When the angel appeared to Mary and she responded with "I am the Lord's servant. May everything you have said about me come true," did she really know what she was agreeing to? When the angel said, "Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you," was the Lord really with her? In all the trouble, in the heart-break? What about our own lives? Are trials and trouble a sign that God is not with us? Au contraire! Quite the opposite! They are there to prove the genuineness of our faith if we too are favoured by God.
Maybe it takes someone from the Rebel County of Cork to encourage Christians to be Good Rebels for the Kingdom of God?
Mustard Seed Sunday... Starting week of Prayer and Fasting. When God sees you, he hears you!
We've all inherited genes and been shaped by our environment growing up but Mike reminds us that putting our trust in Jesus means that...