The Faith of Jesus

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I really admire Jesus a lot, every time I read about His personality, the way He answers questions, and the miracles He performs, I get thrilled; He is just my role model. But let’s take a look at a popular miracle Jesus performed, which is the stilling of the storm. This miracle keeps getting me amazed over and over again, not just about the miracle performed but the event before He stilled the storm. Now, what made me thrilled?

Jesus said to His disciples, “Let us cross over to the other side of the lake.” Luke 8:22. Then while on their way there was a storm but Jesus was asleep in the stern. Now the stern is the most dangerous place to sleep in a boat; anyone who stays there in a storm, like the storm Jesus and His disciples faced, the person on the stern is most likely to be thrown overboard first, but that was where Jesus was! His disciples woke Him up and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” Mark 4:38. But really, was Jesus meant to be sleeping at such a time?

Now, Jesus woke up and said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” Mark 4:40. But really, what faith was Jesus talking about? Remember, Jesus told His disciples to cross over, and when Jesus says a thing, it is always backed up by faith because He lived a faith-filled life. As we know, faith is the substance of things hoped for, while the evidence is not yet seen by man but by the one who spoke [ref.: Hebrews 11:1]. Jesus already saw Himself at the other side of the lake; this was the act of faith. Also, remember that Jesus only did what His Father asked Him to do. Jesus had complete trust, complete faith, and complete reliance on His Father. So, whatever His Father said was final, He had no second thought about what He was told to do. This is to imply that the crossing to the other side of the lake was approved by God.

For Jesus, He had complete peace of mind to the point of being fast asleep in a storm. This was the faith His disciples lacked; they didn’t see with faith, instead, they saw with their five senses. We must understand that the moment God tells us a thing, He tells the end result of that thing and that is what we are to hold on to and nothing else. For Jesus, no storm or circumstance could change His stand on what His Father had told Him; this is how to live as a believer.

The point to note is that even if Jesus hadn’t calmed the storm they still would have gotten to the other side of the lake! This is because God said it through Jesus. So, as a Christian if sickness comes, we don’t panic, instead, we hold on to what the scriptures say, that by the stripes of Jesus we were healed (ref.: 2 Peter 2:24). When financial challenges come, you confess that the Lord has supplied all your needs according to His riches in Glory, and you are blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places (ref.: Philippians 4:19; Ephesians 1:3). These are the things we do and more. We must hold on to what God has said and not what the world says or even what your friends say, so far it isn’t from God.

Jesus holding on to what God told Him to go to the other side through faith despite the storm, strengthens me a lot and this is what God expects of us, to have complete trust in Him. God has taken care of all we would ever need; we just need to trust Him as Jesus did. The love of Christ towards us knows no bounds, and this is the gospel truth.

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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The Hunger For Jesus

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I once wrote on The Logic by Faith, which was an eye-opener to what we know [what have we have received in Christ Jesus], but which many haven’t taken our time to reason out how interesting God intends walking with Him to be. As we now understand that the logical reasoning of God is based on His principles which rests in Christ Jesus who is the power and wisdom of God (ref.: 1 Corinthians 1:24), God Himself has given us Jesus as our new life, which we receive by confessing with our mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead (ref.: Romans 10:9), then Jesus Christ becomes our new life.

As we now have Jesus as our life, through the Holy Spirit, we are led in line with the path of Jesus which is the path of God, which is the logic of God by faith. Now, knowing that Jesus is power and wisdom of God and now our life, it is our duty to search deeply to know Him more and more, so that we fulfill His fullness in our daily lives, in other words, we should hunger for Him like one who is starving for food. And why is this so?

2 Peter 1:2 says, “Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, ₃ as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue” What we need to understand is that Jesus is now our life, for without Him we can do nothing (ref.: John 15:5), we then need to know the life we have now obtained. Not only that, 2 Peter 1:3 says His divine we have obtained as our life has given us everything that pertains to life and godliness, in other words, there is nothing we would ever do here on earth according to the plans and purposes of God that Jesus is not the answer to in terms of anything that our life consists of, just name it. So, as the scripture advises us to meditate on the word of God, what it means is that we should look for Jesus in every single verse. He is our life and all in all. This is not just an expression, it is the reality on ground that we need to understand.

We are to hunger for Jesus more than the food you eat, treat Him as if He is the only air to breathe and survive. But one thing we must understand is that we are not hungry for Jesus for our selfish interest, but for what God has called us to do here on earth. We are to live for Christ and not for ourselves. He said that He came to serve and not to be served, likewise, we are to serve and not to be served, and this is done when walking with God in Jesus Christ. And as Jeremiah prophesied in Jeremiah 9:23-24 that no one should glory in his wisdom or his might or riches, but those who must glory, must glory that he understands and knows God [Jesus], because this is what God delights in.

Hunger for JESUS to the glory of the NAME OF THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY.

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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There Is an Ark and a Flood

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When we read in Genesis about Noah and the flood, and why God had to send the flood, it seems like a story of old. But what surprises me is that many do not know that the story of Noah is happening all over again, but this time not with a literal flood.

Jesus said in Matthew 24:37-37, “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. ₃₈ For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, ₃₉ and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.” Do not be afraid when you hear things about the second coming of Jesus Christ, what we are to do is to take heed and be prepared.

The heart of man today is very hard, even more than the days of Christ, this is why we don’t see miracles happen as it did during the days of Christ, and why is that? The reason is that living the life of Christ is very scarce to the point that when a person performs a miracle, many do not believe. Scientists, ensure they find a flaw, as it does not corroborate with their thesis, even with the evidence in front of them. Those who believe are seen as fools or desperate people, [although, there are miracle workers of the devil].

The world is so corrupt that we who are born into this generation do not know the intensity of the corruption because we met the world this way and we count it as normal. The Word of God is gradually seen as "old school" because it does not fall in line with the current happenings of today. But the truth is that it isn’t the Word of God that is "old school", it is the world that has drifted from the truth!

There is an ark and there is a flood. The ark today is Christ Jesus, while the flood is destruction. Just as Noah kept on telling those of his time to enter his ark for safety, likewise, the children of God are to go round the world, telling everyone to receive and live in Christ. Sadly, a lot of this has turned into a religious act. We are to come into a new life because the old life and this earth will pass away.

The old earth and its way of life would be destroyed, (ref.: Matthew 24:35; 2 Peter 3:10; Revelation 21:1), and we are warned again and again and again. As 2 Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.”

We are warned everyday just as everyone was warned in the days of Noah. When Jesus comes the second time, no one would be without the excuse of not hearing the gospel of repentance who were alive when He came.

Live each day as if it were your last in sense of getting prepared for His coming.

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 New Week 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? I once wrote a blog post 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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The Benefits of Humility

Happy Sunday everyone,

Several times we’ve heard a lot about humility being a good moral virtue, but humility is actually beyond just a good moral virtue; it is a pathway to who God has made you become, in greatness and power. And many people don’t know the importance of humility because of the world we live in.

Let’s take a simple everyday example of two people—Mr. A and Mr. B. Mr. A and Mr. B had a deep misunderstanding. Mr. B on the other hand wanted an apology which Mr. A refused to give; he refused to admit he was at fault. However, Mr. B decided to apologise even though it wasn’t his fault. This surprised Mr. A who was the one to make the apology, and this ended their quarrel. There are cases where things such as this happen, and the power to do what Mr. B did is humility, and on the physical level, this is not easy. We should also understand what Mr. A did shouldn't be something to brag about, or else this isn't humility but pride.

This act didn’t only strengthen Mr. B, but it also strengthened Mr. A whom the apology was made to, as he learnt a lot. What Mr. B may not know is that he earned more respect from Mr. A than before, and it was the benefit of humility.

In the Bible, to allow God into your life, thus dropping everything and following His will is the highest form of humility you could offer, because the Bible says. “Therefore humble yourselves [demote, lower yourselves in your own estimation] under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you, casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.  1 Peter 5:6-7 AMP.

When you allow God to take charge of your life, you would do things you knew you wouldn’t have been able to do before, and this is because of the grace and the strength given to you by God. 

When you see the life of Jesus, you see humility, the Bible says, “And after He had appeared in human form, He abased and humbled Himself [still further] and carried His obedience to the extreme of death, even the death of the cross! Therefore [because He stooped so low] God has highly exalted Him and has freely bestowed on Him the name that is above every name...” Philippians 2:8-9 AMP. God gave Jesus the name that is above every other name. This happens to us when we do what the scriptures say in 1 Peter 5:6-7.

As a believer, having challenges and claiming you can take charge of it by yourself won’t take the problem away, it would only worsen it. This is why you see a believer who is poor and in poverty doesn’t seem to get any better. It is pride that is in your way, nothing else! Some believers feel it is wrong for believers to have great wealth, so they decide to remain contented with their level. Others feel when they have health issues it is normal. This is pride and not humility!

God doesn’t make anyone poor or sick or have challenges. The moment we face any challenge it is the moment where we look up to God and cast our problems on Him [ref.: 1 Peter 5:7], this is the humility God expects from you. As you allow Him to take charge of you, you'd see all your challenges fade away gradually and miracles start happening. As Jesus said, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls." Matthew 11:28-29 AMP. This is the life God wants for us, and it's all because of His love for us. This is the gospel 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 Do We Supplicate For The Saints?

Happy weekend everyone,

Today, I would look at how we supplicate for the saints of God. Now, by the word “saints”, Apostle Paul wasn’t referring to people who were no longer on this earth. By "saints" he meant every born again person. This isn’t new to many of you, but to clarify the air, I just had to say that, to be doubly sure everybody got it.

Now, when you say a prayer of supplication for people, it becomes intercession. However, for Apostle Paul, the word supplication was used, especially in the King James Version, what does this mean? It means we are all together in this. The scriptures make us understand that we are the body of Christ, thus we are all connected as one to Christ Jesus being the head, (ref.: Romans 12:4-5; 1 Corinthians 12:27). This then makes it clearer when Jesus appeared to Saul on the way to Damascus, where He said “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” (ref.: Acts 9:4). With this, how do we pray for other believers/Sons of God in Christ Jesus?

Yesterday, I made it clear that when we supplicate, we supplicate using the word of God, thus confessing to ourselves who God has made us become in Christ Jesus, especially in areas that trials. Likewise, when we supplicate in prayer for other saints, we supplicate as though we are doing it for ourselves, but we replace our name with other saints, those we know and those we don’t know. Therefore, confessing who the saints have become in Christ Jesus, thus, taking charge over the territories of the wicked one here on earth, as we understand that we are to see ourselves as God sees us.

We are not to say anything outside who God has made us, whether for ourselves or for other saints, because whoever is born of God has been transformed into the image of Christ, so why pray for the person as though the person isn’t transformed? That won’t depict who the saint is.

We are all meant to go through trials and persecution because we are swimming against the tide of the world, and we are meant to look out for each other (saint) because we are all in this together. We are to strengthen each other.

Speaking in tongues and praise, worship and thanksgiving are also ways of supplication as I explained yesterday, but this time it also applies to the other saints. Anything that would strengthen your confidence and trust in Him should be done.

In summary, the prayer of supplication is basically strengthening your fellow saints, but this time, in Spirit through prayers. And remember, we are not having a tea party, rather we are on a battlefield and must be on the alert both for ourselves and for others.

 

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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