Deep Works Teaching and Healing Ministry | Newsletter of Hope

  Sometimes we just rest                                                                        What do I mean by this?  Their may be times in your life when you are  physically or mentally unable to do what you would like to do.   Maybe   circumstances are pulling on your time and energy, whether work related or family ordinated, maybe a death, sickness, change.   This is a time to allow yourself to rest in the Lord, when you need the Lord to carry you, hold you, comfort you. Recently I felt such a tiredness behind my eyes, it was not the tiredness I know when I am shaking the sleep off in the morning, it was much deeper.  I found I was unable to focus or pray for long, unable to read much.  I would be woken and having a cup of tea and then would find myself asleep a...

  Identity in Christ Jesus Over this last month or so the Lord has been opening up my understanding of who I am in Him.   For a long time my identity has been in my past, has been how other people treated me, how I have seen myself.  The abuse that I went through as a child had been my identity, the rejection I had felt had been my identity, the failures in life had been my identity, fear had been my identity, peoples opinions of me had been my identity. It says in 2 Corinthians 5:17   Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, behold, all things have become new. I know this scripture and have quoted it many times, but I am just getting that understanding of what it really means.   I don’t have to associate myself with my old self, the one born with a sinful  nature, before I knew Christ Jesus.   I don’t have to believe those thoughts that are old, from the old me, or from the devil who likes to rem...