Grace and Truth
God’s Word is full of grace and truth. It’s full of inspiration and revelation.
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no-one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Ephesians 2:8-10 NIVUK
While away recently in Madeira, Roger and I sensed that, in our 20th year of marriage, we were being led to use our individual gifts together again. Primarily we want to be encouragers to God’s family.
Rog loves to communicate visually and bring information and revelation to serve as a catalyst for prayer and action.
I love writing and I started this blog a few years ago to bring words of inspiration to life in poems and reflections. See: www.poems-and-reflections.com
This is a new season on the earth and there are lots of challenges. Following Jesus, we’re all here to extend the Kingdom of God to individuals and nations using the gifts He has given us.
Inspiration and revelation in Madeira
I’m sharing below a link to two short pieces of video from Roger, filmed in Madeira a week ago.
To set it in context, if you haven’t been following this blog, we unexpectedly found ourselves at a small hotel called Churchill Bay in Camara de Lobos, a fishing village, where 75 years ago, in January 1950, Churchill went to paint the local scenes as part of his personal rest time after the stresses and strains of the Second World War. Interestingly, Churchill is now in the news again! Did we start something….?
Just click on this link for Roger’s short video at the bronze statue of Churchill:
And this link for a slightly longer piece by the fishing boats..
(PS if you get rather strange closed captions – these are automatically generated and not by us. You can switch them off!)
And here’s my contribution today, by way of a short poem.
Inspiration & Revelation
You and I - created - to bring God's revelation
To those that we encounter; community and nation
His words of inspiration; His words of life and peace
To bring His living Presence; His grace and truth release
He is the true Revealer, inspiring minds and hearts
He is the One we worship, His Spirit now imparts
To those who will receive Him, the wonders of His love
The treasures of His Kingdom, imparted from above.
“The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 1:14 NIVUK
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