Welcome to our service today. It is great to have you here and we would love to invite you to stay after the service and join us for morning tea.

Faithfulness is one of the quietest, yet most powerful qualities of a life devoted to God. It is not always found in great achievements or dramatic moments. Often faithfulness is simply choosing to trust God and obey Him, day after day, even when we cannot see what He is doing.

God Himself is faithful. His promises do not change, His love does not fail, and He never abandons His children. Because He is faithful to us, we can learn to be faithful to Him.

There may be seasons when serving God feels unnoticed, when prayers seem unanswered, or when circumstances are difficult. But God sees every act of obedience, every prayer whispered in private, and every time we choose to keep trusting Him.

Faithfulness means remaining committed when the excitement fades, continuing when the journey is hard, and believing that God is working even when we cannot see the outcome.

We may not know what tomorrow holds, but we know who holds tomorrow. So let us keep walking with Him, trusting Him, and remaining faithful - because “Great is Thy faithfulness.”

With love & blessings,  

Sandra

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Welcome to our service today. It is great to have you here and we would love to invite you to stay after the service and join us for morning tea.

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Last week I wrote Part 1 of an article by Harry Vaughan about ‘How to Pray for a Prodigal’. This week is Part 2……

Pray that their heart will become tender. Sin hardens the conscience. Ask God to make your loved one sensitive to His voice and unwilling to find peace in disobedience. Pray specifically for repentance. Don’t settle for temporary reform or emotional regret. Pray for genuine repentance that leads to a transformed life and restored fellowship with God. Pray with faith and perseverance. Many prodigals have returned after years of prayer. Don’t interpret God’s silence as His absence. He is able to reach where you cannot and speak when no one else can.

Finally, guard your own heart. Refuse bitterness, despair, or manipulation. Keep loving, keep praying in faith, keep trusting, and leave the timing with God. The Father who welcomed the prodigal home has not changed. His arm is still long enough to reach the far country, and His grace is still powerful enough to bring wanderers home.

“My son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.” — Luke 15:24

With love & blessings,  Sandra

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Welcome to our service today. It is great to have you here and we would love to invite you to stay after the service and join us for morning tea.

This week I read an excellent post about how to pray for a prodigal. I wanted to share it as I found it very helpful - this is Part 1, and Part 2 will follow next week…..the author is Harry Vaughan.

“For… my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.” — Luke 15:24

Few burdens are heavier than watching someone you love wander from God. Whether it is a son, daughter, spouse, grandchild, or close friend, the temptation is to worry, manipulate, or lose hope. Scripture calls us to do something better - we are to PRAY. Pray for conviction, not merely comfort. Ask God to make sin bitter and righteousness attractive. Pray that the Holy Spirit will expose the emptiness of life apart from Christ. A comfortable prodigal seldom comes home. Pray they will get sick and tired of the pigpen! Pray that God will remove wrong influences and send Godly ones. Ask the Lord to break unhealthy relationships and place faithful believers in your loved one’s path. God often uses ordinary people to awaken a wandering heart.

Pray for circumstances that bring them to the end of themselves. The prodigal son “came to himself” only after reaching the far country. Sometimes the greatest mercy God can show is allowing someone to experience the consequences of rebellion. Part 2 next week…..

With love & blessings,  Sandra

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Welcome to our service today. It is great to have you here and we would love to invite you to stay after the service and join us for morning tea.

One of the most profound truths Jesus ever declared was that He is one with the Father. This was not merely a statement of agreement or shared purpose, but a revelation of His divine nature. Jesus perfectly reflected the Father's heart, character, and will. Everything He said, every miracle He performed, every act of compassion He showed, and ultimately His sacrifice on the cross, revealed exactly what God is like.

When Philip asked Jesus to show them the Father, Jesus replied, "Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9). What a comfort this is! We do not have to wonder whether God is loving, merciful, or trustworthy -we simply look at Jesus. In Him we see God's compassion for the broken, His patience with the weak, His holiness toward sin, and His unfailing love for humanity.

Because Jesus is one with the Father, we can confidently place our faith in Him. His promises carry the authority of God Himself, and His invitation to follow Him leads us into a relationship with the Father.

How precious it is to read and meditate on Christ in the Gospels. As we know Him more deeply, we will also know the Father more fully, and our trust in God will grow stronger each day.

With love & blessings,  Sandra