In this series, we are taking you unto the journey called ‘Pilgrim’s progress’ written by John Bunyan. It has been called ‘the greatest allegory ever written’. The Pilgrim’s Progress is the story of every Christian – from the first stirrings of the Holy Spirit, beckoning us to follow Christ to our final arrival in the Celestial City of God. This series will highlight and explain some of the characters and situations. It will surely profit you!

So many times when God calls us to do something, He gets us going, but in a way so that we will have to trust Him. Then we have to depend on Him. When you are in ‘waiting time’ God will prepare your heart and use that time, so that you can influence those around you.

From the beginning of time there has been a fight to steal your love relationship that you have with God, through distractions, discouragements, deceptions, division etc. God wants us to be a participant of His love relationship with us. He wants to work in our life and give us a personal revival.

Do you (sometimes) feel like you’re in the back of a desert? That’s where God prepared Moses for forty years, for his purpose. God is going to the backside of the desert, calling you out and placing you strategically in the center of His will. He is calling you unto Himself to sanctify you, for His purpose.

We need God’s supernatural peace, not only to feel good, but also to fulfill His purpose. We need to go daily to His Word, because His Word brings peace and strength. God’s perfect peace will help you to do things that otherwise could not be done and to fulfill God’s purpose.

We may not be able to completely relate to what our brothers and sisters go through in other countries. But there is suffering in everyone’s life at one time or another. We need to obey God the Father and be willing to pay the price. Then there will be fruitfulness, no matter what suffering we go through.

God wants to restore the fire in our hearts. We need that fire so that the power of the Holy Spirit can be manifested in our midst. The gifts of the Spirit become available with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They are a manifestation of His power and His presence among believers in the church.

When Andrew spent the day with Jesus, the first thing he did, was telling Peter that he found the Messiah. And he brought Peter to Jesus. How can we truly get the heart that Andrew had? To always be conscious that we want to bring people to Jesus? Let this message inspire and encourage you!

When we overcome, it means the process is overcoming. It causes us to come to Him, to be in His Word, to take hold of that of which He has provided. When we cry out to the Lord, He hears us. The Lord’s desire for His people is that we will always live in a relationship with the Lord.

The greater your suffering, the greater the hope. If you suffer much, you will experience much comfort and therefore you receive hope. Have you set your hope on the Lord Jesus Christ today? Do you possess the hope in your heart of His return? Do you live in the hope of His Word?