My Bible: reasons to believe in the power of the Bible
'My favourite book of the Bible is Philippians. It speaks a lot about joy and how to be content. There’s a section that talks about what it’s like to have plenty and nothing, food and to be hungry and always to be content.
That’s something that I want to take hold of whatever situation in life I find myself: whether I lose my job or if I have a job. I haven’t felt contentment always, but these verses do affect how I pray.
When I was at university, reading Music Technology, when I was doing assignments I wanted to do the best I could. But when I was getting the marks, I would pray that I would get a good score, but that no matter what the mark, I prayed that I would be content.
It helped me. I’m a bit of a perfectionist and I’m prone to looking and saying, “I could have done that better”. But it’s been important for me to learn to put that aside.
These verses keep coming up in my life. I pray about it and I tell other people about it, which is then a way of telling myself that no matter what, God’s still with me, He’s still God. He’s able to speak these truths into my life and so I can trust him and be content.'
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My wife and I were told we’d likely never have children
I was furious. I had just come back from being interviewed by a college
I became very ill when I was 20 years old and was hospitalised
I’m sometimes guilty of thinking I know better than everyone else
I was an executive in a company. A colleague had retired and died very suddenly.
I keep coming back to John 6.67–68
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