Pastor Bell's Words To Live By

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God… Nelson Mandela 1994.

Prayer is a time to pour out from yourself the things that irks you. It is also a time to revel in the greatness of your father, glorify him! Who would not boast about the exploits and wondrous achievement of their natural father? The problems we face are compounded by our lack of faith in what God has said or ignorance of his promises to us.

When we pray and take time to reflect we must stop to hear what God says about the matter.  Usually he has already made pronouncement about it or guided someone through what you are facing. Remember there is no new thing under the sun (Solomon ~1000BC).

Nelson Mandela is seen as one of the greatest statesmen of the 20^th Century. However, he could have acted like other persecuted leaders and rendered evil for evil. Instead he chose to forgive and allow God to deal with the perpetrators of evil and hate. He emerged from prison in February 1991 and by 1994 he was president of South Africa.

If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?

Today when you pray, believe God and believe what he says about you!

Read Psalm 130 v 3