St Davids on Regent

03/06/2026

This is our service for the week

31/05/2026

Learn to rest

‘Come with me… and get some rest.’ Mark 6:31 NIV

One of Satan’s tactics is to take us from one extreme to the other – from laziness to workaholism. Understanding the difference between being a hard worker versus a workaholic is key. Hard workers have the wisdom to set limits on how much they will do in the course of a day.

In her book 30 Days to a Stronger, More Confident You, Deborah Smith Pegues wrote: ‘I was in denial about my propensity towards workaholism until I realised that I had too many of the tell-tale symptoms: I worked late the majority of the time. Most of my conversations revolved around the issues at the office. I rarely took lunch breaks. I was always multitasking; I rarely performed any task single-mindedly. If I talked on the phone, I would also use the time to tidy the house. If I watched television, I also organised papers, and on and on it went. When I tried relaxing, I would think of all the things I should be doing. My to-do list had more items on it than I could possibly achieve during a single day. I was a slave to my overcommitted calendar; I left little or no downtime. Everybody seemed to move too slowly. I was always rushing to the next appointment. I looked forward to the accolades I received for performing well. I found little time to nurture my friendships…Today, I try to engage only in those activities I feel are part of God’s plan for my life.’

Jesus said to his hard-working disciples: ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest’ (Mark 6:31 NIV). Is the Lord saying the same to you?

31/05/2026

God is with you

‘I am with you always.’ Matthew 28:20 NKJV

To have a personal relationship with someone, there must be two-way communication. Even the most uncommunicative spouse has to grunt occasionally, or it isn’t a marriage – it’s a monologue. So, the Lord being with you, and you being with the Lord, takes place primarily in your mind. Two people may occupy the same room, but if one of them is sleeping or engrossed in television, they’re not really with each other. There must be interactive awareness.

Now, as human beings, we don’t have ‘direct access’ to each other’s thoughts. We can use words, human touch or hand gestures to guide another person’s thoughts. But God is infinite rather than finite, so he is able to guide our thoughts directly. He can speak to us through Scripture or through the words of another person. But he can also plant his thoughts directly in our minds. ‘We have the mind of Christ’ (1 Corinthians 2:16 NKJV). And this can happen anytime, anywhere.

So, your mind is your meeting place with God! There’s much about God speaking to you that’s a mystery. There are no formulas. You cannot control God’s communication with you. You cannot force him to speak by being more pious or more sincere or by working hard. Jesus told Nicodemus: ‘The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit’ (John 3:8 NKJV). This much you can be certain of today: God is with you, and he will speak to you if you take the time to listen.

31/05/2026

Ask God for a dream

‘God may speak…in a dream, in a vision of the night.’ Job 33:14-15 NKJV

Job the patriarch said: ‘For God may speak in one way, or in another, yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night…while slumbering on their beds, then he opens the ears of men’ (Job 33:14-16 NKJV). A dream can be an important message from God or an answer to your prayer.

God gave Paul a dream in which a man from Macedonia appeared to him saying, ‘Come over and help us’ (see Acts 16:9). And Paul went there and preached the gospel. Solomon’s reign as king of Israel begins with these words: ‘At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”’ (1 Kings 3:5 NKJV). Solomon asked God for great wisdom, and God gave him wisdom, honour and riches.

Would God still speak to us in dreams today? Yes. He says: ‘I am the Lord, I do not change’ (Malachi 3:6 NKJV). The Hebrew word for dream is ‘chalom’. It has five meanings: (1) ‘To bind firmly.’ This pictures you being wrapped securely in God’s love. (2) ‘To be or make plump.’ In the Bible, fatness or plumpness is a picture of health, well-being and prosperity. (3) ‘A sense of dumbness.’ When God gives you a dream, he is sharing with you information about things of which you are ignorant. (4) ‘To be in good liking.’ When God gives you a dream, he is showing favour towards you. (5) ‘To recover.’ When God gives you a dream, he is working on restoring what you have lost. So, ask God for a dream.

30/05/2026

Speaker Murray McIntosh- Waiting pt2

29/05/2026

God at work in you

‘For it is God who works in you…’ Philippians 2:13 NKJV

God is at work ‘in you’. What is he working on? Your ‘will’. What does he want you to do? ‘Act in order to fulfill his good purpose’ (Philippians 2:13 NIV). How does he accomplish this? Through your mind: ‘Think the same way that Christ Jesus thought’ (Philippians 2:5 CEV). God can speak to you audibly, through circumstances or through another person. But because God can give you his thoughts or guide your thoughts, your mind is the meeting room where he will most often communicate with you.

That’s why Satan will try to place evil thoughts in your mind. If this doesn’t work, he will try to fill your mind with fear and worry. If that doesn’t work, he’ll settle for having you watch hours of ‘worthless things’ on television or the internet. The psalmist prayed: ‘Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things’ (Psalm 119:37 NKJV). To hear from God and recognise what he’s saying to you, you must make your mind a protected environment. And one more thing: your desire to hear from God must take precedence over every other desire you have.

Social reformer Dorothy Day, who did much work on behalf of the poor in the twentieth century, spoke of what she called her ‘notions’ – ideas that had the unmistakable stamp of God’s authorship in her mind. George Fox and the Quaker tradition called them ‘concerns’. Others speak of ‘promptings’ or ‘leadings’. The good news is… if you truly want to hear from God, he’ll speak to you.

24/05/2026

This is our service this week.

23/05/2026

Speaker Murray McIntosh - Waiting pt1

20/05/2026

Full forgiveness

‘The Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.’ Galatians 2:20 NKJV

How many times must the apostle Paul, who was once known as Saul the persecutor of Christians, have had flashbacks to Stephen’s stoning? Or the countless other Christians he hunted down like animals? Paul was an eyewitness, which means those snapshots were sealed into his visual cortex. When he closed his eyes, those images could have haunted him for the rest of his life. By today’s standards, Saul was a terrorist – but he had an encounter with Jesus that blinded him. He regained his physical sight after three days, but the grace of God enabled him to turn a blind eye to his forgiven sin forever.

If God turns a blind eye to confessed sin, shouldn’t we? This doesn’t mean we deny our sin or ignore it. If we underestimate our sinfulness, we depreciate the grace of God. Paul called himself the chief of sinners (see 1 Timothy 1:15). Perhaps that’s why he appreciated the grace of God so much. The reason many of us label others by their sin is because it makes us feel better about ourselves. We think: ‘I may not be perfect, but at least I haven’t done that!’

But Paul was explicit: ‘For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard’ (Romans 3:23 NLT). God doesn’t grade our sins like the legal system, as indictable or summary offences. No, we are either in sin or in Christ. We’re either guilty or fully forgiven. Not only have our sins – past, present and future – been atoned for. At the point of believing faith, God forgives us and credits our accounts with the righteousness of Christ.

20/05/2026