Jill McIlreavy

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About Jill McIlreavy
Over twenty years ago God promised me that He was going to lead me into writing. Apart from keeping a personal Bible study journal, almost nothing happened, or so it seemed, with regard to writing for over two decades. Finally three years ago the Lord began to remind me of that long forgotten promise.
On the very morning that I said yes to God regarding the call to write, a friend, knowing nothing about my plans to write nor how daunted I felt about it, came to see me. She pressed a single mustard seed into my hand, saying "the Lord says that's all it takes Jill".
I planted the seed in a five millimetre measuring cup on my kitchen window sill and started a blog that very afternoon called Mustard Seed Blog.
As the seed grew I had to keep transferring it to bigger pots to give it space to grow. Now a shoulder-high thriving tree, it resides in a heavy earthenware pot at our front door; a daily visual reminder of God's faithfulness to His promises!
My blog has grown almost as rapidly as my 'mustard tree'. I recently sensed that the Lord was leading me to 'transfer it to a bigger pot' - and have just published my first book.
Writing is a joy for me. I have been a follower of Jesus for forty years, and yet there is always something new and exciting to discover about Him in the pages of His written, living Word - the Bible.
On the very morning that I said yes to God regarding the call to write, a friend, knowing nothing about my plans to write nor how daunted I felt about it, came to see me. She pressed a single mustard seed into my hand, saying "the Lord says that's all it takes Jill".
I planted the seed in a five millimetre measuring cup on my kitchen window sill and started a blog that very afternoon called Mustard Seed Blog.
As the seed grew I had to keep transferring it to bigger pots to give it space to grow. Now a shoulder-high thriving tree, it resides in a heavy earthenware pot at our front door; a daily visual reminder of God's faithfulness to His promises!
My blog has grown almost as rapidly as my 'mustard tree'. I recently sensed that the Lord was leading me to 'transfer it to a bigger pot' - and have just published my first book.
Writing is a joy for me. I have been a follower of Jesus for forty years, and yet there is always something new and exciting to discover about Him in the pages of His written, living Word - the Bible.
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Blog postThis photo has hung on the wall in my workroom for the past four years. I found it one day in a charity shop (that’s a ‘thrift shop’ for some readers). I hadn’t gone there with any intention of buying anything that day, I was with a friend who enjoys charity shops as much as [...]2 weeks ago Read more
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Blog post“Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.” Hosea 6:3 I have some fledgling shrubs and plants that I grew in pots over last summer. Then, when winter came [...]2 months ago Read more
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Blog postAs we plod through our third lockdown in the UK, I have been hearing more and more, how people are finding this lockdown much more of a struggle than the first one. Maybe it’s because the first one was during summer, when we could be in our gardens, whereas now it’s freezing outside, and the [...]2 months ago Read more
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Blog postThere is Enough It makes me smile every morning. The birds sitting up in the trees waiting for their daily bread. Soon they are in the garden, the bread supplied and the birds happy, or so you would think. However, as we have our breakfast watching the birds have theirs, there is one blackbird who [...]2 months ago Read more
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Blog post“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!” IsaiAh 26:3 NLT We could look back on 2020, and even ahead, to the difficult weeks and months that many of us are facing, and ask, “where is God in all this?” Yesterday, I sat on our [...]3 months ago Read more
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Blog postAs Northern Ireland faces lockdown number 3 from 26th December, this time for six weeks, I’d like to encourage you with Jesus’ words from Matthew chapter 6 (below.)It would be very tempting to give in to despair. To succumb to the morose, negative posts that are all over social media (some even written by Christians.)But [...]4 months ago Read more
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Blog post“from the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I” Psalm 61:2 Over the past few days, those beautiful words from Psalm 61:2 have kept popping into my mind. As I have read through the Psalm, mulling over verse 2, [...]4 months ago Read more
Titles By Jill McIlreavy
A Mustard Seed Life: What happens when ordinary people put their faith in an Extraordinary God?
Dec 28, 2019
$9.99
When God called Moses, He asked him the question, “what’s in your hand?” All Moses had in his hand was an ordinary, everyday shepherds’ staff; but surrendered in faith to the God of miracles, that staff became the staff of God! Jesus said that all that is required to move mountains is faith the size of a mustard seed. He also said; “without me you can do nothing.” 'A Mustard Seed Life' is a series of daily-devotional style studies and thoughts, with a theme for each week, covering a six-month period. We will delve into some well known stories of ordinary people in the Bible who became God’s movers and shakers; and remind ourselves of what happens when ordinary people put their faith in an EXTRAORDINARY God! I hope that as you read the topics that I have only lightly covered, you will be enticed to deeper study. And it is my sincere prayer that, as you daily immerse yourself in the Word of God your heart and mind will be awakened to His presence; your ears opened to your Shepherd’s voice. May you be refreshed and strengthened in your daily walk with God.
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