Good morning people who take time today to think about what God has done for you.

Hebrews 10:32-34 NIV Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you endured in a great conflict full of suffering. Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. You suffered along with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves of how far God has brought us by His grace and His goodness! Sometimes we need to remember what Jesus has saved us out of and what He has saved us into!

I am so grateful that Father revealed Himself to me through His Son Jesus Christ. I’m so glad the Holy Spirit revealed truth to me. I’m so glad that He continues to reveal truth to me.

And so I want to live my life for His glory. I want to honour God always. I want to be a blessing to people always. I want my life to accurately reflect the One who so powerfully lives in me.

Today, I choose to think about my blessed journey with God. Today, I choose not to be complacent in my walk with Father or in the divine call on my life.

How often do you look back and remember what God has saved you out of and saved you into?

Today, I choose to remember.

Watch Sally’s empowering sermon, ‘Breaking Free from the Pressure to Perform’

Good morning people who are committed to living life in healthy relationships.

Yesterday I mentioned the need to go to God first; to make prayer our first option. I also mentioned that it is not good to walk alone. I feel prompted to lean into this further today.  

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 NIV Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.

My father, David McCracken, has often said, “Isolation breeds error.” This is so true. It is also true that isolation makes us vulnerable to be easily attacked and picked off by the enemy.  

Walking alone is not God’s design. In fact even God does life together; Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

We all need significant relationships that are a safe place; a place of mutual sharing, caring, love and support.

I praise God for those I am privileged to journey life with.

We must understand that this level of relationship happens as a result of being intentional. It also happens as we focus on giving our best to the other person. Sowing and reaping applies to healthy relationships.

Is there a relationship that God is asking you to invest into more?

Good morning people who talk to and listen to Father as your first option.

Challenges come to us all. Things don’t always work out as we expected them to and believed they would. People let us down and we let ourselves down.

But what could happen if our first response was to pray?

Talking to people is often our first port of call. The Bible tells us to bear one another’s burden (Galatians 6:2) and that walking with others is a good thing (Ecclesiastes 4:10).

But people can’t give us what only God can give us. People can’t give us a peace that guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Philippians 4:7). People can’t do the impossible – only God can do that. 

It’s time to make God the first Person we go to in our time of need. It’s time to talk to God more.

1 Thessalonians 5:17 (NIV) Pray continually.

Good morning people who allow God to live large through you.

God invites us to live with expectation of what He desires to do in us and through us!

What could it look like if every Christian got up with a sense of calling and went to school, university or work on mission with God’s mission?

Let’s resist the gravitational urge to focus on us living under pressure with this statement. Rather, let’s examine what God can do through us for His glory! Here’s what His Word says:

Matthew 5:16 NIV In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.

Acts 1:8 NIV But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

John 14:12-14 NIV Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in Me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask Me for anything in My name, and I will do it.

This is not so much about what we need to do, but what God wants to do through us! This is a focus on us living on mission with God’s mission! It’s about His will and His kingdom!

Do it Lord, we pray, for Your glory! Use us for the glory of the Father and for the blessing of people!

Good morning people who expect God to do the supernatural in your life.

I heard the Holy Spirit say something profound and wonderfully liberating to me. Here it is:

God doesn’t want His children to live ‘under pressure’, but ‘with expectation’.

He went on to further clarify what He meant.

‘Under pressure’ is a focus on what WE need to do.

‘With expectation’ is a focus on what GOD can do!

Sometimes we make it so much about us. It’s about what we need to do, how good we need to preach, how well we are leading. It’s about questions that constantly examine our performance: “Am I making the right decisions? Is this prophetic enough?…even now, “Am I writing this clear enough?”

But what would happen if we made it more about what God can do and desires to do?

What if our ‘what if’ was asked about God from a place of expectation more than about us from a place of pressure?

Here are some examples:

What if God is as good as His Word says He is? What if God is for me and He is always working things together for my good? What if God’s presence is where fullness of joy is found and He can give a peace that passes my understanding? What if God heals the sick as I lay my hands on them and pray in faith? What if God reveals Himself as I preach His Word and encourage people? WHAT IF GOD…?

God doesn’t want His children to live ‘under pressure’, but ‘with expectation’.