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January Poetry

  • 3 September 2025 – What have I learned today?

    2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 3 (NIV)  We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. I would be heartbroken if any action or behaviour of mine was a stumbling block or hindrance to anyone thinking of following Jesus. We need to be so aware of our behaviour…

  • 2 September 2025 – What have I learned today?

    2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 1 ( NIV)    As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.  This verse contains an amazing statement. We are considered God’s fellow workers. He is not autocratic. He wants us to be obedient to Him, but He wants to work with us and…

  • 1 September 2025 – What have I learned today? 

    2 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 9 – 10 (NIV)  So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things…

  • 31 August 2025 – What have I learned today? 

    Micah chapter 3 verse 8 (NIV)  But as for me, I am filled with power,    with the Spirit of the LORD,    and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression,    to Israel his sin. Sometimes we have to say things or do things that are just and right, but they…

  • 30 August 2025 – What have I learned today? 

    2 Chronicles chapter 36 verses 15-16 The LORD, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was…

  • 29 August 2025 – What have I learned today? 

    2 Corinthians chapter 2 verses 14-16 (NIV)  But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.  For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are…

  • 28 August 2025 – What have I learned today? 

    2 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9 (NIV)   Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything.  Nobody likes a time of trial and testing. But nothing is accidental in God’s plan for our lives. That means that He can test us to see if we…

  • 27 August 2025 – What have I learned today? 

    2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 12 (NIV)  Now this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in our relations with you, with integrity and godly sincerity. We have done so, relying not on worldly wisdom but on God’s grace. Paul doesn’t boast about his learning or…

  • 26 August 2025 – What have I learned today? 

    Psalm 103 verses1-12 (NIV)  Praise the LORD, my soul;    all my inmost being, praise his holy name. ² Praise the LORD, my soul,    and forget not all his benefits— ³ who forgives all your sins    and heals all your diseases, ⁴ who redeems your life from the pit    and crowns you…

  • 24 August 2025 – What have I learned today? 

    1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 58 (NIV)   Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labour in the Lord is not in vain. Galatians chapter 6 verse 9 (NIV)  Let us not become weary in doing…