Jeffrey and the Professor

Hi everyone, 

There's a story I find fascinating which I'd share with you. So, listen...oh sorry, keep reading.

A set of PhD students were about to have an important lecture from a Professor. They all sat in the lecture hall, waiting for the Professor to arrive as it was about time for the lecture to begin.

To their surprise, rather than seeing the Professor they saw a boy about five years of age, mounting the pulpit ready to give the lecture. The students were all very surprised that they all waited to listen to what he was about to say.

With confidence, the boy began by introducing himself, "I am Jeffrey, and I would be your Professor today." As he went on, Jeffrey spoke terms only the Professor who was meant to lecture them would have used. This made the students sit down to listen with awe.

As Jeffrey the five year boy went on, he was just as accurate as the Professor, touching the relevant points that were important for the students to note. Questions were asked, he answered them accurately just like the Professor. He also went to the white board, gave some illustrations, although the hand writing was just as that of a five year old, but they were accurate and illustrated properly. It was just as if the Professor had shrunk to the size of a five year old.

Jeffrey got a standing ovation at the end of the lecture. He was really amazing, just to think of a five year old lecturing PhD students on their own course. How could he have so much knowledge, understand them, and lecture PhD students?!

What the students didn't know was that the Professor had an emergency and he had to travel by air to attend to it. Jeffrey on the other hand was the Professor's grandson, who had an ear piece on when he came to lecture.

The Professor could hear everything said by Jeffrey and the students. Jeffrey could listen to everything the Professor—his grandfather said. So, all Jeffrey did was just to repeat everything the Professor said. Jeffrey on his own had no idea what the course was about, all he did was to rely on his grandfather—the Professor, by just repeating everything his grandfather said even the writing on the white board.

Jeffrey and his grandfather were really close, Jeffrey understood his Professor grandfather very well. What is my point in this story?

Jesus in John 5:19-20 said "Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. ²⁰For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel."

When you want to look at this critically, Jesus considered Himself foolish and His Father wise. In other words, He was dead in the flesh, as He had no plans outside the plans His Father had for Him and had set before Him. Just like Jeffrey, who didn't consider whatever he had as knowledge as anything. Many of us may say, "Of course, what does a five years old know." And we fail to ask ourselves the very same question.

God did say we should become robots and just follow Him. He made us free moral agents, it is left to us to discover by ourselves that our knowledge is nothing compared to the that of God, our Father. He created you, and knows the end from the beginning.

1st Corinthians 1 from verse 26 talks about not many wise, or mighty men being called. Note this, the verse didn't say, God doesn't call the wise or mighty. It says not MANY wise men are called. What's my point? My point is that many of those who are wise (or believe they are wise based on the flesh), rest on their knowledge, and would place their knowledge above the word of God. They feel they know, and would want to interfere in the leading of the Holy Spirit. Which is why God chooses more of the foolish people, not because he wants to, but because the foolish people, don't have anything they could brag about. They know already they have nothing to use to stand against the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Apostle Paul, based on human standard could be regarded as a Professor. Bit when he compared his knowledge with that of Christ Jesus, he found out he knew nothing, and counted it as rubbish, (ref. Philippians 3:8).

Acquiring education isn't bad, but we must understand that the knowledge we would ever acquire on earth by human understanding is nothing compared to that of God in Christ Jesus.

So, how do we tap into this realm? The answer is simple—trust. How well do you trust Him. The Bible says in Romans 10:17, "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." The Passion Translation puts the same verse thus, "Faith, then, is birthed in a heart that responds to God's anointed utterance of the Anointed One."

Remember in my story, Jeffrey and his Professor grandfather were very close, this was how he could quickly understand him when he spoke. Likewise, in knowing God, our True Father, we need to study and meditate on His word and be led by His Spirit of Truth. The more you meditate on His word, the more you know Him. And as Jesus said in John 10:27, His sheep hears His voice and follow Him, this would happen to you more and more when you meditate on His word.

The more you meditate on His word, the more you raise His knowledge far above whatever you might have studied. This is not hypnosis, but you would come to know that God is rich is knowledge, beyond human reasoning. Be like Jeffrey and listen to you Father.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

 

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

                                          

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What Does It Mean To Tend The Garden?

Hello everyone, 

My recent write-ups have been centred on the true meaning of the seventh day in creation. As I wrote earlier, the seventh day implies rest, completeness, a time a painter would rest his brush because there is nothing else to add, which implies a time of perfection. And this was the time man entered the moment he was created, which would imply that man was created to experience rest, completeness.

God told man to tend the Garden He placed him. But at a time, man was deceived and lost this rest that he was created or designed for, which made him to start to till the ground and fend for himself. He entered a state of scarcity which he wasn't designed for. But God in His mercy gave man a way to get into that rest again, where he would tend the Garden again, not necessarily the Garden of Eden as he found himself. So, my focus here in today's write-up is to know what it means to tend the Garden.

Jesus said that the Father (God) would send the Holy Spirit to us, who would dwell in us, (ref.: John 14:17; 15:26). The Spirit of truth who is the Holy Spirit can only dwell in those who have received Jesus as their Lord and Saviour of their life, and when He dwells, He would lead and direct us in accordance with the Word of the Lord. This is very important to take note of this.

So, what does it mean to tend the Garden? Let's look at the life of Adam in Genesis, while he was in the Garden of Eden. His job was to tend the Garden, as simple as that. Pay attention to that. God didn't tell him to just tend anywhere, He was specific as to where Adam was to tend. Adam was led by God to where he would tend.

The Bible says in Psalms 119:105, "Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." The Passion Translation puts it thus, "Truth's shinning light guides me in my choices and decisions; the revelation of your word makes my pathway clear." This is awesome!

In simple terms, tending the Garden means getting the perfect direction on where you're to go to. And if you remember, Jesus said He is the good Shepherd, and His sheep follows Him because they know His voice, (ref.: John 10:1-4). What does this mean? What it means is that only those who have the Spirit of Christ Jesus can discern the leading of Christ through His Word and by the Holy Spirit—the Spirit of Truth.

Now, how can you achieve tending the Garden? The answer to this question is just the Gospel truth. You need to make Jesus the Lord of your life. In order words, make Him your new life, because the old life is like a sinking ship and you need jump to a new ship that can NEVER sink—Jesus.

By receiving Jesus as your new life, you receive His Spirit as your new Spirit and the Spirit of Truth to lead you. Which is what The Passion Translation of Psalms 119:105 means by "Truth's shinning light guides me in my choices and decisions; the revelation of your word makes my pathway clear."

Just like Adam who was led to his Garden to tend, the Lord God through His word would take you to your Garden to tend. You just have to trust the leading of the Holy Spirit.

The life Adam fell into was a life of scarcity, a life without direction, a life full of guess work and assumptions. So, success is based on history not by being led—mystery, this is where faith comes in.

Hebrews 4:11 according to The Passion Translation says, "So then we must give our all and be eager to experience this faith-rest life, so that no one falls short by following the same pattern of doubt and unbelief." When you're being led by the word of God, your rest in the word of God, because the life He leads you to is a life of Grace, rest, complete assurance of your needs being met.

So, when Matthew 6:33 says, you should seek FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness. This means entering His rest, trusting the leading of the Holy Spirit that God will never leave you nor forsake you. This cannot be achieved without faith. He has given us all that we would ever need, we just need to trust Him as He leads us to the place of His Grace. This receiving all He has provided for us; this is following the Good Shepherd; this is being guided by the Spirit of Truth; this is being eager to enter into that rest. This is what tending the Garden means, and how you tend the Garden means.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

 

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

                                          

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What Does It Mean To Tend The Garden? (Intro)

Hello everyone,

In my last write-up, I wrote that the seventh day in the creation story doesn’t signify God resting as in to take a nap from hard work. Rather, what it means is completeness, nothing more to add. Therefore, God rested in the completeness of His creation, as there was nothing more to add.

I also wrote that the seventh day wasn’t added for God, but Man, which explains what Jesus said in Mark 2:27 which says “And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.”” Man was the last creation of God, and he was created to enter into the rest immediately. Everything was sorted out by God for man, all he had to do was to tend the Garden, and not till the ground as man does today.

Hebrews 4:11 says, “So then we must give our all and be eager to experience this faith-rest life, so that no one falls short by following the same pattern of doubt and unbelief.” TPT. What does this mean? To till the ground as man does today is an effort to see if he could enter into rest (it is a life of scarcity), the rest which man lost to the devil in the Garden of Eden. But without God being the very life and essence of man’s existence, man would continue to till the ground and not find rest. This life isn’t what man was designed for. His design was to experience rest and tend the Garden. Tilling wasn’t among what God created him for, which is why whether you like it or not, he will never get it right until he lives according to what he was configured for, which is to tend the Garden by living in His rest.

What exactly does tending the Garden mean? And how can it be achieved? Log on to my next write-up where I’d answers these two important question.

 

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

 

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

                                          

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Faith Is The Presence of Rest

Happy Sunday everyone,

I studied chapter 4 of the book of Hebrews in the Bible, and as always, I got a deeper understanding of what faith is. And I'd share part of what I got.

Genesis 2:2 makes us understand that on the seventh day of creation God rested. The rest here isn't the rest of sleep or taking a nap. What it means is that God was done with everything that there was nothing else to add. All that God had created was perfect that He rested on the completeness of His works, the term of rest being the same meaning as a lawyer saying he rests his case, thus, having nothing to add. My point here is that creation started from day one to day six, so if God didn't add anything else, why was the seventh day added as a day of creation, since we now understand that it isn’t a day to sleep or take a nap?

Man was created on the sixth day, being the very last of His creation. The seventh day wasn't created for God but for Man. Thus, Man was created to experience rest in all that God had created. This then brings to play what Jesus said in Mark 2:27, which says, "And He said to them, "The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath."

The essence of the seventh day being added was for Man. And as Man lost this rest when he fell, Jesus, through His resurrection, being the last Adam has brought to us this rest to receive. And as Hebrews 4:10 says, "For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His."

This rest is the promise found in the gift of Grace which can only be received by faith. And this was what the children of Israel refused to receive because their heart was hardened, because they did not mix the Word with faith, so they doubted, (ref. Hebrews 4:2).

Everything Man was ever going to need was already provided for him before he was created. Likewise, we enter into a much deeper form of rest when we receive Jesus as Lord of our lives, thus entering into the kingdom of Jesus Christ, and all that we would ever need has been given to us. All we have to do is believe and we activate the promise of rest already given to us.

The message of rest in Christ Jesus is so deep, I know I can't explain it enough in just this write-up. Log on tomorrow as I continue on the depth of rest God has given us in Christ Jesus. 

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

                                          

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What Is a New Year Resolution?

Happy New Year everyone!!

It's that time again where people decide to make a new year resolution. But how many people do you know actually go far with their new year resolution? Very few do, and why is that? The reason is that a real new year resolution doesn't start from January 1st. It starts the moment you have the idea of the thing that you want to resolve. The moment you say you would wait till a new year, the zeal to do that thing dies.

The moment you want to resolve a thing, start immediately,  that becomes your new year resolution, no matter what time of the year it it. The reason is because,  at that point in time, the purpose is fresh, so is the zeal to do it also. Do not wait, because time waits for nobody.

There is a purpose you want to resolve or change a thing in your life, do it the moment the idea cross your mind. Of course, it has to be a positive one that inspires growth and development, this is important. To wait till a new year brings about procrastination. Yes, we all want to work on ourselves on certain areas for a new year, but still, don't wait for a new year to come before you make the resolution. 

It's a new year, and you'll most likely have a resolution to make. The moment that comes, work on it immediately. Don't be like a person who wants to grab a ball, but keeps pushing it forward. The ball keeps moving forward. Just grab it, take the bull by the horn, time waits for no man. Do have a prosperous and awesome year ahead.

It's Just a Waste of Time Without Him

Hello everyone,

Obtaining knowledge is wonderful, and in this generation, we have formal ways of obtaining knowledge by going to learning institutions which we call schools. After completing the training in which you have attained the acquired amount of knowledge you subscribed for, you receive a degree and a certificate which states what you have studied and the grade you finished with after completion. This is so nice, but what if after going through a particular discipline of study and then God tells you that wasn’t what He wanted you to study, how would you feel?

Today, we take a lot of things for granted and God is gradually leaving our decision making and we feel we can take decisions on our own, especially when we see the high level of intellectual prowess in our technological advancement. But in all these, we must call a spade a spade, not a big spoon. Romans 8:7-8 says, “For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ₇ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. ₈ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.”

To be carnally minded as many have associated it is one-sided, as they feel it is the display of the works of the flesh, but what they fail to understand is that doing things, making decisions without being led by the Holy Spirit is also being carnally minded. And being carnally minded is enmity against God, it means being in the flesh and those who are in the flesh cannot please God!

God has given us the Holy Spirit to everyone who decided to walk with Him by accepting Jesus as their personal [and not collective] Lord and Saviour. Collective there would imply receiving Jesus on behalf of another which is not so. When you receive Jesus as Lord of your life, you receive the Holy Spirit who lives with you forever and serves as your helper, comforter, counsellor, and strengthener. He is the One who confirms to you what God has given you to do, where He wants you to go, and how He wants you to live your life, and this means every decision we are to take should be guided by the Holy Spirit. This is why we trust in the Lord with all of our heart and lean not on our own understanding, (ref.: Proverbs 3:5).

Many times we cry to God over matters He has sorted out, but because we didn’t consult Him first, we took matters into our own hands based on our human knowledge, but along the line, we get stuck. The point is that we didn’t decide when to come to the earth and which family or country to be born to, everyone was born for a purpose and only God knows the purpose and plans for every single person on earth. So, He is the One we must turn to for direction, we shouldn’t think we know it all.

Another thing also is that we might have been turning to God for directions, but feel some things are too trivial to bring to the Lord, but nothing is too trivial, we must bring everything to God. This is why Jesus said we shouldn’t worry about what to eat, drink or wear, these may appear trivial, but as trivial as they look, we should get guidance from the Holy Spirit. Sickness, poverty, depression, and many similar things won’t just appear at your doorstep all of a sudden, they come as a result of areas we have neglected due to ignorance or laziness. And those who walk with God don’t fall sick or get depressed, because walking with God is walking in the path of righteousness, thus walking in the path of Jesus, which also mean, living the Jesus seated at the right hand of God life here on earth. Yes, we are all growing, but God doesn’t punish His children with things He has lifted us from, we only experience those things because we didn’t take them to Jesus for directions. 1 John 5:14 says, “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, hears us.” Everything we do must be according to His will. Therefore, we must not fail to trust Him and lean not on our understanding as He is always there to direct us every time, but only the willing gets directed as He doesn’t force us to obey Him, but tell us the truth.

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

                                          

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How To Speak By Faith

Hello everyone,

Faith is a word we hear every time from the mouth of many, and if not all the Sons of God, but the question, is do we know how to use faith to live, or do we know how to speak by faith. And as 2 Corinthians 5:7 says, “For we walk by faith [we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man’s relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervour; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance.” The Amplified Bible, and we are to live by faith. A popular verse of the Bible says without faith it is impossible to please God, (ref.: Hebrews 11:6), which implies that there is no way you can call yourself a Son of God and won’t live by faith. In essence, if the absence of faith cannot please God, it implies that we must always function in faith, as we know the just shall live by faith. So, how do we speak by faith, taking that into cognisance first? This is my focus today.

The very first thing to understand is that before you walk, live or speak by faith, you must, first of all, know what Grace is. As I've said in one of my blogs, Grace is a person, He is the full package that we never knew we were worth having, and why is that? It is because all that we would ever need in our life is found in Jesus. Jesus is completeness personified, and everything God has given because in Him are riches in every measure beyond what our mind can comprehend. Jesus is a brand new life, very different from the one we met when we were born. What we need to do is to know what is contained in Jesus which is what we received as Grace from God through faith in Jesus. What is this faith process and how do we speak through faith?

One thing we must know is that faith is different from hope, this is because many times we speak using hope and we think it is faith. For instance, to tell God to heal you is a prayer of hope, but to thank God for healing you, even when there is no physical sign of your healing YET, that is faith! Faith rests on Jesus’ effort and not your self-effort. Every form of sin, from the past to present and the future, [which includes, poverty, sickness, diseases, depression, death and many more related to this] was placed on Jesus. And we in exchange got His life, which includes, wisdom, knowledge, wealth, perfect health, life and not death, joy, peace and much more. This is why we when we speak don’t speak in future tenses, but in past tense, thus, understanding that they have happened.

Furthermore, when you speak by faith, you speak like God who calls things that are not as though they are, (ref.: Romans 4:17). Faith is not something that doesn’t exist or would exist, rather, it is something that exists already that we would walk into. Faith is like a written book, and we are acting the script from chapter one to the end. Everything God said we are, is in the script, and everything has been provided for us ahead of time, and they all belong to you according to what God has provided.

So, when you speak by faith, using health, for instance, you rebuke anything that is not good health, and then you say something like, “Father, thank you that You healed me, and I am healed.” You could quote scriptures supporting this claim, such as 1 Peter 2:24. In the case of finance, you rebuke the financial challenge, and then you say something like, “Father, thank you that you have never ceased to provide for my needs.” And if it is a bill you need to clear, you mention it, by thanking Him for clearing the bill. You need to close your eyes and see yourself as your needs being met because they have actually been met. What we see around us are lies which don’t support the truth of the Grace of God in His provision for us. God says we are healthy, the world says we aren’t, someone is lying and it isn’t God for He cannot conceive lies. Anything God says must come to pass, but lies cannot come to pass because they don’t exist!

May the LORD bless you and keep you, make His face shine upon you. May the LORD be gracious to you and lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace. AMEN.

                    

Why not accept Jesus today if you haven’t. Pray out loud, “Jesus, I confess that You are my Lord and Saviour. I believe in my heart that God raised You from the dead. By faith in Your Word, I receive salvation now. Thank You for saving me!” Congratulations, you’re born again, you are now brand new!

                                          

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