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Following Jesus Is Costly and the Very Best Thing We Can Do

Anita Mathias — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:45:04 +0000

(I have read this meditation on the podcast above. I hope you enjoy it. Feedback welcome!) Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life […]

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How to Find Life-Changing Hidden Treasure

Anita Mathias — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 19:52:23 +0000

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy, went and sold all he had and bought that field. Matthew 13:44 The Kingdom of God is within you, Jesus says, as he suggests that making him the King […]

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The Best Thing You Can Do with your Life: Sign it Over. (Inspired by Bill Bright.)

Anita Mathias — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 22:02:22 +0000

I read an arresting blog about Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, and one of the post-War generation of entrepreneurial American Christian giants—like Billy Graham, Bob Pierce of World Vision, Francis Schaeffer of L’Abri, or George Verwer of Operation Mobilization. As newly-wed Christians, Bill and Vonette Bright were disappointed with each other. After a quarrel, Bill […]

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If You Should Ever Want My Life, Come and Take It

Anita Mathias — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:33:41 +0000

In Chekhov’s haunting play The Seagull, the beautiful country girl, Nina, who dreams of being an actress, writes to the narcissistic playwright, Trigorian, “If you should ever want my life, come and take it.” He does; oh he does! He comes; he takes it; he casts it away, a poor discarded thing. Nina returns home, broken. She has […]

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10 Reflections after Listening to Heidi Baker

Anita Mathias — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 20:50:19 +0000

Heidi Baker is, I believe, the closest to the heart of Jesus of any living Christian. Christianity Today wrote a rapturous cover story on her. I heard her in Birmingham, and here are my notes, reflections and resolutions. 1) “Always, always, always, say YES.” Heidi: “I got so yielded that I didn’t have much more […]

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In Which We Give All to Get All

Anita Mathias — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:32:01 +0000

So Jacob has an amazing vision of a stairway between heaven and earth, and angels ascending and descending on it. And at the top was the Lord, who promises him the land, fruitfulness, blessing, protection, his presence and his favour. The context? Jacob is fleeing the brother whom he had effectively disinherited and deprived of […]

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On Absolute Surrender. Killing “Isaac” for God’s Fullest Blessing.

Anita Mathias — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:20:02 +0000

The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession […]

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Loose Change in God’s pocket; a puppet on a string, or? What’s your metaphor for your relationship with God?

Anita Mathias — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 22:31:04 +0000

I was listening to a Vineyard CD of Songs of Surrender, and reflected on how I have been indirectly blessed by John Wimber, a man I’ve never met. Through Vineyard music; through his wife Carol’s moving biography of him The Way it Was; through the Toronto Blessing, which was launched in a Vineyard church, now called […]

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“If God doesn’t tell you to do anything, then why are you doing things? Why not just sit at his feet?” (Roy Godwin “Grace Outpouring”)

Anita Mathias — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:09:00 +0000

Fflad-y-Brenin, the splendid retreat centre founded by Roy Godwin “The key is searching for God, learning to listen for his voice, burrowing into his heart, listening to what he says, and then doing it, however simple or complex it might be. If He says it, do it. If He doesn’t tell you to do anything, […]

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Christ Cries MINE!

Anita Mathias — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:04:00 +0000

Oh, no single piece of our mental world is to be hermetically sealed off from the rest, and there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’ […]

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