Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:1-3 [New International Version]
who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
Psalm 103:5 [New International Version]
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28 – 30 [New International Version]
9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 [New International Version]
Renewal isn't a single moment in time - it's a movement. God lifts us, strengthens us, and sustains us as learn to wait, trust and walk with Him and one another.
Sunday 15 February
Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27:14 [New American Standard Bible]
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
Lamentations 3:25 [New International Version UK]
Series - SOAR
Renewal isn’t a single moment in time. It’s a movement.
God lifts us, strengthens us, and sustains us as we learn to wait, trust and walk with Him and with one another.
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27:14 [New International Version]
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;
Lamentations 3:25 [New International Version]
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: the old has gone, the new is here!
2 Corinthians 5:17 [New International Version]
28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:28–31
Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its own mould, but let God re-mould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan of God for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.
Romans 12:2 [J.B. Phillips]
22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23
Jesus Is the Light of the World - Part 5of Let there be light - Christmas Day -25 December 2025
“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12).
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’
John 8:12 [New International Version]