85: Spirit of Rachab 7

85: Spirit of Rachab 7

Back last century when, all unknowing, I was learning to research names, I spent some years laboriously piecing together a whole series of clues trying to connect two obscure but significant characters in Celtic folklore and Arthurian legend. Not long after I finally...
84: Prayer 12

84: Prayer 12

Heavenly Father, may You be honoured in all we say and pray. May You be glorified in all we do, may the holiness of Your name be magnified, may the favour and grace You lavish on us be used rightly by us and those who are blessed through us. Lord, I know that what...
83: Spirit of Rachab 6

83: Spirit of Rachab 6

It requires patience to overcome the spirit of wasting. And it also requires obedience. As pointed out in the last session, it’s a slow process. The first time I really became conscious of God’s strategy for driving it out was right after He’d showed me how to deal...
82: Spirit of Rachab 5

82: Spirit of Rachab 5

Every so often I take a long break from researching the fallen spirits of the threshold and I focus on Jesus and how He healed history. All too often, however, this brings me right around and face-to-face with these former throne guardians once more. That’s because,...
81: Spirit of Rachab 4

81: Spirit of Rachab 4

Some people, on the verge of retirement, look at the nest-egg they’ve put aside and realise they are going to have to economise in previously unthinkable ways. So they withdraw their money and stake it all on a sure-fire, high-yield, gilt-edged scheme that promises a...
80: Spirit of Rachab 3

80: Spirit of Rachab 3

When I was young, I loved the Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery. Whenever my mother would catch me staring into space and asked me what I was doing, I’d quote from one of the books, ‘Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits.’ That wasn’t it...