Do You Listen?

I know a couple who love each other so much. In the early days of their relationship, they got to a point where the lady said the relationship appeared to be one-sided. But something between them was improved, which led to strengthening their relationship and love for each other. So, what was the thing they did to strengthen their relationship? It was improved communication. The lack of communication weakens relationships. And this isn't different between God and us His Sons and Daughters.

As Sons and Daughters of God, it is always important to talk to God, as He is our Father. But there are times when it looks as though God isn't listening to our talk or request to Him. This in many cases is because we talk too much which prevents us from listening to Him when He speaks.

Prayer is good, but the question is, what do you pray about? Is it going contrary to the finished works of Christ Jesus, or is it a prayer of ignorance in terms of what Jesus Christ has already done for us?

Vain repetition as though God didn't hear you the first, second or third time you spoke with Him. When you keep on talking and talking, over and over again, you miss out on the word of the Lord.

Do not forget, that every relationship requires effective communication. And every relationship should not be one-sided. When we speak to God, we should not be carried away that we do not listen when He speaks and leads us in the path right for us to follow. Remember, for without Him, we can do nothing, (ref.: John 15:5), which makes it paramount that we should always sit at His feet to allow Him to teach and lead us.

As we are patient to listen, we see how we fall in line in fulfilling His purpose for our lives. Listen twice as much as you talk, and see His glory shine in your daily lives.

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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Put All Your Eggs In One Basket?

Have you been in a situation where you need help? I'm sure you have. In many ways, you probably went to someone to know the right step to take or maybe ask for help directly, which could be financially based.

Many times people may have come through for you, again maybe they didn't or couldn't. It's not their fault no matter how sincere the person was. The fact that just played out is that they showed they were only human.

With this in mind, we have developed a sceptical approach when dealing with men by not putting all your eggs in one basket which always appears to be the wise thing to do.

But I'm here to tell you that even though not putting all your eggs in one basket seems wise, it really isn't and is also very stressful. Why is this so?

As Sons and Daughters of God, we claim we have the Holy Spirit residing inside of us, yet we talk of not putting all our eggs in one basket as a wise decision.

So, what makes us stand out as different from the world's way of reasoning? It is our complete rest in the only one whose word can never be shaken or altered by anything whatsoever. His name is Jesus.

"Wow, I didn't know that" (speaking sarcastically). Why don't we trust the Lord Jesus when He leads us through His word and the Holy Spirit?

Jesus said to His disciples in John 14:12-14, “¹² Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. ¹³ And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask anything in My name, I will do it."

Jesus said whatever we ask in His name, He will do it. No, I don't think we understand this. For God never had a Plan B. He just had the Plan. He is not a man that should lie, (ref.: Numbers 23:19). Whatever assurance He gives, is as good as signed, sealed, and delivered. So, it is "over-safe" to put all your eggs in His basket alone.

We have His Spirit of truth residing in us to guide and lead us. He is the one who would tell us how to go about whatever we are to do, and how to do it. It is this complete trust in Him seeing it done already because He said that is faith. And this is how He said we are to live as His Sons and Daughters! So, why do we make decisions like the people of the world, by our so-called not putting all our eggs in one basket as the safe?

No matter the number of baskets you place your eggs in, as long as the basket is not the basket of Jesus, it is unwise and unsafe!

Again, if you put some eggs in the basket of Jesus, and some in another, it is unwise, because it shows you don't have faith in Jesus.

Have faith in Jesus because He has settled your problems before you asked Him to. All you had to do was activate by believing that He alone did it. This is faith, and putting all your eggs in His basket.

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 Soldier's Life

Uniform jobs always look great and awesome. Like the soldiers for instance, when I see how soldiers move, and how movies have made it look so awesome, it has made it even more awesome. But many times we forget the sacrifices they have to pay. Defending a territory to the point of death or even attacking territories or nuisances that disturb the peace of the territories they protect. They go all the way, and coming back alive is always a way of thanksgiving if I would want to put it that way.

The life of a Son or Daughter of God is like the life of a soldier. Taking the word of God to the very end of the earth. Even though that is the ultimate goal, we receive batches of spreading this goodnews and how to do it.

We must understand that being a soldier for Christ Jesus isn't about fighting human forces, but spiritual forces that uses humans as tools to carry out their evil plans. Plans that fall contrary to the word of God.

But there is one thing that shows our Christian life properly, and that is our faith on the Lord Jesus.

Let's look at the centurion Jesus met on Matthew 8:5-13. The Centurion's servant was very ill, and met Jesus about it. Jesus wanted to come over to heal the servant, but this is what the Centurion said, "⁸ The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. ⁹ For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it. ” Matthew 8:8‭-‬9 NKJV.

Jesus marvelled at the great faith of the Centurion.

One thing about soldiers is that they follow orders to the letter. Sons and Daughters of God are meant to do likewise in the leading of the Holy Spirit. As Sons and Daughters of God, we are to trust Jesus to the very end as directs us through His word and the leading of the Holy Spirit. We can never get it wrong when we trust and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in line with word of God.

We should not be carried away with the things of this world because the devil brings a lot of distractions and suggestions. We are sent here on a mission, but when we are distracted, we end up not living up to God's plans and purposes for our lives.

Let us follow the ways and leading of God as through the leading of the Holy Spirit.

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 Put God In a Box

When you wake up in the morning, you expect that the clock starts ticking forward, and after several hours it becomes afternoon, and then after several hours, you experience nightfall. This is normal.

Also, when you pour water it goes down. Any heavy thing when thrown up, must come down caused by gravity. This is also normal.

We expect a normal situation in everything we do to the point of putting God in that category.

OK, we may say God is all-powerful, all-knowing and beyond. But even with that, we assume for God unknowingly and thereby putting God in a box. What we don't know is that by doing that we put our faith in that box, not God. And this is also seen in how we believe in God.

When God asks us to do things that seem not to make sense. If it doesn't make sense, only He knows why we are to take the path that doesn't seem right rather than follow our way that seems to make sense and is normal and end up in destruction, (ref: Proverbs 14:12).

We shouldn't forget that God created time, and He lives outside time, and cannot be presumed as the ways of man. The only thing we are to have in mind is that He loves us, He knows all things, and has the best plan for us, beyond what any man can reason, (ref.: Jeremiah 29:11).

Allow God to come at you in whatever way. He is the God who caused the sun to stand still for Joshua, (ref.: Joshua 10:12-13). He is the one who took sun back for King Hezekiah to believe, (2 Kings 20:8-11). He is the one who made leprous men sound like army coming to attack, (2 Kings 7:3-7). He is the one who caused the axe head to float when Elisha threw a piece of wood at the spot where it sank, (2 Kings 6:5-7). The lame walk, the blind see, the dead come back to life, and so many signs He did. And best of all He was born as a man, died for us all, and on the third day, He arose, conquering sin and redeeming man back to Himself.

You cannot predict His moves. The only thing you know is that He loves us so much, so don't put Him in a box through your faith.

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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Why Meditation Leads To Revelation

It is not a mystery when people say they constantly receive revelation from the Lord Jesus. It is just one secret which isn't a closed one but an opened one from the scriptures that enable them to receive from the Lord Himself.

Just to clarify one thing. To say you receive from the God Almighty or the Holy Spirit isn't different from receiving from Jesus. We must know Our God has a name, and His name is Jesus.

Likewise, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus. But we must be careful not to put the cart before the horse in the use of the word Holy Spirit in terms of how He functions which is that He explains what Jesus Himself said through His Word. And to find what Jesus said is not through reading, but meditation.

Joshua 1:8 asks us to meditate on the law of which in our born-again realm, we are to meditate on the Word of God (because Jesus who is the Word of God has fulfilled the Law, which makes it obsolete. Study Hebrews 7-10). 

Now, Joshua back in the old testament, knew the importance of meditation as he knew that the best way to be led into the path of the Lord can only be through meditation. And of course, you'll be prosperous and have success.

David said a very similar thing in Psalms 1:1-3, as he knew the strong benefit of meditation to anyone who does that.

But what about us in the new covenant, how is meditation beneficial to us?

The great thing about the new covenant is that those who are born into Christ who is the new covenant, all become Sons and Daughters to the Lord God Almighty. So, when we meditate, we know the very mind of God, as it has been released to us (ref.: 1 Corinthians 2:16).

To meditate is to allow the Holy Spirit to open up your eyes to the mind of Christ which are the promises of God, and the Holy Spirit takes it from there by interpreting what it means, which we in turn keep in our heart. In so doing, we receive revelations from God through the Holy Spirit on the word we have meditated upon.

Meditation could also be through speaking in tongues after going through the word of God, which allows the Holy Spirit to make intercessions for us, and in so doing we receive revelations and the Holy Spirit interprets the revelations to us.

Revelations received must rest upon Jesus alone and Him alone must be glorified, now matter what we receive as revelation from God, even if it is an assignment or task for us, the name of Jesus must be glorified.

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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Speed and Crawling

You can't focus on more than one thing at a time.

Focus on the promises of God for your life. By focusing on these promises, you're moving forward. 

Worries on the other hand slows you down.

A few days ago, I wrote on Worry Cuts Off Your Spiritual Signal. Today's write-up has "worry" in the mix of the focus, which is quite different from the previous focus.

Time is of the essence, no matter what. The creator of time—God, made us understand that it doesn't wait for anyone. Time isn't fast nor slow, but consistent in its movement. And because man can be inconsistent in what he sometimes does. Time may appear fast and he would want to cover up for the time lost. And this in many ways brings worry. This is one reason.

Another reason time appears fast comes from probabilities and assumptions. When a route is taken to get results but doesn't work, another route is quickly taken to see if the result could be achieved. Speed is of the essence to quickly cover up the time wasted. And this is how man lives because he rests on assumptions and probabilities. What seems to always produce the required result today could suddenly change tomorrow. And of course, worry is involved.

The only way a man can appear fast and worry-free is to rest on the promises of God Almighty, which is on the finished work of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

We can only focus on one thing at a time. The more we focus on many things, we start crawling. But when we have the life of Christ in us, and focus on His promises by faith in Christ Jesus, we see how we get things done.

No matter how things go, as long as we rest on Jesus, He will continually guide us and lead us on the right path. Trust and obey Him and see how you appear more consistent than even time itself.

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 are Your Vision and Mission?

What would most likely come to your mind whenever you hear the terms mission and vision statements? I believe it's a company's profile. But everyone created by God has a vision and mission statement for their individual life.

Sons and Daughters of God, of course, are not left out because the general mission and vision statement was spelt out in Matthew 28:18-20, which says, "And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. ¹⁹ Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen."

But aside from the general mission and vision statement, every Son and Daughter of God have their individual mission and vision statements.

You were not just sent to the world to follow the system of the world in carrying out your daily routine. You are to dig into the word of God to reveal Jesus more into your soul and allow the Holy Spirit of Jesus who lives inside of you to reveal your mission and vision.

You need to know why you were born, and your purpose here on earth for the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This is your vision. And how to achieve your purpose, which is your mission. This is where the Holy Spirit comes in as He leads and guides you into all truth, as you are led to into your life choices.

Remember, the Lord will never leave you nor forsake you as He is our great provider, and protector, we should always trust Him because some things we may be led to do by the Holy Spirit might not make sense. And don't get me started on the devil and it's distractions filled with excitement that appears logical, till you are lured into to systems of this world, you start forgetting your vision here on earth, why Jesus sent you.

Whatever the Holy Spirit tells you must have its bearing from the word of God, and Jesus ALONE is glorified for what the Holy Spirit asks to do as a mission. There is no you involved as regards your selfish cravings for the flesh, no matter how logical they may seem. This is because deep down in your spirit, you know what the Holy Spirit tells you to do is true and right even if your flesh wants a different thing.

Trust the Lord Jesus alone, and ensure the words of the Holy Spirit are true through your meditation of the word of God revealing Jesus because Him alone must be glorified.

What the Holy Spirit would tell you to carry out would fall in line with your vision, which in turn enables you to carry out the general vision as seen in Matthew 28:18-20.

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 Be Lazy With Your Faith

Our Lord Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end, the One whom every knee bows and tongue confesses that He alone is Lord, the One who holds the highest authority in heaven, earth, and under the earth, the one who created all things. I could go on and on to show us the might, majesty, and authority our Lord Jesus has.

In knowing how powerful our Lord Jesus is, when we are faced with challenges, some of us cry to Jesus for help. And this is where my focus is.

As Sons and Daughters of God, it is wrong for us to cry to Jesus for help. Doing this doesn't give us the result we need from Him, and why is this so? Let's take a look at the Gospel of Matthew 28:18. It reads, "And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth." It is in this power and might that we then go into the world and carry out His mandate, our purpose here on earth.

You still didn't get it. We don't have Jesus as a person to run to anymore, because He lives on the inside of us because of the new Spirit we received that made us His Sons and Daughters, as is clearly stated in 1 Corinthians 2:12, "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God." So, in this, we function in His authority, power, and might.

Wherever we step into is as Jesus who is God, has stepped in that place. All that He is, we have become.

The question now is, what are you doing with your faith?

Faith is backed up by action. Faith shows Jesus is in charge, and not the other way round. But is that what we portray in our daily lives, and even in our prayers?

I hear those who claim to be Sons and Daughters of God praying weak prayers for hours. Prayers of helplessness, when Jesus has given you His complete authority to function in.

Yes, many may say, they don't want to be proud by claiming the authority to themselves, Jesus and not them is doing the miracle. This is why it is good to be Spiritually sound.

What you never knew was that the moment we accepted Jesus as Lord of our lives, we ceased to exist. Jesus is now the one living and functioning through our bodies. And this is why we declare "In the name of Jesus." He is the one and not us in charge.

Just as Jesus told His disciples in John 14:9, that if you've seen Him, then you've seen the Father. Likewise, those of us who have become Sons and Daughters of God. Who sees you is seeing Jesus, for we are one in Him, (ref.: 1 Corinthians 6:17).

Do not be lazy with your faith, function in the power and might of Our Lord Jesus Christ through the leading of the Holy Spirit of Jesus.

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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Worry Cuts Off Your Spiritual Signal

There is a man whose office is just a walking distance from him. So, he enjoys taking a walk every morning. He takes a path where he walks over granites.w

One day he closed late from work, and taking his usual path home, he got to the path where he walked over granites, but as he walked over it, it was so loud and probably noisy. He wondered to himself why he never noticed how loud walking on the granites was all the while he took the path to and fro his office. So, he decided to pay attention the next.

As he walked over the granites the next morning a on his way to his office, he couldn't hear the sound of the granite at all. And it dawned on him that the surrounding noise of the vehicles every day and the pedestrians overshadowed the loud noise he experienced walking over the granites the day he closed late.

So, what's my point in all this? The point here is that just as the vehicular noise overshadowed the noise of walking over the granites, the same can be experienced when we worry because worry prevents you from hearing God's leading and direction over your life. It is only when the vehicular noises are gone that you can hear the sound produced when walking over the granites. Likewise, unless you stop worrying that can proper leading from God through His word and the Holy Spirit.

And to worry is forcing yourself to take up a job that you are not and will never be qualified for.

What to eat, drink, wear, how to run your life, and more. All this isn't your job or business, it is God's business.

Your job is to be guided and led to walk into the perfect will of God for your life.

Jesus told us in Matthew 6:25-34, that there is no point worrying about what to eat, drink, wear and more isn't our business, because the person who is in charge of that has sorted all that, and this person is God Himself.

Stop doing God's job, so, that you can focus on your business, which can only be done when we stop worrying and start listening and obeying the leadings of God Himself, who has perfected our lives. And given us Jesus in whom are hidden all treasures of wisdom and knowledge, (ref.: Colossians 2:3). What else do you want that hasn't been given to 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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