Archive for: November, 2025

DON’T ASSUME……. God’s Thoughts and Ways are Higher than Ours

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Evangelism, Leadership, Mentoring, Mission

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways”, declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8-9)

One of the greatest needs of God’s people has been and always will be godly perspective which could be defined as “understanding the times and knowing what to do.” (1 Chronicles 12:32) or “seeing what the father is doing.” (John 5)
Too often we assume that God is a God of habit with a regular weekly routine and His ways for us are always predictable. Nothing could be further from …

My ATTITUDE Determines My Life……NOT my Circumstances

Rod Denton in Christian Living, Discipleship, Leadership, Mentoring

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I have come to understand that one of the greatest lessons I have learnt in life, sometimes painfully so, is that it is my attitude that determines my life. It is not the circumstances I face in life, for I cannot choose my circumstances, but I can choose my attitude to my circumstances.

Interestingly, I have found that the Bible is not just a book about people, but it is a book about people with attitudes, and it was their attitude to their circumstances that determined their lives, for good or for bad.

And there are occasions where it may not be our own attitudes that will determine our destiny, …

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