesus as we repent, be baptised, and God is with us.
Some people say they want more faith. Only God gives faith, faith comes by the Word of God and us accepting it. The only way to receive is to be humble.
The disciples were with Jesus for 3 years yet they didn't understand. They doubted, they denied and betrayed. On the day of Pentecost these believers were filled with God's Spirit, with faith and courage, fearlessly they took on the world for Jesus.
Paul was a religious, powerful man, but when he found Jesus he considered that past all rubbish.
All you need is faith.
Do you believe with God ALL is possible? Ask in faith, in Jesus name. God is the God of impossible.
It doesn't matter what the situation is, trust in God. He can create a river in a desert. He goes before and behind you. God protects us as we have faith. We ARE His people. Don't fear or be dismayed. God loves and has compassion, He will prosper and bless us. God is far more willing to give, than we are to ask.
One serious thing lacking in the church is faith. It's often like a veneer, false, with no depth. Faith isn't attending church, it's living in a relationship with God.
The signs and wonders of God follow you, with the power you have from God, you have the authority of Jesus.
Who believes? Who needs God's help? We all do! We need His help to share our faith, be prepared, speak Truth from God's Word. God gives knowledge, power, strength and authority, ask for His help in Jesus name today!
The Word by Garry Emlyn New Life Church Pembrokeshire
Meeting Sundays from 10.45am Amroth Parish Hall
14th August 2024
In our lives sometimes we keep things we should throw away and throw things we should keep! I knew someone who had a house full of books, usually romantic rubbish! There was a bible on the side, untouched, gathering dust.
All our lives need to be decluttered. The things of this world get filled with dust, old things in your heart need cleaning out, we don’t need or want them now, as we have Jesus. Things become meaningless when we look at Jesus.
As a young boy I collected animal skulls, later I collected coins and trinkets. Why are we so obsessed with hoarding stuff?
How are you identified, by stuff or Christ?
In Wales names are changed: Dai the milk, Terry the chippie, Peter Sparkie. You can identify people by looks and words. Can people identify you as a Christian? How does the world see you, how do you see the world? Our identity is in Jesus Christ.
Don't get drawn in by the world, focus on Jesus.
Blind Bartimaeus had faith to believe Jesus could heal him. Jesus saw the blind man and asked what he wanted him to do. He was looking at his faith.
Bartimaeus asked to see, Jesus gave him sight. He followed Jesus, throwing his cloak! He knew Jesus was with the saviour. He knew he didn't need to dress like a beggar anymore.
What have you put aside to follow God? Does something hinder you, get rid of it. You can't take stuff with you!
Jesus can do anything, are you willing to let Him? One man had a disease, he refused prayer, he didn't want healing. It may sound strange but there's many like him. Some want to hang on to their worldly identity.
We must focus on Jesus. We should be excited and have His joy. We have received forgiveness and redemption.
Call on His name. Ask that our Lord will work and do signs and wonders in Jesus’s name.
Have faith, keep believing. Don't analyse or try to understand every aspect of God's Word, just believe. Come out of the world, cast off fears and receive like a child.
Call out "Son of David" answer Jesus question to Bartimaeus: “What do you want?” Ask for what you need.
Can you cast off your cloak of identity? Call out in faith, say what you need, have faith.
2 years go I was in Narberth praying for people. We prayed for a man on crutches. He'd had prayer before, long and flowery prayers. We prayed a short prayer, he went off, we don't know what happened. Keep it brief and to the point talking to God. If your prayers aren't having any effect, pray and keep it simple. Bartimaeus just asked, he didn't follow a religious pattern.
Did you ask your parents for an hour for food or pocket money? No, it's the same with God, ask and pray simply in the name of Jesus, in faith, cast off all your restraints.
Sometimes a prayer is just "Help" or a few words. Believe, have faith, pray, fling off what holds you back, ask for forgiveness, follow Jesus today!
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4th August 2024
You cannot stop the plans of God.
The world is wicked. God sees it all. God knows and plans.
Jesus died on the cross, that was God's plan, there He dealt with sin, sickness and satan's rule.
People say Jesus is dead, He's not! He rose 3 days later and lives forever.
God's promise is to be with all who believe.
You may be praying for something but it isn't happening. Be patient. We make plans, God determines our steps.
Joseph had dreams. He dreamt wheat and stars bowed down to him, his brothers didn't like it! Being sold as a slave and locked up wasn't part of Joseph's plans, but God used these trials. Even in prison Joseph was highly favoured. ALL the good things God promised came to pass, but it took years. The path to God's answers aren't always straight, God's ways are different to ours.
Even our minds need to be renewed, so we no longer conform to this world.
If a work is of the world it comes to nothing, but God's work is unstoppable.
Go with God’s plans. Ignore the closed doors, go through the open doors. Check you are in God's will, read and obey His Word, be led by His Spirit. Ask God for a stirring in your spirit.
Sometimes you get what you want, but you don’t want what you asked for, so be careful!
Worry isn't faith or trust, it's the opposite.
Trust in the one who is fully reliable. If God is for you, who can be against you?
Remain under the shadow of God’s wings. Learn to trust in God and follow His plans today.