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Friday, 24 April 2026

God’s Doing

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1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

God-tracking is resting in the effect of God’s grace.
Funny how some people work hard at trying to be good enough to make their way into heaven. True hope for eternal life only comes when we realise that our good works gain us nothing. Only by God’s grace can we enter God’s rest. Only by repentance of sin and faith in Christ can we experience God’s grace. And grace is God’s doing!

 Funny how we think that by striving to be good, we can somehow attain a greater measure of God’s grace? But, and here’s the paradox, grace is effortless! Grace is God’s doing. It’s only by grace that we are saved through Christ. And it’s only by grace that God empowers us to serve him. As Jesus said to Apostle Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” Paul responds by saying, “For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

 God-tracking is resting in the effect of God’s grace.

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Ephesians 2:8-10
Romans 5:2
2 Corinthians 12:9-10

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Friday, 16 September 2022

Call On His Name

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“There is healing, there is forgiveness, there is deliverance and there is safety in the name of Jesus. On the day you call, he will answer you and your strength of soul will increase.”

Psalm 138:3
On the day I called, you answered me; my strength of soul you increased.

I once interviewed a lady for my radio show, The Reality, who was severely abused as a child. We’ll call her Jas. Jas was not a Christian, she was of a polytheistic faith and believed in many gods. She escaped her childhood home by running away. Sadly, however, she then became involved with men who were equally abusive to her.

One day, after a major argument, her partner attacked her beating her with his fists until she fell to the ground. He proceeded to hold her down and kneel on her neck until she could no longer breathe. In her frensy, Jas called out to all the gods she knew of, to no effect. Then, remembering the God of the Christians. In her mind, Jas called on the name of Jesus Christ. Instantly the man fell back and released his grip on her. 

In the Psalms, we read, “For he delivers the needy when he calls, the poor and him who has no helper.” In Acts and Romans, we read that anyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Certainly, these scriptures refer to calling on the name of Jesus for salvation from sin and death. We have the promise of eternal life if we call on Christ and surrender our lives to him. However, I believe that we can take that word literally in everyday life, too, calling on the name of Jesus for salvation in the here and now.

Like Jas, if you find yourself in an adverse situation today, physically, emotionally or spiritually, call on the name of Jesus. His name is above every name. At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow. There is healing in the name of Jesus. There is forgiveness in the name of Jesus. There is deliverance and there is safety in the name of Jesus. On the day you call, he will surely answer you and your strength of soul will increase.

God-tracking is calling on the name of Jesus

IT’S ALL IN THE BIBLE. READ ALL ABOUT IT
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Matthew 7:7-8
Matthew 6:8
Psalm 72:12
Acts 2:21
Romans 10:13
Philippians 2:10-11

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SO, DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

“I believe, if I call on the name of Jesus, I will be saved.”


“I call on the name of Jesus Christ now! Heavenly Father, thank you for sending Jesus to redeem me from sin and set me free from its contamination in my life. In my difficulty, I now call on that name above all names. Save me, Lord! Deliver me from these adverse circumstances. I believe, if I call on the name of Jesus, I will be saved. Amen!”


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Friday, 8 May 2020

GOD-TRACKING IS BEING INOCULATED AGAINST SIN BY THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND DISINFECTED BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST


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“The Blood of Christ was shed in the laboratory of Calvary to disinfect us against sin. If we believe in Christ’s death and resurrection and confess him as Lord we are inoculated against the effects of sin by God’s righteousness.”

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The COVID-19 pandemic has taken many, many lives. A dreadfully infectious virus with an approximate ratio of deaths to recovery of 21%. A dreadful global statistic. However, this means that almost 80% of people who contract COVID-19, survive. As shocking as this is, there yet exists another global pandemic that has endured thousands of years and is far worse than COVID-19. This pandemic has affected 100% of the world’s population with a 100% death rate. Sin.

The death caused by the infection of sin is not only physical. Death by sin is spiritual and eternal. Scripture tells us that the result of sin is death and all mankind has been infected by it. When God created the world, he created it good (no sin, no evil, no decay) but because of man’s disobedience, corruption spread to all of creation and has resulted in death. Because of sin we have all fallen from the life of God and will endure a perpetual agony after physical death.

But there’s good news! God loved the world so much that he gave his only son, Jesus Christ, and whoever believes in him would have perpetual life. God dealt with sin through the death and resurrection of Jesus. God showed his love for all the world infected with the deadly disease of sin, in this: while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. And there’s more good news. There is a vaccine against sin. It is the righteousness of God. God’s righteousness flowing through our spiritual veins inoculates us against the pandemic of sin.

God’s righteousness is available to all who would call on the name of Jesus. God allowed Jesus, who was not infected by sin, to contract the disease in our place so that, as he recovered from the illness by rising from the dead, we could receive the righteousness of God and be saved. The Blood of Christ was shed in the laboratory of Calvary to disinfect us against sin. If we believe in Christ’s death and resurrection and confess him as Lord we are inoculated against the effects of sin by God’s righteousness. Sin resulted in death but God’s gift is eternal life through Jesus Christ who is the way, the truth and the life.

Have you been inoculated against sin? Have you admitted your sin and asked God’s forgiveness? Have you received Christ as Lord, believing he died and rose again, for you? Have you been disinfected (washed) by the Blood of Christ? Do it now! (Pray the prayer below.)

God-tracking is being inoculated against sin by the righteousness of God and disinfected by the Blood of Christ

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Romans 6:23
Romans 3:23
John 3:16-18
Romans 5:8
2 Corinthians 5:21
Romans 10:8-13

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I accept that your Blood cleanses me of my filth and I receive your righteousness by faith

“Dear God, I admit, I was infected by sin at birth and have done its deeds. I repent, In Jesus’ name. I believe that Jesus was the only one who was born not infected by sin, yet you allowed him to become infected on the cross so that I may have my sins removed and come to know the righteousness of God. I accept that your Blood cleanses me of my filth and I receive your righteousness by faith. Come into my life, Lord Jesus. I give my life to you. I call upon the name of Jesus and confess him to be my Lord and saviour. Amen!”

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What is GodTracker?
GodTracker is a weekly e-mail devotional, written by Dudley Anderson, based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith.

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Friday, 16 August 2019

GOD-TRACKING IS BEING TRANSFORMED BY THE CROSS


The e-devotional helping to keep you on track with God’s plans for your life. GodTracker is published at http://godtracker.co.uk 

“Today – don’t delay – acknowledge that God took your sins upon the cross when he stepped down in Jesus Christ so that, by faith, you may step up through the cross and be transformed into his image from one degree of glory to another.”

2 Corinthians 3:18
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

When I was a teenager I used to love messing about with electronics. I remember building a shocking machine, for fun, out of a 1.5-volt battery and a transformer. Somehow, I managed to cause the transformer to increase the 1.5-volt DC flow to a much higher voltage which I would use to zap my friends. You see, I had succeeded in turning a step-down transformer into a step-up transformer. In so doing, I learnt that there are two types of transformers. The step-down transformer is used to transform high voltage to a low voltage while a step-up transformer is used to transform a low voltage to a high voltage.

As the Son of God, Jesus Christ is God incarnate. That is, he is the human form of the Almighty God. God’s Word became flesh in Jesus. God did this because man had fallen away from the magnificent creature that God had originally created him to be. All of us were transformed away from God’s glorious nature through sin. So, God, in his love and grace, stepped down from his glory, through Jesus, to transform us all and reconcile us again to his nature. Through the step-down transformer of the cross, God removed our sins. And that’s grace. However, good as that was, unless we respond to God’s grace and step-up to his throne, through the transformer of the cross, we will remain unchanged and lost in sin. And we step-up to the throne of grace of God in confidence by faith. We are transformed by grace through faith. 

You may have been reading GodTracker for a long time but have never consciously acknowledged Jesus as your Lord and saviour. Or you may desire to not be conformed to this world but transformed by the renewal of your mind yet have never verbally confessed Jesus as Lord of your life. Today – don’t delay – acknowledge that God took your sins upon the cross when he stepped down in Jesus Christ so that, by faith, you may step up through the cross and be transformed into his image from one degree of glory to another.

God-tracking is being transformed by the cross.

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

I acknowledge that you stepped down through the cross of Jesus so that I could step up to your throne of grace

“Father God, I realise today that I have never actually given myself to you. I realise that I am still conformed to the old sinful nature and not transformed to your glory. Forgive me, Lord, for all my sin. I acknowledge that you stepped down through the cross of Jesus so that I could step up to your throne of grace. Come into my life as I give my life to you. In the name of Jesus Christ I pray. Amen.”

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Friday, 26 April 2019

GOD-TRACKING IS BEING CONFIDENT THAT YOU ARE A NEW CREATION

GodTracker 708The e-devotional helping to keep you on track with God’s plans for your life. GodTracker is published at http://godtracker.co.uk

“And he has great plans for you. One word from your lips, under his anointing, can change the world – change one life and you change the world, through those eyes. In Christ, your story matters!”

2 Corinthians 5:17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

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“In the face of every person I stabbed,” said the young man in the video I was watching, “I saw the face of my father. I hated my father. He was a cruel drunkard who would beat my mom and me.” The testimony went on to tell of how this young man had become a violent teenage gang member who found himself in prison for murder. Then one day, while in solitary confinement, Jesus appeared to him. This young man was stripped to his core. He fell on his face and surrendered his life to Christ. When he was finally released from prison, he forgave his father and led him to Jesus.

I love hearing stories like this. They truly reveal the power of God’s grace and forgiveness. Perhaps your story is like this young man’s story. It could be that Jesus has saved you from a life of violent crime, intense depression or desperate abandonment and you have come to realise the same forgiveness and healing that the man in our story had. Or perhaps not. It could be that, like me, you grew up in a Christian home and simply came to terms with the fact that Jesus died for you. Accepting him as Lord and saviour, you found peace and hope but, for all intents and purposes, your life hardly changed. So, whose experience is more real?

The one thing I often tend to miss when I read or hear testimonies of radically powerful conversions like this is, the same Lord who saved that life, saved mine. Albeit not as dramatically or visually pungent, the same Jesus that appeared to this man in his prison cell has touched my life. Just because I did not suffer the same ills that he suffered before coming to Christ, and just because I did not have a supernatural encounter as he did, does not mean I am less saved from a life of sin and depravity than he is.

The day you said to Jesus, “I accept you as my Lord and Saviour and give my life to you,” you were radically changed on the inside. Instantaneously, your spirit-man was transformed; you were born again. The Bible says that the old has gone and the new has come. In Christ, you are a new creature. You have been supernaturally reconciled to the holy Creator of the universe and now walk with him in intimate fellowship. And he has great plans for you. One word from your lips, under his anointing, can change the world – change one life and you change the world, through those eyes. In Christ, your story matters!

God-tracking is being confident that you are a new creation

READ ALL ABOUT IT2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Jeremiah 29:11
Ephesians 1:11

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DON’T GIVE UP, LOOK UP & PRAY

I don’t care how dramatic or mundane my conversion was, dear Lord, I believe that my story matters.

“Thank you, Jesus, for saving me. Thank you that, in you, I am a new creation; the old has gone and the new has come. Thank you, Father, that you have a clear plan for my life, that my words can change lives, by your Holy Spirit. I surrender my life entirely to you. Use me for your glory. I don’t care how dramatic or mundane my conversion was, dear Lord, I believe that my story matters. Amen.”

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Friday, 9 November 2018

GOD-TRACKING IS NOT BY GOOD WORKS, BUT BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH


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“All your good works will never be good enough to qualify you for heaven. Therefore, Jesus died in your place… Only his good works are good enough for a good God.”

Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God

A man arrives at the pearly gates. Peter says, "Here's how it works. You need 100 points to make it into heaven. You tell me all the good things you've done, and I’ll give you a certain number of points for each item, depending on how good it was. When you reach 100 points, you’re in."

"Okay," says the man optimistically, eyeing the rack of designer halos on the other side of the gate. "First off, I attended church every single Sunday."

"That's good,” says St. Peter, "that's worth two points."

"Two points?" says the man. "Well… er… I… I always gave 10% of all my earnings to the church. Does that count?"

"Hmm, let's see," answers Peter. "That's worth another 2 points. Anything else?"

"Two points!? Well, how about this: I started a soup kitchen in my city and worked in a shelter for the homeless."

"Fantastic,” said the gatekeeper, “that's certainly worth another point,".

The man ponders for a moment and then adds, "And I was married to the same woman for 50 years and never cheated on her, not even in my heart." Peter replied, "That's wonderful. Well done. Let’s see now, that’s worth another… three points!"

"Only three points!!" the man cries out. "At this rate the only way I’ll ever get into heaven is by the grace of God!"

"Ah, at last!” replied the heavenly gatekeeper. “Come on in, friend!"

You may smile, but it’s funny how we often think we can earn brownie points with God through good works. We do all the right things, give to disaster funds, help our neighbours and even attend a few church meetings or Bible studies. So, we think we’ll be okay on D-Day, when the final trumpet sounds and we face our God. After all, we were born into a good Christian home, believed in God and called Jesus Lord.

“Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven,” said Jesus. “Why do you call me, `Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?” You see, dear God-tracker, it’s not how many credits we earn by good works and sweet talk that makes us right with God, it’s by doing what Jesus commanded. For instance, Jesus said things like: “Come to me and I will give you rest,” and “No one comes to the Father except through me,” and “Unless you are born again you cannot see the kingdom of God.”

All your good works will never be good enough to qualify you for heaven. Therefore, Jesus died in your place. Jesus is the only sinless and good person who has ever walked this planet – he is God in the flesh. Only his good works are good enough for a good God. When he died he took your punishment for sin, for the wages of sin is death. But Christ did not stay dead, he rose again. And that’s how I know Jesus was sinless, because death could not keep him down. And that’s the demonstration of God’s grace.

Only by repenting of sin, by believing in Jesus and calling him Lord can you ever be good enough to make it to heaven. Only in Christ, are you and I made righteous. The only way you’ll ever get into heaven is by the grace of God.

God-tracking is not by works, but by grace through faith.

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As I have faith in you and come to you by your grace, I am made righteous before God

“Oh God, I confess that I have been trying to earn good points to be right with you. I’m very sorry and I admit that I was wrong. There is nothing that I can do that will be good enough to gain access to heaven, except to humble myself and come to you through Jesus. This I now do, O Lord. I lay down my good works and admit to my sin. I repent of all that I have done that has grieved you. I am weary of good works and come to you, just as I am, to find rest from my own efforts. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for dying in my place and taking my sin so that, as I have faith in you and come to you by your grace, I can am righteous before God. I rest in your grace, O Lord. Amen.”

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Friday, 19 October 2018

GOD-TRACKING IS FINDING YOUR OWN FAITH

GodTracker 697The e-devotional helping to keep you on-track with God’s plans for your life
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“Many people grow up in a Christian environment but never truly discover God’s personal plans for their lives.”
Proverbs 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Luke was living it up. It was his third weekend away from home. Three Mondays previous he’d said goodbye to his mom and dad and climbed aboard a train headed for a far-away city where he would attend university. Luke had been brought up in a Christian home. He’d attended Sunday School almost every Sunday for the past two decades. Yes, he did believe there was a God; he’d been taught much about his love and mercy. Luke knew all the Bible stories – Adam and Eve, Noah and the ark, David and Goliath and Jesus and the cross – but he’d never really made them his own. Far from home and out from under the oversight of mom and dad, Luke was now free to be himself. Or was he?

Many people grow up in a Christian environment but never truly discover God’s personal plans for their lives. As parents, we teach our children the ways of God and expose them to God’s plan for salvation, believing that they have accepted Jesus as Lord and saviour. The truth is, no one can have a walk with God based on someone else’s faith. Each one of us is personally accountable to God. Each one of us needs to personally discover God’s love. I cannot get into heaven on my dad’s faith.

Years later, well after Luke had left university, he finally found that his life was empty without a real relationship with God though Jesus. It was during a crisis in his life, when he had nowhere else to turn, that he called on the name of the God of his father. It was then that Luke found his own faith. It was at a time when he could no longer rely on his father’s prayers that he personally prayed to the God of his father. Luke found his own faith. It was then that he found that God was exceedingly gracious and forgiving. It was at a time of need that Luke discovered, God knows the plans he has for him; personal plans of hope for an abundant future.

God-tracking is finding your own faith

READ ALL ABOUT IT2 Corinthians 12:9Romans 10:8-131 John 1:9Jeremiah 29:11

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I realise that I cannot base my walk with God on my father’s faith; I need a personal encounter with the Lord Almighty

“Dear God, I realise now that you are real and that your love for me is not some theoretical Bible principle. I realise now that, without a real and personal walk with you, I am lost! My parents taught me about you and showed me your love, but I never really accepted it as my own. I realise that I cannot base my walk with God on my father’s faith; I need a personal encounter with the living God. So, dear Lord, I admit to my sins and rebellion and ask your forgiveness. I have sinned against you, alone. I believe Jesus died and rose again and I now confess him as my own personal Lord and saviour. Come into my life, Jesus as I choose to give my life to you! Thank you for the plans you have for me. Help me to be a real God-tracker. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.”

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What is GodTracker?GodTracker is a weekly e-mail devotional based on the premise that God has a plan for our lives. His Word calls us to seek his plan by acknowledging him in all our ways and by tracking his purposes, in faith.
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