When we come together we need to remember, we need to recall the wonderful works of our God. We are not just supposed to remember God's wondrous deeds. In the midst of the storm, looking at the past also directs to the future to reassure us that better is coming!

If you could bottle rest, you’d be a millionaire. So many lack that ability, even believers to find rest, yet Jesus came that we may have rest from this life. He embodied the message of peace and rest.

The psalmist reminds us that human care and toil in any area of life are of no value without Gods Blessing and Him being at the centre of everything. Success without God leads to a lack of fulfilment.

Giving our finances – sowing and reaping – should be a normal part of Christian life. Jesus, in the Gospels, commissioned his followers to ‘give and it will come back to you’. We can go as far as to say the mark of a true convert is one who lives the exchanged life: a life that reflects Christianity as Jesus intended it to be; a life of love under-pinned by giving and receiving; a life of generosity and obedience.

Even the righteous are not immune from the world’s suffering and problems. The difference is not in the storms that fall but the foundation upon which men build. If your life is built around Christ, it will inevitably go better for you in the long run. If you build on the shifting sands of the devil’s promises, ultimately you will be swept away

How easy it is for us to lose sight of this reality! How quickly we can forget that our money is not ours, but the Lord’s! How easily we forget that our houses, cars, and other material things are not ours, but the Lord’s! There is nothing that is ours, yet we can slip into thinking (selfishly) things we have that we are the owners. Even our lives are not ours, but are the Lord’s!

We need a correct view of God and an honest and correct view of ourselves in order to experience all that God has for us.

Favour is closely connected to grace in the Bible. If you who have received Jesus as their Saviour, you are saved by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8–9). They know the favour of God. Without faith, it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6), but those who have saving faith in God’s Son are declared righteous (Romans 4:5; Philippians 3:9) and live in God’s favour

When we live without peace but in discord we live in what the bible calls “Strife”. As peace is a spirit, so is strife. When strife is in our lives we live with anxiety, fear and worry, it is not God's design for us.