In chapter 32 of 2 Chronicles Sennacherib is threatening Jerusalem and in a message to king Hezekiah he is writing: “On what are you basing your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?”

King Hezekiah is basing his confidence of course on the Lord his God!

On what are you basing your confidence?

“Take a journey with confidence from…” That is the headline of a car advertisement. In smaller letters we are told about the safety rating and that our family will be safe and sound on the next journey. We are encouraged to get behind the wheel today, get on the road today and start our journey…….. with confidence.

I have started my journey with confidence long ago!

I can say with the Psalmist:

“For you have been my hope, O  Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.” – Psalm 71:5

Proverbs 3:26; Proverbs 3:32

“NICHT ERST AN DEN GRENZEN UNSERER MOEGLICHKEITEN, SONDERN MITTEN IM LEBEN MUSS GOTT ERKANNT WERDEN.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“child, youth and family” is a service of the Ministry of Social Development. On one of the walls of the “child, youth and family” office here in the town of Kaitaia you can see written in big letters:

“SAFE STRONG FAMILIES”.

Our country is crying out for safe and strong families!

Almost opposite the “child , youth and family” office here on Commerce (main street of our town) Street you find the Women’s Refuge place. At the present time you can see a big poster there in the window. On the poster is written:  “This is a no hitting place.”

We are crying out for “safe and strong families.”

In order to really have “safe and strong families” our families must first of all be saved. How is that going to happen?

It starts usually with individual family members.

There is a wonderful promise in the Bible, the Word of the Living God. We do find the promise in the New Testament in the book of Acts. Please read Acts chapter 16. In Acts 16:16-40 we find Paul and Silas in prison. In verse 29 the trembling jailer is calling for lights and asking, “SIRS, WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?” Acts 16:29

And in Acts 16:30 Paul and Silas are replying,

“BELIEVE IN THE LORD JESUS, AND YOU WILL BE SAVED – YOU AND YOUR HOUSEHOLD.”