Browse published messages from John Macdonald in New Apostles Voice.
Mar 31, 2020 6:21 AM Australia/Perth
What does righteousness mean?It means perfect standing or correct placement before God's Throne in Heaven. Nothing on earth is righteous by itself.Only God is truly righteous. The only people who are in right standing or righteous before God are those who
Mar 31, 2020 5:45 AM Australia/Perth
It is very easy to give up in life when the battles of doubt, depression, bad health, lack of finances, family problems raise their ugly heads. It is so important not to faint or give up in the heat of the battle. This is when the rubber of your faith, tr
Mar 30, 2020 7:15 AM Australia/Perth
Corona virus is a respiratory disease that has not been medically observed or studied on previous occasions. It is evidently in the SARS strain of influenza. All diseases are a result of sin. Satan loves to make people sick and of course, try to kill them
Mar 28, 2020 10:59 AM Australia/Perth
In God we trust is the motto of a very important country. It is a very important motto for all who are born again Christians. If our trust is not in God then our trust is most likely in ourselves, our partner, our friends, our job or anything else but God
Mar 25, 2020 4:58 AM Australia/Perth
As Christians we are to live and work as clean people. We are to have hearts and thoughts cleansed by the precious blood of Jesus, shed for us on the Cross of Calvary. Clean living requires us to be clean in all we do. Both the Old and New Testaments teac
Mar 24, 2020 6:09 AM Australia/Perth
It is only when we realise, as Christians,that Christ actually lives in us that we have real hope now and throughout eternity. It is only when we hand over every aspect of our life to the Lord that we begin to understand the true reality of eternal life.
Mar 24, 2020 5:30 AM Australia/Perth
We must be careful to listen to the Holy Spirit and be obedient to follow His instructions. Our goal in life must be to serve the Lord so that we are enabled to bring honour and glory to the Father. No one can afford to do their own thing in life. We must
Mar 17, 2020 6:33 AM Australia/Perth
As children and servants of the most High God we must walk in the light as revealed through God's Word and under the direction of the Holy Spirit. Those who walk in the light are anointed by the Lord to dispel the darkness of the world. As each Christian
Mar 17, 2020 6:09 AM Australia/Perth
False teachers abound in Christian churches today just as they did in the time of Paul's ministry. Many are servants of Satan who have, through Satan's power, been transformed into apostles or teachers of light. There are others who are sincere yet delude
Mar 10, 2020 6:20 AM Australia/Perth
There are two most important things that every Christian needs to know and apply in their lives. Firstly, they must love the Lord their God and secondly love their neighbour or other people like themselves.Their is only one true God. That God is God the F
Mar 10, 2020 5:58 AM Australia/Perth
People are made in the image of God. They are created to be God like beings. Their spirit was given to each one by God. Only those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour have been enabled to inherit God's promise of eternal life. These p
Mar 4, 2020 7:19 AM Australia/Perth
We must learn how to do God's will. Why?If we truly desire to be like Jesus and walk in His ways then we must be willing, as Jesus was, to do the will of the Father. The Lord has asked you to follow Him and do certain tasks that you are not doing at the m
Mar 3, 2020 8:07 AM Australia/Perth
God's thoughts and God's ways are so much higher than our thoughts and our ways. It is so important for every Christian to tap into God's wisdom. God's thoughts and God's ways lead to eternal life. Our thoughts and our ways without the illumination of the
Feb 25, 2020 4:59 AM Australia/Perth
To seek for anything or anyone in life means to search out and look for something with a very diligent attitude. We are not just window shopping or looking casually for something or someone but we involve our whole desire and being into finding what we ne
Feb 25, 2020 4:39 AM Australia/Perth
One of the major causes of defeat in the lives of many people, including Christians, is not being aware of or being prepared for what might come our way. Christians must learn to be directed by the Holy Spirit and obedient to the instructions we are given
Feb 19, 2020 6:04 AM Australia/Perth
It is so important to read the Word of God, daily and keep listening to the Holy Spirit for your directions. You must be careful about what you think and say and do. However you must not take care but you cast all your care and worries and problems upon t
Feb 18, 2020 7:04 AM Australia/Perth
God's Word is truth because God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are the perfect source of all that is true. In the Godhead there are no lies.
Feb 12, 2020 5:54 AM Australia/Perth
Obedience is paramount in your Christian life. Without obedience to God and His will and purposes for your life you will remain unfulfilled and unable to be a witness to God's amazing life plan. On the other hand we read in 1 Samuel chapter 15 verse 23 th
Feb 11, 2020 4:57 AM Australia/Perth
We must never doubt God or the promises in His Word. Doubt brings unbelief, fear and anguish to our soul. Doubt begins as a thought in our mind. It can be fueled by false statements from other people, or things we view or things we read. It can be caused
Feb 5, 2020 4:40 AM Australia/Perth
Satan is a liar and a deceiver who comes against everyone and particularly God's chosen children, to rob, kill and destroy. Satan is also known by his familiar name, the devil. He hates all mankind and works tirelessly to take as many as he can with him t
Feb 4, 2020 4:32 AM Australia/Perth
God's children are all those people from every tribe and nation that worship God in spirit and in truth. Our praise and worship must be for Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. He alone was worthy to take the scroll and open its seals. Jesus was slain on the Cr
Jan 25, 2020 9:16 AM Australia/Perth
In the time of King David and Israel, shepherds were important pastoral leaders. They looked after docile sheep in the Judean hills. The Spring season was an important part of the year when new lambs were born and the older sheep were shorn of their fleec
Jan 18, 2020 10:21 AM Australia/Perth
If you have given your life to the Lord and you know that you are forgiven then you can be assured by the Word of God that you are cleansed by the Blood shed by Jesus on the Cross of Calvary. Each day as you read God's Word, confess and meditate on God's
Jan 11, 2020 10:46 AM Australia/Perth
It is so important to discipline your children in love. To discipline them in God's love means you discipline them in real love. So many children today, even in so called Christian countries, are brought up in a society that has lost the understanding of