Hands up anyone who would like to see God face to face?
Most likely all of us would, and this was the same for the intimate friend and servant of God, Moses. When Moses stood on the holy mountain as recounted in Exodus he asked to know Elohim more intimately, he too [...]
It seems that once we have ascertained that God does in fact exist the next logical thought is that somehow we believe that this must mean that we don’t belong to Him, and this is a really scary place to be in. Whether we feel that we are a mistake, too much of a sinner [...]
I recently read that “self development is the key to success, fulfilment and worth”, although I could see what was meant I still wondered how they could believe it was ‘the’ key. It was only as God led me to look more deeply into the concept of personal/self development that I found that it’s truest [...]
Another diary entry
I feel so tight, claustrophobic and You seem so far away like my cries and my pains are nothing to You. I tell you that I am desperate, that I can no longer bear and I asked myself is this the reason for my existence? Do You love me at all? I [...]
I recall a line from an old journal,
“if this is healing, I never knew pain before”.
I can even recall exactly how I felt at that time, like my whole being was being pounded and twisted a thousand times to re-shape me and mould me ever more into the image of my Messiah. [...]
Is there a connection between faith and health? This week’s extract explores the influence of faith and trust in our health and healing.
Research has shown that the framework of our mind and thought patterns has a huge impact on our behaviour and physiological responses. If I go back to the example of stress and its definition, the way we respond to stress hugely depends on our thought patterns. People who have negative thought patterns are more likely to perceive an event as a stressor (stress-inducing stimulus) than those who do not. The NHS and private sector understand this mind-body connection and so spend hundreds of thousands of pounds training Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) practitioners to help unlearn dysfunctional thinking patterns.
