Feeding The Soul

Feeding The Soul We take food for our body and love for our Spirit. Our soul needs a little something as well. When we reach out to help others, smile and say thank you for being does this feed your soul? Food is love. When we offer to break bread with those around us that have been rejected by society we are bringing Light to the darkness. We are sharing love where little or none existed before. By His strips we are freed. By His scars we feel love. By…

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Pray For Those Around Us

Pray For Those Around Us When I first began, earnestly, praying and was taught about prayer one of the first things I was taught was that whatever was important to me and my life I should pray that for my enemy to receive whatever it was I needed / wanted in my life. It was confusing then and somehow still a little unsettling for me today. 21 days of prayer was the instruction, I was to pray for others 21 days in a row without fail, without missing a day.…

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Unclean, Unwanted and Segregated

Unclean, Unwanted and Segregated One of the few times in history has there been people with leprosy. An awful disease that is described in the Bible and, more importantly, how people not afflicted with this disease respond to those with the disease. People are seen as unclean and no longer welcome in the community. Others are told not to touch them as the disease will spread to them and infect their bodies. These are extremely powerful words that paint an unloving and unwelcoming, standoffish picture of loneliness, separation and fear.…

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Power — Acts 2:1-13 (Podcast)

Power — Acts 2:1-13 Podcast by Pastor Colin Smith for The Orchard Podcast HERE >>> Acts 2 NKJV 1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and…

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10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Video)

10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord) Video by Matt Redman Video Source Bless the Lord, O my soul O my soul Worship His holy name Sing like never before O my soul I’ll worship Your holy name The sun comes up, it’s a new day dawning It’s time to sing Your song again Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me Let me be singing when the evening comes Bless the Lord, O my soul O my soul Worship His holy name Sing like never before O my soul I’ll worship…

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How To Be…

How To Be… We have people in our lives for a multitude of reasons. Some for a moment, others for a short season and still others for a life time. Each person that crosses our path is there for a reason. Each person teaches us a little something about ourselves and the world around us. When we are imprisoned, either like Paul, physically, in cage prior to his execution or we be in chains of the heart and mind, they can act as the same tool of oppression in our…

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