Preach The Word - David Legge

After the darkness of centuries, Malachi promises a Messiah would come to will heal the hurts of His people - 'the Sun of Righteousness with healing in His wings'. In 'A New Dawn', we see some of the heart-warming parallels between the natural Sun and the Son of God, the Saviour and healer of humanity. May your horizon be shifted as you listen to this message; may your darkness be dispelled and ma...

We are so blessed to be forgiven and saved from our sins as Christians - but many of us have underestimated the scope of the Gospel. There is also the healing of the heart and the setting free from the powers of darkness. In 'Is Your Gospel Too Small?', David explores the mission statement or mandate of Messiah from Isaiah 61, which Jesus quoted in His home synagogue in Nazareth. It outlines what...

Often we have a transactional rather than a relational connection to God. We're in it for what we get out of it. However, rather than a clinical or legal association with God, through Christ, we have a relationship of belonging to God's family. That involves inheritance and many blessings of belonging. In 'The Benefits Of Belonging', David explores some of these blessings of belonging from Psalm 1...

Luke 7:11-17 depicts such tragedy for a widowed woman, who has now lost her only son. Jesus brings a resurrection miracle and shows how He gives 'Hope To The Hopeless and Life To The Lifeless'. If you are in need of hope today, listen to this message and encounter Jesus the compassionate and fully human Saviour! This message is available at https://www.preachtheword.com now in MP3 audio format...

Unity was a mark of the early church, but divisions over centuries of church history have obscured it. Divisions have hindered our witness in the world. We need to forge authentic unity with all Christians in our modern age who truly love our Lord Jesus Christ - 'One Body, One Voice'. This message is available at https://www.preachtheword.com now in MP3 audio format...

The healing of the blind man in Mark 8:22-26 is the only gradual healing recorded in the gospels. There must be something that the Holy Spirit wants to teach us in this. Certainly, there was no deficiency on Jesus' part or weakness in the miracle power of God. So what was going on? In this message you will learn how environments and company can affect spiritual power – unbelief impedes the superna...

In this story from John 5:1-17 of the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda, Jesus is recorded as asking the paralysed man what appears to be a silly - if not cruel - question: 'Do you want to be healed?' We see in this story that Jesus the Great Physician had diagnosed a loss of hope in this man. He'd given up. Many feel they have been overlooked by God, not just in the area of healing but a...

Jesus is our unchanging Lord in a world where change is the norm. Even the godliest leaders pass away but Jesus remains 'the same yesterday, today and forever'. In this message from Hebrews 13:5-9, David presents Jesus as the ONLY answer to all our problems; specifically, loneliness, turbulent times, the assault on truth and unbelief. Listen in and be encouraged that Jesus Christ is the same as He...

God has always wanted to dwell with humanity; but He wants a conversational relationship with us. Essentially, we're all looking for this meaningful relationship with our Creator, but usually we look in all the wrong places for false substitutes! Our inner longing to be loved and truly known is only satisfied through a deepening walk with God that is more than the casual or superficial. In this te...

In Luke 24:36-43, after His resurrection, Jesus wanted to demonstrate His presence to His followers. He desired to help them to believe. Like the disciples, we all need an encounter with the risen Lord Jesus. Our God is a God of the supernatural, but often we don't recognise His presence or even attribute it to something else. This encouraging message will inspire you to engage with the risen Chri...

What could a New Ireland look like through 'Kingdom eyes'? So many have political visions of 'A New Ireland', but what does God want? In this message, David encourages Irish Christians to have a healthy appreciation of their history and appropriate the spiritual inheritance they have. He also calls for the church in Ireland to renounce the political and religious spirit that has been a historic pr...

Isaiah 9 is a scripture often read at Christmas time. To a land distressed and under the shadow of death's darkness the great light of the world has shone. Christ's coming into the world has brought joy, liberty and forgiveness. 'Every name that He bears is a blessing He shares'. Be encouraged as we consider 'the Wonderful Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace' -...

Generally, in the western world, we value the physical realm and ignore the spiritual. But whilst the Bible calls us to value the body as holy, it also points us to the superior nature of the spiritual and, indeed, how it can influence and determine the material world. We are spiritual beings as well as physical. We are in a spiritual war, so we must use the spiritual weapons that God has given us...

In 1 Corinthians 6:9-20, Paul gives a list of the sinful lifestyles that will not inherit 'God's Holy Kingdom' - we are not to be deceived! However, every 'type' of sinner can enter the kingdom of God through repentance and faith. Paul exhorts us to live up to our identity as citizens of the kingdom of God. He challenges us as to our behaviours, what influences we are under or bound by and whether...

This prayer that Jesus taught His disciples in Luke 11:1-4 also teaches us how to be 'kingdom people'. This prayer can be prayed with our lives, as we become the prayer and the answer to it. 'The Lord's Prayer' would warrant a whole series of teaching, and even that could never exhaust its depths - but here in one message, David seeks to highlight the kingdom principles that are in the will of God...

This well known gospel story in Luke 17:11-19 brings many 'Lessons From Lepers' on how we can know God's healing in our lives. Join us as David outlines ten lessons from these ten lepers, and how Jesus interacts with them. Will you be one of the grateful 10% who receive the greatest blessings from God? This message is available at https://www.preachtheword.com now in MP3 audio format...

Mark's record of this miracle in Mark 9:14-29 is different in some ways to Matthew's account. One very significant difference is how the father of the afflicted boy confessed his faith in Jesus' ability to heal; but he also admitted that he had unbelief in his heart too. There are many lessons to learn in this story concerning what demonic affliction can do to someone, even from childhood, and how...

This intriguing story of the Syrophoenician woman in Matthew 15:21-31 raises many questions for us, not least how incongruent Jesus' words and behaviour seem, in contrast to what we know and love about His character and personality. Like Jesus did with the woman, this story invites us to probe deeper into its not so obvious meaning. What is Jesus up to in this rather atypical behaviour? There are...

In Matthew 12:28-29, 43-45, Jesus gives us some dynamics of how the demonic realm gains influence over our lives. We need to understand this if we are to be protected. Of course, the Gospel gives us the means of freedom to get the devil out! We'll learn about that too. We see in this teaching that Jesus was talking about more than just a person's individual problems with sin and Satan, but also ho...

In this miracle in Luke 13:10-17, we learn that some physical illnesses can have spiritual causes behind them. The woman in this story had to be loosed from a spirit of infirmity that she had because of something that took place in her life 18 years previously. Healing and deliverance often must come together for people to be made whole. We need to understand how the demonic can sometimes affect o...

Whose message are we listening to? Whose report are we believing? The press, social media, medicine, or Gods Word? What voices are we allowing to influence us, and are those voices faith-inducing or faith-reducing? Isaiah 53 is such a well-known scripture about the death of Jesus and the salvation He has purchased for us. But many have neglected that this core prophetic scripture is explicit that...

What a predicament to be both deaf and mute - cut off from communication and the community. Here was a man who exemplified not only those with similar physical impediments but also the spiritual condition of humanity. Yet a physical healing took place for this man in a rather unconventional manner. Here, we learn how God's methods are not always reasonable to us. There is a beautiful revelation in...

In this story of two overlapping healings - the woman with the issue of blood and the raising of Jairus' daughter - we learn some principles of how God heals. Sometimes, we can be confused about how God does His healing work. In this account, Jesus emphasises the importance of saying 'No' to fear and only believing what God has said. Don't fear, only believe! This message is available at https://w...

The power to save, heal and set free is God's power. In this healing story from Luke 5:17, we see God's power was present with Jesus to heal. We need to practice God's healing presence rather than the presence of sickness, darkness, Satan or sin. So often, when we face such obstacles, we focus on the problem, but the answer to our problems is never in the problem. The healing presence is where we...

Mental health problems, it appears, have escalated dramatically in recent times. Does the Bible have anything to say about our minds, how we can protect them and solutions to mental ill-health? The answer is 'Yes!'. There is power in the gospel and the Word of God to heal our minds. God has given us a plan of wholeness and healing for our minds. Join us for valuable guidance from Philippians 4:6-9...