Word of God speak – Start The Day

Saturday 10th October 2026

“But you, go your way till the end; for you shall rest, and will arise to your inheritance at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13 NKJV

“Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. ⁵Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. ⁶And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” Malachi 4:5-6 NKJV

“But Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. ²¹For I will acquit them of the guilt of bloodshed, whom I had not acquitted; for the Lord dwells in Zion.” Joel 3:20-21 NKJV

“For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord, “So shall your descendants and your name remain. ²³And it shall come to pass that from one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord. ²⁴“And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched. They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.” Isaiah 66:22-24 NKJV

Father God and Lord,

We pause and consider the last words of prophecy that were spoken to Your people as recorded in the end of the Old Testament. Then there was 400 years silence till the Word You spoke into being. It reminds me of the silence You speak of in Revelation 8:1, “When He opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.” It must have been a tremendous and awesome silence after continual praising and worship. A contrast that got attention. The prayers of the saints were then placed on Your alter. After the silence there were trumpets, thunder, lightning and earthquakes.

So following silence something is going to happen! It is good to have a day thinking about the gap left at the end of the Old testament. A Gap that no man could fill. As Ezekiel puts it, “I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.” (Ezekiel 22:30). So You, God had to do something, have a plan, as Isaiah says, “He saw that there was no one, he was appalled that there was no one to intervene; so his own arm achieved salvation for him, and his own righteousness sustained him.” (Isaiah 59:16). And You did not rush You left a pause.

Who could ever have imagined how You would rescue us. Tomorrow, come and let us see afresh how You, God, wrought the impossible, protected the improbable and surprised everyone.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Worship Saturday 10th October 2026

I’m finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it’s okay
The last thing I need is to be heard
But to hear what You would say

Word of God speak, would you pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see Your majesty
To be still and know that you’re in this place
Please let me stay and rest in your holiness
Word of God speak

I’m finding myself in the midst of You
Beyond the music, beyond the noise
All that I need is to be with You
And in the quiet hear Your voice

Chorus Twice . . .

I’m finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it’s okay

Lyrics: Bart Millard and Pete Kipley

Saturday 19th September 2026

“And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the others who did the work. ¹⁷Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.” ¹⁸And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they set their hands to this good work. ¹⁹But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they laughed at us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
²⁰So I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven Himself will prosper us; therefore we His servants will arise and build, but you have no heritage or right or memorial in Jerusalem.”” Nehemiah 2:16-20 NKJV

God of heaven and earth,

Nehemiah checked out the situation for himself. He did not want to misunderstand the situation trying to see it through others eyes. He just needed to know what had happened and where things were at present. How wise because we al see things slightly differently. Then we see how he deals with the same opposition that has stopped them in the past. He speaks with clarity, authority and not threateningly. He has placed his trust in Your call to rebuild. This was not the idea of man.

How good it is when we hear Your call to pray, to stand up for our faith or to rebuild or build something new. The difference between a good idea and a God idea. It gives Nehemiah all the confidence to encourage every one else. And they hear it in him and respond. Chapter 3 begins immediately with the sheep gate being built and the doors hung.

Help us to pray and hear as Nehemiah did so we can learn where to go, what to do, who to involve and how to do it. We are building the Kingdom, Your Kingdom together.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen

Worship Saturday 19th September 2026
I had this at the end of August but I kept just remembering the first line of the chorus and no more. So here it is again reminding me to stop and listen in those precious moments I need clarity.

I’m finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it’s okay
The last thing I need is to be heard
But to hear what You would say

Word of God speak
Would you pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see, Your majesty
To be still and know, that you’re in this place
Please let me stay and rest in your holiness
Word of God speak

I’m finding myself in the midst of You
Beyond the music, beyond the noise
All that I need is to be with You
And in the quiet hear Your voice

Chorus

Would you pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see, Your majesty
To be still and know, that you’re in this place
Please let me stay and rest in your holiness

I’m finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it’s okay

Lyrics: Bart Millard, Pete Kipley, Peter C. Kipley (Mercy Me)

Saturday 30th August 2025

“At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: ¹⁷“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. ¹⁸When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. ¹⁹But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.” Ezekiel 3:16-19 NLT

“The hand of the Lord was on me there, and he said to me, “Get up and go out to the plain, and there I will speak to you.” ²³So I got up and went out to the plain. And the glory of the Lord was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown. ²⁴Then the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet. He spoke to me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house. ²⁵And you, son of man, they will tie with ropes; you will be bound so that you cannot go out among the people. ²⁶I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be silent and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious people. ²⁷But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says.’ Whoever will listen let them listen, and whoever will refuse let them refuse; for they are a rebellious people.” Ezekiel 3:22-27 NLT

Lord of Life,

I am spending a little more time in Ezekiel as I read through the Bible this year (Chronologically), because it is full of contradictions, colorful visions and drama and truth. Here in one chapter You call Ezekiel to speak out and within a few verses You silence him. He sees Your glory again and it is so overwhelming he falls facedown again. That is so amazing, so shocking? he falls down as if dead. Not a faint or a staggering fall but a shock face down fall! It takes Your Spirit to revive and strengthen him. Reminding us how great You are and how weak we are. Even the strongest of us.

To be told to shut himself in his house, tie himself up and then be struck dumb by You, Extreme. But then I think Ezekiel was someone interesting who people watched to see what he was doing and saying. A character we would call him.

Perhaps they came to see if he was still silent and then they would hear the message clearly when he spoke. Sometimes it is not volume that has effect. Sometimes silence is valuable and necessary. Lord You had such a close relationship with Ezekiel and he was so obedient. And he was not afraid to be thought a fool for You. And he saw Your glory.

Small as I am, send Your Spirit, the same Spirit You sent to lift Ezekiel, the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead (Romans 8:11) to lift me up and help me hear and follow You.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen

Worship Saturday 30th August 2025

I’m finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it’s okay
The last thing I need is to be heard
But to hear what You would say

Word of God speak
Would you pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see Your majesty
To be still and know that you’re in this place
Please let me stay and rest in your holiness
Word of God speak

I’m finding myself in the midst of You
Beyond the music, beyond the noise
All that I need is to be with You
And in the quiet hear Your voice

Word of God speak
Would you pour down like rain
Washing my eyes to see Your majesty
To be still and know that you’re in this place
Please let me stay and rest in your holiness
Word of God speak

I’m finding myself at a loss for words
And the funny thing is it’s okay

Lyrics: Bart Millard, Pete Kipley, Peter C. Kipley