What Has He Asked You To Do In The New Year?

Today is the very last day of the year 2021, wow! What an adventure right? Tomorrow is a new year. Many would have their "new year, new me" syndrome popping up very soon.

In my last write-up, my focus was on the fact that in as much as we intend to perform better in the new year, or set up new goals, what

should be the most important or only thing on our mind is to know God's plan for our lives. In other words, what is your purpose here on earth; what is the reason for your creation; what should you get done for the year 2022? This is very important because, why live outside your original design? So, when you've inquired of the Lord who would then reveal what you're to do, the question to ask is to know your motive when carrying out what God has asked you to do.

In 1 Corinthians 10:23-33, Apostle Paul's focus was on giving all the Glory to God. And in verse 31 of 1 Corinthians 10, it says, "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." No Matter What we have been asked to do, it had to be done giving all the Glory to God.

Now, when I say it has to be done giving Glory to God, it means we must remain attentive to the Holy Spirit, as He would be the One to direct us on how things should be done, and by doing this, our minds become renewed, your conscience is then able to alert you when you are or aren't giving Glory to God through your actions. This is important because things may be going on smoothly, but you aren't giving Glory to God! Surprised? (I'll explain this in detail in a few days time).

But when you are being purged by the Word of God, and in the leading of the Holy Spirit, you have grown Spiritually in knowing how to give Glory to God. It becomes your new nature of Jesus being made manifested, as you are no longer ignorant in knowing how to give Glory to God.

Do not be deceived by the devil to think everything God asked you to do is about suffering and sacrifice. For sacrifice, yes, there would be sacrifice, but not to your own detriment. You should understand that what you're doing is actually God's mission, and not yours in the real sense. You're His vessel, and God ensures His plan is done excellently. And because of that, He would take good care of His vessel (you), (ref. Matthew 6:33).

As you begin the new year tomorrow and begin to carry out God's plan for your life, know that He's got your back, and all you would ever need in carrying out the mission has been given to you, which are really your needs being met, which is a strong reason why you should always be grateful to Him.

Trust the Lord because He Himself trusts you.

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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Do Not Operate Outside Your Original Design

It's a few days to the end of the year 2021, and as we do that, many of us start to reflect how the year went for us, and how we can do better in the coming year. It is alright and normal to ensure you perform better in the coming year by achieving your goals. But looking at things from the general perspective, what goals are you supposed to really achieve?

Several times, many of us place some selfish ambition as our goal or something impossible, not designed by God for us in the first place. What do I mean by that?

We all have cells in our bodies, we know them as cells, but as they are all cells, they are all unique within the body. Everyone of them have a position they maintain and have a specific purpose within the body. For instance, the cells of the stomach cannot wish to be the cell of the lungs. Even if that were possible, any cell found where it wasn't designated could cause a negative reaction to the body.

In the same vein, you have a particular purpose and goal given to you by God. It isn't something you create yourself or something you determine yourself. Ephesians 2:10 speaks of us being God's workmanship; His masterpiece that He has predestined, which are in line with His plan and purpose for our lives.

What all these imply is that you need to know the plan and purpose of God for your life, especially for the coming year 2022.

There is nothing as frustrating as getting lost. But it gets annoying when I see a person has gotten the right directions, but insists on his or hers and always end up lost.

So, how do you know the plan and purpose of God for your life?

A simple prayer to God, asking Him to reveal to you His plans for you. Meditate on His word as revelations could come from there. After that, keep giving thanks to God in faith for answering you. You should be alert, as God reveals His plans in ways you can understand, but only when you're alert would you see the it manifest.

Be rest assured God has answered you. If you feel you haven’t seen the plan or aren't sure, ask Him to make it clear for you to identify, because you won't want to do things outside His will. And when God wants to make you see a thing, He really knows how to make it clear.

The most important thing is that when you know God's plan and purpose for you in the new year 2022, ensure you follow it. Study the Word of God regularly, listen to the leading of the Holy Spirit as it always abide with the Word of God, and it glorifies God always.

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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Peace on Earth?

Merry Christmas everyone!

Christmas is an awesome time of the year. There is fun, gifts are given to loved ones and to those in need. It's a time where friends and families come together for the holiday. And you know, the year is about to end, so there's a lot to talk and reflect on. But what exactly is Christmas all about?

Well, those who want to prove smart may say, "Christmas is about the coming of Jesus, to die for our sins." The "He came to die for our sins" line, has become a cliché, that many don't even know the meaning of that line. So, what's Christmas all about.

Christmas symbolises the end of life as we know it, and beginning of a brand new one, (although the new officially commenced at the resurrection of Jesus). This is why you "peace on earth" during Christmas.

The birth of Jesus was so significant to God that He ensured His angel delivered the message to Zacharias, Mary and Joseph and not a man. This was the physical activation of His master plan for mankind. God also ensured He shut the mouth of Zacharias when he had doubt in his heart, over the birth of his son—John the baptist, as he thought he was too old to have children.

God ensured heavenly host of heaven appeared in the sky glorifying God to the Shepherds on the birth of Jesus. He ensured the wise men were led by a star to where Jesus was. God never wanted any of His plan to be ruined. This was a very significant moment for God as this was His perfect Gift to mankind.

Jesus was the end of this world, and the beginning of a brand new life with no sin or death involved. And you know when I say sin and death, it includes diseases, pain, depression, pandemic, financial depression, and so on.

The new life contains the direct life of God with His Holy Spirit living inside of you, isn't that awesome? This was why a multitude of heavenly host praised and glorified God in Luke 2:14 saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"

Jesus Himself said in the popular John 3:16, "For this is how much God loved the world—he gave his one and only, unique Son as a gift. So now everyone who believes in Him will never perish but experience everlasting life." TPT, isn't God awesome?

I don't know about you, but this is why I love and celebrate Christmas. God brought peace on earth in the midst of this chaos of this passing away world. Why not seize this opportunity of becoming a citizen of the brand new life Jesus brought us.

Do have an amazing Christmas everyone. 

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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Don't Stop The Flow (Part 2)

It's three days to Christmas!

Last time, I wrote on, "Don't Stop The Flow". Several times, we think God withholds His blessings from us. Well, before the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that was true when certain precepts based on His law wasn't followed, this was because the wrath of the Lord God was still kindled against the sin in man, and not man himself because God loves man so much. But since death of Jesus and His resurrection, the wrath of God was satisfied, and the free flow of God's blessings came upon man, God has given, it is left for us to receive what has been given.

The issue we have is how to receive, and this is where we need to trust God more, because the more we trust Him, the more we see the flow of His blessings in our lives. This implies that we have received what He has given us.

The same principle where your parent or someone gives you something special, and then you believe it's yours and you receive it, is the same principle that applies when God gives us His gift, which He had, so what is stopping you from receiving His gift? Do you believe His gift is yours?

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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Don’t Stop The Flow

Wow, it's four days to Christmas!

Do you know there wouldn't have been Christmas to celebrate if certain words weren't said by Mary, the mother of Jesus. But I won't be looking into that today. My focus is on the event that happened before the event of Mary, based on the account of Luke.

The event before that of Mary was the event involving Zacharias who was a priest with no child of his own because his wife was barren. He and his wife, Elizabeth were advanced in years, but had always prayed to have offsprings of theirs.

Now, it happened that while Zacharias was burning incense in the temple, Gabriel an angel of the Lord God Almighty appeared to him. Yeah, me too... that would have been a scary moment, which was why the angel asked him not to be afraid.

The angel told Zacharias that the prayers of Elizabeth, his wife and himself has been answered, and Elizabeth will have child for him—Zacharias.

Zacharias was surprised that despite his old age, he could still be told he would have a child. So, it was hard for him to believe. His doubt was beyond the fact that an angel of the Lord told him he would have a child.

In order for Zacharias not to ruin the perfect plan of the Lord God, Gabriel the angel said to Zacharias in Luke 1:20, "But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time.” This goes to show that our words can delay the plans of God, but it can't stop God's plan from coming to pass because God's word cannot return to Him void, it must be fulfilled, (ref. Isaiah 55:11).

For angel Gabriel to have made Zacharias mute implies God wanted the plan to happen at that particular time, and nothing could stop the plan of God from being accomplished, because God has an appointed time for anything to happen.

We shouldn't be a cause for delayed blessings in our lives. As He has said it, we should not negate it, which would delay the flow of God's word from coming to pass.

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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Above and Beyond Logic

That's it, I'm not reasoning it out anymore. I said this in some of my previous write-ups, when God tells you to do a thing, it doesn't make logical sense [humanly speaking] most times. The moment you try to analyse it using your human logic, it doesn’t come together. And if you dwell on the human logic to get it done, you'll end up not moving.

All the way from Genesis to Revelation, till today, God is still the same in terms of how His words cannot be understood using human logic. From Noah, when God asked him to build an ark, and fill it up with a pair of every living animal on earth. Using the measurement given to Noah by God, it won't appear logical.

What about Abraham? God told Abraham who was 99 years of age, that his wife who had been confirmed barren, and was 89 years of age, would have a child by 90. This sounds so unbelievable. 

What of Moses who was sent by God to free his people who were enforced slaves in the most powerful nation of the then world. The people to be freed weren't 20 in number, or 100, or even a thousand. They were millions. To make matters more illogical, Moses didn't go there with an army. All he went there with was a staff, and no army, THAT'S ALL!

I won't be chanced to talk about Joshua, Gideon, David, Jehoshaphat, Elijah, Elisha, and more. But I have a little time left to talk about my role model—Jesus Christ.

How would Jesus see a girl who was confirmed dead and say she wasn't dead, but only asleep. How can you tell your disciples that they had little faith when on a boat on a lake, and faced with a storm who shook the boat violently. How can you speak of your death, how you'll die. OK, one could try to reason this out a little bit. But how would you speak of your resurrection with the precise timing.

In all these events that I stated above and more that are in the scriptures, and those that we experience personally, one thing was always certain, they all came out victorious, just because they believed and followed all that God asked them to do.

It was then certain as I concluded, that though they may appear illogical humanly speaking, but they are not below logic, rather they are above and beyond logic, which makes its accuracy a reason for that, as it stands the test of time individually but unique in its own right, as they cannot be repeated in terms of a scientific approach. But however they come, as long as it is from God, the result is always excellent and perfect, for God cannot be mocked.

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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Don't Twist God’s Hand

Hi everyone,

When we run the race of life, we sometimes meet challenges in front of us. We run to God for His direction and leading. But when we decide to listen to God as He leads us, we sometimes feel what He says do not align with our logic, then again, we won't want to live our lives outside His leading. So, in order for it to be a "win win" in our myopic human reason, when compared to that of God, we then twist the hand of God, and this is always dangerous to do.

Let's look at Genesis 15. In this chapter, we understand that God met with Abram (that's before God changed his name to Abraham), and had a covenant with him. But before the covenant, Abram had told God that he doesn’t have any biological heir of his own, and we know that one of the reasons was Sarai (before her name was changed to Sarah) was barren. God on the other hand said Abram would have his biological heir. So, this would imply that Sarai would have a child for Abram. And verse 6 says Abram believed, and it was counted to him as righteousness. Wow, this is deep.

For God to count an act as righteousness back in the days before the coming of the Messiah—Jesus, that would really mean a lot. But let's look at Genesis 16.

In Genesis 16, Sarai said to Abram that God had restrained her from having children of her own. So, she gave her maidservant to Abram to lay with her, and maybe she would have a child. And you know whatever the slave owned belonged to Sarai. And Abram consented.

Wait, wait. Hold on a minute. When Sarai have the maidservant to Abram was after the covenant God had with Abram, whether it was immediately, or years after, the main thing was that it happened after God had a covenant with Abram, where God told Abram that he would have a biological heir of his own. And remember Abram believed. So, why didn't he tell Sarai what God said, or maybe remind her if he had told her before?

So, what I believe is that Abram twisted the hand of God. And here's why I'm saying so. Abram believed what God told him, that he would have a biological child of his own, but God didn't categorically state Sarai as the woman who would carry the child. So, it was easy for Abram to assume for God by thinking, since Sarai is barren, maybe God wants the heir to come from her maidservant, after all, whatever the maidservant owns is automatically Sarai's. But guess what? Abram was wrong.

The maidservant had a child from Abram, but wasn't the one God intended to carry the biological heir for Abram!

Sadly, Abram's mistake is always on the news everyday, as the eventual biological heir of Abraham [from Sarah], and child of the maidservant are not at peace till today.

True, what God asks us to do could seem illogical, but the person who asked you to do so isn't ignorant of your future. He knows your end even before you were born. All we need to do is to trust and obey Him, even when things sounds illogical. Of course, the word of God exposes falsehood, just to clear up any form of doubt, and to establish an assurance from God's word.

God cannot be mocked, let us not forget that. Let us also remember that even if we have any form of doubt, He is the one who would strengthen us in every way to carry out His mission.

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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