Author: Tino Todino

We have just finished our season of prayer entitled “God’s dream for us”. In inclining our ear to listen to the Holy Spirit and to each other a few things became recurring themes. We play it far too safe The verse that came out was Deuteronomy 1: The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb saying “You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go……go in and possess the land. It’s quite clear to me from speaking to many different people that we have become far too comfortable with programmes, meetings and events. We stay within the confines of what we think we can actually do and accomplish. This is human nature. In fact if left to our own devices human beings will pretty much always revert back to the way of least resistance and most comfort. We do this subconsciously because our

I know it’s a little lazy, but sometimes I come across a blog post by someone else that is brilliant and simply want to encourage you to read it in it’s entirety. So here you go. A story of how to “get saved” everyday 😉 Lord “save us” every day we pray.

Today is good Friday. It is good to remember the Cross and ask yourself the question “What does this mean”? If you do, don’t be tempted to give a trite answer.  Instead I want to encourage you to spend from now until resurrection Sunday thinking, meditating and praying about the answer to that question. If by the time you read this resurrection Sunday has passed then take until the next one! It’ll do you good! Here are some thoughts about what the cross reveals to me as I reflect on it.  This subject is so vast, so incomprehensible at times that what I share will be only a small part of what the cross speaks of. But here goes! I have 4 points for us to reflect on. The cross is ugly It was devised as the most humiliating, excruciating, tortuous, public method of execution possible. Victims would be stripped

Several years ago now the Lord gave me a prophetic picture. It was of a carpenter sitting at a neat looking table. The table was veneered to look like an oak table, but the carpenter was shaking his head in disappointment while he looked at it. Then the carpenter took out his chisel and began to skillfully remove the veneer to reveal the wood underneath. Once the veneer was removed the glue that held it there was also skillfully removed. This took a great deal of time and patience from the carpenter. What remained was a genuine oak table that had knots, imperfections, and grains that went in differing directions. However, the carpenter was now smiling and took out his sander to begin to make the oak table smooth again. Once the surface was sanded he then took a waxing oil and began to work it into the wooden surfaces.