Your Heart And Your Life

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There are so many distractions in our environment that whatever you intend to do, you need to really focus on it, and not get distracted. Distractions come in various forms, but these distractions could also shape a person’s life either positively or negatively. A distraction could come and appear interesting and you focus on it. Some could shape your next line of action because what distracted you had sown a seed in your mind. If you take the next line of action after being distracted, and you were satisfied, it could become a thing you’ll keep doing regularly and it becomes a habit, and eventually a lifestyle. The sad thing about all these is to know what happens to you if what you focused on was negative and ungodly.

Proverbs 4:23 tells to, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life.” Our senses pick up things whether we want them to or not, and they shape our thought pattern. It is when we filter our thoughts that we push out that which are not beneficial to us [it’s still a choice to do that]. This is done by not watering the seed of ungodliness sown, rather water the seed of godliness, the seed of the word of God, which would eventually grow. The growth process involves focus and diligence on the word of God. What we choose to focus on grows in our hearts and eventually affect our way of life.

We must be careful what our senses pick up even though you can’t control the senses from acting, but you can reduce it from picking wrong things but avoiding places where your senses could pick wrong things. The reason why this is important is that our soul is still in the transformation stage and hasn’t fully developed, our flesh could long for things, and we must not feed the flesh, this is why we must avoid places that could feed the flesh, and even when we get home, we are to filter our thoughts with the word of God, because our thought focus decides our lifestyle and it should reflect Christ and not the flesh.

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.

                    

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The Principal Thing

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I remember when I was much younger, my mother always advised my siblings and me to always read the book of Proverbs. She still says it but not as much as before maybe because we read it (laugh). Well, the book of Proverbs is a powerful book which for me stands in between the spirit realm and the physical realm, in other words, you think like God while living here on earth because of your studies on the book of Proverbs.

Proverbs 4:7-8 says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. ₈ Exalt her, and she will promote you; she will bring you honour, when you embrace her.” Wisdom as these verses tell us is very important, and it doesn’t end there, verse 8 of Proverbs 4 also said, in all your getting, get understanding, which is also very important, so how do we get Wisdom and understanding? Before going further you must understand that Wisdom is a person. Solomon wasn’t using a figure of speech by making Wisdom a person, because Wisdom is truly a person. Wisdom was present when the universe what brought to existence, (ref.: Proverbs 8:22-31). The scriptures also tell us how the universe was brought forth through Jesus and He Himself is the Wisdom of God, (ref.: Colossians 1:16-17). It goes to show who Solomon was talking about.

Jesus is the Truth and is also the Wisdom of God, (ref.: 1 Corinthians 1:24), when you receive Jesus into your life, you receive Truth into your life, but what is Truth without knowing how to use it, this is why Jesus doesn’t just give you the Truth, He also tells you how to apply His Truth through the Holy Spirit, this is where understanding comes in. When you exalt Jesus who is Wisdom, you are depending on Him, this is where promotion comes from because He leads you on how to live your life, how to speak the right words at the right time. This is greater than the wisdom of Man which is limited, but this Wisdom is pure and is Jesus Himself. Through Wisdom you won’t only be promoted, you will also receive honour and this is the Truth because you are being led by the all-knowing.

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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Your Path Revealed

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When a baby starts to mature, the baby starts to crawl, after a while the baby tries to stand, could fall down, but eventually stand. From there tries moving about by holding things, could fall again but succeeds at the end. The baby then tries to take a few steps without holding anything, could fall still but because the baby is determined to walk tries again and again and again till a step turns to two, three, four…ten, on and on, and eventually walking. This is the same with the Sons of God, and just as Proverbs 4:18 says, “But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.” The righteousness in you keeps manifesting more and more just as you keep on holding onto your source of righteousness—Jesus Christ, who is your life.

There are things that “important people” do which becomes a trend, and some are wrong, as Sons of God, we should make our righteousness trendy, that which many would see as the way the follow. But if we hide because we fear people would make a mockery of us, then we would be like the lamp under a bushel which doesn’t make sense. As long as we are led by the Holy Spirit and not ourselves, we would transform this world, if not, don’t complain when you see wrong things becoming more and more on the increase. Bad people rule when good people sit down and do nothing.

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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You Can't Create A New Day

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Humans are known for prediction, probability and assumption, they would tell you where their company would be in a certain number of years judging by their analysis. These and more are common in the way Man do their things. But this isn’t how God wants us to live our lives. Am I saying it is not good to anticipate a bright future? It is good, but there is a way God wants us to go about our way of doing these things.

James 4:13-14 says, “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; ₁₄ whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.” We don’t know what would happen in the next second, we only anticipate which is based on chance, it could happen or not. To God, our existence here on earth appears to be as a vapour which comes and goes very quickly. So how are we to speak? James 4:15 says, “Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” The Lord God determines how long a person spends here on earth, and He has given everyone a purpose to fulfil here on earth, so we are to understand that every second we spend here on earth is by the will of God, thus, we should rest on His will in order to do anything, because we don’t know when we would be called up.

James went further in verse 16 and 17 which says, “But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. ₁₇ Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him is sin.” To say where your life or whatever thing would be without His will, to God is considered as arrogance, because what you are implying is that you are the determinant of your existence, whereas, understanding that whatever you intend to do is based on the will of God, and it is He who gives you more time to do what you intend to do. But the truth about life is that we often create how we want to live our lives, instead of asking God what plans He has for us and how we are to live. Doing this is living in His will, because not only has He given you what to do, you would be conscious of the fact that He sent you on a mission and you are meant to deliver at an appointed time. And with the help of the Holy Spirit, we would live a perfect life before God.

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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All Things Really Work Together For Your Good?

Happy New Week everyone,

To live a perfect life is only found when you walk with God, however, there are sacrifices you have to make, but they are sacrifices you’ll be grateful to God you made eventually. Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that all things work together for the good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” So, who are those who love God, because that seems to be the criterion for all things to work together for good for you?

The truth is that you cannot claim to love God because loving God really is becoming Him by not having any life but Him, which we have as Sons of God. But what to love God really is to receive His love first, for we never knew what love is till we received Jesus into our heart and we then understood that love is a person and is the person we received into our hearts. So, showing that you love God is to receive Him into your heart or life, and this is also because it is by grace and not of works to love God. So, if loving God had to come first from you, it would be of works and not grace which we wouldn’t even attain.

Being called according to the purpose of God has to do with receiving and walking with the Holy Spirit, who reveals your purpose and guides your every path because He is the Spirit of Truth and God. So, by receiving Jesus into your heart is loving God, and walking with the Holy Spirit is being called according to the His purpose, this is when all things work together for your good.

Romans 8:26 tells us how the Holy Spirit intercedes on our behalf beyond our imagination, and Romans 8:27 tells us how the Holy Spirit knowing what exactly to intercede for had searched our heart and known how to present our request before Him according to His will. It is there and then that all things then work for the good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose. It all boils down to walking closely with Jesus Himself through the Holy Spirit, and even though He asks you to do certain things which may appear as sacrificial, you would see that it all turned out for your good and fulfilling the purpose of God.

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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Your Most Trusted Friend

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Walking with God is something so amazing because you get to learn something new every time. As humans, we all have five senses, but when walking with God, these senses limit us that we need to get to a higher level beyond the senses of Man, what do I mean by this? As Sons of God, we have God Himself living in us, thus understanding the fullness of Christ in us. God is limitless, and His powers and abilities are things incomprehensible by our senses. For instance, can you understand someone not having a beginning, who has always been existing from eternity to eternity? It is too impossible to comprehend. Just as Colossians 3 asks us to set our minds on things above and not on this earth, it goes to show that our level walking with the resurrected Jesus surpasses that of Man in every ramification. Also, the scriptures tell us that the word of God was a mystery until Christ came, and isn’t a mystery to those who received Christ into their lives. Thus, there is a level we are to attain which is beyond us here, beyond the words spoken here, that which allows us to grow deeper as leave the way of the world.

Romans 8:26 says, “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.” The use of the word weaknesses doesn’t necessarily mean we are tired and worn out, but it means we communicate to God based on our five senses which we are used to but is limiting because there is a language of the Spirit which is pure and undefiled, which the human language doesn’t have and cannot attain. But as you walk closely with the Holy Spirit, He helps make intercessions for you, because we truly don’t know what we ought to pray for, and that is the truth. If you see God right now, your prayer life would change immediately because you would understand you have been underrating God’s abilities. This is why the Holy Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God which is very important.

So draw close to God and He would draw close to you.

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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He Never Changed, But We Lost Focus

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When I go through the Bible and read some stories about the heroes of the Bible and how God showed His great power back then. Then coming to Jesus Himself how He displayed His power and authority, which was seen in the early Apostles, sometimes, it could appear as though God doesn’t show so much of His power and authority in this present age. One could think maybe God has changed in the way He does things. But He hasn’t, Hebrews 13:8 says, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” So, why aren’t we seeing His power like the days of Moses, Elijah, and the early Apostles?

God/Jesus hasn’t changed, the reason why we aren’t seeing the display of God as we read in the Bible is just that of one thing—increase in unbelief. The level of unbelief has been increasing over the years and centuries. One thing we must understand is that God has never operated here on earth without going through man. If Man doesn’t believe, then the power cannot flow, this is why Jesus often said, “Be it unto you according to your faith.” It has always been a two-way communication, God gives, and we receive. But if we don’t receive, then nothing happens. Go through the Bible and you’ll find out that, Noah agreed to build the ark; Abraham had believed in God and he had Isaac; Moses agreed to bring the children of Israel out of Egypt; Deborah, Gideon, David, Elijah, Elisha, just name them, if they didn’t receive the power from God, nothing would have happened. And it was the level of their faith that determined that. But the level of faith today isn’t as strong as it was back then, that is why Jesus looking at the future asked if He would find faith on earth when He returns. Jesus is still the same, it is the faith of many that has changed.

Ephesians 3:20 says, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that is at work within us.” The truth is that we have more authority than those of the old testament Bible days heroes, we have the fullness of Christ dwelling in us which they didn’t have back then. It is just the amount you release that you would see. This goes to show the Sons of God need to be heavily equipped in order to carry out His work, or else we are all doomed. But one thing is sure which is that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, just allow Him to flow through you and see greater things than that of old manifest in your life.

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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Your Attitude To Things Sells You

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When you know little about a thing, you won’t be able to express yourself properly when asked about that thing. For instance a course in school, if you know little about it, when asked questions in the examination about that course, you won’t be able to express yourself properly because you know little about the course. But when you’ve gotten a good grip about the course, there won’t be any question you won’t be able to answer, just because you have a proper understanding on the course. Likewise a Son or Daughter of God, being born again is just the beginning, having a full grip on who you truly are, or on who Christ is and how He affects you, is of utmost importance.

Apostle Paul in Colossians 3:16 asks us to, “Let the word [spoken by] Christ (the Messiah) have its home [in your hearts and minds] and dwell in you in [all its] richness, as you teach and admonish and train one another in all insight and intelligence and wisdom [in spiritual things, and as you sing] psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God with [His] grace in your hearts.” We are not just to know the word of God, rather we are to have it in our hearts and mind, and thus, becoming our natural way of life, which would influence how we speak or interact with people around us.

The word of God is filled with wisdom and intelligence, in the real sense, it is wisdom and intelligence itself. And as we are filled with the Holy Spirit we admonish people with hymns and spiritual songs, making melody to God. There is no way you won’t want to praise God which admonishes people, so Paul is saying we should let it out and not keep it inside of us, because God is worthy to be praised. Let us be filled with the word of God because the word of God shows us who we are and makes us grow in grace of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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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Your Home Base Has Changed Focus

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There are things you do, the way and manner at which you do them that people would recognise where you’re from and may ask you to confirm their thoughts. This is as a result of how you were brought up and how you lived your life, the same should be said of those born of God. The early church acted so much like Jesus that the people of Antioch gave them the name Christians, meaning ‘like Christ’ (ref.: Acts 11:19-26), but is that the case today, can anyone say that about you. I’m not talking about being a religious fanatic, rather what I mean is can they see Jesus Himself manifest in the way you live?

Colossians 3:1-2 says, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. ₂ Set your mind on things above, not things on the earth.” The Message Bible puts it thus, “So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.” The Message Bible just made Colossians 3:1-2 very clear.

Having received the new life in Christ Jesus, you are meant to act like it, people should see that your life naturally reflects Christ in everything you do, and not a religious sentimental way of life. As true Sons of God, your focus should be where Christ is because He is now your life and He lives inside of you, and He is the reason why you are a Son of God. Christ is our perfection, so we are to focus on His very essence which is by looking above and not being focused on things on this earth. As you keep doing this you get transformed and you see things from a perspective, which shows a good sign of Spiritual growth.

By setting your mind on things above is to allow the gift—Holy Spirit—you received become relevant in your life. When you focus on things on this earth, you don’t hear the Holy Spirit when He speaks because you were not listening, but focused on the earth, and you won’t portray the very life of Christ.

To reflect the life of Christ is not a religious act as I said earlier, instead, it is a display of your real and true life, by being guided by the Holy Spirit. So, let us not be carried away, but we should be focused on who we are, and our perfection—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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Motivational Speeches Without Christ Is Nothing

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The world by the second grows more evil and corrupt to the point that trickery has entered the church, where we find them speak as motivational speakers but without any true substance, what do I mean? What I mean is that those who want to get people to fall for their ways would found a church and speak as motivational speakers in order to pull the crowd. The message would sound so powerful, but when you analyse it with the word of God, the focus isn’t on Jesus, this is getting common today.

Colossians 2:8 says, “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.” The ways of the world should not be mixed with Christ. We have today a lot of deceit as people are led astray through intellectual arguments which makes some question their belief in Christ; some still believe in superstitions and paint it in an attractive way by leading people astray. These sort of things are creeping into the church and some Sons of God are being led astray because they aren’t well grounded on the word, and this is where the leaders of the church come in, what exactly do they teach?

When our focus is on Jesus and we have a church gathering and the focus is on Jesus, it would be easy to identify those who are not of Christ. The devil cannot make the mistake to tell any of his agents to encourage people to meditate on the word of God to know more about Jesus, he just can’t, because that is what he doesn’t want to happen, and this is a way to identify false witnesses.

We should be like the Bereans who after receiving the word would search the scriptures to find out if what they heard conforms to the word of God. But we should do more than they did because of the trickery, we must ensure that what we heard is centred on Jesus and what we received by Grace through faith through His resurrection. We must be on the alert because the devil isn’t resting either.

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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The Ordained And Their True Mission (2)

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Yesterday, I explained how Jesus ordained some members of the body of Christ to equip the saints. As we know, we are all to grow up to attain Christ’s maturity, in other words, to be grown up in Christ is to be Christ and it is expedient that those ordained guide you to attain maturity.

After equipping us, Ephesians 4:13 explains the reason, “till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;” attaining the full stature of Christ is what those ordained are meant to ensure we achieve. Verse 14 and 15 continues thus, “that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, ₁₅ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ.” There are those who deceive and claim to follow Jesus, but are carrying the wrong doctrine. The Sons of God are meant to be confident that those who are ordained are not mixing the gospel with false teachings, which is important to take note of.

The focus is simple—Christ Jesus and His resurrection, and all that we have received in Grace through faith, and how we through believing in Jesus would receive the Holy Spirit who would be our helper and comforter and lead us into all truth (Jesus being Truth Himself).

The church is scattered so much today because those who are ordained to help the saints grow are focusing on other irrelevant things. Rules upon rules are mixed with the gospel; materialism is the order of the day, and focus is lost. The church is the solution to the world’s problems, but if they cannot come together under one voice of undiluted Truth—Jesus Christ, then the world is in trouble and corruption and evil would be on the increase.

Jesus is the focus of everything and nothing else, we should not be carried away by those who have material things and believe that is the focus today. Any leader who focuses on material thing in the name of Jesus is a fake. We don’t struggle for prosperity because the way God blesses us isn’t the way the world get their wealth.

My focus here is that church should not be the place where wrong teachings, trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting should be found. But the church with the ordained leader guiding the saints should be a place where the truth is spoken in love, which would allow the saints or Sons of God grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ.

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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The Ordained And Their True Mission

Happy New Week everyone,

The church is the body of Christ, and being the body of Christ we are not meant to be cancerous to the head, in other words, we are to meant to obey everything that comes from the head—Jesus. In order to strengthen the church, He appointed some among the body of Christ to equip the church. Ephesians 4:11-12 says, “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ₁₂ for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.”

The moment you become born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, and at that stage, you are a babe in Christ, and you would need some assistance from those who are mature in faith to help you in understanding how to study and meditate on the word and also understand walking with the Holy Spirit. These people to equip the saints are those Jesus chose. There are also those who have grown to a good level, it is the responsibility the Pastor for instance to be a Shepherd to the church.

The aim of all these is to equip the church in being focused on Christ Himself. So, those ordained are meant to be properly equipped first of all, in order to properly equip others. As Sons of God, we are all growing up into Christ, and it is the job of those ordained to ensure that the saints who are the Sons of God don’t lose focus. So, what does Jesus expect those ordained to do? Log on tomorrow as I continue on this topic.

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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Not Too Big For GOD To Handle

Happy Sunday everyone,

There are things you do or hear which could make you anxious or bring about worry. Maybe you saw your bank statement which is approaching red, or maybe you got a good sum of money and all of a sudden you looked at the list of things you need to get done which would eventually wipe out all the money; it could be that your landlord has given you a three month quit notice, and you don’t know where to move to with your family; it could be a health issue or you trying to get a job and bills upon bills keep piling up. These are enough reasons for you to worry or be anxious, but guess what? An innocent man was in prison, he understood how the challenges are which the devil uses as an avenue to creep in, and while in prison he wrote a letter to a church and a part of it he said, “Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the centre of your life.” This was written by Apostle Paul when he was in the prison, a letter he wrote to the church in Philippi, and Philippians 4:6-7 was quoted from the Message Bible.

I’ve had several reasons to be anxious, in fact there was something on my mind which wanted to cause a sort of anxiety for me just before I started writing the blog for this day, but as I looked into the scriptures and meditated on Philippians 4:6-7, I smiled because this had been the verses that had given a reason to always trust God in every situation. The Message says, “Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.” In doing this, the peace of God that transcends all understanding would guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus.

Apostle Paul didn’t write this just to make us feel happy, instead he wrote what we are meant to be doing because worries and anxiety are ways the devil creeps into our lives and you then see how people forget God first of all, and they later start doing things out of desperation. Some even go to the point of taking drastic actions without thinking. But Paul wrote this to call us to order, reminding us that there is a God who is greater than all our problems put together and is our very help in time of need. God Himself said He will never leave us nor forsake us, nothing is too big for Him to handle. Which is why we praise God as we drop our petitions to Him, we strengthen our faith in Him, and His peace which we have in Jesus is activated in us, that peace that passes all understanding gives us that assurance and confidence that God has taken care of the situation.

Don’t be quick to worry, rather be quick to put your trust in Jesus, in Him alone can we find true peace of mind.

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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Trials Should Be Fun For You

Happy Weekend everyone,

I remember a statement made by one of my lecturers back in the university, he said, “A tree cannot say it is tall until it stands among other trees.” It was good food for thought for me back then and still is, and in our walk with God, how do we know we are solid in Christ? The other time I wrote on examining oneself in Christ if he or she is solid in faith or a counterfeit. But as we walk with Jesus, we oftentimes go through trials, and this could be very displeasing, and you ask God why this always happens.

Apostle James wrote in James 1:2-4, “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, ₃ knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. ₄ But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” I love the way the Message Bible put these same verses, “Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colours. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.”

After lectures and training, we are meant to go through an examination to be sure if we were properly taught by making use of all what was taught when the trials and temptations come, this is where you exercise your true faith, and you see how strong you are and what and where you need to work on. Verse 4 says, “But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” The Message Bible says, “Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.” The whole essence of trials is for us to become mature and well-developed, thus becoming perfect and complete.

One thing to note is that we should always be ready for the trials, thus being on the alert and ready to express our level of faith in determining how mature we are. It shouldn’t be a time where we back down by displaying weakness, but a time of strength and courage. This is why James says we should count it all joy when we fall into various trials, and it really should, in our lives.

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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Focus On The Truth And Nothing Else

Hello everyone,

I looked at a coin, it had a head and a tail, but I noticed I couldn’t see both the head and the tail at the same time. It is the same with life there are just two sides to everything, that’s why the other side is called the opposite. Just the way we have right, the opposite is wrong; man, the opposite is a woman; north, the opposite is south, and so on. My emphasis on this is that our lives are governed by the side we choose in whatever area. We have the ability to change sides, but we cannot pick both at the same time. So, as Sons of God, there is a way God wants us to live, but we are often enticed by the opposite of what God offered us, suggestions to choose the opposite of how God wants us to live comes to us, the choice is then left to us. How then do we know how to identify the right stand with God as we live our daily lives?

Apostle Paul in Philippians 4:8 says, “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble [honest], whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate in these things.” All the attributes underlined are attributes of God. When God speaks we understand that it carries all these attributes, take for instance—truth. Everything God says is true, He doesn’t lie and we can be sure on what He has said.

When a Doctor tells a person that he or she has been diagnosed with cancer and has a certain number of years to live that is not a good report but a bad one. In order to take a stand on this kind of matter, what did God say about this? We understand that by the stripes on Jesus, we were made healed. This is opposing what the doctor said, but it is a good report. Not just does it have a good report, it has virtue and it is a thing that is praiseworthy. This is what we are to meditate on. God doesn’t fill us with optimism, rather He tells us what is, take for instance His Grace through our Lord Jesus Christ, having the fullness of Christ in us, all these are not optimism but the truth.

We are to dwell on what God says, but in a general statement made as we move about, they need to have the attributes stated in Philippians 4:8, they must have virtue and should be a thing that is praiseworthy. When you get any statement which brings down your soul, which brings about worry, they are not from God, because they are not lovely nor are they good reports. When we are conscious of what we listen to or whatever thing our senses pick, this would allow us to channel our focus on the attributes of truth, honesty, justification, purity, love, good report, which are virtuous and are praiseworthy. These are the things we must meditate on and fix our minds on. Any other thing would oppose these attributes.

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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Just Lean On Him

Hi everyone,

Have you ever been in a fix and you know there is nothing in that smart brain of yours that can take you out of it? Well, I’ve been in a lot of it, and I keep thinking I can get out of the mess [which truly isn’t possible], but it wasn’t until the Holy Spirit asked who I run to for help when I get into trouble, that I then understood where He was headed.

Proverbs 3:5-6 says, “Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know, recognise, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.” AMP.

The major issue we have is trust issues, we don’t trust God enough. We might say “no, that’s not true, I trust God with all my heart.” What God usually ask us to do is usually strange, or sometimes, they might not be strange but they won’t be heading in the direction you felt was best according to your findings and statistical analysis, generally approved by man, written in books, taught in schools, and so on, but that’s not where He would lead you through. The question now is do we trust God very much? True we trust Him, but to what extent?

The reason why King Solomon said we should trust God by not leaning on our own understanding is that it would in many times contradict what we stand for, but why must we trust Him anyway, is it because He is God, so giving Him that respect is to obey Him? Well, that could be a reason, but God isn’t a mean person Who would lead you astray. And why is it that from the past records, He has never led anyone astray? It is because He knows what is going to happen, He knows the end from the beginning, He sees what no man can see or predict.

As I have said many times before, Man always assumes, use probability, and predict, which is never accurate until they happen by chance. In other words, Man leaves everything to chance. But there is a Person Who chance isn’t in His dictionary, nothing ever happens by accident because He knows the outcome of everything beyond the understanding of Man, that which we can never quantify with our reasoning. Who would you rather choose? The game of chance or the path of accuracy?

The truth is that either taking the route of chance or taking the path of accuracy are risks, but then again, the One with the path of accuracy is Accuracy personified, and the Truth Himself, (ref.: Numbers 23:19; John 14:6), and He can never change, because He is the same yesterday, today, and forever, (ref.: Hebrews 13:8), and in His record, excellence is an understatement. So, when He asks you to follow Him, would you still choose the way of chance or the path of over accuracy? The choice is left to you.

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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