THE POWER OF GOD'S GRACE
GOD ALWAYS HAS PLANS (3)
May 02, 2024
While quitting is never an option to pursue in times of shame, delays, failure, and hardship in life, remaining in Christ no matter what is the only best key to overcoming issues that seek to destroy you. Christians should never take failure as the absence of God in their lives or His unwillingness to take out the obstacles before them. While failure is the greatest breeder of shame and hatred, success is one of the things that ensure happiness, and many today trust in success thinking they are trusting in God. God’s word for you is secure and nothing will change it. What He planned is what He will do, what He destined is what you will have, and what He said is what will be. His plans are good and better regardless of the people, place, language, age, situation, or any confronting issues. In His plans, there is nothing like failure, no shadow of evil, or mistake, or misfortune. His words and ways are as perfect as His plans for your life.
While in Babylon, under the captivity of Nebuchadnezzar, God spoke to the children of Israel through Jeremiah and said, - I have destined a time for you in Babylon. No matter what will happen to you there, I will still visit you, I will still take you out, you will call on me, I will listen to you, I will answer you, I will gather you from where you have been scattered, and I will bring you to the place I have destined for you. Note that God is never without a plan for all situations. While the children of Israel were in captivity in Babylon, God raised Daniel from an unknown to a level of prominence that transcends five kings, He delivered him from the evil conspiracy that wanted to destroy him; showed up for him in the lion’s den; showed Himself in the furnace of fire to deliver Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego, and reaffirm their faith in their God. I am sure He will show up for you also.
“For thus says the Lord, after seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.” Jeremiah 29:10-14
When God says He will visit, believe that He will, He will not fail or forget what He said. He did that to the children of Israel after many years in Egypt; after years of slavery, sorrows, and pains. Despite forty years of wandering in the wilderness, He was there with them until they reached where He promised to give to them. God will visit you because of His word and promises.
“Remember this, and show yourselves men; recall to mind, O you transgressors. Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure, calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it. Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness; I bring My righteousness near, it shall not be far off; My salvation shall not linger. And I will place salvation in Zion, for Israel My glory.” Isaiah 46:8-13
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THIS MONTH, THIS MAY
MAY 01, 2024
This May, I pray in the name of Jesus Christ my Lord and my Savior because He says when we pray, He will answer, and whatever we ask in His name, the Father in heaven will do so that His name will be gloried on earth. Because I believe and trust the word of God, I act accordingly, I pray because I know God says when we humble ourselves and pray He will answer; when we seek His presence and His face, He will show up and show us. I believe every word in the Holy Bible, they are inspired by God and for His glory, and because I believe, I pray for you.
I pray this May, God will grant you His peace on all fronts; you will find peace of mind, heart, and soul; you will have peace in your home, family, marriage, and profession. You will have His security when you go out and when come in; on the road, you will sing praises to Him, and in your home, you will sing psalms for His mercies. You will honor Him in your words and deeds, and He will honor you before men. You will have joy and good reasons to celebrate, you will be liberated from the things that trap others down in shame and loneliness. You will be set free from the things that consume others as He did for Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego in the furnace of fire before Nebuchadnezzar and those waiting to see them consumed by fire in the furnace. You will have victory beyond comprehension, a lasting victory, and a liberating victory.
The Lord who separates the wheat from the shaft will separate you from the evil that destroys the body, the soul, and the mind. He will separate you by His power and keep you by His grace. His word says, “If you’ll hold on to me for dear life, says God, I’ll get you out of any trouble. I’ll give you the best of care if you’ll only get to know and trust me. Call me and I’ll answer, be at your side in bad times; I’ll rescue you, then throw you a party. I’ll give you a long life, give you a long drink of salvation” Psalm 91:14-16
This month, the good things you have been waiting for, praying for, hoping for, and expecting for so long will come to you effortlessly. You have invested yourselves in prayers, you will reap the fruit of your prayers; you have invested in the things of God, in the house of God, and in the lives of God’s people, you will reap the reward of your investments. Because God does not only answer prayers, He grants all of our requests according to His will, He showed that in the life and request of Jabez. The bad things you have been afraid of will be far from you; they will not come near you, only with your ears will you hear them – “He rescues you from hidden traps, shield you from deadly hazards. His huge outstretched arms protect you, under them, you’re perfectly safe; His arms fend off all harm. Fear nothing, not wild wolves in the night, not flying arrows in the day, not disease that prowls through the darkness, not disaster that erupts at high noon. Even though others succumb all around, drop like flies right and left, no harm will even graze you. You’ll stand untouched, watch it all from a distance, watch the wicked turn into corpses. Yes, because God’s your refuge, the High God your very own home, evil can’t get close to you, harm can’t get through the door. He ordered His angels to guard you wherever you go. If you stumble, they’ll catch you; their job is to keep you from falling. You’ll walk unharmed among lions and snakes, and kick young lions and serpents from the path.” Psalm 91:3-13
This month, you will see the goodness of the Lord, you will see the deliverance of the Lord, you will see the salvation of the Lord and you will see the blessings of the Lord. No good thing will He withhold from you. From the crown of your head to the toes on your feet, God will keep them and keep you also and will keep your dwelling places. He will bless the source of your income and bless your income, and by His power, He will enlarge your coast and you will see it. This month upward and onward, God will not fail us.
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GOD ALWAYS HAS PLANS (2)
April 30, 2024
You may not believe it, and you may not accept it, but it is true, God has His plans, He is never without a plan despite the prevailing situation. His eyes are fixed on what He said, what He plans, and the promises He made. His heart is always on His covenants; His eyes are always on His children no matter where they are, and what they are going through in life. He told Moses – I have seen, I have heard, and I know what I am going to do. “So, God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them. I have seen the deep sorrows of my people in Egypt and have heard their pleas for freedom from their harsh taskmasters. I have come to deliver them from the Egyptians and to take them out of Egypt into a good land, a large land, a land flowing with milk and honey.” Exodus 2:24-25, 3:7-8
Whatever is in the churches, in the nations, in families, in the government, in organizations, in institutions, and in the lives of everyone, God is aware of all of them before they came. He is never taken unawares and never shows ignorance or signs of forgetfulness. The situation and the people may look very deplorable, yet, God has a plan, a plan for redemption, a plan for salvation, a plan for restoration, and a plan of blessing if the people will turn to Him, practice justice, seek mercy, and walk in love. Jacob’s journey to Egypt was not a mistake; before they went there, God in His wisdom had sent Joseph to make things easy for them, and despite that, He had His plans for their freedom and slavery. He told Abraham – “Then He said to Abram, know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions.” Genesis 15:13-14
This is a promise you should never forget when you are in the waters or passing through the waters. “But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel; fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia, and Seba in your place. Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you. Therefore I will give men for you, and people for your life. Fear not, for I am with you. I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, give them up, and to the south, do not keep them back. Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth. Everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him. Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear and say, it is truth. You are My witnesses says the Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe Me, and understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, nor shall there be after Me. I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me, there is no savior. I have declared and saved, I have proclaimed, and there was no foreign god among you. Therefore you are My witnesses, says the Lord, that I am God. Indeed, before the day was, I am He, and there is no one who can deliver out of My hand. I work, and who will reverse it?” Isaiah 43:1-13
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GOD ALWAYS HAS PLANS (1)
April 29, 2024
God has His plans for you in every situation. Also in this situation, in this hopelessness, pain, anger, wickedness, isolation, and loneliness; in this nation and all the nations on earth, God is never without a plan. His counsel will work, His plans will be manifested, and all who put their trust in Him will see it and praise His name. No matter what, no matter where, and no matter who, our God is never without a plan for those He calls His children and His creation. He is not waiting until we are troubled before planning our escape or deliverance, He plans them well ahead of time, long before we even come into this world, and long before we see or realize the trouble we are in. His ways are forever secured and His plans are perfect, nothing can change them, not even our weaknesses or failures, and nothing will stop us if we remain steadfast in Him regardless of the difficulties and pains of enduring such things we know, see, and experience.
Before He created the universe and everything in it, He had plans to make human beings, plans to give control of the things He created to human beings, and He gave them just one thing that they will need to maintain what He created – obedience to His instruction. “God spoke, let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature, so they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, and, yes, earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth. God created human beings; He created them godlike, reflecting God’s nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them, prosper, reproduce, fill the earth, take charge. Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth. Then God said, I’ve given you every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth and every kind of fruit-bearing tree, given them to you for food. To all animals and all birds, everything that moves and breathes, I give whatever grows out of the ground for food. And there it was. God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good, it was evening, it was morning— Day Six.” Genesis 1:26-31
Nothing ever takes God unawares, not even the fall of human beings, the injustices we see, the high-stake wickedness, the blatant lies we speak, the deceptions, the sins we indulge in, the weakness and failures we suffer, and the denials of the presence and power of God to bless, to save, to restore, and to do all things. There were no lies to convince God to change His mind or word or promises concerning Job and what He intended to do in his life. Before Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden, God had plans for the redemption of man from that sin, His plans resulted in the unveiling of Christ Jesus to humanity and His subsequent sending into the world to redeem mankind from their fallen state of sin. The plan for salvation did not begin at the fall of man, it began long before creation because God knows the past, the present, and the future. He is the Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient God. He is all powerful, He is everywhere, and He knows all things, including you and yours.
“God, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. I’m an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I’m thinking. You know when I leave and when I get back; I’m never out of your sight. You know everything I’m going to say before I start the first sentence. I look behind me and you’re there, then up ahead and you’re there too, your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful, I can’t take it all in. Is there any place I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight? If I climb to the sky, you’re there, If I go underground, you’re there. If I flew on morning’s wings to the far western horizon, You’d find me in a minute, you’re already there waiting. Then I said to myself, oh, He even sees me in the dark. At night I’m immersed in the light. It’s a fact, darkness isn’t dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.” Psalm 139:1-12
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BEING A CHILD OF GOD, WHAT IT MEANS. (5)
April 26, 2024
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.” Romans 8:14-17. It means being filled with the Spirit of God, being led by the Spirit of God, the spirit bearing witness before God that you are a child of God; it means having the Spirit of God dwell and lead you in all things; it means submitting to the leading of His Spirit and trusting Him rather than all other knowledge, wisdom, or whatever else you see. It emphasizes that those who follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit are children of God. It speaks to the importance of living a life directed by spiritual discernment and obedience to God’s leading according to His word. If we allow the Spirit to guide us, we become part of God’s family with Christ as the head.
It means being commissioned for His services; it means commitment and dedication to His duties, it means having a new life with a purpose and a hope. “I now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ, for the sake of His body, which is the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, the mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them, God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Him we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus. To this end I also labor, striving according to His working which works in me mightily.” Colossians 1:24-29
It means desiring to love God and your neighbors rather than hate, preferring to seek peace and be at peace instead of war. There are people who have chosen the path of war instead of peace; there are people who have taken the path of hatred rather than love, and there are issues that will want to make you hate yourself and others, but being a child of God means seeking to love and to remain in His love at all times no matter what. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this, the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. By this, we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.” John 3:16-17; 1 John 4:7-13
“Without faith, it is impossible to please God, He who comes to God must believe that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Hebrews 11:6. It means having faith, walking in faith, remaining in faith in every trial. Without faith, it is impossible to be a child of God. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. By it, the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain. By faith, Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death,. Hebrews 11:1-5
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BEING A CHILD OF GOD, WHAT IT MEANS. (4)
April 25, 2024
It means knowing Christ Jesus and Him knowing you. “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. The Lord knows those who are His, and, Let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.” John 10:27, 2 Timothy 2:19
“Be hospitable to one another without grumbling. As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you, but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part, He is blasphemed, but on your part, He is glorified. But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.” 1 Peter 4:9-17. It means God taking all the glory in whatever you do. Giving all glory to God in all things in places, and all situations. Allowing His word to prevail, and His ways to be seen by all.
It means being predestined, and adopted according to His will. It means being redeemed by the power of His blood and accepted; it means having the assurance of being forgiven of all sins; it means being given the privilege into the mystery of His will according to His pleasure; it means the assurance of His presence here on earth and being together with Him in heaven; it means obtaining an imperishable inheritance; it means being there for His glory and glory. It means being trusted by Him, hearing His word, and doing them; it means being sealed by His Holy Spirit of promise and remaining in His salvation, it means you have been purchased as His possession.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him, you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:3-14
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BEING A CHILD OF GOD, WHAT IT MEANS. (3)
April 24, 2024
God uses only those He called His children to show Himself to the world, to make a difference in every place, in every circumstance, and no one else. Do you want to know God’s children in our generation? Look at how they live and how they handle situations around them, not just how they think, what they think, or what they say. Do not think it strange when certain things happen to them, God is at work in them and through them to show to the world and wants to use them to make a difference, not to punish them. Job went through all the pains not as a punishment from God but for God to show His faithfulness to those He called His children and those who put their trust and hope in Him. Do not gloat when you see Christians suffer, God is still at work in them.
The children of God all over the world are being humiliated, insulted, paraded as evil, mocked, despised, and called haters, but they are never forsaken. “We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. We are hunted down but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies. Yes, we live under constant danger of death because we serve Jesus so that the life of Jesus will be evident in our dying bodies. So we live in the face of death, but this has resulted in eternal life for you. But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, I believed in God, so I spoke. We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to Himself together with you. All of this is for your benefit. And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory. That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever. So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now, rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” 2 Corinthians 4:7-18
Being a child of God carries lots of physical and spiritual responsibilities, but the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ went through things that were beyond imagination but they never gave up, and we should never give up regardless of what we see, what they say, what we are called, and what we are being denied. “Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.” 1 John 3:1-3
“Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. Instead, be very glad, for these trials make you partners with Christ in His suffering so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing His glory when it is revealed to all the world. If you are insulted because you bear the name of Christ, you will be blessed, for the glorious Spirit of God rests upon you. If you suffer, however, it must not be for murder, stealing, making trouble, or prying into other people’s affairs. But it is no shame to suffer for being a Christian. Praise God for the privilege of being called by His name.” 1 Peter 4:12-16
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BEING A CHILD OF GOD, WHAT IT MEANS. (2)
April 23, 2024
It means much more than the ordinary eyes can see, the wisdom, knowledge, and imagination in the hearts of man can phantom. It is beyond reasoning, it is a life filled with divine experinces, and glorious praises; a life that seeks and honors God at all times, before all people, in all places, and in all situations. We become children of God by the love of God through redemption, adoption, acceptance, forgiveness, and mercies. It does not separate us from others but differentiates us from others. The children of Israel were the children of God through God's promises and covenant with Abraham; though they were in Egypt, they were not separated from all others but were different from all others. God showed Himself in them, to them, and through them. He also showed His preference for them than that of the other Egyptians.
After the fall of man through Satan’s deception and sin in the Garden of Eden, Abraham became the first man that God call and show to the world as His child. This came through Abraham’s belief, obedience, and action thereafter. “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. So, Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him.” Romans 4: 3. Genesis 12:4. Abraham was a pagan who worshiped idols, but God called him to begin a journey of faith and righteousness with him. In obedience and believe, Abraham left his home, family, and security to follow God. And God revealed Himself to him; made promises to him, and entered into a covenant with him concerning his offspring and the land that they would inherit in the future. Abraham's belief in these promises was counted by God as righteousness and his faith thereafter in God shaped the rest of his life. God still desires to make a difference in and through us to the world as He did with and to Abraham.
Our actions, belief, and obedience beyond just words are necessary to prove that we are children of God. Abraham had many ups and downs, many life challenges, delays, fought many battles in his days, and was often confused as to when the promise would be fulfilled, but he never looked back, he was always looking forward to the fulfillment of that glorious promise. His actions were counted to be of faith and righteousness. “By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.” Hebrews 11:8-10. Abraham was not looking for a city with godly people or houses with gold, but a city whose builder and maker is God to make a difference.
In the case of the offsprings of Abraham, the children of Isreal in Egypt, He granted them favor and respect before Pharaoh and all Egyptians right from day one through Joseph and showed them favor with what happened in Goshen thereafter. “And they said to Pharaoh, we have come to dwell in the land, because your servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen. Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, your father and your brothers have come to you. The land of Egypt is before you. Have your father and brothers dwell in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen. So Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen, and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly. Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail. Genesis 47:4-6, 27, Exodus 9:26
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BEING A CHILD OF GOD, WHAT IT MEANS. (1)
April 22, 2024
The difference is always clear in the day or the night; there is no compromise, no regret, and no time to look back. It is a life of forward-looking; forward-thinking; and forward-speaking, a life of truth, upward, and hopeful living. It is enjoying God’s divine grace, amazing love, and mercies. “In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest, whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself just as He is pure.” John 3:10, 1 John 3:1-3
Being a child of God is not what we should take lightly, the world may dislike it; dislike what we do, and dislike having that knowledge; it does not mean life without stress, adversities, freedom from hate, or people with contrary views; it means living with hope in times, days, people, and places of hopelessness; it is a life with the assurance of God’s presence despite all the odds that prevails around the world and the troubles of this life. It is a life that will be rewarded now and when eternity begins no matter what and when. It is a life that God will honor and use to do His will on earth and reveal Himself through; it is a life that will impact and influence many. A life that heaven recognizes and optimizes for His glory. It is a life quite different from all others.
The New Testament uses the phrase child of God or children of God several times; it says there are signs to look up to and things to look up to. “This is how we know who the children of God.” It is not by what we did first but by what God did first through Christ Jesus and we responded thereafter by believing, accepting, submitting, and following. “Remind them to be subject to rulers and authorities, to obey, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing all humility to all men. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” Titus 3:1-7.
Being a child of God is not a life of pride towards men, but humility towards God and man; a life of gentleness, obedience, good words, and good works; a life having peace with God and seeking peace with men. A life of truthfulness devoid of evil speaking or malice. A life that reflects the deeds of Christ Jesus and the happiness that awaits us in heaven. It describes the life of someone who has truly received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, truly repented of all sins, and turns away from every evil deed of darkness regardless of the gains or promises therein. The life of a child of God will be radically different from the life of an unbeliever. It is a life with the desire to live in a way that pleases the heavenly Father, a life that is characterized by God’s love, patience, holiness, humility, compassion, and respect.
In referring to creation, many people wrongly believe everyone is a child of God, but the Bible says no, we are not all His children. We were all designed in His image and likeness and we are loved by Him. We can only become God’s children when we are adopted by Him.
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TO MANY, IT MEANS NOTHING (2)
APRIL 19, 2024
What you know has the power to change who and what you are regardless of where you are and what you are facing. Daniel was in prison, but he knew who his God was, and what He could do and that knowledge prompted him to do something that changed his life forever. That knowledge and action changed his location; turned his prison time into his rising time, the first time he felt and became relevant to himself, useful, and powerful in His hands of God and the kings, before Nebuchadnezzar and four other kings in a foreign land. God has called you, He wants to use you for His purpose, and He wants to make you His forever. When you know who God is, you will know what He had of you and you remain in Him and be proud that you are in Him no matter what. “You are My battle-ax and weapons of war, for with you, I will break the nation in pieces; with you, I will destroy kingdoms; with you, I will break in pieces the horse and its rider; with you, I will break in pieces the chariot and its rider; with you also, I will break in pieces man and woman; with you, I will break in pieces old and young; with you, I will break in pieces the young man and the maiden; with you also, I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; with you, I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke of oxen, and with you, I will break in pieces governors and rulers. And I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea. For all the evil they have done in Zion in your sight, says the Lord. Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, who destroys all the earth, says the Lord. And I will stretch out My hand against you, roll you down from the rocks, and make you a burnt mountain. They shall not take from you a stone for a corner nor a stone for a foundation, but you shall be desolate forever, says the Lord. Set up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call the kingdoms together against her, Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a general against her, cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts. Prepare against her the nations, with the kings of the Medes, its governors, and all its rulers, all the land of his dominion. And the land will tremble and sorrow; for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitants.” Jeremiah 51:20-29
You are God’s instrument in the land of the living for His glory and nothing else and he will do with you what He did with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David, Daniel, and many others. He only uses people He called, people He prepared, and people He equipped for His work of salvation, and He will honor them thereafter with glory regardless of what that means to others, their thoughts, knowledge, actions, and words. God told Moses when He introduced Himself in a burning bush; “And God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them. I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a heritage, I am the Lord.” Exodus 6:2-8
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TO MANY, IT MEANS NOTHING
APRIL 18, 2024
In all situations, regardless of the challenges and the pains caused by adversities, daily remind yourself who and what you are; remind yourself that you have been redeemed, converted, and transformed; remind yourself of the covenant and sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross that quicken and perfected the covenant that brought you out from the power and control of darkness and sin into the Kingdom of God and made you a child of God forever. Adversities and people of contrary views and knowledge will want you to ignore that, but refuse to allow them, fix your eyes on the Cross of Jesus Christ, on Him, and His word; fix your mind on what He has said of you, what He has done for you, what He will do in you, and what you will become according to His word. God will never ignore or forget those He had called His children.
While in Egypt, He did not forget Israel; while in the wilderness, He did not abandon or forsake them, and I am convinced, He will never forget or forsake you no matter what. “Those who do wickedly against the covenant, He shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place. Since you were precious in My sight, you have been honored, and I have loved you; therefore, I will give men for you, and people for your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, and gather you from the west; I will say to the north, give them up, and to the south, do not keep them back. Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth, everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.” Daniel 11:32; Isaiah 43:1-7
Being a child of God is all you need to have access to the kingdom of God and His resources in heaven and on earth. You were not declared a child of God by yourself, a preacher, a pastor, or anyone else, you were not declared a child of God by the anointing, but you were declared by God Himself by His word and it is recorded in the books in heaven. To many, it is a foolish talk with nothing to it, but to you, let be the best confession about yourself. It is not a thought, it is an affirmation of what God’s grace, and mercy have done for you. “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” 1 Corinthians 1:18-25. Celebrate who you are in Christ and through Christ, God will perfect His word and plans in you.
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KNOW IT, YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD (3)
April 17, 2024
Do not allow the devil or adversities in this life to deceive you, through Salvation, you are what God said, you have what God has, you are in Him, and He is in you, His spirit is with you, and will lead you although into the bliss of His glory. You have the right to the heavenly blessings; you have access to divine insights of what God will do and where He dwells, you are surrounded by angels and protected - “But as it is written; eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 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. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” 1 Corinthians 2:9-13
You are a child of God, sin will not have dominion over you, your weakness will not defeat you; the power of darkness shall not overrun you and the wickedness of the wicked shall not lord over you indefinitely. Jesus Christ our Lord did not hang on the cross indefinitely, Satan did not rule over Him even in the grave Jesus could not be held back after the set time that God had set. Your time to manifest what God has said of you is here and there is no turning back of the clock. You have been declared by God and cleared to have His inheritance. This is what that means – you have now come into the company of heavenly beings
“For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. For they could not endure what was commanded, and if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow. And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and trembling. But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.” Hebrews 12:18-24
You are a child of God not by default, you were declared so by God in His word when you believed and nothing will change that. By that, you are set up for His glory. God will keep those whom He called His sons and daughters; He will rescue, defend, uphold, establish, and lift them on high. Those who put their trust in Him will not falter because they are His and He will not condemn them but will correct them. He who called you His son or daughter will keep you safe in His pavilion, He will justify and glorify you, Because of His word concerning you and your decision to remain in Him, you have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem with an innumerable company of angels to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, with God the Judge of all, with the spirits of just men made perfect, with Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and with the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel and He will keep you.
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KNOW IT, YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD (2)
April 16, 2024
You are a child of God through salvation, and not church affiliation, religious duties, name, or office; not by parental birth or friendship with pastors or by any charitable works. It is a gift of God by His power and love towards those who love the Lord Jesus Christ and open their hearts to accept Him as their Lord and Savior. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. But now in Christ Jesus, you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For He himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in His flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in Himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace, and in one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.” Ephesians 2:8-10, 13-16
Know this, Satan does not challenge his own children, he only challenges children of the living God, those living, desiring, and working on themselves to make an impact through submission and faith in God’s word. He tries in various ways to bring them down from grace, shameful and to seek to denounce or renounce their faith, their God, and Lord; to seek forsaking holiness and righteousness, and regret believing and relying on God’s divine word and power to transform, deliver, defend, restore, preserve, and bless them in the things they give themselves to do, things that bring praise and glory to the Almighty God, and things that promote the word and things of God on earth. These challenges will not destroy you; they will not take you or keep you away from the promise; they will not hinder what God had said and what God will do when you are consistent and faithful and obedient to His word. Follow His plans and walk and remain in His word.
Satan and sin and all forms of misfortune, delays, shame, and mistakes shall not defeat you; they shall not have dominion over you, they shall not overrun you, and they shall not bury you in their evil plans. The weight of our sins and that of the whole world could not keep Jesus Christ in the grave because He was and He is of God and from God, and they will not keep you either.
You are a child of God by the word of God and by the power of God. Nothing will change that. In believing His word, you are saved, and by His power, you are transformed and changed. “Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” John 1:12-13
Embrace this Identity in your life; implant it in your mind, words, and works; when you sleep or wake, when you rest or work, always remind yourself that you are a Child of God. You were created in God’s image. You were created in God’s likeness. You were created with purpose. You were created with goodness and blessing and you have been destined to share in the glory of Jesus Christ whom you believe, love, and submit yourself to follow. While you work, look up to Him; while you pray, look up to Him; while you are tempted and tested, look up to Him; while you are disappointed and humiliated, look up to Him; while you are in pains and sorrows, look unto Him; there is not a situation too big that He cannot rescue and deliver, and there are no falls too devastating that He cannot raise and restore you up again. Trusting God requires that you know you are His child and nothing will change the fact behind that knowledge.
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KNOW IT, YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD (1)
April 15, 2024
Know that through God’s grace and mercy, forgiveness, believing Jesus Christ as the only Son of the Living, the Savior, and the Messiah, and through the regeneration of your heart and ways by the power of His word and the indwelling of His Holy Spirit in you, you are a child of living God and Satan will challenge you for being that. No matter what they say and do, no matter what they have done and will ever do to you, no matter what they are going to do hereafter, your position in God is true and secured, His word concerning you is true and secured, His plans for your life are true and secured and will be manifested. Before God, you are washed clean, destined, ready, and prepared to manifest Him and nothing will change you. Not even adversities or the humiliating insults from the pit of hell.
“Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope, for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. 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. Now, He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called, whom He called, these He also justified, and whom He justified, these He also glorified.” Romans 8:22-30
This is what will happen to you; God knew you before you were saved, and on the day that you were saved through Christ Jesus, you were predestined for what he had planned, things bigger and better and now, you are called to fulfill those things. You have been justified by His blood and word, and you will soon be glorified in those things that God had destined for you. Seek for them, pray for them, daily desire them, work for them, ask for them, wait for them, and God will make them available for you. He had called you and will not forsake you now on this way.
“Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness. And you know that He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him, there is no sin. Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God. In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous. Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you.” 1 John 3:2-13
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EYES ARE YET TO SEE YOU (2)
April 12, 2024
Salvation comes with a physical and spiritual assurance and nothing from the pit of hell will change that, not even the present-day shame and pains suffered by Christians. God will restore you, and also restore unto you. “Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you. The former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. So, I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you, and My people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, I am the Lord your God and there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame.” Joel 2:23-27
You are the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ and His word and nothing will change that, not even failures or shame, anger, or disappointment, God is in you for good and will manifest Himself in you. Salvation is God being in you, being with you, and doing what He wants through you. It is a lifetime relationship with God, a lifestyle with a difference, a life with hope, and trust in God’s promises, a life backed with God’s assurance and power, a life that the devil is unable to destroy even with his weapons of confusion and hardship. When Job in his days was restored, it was physically seen on him by all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before, it was not a hidden restoration, it was an open restoration. “And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed, the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before came to him and ate food with him in his house, and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.” Job 42:10-11
It is not what you are now that matters but what you will be after these that will matter, for God had prepared a table before you, He will take you to that table by His power, you will sit on that table because it was destined for you by the Lord as David did and said in Psalm 23:3-6. “He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup runs over. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”
When the children of Israel left Egypt, it was seen by all, when God rescued and restored them, it was seen by all and they confessed it – "When the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, the Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are glad. Bring back our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the South. Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. He who continually goes forth weeping, bearing seed for sowing, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” Psalm 126:1-6
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EYES ARE YET TO SEE YOU (1)
April 11, 2024
Regardless of what name they gave us, what evil they do to us, and what thoughts they have against all Christians, we are the children of the living God, redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ, forgiven of all sins, and preserved for greater things; things that the eyes of men do not see now, the mouth could not speak now, and the hearts of the wise cannot imagine now. Things higher than dreams and counsel of the learned; things preserved only for those who love the Lord and had worked on themselves to remain firm in Him and His word through grace. “But as it is written, eyes has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:9-10. You might be small today, lonely, fearful, without hope, or courage, poor and without help, single, unmarried, rich, and wealthy, but you will not remain that way forever, God is not preparing anything smaller than what He said and what you are right now for you.
God is not preparing you for anything less than what He said regardless of what you are facing as a challenge or difficulty. He is taking you into the future He prepared and destined and nothing less. He is not expecting you to remain in the same spot and situation; He will not allow you to be the same when you are prepared to do what He says in obedience after the outpouring of His supernatural grace, amazing mercies, and His Spirit on you through obedience and faithfulness. When you work on yourself, your imperfection will turn around; your weakness will disappear; your shame will turn to joy, and your sorrows will become your testimony.
This is what Jesus Christ came for, and what you will become - “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. And they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But you shall be named the priests of the Lord, they shall call you the servants of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory, you shall boast. Instead of your shame, you shall have double honor, and instead of confusion, they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore, in their land, they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be theirs. For I, the Lord, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth and will make with them an everlasting covenant. Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people. All who see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, My soul shall be joyful in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its bud, as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth, so, the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.” Isaiah 61:1-11
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WORK ON YOURSELF (3)
April 10, 2024
What you believe can change you and what you reject can turn around and hurt or bless you. Be diligent in all of your dealings, seek God’s word and help always, and follow His instructions. God wants you to be right on time and in place and ready to take on what He says, be what He says, and who He wants. God was ready to do all and fulfill all that He asked Abraham to do in Genesis 12:1-3 God was ready to do something extraordinary with Abraham before asking him to move. He is ready to do amazing things with us before asking us to work on ourselves. He will fulfill every word and every promise regardless of what we will ever experience if we would believe and do what He says. God was ready to guide, provide, defend, rescue, promote, and bless Abraham long before speaking to him that faithful day. God is ready for you right now.
“This is what the Lord says, cursed are those who put their trust in mere humans, who rely on human strength and turn their hearts away from the Lord. They are like stunted shrubs in the desert, with no hope for the future. They will live in the barren wilderness, in an uninhabited salty land. But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit. The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? But I, the Lord, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve.” Jeremiah 17:5-10
While God’s love is unconditional, our actions determine what we receive thereafter, God will not give us what we do not deserve. “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.” Romans 5:8-11
Men who are asking for perfection completely forget themselves and what Paul said of all of us – all have sin; all have come short of God’s glory. “For everyone has sinned, we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God in His grace, freely makes us right in His sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when He freed us from the penalty for our sins. For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed His life, shedding His blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when He held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, for He was looking ahead and including them in what He would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate His righteousness, for He himself is fair and just, and He makes sinners right in His sight when they believe in Jesus. Can we boast then that we have done anything to be accepted by God? No, because our acquittal is not based on obeying the law. It is based on faith. So, we are made right with God through faith and not by obeying the law.” Romans 3:23-28
Work on yourself, let your yes be yes and your no be no. Trust and follow every word of God by faith Look unto Christ Jesus always. You will be what God says and wants through faith in Jesus and not in your strength and knowledge.
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WORK ON YOURSELF (2)
April 9, 2024
We have work to do with ourselves, with our beliefs, emotions, faith, feelings, and worship of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. While we look at others and work on others, we often forget that we have to work on ourselves also. If we fail to daily work on ourselves, we will drift from the gospel truth that God had destined for us and work after the dictates and influence of the world, and lose the impact of godliness and the path of righteousness. Working on yourself is not a mark to condemn yourself, but to examine, discover, recover, correct, and restore yourself. “Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you, if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith. As you test yourselves, I hope you will recognize that we have not failed the test of apostolic authority.” 2 Corinthians 13:5-7
The world is discontented with Christians, Christianity, and the world of God. Current events indicate that more unsettled times are just ahead, creating more anxiety and dissatisfaction for, with, and against Christians. God's Word tells us, however, that we must be content in all things as we live in this discontented world and discontented people. God has no intent that you be condemned, but you have to work on yourself; in fact, He wants everyone to be saved; everyone to be free from the works and powers of sin; every one to work to be in love, and seek peace; He wants everyone to come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, of His word, and be acceptable to Him. He has no desire that any sinner or unbeliever die in sin or in unbelieve, that is why He sent Jesus Christ while we yet in our sins, Christ came to make a way, show the way, and lead the way for our redemption, forgiveness, mercy, grace, be acceptable, and be called children of the Almighty God through salvation. “But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, He will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of His Son while we were still His enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of His Son. So, now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.” Romans 5:8-11
As you work on yourself, know that you are not strong enough without Christ; not smart enough to stand alone, and not wise enough to go all alone. You will definitely need Christ all along no matter what, who, and where you are. Do not place any confidence in the flesh to take you through the desires of the devil through our flesh and mind. Do not put your confidence in your strength, knowledge, wealth, wisdom, or age. Satan is wiser than man in all things, except God is with you and actively in you, Satan will defeat you. “You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. Yes, I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:3-5
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WORK ON YOURSELF (1)
April 8, 2024
Salvation is not a reward to the perfectionist, but a free gift through Christ Jesus by grace for those willing to believe in Him, accept Him as one sent by the Father to redeem mankind from all sins and all accompanying consequences of sin; it is a reward for those who are ready to forgive others and be forgiven by God and are ready to adapt wholeheartedly to the transforming power of God’s word and the power of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. While we prepare ourselves, we should note that God is not looking for our perfection but the submission of our hearts, words, and works to follow Him and His ways.
There are things that God requires from us, one of such is not perfection but to believe in Jesus Christ, accept His word, and submission to faithfulness, obedience, and sincerity to His word, His will, and He will do the rest to make us righteous, useful in His work, and able in His services. “So that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life. For this is how God loved the world. He gave His one and only Son so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through Him. There is no judgment against anyone who believes in Him. But anyone who does not believe in Him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact, God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants.” John 3:15-21. While we work on ourselves, are others seeing and following God’s light in us?
Christ Jesus knew Peter was not perfect, Paul was not perfect, and of course Judas Iscariot, yet He called them and gave them all the opportunities needed to be changed and transformed to the standard needed to be in His service. Judas Iscariot missed being transformed by the opportunity because of greed and ignorance of the eternal blessings of being with Christ in heaven. What will hinder your preparation? What is hindering you now? The greatest of sins is that of unbelieve in Jesus Christ and His word. All other sins, weaknesses, failures, and disappointments no matter their severity will be forgiven and you will be delivered from their consequences but the sin of unbelieve in the Son and word of God carries eternal condemnation.
Work within yourself to remain faithful to God and to His word; work to remain useful in His hands and in His vineyard; work to be what He says and not what others are saying; work to emulate Jesus Christ in His love and actions and not to emulate your neighbors and peers in their pursuit of wealth and vanities of life; work to be the light that others look unto to find Christ and come to accept Him; work to see yourself as part of the heavenly messengers in purity, justice, hope, and truth; work to be acceptable by God on the last day and not a cast away; work to make yourself a divine instrument in His hands for soul winning; work to be productive in Him, in His vineyard, and in His house according to His will. “Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words I speak are not my own, but my Father who lives in me does his work through me. Just believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. Or at least believe because of the work you have seen me do. I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.” John 14:10-14
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GOD IS SPEAKING TO YOU (4)
March 15, 2024
God speaks with the intent to bless, liberate, justify, direct, and preserve you for the destiny He had planned for your future. His word and voice will never lead you to destruction or shame no matter what Satan may say or do and no matter the delays and the circumstances around you. In His word, and with His voice, He created all things. When Noah heard the word of the Lord and acted accordingly, he saved his life and that of all the members of his family from the flood, death, starvation, and destruction, and thereafter God gave him and his children the whole earth to inherit. “So, Noah did everything exactly as God had commanded him. Then God blessed Noah and his sons and told them, be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth. All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power. I have given them to you for food, just as I have given you grain and vegetables.” Genesis 6:22; 9:1-3
When Abraham heard God’s voice and accepted to act on what He said, his life and that of his generation thereafter changed forever. He heard God, accepted the command, and followed all the instructions given not minding what he left behind and the uncertainty that was ahead for him. He lived to see God fulfill all that He promised and he passed them to all his generation. “So, Abram departed as the Lord had instructed, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. May God pass on to you and your descendants the blessings He promised to Abraham. May you own this land where you are now living as a foreigner, for God gave this land to Abraham.” Genesis 12:4; 28:4
When Moses heard the voice of God speaking to him, and followed the instructions therein, his life changed, the children of Israel were liberated, Pharaoh was defeated, the Red Sea did not obstruct their passage, the journey to the promised land began, and they survived the forty-year wilderness experience. “One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up. This is amazing, Moses said to himself. Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it. When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, Moses, Moses, here I am, Moses replied.” Exodus 3:1-4. You do not need the burning bus experience to know that God is speaking to you, all you need is to listen and you will hear, ask and He will speak, cleanse your heart and you will know His voice. Would you say as Moses here I am Lord?
When Saul heard the voice of the Lord, his life and mission changed and he became a great and powerful instrument in the work of God. The voice of God will change you, change your mission, and bring a blessing beyond every other thing into your life. “Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine. Do not forsake my law. When I was my father’s son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother, He also taught me, and said to me, let your heart retain my words; keep my commands, and live. Get wisdom, get understanding, do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you, love her, and she will keep you. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom. And in all of your getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote you; she will bring you honor when you embrace her.” Proverbs 4:1-8
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GOD IS SPEAKING TO YOU (3)
March 14, 2024
Regardless of our thoughts, imaginations, and understanding of events and the things we see and know now, God had given His word concerning everything and everyone and is still speaking even now, reminding us of what He had spoken, and what is coming. He will never contradict Himself and His word no matter how much we suffer, the knowledge and ability we have today. In the life of Hager and her son, Abraham throws them out and soon they run out of water and find themselves in a desert where there is no water and are thirsty, yet God in His mercy did what no one could do in their situation. God spoke and made provision for what she needed and gave further instruction.
“Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes. Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, I cannot watch the boy die. And as she sat there, she began to sob. God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, what is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid, God has heard the boy crying as he lies there. Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation. Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So, she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink. God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer. While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.” Genesis 21:14-21
Despite being a slave, homeless, a mother waiting to see her son die, destitute, and finding herself in a desert a place she never thought she would ever be, Hagar has this testimony to her credit, - God saw me, God showed me love, God provided for me, God saved my son, God spoke to me, and God helped me. She can also say, I saw God and God saw me. I saw His mercy and His miracle. I was restored and blessed, and I testify that God is good, He sees all, knows all, and can do all things. “She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her, You are the God who sees me, for she said, I have now seen the One who sees me. That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered. So, Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne.” Genesis 16:13-15
God did not only see Hager, He revealed Himself to her, spoke to her, and gave her instructions to follow and she did what God asked her to do. No matter the place, people, and situation, God will speak concerning you, and to you, He will reveal Himself as He did to Hagar who was alone and rejected and sent out with nothing. God helped her, restored her, sustained her, and showed her mercy and love in her situation, that same God who helped Hager will do yours. God came to see her in her location, and see about her needs, and be seen by her also. That would become the testimony of the people who desire God with all their hearts and in all their actions. That is who God is. The God who is present with His people in all situations, under subjugation and hunger and loneliness. That is the miracle of the story to tell this week. The God Who Is, Who Is That He Is, is the God who comes to Hagar where she was. Even when God is silent, and you feel lonely and sad, He is still speaking and will address whatever concerns you. He can liberate, sustain, speak, lead, and show the power of love. He remains the God Who Sees us and sees about us, the God who dwells with us, and in us even in our times and days of bondage, pains, and suffering.
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GOD IS SPEAKING TO YOU (2)
March 13, 2024
God is speaking to you right now; would you give Him your attention? Would you accept the divine voice speaking to your heart? It is not impossible for you to hear God, He is always speaking to us with love and assuring us of His faithfulness and mercy; it is not impossible to recognize His voice because He speaks life, liberation, love, peace, and gives wisdom that is different from the wisdom, knowledge, and ways of this world. He does not speak destruction or shame. His voice is distinct even in the midst of fear, chaos, and confusion. When Adam and Eve were confused, not knowing what to do next after disobedience to the instruction of God in the Garden of Eden, they were still able to hear and recognize God’s voice speaking to them. Did you know God had not shut you off despite the past and the present?
“And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, where are you? So, he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, and I hid myself. And He said, who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” Genesis 3:8-11. His love is endless, His commands are steadfast, perfect, and unchangeable, and He is never silent and never will be.
The mother of Jesus Christ told the people who had run out of wine at a wedding to do whatever He said to them. To follow His word. That is, they must listen to Him, they must hear Him, and they must do what He says if they want to see a difference and change in their emergency situation. It came to pass as they did, they testified of the change when they saw the immediate result. “His mother said to the servants, Whatever He says to you, do it. Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. Jesus said to them, fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast. And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and did not know where it came from but the servants who had drawn the water knew, the master of the feast called the bridegroom. And he said to him, every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now.” John 2:5-10. You may have run out of ideas on what to do next in your situation, but God still has the solution intact; you may have run out of strength, funds, ran out of patience, and hope, but God never runs out of His love and mercy towards you. Take a pause, listen to His voice, and do what He says. God will never contradict His word, His spoken word and written will always be the same.
Hager in her confusion, in her tears, and hopelessness, while waiting to see her child’s dead, she heard the voice of God speaking to her and that voice changed everything in her, for her and her child immediately. Regardless of what, who and where you are, God’s love is with you, He will show you His faithfulness if you will do what He says. He does not want you to remain without His voice, His word, and without hope. He wants to see your life and situation changed for His glory. He wants to use you; He wants to send you, and He wants to hear your testimony of His goodness. You are His instrument of praise on earth. “And God heard the voice of the lad. Then the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said to her, what ails you, Hagar? Fear not, for God has heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.” Genesis 21:17-17
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GOD IS SPEAKING TO YOU (1)
March 12, 2024
No matter what, where, and who, God has never been silent regardless of your religion, beliefs, and ideology. He is always speaking and will continue speaking as long as you have life and in this world. Whatever you have gone through before, whatever you are going through now, and whatever you will be going through in life, none is a hindrance to the voice of God to you. It is certain that God is speaking to you right now, but you do not hear because you do not listen, or you hear but do not understand, or you understand but cannot do what He says because you have not submitted your heart and ways to Him in obedience. You are more concerned with yourself than with Him, or you are holding back obedience for a personal reason.
God spoke concerning Daniel while he was in the lion’s den; He spoke concerning Job in his days of affliction; He spoke to Abraham in days of his confusion and unexpected delay, and He is speaking now to you and will always be speaking to you regardless of what the devil is doing against you now. Did you know God is speaking concerning His planned future despite what you are doing and what you are going through right now? Hearing His voice, accepting, obeying, and diligently following what He says is peace in times of conflict, confusion, and despair. His voice is all you need to have victory and overcome whatever is hindering you. When the world was without form, He spoke and all things were settled. He speaks because He sees all things, knows all things, and can do all things. Remember, whatever exists today in the physical and spiritual realm, the things seen and those unseen came into being by the spoken word of God and nothing else. He created all things by speaking and He can do that again in your case. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, let there be light, and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. Then He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day and the darkness night. And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.” Genesis 1:1-5
You don’t have to go out to an open space, forest, or foreign country to hear Him, all you need is to open your heart to Him, accept His word and command, and be willing to obey regardless of your situation, difficulties, age, and location. Thereafter ask Him to open your heart and speak to you, ask Him to enable you to understand what He says, and ask Him for the grace and power to do what He says. That is where and when the transformation you need starts just as in the creation. “Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding; for I give you good doctrine. Do not forsake my law.” Proverbs 4:1-2. There is nothing in the whole world as powerful as the voice of God.
Hearing God is important, He will not reject or forsake us, He will give us direction and lead us through the ways regardless of the dangers therein, but when we speak to God and He does not hear, it is because when He speaks to us, we refuse to hear. God wants us to hear Him, desires us to be close enough to hear and attentive enough to accept, and obey what He says. God wanted to speak the Ten Commandments directly to the people at Mount Sinai but they refused and sent Moses instead. “Now all the people witnessed the thundering, lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. Then they said to Moses, you speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die. And Moses said to the people, do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.” Exodus 20:18-20
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THE VOICE OF THE LATTER DAY (2)
March 11, 2024
The voice of the Lord is echoing loud and clear in every situation in every location and to every people. God is speaking to us concerning the future, He is not walking back His word or taking us backward, but taking us forward towards His plan, towards His word, and toward what He had destined and will never change no matter the people, the location, and the situation. His word settles all matters and gives hope, assurance, and life. “Give unto the Lord, O you mighty ones, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the Lord is over many waters. The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars, yes, the Lord splinters the cedars of Lebanon. He makes them also skip like a calf, Lebanon, and Sirion like a young wild ox. The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; the Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh. The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth, and strips the forests bare; and in His temple, everyone says, Glory. The Lord sat enthroned at the Flood and the Lord sits as King forever. The Lord will give strength to His people, the Lord will bless His people with peace.” Psalm 29:1-11
The voice of the Lord speaks nothing else but divine wisdom, healing, health, victory, victory, and peace. His voice gives direction and redemption, assurance in every dispute, and settles all issues in all of human history. His voice is effective and true regardless of whatever may oppose what He said. When the children of Israel prayed, God spoke to Moses concerning their prayers, He answered and said what He was about to do, and He revealed His plans coming to them. He did not send Moses to take up arms in battle with Pharaoh or the people, He spoke about His future for them despite their suffering, He spoke of a solution a word of peace not war, – “Then the Lord told him, I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt. I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Yes, I am aware of their suffering. So, I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey, the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. Look, the cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them. Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt. But Moses protested to God, who am I to appear before Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt? God answered I will be with you. And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you, when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.” Exodus 3:7-12. God sent Moses with a message of peace, direction, deliverance, and a future, not war of destruction of anyone.
There are voices of revenge in every nation, every people, and in every provocation, but not from God; voices to hate, provoke, insult, cause pain, disunite, and anger, but none of these is from God. God speaks love, unity, freedom, hope, and peace; He speaks the future regardless of what is in place now and what people are saying and doing; He speaks success and gives direction on actions to take. He is not speaking condemnation, destruction, or death to anyone regardless of action or location, He always speaks life and redemption no matter the situation, the people, and the situation. He is always speaking or are you hearing? You must listen attentively to hear Him because He will always speak His ways, not ours.
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THE VOICE OF THE LATTER DAY
March 8, 2024
While we still look at our former days, the past days, the good old days, and think it was better, the voice of the future is speaking, the voice of the later days is calling, and the voice of the Lord’s Day, the voice of His outpoured blessings and the glory that comes with every word He speaks and every command He gives is speaking. Knowing God, accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and the true voice of submission, obedience, and faithfulness is speaking, it is loud and clear, it is speaking every day and every time, saying that God will do what He said, He will not forget, He will reward and restore beyond the words, imaginations, and knowledge of all men because He never fails, had never failed, in anything, at any time, or in any place.
“In the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying, who is left among you who saw this temple in its former glory? And how do you see it now? In comparison with it, is this not in your eyes as nothing? Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel, says the Lord, and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and be strong, all you people of the land, says the Lord, and work, for I am with you, says the Lord of hosts. According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you, do not fear. For thus says the Lord of hosts, once more, it is a little while, I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land, and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this temple with glory, says the Lord of hosts. The silver is Mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts, and in this place, I will give peace, says the Lord of hosts.” Haggai 2:1-9
Regardless of the past, the future is better and it is coming. Regardless of the delays, pains, all failures of today and what Satan is doing, the day of the Lord is coming and will not fail. Remember, despite what Satan did to Our Lord Jesus Christ, the accusation, rejection, pains, suffering, and the crucifixion on the cross, the resurrection of Jesus Christ is solid proof that better days are coming and the future will be better than the past. Christ Jesus died, was buried and on the third day, He rose from the dead and is alive forever. This is what Jesus Christ said to John - “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. Write the things which you have seen, and the things which are and the things which will take place after this.” Revelation 1:18-19
Now, concerning Jesus Christ and the resurrection, this is what the scripture is saying to us and this is what we believe, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:5-11
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WAS THE PAST BETTER? (4)
March 07, 2024
Regardless of what anyone may say and do, the power to change things is in the hands of our God and He will do them through Christ Jesus. You were delivered from sin, saved from its evil consequence and power; you were saved to overcome the past; the blood of Jesus Christ opens doors that had been closed by sin, and your faithful belief preserves you to embrace the future that is promised through Christ Jesus. The Cross at Calvary is the evidence needed to prove the past was not better; the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the prove the future is better and whatever is now is not holding you back because the yoke had been broken by faith in God’s work and word in you. “One thing God has spoken, two things I have heard; power belongs to you, God, and with you, Lord, is unfailing love and, you reward everyone according to what they have done.” Psalm 62:11-12
Overcoming the past needs faith in the word of God; overcoming recycling of the past in your life needs your confession, repentance, and submission to God through Christ Jesus, and He will not fail to take you out, keep you out, and lead you on towards the mark of the high calling by grace in His name. Job saw the past, experienced the hardship of the present, and survived the punishment of faithfulness. He lived to see better days compared to the past even though he was wealthy before. “After Job had prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before. All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. The Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys. He also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch. Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job’s daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so, Job died, an old man and full of years.” Job 42:10-17
Job was restored in all things, not by his power or by the gift. God made it, God restored him, God made him better than before, and all his children experienced the restoration and the new days, God even included beauty and praise in the new life. When God sets out to restore you, it will be better than what it was before, you will be better than what you were before and God will do, restoring everything and make you better including wealth, beauty, health, strength, grace, and ability. God will not restore one area and leave the other. He will restore all including family. He gave Job a new family, with children that were quite distinguished and honored with beauty. He gave Job a longer life and increased his days of joy. He lived to not only see but enjoy the new life of total restoration, health, joy, comfort, and peace. Your day will come, hold onto the faith you have in Christ as Job did, continue in the faith, and do not be distracted by the glamour of the past, the pains of today are going away. Your promised future in Christ and through Christ Jesus is coming and will not be delayed any further.
“Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The beast of the field will honor Me. The jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen. This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise.” Isaiah 43:19-21
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WAS THE PAST BETTER? (3)
March 06, 2024
As Christians, while acknowledging that the past exists, do not the deeds of the past haunt you, you have confessed them to God, repented of them, received forgiveness and now is the time to decide to move on with the grace given from your salvation. “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say no to ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for Himself a people that are His very own, eager to do what is good. These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you. For it is by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Titus 2:11-15; Ephesians 2:8-10
Refuse to be held captive by the glamour, pains, misdeeds, misfortune, frustrations, or failures of the past, what God has ahead for you is far better. You were saved for the future not for the past, in Him you are being prepared for the future not the past, in Him all things are renewed and better than whatever had been in the past. In Him, the past becomes history, and loses its power to hold us captive; in Him, the future is secured, we have life, in Him we live, and in Him, we are more than conquerors. Even when the failures or disappointments of the past were caused by you in any way, or by someone else and are affecting you, God had raised you above what Had been and situated you by the power of His grace for what is to come. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned.” John 3:17-18a. Is not condemned by the past, the present, or the future
You are not condemned by the adversities of today but are being prepared for the blessings and revelations of the goodness of God in Christ Jesus in your life. Joshua was told, “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:7-9
You will overcome whatever is making think and believe the past was better, God will reveal the future He has for you to you; He will take you to that future by His power, He will remove every hindrance and roadblock of today; He will remove every agent of darkness and the lies from the pit of hell making you to look back and think back. He will open your eyes to see; He will give you understanding into the things He is doing in you and for you, He will give you knowledge and power to take hold of all the He had promised. He will not fail, and in Him, you will not fail.
He will go before you; He will open the gates and lead you in. “Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, be strong and courageous, for you must go with this people into the land that the Lord swore to their ancestors to give them, and you must divide it among them as their inheritance. The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” Deuteronomy 31:7-8
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WAS THE PAST BETTER? (2)
March 05, 2024
Dwelling on the past will do you no good regardless of how it was. No one thrives by upholding the past, but working on improving on the past is all that innovation means. The present may seem too hard and the future too far off, but it is nearer now than before; now may be too troubling and difficult in many ways, but none of the difficult pains of today is or will be able to take what God had prepared for you. What God created you for, and what He destined for you is what He will do and enable in your life, and what you will be. Being born again, being in Him, believing His word, obeying and following His commandments, and remaining in Him in good, bad, or hard times quickens His words, commands, and promises concerning you.
“If you say, the Lord is my refuge, and you make the Most High your dwelling, no harm will overtake you, no disaster will come near your tent. For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways, they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him, I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life, I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.” Psalm 91:9-16. God’s words and promises will never fail regardless of the season in your life.
God is taking you through the hardships and pains; He is keeping you from being destroyed because He has a future better than now, and better than the past. He saved us from our past, delivered us from our present, and preserved us for the future. “For I know what I have planned for you, says the Lord. I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope. When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers. When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul, I will make myself available to you, says the Lord. Then I will reverse your plight and will regather you from all the nations and all the places where I have exiled you, says the Lord. I will bring you back to the place from which I exiled you.” Jeremiah 29:11-14
Salvation through repentance, believing, accepting, and trusting in Jesus Christ takes away all of our sins and its consequences; it delivers us from all past, present, and future condemnation of the past, present, and future. It guarantees our peace that God is with us no matter what, where, who, and that, all will be well. Salvation prepares and preserves us for the unveiling of a new life in Christ Jesus; it ushers us into a new relationship better than the past, a new hope better than the past and now, and a new love in knowing and following Christ Jesus with all our heart knowing that in Him, we have all we need, and are better off no matter what. “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so, He condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires, but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.” Romans 8:1-7. Christ did not come to condemn but to bless.
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WAS THE PAST BETTER? (1)
March 04, 2024
No matter the case and the situation, you are not lost or abandoned. You may have lost much, yet you are still in His hands for His best. What God had said will come to pass, what He had promised, He will do and will be seen; whom He had chosen, He will defend, deliver, and will never be abandoned. Paul in his many trials said, that no matter what the present holds for him, no what the people are doing to stop him, no matter the prison and the isolation, he is and will keep pressing forward, looking forward, and walking towards the seeing and achieving the future God had revealed to Him. These are his words “I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:14
When the present is tough, people turn to unholy and unrighteous ways to make ends meet, but regardless of the way you take, God will only reward those who walk in His righteousness and keep His commandments and ways. This is the wisdom, “Extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe corrupts the heart. The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride. Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools. Do not say, why were the old days better than these? For it is not wise to ask such questions. Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing and benefits those who see the sun. Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this, wisdom preserves those who have it. Consider what God has done, who can straighten what He has made crooked? When times are good, be happy, but when times are bad, consider this, God has made the one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.” Ecclesiastes 7:7-14. No one can discover his or her future except God reveals them. No one can achieve the future except God enables them because only God sees, knows, and enables the future He plans for the people He has chosen.
Your focus on past failures or successes will prevent you from seeing and achieving the glory that God is setting before you now and in the future. Regardless of what the past was, the future is better in Christ. Regardless of what the present is, the future is better with Christ, God is not taking us backward, He is leading us to greater things, greater glory, and greater joy in believing, knowing, walking, and accepting Him as our Lord and savior.
Set aside the past, get hold of what is now, and set your sights on the future that God is bringing forth in your life by His power. “But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God based on faith. I want to know Christ, yes, to know the power of His resurrection and participation in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so, somehow, attaining the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do, forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus” Philippians 3:7-14
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THIS MATCH, YOU ANCIENT GATE, BE LIFTED
MARCH 01, 2024
“Lift up your heads, you gates, be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, you gates, lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is he, this King of Glory? The Lord Almighty, He is the King of glory.” Psalm 24:7-10
When shame comes, we look down and out, when fear is in place and uncertainty stirs at us we look for help and when people disappoint us we wonder why, but David says, when things end the way it supposed not, when people turn the other way, when expectations fail and when dreams and godly desires suffer delays, He turns to the Lord, fix His eyes on Him, lift his head from looking down on himself and his failures, and putting all his hope and expectations on God, the one who makes all things regardless of what had been and what will be in the future. “I lift up my eyes to the mountain where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of Heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip, He who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord watches over you, the Lord is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all harm, He will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore. Psalm 121:1-8
Though we may feel disappointed when things go wrong, we should learn to trust God in all situations, lift our head above our failures and such disappointments, look to God, believe His word, and fixe our hope in Him for He is God and able to turn that same situation around, and He will. He sees and knows that we are fighting principalities and powers, forces of darkness that are seeking to intimidate and frustrate us, but in all, God has given us a solution, and we will have the victory - “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.” Ephesians 6:10-18
It is time for ancient gates to be lifted, God’s glory to be seen, and the righteous to rejoice. It is time for answered prayers, for rewards and results to come, and it is time for failure to step aside. There are many things causing depression and anger, sickness and pain, frustrations and sadness, discouragement and lack, but none can stand against the word of God when at the time of its fulfillment. There are opposing, hindering, and destructive forces, and forces that stand against the people of God in various ways causing doubt, fear, disbelief, and discouragement but none will stop God from doing what He wants at the set time according to His plans. “Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.” Isaiah 46:9-10
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EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW (2)
February 29, 2024
God is more interested in our hearts than in our names, profession, or location. He wants to see repentance, forgiveness, justice, love, mercy, patience, and obedience to His word. He wants us to be active and effective Christians, moving forward, setting examples, leaving good examples for others to follow, and breaking new ground in our fellowship with Him. This is how and what He wants us to develop and maintain and He has already given us the power to do so through the salvation we received in believing in Christ Jesus, - “God's divine power has given us everything we need to live a truly religious life through our knowledge of the one who called us to share in His own glory and goodness. In this way, He has given us the very great and precious gifts He promised, so that by means of these gifts you may escape from the destructive lust that is in the world, and may come to share the divine nature. For this very reason do your best to add goodness to your faith, to your goodness add knowledge, to your knowledge add self-control, to your self-control add endurance, to your endurance add godliness, to your godliness add Christian affection, and to your Christian affection add love. These are the qualities you need, and if you have them in abundance, they will make you active and effective in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But if you do not have them, you are so shortsighted that you cannot see and have forgotten that you have been purified from your past sins. So then, my friends, try even harder to make God's call and His choice of you a permanent experience; if you do so, you will never abandon your faith. In this way you will be given the full right to enter the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:3-11
Just being in the church is never enough, God wants us to develop and grow, He wants us to be more useful, active, and productive within the church and outside the church. He wants people to see Christ in us, to hear His word from us, and to come to Him through us. He has given us all we need, and we are the instrument to bring forth His glory and shine His light in the world. “O Israel, says the Lord, if you wanted to return to me, you could. You could throw away your detestable idols and stray away no more. Then when you swear by my name, saying, as surely as the Lord lives, you could do so with truth, justice, and righteousness. Then you would be a blessing to the nations of the world, and all people would come and praise my name. This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and Jerusalem, plow up the hard ground of your hearts, do not waste your good seed among thorns. O people of Judah and Jerusalem, surrender your pride and power. Change your hearts before the Lord, or my anger will burn like an unquenchable fire because of all your sins. Shout to Judah, and broadcast to Jerusalem, tell them to sound the alarm throughout the land, and run for your lives. Flee to the fortified cities. Raise a signal flag as a warning for Jerusalem, flee now, do not delay, for I am bringing terrible destruction upon you Jeremiah 4:1-5. God had chosen us in Christ and He won’t exchange you for another.
“I said, plant the good seeds of righteousness, and you will harvest a crop of love. Plow up the hard ground of your hearts, for now is the time to seek the Lord, that He may come and shower righteousness upon you. But you have cultivated wickedness and harvested a thriving crop of sins. You have eaten the fruit of lies, trusting in your military might, believing that great armies could make your nation safe. Now the terrors of war will rise among your people. All your fortifications will fall, just as when Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel. Even mothers and children were dashed to death there. You will share that fate, Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day of judgment dawns, the king of Israel will be destroyed.” Hosea 10:11-15
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EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW (1)
February 28, 2024
Be an example, set an example, follow examples, and be a mentor. God wants to take you higher and keep you active, useful, relevant, and producing good results. Be a good husband, father, and man. Be a good wife, mother, and a good woman. Be a good neighbor and a good Christian. Do all to raise the bar, maintain a standard, and set your mind and heart on higher things from God our Father in heaven. Refuse to do mean things or follow evil people. Paul said to the Philippians church – “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, 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 on these things. The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.” Philippians 4:8-9, Colossians 3:17
Jesus gave us examples in Himself to follow, Paul gave Timothy examples in himself to follow, and the Apostles gave us examples to follow in all things. Christianity is not lawlessness, we are saved to believe, obey, and follow every word in the Scripture. The world, all men, women, boys, girls, married, or singles, the rich and the poor alike are looking for mentors with good examples to follow, people with good examples that bring, promote, and sustain excellence, would you stand up and set the mark for a higher standard? “My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And by this, we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him. For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God. And whatever we ask we receive from Him because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment. Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this, we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.” 1 John 3:18-24
Jesus Christ personally followed examples and also gave us examples to follow. This is what He said - “So Jesus answered them, I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing on His own; He does only what He sees His Father doing. What the Father does, the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all that He Himself is doing. He will show Him even greater things to do than this, and you will all be amazed. I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have seen with your father ” John 5:19-20; 8:38.
Paul told Timothy – “You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others. Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus. Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all. Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.” 2 Timothy 2:1-3; 1 Timothy 4:12-16.
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EXAMPLES OF LOVE TO FOLLOW (2)
February 27, 2024
The love between David and Johnathan was not personal, it was a divine setup to fulfill the will, the design, and the call of God. Personal love without honoring God will not profit us or fulfill the plans of God for us. The call to love and the need for love is not for personal gains in any form but a call to embrace peace, promote forgiveness, restore hope, and enhance coexistence amongst humanity. Walk in love towards all people, teach children and others to love, and do all you can to always seek to remain in the love of God and in Christ Jesus through a personal decision and determination to obey God’s words and keep His commandments. Follow after true love and learn to love beyond everything else, follow God’s example of love in Christ and not that offered by the print, television, or social media platform kind of love. True love is part of God’s nature accompanied by forgiveness, mercy, and a pathway to full restoration, and that is the path He wants you to follow as you believe and walk with Him.
The scripture says that, since true love is part of God’s nature, God is the source of love. He is the initiator of a loving relationship with man. Any love we have for God is simply a response to His sacrificial love for us. “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much He loved us by sending His one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him. This is real love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.” 1 John 4:7-11
The human design of love is to love those who love us and hate those who hate us; do good to only those who do good to us, who worship us daily regardless of what we do, and say, and those who live their lives to praise us in whatever we do. The human desire, design, and understanding of love is truly flawed, weak, and incomplete, but the more we look at Christ Jesus, the author, and finisher of our faith, the better we have a true understanding of real love and what it requires. “You have heard the law that says, love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you. In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For He gives His sunlight to both the evil and the good, and He sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that.” Matthew 5:43-47. God wants us to love as He says, not as we think.
There is power in true love. The power of God’s love for us did not only transform us, but it also really liberated us and translated us into being called God’s beloved children and brought into His family to be co-heirs to the inheritance and blessings in Christ Jesus. “See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet appeared, but we know that when He appears, we shall be like Him because we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as He is pure. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.” 1 John 3:1-3; Romans 8:14-17. We should not suffer in hatred but suffer in our love for God and others.
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EXAMPLES OF LOVE TO FOLLOW (1)
February 26, 2024
After knowing the characters of true love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, what examples of false love are you leaving behind, and what example of true love are you following? You must leave a legacy for others; a legacy that shows faithfulness to God in your marriage, finances, words, works, and relationships. The next generation needs someone to follow, your family needs someone to follow, and the faithful in Christ need a good practical example to follow. You need to rise against the fast-growing hatred in our families and society. What you follow tells much of you, and what you will become. What you know has the power to change you if you give yourself wholly to them, and what you obey and do has the power to open doors of blessings or condemnations for you. Remember, God plans to bless and not to condemn and so do all of His words and commands. “I know the plans I have for you says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11. Assurance of hope and blessings beyond dreams and desires and the afflictions of the wicked.
One of the greatest news in the scriptures is that we now have the power to be free from all forms of sins through believing in and following every word and command of Jesus Christ; we now have transforming assurance in His word to follow and examples to rely on; we now have the Spirit of the Almighty God living, guiding, and leading us into all things that are true, edifying, and beneficial. “There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now. When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own but will tell you what He has heard. He will tell you about the future. He will bring me glory by telling you whatever He receives from me. All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, the Spirit will tell you whatever He receives from me. Therefore, dear brothers and sisters, you have no obligation to do what your sinful nature urges you to do. For if you live by its dictates, you will die. But if through the power of the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.” John 16:12-15, Romans 8:12-14
You have good examples to leave behind and to follow after. Love’s characteristics are listed as patience, kind, not envy, not boasting, or dishonoring others, not proud or self-seeking, not easily angered, not keeping a record of wrongs, not delighting in evil, rejoicing with the truth, always protecting, trusting, hopes, and perseveres, and it never fails. Of the greatest of God’s gifts to humanity, faith, hope, and love, the greatest is love. Love is what sustains life, it is the glue that keeps relationships, family, marriage, friendship, and fellowship together, it produces harmony, blessings, long life, peace, and sweet and lasting joy. Without true love, humanity is doomed and ready for self-destruction. Love is stronger than money in sustaining the family, marriage, friendship, and all forms of relationship.
God was motivated by love to save the world that He sent Jesus Christ. God’s love is best seen in the sacrifice of Christ Jesus on our behalf on the cross. God’s love does not require holiness to be worthy to receive; His love is truly gracious because “God demonstrates His own love for us while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8. If God was to mark our wrongs and keep a record of our failures to truly honor Him, no one would have been saved, but despite our wrong ways, words, and actions in the past, God offered us forgiveness through grace and mercy and a path to restoration through love in Jesus Christ. Do not leave the wrong marks as a legacy, leave the marks of love, peace, forgiveness, and mercy, and never hatred which hurts with shame.
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CONVINCED OF GOD’S LOVE
February 23, 2024
What does it mean to love? It is loving God, keeping, and obeying His commands, and ensuring that you live to love people the way God loves you. Love requires that a price be paid, a sacrifice be made, and that God is actively involved in your actions and decisions. God paid the price for love by sending Jesus Christ into the world, Jesus paid the cross of love by offering Himself on the cross as a sacrifice, and we must pay the price by accepting to keep, obey, and follow all of His word and commands. Love is not only effective in words, it is active in forgiving, tolerance, patience, tenderhearted, merciful, kindness, humility, and gentleness.
“Since God chose you to be the holy people He loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony. Let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. As members of one body, you are called to live in peace. Always be thankful. Come, my children, and listen to me, and I will teach you to fear the Lord. Does anyone want to live a life that is long and prosperous? Then keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies. Turn away from evil and do good. Search for peace, and work to maintain it. the eyes of the Lord watch over those who do right; His ears are open to their cries for help.” Colossians 3:12-15; Psalm 34:11-15
Your best option, your best solution, and the necessary action required of you in all things is to seek love and do all to maintain it. Love is life and its gives life. Hate is bondage too great to carry; living in bondage hurts you more than it hurts the person you hate. Measure your thoughts and actions by your love not by your achievements because the person who loves is rich in Christ and will be able to achieve much more. “But in all these things we are completely victorious through God or Christ; the One who showed His love for us. Yes, I am sure and convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor ruling spirits, rulers, or demons, and principalities, nothing now in the present, or future, no powers or authorities, nothing above in the sky, nothing below us or in the depths, nor anything else in the whole world, any created thing will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:31-39
God's love is unbroken; God’s kind of love is an everlasting bond made possible by the blood of Jesus Christ. It is love based on compassion, patience, mercy, grace, and faithfulness, and it never judges or condemns. Love is of God and God is love. Love is a fundamental characteristic of God. Everything He does is influenced by His love. “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. And God has given us his Spirit as proof that we live in him and he in us. We have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who declare that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.” 1 John 4:7-16
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SET FREE BY LOVE
February 22, 2024
There is no area of life that love does not affect positively. “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command, Love your neighbor as yourself. Love does not harm a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law. And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over, the day is almost here. So, let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.” Romans 13:8-12
Love can stop all evil, stop wars, and restore peace, hope, confidence, and all relationships. With love, we can conquer our enemies, we can defeat our foes, can have the blessings we desire and God will work through us. War does not end in victory, and victory in war only postpones the war to another time, but true love ends are conflicts and war, settles all parties, and brings lasting unity. God is looking to your love, not their love, let it begin from us, with us, and through us, don’t love because others love you but love because God loves you and will make you what He says through love, and not through war, because war is an expression of anger and hate and that is what Sayan wants.
I am convinced that the bond that is available in God’s love will and can never be broken by any adversity or pain regardless of the suffering that accompanies such affliction and its source. I am convinced we can and we will make it through all adversities by His love; we will overcome who and whatever is against us through His love, and we will be helped by the power of His love in Jesus Christ working for our freedom and peace. His love guarantees our peace in all situations, gives us hope in all situations, and delivers us from all things that seek to destroy us. Through God's love, we are not destroyed; through His love, we receive mercy, forgiveness, and grace to stand and press forward toward the mark of His high calling. Through His love, we rise and stand and we will be victorious and be seen despite past difficulties and failures.
Let us speak in love, pray in love, walk in love, remain in love, and move on in love. The power in love is the power of victory not defeat. Let there be no bitterness in our hearts for God dwells in us, in our hearts, and works through our hearts to accomplish His plans. No law is more powerful than the command to love.
Before the cross, Christ Jesus was in the Father and the Father was in Him, on the Cross, the Father was in Him, and in the grave, the Father brought Him up to life again by the power of His Spirit. His love was never broken regardless of where He was and what had happened to Him. So is the love of God for you regardless of where you are, what is happening, and who is against or opposing you openly, privately, or behind the scenes. God’s love never ends
Love gives life, hate takes life.
Love gives peace, hate destroys peace.
Love ensures progress, and hate stalls progress.
Love brings joy, hate brings woes.
Love opens doors, hate closes all doors
Love brings understanding, hate brings woes
Love gives radiance and elegance; hate reveals dirt and pains.
Therefore, owe no man nothing but love, and do all to love, for God is love.
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UNBROKEN.
THE CONVICTION OF TRUE LOVE (2)
February 21, 2024
Regardless of what we say and do, and what people are saying and doing, true love is lacking in our present-day society and family; love is lacking in our friendship, union, and relationship, and in many things that we do and God is calling us to the kind of love He instituted and desires to see, for without love, we are failing and all things are falling apart “Dear friends, beloved, we should, and let us love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God’s child and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed, and revealed His love to us; He sent His one and only Son into the world so that we could have life through Him. This is what real love is. It is not our love for God; it is God’s love for us. He sent His Son to die in our place to take away our sins.” 1 John 4:7-10
Jesus Christ came into the world because of love, endured the cross because of love, was crucified to establish the bond and purpose of love, and was finally raised to life to continue the work of love. He did not miss the mark and did not forsake the goal. God rewards love and rewards those who practice the kind of Love He commands in the scriptures. Love is not gossip, is not one-sided, is patient, and suffers all things knowing God will reward every act of true love. The first act of true love is accepting the love given by God through Jesus Christ – “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16. God’s love for us is through and in Christ Jesus is an unbroken bond that keeps us knitted in Him forever.
“And so, we know and have come to know the love that God has for us, and we trust, believe, and rely on that love. God is love. Those who live, abide, and remain in love live abide and remain in God, and God lives, abides, and remains in them. This is how love is made perfect, and complete, and comes to full expression in or among us; that we can be without fear, have boldness and confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like Him in Christ. Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love drives out fear. It is the punishment that makes a person fear, so love is not made perfect or complete in the person who fears. We love because God first loved us. If people say, I love God but hate their brothers or sisters or fellow believers, they are liars. Those who do not love their brothers and sisters and fellow believers, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have never seen. God gave us this command, and we have this command from Him, those who love God must also love their brothers and sisters and fellow believers. A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you love one another.” 1 John 4:16-21; John 13:34-35
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is made perfect in us. The command is to love, to remain in love, and to continue in love, not as the world loves but as Christ loves.
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UNBROKEN.
THE CONVICTION OF TRUE LOVE (1)
February 20, 2024
Not the things we see, not the ones we know, not the ones that are now or will be in the future, not the ones we currently experience or will experience; not science, not breakthrough, not life-easing things or difficulties, not what people are doing or will ever do, not dreams or revelations, not the government, or civil or private organization, not the church or the places of worship, not marriage or loneliness, not prayers, not incantations, not evil incitements, not frustration, not any form of joy or sadness, or pains, or anything under heaven will be able to loosen the strong bond we enjoy in God’s love through Christ Jesus. There are and there will always be things, events, and situations seeking to take us away from God’s love, but our God will keep us and make us what He said through the power of His love working in us. No matter what you are experiencing or have experienced, know that God loves you and will not give up on you.
Nothing and absolutely nothing is able, will be able, or shall be able to separate us from the true love that is from the Almighty God towards those who are in Christ Jesus, who believe in Him, who love Him by their dedication, works, and word, and those who willfully obey and follow all of His commands - Jesus told His disciples the evidence of their love for Him is obedience and nothing else – “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” John 14:15
“So, what should we say about this or in response to these things? If God is for us, no one can defeat us or who is against us? He did not spare His own Son but gave Him, and delivered Him over to death for us all. So, with Jesus, God will surely, or how could He not give us all things? Who can accuse, bring an accusation, or charge against the people God has chosen? No one, because God is the One who makes them right, declares them righteous, and justifies them. Who can say God’s people are guilty, condemn, or pronounce punishment? No one, because Christ Jesus died, but He was also raised from the dead, and now He is on God’s right side appealing to God, interceding for us. Can anything separate us from the love Christ has for us?” Romans 8:31-34
Do you have a convicted love like God’s love? That is what love is, and that is what love should be. Love is continuous regardless of provocations and challenges, insults and humiliations, fear and sorrows. God will never turn His back on us if we have such love, true love based on His words and commands. We were not saved by the imagination of love but by the display of His true love through Jesus Christ. Let us as God love for God is love and love is of God; let us love as God says in His word; let us love as the scripture demands, and let us love to please God, not our fleshly lust. Love is s sacrifice demanded by God not a pleasure demanded by the flesh; it is divinely enabled and divinely sustained. True love is giving up something for God’s will to be done and seen. “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.” 1 John 4:11-12
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BONDED BY LOVE NOT IMAGINATION
February 19, 2024
Imagination has physical and spiritual limits, and it is controlled, but God’s love is endless and limitless. “Can anything, or who can separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can troubles, tribulations, trials, or problems, distress, hardship or sufferings, persecution or hunger, famine or nakedness, destitution, or danger or violent death?” Romans 8:38. On one can imagine true love, one can only feel it and know it by being in it. God’s love is a bond that can never be separated by anything and you have to be in Him to feel it and know it exists and is true.
You cannot imagine God’s love unless He reveals it to you through His Spirit because it is beyond the realm of educational knowledge, learning, and understanding; it is an act where God alone is out doing what He promised and had committed to doing no matter what, who, and where. It is the kind of love that our heavenly shows to us to keep us in Him and Him in us. It is love in its true and pure form. God’s love is stronger and better than words.
Here we see the fifteen things trying to prove the nonexistence of God’s love for His people, those who truly believe in and follow Jesus Christ, by keeping His commandments with all obedience. Paul mentioned fifteen (15) things trying to disprove the love of God and many Christians are buying them these days. They had been in existence before Christ, during His time on earth, and are still in existence after Christ today yet, none had been able to separate us from the true love that God had for us. Do not be deceived, these things are real, and troubling and are used by Satan and people against the believers. These are the fifteen things many Christians then and today are experiencing and are ongoing without an end it sight. Yet God’s love is still powerful enough to keep us from being destroyed and defeated by them.
1. Can anything, or who can separate us from the love Christ has for us? – People are trying in various ways and forms to distract our minds by the things to do against us and succeeding in them.
2. Troubles, - In various forms and from all angles, family, marriage, friends, etc.
3. Tribulations, - When pains become severe and dire from all sources.
4. Trials, - Whatever we say and do is constantly tested and examined, to make us guilty and fall.
5. Problems, - unending and rising every day even without a cause.
6. Distress, - great pain, anxiety, sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering and nowhere to go.
7. Hardship. Many believers had been here too long, with financial, and economic debts.
8. Sufferings, - repeated cycle of unpleasant events, failures, sickness, etc.
9. Persecution – we are always attacked, charged, hounded, criticized, and condemned
10. Hunger – the need for food, love, care, affection and compassion
11. Famine – what reap or are given is far less than what we put in and expect
12. Nakedness, - Striped or deprived of our rights, what we own is forcefully taken from us.
13. Destitution, - left in want without hope or offer of help.
14. Danger – we are constantly exposed to all forms of destruction.
15. Violent death – death stirring at us from everywhere in everything
God’s love which is a bond is what keeps us from being destroyed by these things and nothing else. Not our strength, power, knowledge, wisdom, or ability. “The faithful love of the Lord never ends. His mercies never cease. Great is His faithfulness; His mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, the Lord is my inheritance, therefore, I will hope in Him. Despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.” Lamentations 3:22-24 Romans 8:37
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THIS IS THE HIGHEST, TO LOVE
February 16, 2024
“Love never ends, fails, or falls short. There are gifts of prophecy, but they will be ended cease, or pass away. There are gifts of speaking in different languages ecstatic utterances, or tongues, but those gifts will stop, cease, and fall silent. There is the gift of knowledge, but it will come to an end or pass away or be set aside. The reason is that our knowledge and our ability to prophesy are not perfect, we know in part imperfectly and we prophesy in part, incompletely. But when perfection, the perfect, completeness, and wholeness come, the things that are not perfect, or partial will end, pass away, or be set aside. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I stopped, and set aside those childish ways. It is the same with us. Now we see a dim reflection, obscurely or indirectly, as if we were looking into a mirror, through a glass darkly, but then we shall see clearly face to face. Now I know only a part, but then I will know fully, as God has known me, I am fully known. So, these three things continue forever, faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:8-13
The command is to love and nothing else regardless of the excuses, unjustly treated, provoked, assaulted, treated with disrespect, insulted, made to suffer pains, and when anger is coming after you. Even when you have nothing else to do in a given situation; when no plea is accepted, no one else is willing to show mercy, when people you help make to succeed refuse to help you in times of need, when your creditors refuse to show mercy, and when evil is all after, God still wants to see you in love and loving.
Love God and love man, that is your highest and your best at all times to all people in all places. The devil wants you sad, and angry and to remain in hate, but God wants your love and freedom that is why Christ Jesus came. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 3:16-17, John 10:10. Jesus Christ came into the world because of the Father’s love, He walked the earth with love, showed love, went to the cross with love, died on the cross in love, and was raised to live in love. His love continues and in His love, we find salvation and the forgiveness of sins, the reward of mercy, and the blessings from heaven.
No matter who, where, and how, love is the highest you can offer, the highest you can show, and the best you can be and do. “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law. The commandments, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command, love your neighbor as yourself. Love does not harm a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law. And do this, understanding the present time, the hour has already come for you to wake up from your slumber because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.” Romans 13:8-11
Love covers a multitude of evil – “The end of all things is near, therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray. Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms.” 1 Peter 4:7-10
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A COMMAND TO LOVE
February 15, 2024
Love had been hijacked for lust, taken out of context by men, and used to satisfy self-indulgences, promote evil and lust and all forms of sin; love had been abused and used to advance and serve the interest of evil, yet love remains God’s means of saving through Christ Jesus by the forgiveness of past, present and all sins. This is the command, - get out of the old ways of lust, of seeking revenge and rejoicing at evil, and take on the new ways of love that are of honor to God and His word. – “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this, everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35
Love is the highest we can ever offer; the highest we can and should ever do, and we should always be identified with regardless of age, color, gender, location, people, and nationality. It is the highest sacrifice we can ever go through in every situation to everyone every time. Love is not self-serve; it does not count time and does not keep offense. So,
Love is being patient at all times mostly when provoked and having challenges that are too big for you to handle and come at you suddenly.
Love is being kind always to all people in all places.
Love is not being jealous, or envious of others in their best times and in your worst times.
Love does not always brag about who you are or what you know and have done,
Love is not being proud, arrogant, or conceited, and does not puff up before people regardless of who you are, what you have achieved, and how successful you have become.
Love is not rude to others or disrespectful to anyone at any time regardless of status,
Love is not selfish, or self-serving, and does not get upset with others.
Love is not easily provoked or angered despite the provocation by falsehood.
Love does not count up, or keep a record of wrongs that have been done over time.
Love takes no pleasure in shaming others and does not rejoice in evil when misfortune befalls someone, or when people fail or are punished for whatever reason.
Loves does rejoice at the wrongdoing of others or when injustice is given out to someone.
Love rejoices over the truth.
Love patiently accepts all things, bears all things, and always protects trusts, believes all things,
Love always hopes, hopes all things, and in Jesus Christ,
Love always endures, endures all things know that the love of Christ is always present.
Love never ends, never fails, or falls short of receiving the love from God.
Examine yourself by the words of God, not your thoughts, or that of others. No one will examine you but they will judge you; no one will guide you but they will judge you, and no one will assist you but they will stand up to judge you. Remember, love does not judge and does not condemn. God did not send His Son Jesus Christ into the world to judge or condemn but to love, guide, lead, protect, and help. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:17
This is the true love that honors God. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrong. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away” 1 Corinthians 13:4-9
In all things, to all people in all places, and in all situations, the very best you should do is to love. That is the highest sacrifice anyone can ever offer and the best. Love is an attitude that does not pass away, diminish, fade, or be taken away by anything
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WHAT THEN IS LOVE?
February 14, 2024
“If you love me, keep my commands.” John 14:15. If you love God, keep His commandment, follow His words, and accept His discipline. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels; if I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have a faith that can move mountains, if I give all I possess to the poor and give my body to hardship that I may boast, and do not have love, I gain nothing. This is how Jesus wants us to love, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first most important, and greatest command. The second command is like the first, love your neighbor as you love yourself. All the law and the writings of the prophets depend on, are based on, and hang on these two commands.” Matthew 22:37-40
Love is obeying God and allowing Him to walk in and through you and do whatever He wants in your life, to and for others knowing the result of whatever He will do will benefit you and no one else. Love is beyond mere words and all action; it is consistent regardless of season; it is not wealth, fame, or lack. love is having an inner peace made available only by God and nothing else – “God’s peace is so great we cannot understand, it transcends, surpasses all comprehension, will keep, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:7.
Paul wrote, - “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Love is far beyond giving and all forms of charity; it is beyond helping and being helped; it is God being there at all times in all seasons in all challenges and in all locations.
Love is God and God is love; love is knowing God, the one who loves and loves Him who makes it possible to love. Love is accepting what he offers to us for our good; love is in the words of God, in His deeds, and plans. Love is remaining in Him and following Him because we know He loves us and is always doing things for our interest even when some are painful and the waiting may be long.
Love is beyond marriage, friendship, sacrifice, companionship, and having fun; it is beyond sex and any kind of gift we give or receive. Love is beyond wealth, fame, compassion, possession, and anything else. True love is not loving only those who love you and doing good to only those who do good to you, respect you, recognize you, recommend you, and are always there to give a good report of you, and show their love to you openly when you are good to them, - that is how the world shows their love and that is how they love you. They love you because of what you give, what you do and say, and what you have done that they admire.
God’s love is everlasting and permanent no matter what, where, who, when, and why.
Love is following God and His words in everything we do to anyone anywhere and every time no matter what. Love is focusing our attention on Jesus Christ, obeying His commands, keeping and following His word. Love keeps people together, hate scatters; love brings back, hate sends out; love tolerates, hate revolts; love builds others, hate destroys others; love brings peace, hate brings war; love offer a price, hate refuses the price; love does everything according to God’s word, hate does everything according to his thought and imaginations.
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THE ORIGIN OF LOVE
February 13, 2024
God is love and love is God, it is designed by God, empowered by God, kept alive and active by God, not men, and true love is expressed only in His word and by His word, not the words or thoughts of men; if your love is defined and designed and empowered by only what you think and can imagine regardless of the word of God, then you are outside of the true love designed by God for your good. Love has its origin before creation and was revealed and made known to mankind the day God made man. – “Then God said, now let’s make humans who will be like us. They will rule over all the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. They will rule over all the large animals and all the little things that crawl on the earth. So, God created humans in His own image. He created them to be like Himself. He created them male and female. God blessed them and said to them, have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth. God said I am giving you all the grain-bearing plants and all the fruit trees. These trees make fruit with seeds in it. This grain and fruit will be your food. And I am giving all the green plants to the animals. These green plants will be their food. Every animal on earth, every bird in the air, and all the little things that crawl on the earth will eat that food, and all these things happened.” Genesis 1:26-30
Love is everlasting, it does not change with time, season, afflictions, place, or people.
God said let us make man in our image and likeness no matter what they will become thereafter – that is love
God said let us give man all that we have made no matter what they will do with them thereafter, - that is love
God said let us give them dominion and grace to multiply no matter what they do with the dominion and multiplication thereafter – that is love
Above all, God has not changed His mind, word, or His plans despite what men have done with what He gave to them. -- That is love.
God’s ultimate desire in love is that man will return to His original planned love and He showed us how – “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict, light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.” John 3:16-21
Love outside God’s word is the imagination of the devil, an act of darkness hidden in secret and made to promote works and people of darkness
Love is not a second thought by God; it remains His first choice every time and everywhere in heaven and should be so for those who truly love God. People will hate you, mistreat you, reject you, and find numerous and cogent reasons to fault and condemn you, but true love in Christ is what will keep, defend, give you strength, and give you the victory you deserve
Love is not a feeling, not being happy, sad, strong, or healthy. Love is God being in you and with you no matter the situation, the people, the challenges, and your location. It is knowing that God is with you and will never depart no matter who is for you or against you; no matter how much you suffer pain from men. Love is God in action in your life regardless of the result. “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” Isaiah 42:2-3
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EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY (5)
February 12, 2024
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” Ephesians 3:20. He paid the needed price, laid down His life, and there is nothing left that Christ did not do to set us free from all hindrances. Christ is willing to open closed doors, to set us free against all fears that hold and keep us back; He can do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all that we can ever ask, all that we can ever think, all that we can ever pray for, wish for and work for in life. He created us and all things and we are set for His glory. If you are willing to walk in obedience, He will fulfill all that He had promised no matter what. - “If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. Come now, and let us reason together says the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” Isaiah 1:19, 18, He can remove the hindrances of sin, and all physical and spiritual weaknesses if we are submissive to Him.
Noah’s expectation was to survive the flood but God gave him much more. Joseph's expectation was to get out of prison, but God gave him more and fulfilled the dreams He gave to him. Hannah's desire, prayer, and request was to have just one child, but God gave her seven. Peter desired to follow Jesus Christ and be His disciple, but Christ made him much more than he desired. Your beginning is certainly small, but your end will be bigger and better in Christ Jesus.
“Then Jesus said to them again, most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know My sheep and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so, I know the Father, and I lay down My life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold, them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice, and there will be one flock and one shepherd. Therefore, My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.” John 10:7-18
Christ Jesus has the power and He will give us what we ask, what He promised, and what He had destined for us. That is how faithful He is. Whatever God does, it comes in abundance, beyond our expectations even His blessings and comfort. Salvation comes after repentance; it does not come before. In His love, God sent Jesus Christ to make it possible for all of us to receive that abundance through His grace. The thief comes to take all, steal all, leave us empty with nothing to rely on, took out everything, leaves us sick, without healing and hope; leaves us to wonder and continue in pains and wants, but Christ came to restore us beyond what had been before, what had been left, and what had been caused by Satan. He came so that we can have the exceedingly abundantly more than what we can ask, what we have wished, what we have labored, and what we have been left with, despair, shame, confusion, frustrations, rejection, and loneliness. If you are willing, you will be restored and you will have His goodness in abundance.
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EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY (4)
February 08, 2024
What are your measures, God can exceed that because, whatever He does and gives, comes in abundance and exceeds all measures. Limitations are man-made, Satan enabled and sustained by continuous acts of disobedience, evil ways, and wickedness and by actions that are contrary to the words and ways of God. Refusing to accept and follow divine principles as they are in the Scriptures brings limitations to us in many ways, and God wants us to overcome those limitations by obeying and keeping His commands. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” John 3:17-18
Whatever situation we are in, God wants to take us through all of them, He does not want us to be destroyed by any of them. Faith is not only to take us to or through the high things of life, but also to take us through our lowest moments of fear, depression, humiliation, and shame. It is action in the present, not in the past; faith is continuing in the word and things of God as long as we are alive. It is applicable and profitable every day, every moment, in all situations, in every location, before every people, and circumstance. Let your faith be seen in you, let it be known in you, and let it talk not only to you but also to those around you. Let it be convincing and loud. Faith is acting on God’s word, that is what enables His promises to be fulfilled exceedingly abundantly.
Faith is not only believing in Jesus Christ, it is believing His word, embracing His promises, and pursuing them with our whole hearts, words, and desires. It is to follow all divine instructions, obey them, and keep them as your focus every day, every time, and everywhere regardless of the situation before you and the people, the challenges, and the difficulties. That was what Job did to be restored exceedingly abundantly beyond what he was before and people saw it in him. “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. So, Job died, old and full of days.” Job 42:12, 16-17
Faith is more than what we just believe; it is an unshakeable trust, it is a Christian’s daily journey, a firm conviction, and a rooted focus on the word and promises of God. God wants to give us that exceeding abundance experience, He wants to take us through the limits and afflicting pains and situations, and He wants to keep us in His love and His presence. He wants to give us a blessing in exceeding measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over. “Therefore, be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” Luke 6:36-38.
When He rewarded Noah, it was exceedingly abundantly beyond measure. When He blessed Abraham, it was exceedingly abundantly beyond measure. When He restored Job, it was exceedingly beyond measure and when He will bless, comfort, and restore you, it will also be exceedingly abundantly and beyond measure. “His anger is but for a moment, His favor is for life, weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.” Psalm 30:5
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EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY (3)
February 07, 2024
While God has a plan and a purpose for you, Satan also has a plan and a purpose but they are against you. This is what Christ Jesus said - “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly.” John 10:10. Satan’s plans and purpose is that you will fail and fall regardless of your location, profession, labor, gender, and position; he entered the Garden of Eden and took Adam and Eve out forever. Satan comes so that you will fumble, stumble, make mistakes, and be confused; he comes so that you will have more troubles than you can handle, more nightmares than others in your home and family; more headaches and sorrows, more rejections and lonely experiences; he comes so that you will have nothing left to live on, nothing left to trust, and no one to look to; he comes so that you will regret living and mostly regret knowing and accepting Christ Jesus as the Lord and Savior of your life; he comes to close all doors, destroy all hopes and prospects, and he comes to render your very best in all things ineffective, but Jesus Christ said, He come to restore you exceedingly and abundantly.
There is nothing in you and about you that Christ Jesus cannot, and will not restore. Even when all hope is lost, there is assurance in Him and from Him; even when everyone departs and the doors are closed against you, even when no help is in sight, there is an assurance that He can and will change things for you. “The Lord will answer and say to His people, behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, and you will be satisfied by them. I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations. But I will remove far from you the northern army, and will drive him away into a barren and desolate land, with his face toward the eastern sea and his back toward the western sea; his stench will come up, and his foul odor will rise, because he has done monstrous things. Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the Lord has done marvelous things. Do not be afraid, you beasts of the field; for the open pastures are springing up, and the tree bears its fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their strength. Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God; for He has given you the former rain faithfully, and He will cause the rain to come down for you. The former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. So, I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you. You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, who has dealt wondrously with you; and My people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, I am the Lord your God and there is no other. My people shall never be put to shame." Joel 2:19-27. Whatever God does and gives, comes in abundance and exceeds all measures.
Salvation does not only give us hope and assurance of heaven hereafter, true salvation turns our lives around for God’s glory to work through; it keeps us from evil and for His day of power and turns all the things that afflict our thoughts, flesh, mind, and spirit around for the sake of Christ Jesus and His Spirit that now dwells in us. - Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27. This is what we gain in salvation after knowing Christ Jesus – “For You have been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat; for the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. You will reduce the noise of aliens, as heat in a dry place; as heat in the shadow of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones will be diminished.” Isaiah 25:4-5
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GIVE ME EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY (2)
February 06, 2024
What you do for God and to God matters. What you do for and say to others matters. What you do and say to His people and God’s household matters. God is always watching not to harm you but to reward you exceedingly abundantly more than what you do or say whether it was good or bad. His reward always exceeds our actions whether good or bad. So, do good, speak well of yourself and others, follow His word, remain faithful, and obey all His commands regardless of the place, the people, and their actions, you are saved to be the right in darkness, make a difference, rise, walk by faith and receive the exceedingly abundantly promises.
God gave Solomon, exceedingly abundantly when he asked for wisdom at a given opportunity. On that occasion, Solomon did exceedingly abundantly and responded exceedingly abundantly. God said to Solomon, since you have asked for wisdom and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for, both wealth and honor so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. And if you walk in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life. Then Solomon awoke, and he realized it had been a dream.” 1 Kings 3:11-14, and the dream was made real and Solomon lived to see and experience all that God said – he saw the exceedingly abundantly of God’s goodness.
What did Solomon do exceedingly abundantly that God blessed him exceedingly abundantly? What did He do that others did not do? What did he do differently? What example should we follow? – “The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. At Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, ask for whatever you want me to give you. Solomon answered, you have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day. Now, Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. So, give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?” 1 Kings 3:4-10.
The Lord was pleased that Solomon asked for wisdom and nothing else. He did not present a twenty-one requests list, Solomon asked for just one thing – wisdom, and God gave him even what he did not ask for because He was pleased with what he requested. It was an instant time request and God gave him an instant time answer, granted his request, and gave him things that were needed to succeed as a King. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar, a great number, exceeding what any man had ever done. Solomon also prayed and rejoiced with the people of God. Solomon requested wisdom to guide the people of God, He did not ask for power or popularity or prosperity, he asked for what pleases the Lord and God commended his request and granted him exceedingly abundantly, it was an uncommon sacrifice
He returned to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.” 1 Kings 3:15
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GIVE ME EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY (1)
February 05, 2024
“For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord.” What are His plans? What is His desire? His plans are what you were saved for, not your plans, not your desires, and not your dreams. Things will happen in your life, situations will change and pains will come, but you were saved for His plans and nothing else. His plan is your final destiny in life. His plan is your destiny through Christ Jesus and by remaining in Him with all of your heart, He gives you His plans exceedingly abundantly beyond your desires, dreams, personal efforts, and prayers. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.” Jeremiah 29:11-14.
Even when you think you are lost and can never be restored; even when you think you cannot see what the future holds for you and your children, marriage, and family because of your current experience and situations, you were saved for His higher plans. Even when you think you will never have or see His destiny fulfilled, He says – I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile. He confirmed that in the children of Israel and will do the same for you also. That is restoration by the power of His love, by the working of His grace, by the reward of His mercies, and by His stretch-out arms, it will be beyond your efforts and struggles. Abraham was blessed by God beyond his struggles and efforts.
God does not want you to be compared with others, He wants you to be exceedingly abundantly blessed in all things and wherever you are not as others but according to His plans for you. That was what He said to Abraham when He demanded obedience. – “I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse, and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Genesis 12:2-3. When God demanded faithfulness to His commands and Abraham complied immediately, He gave him this assurance - “The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, I will surely bless you, make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed because you have obeyed me.” Genesis 22:15-18. By his obedience, the blessing was extended exceedingly abundantly to include his offspring.
God wants to keep you exceedingly abundantly in His plans; He wants you to be renewed daily and continuously. He wants to purge and purify you exceedingly abundantly so you will be worthy of the destiny He planned on the day set aside for you. “Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land.” Isaiah 1:18-19. Because you have, and will allow Him to purge your heart and life of your sins, sin will no longer be a barrier or hindrance to your blessings and Satan will have nothing to hold against you again. Salvation prepares you for the exceedingly abundantly of His.
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DEAR LORD, GIVE ME THE TESTIMONY OF HANNAH
February 02, 2024
“Even the barren has borne seven. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Samuel 2:5, Ephesians 3:20-21. It is amazing to know that God answers prayers in a bigger and better way when His will becomes our will and His desire becomes our desire. He is looking for people with such heart to use even today. He saw one in Hannah and did what He desired through her request. That is what can do, giving us more than we can ever request from Him. Hannah asked for one, God gave one and on fulfilling her vow, God gave her six more thereafter. Who said God will not do it?
God gave Hannah what she requested and even more, took her beyond the imaginations of her household, above the fear of barrenness, above daily intimidation, insults, and public humiliations. God gave her what she requested; gave her grace to announce it; gave her the opportunity to fulfill her vow she made; gave her peace inside and outside; gave freedom from sadness; gave her a solid foundation in her marriage, and thereafter gave her and her son a name and a place in His household. That is what God can and He will do for you.
“And Hannah prayed and said, my heart rejoices in the Lord, my horn is exalted in the Lord. I smile at my enemies because I rejoice in Your salvation. No one is holy like the Lord, for there is none besides You, nor is there any rock like our God. Talk no more so very proudly, let no arrogance come from your mouth, for the Lord is the God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, and the hungry have ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children has become feeble. The Lord kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up. The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and He has set the world upon them. He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked shall be silent in darkness. For by strength, no man shall prevail.” 1 Samuel 1-9
God will not only bless you by granting your request but will thereafter give you a place to share the joy of the blessing, a name to be referred to, and put His word in your mouth for others to see and also hear. He told Abraham, I will not only bless you but will make you a blessing to nations around the world. “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:2-3. God can and will do what He says. He does what He says always, never deviates from them, and never allows anything or any man to stop His plans not even Satan. Rest your heart on His word
“In your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice. And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing, since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.” Genesis 22:18, Genesis 18:17-19
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THIS MONTH, GIVE ME A TESTIMONY DEAR LORD
February 01, 2024
That same year, Hannah had a testimony that brought her joy, the testimony of what she asked and expected, the testimony that proved God answered prayers, the testimony that was beyond the expectations of those who provoked, insulted, and humiliated her. Even when you don’t feel God answering your prayers instantly, God has done it and it will be manifested; even when people mock you openly and publicly for trusting God, they cannot mock God because those things that are impossible in the eyes of men are possible through in and by and through Him. What understanding, labor, efforts, wisdom, and prayers cannot do, and had not come through in the past, God in His power can and would do them. He would do what He had promised and will enable you according to His plans.
This was Hannah’s testimony to Eli - “O my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to the Lord. For this child, I prayed, and the Lord has granted me my petition which I asked of Him. Therefore, I also have lent him to the Lord as long as he lives he shall be lent to the Lord. So, they worshiped the Lord there.” 1 Samuel 1:26-28
Hannah saw her prayer answered, she saw the child she asked for and hoped for in prayer; she handled the child with her hands and walked with him to her place of testimony, dedicated, and fulfilled the vow she made, and went home rejoicing. What a way to stand before the Lord, what a joy to show the Lord what He had done, and what an assurance we have that He answers us in all the things we pray for. God can give you an uncommon testimony; He can answer all of our prayers exactly as we prayed and can even answer in a bigger and better way. He always answers our prayers in a bigger and better way. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8
Hanna lived to see the reward of prayers. In her trouble, she went to God in prayers; in prayer, she was accused of being a drunkard; in prayers, she made a vow of the same thing she asked from God. Hannah lived to see the reward of her prayers and the reward of a sincere vow that she did not fail to fulfill. “I will bless the Lord at all times; His praises shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear of it and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. I sought the Lord, and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him. Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints, there is no want to those who fear Him. The young lions lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing.” Psalm 34:1-10
“Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the fish’s belly. And he said, I cried out to the Lord because of my affliction, and He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and You heard my voice. For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the floods surrounded me; all Your billows and Your waves passed over me. Then I said, I have been cast out of Your sight, yet I will look again toward Your holy temple. The waters surrounded me, even to my soul; the deep closed around me; weeds were wrapped around my head. I went down to the moorings of the mountains; the earth with its bars closed behind me forever; yet You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God. When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord, and my prayer went up to You, into Your holy temple. Those who regard worthless idols forsake their own Mercy. But I will sacrifice to You with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay what I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. So, the Lord spoke to the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.” Jonah 2:1-10. As Jonah had a testimony, you will also.
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DOING WHAT HANNAH DID (3)
January 31, 2024
His word and ways will always prevail no matter the situation, the people, and the challenges. In all situations, it is always His ways that will prevail and never our ways or their ways. God did not forget Hannah; He did not ignore her prayers, even though He did not rebuke those insulting and humiliating her, He answered her prayers in ways that silenced those waiting to see and wanting for her to remain barren forever. “Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him. For You will light my lamp; the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. For by You, I can run against a troop, by my God I can leap over a wall. As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. For who is God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on my high places.” Proverbs 30:5, Psalm 18:28-33
Do you think God will forget you? Do you think He will forget your prayers? Or do you think He is indifferent to your situation? You may be sad now, but that will end; you may be worried now, but that also will end, He will turn things around for you. There are many ways of doing things, several ideas to solve a problem, and several advisers to guide and provide their wisdom and understanding to you, but there is only one way of getting things right, one idea of what is true, one wisdom and only one true understanding of your situations and challenges, and that is the word, the ways, and wisdom of God. In Him, there is the way, the understanding, the needed wisdom, and the assurance of victory in all situations in every place and to everyone.
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:8-11. Even in this day and age, God’s ways are still the best and your patience will be tested
When you follow His ways, you will find wisdom and peace, and you will have victory- “For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” Isaiah 55:12-13
Hannah gave up the human ways of resolving issues and the ways of the wisdom of men and took on the ways of the Almighty God, going to His presence, not staying back to nurse her shame, praying to Him with all her heart, refusing to think otherwise on the word of Eli or seek to confront him for false accusation, she relied on God for the possibility in her heart, leaving everything else in His hands. She took on her peace and settled her mind that God would do it for her and refused to be sad thereafter.
In all things, God has set rules for us to follow. Discover and follow them. He would do what He said in His word. His words and promises are forever.
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DOING WHAT HANNAH DID (2)
January 30, 2024
Did you know that no matter what, no matter where, no matter how, no matter who, and no matter the challenging situation, God is for you and will do only what God can do? That is the confidence we have in Him, not only in answering our prayers but in allowing Him to do only what He wants and can do as God in us regardless of our desires and prayers. Hannah had the greatest challenge before her, she was not only barren but was also abused, harassed, humiliated, insulted, and had several emotional breakdowns, but none of those things took the Almighty God away from her heart, her thoughts, and her mind, and she made the decision, - I will take myself and my barrenness to God, not my rivals, not the insults and humiliations, not my husband, not anyone else, but myself. Will you come to that level in your life? When you know that God is for you, you will have the confidence to do just as Hannah did.
“So, Hannah arose after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat by the doorpost of the Tabernacle of the Lord. And she was in bitterness of soul and prayed to the Lord and wept in anguish. Then she made a vow and said, O Lord of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your maidservant and remember me, and not forget Your maidservant, but will give Your maidservant a male child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall come upon his head. And it happened, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli watched her mouth. Now Hannah spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard. Therefore, Eli thought she was drunk. So, Eli said to her, how long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you. But Hannah answered and said, no, my lord, I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor intoxicating drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord. Do not consider your maidservant a wicked woman, for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief I have spoken until now. Then Eli answered and said, go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him. And she said, let your maidservant find favor in your sight. So, the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.” 1 Samuel 1:9-18
She took her request before God, made a request from God, made a vow to God, and left the rest for God to do what He wants, and thereafter, without seeing an immediate result, - she was no longer sad – that is what confidence will do for you. It will take away your sadness despite what you see, and know, and the people resisting and before you after praying.
Hannah returned to that same home where the other woman and her children were, to that same husband, and to that same situation, but this time around, she was no longer sad for anything they did to her – she turned her focus and expectations on God and did not allow any of the insults and humiliations to border her again.
Remember, the insult did not stop, but Hannah stopped worrying, stopped being sad, and stopped being fearful of remaining barren. She handed all to God in prayers, lived in expectation, and regained her self-confidence and peace. WOULD YOU DO WHAT HANNAH DID?
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DOING WHAT HANNAH DID (1)
January 29, 2024
This is what boldness before God is all about. It is not boasting or reminding God of any of your suffering; reminding Him of your pains and the disasters before you; it is not reporting others to God or reminding God of the wickedness of the wicked or the activities of the ungodly. Boldness before God is putting yourself before Him, asking Him what you want, fulling your part of obedience and leaving the rest before Him for answer and taking your rest thereafter knowing He had heard you; He will answer you, and He will grant your request no matter who and what is against you. Confidence in God is knowing that He alone is God Almighty and does only what God alone can do in the physical and the spiritual realm beyond all knowledge, all imaginations, and all the wisdom of all men in science, technology, medicine, or engineering or every area of human learning. God is above all and remains so till eternity comes.
“Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the mountains of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. And he had two wives, the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. This man went up from his city yearly to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. Also, the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests of the Lord were there. And whenever the time came for Elkanah to make an offering, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah, he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the Lord had closed her womb. And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb. So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore, she wept and did not eat.” 1 Samuel 1:1-7
Hannah had all the chances to fight back when assaulted and humiliated but she did not. She had the chance to stand up to her husband for allowing such in the house but she did not; for not rebuking or stopping the other woman and her children from making her life miserable, but did not; she had all the chance to fight the other woman physically and spiritually and to also fight her children, abuse her back for abusing her, talk roughly to her and her children and assault her back also but she chose the other way, they ways of God, the way of honor and respect for self and others and she received the reward of her choice in a mighty way.
This is God’s instruction to all believers - “Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing. For He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.” 1 Peter 3:8-12. That was what Hannah did despite daily and constant provocation. Will you do what Hannah did?
Be of one mind; have compassion for others; love as brothers; be tenderhearted; be courteous; do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling. Refrain his tongue from evil; your lips from speaking deceit; turn away from evil; do good; seek peace, pursue it because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, His ears open to their prayers, and He is always ready to answer and reward them.
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GOD IS FOR ME, I WILL BE (5)
January 26, 2024
Despite being a hundred years old when people think and say it was all over for him, Abraham saw the reward of obedience and faithfulness to God in all things. The words and promises of God came to pass in his life. Fear is common to all men regardless of faith, age, profession, and location, but God is never fearful concerning what He has said and promised. While walking in obedience to the commands of God to him, Abraham became afraid of what he would be because of the passing of years, his old age, and the unfortunate delay, yet, he did not turn away from following God and doing what He commanded. God will always reward consistent obedience and faith in His word despite our doubts, fears, and what people are, and will say about us.
“After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward. But Abram said Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? Then Abram said, look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, this one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir. Then He brought him outside and said, look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them. He said to him, so shall your descendants be. And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. Then He said to him, I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it. And he said, Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit it? On the same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, to your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates, the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.” Genesis 15:1-8, 18-21
Despite being ninety years old and seeing several disappointments, insults, and frustration, Sarah lived to see the reward of obedience and God’s faithfulness to her husband Abraham, she saw the word and promise turn into a covenant being fulfilled; she conceived in her womb and gave birth to Isaac as was promised. You think how is God going to do what he promised you, but as you think and pray, remember, He did that of Abraham and Sarah without explaining how. There is nothing that God cannot do, nothing is too old in His presence and nothing is too hard for Him to turn around and use for His glory. Your story is never finished until God finalizes what he had said and what He had promised and the end will be better than the beginning regardless of the number of years you have suffered delays, shame, humiliation, loneliness, and insults from people. The story about you is never complete until you have received what God had said and the reward of obedience and faithfulness to Him and His word. Don’t give up faith in the promise.
“By faith, Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. By faith, Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age because she judged Him faithful who had promised. Therefore, from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.” Hebrews 11:8-12
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GOD IS FOR ME, I WILL BE (4)
January 25, 2024
Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah and she conceived, and gave birth to a child, and became a mother as God had destined. You will be what God had said regardless of age, location, gender, and whatever situation is against you. Sarah at ninety-nine became a mother, you will be also. Whatever they know about you will not change what God knows about you; whatever they plan, do, or say against you will not change or stop what God will do for you. In His love, He saved you, by His grace, He keeps you, and by His power, He will fulfill His promises in you. This is what Sarah, the woman who experienced impossibility and lived to see it changed by the power of God said. “Now the Lord was gracious to Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah what He had promised. Sarah became pregnant and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised him. Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore him. When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. Sarah said, God has brought me laughter and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me. And she added, who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age. The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.” Genesis 21:1-8. God is always gracious and compassionate; your day and time is at hand.
Everyone knew Sarah's barrenness, but they also saw her conceived and had a child. They knew Jesus’s education level, knew His brothers and sisters; knew His hometown, place, and manner of birth, they knew his mother Mary, and that He was living with Joseph the Carpenter, and they thought the best He would ever be in life is a carpenter as Joseph. Because of what they knew of Him, they lowered their expectations of what He would become and what He would be in life, but God had destined Him for greatness beyond all expectations. He raised Him above all their knowledge and expectations and made Him sit with Him in heavenly places. That same God is doing the same in you even as you are reading this message.
“You know what has happened throughout the province of Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how He went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil because God was with Him. We are witnesses of everything He did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They killed Him by hanging Him on a cross, but God raised Him from the dead on the third day and caused Him to be seen. He was not seen by all the people, but by witnesses whom God had already chosen, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us, we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” Acts 10:37-41, 2 Corinthians 5:18-21. They saw and knew His beginning and they saw His ending and recognized it was different from what they knew and spoke. God made Him what He destined.
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GOD IS FOR ME, I WILL BE (3)
January 24, 2024
Christ Jesus asked Philip, come follow me and he did. Philip told Nathaniel, come and see, and he did, and Christ told Nathaniel, because you believe, you will see greater things, you will see heaven open and also see angels from heaven and he did. When God gives you His word, stand on it; when He gives you assurance, run with it; when He gives you a command trust it, and when he calls you, follow Him, you will lose nothing in Him and with Him regardless of the delays and the forces of darkness trying to stop you. “The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, come follow me. Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and Peter’s hometown. Philip went to look for Nathanael and told him, we have found the very person Moses and the prophets wrote about. His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth. Nazareth, exclaimed Nathanael, can anything good come from Nazareth? Come and see for yourself, Philip replied. As they approached, Jesus said, now here is a genuine son of Israel, a man of complete integrity. How do you know about me? Nathanael asked. Jesus replied I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found you. Then Nathanael exclaimed, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, the King of Israel. Jesus asked him do you believe this just because I told you I had seen you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this. Then he said, I tell you the truth, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God going up and down on the Son of Man, the one who is the stairway between heaven and earth.” John 1:43-51.
God will not only open your eyes to see things, but He will open doors for you to go through; He will lead you in and out the doors he had opened, and He will take you through those doors; He will take you along the path He had made for your blessings and He will be with you along the way that nothing stops you even when the devil tries to distract or frighten or challenge you. As a Christian, redeemed by faith in and through Christ Jesus, you have a companion that abides with you forever, a companion that seeks to guide you until you become not what you dream to be but what God said you should be which is better than dreams.
Because the city is called Nazareth, Nathaniel lowered his expectation of anything good coming from there, but Philip told him, regardless of your thoughts and expectations of Nazareth, come with me and you will see. No matter what, no matter where, and no matter the situation, people, and challenges before you, never in any way lower your expectations on what God will do, how His words will come to pass in your life, and how you will become what He said. God will do all things according to His plans by Himself and by His power. All you need to do is believe in Him and follow His word, leave the rest for Him and He will do them. People may not expect you, but they cannot stop you because God is with you; they take up a vow over you, but God will break the hindering vows and open you up for better and mighty things. Their expectations will not in any way stop you. Their words are the words of men, the knowledge of men, and the thoughts of men. Despite the knowledge and expectations of Nathaniel, God, the Almighty Father was in Christ Jesus doing all the wonders beyond all imaginations and knowledge of men who knew Nazareth, Jesus Christ, His home, and His parents. “He returned to Nazareth, His hometown. When He taught there in the synagogue, everyone was amazed and said, where does He get this wisdom and the power to do miracles? Then they scoffed, He’s just the carpenter’s son, and we know Mary, His mother, and His brothers, James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas. All his sisters live right here among us. Where did He learn all these things?” Matthew 13:54-56
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GOD IS FOR ME, I WILL BE (2)
January 23, 2024
To you and many others, the future is a dream, a long way off, a far place that is impossible, and unattainable, but to God, the future is not a dream it is a reality that is in existence in the spiritual realm getting ready to be made available and occupied in the physical realm by you and no one else. “This is what the Lord says, you will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly you will find me. I will be found by you, says the Lord. I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land. Seek the Lord while you can find Him. Call on Him now while He is near. Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that He may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for He will forgive generously. My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts, says the Lord. And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” Jeremiah 29:10-14, Isaiah 55:6-9
While we dream and desire, work and walk, pray and wait, struggle, and do our best every day to stand, God’s words are given to guide us and keep us. His words are more reliable and powerful and they can, and will never fail. Following God’s instructions, Abraham left all behind, armed with faith and a determined heart of obedience, he was looking for the promised place with a ready foundation that could not be compared with what he saw and knew then, a foundation that only God can make, a place that was different in all things and a place he could confidently saw this is it but could not find one and he did not lose hope, he kept looking, searching, and praying. “It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and go to another land that God would give him as his inheritance. He went without knowing where he was going. And even when he reached the land God promised him, he lived there by faith, for he was like a foreigner, living in tents. And so did Isaac and Jacob, who inherited the same promise. Abraham was confidently looking forward to a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God.” Genesis 11:8-10
Do not judge yourself by your strength, wealth, or knowledge, or use the measures of others to measure yourself. Judge yourself by the word of God and your level of obedience to what He says and commands. Confusion is real and many are in it already and had been in it for years, but it will not stop you from being and becoming what God said. Abraham had many, yet he became what God said, dwelled where God destined, and saw the blessings promised. “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. You parents, if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give them a snake? Of course not. So, if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask Him.” Matthew 7:7-11
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GOD IS FOR ME, I WILL BE (1)
January 22, 2024
There is fear and uncertainty everywhere, the best and mighty are falling and none to help; the oppressed and the oppressors are suffering together; the poor are looking for what next to do or where else to go as well as the rich, but no matter the situation and the uncertainties, the fears and confrontations from evil people and the manufacturers of wickedness, accusers and enforcers of injustices, the confidence you have in Christ Jesus our God and Lord will make a difference in the things you do now and hereafter. God is not only there to help you navigate through your past mistakes; He is there to take you to the future He knows is best for you. Ask for that future and request He takes you there. “I will come and get you.” John 14:3
God is known for His amazing love for all, His kindness, compassion, faithfulness, and truth. He is known for truthful judgment and mighty power at all times, in all things, in all the places on the earth, and in the lives of everyone regardless of location, gender, language, profession, age, and color. God is for everyone and everyone will receive something from Him. He exists for everyone and everything He made, even those who do not know Him, those who refuse to seek or know or deny His existence; those who blame Him for everything, and those who refuse to worship Him even though they know Him. He is there for the righteous and the unrighteous; for sinners and saints; for the truthful and all liars, and He is there to bring to pass, to help, and to fulfill all the things He ever said to anyone anywhere directly or indirectly and it is very certain, He will not fail. None of His words, plans, and promises will fail.
God is not existing to condemn anyone or use anyone for His advantage. He is there to use you so you can have glory and honor, peace, comfort, and joy for His honor; He is there to make you the envy of others wherever He places you on earth. He is there to take you to the future that is better than your past, to the future that only He can and will make effective and profitable. He is there to help you on the path He destined for you; He is there to ensure that you make it through all that Satan will ever do or bring along to make you afraid and a failure. Know this, God is for you, He is with you and you will come to be what He said and what He made for you.
“O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand. I can never escape from your Spirit. I can never get away from your presence. If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night, but even in darkness, I cannot hide from you. To you, the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you. You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex. Your workmanship is marvelous.” Psalm 139:1-14
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IT WILL COME TO PASS (4)
January 19, 2024
While obedience to the word of God will cost us something significant, the reward in return for the obedience will bless us immensely. Noah never saw the reward coming but he knew God would not fail in what He had said; Noah did not see the magnitude of the reward, but he knew it would be better than what he had previously; Noah never saw the possibility of owning the whole world and sharing the same among his three sons, but it came.
Before Noah heard, obeyed, and followed the instructions of God, he saw the extent of human wickedness all around him but decided to live otherwise; he corruption, but refused to participate in them; he saw wildness, disobedience, the love of pleasure above everything else, the pursue of wealth and meanness in financial matters; he saw people seeking social excellence, pride, hate, evil conspiracies, dishonor to God and His word and the desire for inclusiveness, but regardless of what he saw, what he knew, what he experienced, what people say to him and say about him, Noah decided to keep himself and follow the principles of the word of God, and obeying the open voice of God thereafter was not a problem. He paid the price of obedience and received the reward of obedience. Your obedience will open the divine door of grace to you when you need it.
“The Lord observed the extent of human wickedness on the earth, and he saw that everything they thought or imagined was consistently and totally evil. So, the Lord was sorry he had ever made them and put them on the earth. It broke his heart. And the Lord said I will wipe this human race I have created from the face of the earth. Yes, and I will destroy every living thing, all the people, the large animals, the small animals that scurry along the ground, and even the birds of the sky. I am sorry I ever made them. But Noah found favor with the Lord. This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time, and he walked in close fellowship with God.” Genesis 6:5-9
Everyone wants a better life, a better place, a better today, and a better future, everyone deserves better health and a better living, and God promised that all these are possible when we obey and follow His word, paying the price for obedience and receiving the reward thereafter. “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, obeying His commands and keeping all His decrees, then I will not make you suffer any of the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the Lord who heals you.” Exodus 15:26
Besides the promise of a land flowing with milk and honey, these things were also included in the promise – “Understand, therefore, that the Lord your God is indeed God. He is the faithful God who keeps His covenant for a thousand generations and lavishes His unfailing love on those who love Him and obey His commands. But He does not hesitate to punish and destroy those who reject Him. Therefore, you must obey all these commands, decrees, and regulations I am giving you today. If you listen to these regulations and faithfully obey them, the Lord your God will keep His covenant of unfailing love with you, as he promised with an oath to your ancestors. He will love you and bless you, and He will give you many children. He will give fertility to your land and your animals. When you arrive in the land He swore to give your ancestors, you will have large harvests of grain, new wine, and olive oil, and great herds of cattle, sheep, and goats. You will be blessed above all the nations of the earth. None of your men or women will be childless, and all your livestock will bear young. And the Lord will protect you from all sickness. He will not let you suffer from the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but he will inflict them on all your enemies. Deuteronomy 7:9-15
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IT WILL COME TO PASS (3)
January 18, 2024
People may say what they want but I am confident, that all God has ever said would be fulfilled, they will all come to pass. “Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere Him. For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm. The Lord foils the plans of the nations; He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He chose for His inheritance. From heaven the Lord looks down and sees all mankind; from His dwelling place He watches all who live on earth, He who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do. No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. A horse is a vain hope for deliverance; despite all its great strength, it cannot save. But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. In Him, our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His Holy name. May your unfailing love be with us, Lord, even as we put our hope in you.” Psalm 33:8-22
Noah saw the reward of following and obeying the word of God after the greatest flood in human history. All He did was obey and follow God’s instructions despite the activities of others. He saw the forty days and night rain and survived the one hundred and fifty-days flood while others died. In the beginning, they laughed, mocked, and called him names, but in the end, his story was better and the joy exceedingly great. Through obedience, you can stand up and be standing while others are fallen. “And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. Then God said to Noah, come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you, the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it. So, Noah came out, together with his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives. All the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds, everything that moves on land came out of the ark, one kind after another. Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart, never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Genesis 7:5; 8:15-22
They said Noah was wasting his time, resources, and energy; they said he was not living in the moment, not having fun with others and not being there with current trends. God was looking and watching and waiting to reward every obedience. The same is true today, no matter the season, the reason, and the moment, God is looking and watching and He will not fail to bring to pass all that He has said. Let the earth rage, let the people imagine what they can, let them do what they can and them celebrate whatever they have, God will reward righteousness regardless of the pains and delays. Obedience is always painful but the reward will wipe away the pain and frustration. Remember, on the cross, Jesus Christ cried. “So is my word that goes out from my mouth, it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper, and instead of briers, the myrtle will grow. This will be for the Lord’s renown, for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever.” Isaiah 55:11-13
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IT WILL COME TO PASS (2)
January 17, 2024
Be ready, be prepared, and be armed with every good deed for the promised reward of whatever you do will come to pass, and the promise of whosoever believes in Him will also come to pass. There have been delays, but those delays are giving way for the fullness of the promised reward to be manifested. Christ Jesus said, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.” John 14:1. If you believe in God through Christ Jesus, believe also in His reward for He will surely reward you. As a Christian, forgiven, washed, and redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ through grace, you are never wasting your time and resources in the things that concern the Kingdom of God; you are not in any way wasting your time in believing and following the word of God; you are never wasting your time in keeping and obeying His commandments, you are never wasting your time and resources following and walking in His righteousness.
From His throne in heaven, God is watching over you to reward you for what you have said at any time, what you have done at any moment, and what you will do at any given opportunity to anyone, at any place or location, and any people whether good or bad. He is not watching to condemn but to reward every deed. He is a rewarder of all who diligently seek Him with all faithfulness and humility; He will reward everyone according to His word. All that He had promised, all will come to pass. Set your mind on the reward according to His word and promise.
In this life, in its season, and at the destined time and place, the reward from God will come to pass in your life. Nothing will prevent them, not fears, wickedness, shame, sickness, loneliness, lack, frustrations, failure, delays, or evil challenges. God’s rewards come in multiple ways; they show up even in times we do not expect; in times we have forgotten, and in times we have even lost hope of being rewarded. God never forgets our commitment to Him and our love for Him; He never forgets any of our good deeds in His name, our love for His work and word, our love for His house, and people. Jesus Christ told His followers, “I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. If you love me, keep my commands. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever.” John 14:13-16
The ungodly in the church and out of the church would always doubt the rewards of faithfulness, but their doubt will not stop God from rewarding you in His ways according to His promises. Do not allow the doubts of others to stop you; do not allow the doubts of the ungodly people in the church and outside the church to stop you. Frustrations and delays will come, but God will not fail to reward you. Time will pass and years will come and go, but His word and promises to you will never be changed. These were the words of Job, the man who suffered and who also saw the goodness of God in his restoration as a reward for faithfulness
“Oh, that my words were written. Oh, that they were inscribed in a book. That they were engraved on a rock with an iron pen and lead, forever. For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me. If you should say, how shall we persecute him? Since the root of the matter is found in me, be afraid of the sword for yourselves; for wrath brings the punishment of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.” Job 19:23-29
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IT WILL COME TO PASS (1)
January 16, 2024
“The king’s officer had replied, that couldn’t happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven. And the man of God had said, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it. And so it was, for the people trampled him to death at the gate.” 2 Kings 7:12-20
Don’t be disturbed, they can only mock you, but not God. Let them mock and laugh and call you all the names they could, but what God had said, that will He do and they will see it come to pass in your life and see it manifested in you. Their laughter may be painful, but those pains will end with joy and celebration. They mocked Elisha for saying change would come tomorrow by this time because of what they saw in the nation, what they knew about the situation, and what they had experienced for many years, but that did not stop the word of God from being fulfilled. When they mock and speak against you, take a purse and speak the word of God to yourself. Say it is well when I go out and when you come in, it is well with my house and with everyone with me, it is well because the Lord is with me and my God is for me. It is well because the Scripture declares it is well over me. “Say to the righteous that it shall be well with them, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.” Isaiah 3:10
Do not be afraid or ashamed of the delays, what God has said, will come to pass. Nothing will prevent it, not even the powers of darkness, the evil confrontations of the wicked, the forces from hell, the shame they have brought to you, and the princes of Satan standing to hinder you as they did with Daniel. This is what happened to Daniel
“Then he said to me, do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard and I have come because of your words. But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision refers to many days yet to come. When he had spoken such words to me, I turned my face toward the ground and became speechless. And suddenly, one having the likeness of the sons of men touched my lips; then I opened my mouth and spoke, saying to him who stood before me, My lord, because of the vision my sorrows have overwhelmed me, and I have retained no strength. For how can this servant of my lord talk with you, my lord? As for me, no strength remains in me now, nor is any breath left in me. Then again, the one having the likeness of a man touched me and strengthened me. And he said, O man greatly beloved, fear not. Peace be to you; be strong, yes, be strong. So, when he spoke to me I was strengthened, and said, let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me. Then he said, do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince.” Daniel 10:12-21
It is always painful to wait for days or years for what you need now. But God is not, will not in any way keep you waiting indefinitely, He is loving. Compassionate and faithful.
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AND IT CAME TO PASS
January 15, 2024
They have done it before, mocking the word and people of God, and will do it again today and hereafter, but the word of God will still come to pass no matter what. People may laugh at you, ridicule you, insult you for believing the word and firmly standing on it; they may ridicule you for speaking them out and ridicule you because of delays in fulfilling what God had said, but regardless of the delays and the shame, all that God Has said at any time concerning you will be fulfilled. God will speak only what He will do and nothing else. He does not speak because of what people say or do, God speaks because He loves you and has a plan for you now and in the future, a plan that He will bring to pass no matter what when you walk in faith and obedience to His word. Others may decide to mock the word of God, mock Jesus Christ our Lord, mock our faith in Him and mock our actions based on His word, but their mockery will not stop God. He will surely do what He said He would do.
“Therefore, know that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face. Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Deuteronomy 7:9-11
Elisha saw the famine and the starving in the land; he saw the pains and the hardship of the people. He heard the complaints and the tears of every family, and he also saw the challenges from the king. Everyone knows it will take years of hard work to recover from the devastation of famine and starvation, but Elisha knows God can turn things around overnight. It does not years for God to do what He wants, He can do them at any time anywhere regardless of the people, the hardship, and the unfriendly situations. God can turn all things around for the good of His people and of His good name.
Elisha knew that unless God did it, the efforts and cries of men would be in vain, so he told the king, that by this time tomorrow, the story would change and it came to pass as he said. “The king got out of bed in the middle of the night and told his officers, I know what has happened. The Arameans know we are starving, so they have left their camp and have hidden in the fields. They are expecting us to leave the city, and then they will take us alive and capture the city. One of his officers replied we had better send out scouts to check into this. Let them take five of the remaining horses. If something happens to them, it will be no worse than if they stay here and die with the rest of us. So, two chariots with horses were prepared, and the king sent scouts to see what had happened to the Aramean army. They went all the way to the Jordan River, following a trail of clothing and equipment that the Arameans had thrown away in their mad rush to escape. The scouts returned and told the king about it. Then the people of Samaria rushed out and plundered the Aramean camp. So, it was true that six quarts of choice flour were sold that day for one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain were sold for one piece of silver, just as the Lord had promised. The king appointed his officer to control the traffic at the gate, but he was knocked down and trampled to death as the people rushed out. So, everything happened exactly as the man of God had predicted when the king came to his house. The man of God had said to the king, by this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour will cost one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain will cost one piece of silver.” 2 Kings 7:12-18
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BUT BY THIS TIME TOMORROW (2)
January 12, 2024
Painful stories and situations concerning you can change. Your tomorrow can be now, right where you are, in that same place and with the same people. God can use whatever means He chooses and whoever He wants, but regardless of the past and present in and around you, God is changing it, He is bringing a change by His power and by His spirit. “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. Let those who fear the Lord now say, that His mercy endures forever. I called on the Lord in distress; the Lord answered me and set me in a broad place. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? The Lord is for me among those who help me; therefore, I shall see my desire in those who hate me. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.” Zechariah 6:6, Psalm 118:4-9
When the king went after Elisha’s head, to kill him because of the famine and the hardship of the people in Israel Samaria, Elisha went to God for the solution. When the king threatened Elisha and confronted him with the intent of killing him, Elisha went to God with the intent of having a solution, when the people doubted, Elisha trusted, and when they were fearful Elisha was bold, and when they thought it would never happen, Elisha told them to wait and see and they saw it as Elisha had said, God brought instant change to the bad situation.
“Elisha replied, “Listen to this message from the Lord. This is what the Lord says, by this time tomorrow in the markets of Samaria, six quarts of choice flour will cost only one piece of silver, and twelve quarts of barley grain will cost only one piece of silver. The officer assisting the king said to the man of God, that couldn’t happen even if the Lord opened the windows of heaven. But Elisha replied, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you won’t be able to eat any of it. Now there were four men with leprosy sitting at the entrance of the city gates. Why should we sit here waiting to die? they asked each other. We will starve if we stay here, but with the famine in the city, we will starve if we go back there. So, we might as well go out and surrender to the Aramean army. If they let us live, so much the better. But if they kill us, we would have died anyway. So, at twilight, they set out for the camp of the Arameans. But when they came to the edge of the camp, no one was there. For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots, the galloping of horses, and the sounds of a great army approaching. The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians to attack us, they cried to one another. So, they panicked and ran into the night, abandoning their tents, horses, donkeys, and everything else, as they fled for their lives. When the men with leprosy arrived at the edge of the camp, they went into one tent after another, eating and drinking wine; and they carried off silver and gold and clothing and hid it. Finally, they said to each other, this is not right. This is a day of good news, and we aren’t sharing it with anyone. If we wait until morning, some calamity will certainly fall upon us. Come on, let’s go back and tell the people at the palace. So, they went back to the city and told the gatekeepers what had happened. We went out to the Aramean camp, they said, and no one was there. The horses and donkeys were tethered and the tents were all in order, but there wasn’t a single person around. Then the gatekeepers shouted the news to the people in the palace.” 2 Kings 7:1-11
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BUT BY THIS TIME TOMORROW (1)
January 11, 2024
After years of famine that destroyed the land, widespread hunger, pain, anger, and many other uncomfortable things that always accompany famine and the people, God turned things around overnight for the people and the nation. There are things that are beyond the understanding of the wise and the knowledge of men. There are many issues in nations, families, and people’s lives that no human wisdom, no human knowledge, and no human might solve, no government effort, and there is no one who can take such away except God do it for them Himself.
Some things are beyond what the government with all its human and financial resources, its economic, technology, and scientific manpower, beauty, affluence, and location can do, regardless of who is in power, but there is nothing physical or spiritual in whatever realm is beyond the power of the Almighty God, and if only we will recognize such, we will have peace and run to Him with repentance and receive the assurance we need to meet the needs and solve the problems we face each day. Recognizing the Lord Almighty, Jesus Christ is not a sign of weakness, besides, all we have comes from Him, He made all things and the power to control all of things is still with Him even though He gives man knowledge and wisdom to manage all the things He created. Acknowledging Christ is a sign of strength and honor which He deserves.
This is what happened in a Nation and what the King did – “Sometime later, however, King Ben-hadad of Aram mustered his entire army and besieged Samaria. As a result, there was a great famine in the city. The siege lasted so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty pieces of silver, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five pieces of silver. One day as the king of Israel was walking along the wall of the city, a woman called to him, please help me, my lord the king. He answered if the Lord doesn’t help you, what can I do? I have neither food from the threshing floor nor wine from the press to give you. But then the king asked, what is the matter? She replied; this woman said to me, come on, let’s eat your son today, then we will eat my son tomorrow. So, we cooked my son and ate him. Then the next day I said to her, kill your son so we can eat him, but she had hidden her son. When the king heard this, he tore his clothes in despair. As the king walked along the wall, the people could see that he was wearing burlap under his robe next to his skin. May God strike me and even kill me if I don’t separate Elisha’s head from his shoulders this very day, the king vowed. Elisha was sitting in his house with the elders of Israel when the king sent a messenger to summon him. But before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, a murderer has sent a man to cut off my head. When he arrives, shut the door and keep him out. We will soon hear his master’s steps following him. While Elisha was still saying this, the messenger arrived. And the king said, all this misery is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer?” 2 Kings 6:24-33
You may have failed in many ways and many things and have been known as a failure; the hardship may have lasted too long; loneliness may be taking its toll on you, and people may be after your life, but by this time tomorrow, God can bring the change that had never been imagined; He can change you, change your life, change your situation, and change your story for the best. He did that for the people of Israel in Samaria, for Jabez and Job, and can do the same for you also. Lift your eyes and your heart from your afflictions, fix it on Christ Jesus like blind Bartimaeus did to receive his sight. He will change what needs to be changed in and for you.
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AND IN THAT SAME NIGHT
January 10, 2024
King Solomon saw God turn his life around the same night of his generous sacrifice, not another night, or days later, but that same night. Do not underestimate the love, goodness, and power of our God when He desires to reward and honor you according to His promises. God can turn all things around for you overnight with or without the assistance, blessing, or favor of men. He can do it right now where you are, and I pray He will not wait any longer as you submit yourself to walk in obedience and worship Him according to His precepts. Without the assistance of any man, on the day Solomon showed His heart of true love and worshiped God with a sacrifice, God appeared to him in a dream ready to do whatever he could ask
Solomon asked, and on that same day that Solomon offered his unprecedented sacrifice to God, that same night, Solomon was accepted by all and respected as God’s anointed and chosen king. In that same year that Solomon requested wisdom, God gave him even more than what He requested – “And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father, and I am but a little child, I know not how to go out or come in. And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude. Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. And God said unto him, because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; behold, I have done according to thy words, lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honor so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days. And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.” 1 Kings 3:7-15
God told Solomon, I have done according to your word – He did not say I will do, He said I have done. It happened that same night, that same day, and that same moment, God turned all things around for Solomon and his kingdom. Before this day, Solomon had troubles with his sibling and some of the elders, but that night, things changed and Solomon was endured with a wise and understanding heart, with riches, and honor so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days, The wisdom of God established Solomon far beyond Jerusalem such that others came to see the display of his wisdom in Jerusalem. Queen Sheba acknowledged and said:
“The report I heard in my own country about your achievements and your wisdom is true. But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told me, in wisdom and wealth, you have far exceeded the report I heard.” 1 Kings 10:6-8
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AND IN THAT SAME DAY
January 09, 2024
No matter the hardship; no matter the past expediencies; no matter the place and the people in your case; no matter the language and the gender, and no matter your knowledge and ability, it is impossible for God to fail; He will not prevent or keep you back, neither will He withhold what He had promised. His words will be fulfilled and no matter the tears and the days of afflictions, He will still do what He said. “But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends, a day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, He is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed but wants everyone to repent. But the day of the Lord will come as unexpectedly as a thief.” 2 Peter 3:8-10. Do not allow the fears of the past to hinder the reality of God’s words and promises to you now and in the future, for His words will surely be fulfilled.
The day of the fulfillment of the word of God and every word He had spoken to you is coming, it will not be prolonged any further and will not be hindered. Your perception and understanding of impossibilities will change this year. What had hindered your manifestation and breakthrough will be removed this year and what will prevent you from seeing the blessings He had promised you will be removed by the power of His might. God is moving in His power to move you from all adversities that cause sadness, pain, loneliness, lack, and shame. “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord who has compassion on you. Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with lapis lazuli. I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace. In righteousness, you will be established. Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you. If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you. See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc; no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me declares the Lord.” Isaiah 54:10-17
God is not going to keep you waiting too long again; He is not prolonging your days of blessings and peace and your moment of victory; He wants them now for you, this very year, from this day, time, and onward. Would you give Him a chance in your life right now? Do it now, obey Him early, follow His word and precepts now, obey and do His commandments, and be patient, consistent, and faithful; you will not lack any good thing hereafter because no weapon fashioned against you to prevent or hinder you shall by any means prosper regardless of their domains of operation and records of excellence in the theater of wickedness
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego lived to see the power and reward of their obedience. The people who came out to watch them die saw it, and King Nebuchadnezzar saw it and confessed and said “Praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and rescued His servants. They trusted in Him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. Therefore, I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.” Daniel 3:28-30. That same day, that same year, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego saw what was considered impossible made possible right before their eyes. This year, yours will come.
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AND IN THAT SAME YEAR (1)
January 08, 2024
What happened thereafter can also happen now; where God turned the fortune of people forever and they lived to see the wonderful experience with thanksgiving; yours can be this year, your time can be now, and your moment for that unexpected and expected breakthrough can be now; that unexpected change can happen, and the favor that people say you do not deserve and should never have can be yours. This is beyond prayers, if you start early, be consistent, start believing with faith in the word of God, be strong in divine determination to stay on, and remain faithful, you will not miss the significant and sincere mark of His increase and better blessings this year. Be truthful and obedient to every command, and with a calm spirit of divine true love, you will make it through all that will ever stand up to hinder or frustrate you.
While you think you will fail, God says you won't. While they plan to frustrate you, God says you will overcome; while they plot to take you down and out, God says He will take you through and sustain you where He will place you. This year, God will take you through all competitions and competitors; He will take you through all the challenges waiting by design or mistake to take you down; He will take you through all known and unknown fears of becoming successful; He will take you through all of your fearful dreams, revelations, desires; He will take you through all evil physical or spiritual gangs set up against you, and He will sustain in His place. “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord your God.” Isaiah 43:2-3.
Know that our God is able, willing, and always faithful in all things that concern those who live in obedience and are faithful to His word. What you have not been able to do all these years, God will enable you when you obey His word and follow His commands “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.” Ephesians 3:20-21; 2 Corinthians 10:3-6. What Jabez's parents could do for years in their lives, through one prayer and request and in that same year, God did to Jabez. Isn’t that amazing? In this year, a day is coming, a time is coming, and a moment is coming that you will stand up from that fall, you will stand out from that crowd, pulled out from that number, and you will wipe away every tear, cast away every pain, and insult, overcome loneliness, and proclaim with joy, the Lord had done this for me, He has delivered me and had blessed me.
While you walk, while you run, fix your eyes on Christ Jesus; keep your eyes on yourself, your attitude, words, actions, obedience, and patience. “Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2
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THIS YEAR, START EARLY (3)
January 05, 2024
Every step you make will be guided by the Lord. Do you know God is with you? He sees and knows the past, present, and future about and concerning you, and there is nothing too difficult for Him to do for you. In His amazing love, God has given His word concerning you and will not take it back no matter what. He is waiting and watching to see what said come to pass in your life this year. “My word that goes out from my mouth, will not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.” Isaiah 55:11-12
There is no place on earth that God cannot locate you when you walk in faith and remain in Him following His word with all obedience, patience, and faithfully. He promised to make a way even when you are located in a wilderness; He promised to make a way even when you are hindered or had been hindered before by any type or kind of things; He promised to make a way through even when you are a desert profession; He promised to make a way in times of peace, times of war, and times of confusion. “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. I myself will prepare your way, leveling mountains and hills. I will break down bronze gates and smash their iron bars. I will give you treasures from dark, secret places; then you will know that I am the Lord and that the God of Israel has called you by name. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. And David said to Solomon his son, be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the Lord. And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skillful man, for any manner of service: also, the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.” Isaiah 43:18-19. Isaiah 45:2-3, Isaiah 40:4-5, 1 Chronicles 28:20-21
The reason you will be successful is that you do something meaningful and extraordinary beyond what was before now. You stood on and continued on a defined path; you followed and remained on a determined route with a divined touch and stayed on to surpass all previous attempts. By God’s grace and favor towards you, this year, you can, and will surpass all previous attempts at being and desiring success. God is ready and willing to walk with you when you are also ready to walk with Him. He will take you through whatever stands to hinder you. The road to success is not in good wishes but in definite actions toward a goal and remaining consistent even in times of challenges and times of discomfort. This is what God wants you to know as you take this bold stride in faith from now on; “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? if any man trusts to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's.” 2 Corinthians 10:3-7
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THIS YEAR, START EARLY (2)
January 04, 2024
Starting any time opportunity comes is never a bad idea but to start early is far better. Do not in any way desire to play the catch-up game this year, you may not be able to. Rise now, ask now, seek now, knock now, and do it right now. Whatever He says to you, that do, Mary the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ told the wedding couple and their guests when they ran out of needed wine and ideas to satisfy the gathered guest. There are blessings for you from heaven; there are things God wants from you, and people are waiting for you to become what God says. This year, by His mercy, grace, and power, you will not be a disappointment to God, to yourself, or anyone else. In His power, God will elevate and sustain you wherever He will place you.
“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.” James 1:5. God is willing to give you wisdom from the very start in every relationship, every project, every issue of life, and in every given assignment that you set on handling. Do not wait until you are faced with a dilemma, humiliation, failure, shame, or disappointment before you go to God and ask for help. Do not wait until you have developed a heavy heart of despair due to unforeseen circumstances before you ask God for wisdom. Do not wait until things cause you to weep and cry and have sleepless nights before you seek His divine intervention. Start right now, start early, and remain faithful and consistent; this is the right time and today is your day and now is the right moment. Ask God for wisdom before failure or any form of disappointment comes seeking and knocking at your doorstep. Time and tide wait for no one. You are saved, called, and filled with the Spirit of God to guide you. “And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner anymore, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers. And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, this is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.” Isaiah 30:20-21
This is the testimony of David. “I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; He saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and He delivers them. Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him. Fear the Lord, you His holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing. The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Come, my children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are attentive to their cry.” Psalm 34:4-15
God wants to lead you into His blessing, deliver you from adversities, keep you safe, and use you to reveal His goodness and glory to many. Satan will not succeed against you; regrets and tears will not be your companion, and frustration will not hinder you. Start early, seek Him early, and knock on the door of mercy and wisdom early. God will open the right doors; He will lead you through and also ensure you are successful.
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THIS YEAR, START EARLY (1)
January 03, 2024
The year and day of your promised harvest are at hand. It will be bigger than expectations and better than whatever help you have ever received from men. It will transform and enable you; it will revive you and give you joy inside and outside. You will bountifully reap the fruit of your years of faithfulness if you don’t up now; you will have the reward promised by God if you don’t give up now, and you will celebrate the harvest in ways that had never happened before in the presence of God’s children if you don’t give up now. God loves persistence and it pays. He said if you continue in my word – then you are - then you will see- then you will have. “He that sent me is with me, the Father hath not left me alone, I do always those things that please Him. As He spake these words, many believed in Him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, if ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in my name, I will do it. If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever. Even the Spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless, I will come to you.” John 8:20-32, 14:13-18.
Whatever dream God has given to you, do not hesitate to start early; whatever word He gives to you, whatever assignment, whatever commandment, and whatever task or word in the scriptures or action He demands and revealed to you, start it early and believe Him for the reward. He will never ask for what He has not already given you or that which you can achieve by His grace.
“Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight, stop doing wrong. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. Come now, let us settle the matter, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land.” Isaiah 1:16-19
Start your commitment early, do not push forward the day of obedience and faithfulness. What God has for you is good and overflowing. This year, invest your life, resources, and ways in the things of the kingdom of God. Add faithfulness with obedience to every divine instruction; add humility in fellowship and all relationships; add God’s love to all activities, add seasoning of His goodwill to your words, and add patience to every trial. God has set you out this year for His favor not for condemnation as many may assume, you are included in the number of those to be raised beyond the adversities and uncertainties of the years to come. Distinguished to be honored with the resources from heaven to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
When you walk in obedience to every word of God regardless of the pains, the evidence of all the things you see and know and have been told, regardless of the past and the uncertainties that everyone else is talking about, there will be no limitation to you. There will be challenges, and there will be people opposing and seeking to hold you back, but it is evident from the throne of divine grace that you will not be hindered, they may stop what you have started, but they will see it come alive again. They will shout at you, shout you down, point you out, call you out, hold you to ransom, blame you, stigmatize you, and humiliate you but God will not allow them to overwhelm you or stop what He had promised as a reward of your obedience and faithfulness.
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YOUR GREATEST NEED IN 2024
THE MERCY AND GRACE THAT BROUGHT YOU HERE
January 02, 2024
God's plans for everyone are far greater than everything else we may desire, dream, and promise by any government or people with wealth. His plans and promises are beyond the resources we think we have and they are scheduled to transform, bless, enrich, and keep us faithful in the place He decides to place us on Earth. These plans are embedded in accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, receiving forgiveness as a result, being given salvation as a reward, enjoying mercy and grace thereafter, and being led by His Spirit from then on. Salvation comes with many blessings and promises and by His grace, those promises and blessings will be yours.
You were condemned, but you survived the condemnation; insulted and humiliated, you survived the insults and humiliations; you failed in many things in many ways, but you survived the evil impacts of those failures; you survived sickness, isolation, rejection, lack, homelessness, hunger, fear, injustice, and many harmful experiences. God kept you and took you through because He has a plan that is waiting to be manifested in and through you. His plans will never fail, they are timed and never miss their timing and purpose. They are precise, kept alive for you until the day destined for it to be manifested in you by the Almighty God. This is the declaration of what He knows and will do concerning you, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
This year and onward, you need grace and mercy from God and from the throne that produces all good things. What God had promised will not be manifested through hard work – though hard work is needful; it is not going to be manifested by your strength, your knowledge, affiliations, or associations; it will be manifested by the power of His mercy and grace working in you to fulfill His plans according to His will. The Spirit of God works effectively and produces greater results where grace and mercy dwell. “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty.” Zechariah 4:6
Mercy and grace are your two greatest needs this year and by these two, nothing, no one, no power, no force, no condemnation, no confrontation, no injustice, and no evil enchantment will ever stop you and you will never miss the plans, the blessings, and the ways the Lord will take you through. His mercy is beyond everything else, and His grace gives life in times and places of hopelessness and shame. His mercy redeems us and keeps us from being victims of our own mistakes and misfortunes. God’s Mercy is the act of Him withholding deserved punishment from us due to our faults and mistakes, while grace is His act of endowing us with unmerited favor even when we don’t deserve such. In mercy, God does not give us the punishment we deserve, no matter the sin because He has forgiven us, while in His grace, God gives us the gift we do not deserve, because we have been forgiven and given salvation. We all need God’s mercy and grace daily because His mercy takes us to the path of forgiveness, reconciliation, and love while grace leads us to blessings He had promised through love.
We are weak, foolish, unable, and unknowledgeable even in things we think we know, and we are unworthy and unstable in our thoughts and ways, but by His grace and mercy embedded in love, He will take us through and use us to accomplish what He had destined. We all need God’s mercy and grace and we need Jesus Christ our Savior. Mercy renews and revives lost hope, while grace enables, transforms, and makes hope possible, eliminating impossibility. “Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:8-9
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AS YOU ENTER 2024,
REMEMBER
January 01, 2024
In 2024, remember that God’s blessings will start early, His promotion will start early, His word will manifest early, your usefulness will start early, your recompense from the throne of our Father in heaven will start early, and the grace to shine in His light will start early, and you will by no means be left behind to eat the crumbs that fall from that table to the ground. God is starting early with you; He is working early through you and all eyes shall it. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him, nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and darkness has not overcome it. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters and God said, let there be light, and there was light.” John 1:1-5, Genesis 1:1-2. Remember, in the beginning, the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was all over but God, through the power of His word changed that formlessness and filled that emptiness with His desires and darkness could not stop Him. You will not experience emptiness. No darkness will stop the word of God for you and none will stop you because God said, let there be, and all things came to be as He said.
As you enter 2024, regardless of your past and plans for the future, remember the Almighty God is involved in the affairs of all human beings and He knows the end of all thoughts and plans before they even start and He can direct you on every step. “People of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious He will be when you cry for help. As soon as He hears, He will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes, you will see them. Whether you turn to the right or the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, this is the way; walk in it.” Isaiah 30:19-21. Remember to follow His word, dedicate yourselves to His love, and be affectionately united to Him in all things.
This 2024, start right, start well, start early, and resolve to remain committed to divine principles and faithfulness, you will see with evidence what God will do thereafter; you will end well through the effective working of His grace and the power of His faithfulness in honoring all of His words and promises. “This is what the Lord says, He who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing, now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. God has said, never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. So, we say with confidence, the Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me? But now, this is what the Lord says, He who created you, Jacob, He who formed you, Israel, do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.” Isaiah 43:16, 18-19; Hebrews 13:5-6; Isaiah 43:1-2.
This is the year that fulfills all hope, rewards all obedience, rewards all faithfulness, and defends those who put their trust in the living word of God that will never fail. This is the year where God will make alive all things in you that had been declared dead, or destroyed, and restore you to what and where He had destined. It is a year for your celebration
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2023 ends.
DON’T GIVE UP, YOU WILL HAVE IT (2)
December 29, 2023.
Christ had promised peace even in times of trouble; safety in places that are not safe; joy in a time of confrontation and rejection; direction when there is no way out; comfort when everyone is fearful; confidence in times of uncertainties; companionship even in isolation. He said, “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:27-30
Giving up on the word of God is not the best option for you; giving up on your dreams after all these years is not the best option; giving up on aspiring even higher is not the best option; despite your thoughts, the endless struggles, the humiliations, disappointment’s, the lacks, rejection, and the unfriendliness of people, God can turn things around for you and He will. Job saw God turn things around for him despite what the people thought and said to and about him; he never gave up on God, never gave up on the truth he believed, never regretted being righteous and fearing God, never regretted believing God’s word and following them, never regretted fearing God and being in Him and associated with Him with all confidence.
This is what Job said in his days of trouble, rejection, confrontation, and isolation. “He has alienated my family from me; my acquaintances are completely estranged from me. My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me. My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger. I summon my servant, but he does not answer, though I beg him with my own mouth. My breath is offensive to my wife; I am loathsome to my own family. Even the little boys scorn me; when I appear, they ridicule me. All my intimate friends detest me; those I love have turned against me. I am nothing but skin and bones; I have escaped only by the skin of my teeth. Have pity on me, my friends, have pity, for the hand of God has struck me. Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh? Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll, that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever. I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end, he will stand on the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. I myself will see Him with my own eyes, I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me.” Job 19:13-27
Despite all that Job went through, he said, I know that my redeemer lives; in my flesh, I will see God. I myself, will see Him with my own eyes, I, and not another. He gave himself hope, joy, and assurance even when things were getting very bad around him. Job never gave up; you also should never give up. Job’s end was better, your will be better. No matter what, your future is far better than whatever is now. You will live to see what God had planned and destined for you in this very life. Job said he will press on; he will continue in Him, and He will remain in Him. “Though He slays me, yet will I hope in Him; I will surely defend my ways to His face. Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless person would dare come before Him. Listen carefully to what I say; let my words ring in your ears. Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated.” Job 13:15-18. The result of Job's persistent faith is one of the best things that can ever happen to anyone. His last days were far better than all of his previous years.
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DON’T GIVE UP, YOU WILL HAVE IT
December 28, 2023.
Everyone has a need but faith makes the difference. Your faith in Christ Jesus has helped you all these years and your faith in Him will help you through. What are you looking for now, and what have you ever been looking for in this life? What have you been crying about either in the open or privately, and what have you desired to see changed, manifested, and upheld in your life, job, family, relationship, or finances? Do not be tired when looking for what you truly want in life, something you know quite well will transform your life and take you to where you want to be from where you are right now. Do not be tired of seeking that which God promised in scripture, true, and genuine and you know will surely change your life and make you a source of blessing to others around the world. Faith in Christ Jesus and His word will help you to be fulfilled.
Do not be tired because of the delays, or current or previous experiences. Do not be tired because you have been denied and frustrated many times over; do not be tired of your godly desires even when you have been refused times without number by people who should have given you that which is rightly yours; do not be tired because you have missed opportunities before and cannot find another one now; do not be tired because the source of your income had been taken from you. Do not be tired because if men refuse you, your Lord Jesus Christ will not, He will surely give you as He had said. In hard times, David declared. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul, he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.” Psalm 23:1-3
Do not be tired because answers to your prayers are still pending, your dreams and your visions are yet to be fulfilled despite hard work; do not be tired because you cannot find a better job or home, your entitlements are not fully paid, you have not found a spouse, you do not have a child, you are yet to have a meaningful breakthrough and the doors seems impossible to pass through. Do not be tired because God will never lie and will never change His words, His ways, and all of His revelations to you.
There are many things in the world that people are looking for every day. Everyone has a desire, a need, a concern, a dream, and a vision. Everyone is busy every day looking for relevant things, things that will make them different from others, and things that God had promised them. The word of the Lord is that you will surely find as you keep on looking, seeking, and knocking. God alone can do what no man can and will ever do.
“Then Jesus said to them, suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, friend, lend me three loaves of bread; a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him. And suppose the one inside answers, don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything. I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need. So, I say to you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him” Luke 10:5-13
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I TRUST YOU WILL GET THERE.
December 26, 2023
Have you entrusted your life, your children, your marriage, your spouse, your home, and your job to God for any purpose? Trust that you have not made a mistake, trust that you have not missed the target of your life expectation, trust that you did the very best you can to achieve the very best you deserve, trust that what you have done will be rewarded and that you will see the gains you expected before the decision. God will never play any bad game concerning your destiny and all the things you entrusted to Him. He will never deny you the very best of your future in Him, and He will never deny your sincerity of purpose in any services you have rendered to Him, and anyone in any location irrespective of the size of such services.
Have you trusted God for any tangible and meaningful change in your legitimate businesses and other things that will enhance your living conditions and improve your chances of success? Trust God that He will safely deliver the best for your joy. Have you trusted God for any breakthrough, and any intervention in anything under the sun that concerns you and what you are doing? Trust that everything trusted into His hands for keep, for change, and for blessing is safe and will be done in a way that the devil cannot overturn after He has finished.
Have you been hoping for anything and praying for them over the years? Trust that God will make them happen; He will take good care of you, preserve you, and guide you, and will not disappoint you irrespective of the length of time it will take for them to come through in your life. When God finishes His work in you, He will preserve it and preserve you against all evil and will bless it and bless you as He had said. The fear and the wrong imagination of what tomorrow will bring will hinder you from having a good dream today, it will also hinder you from taking advantage of today. You will have to overcome that fear because it will hinder you from pressing ahead towards your goals in life tomorrow.
Apostle Paul told Timothy what to do because God will fulfill all of His promises to you and everyone else: “For this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline. So do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me His prisoner. Rather, join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God. He has saved us and called us to a holy life not because of anything we have done but because of His own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. And of this gospel, I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher. That is why I am suffering as I am. Yet this is no cause for shame, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day.” 2 Timothy 1:6-12
The day might be cloudy and rainy, but that does not stop you from moving on with that which had been destined for your life. The year will be running out in a matter of days, but that does not stop you from looking to the Kings of kings with hope and confidence that you will still receive the promise and the reward of what you have been promised, what you have been hoping for and have been working on to achieve. The road to achieving what God had destined is not always easy but everything that God had said to you is quite possible and achievable.
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OH, WHY CHRISTMAS?
December 26, 2023
The unveiling of Christ is a great mystery made available to human beings by God through love and mercy. “And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.” 1 Timothy 3:16
Christmas is nothing less but the maximization of God’s love to all humanity expressed in the flesh through a virgin for the goodness of God to be made available to man. That mystery is called Jesus Christ, the Messiah, and the only one destined to redeem all mankind from the unending state of sin, anger, wickedness, fear, slavery, loneliness, isolation, evil-mindedness, and Satanic subjections. “For God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son. God gave His Son so that whoever believes in Him may not be lost, but have eternal life. God did not send His Son into the world to judge the world guilty, but to save the world through Him.” John 3:16-17
Christmas is significant because the prime target is us, individuals, the greatest beneficiary is us, and the greatest impact is felt by us and in us, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. He did not send His Son into the world because He hated us. God the Son did not become a man to spy on us and destroy us eventually. He came into the world to do for us and in us what we, in our flesh and blood, with our knowledge, understanding, wisdom, strength, and ability could not and will never be able to do for ourselves. God delights in what He does, in whom He sends, and in whom He chooses. And there is no greater thing God has ever done than to redeem Adam and Eve and all their descendants, male and female from the power, dominance, and wickedness of sin, death, and the power of the devil than the birth of His own Son, Jesus Christ.
“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace, There will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” Isaiah 9:6-7
The promise was unto Mary but the fulfilment is unto us. Unto us, all of us, not a particular people, or nation, and not an individual but unto us.
Unto us, a child is born
Unto us, a messiah is given
Unto us, a savior is given
This is what Christmas did for us and why it matters. “For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin. He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. So, all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated, God with us." Galatians 3:14, Romans 8:3-5, Matthew 1:23
MERRY CHRISTMAS
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CHRISTMAS,
GREATEST OF ALL CELEBRATIONS
December 25, 2023
Christmas is the first time humanity saw the fulness, goodness, mercies, and power of God’s love revealed in human form and can relate with God through a relationship based on truth, faith, and obedience, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned.” John 3:16-18. Jesus did not come to condemn anyone, He came to take away condemnation and to give life that is true, real, and filled with joyful expectations and promises.
At the fulness of a time long after the beginning; in the time, date, and place He had destined in His love and mercy, God sent His son to the world to be received, believed, celebrated, honored, and followed. Christmas is the greatest celebration in the whole world regardless of the peoples' faith, believes, language, gender, religious affiliations, professions, or clampdown by the government. Even those who deny and refuse to be submissive to Him still celebrate Him.
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him, nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:1-5. Right from the beginning till now, the darkness of any form, from anywhere, or the denials from anyone had not been able to defeat, overcome, or make Christ Jesus and His reign irrelevant. His name, His word, His reign, and His Kingdom are ever-increasing and the knowledge of His word and obedience are all we need to have a meaningful and productive life.
Christmas is far beyond just the celebration, and the gifts we send and receive; it is accepting what God had done, what God is doing, what God is about to do hereafter, and whom God had set in place for the redemption of all mankind in all nations, language, genders, and color. “For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For in Him, all things were created; things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in His sight, without blemish and free from accusation, if you continue in your faith, established and firm, and do not move from the hope held out in the gospel. This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.” Colossians 1”13-23
Christmas is here, our Lord and Savior is born, God is revealed in human form to all humanity, His name is Jesus Christ, He is the only begotten of the Father, He is God, He came not to do His own will but to do the will of the Father. He was in the beginning and all things were made by Him, for for our redemption. Celebrate Christ Jesus this Christmas
MERRY CHRISTMAS
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DECLARING THE KINGDOM OF OUR GOD
December 22, 2023
You were saved for a time like this, called for a moment like this, preserved by the power of His love and grace, and you are anointed for this day, do not hide Christ Jesus who dwells and lives in you, declare Him, declare His Kingdom, declare the King of the Kingdom, and declare the year of the manifestation of the sons of God’s Kingdom. “For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again, rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him, we cry, Abba Father. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in His sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope, we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” Romans 8:14-26
The present situation should not stop you; rejoice because you are in Christ and He is in you; the troubles you face are too small when He is involved in you; He will lead you through all of them, He will take you through whatever they may be, you will cross over, you will see His blessings and received His goodness as David did. The evil plots and afflictions from Sual and his armed men did not stop David. Living in caves and hiding from people did not stop David. What God destined for David came to pass and yours will come to pass.
Joseph and Mary ended well. God’s desire and destiny for them were fulfilled. God spoke to them and they believed, and followed His instructions, despising tradition, fears, and what people will do or speak. God set them to bring forth the King of kings and Lord of lords. He gave them the name to call Him, and by God’s power, they lived to see what said being manifested in their lives. Your day of the manifestation is at hand and by God’s power, you will not miss it.
“She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus because He will save his people from their sins. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet. For to us, a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the greatness of His government and peace, there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over His kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.” Matthew 1:21-22, Isaiah 9:6-7. John the Baptist declared the kingdom. You are sons and daughters of the kingdom through Christ Jesus, declare it.
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THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS HERE
December 20, 2023
God is not looking back but looking forward to the future He had promised; He is preparing us for the things to come as stated in His word; He is preparing us for the glory He promised, and for the mission to be accomplished. The defeat of sin and weakness is eminent and we are all looking forward to the fulness of His promise which would never fail. The kingdom of God is here in its fullness, the prophecy is becoming fulfilled and all eyes shall see it. Right from the day of Adam’s sin in the Garden of Eden, God told Satan that his days of victory were numbered and that the coming Messiah would bruise his head. “So, the Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done this, you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field. On your belly, you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.” Genesis 3:14-15
All the prophets of old echoed that promise by God; they have prophesied, prayed, led the people, and done all they could. They judged, delivered, and raised the people from their fallen states, and restored them in several ways but, none was able to bring forth that Kingdom until the day that Christ Jesus was unveiled to the world. The kingdom was prophesied by the prophets from the days of Noah but that kingdom was unveiled, made possible, and accessible to all by the coming of Jesus Christ who is the only King of the Kingdom, and Lord of All. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful. On His robe and on His thigh, He has this name written; King of kings and Lord of lords. For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes.” Revelation 1:8, 17:14, 19:16, Deuteronomy 10:17
The coming of the Lord Jesus Christ opens the doors of heaven for the promises and prophecies from God through the prophets to be fulfilled in the life of those who will believe, follow, and keep His commandments. He did not come to prophesy about the kingdom, He came to fulfill the words and desires of the Kingdom on earth. “Whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, this was He of whom I said, He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me. And of His fullness, we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.” John 3:15-18; John 1:14-18
Christ Jesus came to declare the Kingdom, to enable us to have total access to the kingdom and all of its treasures; He came to make us fulfilled according to all the plans of God for us before we were conceived; and no matter what, we will be fulfilled because the kingdom is here and the King of the Kingdom Jesus Christ is with us. For I know the plans I have for us says the Lord. Jeremiah 29:19
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JOSEPH WAS TROUBLED
December 19, 2023
God prearranges things for His children and He always guides them through all of them safely no matter what they may experience. Our God knows tomorrow far better than we do and when we are firmly in Him, He will not only show us the way but will lead us by His word, and His Spirit with grace, mercy, compassion, and love. We can never miss Him even when we sometimes feel He is absent and will never miss the fullness of His blessings when we walk in obedience. This is what Samuel told King Saul - “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” 1 Samuel 15:22-23. In all situations, God will always delight in our obedience to His word and His principles. He will not change His words and plans because we are troubled or for any reason.
When Joseph heard the news of his pregnant spouse, he did not rejoice but was troubled by it, not knowing that it was God’s plan to use him and Mary and for His glory to be revealed to all mankind on earth. Joseph did not know God's prophecy and word were being fulfilled through her. He did not know that what was long hidden from the eyes of men was about to be made open and that the whole world and eternity would directly be affected by what was happening.
Joseph was a just man who feared God and respected the dignity of Mary, he was a man who loved God, and his family and followed tradition. He did not want to put Mary into open shame by rejecting her openly and the pregnancy and did not want to make her a public object. He thought of putting her away secretly because of the pregnancy and did not want to stand the shame of what people would say to him, or the name they would give to him if he accepted her and continued with the marriage, but God was there to deliver him from his troubles and from what the people and his family would say thereafter. God spoke to Joseph in a dream and Joseph obeyed what God told him and followed the instructions not minding the words of men, the words of his people, and the traditions. He obeyed God rather than men, his family, and his friends.
“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows, after His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. So, all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated, God with us. Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name Jesus.” Matthew 1:18-25
Joseph shuns the fears and the troubles of family members and the people and followed the words and instructions of God, Joseph trusted God despite what he knew the people would say to him, Joseph loved God and was ready to do everything to please Him and Joseph believed that following the words and instructions of God is better following his thoughts and the words of the people. I pray you will obey God and follow His words and instructions regardless of the trouble that you know, see, and are experiencing as Joseph did.
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YOU WILL END WELL
December 19, 2023
Never ignore the signs given to you by the Lord, never ignore the signs given to you in the scriptures and never take them for granted. The Jews and all the children of Israel believed in the prophecy of the Messiah, but they ignored the signs that were given. Mary was troubled by the news delivered to her by the angel but she was not troubled when she saw the word spoken by the angel being fulfilled. Your days and time in accomplishing all that God had said and destined for you to accomplish is coming, it will not be delayed by troubles or adversities or the doubts of men, it will not turn around or turn back because of fear or uncertainty, God will not deny or reject you because others have rejected you, you will see them accomplished as God had said and you will be established in all that God had said and destined for you.
Mary’s conversation with the angels ended well and yours will end well. “Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord. So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be to the
Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” Luke 1:45, Isaiah 55:11-13
God is calling you and is giving you a sign; He is showing you a sign, He gave the people a sign in Jonah concerning His death and resurrection, He gave them a sign concerning the conception of Jesus Christ and the person He will use. He has given you a sign by the things He had written in the scriptures and the ones enabled by the Holy Spirit in your heart in conformity to His written word. Do not ignore the signs of His return as they ignored the signs of His birth
Mary did not just wake up and see a surprise conception, and unexplained conception, she was told before the conception and she was told how it would happen. Mary asked how this be and was told - Then Mary said to the angel, how can this be since I do not know a man? And the angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. She was also told that regardless of her thoughts, troubles, vision, knowledge, or fear, nothing is impossible with God. For with God, nothing will be impossible. God will not take you by surprise, He does everything according to His plan.
Do not let your desires and dreams hinder the ways of God in your life because the ways of the Lord are bigger, better, and more profitable than the best of your dreams and desires in life. He can make you what no one had ever dreamed of and what no one had ever desired of you. He is the one who changed Jabez to what no one thought or imagined, not even his parents and family. God will not stop you if you allow Him to lead you but your dreams, desires, and actions can stop
you when you are driven by them and ignore the word, and ways of the Lord. No trouble can change what God had said. No law, no power, no foolishness, no mistake, no power in hell or from hell, and no human or spiritual demon can change what God had said and had written. All will come to pass the way He wants them; all will be fulfilled at the time He sets for them, and all will be as He had desired for His glory. Has He called you? Has He given you a sign? He will fulfill what He had shown and He will help you accomplish and do what He has said.
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THE LORD HIMSELF WILL GIVE YOU A SIGN
BUT MARY WAS TROUBLED (1)
December 18, 2023
“Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” Isaiah 7:14
The conception of Mary was revealed openly to her before she became pregnant and she was troubled by the kind of words spoken to her by the angel Gabriel because of her thoughts and knowledge about conception, having a child, and marriage. Your thoughts may be right but the ways of the Lord are always perfect regardless of your thoughts and knowledge. That is the reason we have to always have to surrender what we know, what we think, and what we have to the Lord for His ways to be made perfect in us. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so, shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth. It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:8-11
Mary knew she was not yet married, she knew was a virgin espoused to be married, she knew having a child is a result of two people, a male and a female partner coming together in a mutual marriage relationship, and she knew that only married couples do have children, and now she is being told she will have a child.
Being troubled is not new, but how to handle the trouble matters a lot. One may decide to cry about the trouble, allow the trouble to take control of one’s thoughts, imagination, visions, and everything else, or hand it over to the Lord in trust and have peace thereafter knowing the Lord is always there for you in good times and in bad times. That is why He says don’t be troubled by the troubles of the day and the trouble of the people who do not know or trust in Him. We are not trouble because we put our trust in Him in all things, at all times, and in all situations.
This is what Mary was told and her reaction and conclusion thereafter. “Now in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women. But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying and considered what manner of greeting this was, Then the angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom, there will be no end. Then Mary said to the angel, how can this be since I do not know a man? And the angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age; and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. For with God, nothing will be impossible. Then Mary said, behold the maidservant of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.” Luke 1:26-38
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December 15, 2023
RELIGIOUS LEADERS, KING HEROD WERE TROUBLED
“If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.” John 11:48. Their troubles were greater than anything else. The religious leaders, King Herod, other Kings, and all national, sectional, and local counselors and leaders were troubled by the news of Jesus’s birth because of their positions in governing the people, their influence on the people, their own personal and financial gains, and what they will have to give up if Jesus Christ is truly born and becomes what they thought in their mind He would be when He reigns as foretold in the scriptures. They were trouble because their reign of terror would be threatened, their control of the people, their oppressive and evil governance would be exposed and they would be deposed. They were trouble because they ruled the people by their own thoughts not minding the feelings, the pains, and the heavy burden on the people. And their trouble saw no sign of ending except Christ was killed at birth, but God knew what was coming even before they started thinking about what to do to Him.
Did you know that our God knows what is coming and He is ahead to help us when it finally comes? He is never too late in helping and delivering us from every form of affliction that Satan brings to us. He plans our ways and orders our steps, and nothing will stop Him from doing what He plans and He will accomplish what He sets out to do. He laughs at the plans of the enemies because He knows they will never be successful against His people. “Why are the nations so angry? Why do they waste their time with futile plans? The kings of the earth prepare for battle; the rulers plot together against the Lord and against his anointed one. Let us break their chains, they cry, and free ourselves from slavery to God. But the one who rules in heaven laughs. The Lord scoffs at them. Then in anger, He rebukes them, terrifying them with his fierce fury. For the Lord declares, I have placed my chosen king on the throne in Jerusalem, on my holy mountain. The king proclaimed the Lord’s decree, and the Lord said to me, you are my son. Today I have become your Father.” Psalm 2:1-7
These people were troubled by their fears, but you should not be by what you now know, God says to you, don’t be troubled by their troubles and don’t be worried by their worries. In all things, in all nations, in all people, the Almighty God will always have the preeminence in all issues. He never gives up on leading by His word and guarding His people no matter the evil deeds of their rulers, leaders, and people. “Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever. The land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be humbled, but there will be a time in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory. The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine. You will enlarge the nation of Israel, and its people will rejoice. They will rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest and like warriors dividing the plunder. For you will break the yoke of their slavery and lift the heavy burden from their shoulders. You will break the oppressor’s rod, just as you did when you destroyed the army of Midian. The boots of the warrior and the uniforms bloodstained by war will all be burned. They will be fuel for the fire. For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And He will be called; Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. His government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David for all eternity. The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will make this happen.” Isaiah 9:1-7
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December 14, 2023
KING HEROD WAS TROUBLED
Though the Jews knew that the Messiah would come and were in expectation of that day and time; they heard and believed the prophesy, and talked about it all through, but on the day He was born, they were afraid and troubled and doubted the manner and method. Their expectation of His birth was different from what actually happened. They expected the Messiah will be born from the house and family of one of the great kings; from the tribes of the kings, or bigger tribes of Israel, or the family or house of one of the religious leaders, but God did otherwise, He did what He wanted, He choose a lowly woman, a lowly family, and a lowly tribe to do what He wanted and the kings and religious leaders where afraid. But for Mary, Joseph, and you, God says don’t be afraid, He will do what He wants, the ways He wants, and at the times He wants and nothing will stop you.
“Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His Star in the East and have come to worship Him. When Herod the King heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him. And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. So, they said to him, in Bethlehem of Judea, for thus it is written by the prophet. But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you shall come a Ruler who will shepherd My people Israel. Then Herod, when he had secretly called the wise men, determined from them what time the star appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem and said, go and search carefully for the young Child, and when you have found Him, bring back word to me, that I may come and worship Him also.” Matthew 2:1-9
King Herod was troubled and afraid that the Messiah did not come from his family or tribe and his ultimate desire based on his fears was to have him killed, but God knows how to protect His own and how He will protect, deliver, and keep you from all harm. Don’t be troubled by the troubles of the wicked; don’t be troubled by the things that troubles them, you are in the world, but you are not of this world. “Then Herod, when he saw that he was deceived by the wise men, was exceedingly angry; and he sent forth and put to death all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all its districts, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined from the wise men.” Matthew 2:16
Herod succeeded in killing all the young male children but was unable to kill Christ because God kept, protected, and delivered Him. That same God will keep, protect, and deliver you. You are precious in His sight and worth more than everything else to Him. “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” Matthew 10:27-31
Did you know God can choose you for what He wants to do next regardless of what people may do or say against that? He has given you His Spirit for His glory; given you His word for your comfort, and given you assurance for your confidence that He will do what He wants and nothing will stop Him or you when you walk in obedience like Mary and Joseph did in their times and days.
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December 13, 2023
ZERUBBABEL WAS TROUBLED BUT GOD SAID----
When Zerubbabel the priest had trouble in finishing the temple he had started, despite knowing many people, and when the delay was too much for him to continue holding on to the project any longer, comfort came for him in a way he never expected. God sent His angel to give him this message in a vision and with a voice - “Now the angel who talked with me came back and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep. And he said to me, what do you see? So, I said, I am looking, and there is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps. Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left. So, I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, what are these, my lord? Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, do you not know what these are? And I said, no, my lord. So, he answered and said to me, this is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel; not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, you shall become a plain, and he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, the hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands shall also finish it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord, which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.” Zechariah 4:1-10
The trouble may become mountains before, not only hindering but also causing doubts and fears; it may have been there for too long and you have done all you know and all you can to take it out and move on with the things God had placed before to accomplish, but after Zerubbabel failed in all his attempts, God spoke this assuring word to him, - it will not go away by your power or by the strength of your might, but it will go away by my spirit. The hand that laid the foundation shall also finish it, the hand that started the work will not abandon it, the heart that is fixed on God will see God, the one who works in God’s righteousness, trusting God, will see God do what He said concerning him. God will finish what He started in you, His word will also accomplish all that He desired and intended. God will not leave you alone and will leave you on the starting line forever. Zerubbabel was told, do you not know what these are? And I said, no, my lord. So, he answered and said to me, this is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel; not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel, you shall become a plain, and he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of Grace, grace to it. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, the hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands shall also finish it.
What are the things causing you trouble? What are the delays? What are the mountains? What are the issues? What have you done, what have they said? What have they done to you? There is nothing that God cannot turn around for His glory. Remember, you were saved, delivered, and made to be His son and daughter for His glory and that is who and what you are. Because He loves you, He sent His Son; because He loves you, Jesus died on the cross; because He loves you, He saved your soul; because He loves you, He gives you His word with all assurance that none of them will be void regardless of the mountains, fears, and delays that you may have. Because He loves you, He sets you up to be rescued and redeemed, and gives His Spirit to walk and dwell in you, and by His Spirit, you will overcome and be what He said
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December 12, 2023
DON’T BE TROUBLED (6)
With men of all ages, colors, languages, and professions; with all the past and present advances in sciences, technology, social, print, and news media; with all the increase in wealth, increases in opportunities and incentives; injustices, wars, lacks, homelessness, loneliness, shame, nakedness, sicknesses, and all forms of betrayals and unfaithfulness, no man can be worry-free, but not when God is with you, for with God, in God, and through God, it is quite possible to be without worries because He promised to give us peace that is beyond the understanding of men in every situation. “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7
Being worry-free is not by the power of knowledge or learning, not by associating with others or doing things that give you happiness, but it is by the Spirit of God dwelling and working out His ways in you and through you. This was the faithful response of Mary, the mother of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - “For with God nothing will be impossible.” Luke 1:37. It was possible then and it is still possible today and will be possible as long as we remain in Him and Him in us. In all cases, when we think we are losing, then we are gaining; when we think we are weak, then we are strong; when we think they are winning, then they are losing, and when we think they are strong, but they are weak. “And He said to me, my grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore, most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
This is the promise and it is effective right now for you. “Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink even if you have no money. Come, take your choice of wine or milk, it’s all free. Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen to me, and you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the finest food. Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David. See how I used him to display my power among the people. I made him a leader among the nations. You also will command nations you do not know, and peoples unknown to you will come running to obey, because I, the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, have made you glorious. Seek the Lord while you can find Him. Call on Him now while He is near. Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that He may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for He will forgive generously. My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts, says the Lord. And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it. You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands. Where once there were thorns, cypress trees will grow. Where nettles grow, myrtles will sprout up. These events will bring great honor to the Lord’s name; they will be an everlasting sign of his power and love.” Isaiah 55:1-13
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December 11, 2023
DON’T BE TROUBLED (5)
You do not need to worry about how you will defeat and overcome the ongoing troubles, the Almighty Father who lives in you through Christ Jesus who gave you salvation and His Spirit to dwell in you is the one doing the work and He will do it to His glory. “Jesus answered them, My Father has been working until now, and I have been working. Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority, but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. Believe Me that I and in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.” John 5:17; 14:10-11
Our Father, the Almighty God did not fail in the days of Christ Jesus even when Christ was mocked openly, stripped naked and nailed to the Cross, and even when He was in the grave. It is the same for you today, nothing will keep Him from doing the work in, and for you. It might seem God is too far from you, but He is near. It might seem He is not there again for you as before, but He is right there with you right where you are. It might seem you are all alone, struggling, and losing even what you had before now, but He that is in you is also with you and he is doing the work to take away your troubles. I ask that He will open your eyes and quicken your heart to perceive His presence as He did with Moses and Jacob in their days of trouble.
Jesus Christ who saved your soul is able also to save and rescue your flesh from all afflictions and troubles. The God who gave us His Son is able also to give us His peace that passes all the explanations, understanding, and knowledge of men. He who spoke and it came to pass, is also able to fulfill all that had been spoken and written in His record concerning you. Do not be troubled by the everyday afflictions of the wicked, they are all coming to an end because He lives in you, and you will live also to glorify His name.
There are many things troubling believers, but none can take them down because – He who dwells in you is greater, better, and able and has done all the work that ensures not your victory but your subsequent blessings, protection, and blessings. He has been tested and proven to be true and perfect in all things that concern His children. – “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore, they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this, we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” 1 John 4:1-6
Jesus Christ became man so that He might show us what a true man is, how God meant to live and work in man, and how man may find his life and do his work in God. This is how trusted and truthful your God is. At first, it may appear as if waiting for God to work will keep you back from your work. It may indeed–but only to bring the greater blessing, when you have learned the lesson of faith, that counts on His working even when you do not feel it. You may have to do your work in weakness and fear and much trembling. You will know that it is all, that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. As you know yourself better and God better, you will be content that it should ever be–His strength made perfect in our weakness.
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December 07, 2023
DON’T BE TROUBLED (4)
These storms of trouble you are in will not and do not predict what will happen to you next. You are well favored through Christ Jesus to overcome, remain strong, and even do better hereafter because grace is dispersed for your sake. Paul had this to say concerning the troubles in his life and in the ministry that Christ Jesus had entrusted to him – “God has shown me amazing and wonderful things. People should not think more of me because of it. So, I wouldn’t become proud of myself, I was given a problem. This problem caused pain in my body. It is a messenger from Satan to make me suffer. Three times I begged the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, my grace is all you need. My power is strongest when you are weak. So, I am very happy to brag about how weak I am. Then Christ’s power can rest on me. Because of how I suffered for Christ, I’m glad that I am weak. I am glad in hard times. I am glad when people say mean things about me. I am glad when things are difficult. And I am glad when people make me suffer. When I am weak, I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Your position in Christ is not shifting because of the troubles you face; your salvation and all the benefits therein are not going away or will never be taken away from you even by Satan because of all these troubles. Your position and provision in His presence have not been compromised by the multitude of troubles that make you weak and unable. Who you are in Christ and who He is in you makes that determination; the outcome and breakthrough in those situations are in your favor and you will get through them. God is your ever-eternal and ever-present source of help, peace, breakthrough, and rest and nothing else. Not your struggles or the vain help from men, your pains and the afflictions you have experienced will result in the glory that God had promised, you will never go all these in vain. Job, in his days of trouble, said – “Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy, for the hand of God has struck me. Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven’t you chewed me up enough? Oh, that my words could be recorded. Oh, that they could be inscribed on a monument, carved with an iron chisel and filled with lead, engraved forever in the rock. But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and He will stand upon the earth at last. And after my body has decayed, yet in my body I will see God. I will see Him for myself. Yes, I will see Him with my own eyes. I am overwhelmed at the thought. How dare you go on persecuting me, saying, it’s his own fault?” Job 19:21-28
No matter the trouble, God’s mercies can never be exhausted; no matter the insults, loneliness, and shame, His compassion can never be exhausted, no matter the pains and the sorrows of failure, His grace is never exhausted, and no matter the sin and the failures, His love for you can never be exhausted. I see you entering into a new phase of the manifestation of God’s love and mercies. Moses entered into a new phase of God’s love and power after forty years in isolation and pain. He saw the move of God, he saw and experienced His power and restoration, he saw the freedom of God’s people, he saw God doing what He said He would do regardless of the trouble, the people, and the powers of Pharaoh. God took Moses and Israel out of Egypt by His power and defeated great nations, giving His people safety, protection, and free passage because of His faithfulness to His word and covenant with His people. “I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Cannan where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you, and I will be their God.” Genesis 17:6-9
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December 06, 2023
DON’T BE TROUBLED (3)
Be not trouble, God’s mercy is bigger than all the troubles in your life; God's presence changes people’s situations; His word is life and in Him we have hope and assurance. Remember that His goodness and mercy are your companions at all times, God will never condemn you as men will do; all of your past is nothing compared to the future He had promised and will lead you into. No matter what, regardless of the works and desires of the devil against you, God is leading you to the place He had promised, where you will see His glory and glory in His name. “I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, the Lord is my portion; therefore, I will wait for Him. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.” Lamentation 3:19-26
The evil desires of troubles are to keep you from progressing, being what God wants of you and what you want, but they won’t succeed. All that trouble wants is to hinder your thoughts and mind concerning the things you want and the things you desire; hinder your dreams and desires for righteousness, and make you angry with God, yourself, and others around you; it wants you to develop hatred and evil thoughts and envy of others; it wants you to see yourself as a failure, unable, and disabled. It wants you to see others as the problem confronting you; it wants you to develop greed and live the rest of your life in self-bitterness, fear, and uncertainty in ways that you end up in more trouble. It wants you to see yourself as inferior, unwanted, dirty, and someone who will never succeed. This is what the disciples said – “We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.” 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
God wants you to know that no matter what trouble the devil might bring to you, it will not take its hold on you. You will be hard pressed on every side by everything and by everyone, but you will not be crushed or defeated by any; you may not know what to do next, or exhaust all your prayer points without success, but never give up on your faith and trust in God; you will be persecuted, pushed down and pushed out, isolated and rejected because of the trouble, but you are never and will never be forsaken by the Lord and you will never be destroyed. When they think you can never rise again, God will do the miraculous and will raise you again and make you better than before. “Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.” 2 Corinthians 4:1-2
But in all of your troubles, spiritual and physical, trust God for the very best according to His words and promises concerning you despite the odds you know, see, and have experienced that are fashioned against you. Remember, God is always a miracle-working God who delights in the joy of His children. This is what Christ Jesus said and this concerns you and all of your trouble now – “Then Jesus said to them again, most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” John 10:7-11
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December 05, 2023
DON’T BE TROUBLED (2)
Being troubled is not new to Christians but to remain troubled is not acceptable. The God we serve owns the future, knows the future, and has given assurance of that future – “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. Whoever believes in Him is not condemned.” John 3:16-18. That is the future God promised - Whoever believes in Him is not condemned no matter what trouble may seek to confuse, frustrate, condemn, or make you sad and miserable.
When Moses was troubled by the message given to him for Pharaoh concerning all the children of Israel in Egypt and their freedom, God told him, don’t be troubled, He also gave him this assurance – “And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? And God said I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain. Moses said to God, suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, what is His name? Then what shall I tell them? God said to Moses, I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I am has sent me to you. God also said to Moses, say to the Israelites, the Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has sent me to you. This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.” Exodus 3:8-15
The assurance was that no matter what Pharaoh would say and do; no matter what the children of Israel would say to you or resist you, do not be troubled, I have sent you, tell them I AM has sent you. Tell them the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God Jacob has sent you and I will not relent or turn my back on you. With that assurance, Moses saw and did the miraculous in Egypt and all through the wilderness. Don’t be trouble, the God that was with Moses is with you. The God who called Abraham and established him is with you. The God of Isaac, who instructed, blessed, and multiplied Isaac is with you. The God of Jacob, who was with him in all he ever did, is with you. This trouble will not destroy you. This trouble will not consume you. This trouble will not condemn you. The I AM is with you for good. Do not be troubled, stand firm in Him, keep believing, and be faithful, He is taking you through by the power of His might.
“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him, he was only one man, and I blessed him and made him many. The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her deserts like Eden, her wastelands like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and the sound of singing. Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation, instruction will go out from me; my justice will become a light to the nations. My righteousness draws near speedily, my salvation is on the way, and my arm will bring justice to the nations. The islands will look to me and wait in hope for my arm.” Isaiah 51:1-5. There is no issue or situation too small or too big that He will not deliver you from. None.
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December 04, 2023
DON’T BE TROUBLED
You are in Christ and Christ is in you, that is the greatest assurance of victory in you. Christ is in the Father and you in Christ, nothing can beat the power of His presence in your life, absolutely nothing. Many issues and things are troubling you, issues that defile knowledge, and people who have refused to understand your ways, but let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in Jesus Christ, He is never troubled because He sees, knows, and can do all things according to the power that works in and through Him. “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” John 14:18-21
Hannah was troubled by childlessness, frustrated by delays and daily humiliation, but God made a way when she prayed with a vow and Hannah thereafter became a mother to Samuel, the man of God. Zechariah the priest was troubled, but God made a way and his wife Elizabeth became a mother to John the Baptist. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were not troubled by the furnace of Nebuchadnezzar’s fire, they trusted God even to the very last minute, refused to deny their God, refused to compromise and worship the idol of gold, and they were thrown into the burning furnace, yet they were not destroyed by that evil fire, God showed up and thereafter, these three came out unhurt and were promoted in the kingdom.
“These men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans, and other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace. The king’s command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and these three men, firmly tied, fell into the blazing furnace. Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped to his feet in amazement and asked his advisers, weren’t there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire? They replied, certainly, your Majesty. He said, look, I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods. Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out. Come here. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them. Then Nebuchadnezzar said, praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued His servants. They trusted in Him defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.” Daniel 3:21-30
Troubles do exist in this world and will come, but don’t be troubled by the adversities before you and their hindrances, provocation, loneliness, childlessness, and all the failures that accompany trouble, God knows you, dwells in you and he will help you by the power of His might as He did for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego before Nebuchadnezzar. The devil brings all forms and all kinds of trouble to believers, and God delivers them from all of them. God will rescue you.
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December 04, 2023
LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED
There is a mark set by men, set by yourself, and there is a mark set by God for your life. Life is full of set goals and often we miss the marks we set and become angry with others and ourselves; we do miss marks even when we set out with our best efforts and have done all to deserve and achieve the set mark. We will certainly miss the marks of our goals, that of our parents and that of others for our lives and, certainly, we will never miss the mark set by God for us to achieve because He goes before us and with us and does all the work needed while taking us in His arms for our safety.
Paul was a man who desired to meet that set mark for his life and this is what he said he did – “I do not mean that I am already as God wants me to be. I have not yet reached that goal. But I continue trying to reach it and to make it mine. Christ wants me to do that. That is the reason Christ made me his. Brothers, I know that I have not yet reached that goal. But there is one thing I always do: I forget the things that are past. I try as hard as I can to reach the goal that is before me. I keep trying to reach the goal and get the prize. That prize is mine because God called me through Christ to the life above. All of us who have grown spiritually to be mature should think this way, too. And if there are things you do not agree with, God will make them clear to you. But we should continue following the truth we already have. Brothers, all of you should try to follow my example and copy those who live the way we showed you.” Philippians 3:12-17
You will reach the mark set by God no matter what. Failure will not stop you; disappointments and dishonesty will not prevent you; the afflictions of the unrighteous and the failure of your dreams will never prevent God from doing what He had said. Injustice and oppression of that which is good and acceptable before God is nothing to keep you from worrying, at His time, in His plan, for the sake of His Holy Name and the sake of His salvation and Holy Spirit in you, God will do the unthinkable and the unimaginable to take you out from every bondage of fear, depression, loneliness, shame, and darkness of the evil ones against you. No matter what is at hand, what is ahead, and what is behind you, do not let your heart be troubled, God can and He will handle all of them for you. He did that for Moses, for the children of Israel and Pharaoh and all Egyptians saw what God did at the Red Sea and the testimony is alive today. He asked all the Children of Israel to move forward regardless of what they saw, and what and who they knew before that very day. He took away their shame and fears at the same time.
“The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea. During the last watch of the night, the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion. He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, Let’s get away from the Israelites. The Lord is fighting for them against Egypt. Then the Lord said to Moses, stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen. Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak, the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the Lord swept them into the sea. The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived. But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and their left. That day the Lord saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore. And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the Lord displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the Lord and put their trust in him and Moses his servant.” Exodus 14:23-31
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December 01, 2023
THIS MONTH YOU WILL CROSS THE RED SEA
The reward of obedience never disappears with time or with threats and confrontations by the people no matter their location and proven powers. When the set time for reward comes, nothing will stop it and this month, I pray God’s reward will come and you will see them in your life and in all of the things you will ever experience in life. In obedience, Moses went to Egypt; in true obedience, Moses went to meet Pharaoh, not to confront him but to deliver a message from God concerning His people, - to let the oppressed under him go, to free the people of God from bondage and hardship by the Egyptians. In obedience, Moses told Pharaoh God’s faithfulness and mercy if he would allow the Children of Israel to go, but when Pharaoh refused, God showed him His anger. In submission and joy, all the children of Israel left Egypt and suddenly found themselves standing before the Red Sea and the armies of Pharoah pursuing behind to take them back. And it was time for God to act in His own way, showing Pharaoh and the Egyptians His power.
With the Red Sea before and the armies behind, Moses not knowing what to do next lifted up his hands in prayers, and God showed His love, presence, and power in a special way right before their eyes and the miracle of the Red Sea began. “As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert. Moses answered the people, do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Exodus 3:10-14
At the Red Sea, God acted in a miraculous way and everyone saw it. At the Red Sea, the people were confused, but God was not; the people were fearful, but God was not; the people did not know what to do but God knew what He would do; the people wanted to go back, but God did not want them to go back, rather He wanted them to go forward. In all situations, there is no going back for you, in the name of Jesus Christ our redeemer, by the power of His salvation and grace, you will not go back to whatever had enslaved you before. At the Red Sea, Moses prayed and God responded in ways that had never been before in the history of humanity. Your day of grace and elevation is at hand. The patting of the seas of affliction, the enabling by the grace of God, and the celebration of deserved victory because of your salvation and God’s power.
“Then the Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen. Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them, coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so, neither went near the other all night long. Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night, the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.” Exodus 3:15-22. It is not impossible with God, you will go over this Sea this month.
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November 30, 2023
WHEN HANNAH PRAYED, GOD ANSWERED (2)
If you can pray, then you can live the rest of your life in true expectation of God’s goodness and loving mercy regardless of the delays and the frightening things that may come thereafter. God is always caring, merciful, compassionate, and ever faithful. God is always loving to all; caring to all; merciful to those who show mercy and ask for mercy; compassionate to all the oppressed, all those humiliated by the weight of injustice, and those rejected by the system and society; He is always compassionate to the needy, those denied, and those suffering from every form of pain and poor, and He is always faithful to those who trust in Him and live in obedience to His word and commandment. This was the testimony of Hannah, the woman who stood up when God needed a man in His house to do His will without fear of loneliness thereafter.
Hannah did not report Peninnah to the Lord but presented her request; she did not report her humiliation, maltreatment, or harassment, she was focused on her request and her desire to be a mother. “The Lord has filled my heart with joy; how happy I am because of what he has done. I laugh at my enemies; how joyful I am because God has helped me. No one is holy like the Lord; there is none like Him, no protector like our God. Stop your loud boasting; silence your proud words. For the Lord is a God who knows, and He judges all that people do. The bows of strong soldiers are broken, but the weak grow strong. The people who once were well-fed now hire themselves out to get food, but the hungry are hungry no more. The childless wife has borne seven children, but the mother of many is left with none. The Lord kills and restores to life; He sends people to the world of the dead and brings them back again. He makes some people poor and others rich; He humbles some and makes others great. He lifts the poor from the dust and raises the needy from their misery. He makes them companions of princes and puts them in places of honor. The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord; on them, He has built the world. He protects the lives of his faithful people, but the wicked disappear in darkness; a man does not triumph by his own strength. The Lord's enemies will be destroyed; He will thunder against them from heaven. The Lord will judge the whole world; He will give power to His king, He will make His chosen king victorious. Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah, but the boy Samuel stayed in Shiloh and served the Lord under the priest Eli.” 1 Samuel 1:1-11
The request of Hannah brought forth Samuel, the vow of Hannah took Samuel to the house of God, the faithfulness of Hannah made Samuel a priest and the continued prayer of Hannah sustained and distinguished Sameul in a corrupt home and corrupt place establishing Samuel firmly and truly as a servant of the Living God. Never stop praying no matter what. Never give up on the word of God no matter what, let not the humiliations, harassment, loneliness, or any form of isolation compel you to turn back from praying, following God, obeying His word, and keeping your vow.
God will always reward faithfulness and obedience. “Jesus replied, all who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them. Anyone who doesn’t love me will not obey me. And remember, my words are not my own. What I am telling you is from the Father who sent me. I am telling you these things now while I am still with you. I loved you as the Father loved me. Now remain in my love. I have obeyed my Father’s commands, and I remain in His love. In the same way, if you obey my commands, you will remain in my love. I have told you these things so that you can have the same joy I have. I want your joy to be the fullest joy.” John 14:23-25. 15:9-11
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November 29, 2023
WHEN HANNAH PRAYED, GOD ANSWERED (1)
In times of need, God found a willing and humble woman who vowed to be faithful to her words in her request regardless of what she knew in her marriage, what she had experienced, and the insult she had received from even the priest in the house of God at a time she was expressing her hearts request before God. Can you endure such humiliation and shame and still make such a vow not minding the outcome? Can God find such in our days? Can He find you? God is looking for a man or woman who will respect personal vows, obey His word, and faithfully follow all of His commandments. This is a time of God’s need; will you stand up and grant God’s silent request today or are you waiting for a dream or a revelation or prophesy before?
“One time, after they had finished their meal in the house of the Lord at Shiloh, Hannah got up. She was deeply distressed, and she cried bitterly as she prayed to the Lord. Meanwhile, Eli the priest was sitting in his place by the door. Hannah made a solemn promise, Lord Almighty, look at me, your servant. See my trouble and remember me. Don't forget me. If you give me a son, I promise that I will dedicate him to you for his whole life and that he will never have his hair cut. Hannah continued to pray to the Lord for a long time, and Eli watched her lips. She was praying silently; her lips were moving, but she made no sound. So, Eli thought that she was drunk, and he said to her, stop making a drunken show of yourself. Stop your drinking and sober up. No, I'm not drunk, sir, she answered. I haven't been drinking. I am desperate, and I have been praying, pouring out my troubles to the Lord. Don't think I am a worthless woman. I have been praying like this because I'm so miserable. Go in peace, Eli said, and may the God of Israel give you what you have asked Him for. May you always think kindly of me, she replied. Then she went away, ate some food, and was no longer sad.” 1 Samuel 1:9-19
Remember God did not reveal to Hannah in any way or form that He was looking for someone to replace Eli with, but in His mind was that need and Hannah made herself available at the right time and in the right place and with the same quality of person that God was looking for in her request. She prayed voluntarily and vowed voluntarily. She asked for a male child, not any child. She was specific and asked point blank without looking back or thinking otherwise and God accepted her request, answered, and on fulfillment of her vow, God gave her this time without her making any more requests seven more children. Hannah finally said; “The childless wife has borne seven children, 1 Samuel 2:5
Do you know God is in need of men and women in our days? He is seeking obedient, humble, faithful, and honest people who will truly humble themselves in times of failure and in times of success to take these gospel nations with His absolute backing. “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” Matthew 28:18-20
He found one in Hannah at a time of need to replace Eli and his corrupt sons. He found a woman who was sincere and willing to give up the one she requested even though she would not get another. The only woman in the bible who requested just one with a vow to surrender that same to the services of God. She did not ask for two and vowed to surrender one.
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November 28, 2023
WHEN SOLOMON PRAYED, GOD ANSWERED (2)
“Solomon loved the Lord and followed all the decrees of his father, David, except that Solomon, too, offered sacrifices and burned incense at the local places of worship. The most important of these places of worship was at Gibeon, so, the king went there and sacrificed 1,000 burnt offerings. That night the Lord appeared to him in a dream, and said, what do you want? Ask, and I will give it to you. Solomon replied you showed great and faithful love to your servant my father, David, because he was honest and true and faithful to you. And you have continued to show this great and faithful love to him today by giving him a son to sit on his throne. Now, O Lord my God, you have made me king instead of my father, David, but I am like a little child who doesn’t know his way around. And here I am in the midst of your own chosen people, a nation so great and numerous they cannot be counted. Give me an understanding heart so that I can govern your people well and know the difference between right and wrong. For who by himself is able to govern this great people of yours? The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for wisdom. So, God replied, because you have asked for wisdom in governing my people with justice and have not asked for a long life or wealth or the death of your enemies, I will give you what you asked for. I will give you a wise and understanding heart such as no one else has had or ever will have. And I will also give you what you did not ask for, riches and fame. No other king in all the world will be compared to you for the rest of your life. And if you follow me and obey my decrees and my commands as your father, David, did, I will give you a long life. Then Solomon woke up and realized it had been a dream.” 1 Kings 3:3-15. Solomon's prayer was as a sign of love to God and God’s people, not hate or revenge for what was done to him. Is your prayer a result of God’s love or hatred because of what you see, know, or feel?
Regardless of the pains and the sorrows in our hearts and thoughts, taking our waves of anger for anyone or situation before God is never a good idea. Always asking for revenge is never a good idea and seeking punishment for the offender is not the best option or path to follow when the Almighty God is involved because He is always compassionate, loving, and kind to all, never wanting any to perish but for all to come to repentance and accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. “But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends, a day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day. The Lord isn’t really being slow about His promise, as some people think. No, He is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed but wants everyone to repent.” 2 Peter 3:8-9
The quality of our prayers is important because it exposes and expresses the feelings of our hearts and the actions we will take if God gives us the opportunity. Remember, we can never know the situation or the issue at hand or the people more than God regardless of the insight we may have by knowledge or wisdom. This is what God told Solomon, the son of David about the quality of our prayers. “Because your greatest desire is to help your people, and you did not ask for wealth, riches, fame, or even the death of your enemies or a long life, but rather you asked for wisdom and knowledge to properly govern my people, I will certainly give you the wisdom and knowledge you requested. But I will also give you wealth, riches, and fame such as no other king has had before you or will ever have in the future.” 2 Chronicles 1:11-12
After a sacrifice that exceeded all previous sacrifices of everyone else in the history of humanity, God appeared to Solomon with a blank opportunity to ask for anything and with a promise that He would answer and grant the request. I pray you will come to this moment in your life that God will give an open invitation and opportunity to ask for anything.
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November 27, 2023
WHEN SOLOMON PRAYED, GOD ANSWERED (1)
God knows what we need and what we want and the best He wants to give to us is to answer the prayers of our needs because we believe in Jesus Christ and in Him and that His answer will bring us greater joy and gladness before His presence and before men. Answered prayer changes people and transforms moods and lives. It was answered prayer that confirmed Solomon as king and transformed Jabez’s life and nothing else. “I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works because I am going to be with the Father. You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it so that the Son can bring glory to the Father. Yes, ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.” John 14:12-14
It is far better to pray for help from God than to only wait for help from people. Prayer is only a matter of when and not if for every human being. Everyone living and had ever lived, the strong, the weak, the poor, the rich, those who know God and those who do not, those who accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and those who refuse or reject Him had one time in their lives prayed and are still involved in some kind of prayer in times of joyful celebration, breakthrough, sadness, promotion, losses, gains, and successes, but it is better to know who you are praying to, what you are praying for, and be absolutely sincere and truthful when you pray. Because no one can deceive the living God with words, thoughts, or actions. He knows everyone’s thoughts and the hearts of all men; He knows the present, the future, and the actions in between everyone's ways. Besides knowing all, He sees and knows our feelings long before we know ourselves and has given us His word as a continuous guide in everything we will ever or should ever do. Praying without following His word is a waste and living in continuous rebellion to His word is an offense when we ask for His love or praise or worship of His Holiness.
Effective prayer does not depend on its frequency, loudness, or duration; it depends on faithful obedience in following the principles of His word and His will for us on the issue we are praying for. God delights to hear us, He delights in our obedience and faith, He delights in our being submissive to His word and will, and delights in our blessings and success according to His plans. “For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you, says the Lord. I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.” Jeremiah 29:11-14
Always include these qualities in your prayers, humility, forgiveness, faith and faithfulness, love, obedience, tolerance, and patience. In one of Solomon's prayer times, the Lord appeared to him and said, I have heard your prayer and have chosen this Temple as the place for making sacrifices. At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land. My eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place. For I have chosen this Temple and set it apart to be holy, a place where my name will be honored forever. I will always watch over it, for it is dear to my heart. As for you, if you faithfully follow me as David your father did, obeying all my commands, decrees, and regulations, then I will establish the throne of your dynasty. For I made this covenant with your father, David, when I said, one of your descendants will always rule over Israel.” 2 Chronicles 7:12-18
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November 24, 2023
DO SOMETHING NEW IN ME DEAR LORD (5)
Ask me for something says the Lord. Ask for the impossible, ask for the hopeless situations to be changed, ask for the miracles you expect, the ones you have heard and seen in others, those you have not seen and are yet to be told, the ones you can imagine, and those you cannot imagine. In all of your asking, ask for God’s presence, His hands, His word, and His voice. Regardless of what you have heard, His word that you believed, ask for the things promised and the things you have not been promised, ask for His grace, and glory, and ask Him to go with you. That was what Moses did. “One day Moses said to the Lord, you have been telling me, take these people up to the Promised Land. But you haven’t told me whom you will send with me. You have told me, I know you by name, and I look favorably on you. If it is true that you look favorably on me, let me know your ways so I may understand you more fully and continue to enjoy your favor. And remember that this nation is your very own people. The Lord replied, I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest, everything will be fine for you. Then Moses said, if you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place. How will anyone know that you look favorably on me, on me, and on your people if you don’t go with us? For your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people on the earth. The Lord replied to Moses, I will indeed do what you have asked, for I look favorably on you, and I know you by name. Moses responded, then show me your glorious presence. The Lord replied, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will call out my name, Yahweh, before you. For I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.” Exodus 33:12-19
There is nothing impossible that God cannot do and will not do for the people He saved, called, kept, and promised to protect. Regardless of the place the enemy had kept you, God can take you out and fulfill His promise. He kept, protected, and led all the children of Israel out from Egypt by His power according to His word and covenant to Abraham. He did the same to Jeremiah when he was kept in the palace as a prisoner.
When Jeremiah was in prison, God told him to forget the prison and the palace, God told him to ask for something new. “While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the Lord gave him this second message. This is what the Lord says, the Lord who made the earth, who formed and established it, whose name is the Lord. Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says, you have torn down the houses of this city and even the king’s palace to get materials to strengthen the walls against the siege ramps and swords of the enemy. You expect to fight the Babylonians, but the men of this city are already as good as dead, for I have determined to destroy them in my terrible anger. I have abandoned them because of all their wickedness. Nevertheless, the time will come when I will heal Jerusalem’s wounds and give it prosperity and true peace. I will restore the fortunes of Judah and Israel and rebuild their towns. I will cleanse them of their sins against me and forgive all their sins of rebellion. Then this city will bring me joy, glory, and honor before all the nations of the earth. The people of the world will see all the good I do for my people, and they will tremble with awe at the peace and prosperity I provide for them. This is what the Lord says, you have said, this is a desolate land where people and animals have all disappeared. Yet in the empty streets of Jerusalem and Judah’s other towns, there will be heard once more, the sounds of joy and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will be heard again, along with the joyous songs of people bringing thanksgiving offerings to the Lord. They will sing and GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD” Jeremiah 33:1-10
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November 23, 2023
DO SOMETHING NEW IN ME DEAR LORD (4)
No matter what, who, and where, God is not giving up His covenanted word and the people He had chosen for anything else. He is not giving up on you and is never tired of patiently waiting and watching out for you. “I have made Israel for myself, and they will someday honor me before the whole world. But, dear family of Jacob, you refuse to ask for my help. You have grown tired of me, O Israel. Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. When He saw the crowds, He had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. He said to His disciples, the harvest is great, but the workers are few. So, pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest; ask Him to send more workers into His fields.” Isaiah 43:21-22, Matthew 7:7-8, 9:36-38.
God is never tired of you asking for things, for marriage, for spouse, children, finance, peace, job, companion, kingdoms, and people. Your day of harvest is nearer than you think when you ask God according to His plans for your life because He is ready to do what He had said and planned if we don’t give up asking due to past delays, past, failures, and frustrations of efforts and attempts to get past life challenges. Be courageous to ask, be faithful in asking, be patient at the altar of prayers, and be faithful in keeping your promises and vows. Hannah never hesitated in fulfilling her vow after patiently asking and enduring humiliation at the hands of Eli and God gave her seven children more thereafter. Though frustrated at the delay and humiliated at home by her rival, Hannah never gave up her desire and was never tired of asking God for a son in her demands. Others may give up due to delays, frustrations, sadness about what people think and say to them, their age, and location, but you should never be like them and should never give up on your God.
Jabez's parents gave up because of previous disappointments but when Jabez refused to follow his parents’ steps and frustration and decided to that up courage and boldness before God and ask for the impossible and unthinkable for his life, God answered him, and God granted him all that he was able to request on that day. “There was a man named Jabez who was more honorable than any of his brothers. His mother named him Jabez because his birth had been so painful. He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, Oh, that you would bless me and expand my territory. Please be with me in all that I do, and keep me from all trouble and pain, and God granted him his request.” 1 Chronicles 4:9-10. Your day of answering and receiving from God is here.
“For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God’s children. And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ, we are heirs of God’s glory. But if we are to share His glory, we must also share his suffering. Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later. For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay. For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us. We were given this hope when we were saved. If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it. But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.” Romans 8:16-25
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November 22, 2023
DO SOMETHING NEW IN ME, DEAR LORD (3)
God is always doing new and awesome things even in the worst situations and places, and that is why He asks us to learn to forget the old, expect the new, and continue in that expectation all of our Christian lives no matter what we see, know, hear, and experience. Do not be fooled by the things people say and do in believing God cannot do with new things. When there was nothing anywhere, out of nothing, God made all things, all human beings, all things seen and those not seen even the entire universe by the power of His word and He is always ready to do new things again and will do them if we will have the tenacity to dare to ask.
There had been before and there are still now many great people on earth, but none in all that they were and are can be compared to God in all things regardless of their numerous successes and achievements in all human learning and developments. God alone gives men the power and the grace and the ability to be whatever they have done and will do and He can take that power and grace and ability away at any time.
“To whom can you compare God? What image can you find to resemble Him? Can He be compared to an idol formed in a mold, overlaid with gold, and decorated with silver chains? Or if people are too poor for that, they might at least choose wood that won’t decay and a skilled craftsman to carve an image that won’t fall down. Haven’t you heard? Don’t you understand? Are you deaf to the words of God, the words He gave before the world began? Are you so ignorant? God sits above the circle of the earth. The people below seem like grasshoppers to Him. He spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes His tent from them. He judges the great people of the world and brings them all to nothing. They hardly get started, barely taking root, when He blows on them and they wither. The wind carries them off like chaff. To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal? Asks the Holy One. Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of His great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing. O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles? O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights? Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:18-31
Hereafter, there will be something new and worthy of praise and thanksgiving to our God. You may be ashamed or afraid to ask men for help or favor, but you should never be afraid to ask God anything ever, everything, and even imaginary things in your heart. Nothing is too small for the ordinary mind to think or conceive. Remember, whatever they say, think, or do, you are and will forever remain a child of the Almighty and living God, period. “I am the Lord, who opened a way through the waters, making a dry path through the sea. I called forth the mighty army of Egypt with all its chariots and horses. I drew them beneath the waves, and they drowned, their lives snuffed out like a smoldering candlewick. But forget all that, it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun. Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. The wild animals in the fields will thank me, the jackals and owls, too, for giving them water in the desert. Yes, I will make rivers in the dry wasteland so my chosen people can be refreshed.” Isaiah 43:16-20
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November 21, 2023
DO SOMETHING NEW IN ME, DEAR LORD (2)
You may be tired of yourself, your failures, your children, your spouses, your job, your government, your nation, and your location, but God is never tired of you and everything that concerns you, and neither is He tired of the things Satan is doing against you. He was not tired of the plans of Pharoah against the children of Israel. He was never tired of the plots of Nebuchadnezzar against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He was never tired of the plans of Heman against Mordecai and the Jews; He was never tired of the evil plans against the Apostles and he is never tired of you regardless of your feelings and what people are saying and doing to you. You are absolutely in His able hands for good. “When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.” Isaiah 43:2
Even with the presence of Moses and all the miracles He did in Egypt and at the Red Sea, God did not promise the children of Israel any smooth ride to the Promised Land but promised they would arrive safely and even went ahead to lead through the wilderness in a pillar of fire and cloud for forty years, fighting for and defending them and delivery them and providing for them. There is every assurance that God will take you to the place He had promised regardless of what the devil is doing against you. “When Pharaoh finally let the people go, God did not lead them along the main road that runs through Philistine territory, even though that was the shortest route to the Promised Land. God said, that if the people are faced with a battle, they might change their minds and return to Egypt. So, God led them in a roundabout way through the wilderness toward the Red Sea. Thus, the Israelites left Egypt like an army ready for battle. The Israelites left Succoth and camped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness. The Lord went ahead of them. He guided them during the day with a pillar of cloud, and He provided light at night with a pillar of fire, this allowed them to travel by day or by night. And the Lord did not remove the pillar of cloud or pillar of fire from its place in front of the people.” Exodus 13:17-18, 20-22
God did not abandon the children of Israel in the wilderness because of adversities and the power of the kings who came up to fight with the intent of defeating and stopping them from advancing further to the place God had promised. He was always doing something new, unthinkable, and beyond the imagination of the people. Remember, no weapon form against them did prosper and none you will prosper, not that they will not make attempts, but your safety is certain according to God’s words and promises. Their actions will not prosper in the things they send them to do in and against your life. “Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord, who has compassion on you. Afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will rebuild you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with lapis lazuli. I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones. All your children will be taught by the Lord, and great will be their peace. In righteousness, you will be established. Tyranny will be far from you; you will have nothing to fear. Terror will be far removed; it will not come near you. If anyone does attack you, it will not be my doing; whoever attacks you will surrender to you. See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the destroyer to wreak havoc; no weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me.” Isaiah 54:10-17
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November 20, 2023
DO SOMETHING NEW IN ME DEAR LORD (1)
Confusion, uncertainties, and physical and spiritual weaknesses are all real-life experiences, but none of them can, should, and will ever replace the Almighty God in your life. None of your pains or sorrows can, or will ever prevent Him from doing something new for, in, and through you. That is the divinely given power of Christianity in believing, trusting, and remaining faithful to Jesus Christ, to His words, and to His promises. “Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall into exhaustion, but those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary.” Isaiah 40:28, 30-31.
Being tired and exhausted is never a sin, but forgetting your God in your down moments in life is the greatest evil Satan wants you to do for being tired and exhausted by reason of what you see in your own life and those around you; in what you have experienced over the past years, and what you are currently experiencing and hearing. In whatever thing you are seeing in your own life, family, finances, marriage, children, profession, and around you today, know that God wants you to know that He is never tired of you and will never set you up for failure.
God has the absolute power to do what He wants. He is the God who orders and ordains all things according to His own plan, His own desire, and His own destined destiny for your life. Satan and all the wicked in the world can never add or take anything out from His word and promises for your life, But they will try, and they will fail because God had already given you victory before the challenges come through the victory of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross at Calvary. In one of his down moments, God confidently declared to Jeremiah, “I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. You will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.” Jeremiah 29:11-14
God is never tired of doing good no matter the people, the place, and the individual even when they refuse to acknowledge Him as God and accept Jesus Christ as Lord. He is never tired of helping you, taking you out and over every cleft of darkness, failures, near-failures, intended or unintended mistakes, imaginary and non-imaginary wickedness of men, and the pains of the present-day evil pressures of compromise and unwanted disappointments. He is never tired of saving you from all calamities, forgiving all of your past, present, and future sins, giving you several life chances that you never expected or saw coming; upholding you in times of rejection and isolation; comforting you in times of personal sorrows and loneliness; talking to you in your isolation, talking with you in your confusion, guiding you when you lost direction, guarding you out when you find yourself in an uncomfortable place, and He is never tired even when you are in the presence of evil men and the devil. He is never tired of fighting your battle even in places where you do not know the devil is fighting you. He is never tired of your calling for help, and He is never tired of calling you His child and blessing you when you remain faithful to Him. “But now, O Jacob, listen to the Lord who created you. O Israel, the one who formed you says, do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1
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November 17, 2023
THE SEASONS AND DAYS FOR SOMETHING NEW (5)
Listen, when God says it, He will do and He will keep you to see and experience what He has said to you. “Now this is what the Lord says. He created you, people of Jacob. He formed you, people of Israel. He says, don’t be afraid, because I have saved you. I have called you by name, and you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. When you cross rivers, you will not drown. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned. The flames will not hurt you. This is because I, the Lord, am your God. I, the Holy One of Israel, am your Savior. I gave Egypt to pay for you. I gave Cush and Seba to make you mine. You are precious to me. I give you honor, and I love you. So, I will give other people in your place. I will give other nations to save your life. So, don’t be afraid. I am with you. I will gather your children from the east. I will gather you from the west. I will tell the north, give my people to me. I will tell the South, don’t keep my people in prison. Bring my sons from far away. Bring my daughters from faraway places. Bring to me all the people who are mine. I made them for my glory. I formed them; I made them.” Isaiah 43:1-7
You may doubt your strength, knowledge, and ability in many ways to do many things, but never doubt what God can do even in your mistakes and foolishness. That is why Christians are called believers and followers and nothing else. From time past and in the history of all humanity, the strength of the most powerful, the knowledge of the most learned, the wisdom of the wisest, and the strategies of the greatest strategist have sometimes failed to accomplish much or sustain for a long period of time what they had made, but the word of God had never and will never in any way or by any means fail in its purpose and in sustaining what it had created regardless of the twisting of the Scriptures by Satan and men with evil intent to satisfy their self-ego and desired foolishness of pride.
Every word of God is a guaranteed promise; all have a guaranteed purpose; a targeted audience, and a definite scheduled time to be fully active and effective. The word of God is not waiting for things to be perfect before accomplishing what it was sent to accomplish, it makes all things to be exactly as God intends for His glory and praise. There is no promise too hard for God to keep. There are over thirty thousand promises in the Bible, and God will keep and fulfill every one of them by His power. If God made the promise, be assured that He cannot lie, He will definitely do them. There is no promise too hard for God to keep and no place too dark that He cannot shine His light for the redemption of His children.
Christ Jesus told His disciples and the people standing waiting and watching regardless of their thoughts, wisdom, and knowledge, that even Carmel, as large as they are can pass through the eyes of a needle when God is on the move doing new things for His people. – “Jesus looked at them and said, “For men this is impossible. But for God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:26
He also told Satan point blank – “It is written in the Scriptures; a person does not live only by eating bread. But a person lives by everything the Lord says.” Matthew 4:4
David said and it is recorded in his prayers before God and he lived to see and experience it - “Teach me, Lord, what you want me to do, and lead me along a safe path, because I have many enemies. Don't abandon me to my enemies, who attack me with lies and threats. I know that I will live to see the Lord's goodness in this present life. Trust in the Lord. Have faith, do not despair. Trust in the Lord.” Psalm 27:11-14
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November 16, 2023
THE SEASONS AND DAYS FOR SOMETHING NEW (4)
“God looked at everything He had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.” Genesis 1:31. He gave an excellent pass mark to everything He made. As God was in the beginning, so is He now, and so will He ever remain to be God, faithful to His word, the world, and mostly to His children. He created all things new and at their very best form and He can make all things new again or renew that which had been damaged by all the adversities of the wicked in the world and in our lives. Is anything too hard for Him to do? This is the answer that Jeremiah gave to that question – “Oh, Lord God, you made the skies and the earth. You made them with your very great power. There is nothing too wonderful for you to do. Lord, you show love and kindness to thousands of people. But you also bring punishment to children for their father’s sins. Great and powerful God, your name is the Lord of heaven’s armies. You plan and do great things, Lord. You see everything that people do. You reward people for the way they live and for what they do. Lord, you did miracles and wonderful things in the land of Egypt. You have kept on doing them even until today. You did miracles in Israel and among the other nations. You have become well known. Lord, you used signs and miracles and brought your people, the Israelites, out of Egypt. You used your great power and strength to do those things. You brought great terror on everyone.” Jeremiah 32:17-21
God has a testimony in all creation, in Noah, in Abraham and Sarah, in Lot, in Joseph, Moses, and in the presence of all Egyptians. He has a testimony in Moses’ life and leadership through the wilderness and in Joshua. He has a testimony in Hannah, Samuel, and Hagar, He wants to have a testimony in you, with you, and through even you in your present situation and location according to His word, plans, and promises regardless of what the world is saying and doing in their own strength and knowledge. When we look at the world today with all its trials, troubles, tribulations, misleading, injustices, fear, and heartaches, we ask, where is God in all these? Why does He not do something? Is it that He is not able? Or is the situation too large or too difficult or too insignificant for Him?
Be convinced in your heart, soul, and thoughts, and keep it in your knowledge that there is absolutely nothing too small or insignificant that God does not see and cannot do to bring out His glory for the world to see and know that He is the one doing them. He allowed the children of Israel into Egypt because He had a plan in place for them and four hundred and thirty years in that place did not change His mind, neither was the strength of Pharoah and his weapons. He did what He said because that was what He told Abraham. “Then the Lord said to Abram, you can be sure that your descendants will be strangers and travel in a land they don’t own. The people there will make them slaves, and they will do cruel things to them for 400 years. But I will punish the nation where they are slaves. Then your descendants will leave that land, taking great wealth with them.” Genesis 15:13-14
Even our greatest fears, mistakes, misunderstandings, past failures, and present uncertainties cannot stop God from doing new things He had planned for us, not even the agitations and cruel attitudes of the wicked towards God’s word and against us. Mary confessed after knowing her doubts, “But Mary was very confused by what the angel said. Mary wondered, what does this mean? The angel said to her, don’t be afraid, Mary, because God is pleased with you. Listen, you will become pregnant. You will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. Mary said to the angel, how will this happen? I am a virgin. Now listen, Elizabeth, your relative is very old but she is also pregnant with a son. Everyone thought she could not have a baby, but she had been pregnant for six months. God can do everything.” Luke 1:29-31, 34, 36-37
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November 15, 2023
THE SEASONS AND DAYS FOR SOMETHING NEW (3)
Freedom in Christ is freedom indeed, fully paid for, and made available for His children to obtain. “In Christ, we are set free by the blood of His death. And so, we have forgiveness of sins because of God’s rich grace. God gave us that grace fully and freely. God, with full wisdom and understanding, let us know His secret purpose. This was what God wanted, and He planned to do it through Christ. His goal was to carry out His plan when the right time came. He planned that all things in heaven and on earth would be joined together with Christ as the head. In Christ, we were chosen to be God’s people. God had already chosen us to be His people because that is what He wanted. And God is the One who makes everything agree with what He decides and wants.” Ephesians 1:7-11. In all things, regardless of the location and situation, their strength, wisdom, and knowledge, God can never be defeated, distracted, or disappointed even when we are failures before their eyes. What He plans to do, that He will accomplish; what He starts, that He will finish because He never gives up.
The new thing He will do in you will be bigger than your thoughts and fears; better than your expectations and worries, and it will be a foundation that will bring forth His praise in you and through you. It will not be by your own best imaginations, but by your firmed faith in Christ Jesus, His word, His promises, and His covenant that never changes. His word will stand, His promises will be established, and what He intends will definitely be done. He once made a road through the sea without human assistance. He once led people even with children, the elderly, the fearful, and all the women through rough waters, through a path that no one saw coming for all of His people to freely walk through, and no one was left behind, no one was drowned, and no one suffered the loss of anything. He once and will again defeat the chariots and horses used against you. He defeated the mighty armies of nations and commanded them to never rise again. He once destroyed the flame put out against three of His children rendering them ineffective in destroying them. The Lord says, forget what happened before. Look out for something new; do not think about the past. He is going to do something new. He will make a road even in the desert for you to walk through. He will make rivers dry for your sake and for the sake of His name.
“Now this is what the Lord says. He created you, people of Jacob. He formed you, people of Israel. He says, don’t be afraid, because I have saved you. I have called you by name, and you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you. When you cross rivers, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. The flames will not hurt you. This is because I, the Lord, am your God. I, the Holy One of Israel, am your Savior. The Lord says, your thoughts are not like my thoughts. Your ways are not like my ways. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways. And my thoughts are higher than your thoughts. Rain and snow fall from the sky. They don’t return without watering the ground. They cause the plants to sprout and grow. And the plants make seeds for the farmer. And from these seeds, people have bread to eat. The words I say do the same thing. They will not return to me empty. They make the things happen that I want to happen. They succeed in doing what I send them to do. So, you will go out with joy. You will be led out in peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song before you. All the trees in the fields will clap their hands.” Isaiah 43:1-3; Isaiah 55:8-12
After examining all that was before him, all that he had seen, known, learned, and heard, Paul concluded that even with unfaithful people in unfaithful nations, God’s word will always be true and upheld. “It is true that some Jews were not faithful to God. But will that stop God from doing what He promised? No, God will continue to be true even when every person is false. As the Scriptures say; So, your words may be shown to be right. You are fair when you judge me. Romans 3:3-4. No matter the people, the locations, and the agitation, God will always be faithful to all His word.
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November 14, 2023
THE SEASONS AND DAYS FOR SOMETHING NEW (2)
This is the question; would you rather obey and follow or are you waiting to pay for the sacrifice that will not help you? “I have always been God. No one can save people from my power. When I do something, no one can change it. This is what the Lord says. He is the Holy One of Israel who saves you. He says I will send armies to Babylon for you. All the Babylonians will be captured. They will be taken away in their ships they are proud of. I am the Lord, your Holy One. I made Israel. I am your king. This is what the Lord says. He is the one who made a road through the sea. Even through rough waters, He made a path for his people. He is the one who defeated the chariots and horses. He defeated the mighty armies. They fell together, and they will never rise again. They were destroyed as a flame is put out. The Lord says, forget what happened before. Do not think about the past. Look at the new thing I am going to do. It is already happening. Don’t you see it? I will make a road in the desert. I will make rivers in the dry land. Even the wild animals will be thankful to me. The wild dogs and owls will honor me. They will honor me when I put water in the desert. They will honor me when I make rivers in the dry land. I will do this to give water to my people, the ones I chose. These are the people I made. and they will sing songs to praise me.” Isaiah 43:13-21
You have seen your failures and weaknesses, loneliness and shame; seen and know all your inabilities, mistakes, and inadequacies, but in all that you have seen and known concerning yourself and the thoughts of your future, God is seeing something different and better in you, and it is very excellent in His sight concerning you. That is what He wants you to know from now henceforth and to accept. Despite what David knew concerning his life and his past, the wars and the neglect and the fears and mistakes, he had this to say to God – “Lord, you have examined me. You know all about me. You know when I sit down and when I get up. You know my thoughts before I think them. You know where I go and where I lie down. You know well everything I do. Lord, even before I say a word, you already know what I am going to say. You are all around me in front and in back. You have put your hand on me. Your knowledge is amazing to me. It is more than I can understand. Where can I go to get away from your Spirit? Where can I run from you? If I go up to the skies, you are there. If I lie down where the dead are, you are there. If I rise with the sun in the east and settle in the west beyond the sea, even there you would guide me. With your right hand, you would hold me. I could say, the darkness will hide me. The light around me will turn into night. But even the darkness is not dark to you. The night is as light as the day. Darkness and light are the same to you. You made my whole being. You formed me in my mother’s body. I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well. You saw my bones being formed as I took shape in my mother’s body. When I was put together there, you saw my body as it was formed. All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.” Psalm 139:1-16
God will do something new and miraculous for you, even in the midst of all the difficulties and uncertain circumstances. God is always at work in our lives. He is able to do more than we can ever ask, see, know, or even imagine regardless of the past and the present, and the obstacles that had been preventing us before and are standing before us now. God is ready to do something new, to do the things He said and promised, and what was covenanted with Jesus Christ on our behalf, and definitely, there will be no condemnation thereafter, because whoever believes in Him will not be condemned.
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November 13, 2023
THE SEASONS AND DAYS FOR SOMETHING NEW (1)
“Jesus said, anyone who begins to plow a field but keeps looking back is of no use in the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:61. God had placed something big and bigger than your past and your present before you and He is ready to take you there. He is moving to extinguish the folly of men in your life and bring you to the wisdom of the just created by Him and for Him. Are you ready for the move and to be moved? Are you ready for a rapid shift of things for His glory? It may be painful at first but it will end well and will bring forth His glory and praise in you, for you, and through you. You are going to be moved with Godspeed and acceleration to a new season of things and events. All things become new regardless of what has passed and what is now, says Our God and Father, don’t look behind for past things, it is time for new things in you, and there will be no need for old memories. Don’t look back to what was before now, but step into the new season for therein lies your provision according to His word, promises. and covenant with you.
Put your hand on the plow and thrust your faith forward like a plowshare into the fallow ground with faith in Him alone and not your strength or the words of men, don’t rely on the promises of men or their wealth and capabilities. There is acreage in your heart that has been neglected for many seasons and years and God is now breaking down the fences and calling you to do some plowing and planting. The foolish man says in his heart says there is a lion in the streets and he cannot go out, but says unto you, shake yourself out of lethargy and be conscious of what He will do hereafter, do not be problem-conscious, the solution had been beyond your knowledge and strength, but my power will bring out the solution. Put your attention on Me, for you are where your attention takes you. Your hope is anchored behind the veil where no account is taken of the down by the instability of nations. God is promoting you amid the chaos around you to a place of freshness and bounty, for that is the portion of all those He called and saved.
The reason He created you is never forgotten; the reason He loved you is never forgotten, and the purpose He made you in His image and likeness, not in the image or likeness of your parents, ancestors, or any other being is ever forgotten; the purpose He gave you salvation through Christ Jesus and not through your labor is ever before Him and He will fulfill His part no matter what may be before you. There are events and people we will deliberately forget for reasons we know and accept as correct, but no matter the issue, no matter the events, no matter the people, and no matter the sin or situation, God says He will never forget what He said and what He had promised to do in your life.
No matter what, you are never lost from His sight, you may feel you are lost from His presence, but that is the devil's lies. All of you, all about you, all in you, and all by you are in the fullness of His sight regardless of your feelings and the season. God is aware of everything that you do and you are accountable to Him always in all things. “God’s word is alive and working. It is sharper than a sword sharpened on both sides. It cuts all the way into us, where the soul and the spirit are joined. It cuts to the center of our joints and our bones. And God’s word judges the thoughts and feelings in our hearts. Nothing in all the world can be hidden from God. Everything is clear and lies open before Him. And to Him, we must explain the way we have lived. We have a great high priest who has gone into heaven. He is Jesus the Son of God. So let us hold on to the faith we have. Our high priest is able to understand our weaknesses. He was tempted in every way that we are, but He did not sin. Let us, then, feel free to come before God’s throne. Here there is grace, and we can receive mercy and grace to help us when we need it.” Hebrews 4:12-16
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November 10, 2023
WHEN GOD REMEMBERED ISRAEL (7)
There will always be reasons to praise God because He remembers every word He has spoken, every promise He has made, and every covenant he has established, He will establish you in His word, in His promises, and in His covenant. He will defend Israel by His covenant; He will guide Israel by His presence; He will deliver Israel by His power and He will uphold Israel because He is always faithful to His word and to His people no matter how long the enemy had been against them. “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me, and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if their uncircumcised hearts are humbled, and they accept their guilt then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land. The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them; they will accept their guilt, because they despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes. Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the Lord their God. But for their sake, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God, I am the Lord.” Leviticus 26:40-45
When God remembered Israel, He told Moses plainly, - I HAVE COME DOWN TO DELIVER them. “Then He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So, I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? And God said I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you; When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain. Moses said to God, suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, what is his name? Then what shall I tell them? God said to Moses, I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites, I am has sent me to you. God also said to Moses, say to the Israelites, the Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has sent me to you. This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, the Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob appeared to me and said; I have watched over you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt. And I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.” Exodus 3:6-16
God sent Moses and gave him His word and His name, two things that will never change and are strong enough to produce more result that outsmarts weapons and everything else.
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November 09, 2023
WHEN GOD REMEMBERED ISRAEL (6)
“But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—their unfaithfulness and their hostility toward me, which made me hostile toward them so that I sent them into the land of their enemies—then when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they pay for their sin, I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them. They will pay for their sins because they rejected my laws and abhorred my decrees. Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely, breaking my covenant with them. I am the Lord their God. But for their sake, I will remember the covenant with their ancestors whom I brought out of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God. I am the Lord. These are the decrees, the laws, and the regulations that the Lord established at Mount Sinai between Himself and the Israelites through Moses.” Leviticus 26:40-46
You are God’s covenant waiting to be fulfilled and nothing will stop you. You will definitely be fulfilled by His power because He said so, hold on to the faith you have in His word and in Christ Jesus your savior. Your pain is temporal, current neglect and loneliness are temporal, and all of your shame is also temporal. Nothing, not even the ammunition, knowledge, and presence of the magicians and counselors of Egypt were able to stop God’s covenant with Abraham, and all the children of Israel despite being tortured in captivity for four hundred and thirty years, “I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.” Genesis 17:6-7. God’s covenant for you existed long before your current troubles. You will not die until you see and enjoy the impart and fulness of that godly covenant.
God’s covenant is everlasting, it never changes, and is never ineffective regardless of the activities of men, their knowledge, their acceptance, or rejection. “I will maintain my love to him forever, and my covenant with him will never fail. I will establish his line forever, his throne as long as the heavens endure.” Isaiah 89:28-29. “But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the Lord your God and obey him. For the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your ancestors, which he confirmed to them by oath. Ask now about the former days, long before your time, from the day God created human beings on the earth; ask from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything so great as this ever happened, or has anything like it ever been heard of? Have any other people heard the voice of God speaking out of fire, as you have, and lived? Has any god ever tried to take for himself one nation out of another nation, by testing, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, or by great and awesome deeds, like all the things the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? You were shown these things so that you might know that the Lord is God; besides Him, there is no other.” Deuteronomy 4:29-35
Hold on to your peace in Christ Jesus, and hold on to your faith in Christ, God has not changed, His covenant has not changed, His promises are still the same, and He will help you according to His plans and covenant in His word.
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November 08, 2023
WHEN GOD REMEMBERED ISRAEL (5)
God has a purpose and a plan in place to carry out His purpose. Don’t mess with His plan, even His weakness is stronger than the strength of all peoples in all nations. “For thus the Lord has spoken to me, as a lion roars, and a young lion over his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him, He will not be afraid of their voice, nor be disturbed by their noise, so, the Lord of hosts will come down to fight for Mount Zion and for its hill. Like birds flying about, so will the Lord of Hosts defend Jerusalem, Defending, He will also deliver it; passing over, He will preserve it. Return to Him against whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted. For in that day, every man shall throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold sin, which your own hands have made for yourselves. Then Assyria shall fall by a sword not of man, and a sword not of mankind shall devour him. But he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become forced labor. He shall cross over to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the banner, says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.” Isaiah 31:4-9
The love of God is unchanging, His testimonies are permanent, what He has done cannot be changed and what He will do is certain according to His plans. Nothing and no one will make God deviate from His word and His plan. He has given His word and it will be done, He had blessed Israel and it cannot be reversed. All those that are in Christ Jesus, who walk by faith in His word and love, and believe in His salvation and righteousness are destined for His glory no matter what. God had chosen Israel; He had chosen you and you are destined by Him for better things than the activities of the wicked. He will preserve you until His word locates you and performs His destined desires in your life.
You are kept for a purpose, defended by His divine hands, and delivered by God’s power alone; Israel is kept for a purpose and a divine destiny, defended by reason of His covenanted word, and will continually be delivered by God alone and nothing else until the day of the fulfillment of His plans and purpose. God’s faithfulness is over them; His word is with them, His love is with them, and His goodness will definitely be seen by all in all generations. This generation and the whole world will see God’s testimony again being manifested. The God who had done it before will do it again. Even when the enemies are without number, God will take the glory in Israel
“The burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples, when they lay siege against Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it. In that day, says the Lord, I will strike every horse with confusion, and its rider with madness; I will open My eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness. And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in the Lord of hosts, their God. In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, Jerusalem. The Lord will save the tents of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not become greater than that of Judah. In that day the Lord will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; the one who is feeble among them in that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the Angel of the Lord before them. It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.” Zechariah 12:1-8
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November 07, 2023
WHEN GOD REMEMBERED ISRAEL (4)
No matter how dark it may seem, how painful it is right now, and all the injustices in high places, God will always remember His covenants and fulfill His words and promises, - “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you declares the Lord, and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.” Jeremiah 29:11-14
It does not matter how long the enemy’s affliction lasted; how many are suffering its painful assaults, insults, and injustices, and how many will suffer hereafter, God will always remember His covenant even when everyone else has forgotten and does not care again because of the pains, injustices, sufferings and the justification by the people watching and waiting to take advantage of you and the situation. When God remembers His covenant, He remembers you; when He remembers you, He remembers all His words, promises, and plans for your life. Regardless of what they say to you and do against you, there is hope and assurance from our God for you.
This is what happened when God made the covenant with Abraham - “As the sun was setting, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. Then the Lord said to him, know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward, they will come out with great possessions. You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age. In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.” Genesis 15:12-16
Israel was in Egypt for four hundred years before their punishment started, yet God did not in any way change His word and covenant and it is never annulled. “Brothers and sisters, let me take an example from everyday life. Just as no one can set aside or add to a human covenant that has been duly established, so it is in this case. The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. Scripture does not say to seeds, meaning many people, but to your seed, meaning one person, who is Christ. What I mean is this, the law, introduced 430 years later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise. For if the inheritance depends on the law, then it no longer depends on the promise but God in his grace gave it to Abraham through a promise.” Galatians 3:15-18. The covenant of God with you is not dependent on the laws of men, their understanding, views, or opinions but dependent on the love, faithfulness, and mercies of the Lord and on your faithfulness to the salvation freely given to you through Christ Jesus.
You will never be lost and will never lose, “For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah that they may dwell there, and have it in possession. The seed also of His servants shall inherit it, and they that love His name shall dwell therein. Psalm 69:35-36. It was impossible for God to forget Abraham and his descendants Israel and it is impossible for God to forget all the sacrifices of Jesus Christ on your behalf on the cross and you. Jesus Christ did all that you and I may have all that had been covenanted by God our Father.
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November 06, 2023
WHEN GOD REMEMBERED ISRAEL (3)
“When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless. Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers. Abram fell facedown, and God said to Him, as for me, this is my covenant with you; you will be the father of many nations. No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you. I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God. Then God said to Abraham, as for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.” Genesis 17:1-9
Regardless of the strength of Pharoah, the words, afflictions of shame, the inhuman pains and the everyday insult, the injustice, the killing, and the years held down as captives, it was impossible for God to forget the covenant He made through Abraham and his descendants concerning their future and destiny. God will never forget His covenant with you through Jesus Christ no matter what is happening and will ever happen to you. The covenant is activated on the day of your salvation, kept effective by the power of the Holy Spirit and the word of God you believe and always trust for your future and now no matter what. Remember, God does not break covenants, He fulfills them at the right time appointed.
“The Lord will once again be merciful to his people Israel and choose them as his own. He will let them live in their own land again, and foreigners will come and live there with them. Many nations will help the people of Israel return to the land that the Lord gave them, and there the nations will serve Israel as slaves. Those who once captured Israel will now be captured by Israel, and the people of Israel will rule over those who once oppressed them. The Lord will give the people of Israel relief from their pain and suffering and from the hard work they were forced to do. When he does this, they are to mock the king of Babylon and say, the cruel king has fallen. He will never oppress anyone again. The Lord has ended the power of the evil rulers who angrily oppressed the people and never stopped persecuting the nations they had conquered. Now at last the whole world enjoys rest and peace, and everyone sings for joy. The cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon rejoice over the fallen king because there is no one to cut them down, now that he is gone. The world of the dead is getting ready to welcome the king of Babylon. The ghosts of those who were powerful on earth are stirring about. The ghosts of kings are rising from their thrones. They all call out to him, now you are as weak as we are. You are one of us. You used to be honored with the music of harps, but now here you are in the world of the dead. You lie on a bed of maggots and are covered with a blanket of worms. King of Babylon, bright morning star, you have fallen from heaven. In the past you conquered nations, but now you have been thrown to the ground. You were determined to climb up to heaven and to place your throne above the highest stars. You thought you would sit like a king on that mountain in the north where the gods assemble. You said you would climb to the tops of the clouds and be like the Almighty. But instead, you have been brought down to the deepest part of the world of the dead. The dead will stare and gape at you. They will ask, is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble? Is this the man who destroyed cities and turned the world into a desert? Is this the man who never freed his prisoners or let them go home? All the kings of the earth lie in their magnificent tombs, but you have no tomb, and your corpse is thrown out to rot. It is covered by the bodies of soldiers killed in battle, thrown with them into a rocky pit, and trampled down. Because you ruined your country and killed your own people, you will not be buried like other kings. None of your evil family will survive. Let the slaughter begin. The sons of this king will die because of their ancestors' sins. None of them will ever rule the earth or cover it with cities.” Isaiah 14:1-21.
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November 03, 2023
WHEN GOD REMEMBERED ISRAEL (2)
When God allows certain things to happen in the world, to individual Christians, and to His body the church, know that amazing things are about to begin, things that will draw all men to Him, things that will draw men’s attention, things that the world will see, will talk about and will come to His actions as never before. When He allows certain things to happen to you, it does not mean He is weak and does not love you, what it means is that He loves you and has opened your eyes to see those things so that He will take the glory as you yield to His will and allow Him to act His way out for your life in that situation before you. God is never weak and never ignorant of the things that happen in the world to all humanity and mostly to those who believe, love, and put their hope, trust, and confidence in Him.
The scripture says with all confidence; “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight, but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our profession. For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:13-16
When God remembered Israel in their days of captivity and slavery, He acted in an amazing way, and things that had never happened before started happening; things that men thought were totally impossible and had never seen or known or thought before started happening; things that drew the attention of the entire world, things that changed the history of nations and people, things that showed and proved to the whole world that the Most High God rules in all the affairs of nations, and that He is absolute in charge of things that He allows. Regardless of what you see, hear, and will come to know, let not your heart be deceived, God is in control, He determines the end long before anything begins and He will definitely glorify His name in all things. Christ Jesus told His followers and disciples, “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.” John 14:1. Moses told the children of Israel, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Exodus 14:13-14
When God remembered the children of Israel, He came down and led them out through His words, and instructions, and stretched out arms through Moses. He gave Moses His word; He lifted up their hopes and sustained that hope with physical signs and wonders; He restored their lost confidence in their God. He commanded and Pharoah saw it and Egypt surrendered to His plans rather than to their plans. Their armed men, counselors, and magicians also surrendered to His authority. He armed Moses with faith and focus despite the fear of some of the people and the resistance of Pharoah. He gave Moses confidence in His word and commands and backed them up with immediate signs and wonders and confirmed to Moses and to Pharoah that there is none like Him and there will never be any like Him forever.
When God remembered Israel, the world, Egypt, and Pharoah saw what they had never seen in the history of humanity before. He divided the Red Sea, led them through easily without hurt or impediment, and drowned the Egyptian armies who tried to use the same route to bring back those God had decided to set free from captivity and slavery. Your day of amazing things is here from Christ Jesus our Lord, let your heart yes be fixed on Him.
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November 02, 2023
WHEN GOD REMEMBERED ISRAEL (1)
“I am the Lord, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not already destroyed. The Lord will have mercy on the descendants of Jacob. He will choose Israel as His special people once again. He will bring them back to settle once again in their own land. And people from many different nations will come and join them there and unite with the people of Israel. The nations of the world will help the people of Israel to return, and those who come to live in the Lord’s land will serve them. Those who captured Israel will themselves be captured, and Israel will rule over its enemies.” Malachi 3:6; Isaiah 14:1-2
When God remembered Israel and His people, He sent Moses, when He remembered Israel, He activated His covenant with Abraham, when He remembered Israel, He sent His angels to lead them, when God remembered Israel, He sent fire by night and cloud by day to keep them, when God remembered Israel, He made a way through the hindering Red Sea and through the deadly wilderness. When God remembered Israel, the strength of Egypt was not enough to keep the children of Israel again in slavery, when God remembered Israel, He gave them manna as food and streams of water to follow them every day and everywhere. When God remembered Israel, He made the impossible possible, God will remember Israel again in our days.
When God remembered Israel, He revealed the thoughts of Pharaoh and what He would do, God told Moses, “For Pharaoh will say of the Israelites, they are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in. I will harden, make stubborn, defiant Pharaoh’s heart, so that he will pursue them, and I will be glorified and honored through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians shall know without any doubt and acknowledge that I am the Lord. And they did so. When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart toward the people, and they said, what is this that we have done? We have let Israel go from serving us. So, Pharaoh harnessed horses to his war chariots for battle and took his army with him, and he took six hundred chosen war chariots, and all the other war chariots of Egypt with fighting charioteers over all of them. The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he pursued the Israelites, as they were leaving confidently. The Egyptians chased them with all the horses and war chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army, and they overtook them as they camped by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon. As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were very frightened, so, the Israelites cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What is this that you have done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? Did we not say to you in Egypt, leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians as slaves than to die in the wilderness.” Exodus 14:3-12
When God remembered the children of Israel, He sent Moses, even though Pharaoh was strong and had strong men, ammunition, and weapons of war, had his best counselors and advisers with him, magicians, learned men, and people who understood mysteries, but they were unable to stop God from doing what He intended and covenanted with Abraham to do for them. The Red Sea could not stop Him, the wilderness could not stop Him, and unfaithfulness, the complaints, and fear of some of the leaders of Israel could not stop Him. He rescued, delivered, and led them out of the land of bondage by His power and stretched out arms. It is totally not possible for God to forget anything, much less the people He saved and loves. It is impossible for God to forget you no matter what Satan has done to you.
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November 01, 2023
THIS MONTH, REMEMBER ME DEAR LORD
Remember it is time to be remembered by God and by all good people according to God’s word and promises concerning you, ask God for it this month that He is giving to you. Be decisive, be precise, do not take it for granted, and do not wait until opportunity appears. “To everything, there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven, a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that for which he laboureth? I have seen the travail which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in His time. Also, He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice and to do good in his life, and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor; it is the gift of God. I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. And God doeth it, that men should fear before Him.” Ecclesiastes 3:1-14
You will not and should not remain in pain and sorrow forever; it is time to get you out by the power of remembrance of the Almighty God, it is time to get you where God had destined, a place where you will have the peace and comfort promised in His presence and in the things you do daily. It is time to call for divine help and grace, divine blessings, and divine destinies to unfold before you; it is time to stop walking in darkness and gloom while having faith in the saving grace of God. It is time for your reward to begin in a big way. When Jabez asked God, He answered and granted His request despite the odds that were against him. God can and He will remove the odds on the day of your remembrance, He will help you when no one wants to help, and He will put you into the pool when everyone has left and forsaken you. He will take you over the mountains of afflictions and sorrows. “In my distress, I cried unto the Lord, and He heard me. Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help, my help cometh from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not permit thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; He shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.” Psalm 120:1-2, 121:1-8
There is a time for everything but it’s not usually perfect. But God in His mercy always provides amazing love and grace even when we are having imperfect times and days. While there might not be a perfect time, God is always on time and always there with His perfection of love and blessings. He always has perfect timing in everything He does. We can trust that His timing will always be perfect regardless of the lessons and what you have been exposed to in life.
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October 31, 2023
GOD WILL REMEMBER HIS WORD CONCERNING YOU (7)
There are many challenges, many hindrances, and many things desiring you to be ashamed, keep you in shame, and force you to deny your salvation and faith, but none of them is strong enough to force God to forget you or the promises He made concerning you. Not knowing the promises is not a hindrance as long as you have known and accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, have been forgiven, and given salvation, for in Christ Jesus our Lord alone all things consist. “He hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the Kingdom of His dear Son, in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For by Him were all things created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and by Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell, and having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, by Him, I say, whether they be things on earth or things in heaven. And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, even now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblamable and unreprovable in His sight, if ye continue grounded and settled in the faith, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye have heard and which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am made a minister. Look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. But if the Spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Spirit that dwelleth in you.” Colossians 1:13-23, Hebrews 12:2; Romans 8:11
In your life, in every situation, everywhere, regardless of the shame, color, gender, education, age, knowledge, wealth, poor, or rich, God will never be defeated, He will never be put to shame, and will never give up on you. No sin, no power, no defeat, no shame, no mockery, no delay, no difficulties, no rejection, no isolation, no mistake, and misfortune of any kind will ever make God forget you and abandon His words concerning you. The evil attack on Job by Satan was not able to make God forget him. The killing of his children, the attack and destruction of all his personal businesses and finances, many years of rejection by family members and longtime friends, bad health, condemnation, and loneliness did not make God forget him or abandon His faithfulness to the righteous Job. You are and will always remain precious in God’s sight no matter what through the blood of Jesus Christ and the Salvation you have received by grace.
Your fear and all the uncertainties in the world cannot compel Him to forget you. Not even the shameful death of our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary was strong enough for God to forget Him. Not the shame of nakedness and public shame. “And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart on the way and said unto them, behold, we go up to Jerusalem and the Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify Him. And on the third day, He shall rise again. From that time forth began Jesus to show unto His disciples that He must go unto Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.” Matthew 20:17-19, 16:21
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October 30, 2023
GOD WILL REMEMBER HIS WORD CONCERNING YOU (6)
“May His name endure forever; may His name continue as long as the sun, and let men bless themselves by Him; let all nations call Him blessed. Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things. Blessed be His glorious name forever, and may the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and Amen. For He will rescue the needy when he cries for help, the afflicted and abused also, and him who has no helper. He will have compassion on the poor and needy, and He will save the lives of the needy. He will redeem their life from oppression fraud and violence, and their blood will be precious in His sight. So may He live, and may the gold of Sheba be given to Him, and let them pray for Him continually. Let them bless and praise Him all day long. There will be an abundance of grain in the soil on the top of the mountains; its fruit will wave like the cedars of Lebanon, and those of the city will flourish like grass of the earth.” Psalm 72:17-19; 12-16
God does not suffer from memory loss of any nature, He does not in any way forget the people He made, and every creature on earth since the creation. He sees, knows, and keeps everything and every human being by the power of His word. All human beings are before Him always and He alone determines what affairs that befall both Christians and none Christians in all nations regardless of their religion and faith. “Not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, and revealed to the eyes of Him with whom we have to give account. For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been kept secret, but that it would come to light, things are hidden only temporarily, until the appropriate time comes for them to be known. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear and heed My words. Then He said to them, pay attention to what you hear. By your own standard of measurement, to the extent that you study spiritual truth and apply godly wisdom, it will be measured to you and you will be given even greater ability to respond, and more will be given to you besides.” Hebrews 4:13, Mark 4:22-24. More will be given to you.
“The eyes of the Lord are in every place, watching the evil and the good in all their endeavors. A soothing tongue speaking words that build up and encourage is a tree of life, but a perversive tongue speaking words that overwhelm and depress crushes the spirit.” Proverbs 15:2-3. When the bible says that God remembers someone, it means God is about to act on their behalf in ways that will change them and will never fail to completely bring forth the total will of God in that situation and in that person. It highlights what He is about to do regardless of what had been before then, and what was going on at that particular time. It means God is going to change the situation, change the person, and change the narrative. It means God is going to bring out to the full view and understanding of people what He had planned, what He had said, and what He had destined. Remember, God can never fail. When He remembered the children of Israel in Egypt and sent Moses, even though Pharaoh was still the king with all his strength, ammunition, and weapons of war, with all his best spiritual counselors and advisers, magicians, learned men, and people who studied and understood all forms of mysteries in their very best form where unable to stop Him from doing what He intended and had covenanted with Abraham to do for them. The Red Sea could not stop Him, the wilderness could not stop Him, and unfaithfulness, complaints, and fear of some of the children of Israel could not stop Him, He rescued, delivered, and led them out of the land of their bondage by His power and stretched out arms. It is not possible for God to forget anything, much less the people He loves. It is impossible for God to forget you.
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October 27, 2023
GOD WILL REMEMBER HIS WORD CONCERNING YOU (5)
God is never absent, His word is never diminishing or lacking effectiveness, His ways are always in line with His word and it pleases God the Father Almighty to place all things under Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. God remembering you and everything that concerns you is based on your salvation and faith in His word through the enabling of the Holy Spirit in your heart, spirit, and mind. Your faith will activate your obedience and grant you favor before Him even when no one wants to favor you, God will by His power and presence in your life. For even in the grave, God sent His Holy Spirit to bring Christ back to life.
“For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness; giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son, in whom we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of sins; who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature. For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers; all things were created by Him, and for Him, and He is before all things, and by Him, all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in His sight; if ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven, whereof I Paul am made a minister.” Colossians 1:9-23
God’s people are going through struggle and grief, cries and sorrows, but told Moses He has seen the grief, the sorrows, and the cries of His people, and promised to deliver, to rescue, and to lead them out with a strong arm, and He did. That is the reason for us to always trust God completely regardless of our circumstances and never to give up because victory and breakthroughs are on their way from our God. He will always have the final say in everything that concerns you. He will do everything He has promised, nothing will be missing, and nothing will be taken out by mistakes or by any kind of human misfortune.
“Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good, for His mercy endures forever. Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord? Who can shew forth all His praise? Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times. Remember me, O Lord, with the favor that thou bear unto thy people. O visit me with thy salvation; that I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.” Psalm 106:1-5
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October 26, 2023
GOD WILL REMEMBER HIS WORD CONCERNING YOU (4)
“Turn to the Lord and pray to Him, now that He is near. Let the wicked leave their way of life and change their way of thinking. Let them turn to the Lord, our God; He is merciful and quick to forgive. My thoughts, says the Lord, are not like yours, and my ways are different from yours. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are my ways and thoughts above yours. My word is like the snow and the rain that come down from the sky to water the earth. They make the crops grow and provide seeds for planting and food to eat. So also, will be the word that I speak, it will not fail to do what I plan for it; it will do everything I send it to do. You will leave Babylon with joy; you will be led out of the city in peace. The mountains and hills will burst into singing, and the trees will shout for joy. Cypress trees will grow where now there are briers; myrtle trees will come up in place of thorns. This will be a sign that will last forever, a reminder of what I, the Lord, have done.” Isaiah 55:6-13
Because God will never forget His own, He will definitely have the final say in everything that will concern and confront you. He is absolutely in control of every event in your life regardless of your fears, the magnitude of the troubles, the people framing the troubles, and your location. For the children of Israel on their way to the Promised Land, by His power, He opened the Red Sea for them to cross over, took them through the wickedness and difficulties of the wilderness, defeated seven kings and kingdoms even with their best weapons of war and years of preparation in events of war. What He did before, He will do it again, put your trust in Him absolutely, and remain in Him always in all things.
“Let not mercy and truth forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh and strength to your bones. Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the first fruits of all your increase, so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine. My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor detest His correction; for whom the Lord loves He corrects, just as a father the son in whom he delights. Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding, for her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, and her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. Length of days is in her right hand, in her left hand riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, and happy are all who retain her.” Proverbs 3:2-18
True salvation through confession, the forgiveness of sin, and grace by Christ our Lord are the ways to a beneficial relationship with God. Without grace from salvation, nothing else works and nothing else moves God or moves us towards Him. Remember, God will never forget the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross and will never abandon those who believe, trust, and submit themselves to the effective power of that sacrifice. Whatever you have been through or are going through in life, know that the Almighty God has the final say in all matters that will ever concern you because of the acceptable sacrifice of the blood of Jesus Christ that made to be accepted as a child of God. God said – your mountains and hills will burst; Cypress trees will grow where now there are briers and myrtle trees will come up in place of thorns.
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October 25, 2023
GOD WILL REMEMBER HIS WORD CONCERNING YOU (3)
God has not changed and has not forgotten anything He said and did since creation. In His love and perfection, God made you with honors and created you for His glory, and He will keep you until that honor and glory are manifested regardless of your age, color, language, country of birth, and place of residence. Since the day He took away your sins through forgiveness by the sacrifice of Christ Jesus on the cross at Calvary, He saved and gave you salvation, and since that blessed day, nothing has changed from His good word concerning you despite the rise of the enemies and the wickedness against you. You were made in His image and likeness to be honored and live in His glory, praising Him in everything, everywhere, and every time.
Even when the waters come against you, when the river is too deep and rises above you, you will overcome. When you pass through the waters; when you pass through the rivers; when thou walk through the fire, they shall not overflow thee, you shall not be drowned, or be burned and neither shall the flames of kindle on you because the Almighty God is with you, He is for you and not in any way against you, He will definitely remember every word of His promises to you. This is because you are precious, honorable, and lovely in His sight and in His presence. For He is with you, He will bring you out with praises and your seed from the east, He will gather you and everything and everyone from you from the west. He will say to the north, give up, and to the south, keep not back, bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. Even every one that is called by my name, for I created them for my glory, I have formed them, yea, I have made them mine.
“I thank you, Lord, with all my heart; I sing praise to you before the gods. I face your holy Temple, bow down, and praise your name because of your constant love and faithfulness because you have shown that your name and your commands are supreme. You answered me when I called to you, with your strength you strengthened me. All the kings in the world will praise you, Lord, because they have heard your promises. They will sing about what you have done and about your great glory. Even though you are so high above, you care for the lowly, and the proud cannot hide from you. When I am surrounded by troubles, you keep me safe. You oppose my angry enemies and save me by your power. You will do everything you have promised; Lord, your love is eternal. Complete the work that you have begun.” Psalm 138:1-8. God will never stop what He has started and will not abandon whom he had saved, called, and sent on a mission. Fear not, you were made to honor God and be honored through Christ Jesus, and that is what you will do no matter what.
This is what God told Moses concerning the children of Israel in slavery in Egypt, “I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So, Moses covered his face, because he was afraid to look at God. Then the Lord said, I have seen how cruelly my people are being treated in Egypt; I have heard them cry out to be rescued from their slave drivers. I know all about their sufferings, and so I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of Egypt to a spacious land, one which is rich and fertile and in which the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites now live. I have indeed heard the cry of my people, and I see how the Egyptians are oppressing them.” Exodus 3:6-9
God told Moses clearly, I have seen, I have heard, and I know all about their sufferings, and I have come down to rescue them. That was clear and precise. If God does not send Moses to speak for you, He will definitely do it Himself and never abandon you. Fear not, He will remember, He will rescue, He will restore, He will refill, and He will use you for His honor and His glory.
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October 24, 2023
GOD WILL REMEMBER HIS WORD CONCERNING YOU (2)
No matter how dark and hard it is. there is life, hope, wisdom, strength, peace, and assurance in every word of God to keep, protect, and take you through all of them. Do not ignore any, and do not think none is effective no matter the situation and the people before you.
“Don't be worried on account of the wicked, don't be jealous of those who do wrong. They will soon disappear like grass that dries up, they will die like plants that wither. Trust in the Lord and do good, live in the land, and be safe. Seek your happiness in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desire. Give yourself to the Lord, trust in him, and he will help you. He will make your righteousness shine like the noonday sun. Be patient and wait for the Lord to act, don't be worried about those who prosper or those who succeed in their evil plans. Don't give in to worry or anger, it only leads to trouble. Those who trust in the Lord will possess the land, but the wicked will be driven out. Soon the wicked will disappear, you may look for them, but you won't find them, but the humble will possess the land and enjoy prosperity and peace.
The wicked plot against good people and glare at them with hate. But the Lord laughs at wicked people because he knows they will soon be destroyed. The wicked draw their swords and bend their bows to kill the poor and needy, to slaughter those who do what is right, but they will be killed by their own swords, and their bows will be smashed. The little that a good person owns is worth more than the wealth of all the wicked because the Lord will take away the strength of the wicked, but protect those who are good. The Lord takes care of those who obey him, and the land will be theirs forever. They will not suffer when times are bad, they will have enough in times of famine. But the wicked will die, the enemies of the Lord will vanish like wild flowers; they will disappear like smoke.
The wicked borrow and never pay back, but good people are generous with their gifts. Those who are blessed by the Lord will possess the land, but those who are cursed by him will be driven out. The Lord guides us in the way we should go and protects those who please him. If they fall, they will not stay down, because the Lord will help them up. I am old now; I have lived a long time, but I have never seen good people abandoned by the Lord or their children begging for food. At all times they give freely and lend to others, and their children are a blessing. Turn away from evil and do good, and your descendants will always live in the land for the Lord loves what is right and does not abandon his faithful people. He protects them forever, but the descendants of the wicked will be driven out.” Psalm 37:1-28.
The children of Israel were given this clear assurance from the Lord “But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel, fear not for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name, thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee, when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour. I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honorable, and I have loved thee: therefore, will I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not, for I am with thee, I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west. I will say to the north, give up, and to the south, keep not back, bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. Even everyone that is called by my name, for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him, yea, I have made him.” Isaiah 43:1-7
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October 23, 2023
GOD WILL REMEMBER HIS WORD CONCERNING YOU (1)
There are many things we do not know and will never know regardless of the number of years we our fields of learning, the knowledge we have acquired in what we studied, the wisdom we have exhibited in the things we give ourselves to do, and the many successes we have seen in the things we do over the years. In all that we know and see and understand, they are all too small and are nothing to be compared to all that our God knows about us, about our present states, our strengths and weaknesses, pains, dreams, labor, and our future. He knows where we are, what we are thinking and doing, and what we will do hereafter. He knows our past more than we do and knows our future better than our dreams, imaginations, any form of prophecy, revelation, insights, or anything else from anywhere. And because He knows all these about us, He will never forget any of His word concerning us regardless of what we think, what people think, and what they will ever do against us if we are in Him and He is in us.
Do not allow the fear of what you do not know to disturb your thoughts and ways of living the Christian life in obedience to the words that God had given to us. God knows the future that He is taking you into, the future He had promised, not the one any man had promised, and it is far better than the very best of any of your imaginations and whatever else that your labor will ever give to you. This is what God told Jeremiah concerning Israel while they were still in captivity in Babylon. “The Lord says, when Babylonia's seventy years are over, I will show my concern for you and keep my promise to bring you back home. I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for. Then you will call me. You will come and pray to me, and I will answer you. You will seek me, and you will find me because you will seek me with all your heart. Yes, I say, you will find me, and I will restore you to your land. I will gather you from every country and from every place to which I have scattered you, and I will bring you back to the land from which I had sent you away into exile. I, the Lord, have spoken.” Jeremiah 29:10-14
Yes, no matter how tough, how painful, and how long the sufferings or delays had been, my greatest comfort is that God will do exactly what He said, nothing will be taken away from what He had said concerning you no matter the wickedness against you. Your name, gender, location, or anything else physical or spiritual will not hinder His word or you at the time appointed by Him. “I alone know the plans I have for you.” Is that not amazing and comforting? Christ Jesus told His disciples and all who truly believe and follow Him in true obedience, “You have been made clean already by the teaching I have given you. Remain united to me, and I will remain united to you. A branch cannot bear fruit by itself; it can do so only if it remains in the vine. In the same way, you cannot bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine, and you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will bear much fruit, for you can do nothing without me. Those who do not remain in me are thrown out like a branch and dry up, such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, where they are burned. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have it. My Father's glory is shown by your bearing much fruit, and in this way, you become my disciples. I love you just as the Father loves me, remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in His love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.” John 15:3-11
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October 20, 2023
GOD PROMISED TO REMEMBER YOU (5)
For His name sake, He will remember you; for the fulfillment of His word and promises, He will remember you; for His covenant with Abraham, God remembered the children of Israel while they were in captivity in Egypt; by remembering them He calls and sent Moses to speak and lead His covenanted people; by remembering His children, He went ahead of them defeating nations and kings and doing wonder that had never been done before along the path; by remembering, He suffered no harm to befall, no lack and no idle moment. He was with them in the day and in the night such that darkness and light did not hinder them throughout the days of their journey out of the land of their slavery until they reached the land He promised them through Abraham. "And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people.” Exodus 13:21-22
For our salvation and peace, He sent Jesus Christ; for the redemption and restoration of our soul Jesus came; for the price we ought to pay for redemption and forgiveness of our sins, Jesus went to the cross, defeated the devil, and obtained healing and victory, Jesus shed His blood on the Cross at Calvary, and for the assurance to be in heaven with Christ, we have our Lord sitting at the right hand of the Father Almighty interceding on our behalf and God will remember us. He remembers His covenant with us through Christ Jesus and He will fulfill all of them. Sin has no dominion over us again because we are always in the presence of God and are kept saved by Him.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned, and as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ” John 3:16-18a; 14-15; Romans 8:1-5.
If men will forget you, God will not forget you, if men will reject you, God will always in His love and power remember you. He is always faithful, always able, always ready, and always willing. This is David’s prayer for you today, the sun shall not hinder you neither will the moon prevent you because God had promised to remember you no matter what. “I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil, He shall preserve your soul. The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore.” Psalm 121:1-6. Amen
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October 19, 2023
GOD PROMISED TO REMEMBER YOU (4)
When God remembers you, He makes His word, and promises and covenants come to pass. He enables you to take possession of what He had destined, giving you strength and victory and increase beyond your strength and knowledge. He will do this to those who call on Him, wait on Him, and patiently follow Him. In His love, He will establish them, raise them above mountains of shame and afflictions, fill the valleys of shame, and take down the imagination of impossibilities that have been on their way. The children of Israel in captivity thought about their day of freedom but could not do anything about it, but when God remembered them, He sent Moses, took down the powers of Pharaoh, and weakened the armies and people that took them captive in Egypt. As God remembers you, He will put praise in your heart, open doors as you go, and lead you through till you are completely established where He had destined for you. This is what He did for Israel. Seek the Lord and His His strength; Seek His face evermore. Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth, O seed of Abraham His servant, You children of Jacob, His chosen ones. He is the Lord our God; His judgments are on all the earth.
He remembers His covenant forever, the word which He commanded, for a thousand generations, the covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac, and confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, to Israel as an everlasting covenant, saying, to you I will give the land of Canaan as the allotment of your inheritance, when they were few in number, indeed very few, and strangers in it. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, He permitted no one to do them wrong, yes, He rebuked kings for their sakes, saying, do not touch My anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm. Moreover, He called for a famine in the land; He destroyed all the provision of bread. He sent a man before them Joseph, who was sold as a slave. They hurt his feet with fetters, he was laid in irons. Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the Lord tested him. The king sent and released him, and the ruler of the people let him go free. He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions, to bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom. Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham. He increased His people greatly and made them stronger than their enemies. He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants. He sent Moses His servant, and Aaron whom He had chosen. They performed His signs among them and wonders in the land of Ham. He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against His word. He turned their waters into blood and killed their fish. Their land abounded with frogs, even in the chambers of their kings. He spoke, and there came swarms of flies and lice in all their territory. He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land. He struck their vines also, and their fig trees, and splintered the trees of their territory. He spoke, and locusts came, young locusts without number, and ate up all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground. He also destroyed all the firstborns in their land, the first of all their strength. He also brought them out with silver and gold, and there was none feeble among His tribes. Egypt was glad when they departed, for the fear of them had fallen upon them. He spread a cloud for a covering, and fire to give light in the night. The people asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven. He opened the rock, and water gushed out, it ran in the dry places like a river. For He remembered His holy promise, and Abraham His servant. He brought out His people with joy, His chosen ones with gladness. He gave them the lands of the Gentiles, and they inherited the labor of the nations, that they might observe His statutes and keep His laws. Praise the Lord.” Psalm 105:3-45
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October 18, 2023
GOD PROMISED TO REMEMBER YOU (3)
Whenever there is a remembrance, there is an action and good reward from our God. He will not remember you and leave you in that same situation and condition. He always remembers for our good and never for evil. Your faithfulness is never in vain, your prayers were offered to the God who hears and sees and knows and is able to do even that which had been declared as impossible by men, He will remember you and reward you bountifully with His goodness while enjoying His mercies with abundance of grace and peace. “Good and upright is the Lord, therefore He teaches sinners in the way. The humble He guides in justice, and the humble He teaches His way. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, to such as keep His covenant and His testimonies. For Your name’s sake, O Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses. He himself shall dwell in prosperity, and his descendants shall inherit the earth. The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, and He will show them His covenant. My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for He shall pluck my feet out of the net. Turn Yourself to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart have enlarged, bring me out of my distresses. Look on my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins.” Psalm 25:8-18
Obedience to the word of God opens the doors of God’s goodness for us; our salvation opens the door for a continuous good relationship with God because of the blood of Jesus Christ at Calvary Cross, and our faithfulness keeps the door of remembrance ever open for us till we receive the good reward He planned and destined for our faithfulness. Do not for any reason undermine the power of your salvation, the blood of Jesus that brought us to the heavenly throne to receive mercy took away all of our past sins, washes us spiritually and physically clean before God, prepares us for what is now, and preserves us for the future that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. God will never in any way forget the blood of Christ Jesus that brought us salvation. He remembers the blood and said to the children of Israel and to all believers – “For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment, I am the Lord. Now, the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. So, this day shall be to you a memorial, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.” Exodus 12:12-14. Before God, the sacrifice of the blood of Jesus Christ will never be forgotten and those redeemed by that blood will forever be remembered and redeemed also in all generations.
Never undermine the power of true, prompt, and faithful obedience to every word of God no matter the situation, the people before you, and the pains that you will suffer. God never forgets His word and His commands, He remembers them always and remembers everyone who keeps them regardless of age, nationality, gender, poor or rich, strong or weak. “So, I contended with the rulers, and said, why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together and set them in their place. Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain and the new wine and the oil to the storehouse. And I appointed as treasurers over the storehouse Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah, and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah for they were considered faithful, and their task was to distribute to their brethren. Remember me, O my God concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for its services.” Nehemiah 13:11-14
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October 17, 2023
GOD PROMISED TO REMEMBER YOU (2)
There is no evil before Him, no wickedness, and no hindrances. God does not behold any evil, He does not keep evil reports, and He does not remember or keep our sins, only human being and Satan does that. He only remembers all of His words, all of His promises, every good thing about you, and all the covenants He made through Christ Jesus, and not any of your sins be them great or small. When the children of Israel were under captivity in Babylon, God gave them this message through Jeremiah, “I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for.” Jeremiah 29:11.
“For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with You. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us. Now, He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee. God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a King is among them. God brings them out of Egypt, He has strength like a wild ox. For there is no sorcery against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob and of Israel, oh, what God has done.” Psalm 5:42, Corinthians 1:20-22, Numbers 23:19-23
No matter the place and nature of the sufferings and pains, regardless of the past or present-day misfortune, and all the disappointments; rejection, humiliations, loneliness, and isolations, you are under a divine covenant through grace by Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. God will not forget you; He will remember you and grant you according to His word and the destiny He plans for your life. Nothing will be taken out from what He had said. This is what happened to the man the king remembers and desires to honor – Mordecai. “So, Haman came in, and the king asked him, what shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman thought in his heart, whom would the king delight to honor more than me? And Haman answered the king, for the man whom the king delights to honor, let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn, and a horse on which the king has ridden, which has a royal crest placed on its head. Then let this robe and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that he may array the man whom the king delights to honor. Then parade him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor. Then the king said to Haman, hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits within the king’s gate, leave nothing undone of all that you have spoken. So, Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.” Esther 6:6-11
Mordecai thought he would never be remembered but he was; Mordecai thought he was going to be killed, but God’s plan for him was to be honored and made alive, strong, and given power. In his thoughts and words and actions, Haman believed he had won, he would be honored, he would have dominion over Mordecai and all the Jews, including Esther, but unknown to him, God was still in the business of saving those He has called, and those who call on Him. Your day of remembrance and honor reward is coming from the throne of the Almighty God in heaven.
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October 16, 2023
GOD PROMISED TO REMEMBER YOU
Even when it seems that God has forgotten us, when we feel His absence and lonely, when we do not hear His audible voice and are rejected, humiliated, and mistreated; when we feel none of His word is working in our favor and His blessings are not visible in our lives as expected after years of faithfulness and commitment, we have to know that in His word, He had promised never to forget by any means or situation or circumstances any of us and any of the good things we have done to anyone in His name no matter how small and insignificant they may be weather we were appreciated or not. Be it known to you today and always that God still remembers you and has never forgotten you for a second no matter your situation, mistakes, locations, and age.
God always remembers His people, His words, His covenants, and His promises. He always remembers the sacrifices of love and the works of Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary. He always remembers His testimonies and nothing will make Him lose sight of what He had said. He told Moses, - “When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, Moses, Moses, and Moses said, here I am. Do not come any closer, God said. Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. Then He said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So, I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” Exodus 3:4-10. In all situations, He doesn’t suffer from memory lapses.
Even when you think you have failed and people have told you that several times, God still remembers His word and covenant with you. When Moses thought he was a failure while doing what he was doing in the forest, God appeared to him with a memory reminder - I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Abraham suffered but God did not forget him and did not forget His covenant promises with him. Isaac suffered famine and family distrust, yet God did not forget His covenant with him. Jacob suffered in the hands of Laban yet God did not forget him, and on speaking to Moses, God told Moses, I remember my deeds and will do them again.
As God remembers us always, we also have to remember Him always by keeping His word in our hearts, minds, thoughts, and actions through the love of Jesus Christ which ultimately brought all of us salvation, forgiveness, and redemption from all sins, guilts, sufferings, pains, and keep us free from all the words and works of wickedness of Satan. Remember also that in His power, God sees you, and has not forgotten you. Keep and fix your eyes on Him, trust, and let your heart be devoted to following Him. He will never forsake or abandon you regardless of your situation and location and all of your past. Remember also that because He has forgiven you, He will bless you, He will keep you, He will care for you, He will redeem you and He will preserve you for the destiny He had covenanted in His word through Christ Jesus. “Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways, according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good.” Psalm 25:6-7.
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October 13, 2023
GO FOR THE PROMISES I MADE (9)
“Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have the confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, His body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.” Hebrews 10:19-23, Matthew 5:18
None of His words or promises are obsolete, none had been relegated to the back because of any present or past events in the world, and none has changed. They remain the same as they were yesterday, today, and forever. “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever. You who bring good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid, say to the towns of Judah, here is your God. See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power, and He rules with a mighty arm. See, His reward is with Him, and His recompense accompanies Him. He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart; He gently leads those that have young.” Isaiah 40:8-11
You will accomplish all that God had said and written in heaven concerning you. Your fears and the strength of your challengers will not stop Him from doing what He said in your life. Never let go of His promises for any reason, when He sent Moses, He was there with him; when He set the children of Israel on a journey out of Egypt, He went with them, even when their enemies were strong and armed, God was stronger and He delivered all of them. That same God is also with you right where you are now. “So, the Lord gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there. The Lord gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their ancestors. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their hands. Not one of all the Lord’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.” Joshua 21:43-45
Go for the promises He made, your failures or mistakes or misfortunes of yesterday will not stop you. Our God is always merciful and full of compassion, He has blessings for you, In His love and power, He has forgiven you and washed you clean from the faults and guilts that keep you from seeing the manifestation of His love, He will lead you and give you the promise He made. You are alive for a reason, and for the future He promised. “I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope. Because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning, great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, the Lord is my portion, therefore, I will wait for Him. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.” Lamentation 3:19-26
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October 12, 2023
GO FOR THE PROMISES I MADE (8)
Though the ears of men are not ready to hear and the hearts are not prepared to hear God, God in His love has spoken and always speaks again to remind us of what He had said, nothing will stop His spoken and written words and promises from being fulfilled, not the challenges in our lives, or the fears, not the past shame and failures or the present hardship; not the demons from hell nor the present-day uncertainties, and definitely not all the forces and powers of darkness battling to take over our lives and control it. All that God said concerning you are true and all will definitely come to pass. Because our God is alive, all of His words and promises are alive too. “The Lord lives. Praise be to my Rock. Exalted be God my Savior. He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me, who saves me from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes, from a violent man you rescued me. Therefore, I will praise you Lord among the nations, I will sing the praises of your name. He gives his king great victories, He shows unfailing love to His anointed, to David, and to his descendants forever.” Psalm 18:46-50.
The word of God and all His promises had been tested several times and proven to be true, none had failed and none will ever fail. He told Moses, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He showed His power and goodness and blessings in their lives and gave Moses the assurance that he will also see His goodness and power as he obeys and follows His word. In the furnace of fire that Nebuchadnezzar set up to destroy Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego, in the lion’s den, in the jailhouse, in the days and moments of great pains, distress, and endless provocation, God had shown Himself as true, strong, and able and He will show Himself again. He will show Himself in our case no matter what, no matter where, no matter when, and no matter who challenges us.
His words had been tested and they always prevail. “Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race. Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts. May the Lord silence all flattering lips and every boastful tongue, those who say, by our tongues we will prevail, our own lips will defend us, who is lord over us? Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise, says the Lord. I will protect them from those who malign them. The words of the Lord are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible like gold refined seven times. You, Lord, will keep the needy safe and will protect us forever from the wicked, who freely strut about when what is vile is honored by the human race. Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days. There are many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless, the Lord’s counsel will stand.” Psalm 12:1-8; Proverbs 19:20-21
Aim for the promise, make it your best and next target in life, and keep it front and center of your daily desires and prayers and everything else always. Do not take your eyes or your heart away from it. It is worth more than everything else. “They are more precious than gold than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey from the honeycomb. By them your servant is warned; in keeping them there is great reward.” Psalm 19:10-11. It is what we hope for, what we dream for, and what we life to have and see in our lives now and in eternity. “Teach me, Lord, the way of your decrees, that I may follow it to the end. Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart. Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word. Fulfill your promise to your servant, so that you may be feared. Take away the disgrace I dread, for your laws are good. How I long for your precepts, in your righteousness preserve my life.” Psalm 119:33-40
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October 11, 2023
GO FOR THE PROMISES I MADE (7)
WHAT God said of you and promised to you is not impossible for Him to do in you and for you, He will definitely do as He said and what He said. Rely on Him and not on your intelligence or thinking or strength, or dreams, follow His word, and submit yourself to Him. Acknowledge Him every day and everywhere and in everything you do. “My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commands; for length of days and long life and peace, they will add to you. Let not mercy and truth forsake you, bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart, and so find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and depart from evil. It will be health to your flesh and strength to your bones. Honor the Lord with your possessions, and with the first fruits of all your increase, so, your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow. My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor detest His correction, for whom the Lord loves He corrects, just as a father the son in whom he delights.” Proverbs 3:1-12
When God promised a land flowing with milk and honey to Abraham, He went before him to prepare the place. When He promised to bless His children, He ensured Isaac was blessed even in the time and country where famine existed. When He promised freedom for the children of Israel to Abraham, at the set time, He went before them to prepare and send Moses. When they could not deliver themselves from the Egyptians and Pharoah and had overstayed in Egypt, God sent Moses to speak to Pharoah because of His covenant promise with Abraham and the destiny He had set ahead for them to fulfill. When Pharaoh failed to agree with Moses after several trials, God sent ten plagues to prove to Pharaoh and the Egyptians that He was in charge of the affairs of all men in all nations and that His words and desires are above all other words and desires of any man and any nation in the entire world. That same God is the one who had promised you also.
He took Israel through the Red Sea because He promised to deliver them; He took them through the wilderness because He promised to be with them; He took them through the Jordan River because He promised to never leave or forsake them; He took down the wall of Jericho because He promised to give them the land, and He defeats kings and kingdoms because no weapon fashioned against His word and plans and people will ever prosper. He did what He said He would do. “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth, it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the things for which I sent it. For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” Isaiah 55:6-13
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October 10, 2023
GO FOR THE PROMISES I MADE (6)
What God had said, that He will do. Lack of knowledge, patience, and fear are the three things that will hinder you regardless of the challenges in your life. We have every assurance from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and evidence from the scripture to take us through if we will go for the promises with faith, determination, and patience. “Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will gather you and your children from east and west. I will say to the north and south, bring my sons and daughters back to Israel from the distant corners of the earth. Bring all who claim me as their God, for I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them. Bring out the people who have eyes but are blind, who have ears but are deaf. Gather the nations together. Assemble the peoples of the world. Which of their idols has ever foretold such things? Which can predict what will happen tomorrow? Where are the witnesses of such predictions? Who can verify that they spoke the truth? But you are my witnesses, O Israel, says the Lord. You are my servant. You have been chosen to know me, believe in me, and understand that I alone am God. There is no other God, there never has been, and there never will be. I, yes, I, am the Lord, and there is no other Savior. First, I predicted your rescue, then I saved you and proclaimed it to the world. No foreign god has ever done this. You are witnesses that I am the only God, says the Lord. From eternity to eternity, I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.” Isaiah 43:5-13
What has God promised you in His word? “God is not a man, so He does not lie. He is not human, so He does not change His mind. Has He ever spoken and failed to act? Has He ever promised and not carried it through? Numbers 23:19. Not what any man regardless of his or her wealth and status had promised but what God had promised that will never change. His promises are scheduled for a time and a season to change you for good and change things around you for the better forever. God did not promise our dreams, inspirations, or aspirations, He promised His will, His plans, and His destiny for every one of us. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:16-18. He or she who truly believes in Him and follows His words regardless of name, age, color, language, country, and place of domicile is not condemned no matter what, no matter where, no matter the circumstance, and no matter the challenges. “There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” Romans 8:1
When God took the children of Israel out of Egypt, He did not abandon them in the wilderness despite the challenges and the battles. “And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. So, He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord. Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.” Deuteronomy 8:2-4
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October 09, 2023
GO FOR THE PROMISES I MADE (5)
Though you think you have failed, though people call you a failure and believe you will never rise up again, though your dreams and thoughts and the words of men are contrary to what I said and promised, I have not declared you a failure and have not made you a failure. In my love for you and my power working in you, I have redeemed you from all evil and will enable you to be up again and fulfill all that I have said, I have designed, and have promised you. Remember, My words are unchangeable regardless of what may be standing before you to condemn or confront you concerning the things that I have destined for you in this very life that I have given to you.
God is not turning back His face from you; He is not taking back His word and promises to you. Till the end comes, He stands by what He said to you and He will do all of them if you will go for them in faith not minding what people will ever do or say to you. In Him and through Him, there is no shadow of turning back in all that He had said and given concerning you. “My dear brothers, do not be fooled about this. Every good action and every perfect gift is from God. These good gifts come down from the Creator of the sun, moon, and stars. God does not change like their shifting shadows. God decided to give us life through the word of truth. He wanted us to be the most important of all the things He made. My dear brothers, always be willing to listen and slow to speak. Do not become angry easily. Anger will not help you live a good life as God wants. So, put out of your life every evil thing and every kind of wrong you do. Don’t be proud but accept God’s teaching that is planted in your hearts. This teaching can save your souls. Do what God’s teaching says, do not just listen and do nothing. When you only sit and listen, you are fooling yourselves. A person who hears God’s teaching and does nothing is like a man looking in a mirror. He sees his face, then goes away and quickly forgets what he looked like, but the truly happy person is the one who carefully studies God’s perfect law that makes people free. He continues to study it. He listens to God’s teaching and does not forget what he heard. Then he obeys what God’s teaching says. When he does this, it makes him happy.” James 1:16-25. God will not promise you what He knows is not good for you and He will not promise you what he will not enable you to have by faith in Him and His power working in your life.
Do not be afraid of the many challenges on your way because of the promises of God for you; do not give up your trust in His saving grace and redeeming power. Pharaoh and the best of Egypt in their topmost form were unable to stop the children of Israel from walking out of slavery and captivity. The Red Sea with all its furious and fearful waves was unable to hinder the path that God had set in His wisdom to take the children of Israel through. The wilderness and the fearful things that came up against them, the armed nations and fighters, the hunger, the thirst for water, and everything else that came up against them did not stop them from reaching the promised land. Not even the wall of Jericho and the forty-year walk did stop Israel.
You have been chosen by God and not by men to have what He had promised and you will have them by His power no matter what. Do not be distracted by the delays and the frustrations seeking to take your life. GO FOR HIS PROMISE. The Almighty God is with you. Amen.
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October 06, 2023
GO FOR THE PROMISE (4)
“My brothers, you will have many kinds of troubles. But when these things happen, you should be very happy. You know that these things are testing your faith. And this will give you patience. Let your patience show itself perfectly in what you do. Then you will be perfect and complete. You will have everything you need. But if any of you needs wisdom, you should ask God for it. God is generous. He enjoys giving to all people, so God will give you wisdom. But when you ask God, you must believe. Do not doubt God. Anyone who doubts is like a wave in the sea. The wind blows the wave up and down. He who doubts is thinking two different things at the same time. He cannot decide about anything he does. A person like that should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.” James 1:2-8
By faith, David prevailed over Goliath and the Philistines. By faith, he saw the promises of God for his life fulfilled, by faith he became what God said and by faith, you will succeed. Stand your faith in the word of God, go for the promise, the Red Sea will part, the wilderness journey will not consume you, God will provide manner and water throughout your wilderness journey, and you will not have lack that He cannot fulfill and you will not have enemies that He cannot defeat
These are some of the many testimonies of faith –
By faith, Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did, and God said he was pleased with the gifts Abel offered. God called Abel a good man because of his faith.
By faith, Enoch was taken to heaven. He never died.
By faith, Noah heard God’s warnings about things that he could not yet see. He obeyed God and built a large boat to save his family. By his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong. And he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.
By faith, Abraham obeyed God’s call to go to another place that God promised to give him.
By faith, he lived in the country God promised to give him.
By faith, Abraham was able to become a father. Abraham trusted God to do what he had promised.
By faith, Abraham offered his son Isaac as a sacrifice. God made the promises to Abraham. But God tested him. And Abraham was ready to offer his own son as a sacrifice.
By faith, Isaac blessed the future of Jacob and Esau.
By faith, Jacob blessed each one of Joseph’s sons. He did this while he was dying.
By faith, Joseph spoke about the Israelites leaving Egypt while he was dying.
By faith that Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born. They were not afraid to disobey the king’s order.
By faith, Moses, when he grew up, refused to be called the son of the king of Egypt’s daughter.
By faith, Moses left Egypt. He was not afraid of the king’s anger.
By faith, Moses prepared the Passover and spread the blood on the doors.
By faith, the people crossed the Red Sea as if it were dry land. The Egyptians also tried to do it, but they were drowned.
By faith that the walls of Jericho fell after the people had marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days.
By faith that Rahab, the prostitute, welcomed the spies and was not killed by those who refused to obey God.
Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets through their faith defeated kingdoms, shut the mouths of lions, stopped great fires, and were saved from being killed with swords. They were weak, yet were made strong. They were powerful in battle and defeated other armies. By faith, women received their dead relatives raised back to life.
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October 05, 2023
GO FOR THE PROMISE (3)
All that God promised, and all that He said concerning you will definitely come to be by the faith you have when you go for them with obedience to His words and faith in Christ Jesus. Absolute faith in Christ Jesus, in His word, and in His power always begins with you believing and going after the promises He made and such faith always ends with good testimony. Faith is believing in what God said in His word and standing on that word no matter what. Faith means being sure of the things we hope for, and things we ask for according to His word and plans. And faith means knowing that something is real even if we do not see it or feel it. People who lived in the past became famous because of their faith in the Almighty God. By faith, we come to understand that the whole world was made by God’s command.
“By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down after the children of Israel encircled it for seven days. By faith, Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe, when she received the spies with peace. What more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, also David and Samuel and the prophets, who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead raised to life again. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mocking and scourging, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, and were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth. All these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.” Hebrews 11:30-40
Throughout divine history, faith in the Almighty God has an endless list of great testimonies in those who go after the promises of God and His word. Faith is built with time, sustains through times of trials and temptation, and grows through days and years of adversities. Faith is like God’s love, it never fails to accomplish the will, purpose, and plans of God. It begins the day you make up your mind and decide to go after what God promised in His word. It grows over the years and is tested several times over, not to destroy you, but to confirm and establish you in the ways of God. “Now we hope for the blessings God has for his children. These blessings are kept for you in heaven. They cannot be destroyed or spoiled or lose their beauty. God’s power protects you through your faith, and it keeps you safe until your salvation comes. That salvation is ready to be given to you at the end of time. This makes you very happy. But now for a short time, different kinds of troubles may make you sad. These troubles come to prove that your faith is pure. This purity of faith is worth more than gold. Gold can be proved to be pure by fire, but gold can be destroyed. But the purity of your faith will bring you praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ comes again.” 1 Peter 1:4-7. Troubles and trials come to test your faith and prove you are worthy of the promises of God thereafter. Remember, “The trial of your faith, is much more precious than of gold that perished. The promise will definitely come when you remain in faith.
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October 04, 2023
GO FOR THE PROMISE (2)
The promise is big, better, life-changing, and everlasting. God did not promise Abraham small things; He promised him what he could not afford for himself through wealth, labor, help from people, best imagination, and what he could not even dream. God promised him what he did not have, could not have or do for himself, and what he could not inherit from his parents. God told him clearly – “I will make you a great nation, I will bless you abundantly, make your name great, exalted, distinguished; you shall be a blessing, a source of great good to others; I will bless, do good for, benefit those who bless you; I will curse, that is, subject to My wrath and judgment the one who curses, despises, dishonors, has contempt for you. In you, all the families, and nations of the earth will be blessed.” Genesis 12:2-3. These are things that no one can offer or afford.
God gave Abraham these promises with a condition that he would go after them and nothing else, not minding what his dreams and desires were, the condition was – follow me, be committed and subjected to me, be faithful and obedient, and contend for the promise no matter what. “Go away from your country, and from your relatives and from your father’s house, to the land which I will show you.” Genesis 12:1. God did not ask him to disobey his parents and besides, Abraham took his family members along with him. – “Abram departed in faithful obedience as the Lord had directed him, and Lot his nephew left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had acquired, and the servants which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan. Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the great terebinth oak tree of Moreh. Now the Canaanites were in the land at that time. Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, I will give this land to your descendants. So, Abram built an altar there to honor the Lord who had appeared to him.” Genesis 12:4-7
Satan does not fight for small things that concern you, he contends with you for the better things that God had promised in your life. Things that elevate you, give you peace and joy every time, and things that assure you of God’s love and presence. The promises that God gives are not only for this life and earthly, they are also eternal and everlasting. The promises are bigger than all the giants, all the mountains, all the valleys, and all the strongholds standing before you. Know this, it is because of the goodness in the promise that the giants are up against you and nothing else. It is not because of who or what you are, but because of the promises of God for you and the faith you have in the promise. The faith you have will take down those giants as David took Goliath took down Goliath by faith in the God he served while others armed and ready were watching with fear even though God was ready to fight for them and give them victory.
“David said to the Philistine, you come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day, the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day, I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves, for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give all of you into our hands.” 1 Samuel 17:45-47. Remember, God promised through Samuel to make David the king after Saul the day he was anointed, and that did not just happen, David in all his ways had to acknowledge God and be faithful until the promise was fulfilled despite Goliath and his armed men with him. Go for the promise, God will make a way.
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October 03, 2023
GO FOR THE PROMISE (1)
Beloved, though we speak to you in this way, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and of things that accompany salvation. For God is not unjust. God has better things for you in all cases, things much more than you know, can see, and will feel. Things much more than the pains, the temporal joy, the disappointments, the insults, and the failures we take to Him always in our prayers. Do not limit yourselves to only what you know you need; God’s promises are far more than all your needs and He definitely knows all of your needs even before you ask of the few you know. Put your trust absolutely in God not only in the cases that you see, feel, and experience. Life in and with Christ Jesus is more than just what we feel and can see.
“We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak. Knowing that He which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God. For which cause, we faint not, but though our outward man perishes, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:13-18.
In His love, in His power, and in His faithfulness, He will do it. It may seem too long, but He will fulfill all; it may seem too tough, but He will fulfill all; it may seem the vulture has eaten your years of sincere sacrifice, but God will fulfill all; it may be long overdue, but God will definitely fulfill all at His time and in the place He designated and said in His promise to you. To our father Abraham, God took an oath to confirm the certainty of the promise but to us, that oath is still effective today, but to us today, God sent Christ Jesus to take away all our doubts and our fears of failure if only we believe in the promises, stand firm on the promises, and act according to His word.
“Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case, the things that have to do with salvation. God is not unjust. He will not forget your work and the love you have shown Him as you have helped His people and continue to help them. We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. When God made His promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for Him to swear by, He swore by Himself, saying, I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. And after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised. People swear by someone greater than themselves, and the oath confirms what is said and puts an end to all arguments. Because God wanted to make the unchanging nature of his purpose very clear to the heirs of what was promised, he confirmed it with an oath. God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where our forerunner Jesus has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever, in the order of Melchizedek.” Hebrews 6:9-20.
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October 02, 2023
THIS MONTH, WHAT GOD PROMISED, HE WILL FULFILL
“For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you, says the Lord. I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.” Jeremiah 29:11-14. However tough it may be or may have been in the year past and now, God says He will end your captivity, restore your fortune, and give you a future and hope that is according to His plans and nothing else.
God gave Israel a promise through Abraham before they went to Egypt and became slaves. That promise became a covenant that was never broken though they stayed longer in Egypt, though it was delayed, it was never forgotten. He spoke to the prophets concerning His plans for Israel and at the right time, He called and sent Moses to speak to Pharaoh on His behalf to let the children of Israel go freely and to lead them out and free from their slavery as He had planned as a destiny for all of them. He did many signs and wonders while they were in Egypt to set them free, and did many signs and wonders when they left Egypt on their way to the place He promised in His covenant with Abraham, He never left them, He was always with them throughout the time and He is with you throughout the days of your years on earth.
“Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have. And Abram believed the Lord and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith. Then the Lord told him, I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession. But Abram replied, O Sovereign Lord, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it? The Lord told him, bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon. So Abram presented all these to him and killed them. Then he cut each animal down the middle and laid the halves side by side; he did not, however, cut the birds in half. Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away. As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him. Then the Lord said to Abram, you can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years. But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end, they will come away with great wealth. As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age. After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction. After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses. So, the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River.” Genesis 15:5-18. Abraham believed God's promised word and God did it. Yours may seem impossible, but God will do it. Your freedom may take days or years, but God will do it. In His power, God will definitely do all that He had promised because He is always faithful and His faithfulness is forever and ever.
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September 29, 2023
LET US PRAY (20)
No matter the situation, there is a reason, the God we know and believe in is important, and what truth we know concerning the reason is also important. But there are things we will never see or know yet they exist to influence us in many ways, take what you see and know to God and leave what you do not know in His hands. Daniels knew through the writings of Jeremiah that the time for Israel to be restored was at hand before he prayed. He knew the promises of God for Israel, believed God, and believed the promises. He believed the words of the prophet Jeremiah before setting his heart to make a request in his prayer.
Daniel did not only the problems, suffering, pains, destruction, and the captivity of the children of Israel. He knew their expectations and hope, he knew that expectations and hope alone would not bring to pass what God had promised, but prayers and continuous faithfulness would quicken the expectations and bring the hope to physical manifestation. Prayer quickens the promises of God and reminds us of God’s faithfulness and willingness to help us and bless us always. It is not a sign of weakness but strength in our faith in whom we believe, trust, and depend on. In prayers we see God do wonders, change lives, change things, deliver his people, destroy all the works of darkness, and fulfill His words and promises.
Daniel knew Israel had sinned and was in sin, had rejected the word of God and the prophets, yet he prayed and asked for mercy on them. “In the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make requests by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. And I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, and said, O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You. O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore, the curse and the oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster, for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem. As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. Therefore, the Lord has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice. — O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.” Daniel 9:2-19.
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September 28, 2023
LET US PRAY (19)
We pray because we know that all things are possible with God and through Christ Jesus, we will have what we requested. By His grace and the outpouring of His Holy Spirit on the Apostles, they prayed and overcame all that was set to destroy them and stop the spreading of the message of the Good News of Jesus Christ. “So, when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said, Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them, who by the mouth of Your servant David have said, why did the nations rage, and the people plot vain things? The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ. For truly against Your holy Servant Jesus whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done. Now, Lord, look on their threats and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness. Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul, neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common. And with great power, the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.” Acts 4:24-33
What have you seen around and in you? What do you know concerning your life and your future? What has the devil done against you and the plans of God for you? What are the shame, pains, difficulties, and humiliations before you, pray and call on the Lord God Almighty. The disciples of Jesus Christ were arrested, tormented, beaten, jailed, and publicly threatened, yet despite what they saw, experienced, and knew what the enemies were doing and planning to do to them and against the word of God they were called to preach, they prayed, calling on the only God and Lord who is able to help to enable them continue instead withdraw or stop preaching, they knew their lives were in danger, but the Almighty God was the strength and hope. As they prayed, when they prayed, and when they finished praying, the result came openly and their shame and weakness were instantly taken away. -- When they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken, -- they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, - they spoke the word of God with boldness.
One of the greatest boldness among the early Christians was their act of praying and committing themselves and others to God in all of their situations. They never stopped praying; and never gave up when threatened, insulted, humiliated, and imprisoned. They trusted the Lord God Almighty in and for all things and He delivered them with great signs and wonders following. They lacked nothing and no one was in need because they called on the God who answers prayers and was and is able to deliver everyone who calls on Him from all their situations regardless of the place, the people, and the circumstances. God can take away every shame. “Ah, Lord God, behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You. You show lovingkindness to thousands and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them, the Great, the Mighty God, whose name is the Lord of hosts. You are great in counsel and mighty in work, for Your eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings. You have set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, to this day, and in Israel and among other men, and You have made Yourself a name, as it is this day.” Jeremiah 32:17-20
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September 27, 2023
LET US PRAY (18)
Regardless of what you see, know, and have experienced in life, never give up praying. Hannah knew she was barren and bitter about her situation, yet she went to the temple and prayed, and God answered. “Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah stood up. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the Lord’s house. In her deep anguish, Hannah prayed to the Lord, weeping bitterly. And she made a vow, saying, Lord Almighty, if you will only look on your servant’s misery and remember me, and not forget your servant but give her a son, then I will give him to the Lord for all the days of his life, and no razor will ever be used on his head. As she kept on praying to the Lord, Eli observed her mouth. Hannah was praying in her heart, and her lips were moving but her voice was not heard. Eli thought she was drunk and said to her, how long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine. Not so, my lord, Hannah replied, I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking wine or beer; I was pouring out my soul to the Lord. Do not take your servant for a wicked woman, I have been praying here out of my great anguish and grief. Eli answered, go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant you what you have asked of Him. She said, may your servant find favor in your eyes. Then she went her way and ate something, and her face was no longer downcast. Early the next morning they arose and worshiped before the Lord and then went back to their home at Ramah. Elkanah made love to his wife Hannah, and the Lord remembered her. So, in the course of time, Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, because I asked the Lord for him.” 1 Samuel 1:9-20. Regardless of what Eli said to her, she never stopped praying to God. Do not stop because of what you know concerning your situation, God can still change you and change things around you regardless of what people are saying to you, against you, and about you.
Daniel knew the decree was made to stop him and had been signed by the king and cannot be changed, he did not give up praying and did not give up hope. “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days. Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. And they went before the king, and spoke concerning the king’s decree, have you not signed a decree that every man who petitions any god or man within thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, the thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter. So, they answered and said before the king, that Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day. So, the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. But the king spoke, saying to Daniel, your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you. Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords, that the purpose concerning Daniel might not be changed.” Daniel 6:10-13, 16-17. What do you know, see, hear and what are your experiences? Let nothing stop you from praying.
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September 26, 2023
LET US PRAY (17)
Even though God had promised us His presence and blessings, never give up praying while waiting for fulfillment. Even when you know by revelations and dreams and prophecies that the time of the fulfillment of those promises is at hand, never stop praying. Even when you have been promised by men and are very sure that they will fulfill their promises to you, never give up praying, even when you have all that you need and have achieved all your desires in life, never give up praying. Prayer sustains and prevails; prayer opens doors and closes doors.
Job never stops praying even when he was blessed and had enough before the devil came after him and his family. He never stopped praying for his children one at a time even though the devil took them. Prayer was his strength and comfort at all times. Daniel never stopped praying even though he had been released from prison, recognized by the various kings, and given a job as a counselor and later as a governor in one of the regions. Daniel never gave up praying even when he knew the king had signed the decree for him to be thrown into the den of lions. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego never gave up praying even when they saw the ferry burning furnace before them and knew it was made for their destruction. Let no situation stop you from praying to God our Father in heaven through Christ Jesus our Lord. The result will definitely come despite any delay and frustration we may encounter while waiting and trusting God for the answer.
When Daniel took up the task of praying for Israel, the people, and Jerusalem, he confessed that God sent His angels to him. “Now, Lord our God, who brought your people out of Egypt with a mighty hand and who made for yourself a name that endures to this day, we have sinned, we have done wrong. Lord, in keeping with all your righteous acts, turn away your anger and your wrath from Jerusalem, your city, your holy hill. Our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors have made Jerusalem and your people an object of scorn to all those around us. Now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of your servant. For your sake, Lord, look with favor on your desolate sanctuary. Give ear, our God, and hear, open your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears your Name. We do not make requests of you because we are righteous, but because of your great mercy. Lord, listen. Lord, forgive. Lord, hear and act. For your sake, my God, do not delay, because your city and your people bear your Name. While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and making my request to the Lord my God for his holy hill, while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice. He instructed me and said to me, Daniel, I have now come to give you insight and understanding. As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision.” Daniel 9:15-23
Daniel recognized the presence of God’s angel around when he prayed. Remember, “The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, and He delivers them.” Psalm 34:7. In the lion’s den, Daniel confessed, that God sent His angels to deliver him, not to fight the lions or kill them, but to deliver Daniel. Now, in prayer time, God sent His angel to give him insight and understanding of what he was praying for. I know we have the word of God and the Holy Spirit of God with and in us, but never forget also that God’s angels are with us all time, in all places, and in all situations to bring us to the fulness of God and keep us according to His plans for our lives.
We do not pray because we are right or righteous, we pray because God is right and righteous; we do not pray because we are strong, we pray because our God is strong, He will do what men will never be able to do regardless of their knowledge.
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September 25, 2023
LET US PRAY (16)
Have you been truly asking from the Lord or you have been truly expressing your wishes to the Lord? Wishing it will or should happen to you is not what He promised to grant us, He promised to grant what you ask. Jabez did not wish or receive what he wished; God granted what Jabez asked in his prayer request. “Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, because I bore him in pain. And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain, so God granted him what he requested. Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, let no fruit grow on you ever again. Immediately the fig tree withered away. And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, how did the fig tree wither away so soon? So, Jesus answered and said to them, assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree but also if you say to this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea, it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” 1 Chronicles 4:10, Matthew 21:18-22.
Jabez saw what he did not like in his life and asked God for a change and God granted what he requested even though his parents had rejected him when they saw the same thing he saw in his own life they saw in him. What you request from God can change you. Jesus Christ also asked and His disciples saw the result and He encouraged them to also ask in faith and believe what they ask can and will be done by their Father in heaven. Do not limit yourself by your fears and the uncertainties of doubts and what you see, hear, and experience in the past or present. Christ Jesus told His disciples to ask and God will grant what they ask up to the extent of moving mountains.
“I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him and were radiant, and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him and delivers them. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him. Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints. There is no want to those who fear Him. The young lions lack and suffer hunger, but those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing. Come, you children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Who is the man who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good? Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit. Depart from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it. The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry. The face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and saves such as have a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He guards all his bones; not one of them is broken. Evil shall slay the wicked, and those who hate the righteous shall be condemned. The Lord redeems the soul of His servants, and none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.” Psalm 34:4-22. Praying is a divine blessing and weapon God has given to us to use, pray always in all things.
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September 22, 2023
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If you won’t pray, then your expectation is small compared to what God had promised, can, and will do for you in this life. He said we should ask for anything, not wish for everything. – “And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it to you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name, ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs, but the time cometh, when I shall no longer speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name, and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you. For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.” John 16:23-27. God’s desire is the fulness of your joy in Him regardless of what the devil may be doing as it was for Daniel and many others in the scripture. They may take you down but will not keep you down because they cannot take your God down.
His angels are always there ready for you, to guide and to protect you from all evil. He sends His angels in times of battle, in times of need, in times of peace, and in times of trouble. Asking is what we are told to do, it makes God open the doors of heaven on our behalf, it takes away assumptions, and establishes our faith in His word and trust in our God. It grows our confidence and increases our strength even in times of weakness to press on till the end comes in His glory. He said, ask me of things to come and I will answer and show and tell you things you do not yet know but will definitely happen. “But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto children's children to such as keep His covenant, and to those that remember His commandments to do them. The Lord hath prepared His throne in the heavens and His kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord, ye His angels, that excel in strength, that do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of His word. Bless ye the Lord, all ye His hosts, ye ministers of His, that do His pleasure. Bless the Lord, all His works in all places of His dominion, bless the Lord, O my soul.” Psalm 103:17-22
Before the King and everyone else watching and waiting to see Daniel eaten by the lions, he said in his testimony, that God sent His angels to guide him while in the lion’s den. “My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me.” Daniel 6:22. He did not say he prayed in the lion’s den, remember he prayed before and in the lion’s den, and he saw the answer to his prayers in a miraculous way. In all things and at all times and in all places, God is able to keep you and able to bless you, and able to give you a miracle beyond your expectations and that of those waiting and watching for you to be destroyed.
Did you know that Satan knows and recognizes the presence of God’s angels around God’s people? He testified to Jesus Christ when he tempted Him in the wilderness and said quoting the divine promise of God to send angels – “And saith unto him, if thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give His angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands, they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, it is written again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” Matthew 4:6-7. Satan in his word even reminded Christ Jesus of what He already knew – the presence of angels; what the angels will do for Him, are capable of doing for Him, and are commanded by God to do. Do not wait to be reminded by the devil, know what God has in store for you and ask in faith, remain in faith, and trust Him absolutely to fulfill all that He had said concerning you.
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September 21, 2023
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It was beyond expectation to the people but to Daniel, it was the Lord’s doing. God turned the situation around, turned the expectations around, and affirmed that even when you think your prayers are not working things out as you think and ask, He is still working things out on your behalf according to His will and promises. God did not only save Daniel, He overturned the acts of wickedness and their accusations against Daniel and gave him the promotion that they wanted to stop him from having by plotting to kill him. Yours is coming, your prayers are not in vain, God is watching over you for good as He did for Daniel here regardless of what may be happening,
“Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever. My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you. Now the king was exceedingly glad for him and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So, Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God. And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den. Then King Darius wrote - to all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth. Peace be multiplied to you. I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God, and steadfast forever; His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed, and His dominion shall endure to the end. He delivers and rescues, and He works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. So, this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.” Daniel 6:21-28
Right inside the lion’s den when Daniel saw what was going on, it was unbelievable, unthinkable, and unimaginable. He saw results that were far beyond what he prayed and asked for. What he saw was only what God can do, he saw the changed behavior of the lions towards him and the peace and presence of God overwhelmed him right inside the den of lions. Did he see the angels God sent? He did not see angels but he knew what he saw was the saving and deliverance power of the Almighty God in action. He saw results that were greater than what he prayed for. He saw what can only happen when we truly submit and commit ourselves and our situations to God in prayer and leave the rest to Him in absolute trust. All that Daniel could say to the king was, “My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him.”
Daniel stamped his name in the divine book of history through prayers and nothing else. He gained deliverance, recognition, and promotions through prayers. And by the result of his prayers, though a foreigner, Daniel successfully served three kings in succession. He was loved and his leadership style was to put God first and remain faithful to Him regardless of what others were doing and saying. Daniel knew if they couldn't stop him from praying, they wouldn't stop him from advancing. He was a man who truly trusted the Almighty God, prayed to Him always, and truly saw great results from his prayers. In prison, out of prison, as a counselor, and as a governor, Daniel prayed and God showed up on his behalf. “I lift up my eyes to the mountains, where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip, He who watches over you will neither slumber nor sleep.” Psalm 121:1-3
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September 20, 2023
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“Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever. My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” Daniel 6:21- 22. That was Daniel's final testimony to the king after the enemies had succeeded in their evil plot. Do you believe that? Yes, I do. God in His love and power is still working the way out for children even when it seems impossible to the eyes of men and beyond their physical imaginations. “I will extol the Lord at all times; His praise will always be on my lips. I will glory in the Lord; let the afflicted hear and rejoice. Glorify the Lord with me; let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame. This poor man called, and the Lord heard him; He saved him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and He delivers them. Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him. Fear the Lord, you his holy people, for those who fear Him lack nothing. The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.” Psalm 34:1-10
“So, the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of Lion’s. But the king spoke, saying to Daniel, your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you. Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords, that the purpose concerning Daniel might not be changed.” Daniel 6:16-17. Daniel was thrown into the Lion’s den, the mouth of the lion’s den was sealed with a stone and signed by the king with his signet in the presence of the evil plotters and the onlookers. Even when it seems that we are failing after praying, God will never fail, and His word and promises will not fail regardless of the people, the place, and the situation. Though they succeeded in putting Daniel in the Lion’s den; though it seemed the enemies had achieved their purpose and were celebrating their success over Daniel, God was still working on his behalf to fulfill His plans, and purpose for his life, and to deliver him, and He did so in a way that amazed everyone. Your day of fulfillment, deliverance, and blessings is coming from the Lord we served and had asked for His blessings in our prayers. He will answer in His set time and place. He will not fail you regardless of the delays, the pains, and the experience.
Daniel experienced fear because of the character of lions he knew, he did not fear the people of their evil plots; he experienced the unthinkable cruelty from the people while being good to them and righteous before God, yet in that same fear and celebration of the evil plotters, God did the unthinkable right before their eyes. Daniel experienced the extreme cruelty of wickedness, being given alive to be destroyed by the lions, but God showed up even in that extreme wickedness in a mighty way to deliver him. The enemies will see you being delivered openly and publicly. They will see your God in action as never before and they will see you being what God said and doing what God had promised to use you in doing. Hold tight to Him, believe and trust His written and revealed word. You were given salvation for a purpose. His angels encamp around those who put their absolute trust in Him and remain righteous even in times of pain and cruelty from the forces of darkness and wicked. In all his days and trials, Job remained faithful continually even in pain and rejection, and God ended his pains and rejection with a blessing that was seven times better than what he was before his troubles began. As God did for Daniel, He will do for you. Daniel said - God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me.
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September 19, 2023
LET US PRAY (12)
Daniel was a man who prayed and saw great results from his prayers. Right from the onset, in prison, out of prison, in the place as a counselor, and as a governor, Daniel was a man who voluntarily gave himself to prayers regardless of the situation, the people, and the place in his life. He deliberately set his heart and mind to honor God and live his life in His righteousness. Prayer and self-dedication to the Almighty God brought him freedom, honor, respect, and promotion in the land. The king, his fellow governors, and all the people in the land knew him as a man who prayed to the Almighty God and would not give anything or allow anything to stop or prevent him from doing so, not even threats to his life and position. When we have a life of prayer, we will definitely see the wicked in action against us and see the hand and power of God working on our behalf. Prayer opens our minds and hearts to know more about spiritual activities. That is the reason Paul encourages Christians to always pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
When the next promotion was to come for Daniel among the governors, the other governors set themselves up to stop him from having it through a signed decree by the king, by plotting to prevent him from praying to His God. Though Daniel knew their plots, he did not lobby them or lobby the king for any favor and he did not stop himself from praying to His God. Remember, the Lion’s den was to be a deterrent to Daniel and nothing else, but he was not afraid. “It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them so that the king would suffer no loss. Then Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. So, the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful, nor was there any error or fault found in him. Then these men said, we shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God. So, these governors and satraps thronged before the king, and said thus to him, King Darius, live forever. All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.” Daniel 6:1-7
When they finished and succeeded in their evil plots against Daniel, they did not find Daniel begging them, crying to them, or appealing for help from men, they found him praying to the God he knew, the God who had helped him before, and the God who will help him again no matter the threats, and the signed decree. “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days. So, they answered and said before the king, that Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.” Daniel 6:10,13
What is it that will deter you from praying? Nothing deterred Daniel, not even the evidence of the lion’s den. The success in plotting evil against Daniel was not the end. God was still in the plan. Remember, whatever is going on around you, God is still in the plan for your good.
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September 18, 2023
LET US PRAY (11)
“I will give my angels charge over you.” Have you ever asked God to send His angels to you? He promised He will if we ask. Forget about your imagination of angels, focus on what God has said in His word and promises. He can and will do whatever He had said and promised if we are bold enough to stand or kneel down and ask with a humble faithful spirit and mind. He said in all circumstances – He will give His angels charge over you. In all circumstances, He will not leave you or forsake you.” Even when you find yourself in situations that are too tough for you or for anyone to help you through or handle for you. He told Moses, as you go, my presence will go with you, as you speak, my presence will be there with you, as you lead the people, my presence will be there, as you ask in prayers, believe that His presence is there with you.
God has not changed His mind concerning you and His angels; He has not changed any of their functions and purpose, as He had in the age’s past, so are they now, and all angels are completely submissive to God on all that He sent them to do no matter the place, people and whatever your experience may be in this life. “Israel, the Lord who created you says, do not be afraid, I will save you. I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through deep waters, I will be with you; your troubles will not overwhelm you. When you pass through fire, you will not be burned; the hard trials that come will not hurt you.” Isaiah 43:1-2
His presence is always with us, we should develop and stand on that consciousness in our mind that the presence of the Lord is with us. In one of his many days of trouble, Jacob in a dream realized the presence of the Lord when he saw God’s angels in a dream. This is the story and the fact as declared in the Holy Scripture. “Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and He said, I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you. When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it. He was afraid and said, how awesome is this place, this is none other than the house of God, this is the gate of heaven.” Genesis 28:10-17
Throughout his days, Jacob never forgets that dream, that presence, and that assurance that God did send His angels to him in ways that were beyond his imagination. Jacob lived to be and to see God bless him and fulfill all that He promised. In times of fear and uncertainties, God sends His angels to minister to His people. Remember, angels are spirits, there are not human beings and human beings are not spirits, but flesh. “Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. You will tread on the lion and the cobra; you will trample the great lion and the serpent. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.” Hebrews 1:14, Psalms 91:11-14
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September 15, 2023
LET US PRAY (10)
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3: 20-21. God cannot answer your prayers and leave you in the same sport, He will definitely take you up further and up higher and will make you better than you were before. He who is able to do exceedingly abundantly more than we can ask, think, or imagine is the God we serve and pray to. That is the extent to what God will do when we ask for anything according to His will. He gave Hannah more than the number she requested; He gave Jabez more than what was expected; He gave Job far more than what he had before, and He will give you far more than what you ask when you continuously ask in faith, remain in the faith, and walk in the faith.
Have you prayed a prayer of petition? You will soon pray a prayer of praise and thanksgiving to that same God. This was Hannah’s prayer of praise and thanksgiving when she gave Samuel over to Eli in the house in fulfilling her vow after her prayer of petition was answered. “And Hannah prayed and said, my heart rejoices in the Lord, my horn is exalted in the Lord. I smile at my enemies because I rejoice in Your salvation. No one is holy like the Lord, for there is none besides You, nor is there any rock like our God. Talk no more so very proudly, let no arrogance come from your mouth, for the Lord is the God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, and the hungry have ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children has become feeble. The Lord kills and makes alive, He brings down to the grave and brings up. The Lord makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap, to set them among princes and make them inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and He has set the world upon them. He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked shall be silent in darkness. For by strength, no man shall prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces; from heaven He will thunder against them. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed.” 1 Samuel 2:1-10
When God answers our prayer, the result always exceeds what we asked; always brings joy and gladness, and always magnifies God in our hearts and in the presence of others. It enables us to be bolder than before in declaring our faith openly, it takes away our shame and disgrace and grants us a greater hope with greater confidence to live for Christ, and in Him. “Sing, O barren, you who have not borne. Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not labored with child. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman, says the Lord. Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; do not spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited. Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.” Isaiah 54:1-4
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September 14, 2023
LET US PRAY (9)
Prayer attracts God’s mercy, forgiveness, and the power of love. It exposes the power of God in all things, all places, and in all circumstances. With prayer, God will open the heavens, with prayers, He will save souls, with prayers, He will restore hope and peace, with prayers He will break yokes and expel evil, with prayers, He will cleanse the Land and with prayers, he will restore His fear and righteousness. What have you lost? Pray to God and He will restore. What have you seen, pray to God and He will change. What do you expect, pray to God and He will make it happen. “Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.” James 1:13-18.
This is what God told King Solomon and this is the promise when we pray – “Then the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place. For now. I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually. As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father saying, you shall not fail to have a man as ruler in Israel.” 2 Chronicles 7:12-18.
God answered Solomon’s prayers with a follow-up promise - I have heard your prayer - I have chosen this place for Myself - when I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, - if My people who are called by My name - will humble themselves – pray - seek My face - turn from wicked ways, - I will hear from heaven, - will forgive their sin, and - heal their land. Those promises are still effective today as they were in the time of Solomon. I pray God will answer you now and give you a follow-up promise as He did with King Solomon here. Prayer brings down the presence of God, gives healing to our bodies, and brings restoration, deliverance, forgiveness, and preservation. It is impossible for God to ignore the prayers of His people. He did not ignore the prayer of King Solomon, and that of Elijah and He will not ignore yours. Elijah prayed for God to withhold rain and He did for three and a half years, and prayed again and God released it thereafter. People are waiting for your prayers. Situations are waiting for your prayers and hoping that you will pray.
God did not ignore the prayer of King Solomon; He answered them in the presence of the people. While God sees all things and knows what to do at every instant, He cherishes our prayers and desires to hear us pray. Prayer is communication between you and your God. Pray and keep the prayer line active by praying without ceasing.
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September 13, 2023
LET US PRAY (8)
Standing strong in whatever situation you find yourself in requires doing many things, and one of such is prayers while continuing in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. Never take success lightly, always pray, and never be distracted by the success or anything else that may come along with it. Jesus Christ our Lord never took prayers lightly despite being conceived by the Holy Spirit, filled by the Holy Spirit at His baptism, and led by the Holy Spirit throughout His time on earth, despite what He was doing. He never allowed success in ministry to take away time for prayers and always either take his disciples with Him or ask them to pray. “So, anyone who thinks he is standing strong should be careful not to fall. Pray in the Spirit at all times. Pray with all kinds of prayers, and ask for everything you need. To do this you must always be ready. Never give up. Always pray for all God’s people.” 1 Corinthians 10:12, Ephesians 6:18
These are the other things you will definitely need to remain strong and successful in whatever you do and wherever you are, - “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his great power. Wear the full armor of God. Wear God’s armor so that you can fight against the devil’s evil tricks. Our fight is not against people on earth. We are fighting against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness. We are fighting against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly world. That is why you need to get God’s full armor. Then on the day of evil, you will be able to stand strong. And when you have finished the whole fight, you will still be standing. So, stand strong, with the belt of truth tied around your waist. And on your chest wear the protection of right living. And on your feet wear the Good News of peace to help you stand strong. And also use the shield of faith. With that, you can stop all the burning arrows of the Evil One. Accept God’s salvation to be your helmet. And take the sword of the Spirit, that sword is the teaching of God.” Ephesians 6:10-17
The disciples of Jesus Christ took prayers seriously, they committed themselves to prayer, did it voluntarily and always, and the result was always amazing despite the intimidations and attacks. Never allow anything to take you away from prayers or take prayers away from you. “These things really happened when Herod, Pontius Pilate, the non-Jewish people, and the Jewish people all came together against Jesus here in Jerusalem. Jesus is your holy Servant. He is the One you made to be the Christ. These people made your plan happen; it happened because of your power and your will. And now, Lord, listen to what they are saying. They are trying to make us afraid! Lord, we are your servants. Help us to speak your word without fear. Help us to be brave by showing us your power; make sick people well, give proof, and make miracles happen by the power of Jesus, your holy servant. After they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke God’s word without fear.” Acts 4:27-31-6
Every situation calls for prayer. Nothing is too small, or too big, or too insignificant to commit to the Lord in prayers. He listens to and hears all prayers, and grants such according to His will by the power of His might. He is ever merciful, ever present, ever faithful, forever able, and always willing to intervene on our behalf when we pray. He deserves all of our praises as we call on Him always. Praise God for everything. Pray for everything, do not give up praying even when it has been declared impossible for you. Is anything too hard for God to do? In everything pray. If you are strong and standing, pray; if you are weak and have fallen, pray; if you are poor, pray; if you are rich, pray; if you are in power or out of power, pray. Never cease praying
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September 12, 2023
LET US PRAY (7)
Whatsoever God had promised you, don’t just wait for them, pray for them to come. Whatsoever the word of God had assured you, don’t just wait for them, pray for them. Elisha assured his servant of God’s presence, yet he prayed to the Lord for that assurance. Elisha said, don’t be afraid. The army that fights for us is larger than the one against us. Then Elisha prayed, Lord, open my servant’s eyes. Let him see. The Lord opened the eyes of the young man. And he saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. As the enemy came down toward Elisha, he prayed to the Lord. He said, make these people blind. So, the Lord made the Aramean army blind, as Elisha had asked. At Samaria, Elisha said, Lord, open these men’s eyes so they can see. So, the Lord opened their eyes. And the Aramean army saw that they were inside the city of Samaria. Elisha knew that God was with him all along but he had to pray for things to start happening in ways that proved the presence of the Lord and His readiness to protect them. When we wait without praying, we give up easily and become afraid even of things that do not pose a threat to us in any way. Prayer gives us confidence and assurance of faith in the word of God and in His promises. “Blessed is the one you discipline, Lord, the one you teach from your law; you grant them relief from days of trouble, till a pit is dug for the wicked. For the Lord will not reject His people; He will never forsake His inheritance.” Psalm 94:12-14.
God wants us to pray according to His will, pray for His will, pray for His promises to us, and pray for our concerns in every situation. He is always ready to answer and grant whatever we ask for according to His will for us through Christ Jesus our Lord. “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have what we asked of him.” 1 John 5:13-14.
Be in faith, walk in faith, pray in faith, and believe in faith that God will answer and grant your request. Forgive others and ask for forgiveness. This was what Jesus told Peter. “Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, Rabbi, look, the fig tree which You cursed has withered away. So, Jesus answered and said to them, have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” Mark 11:20-26
But Hannah answered and said, “No, my lord, I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor intoxicating drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord. Do not consider your maidservant a wicked woman, for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief I have spoken until now. Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition which you have asked of Him. And she said, let your maidservant find favor in your sight. So, the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad. Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before the Lord, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. So, it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, because I have asked for him from the Lord.” 1 Samuel 1:15-20
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September 11, 2023
LET US PRAY (6)
No matter what you have seen, God sees them better; no matter what you know now and will come to know later, God knows them better, and no matter the situation surrounding you, God can bring forth something good and something better for you. Even though He sees and knows all things concerning us, He still wants us to pray for our expectations. These are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ - “When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites. They love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners and pray loudly. They want people to see them pray. I tell you the truth. They already have their full reward. When you pray, you should go into your room and close the door. Then pray to your Father who cannot be seen. Your Father can see what is done in secret, and He will reward you. And when you pray, don’t be like those people who don’t know God. They continue saying things that mean nothing. They think that God will hear them because of the many things they say. Don’t be like them. Your Father knows the things you need before you ask Him.” Matthew 6:5-8
Even when the evidence is clear and you are surrounded by all forms of trouble, prayer can still change the outcome and bring you the victory that people never expected you would have. This is what happened to Elisha and his servant. - “The servant of Elisha got up early. When he went out, he saw an army with horses and chariots all around the city. The servant said to Elisha, oh, my master, what can we do? Elisha said, don’t be afraid. The army that fights for us is larger than the one against us. Then Elisha prayed, Lord, open my servant’s eyes. Let him see. The Lord opened the eyes of the young man. And he saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. As the enemy came down toward Elisha, he prayed to the Lord. He said, make these people blind. So, the Lord made the Aramean army blind, as Elisha had asked. Elisha said to them, this is not the right road. This is not the right city. Follow me. I’ll take you to the man you are looking for. Then Elisha led them to Samaria. At Samaria, Elisha said, Lord, open these men’s eyes so they can see. So, the Lord opened their eyes. And the Aramean army saw that they were inside the city of Samaria.” 2 Kings 6:15-20.
Just as his servant saw and was right, Elisha also saw the surrounding army, saw their weapons of war, their readiness to take him and his servant captive, and knew the order for his arrest came from the king. Elisha also knew God was with him and was leading him in all he did, but despite the fact that the armies were ready to take him captive at all cost, Elisha did not have to fight them, he trusted that God would keep him, and his servant from being taken captive even when his servant was afraid, Elisha had to first give his servant an assurance to douse his fear, - “And he answered, fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.” 2 Kings 6:16
Elisha did not just give his servant assurance, he actually prayed that God should open his eyes to see beyond what he had seen before and God did. Elisha prayed again for the armies that surrounded him, and the Lord answered him. Thereafter, Elisha started commanding the armies and they obeyed every word that he spoke to them. Prayers can do amazingly wonderful things that we cannot explain; they can change us, change people, change situations, and can also change lives; they can cause an impact far beyond the understanding of men and science.
Did you know God sees you? Even when darkness is at its peak, and you are overwhelmed with pains and sorrows, even when the enemies are all around you, armed and ready to take you down? God sees you and knows where you are, but He wants you to pray and ask. “Does He who fashioned the ear not hear? Does He who formed the eye not see? Does He who disciplines nations not punish? Does He who teaches mankind lack knowledge? The Lord knows all human plans; He knows that they are futile.” Psalm 94:9-11
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September 08, 2023
LET US PRAY (5)
“Listen to me, you stubborn people who think that victory is far away. I am bringing the day of victory near; it is not far away at all. My triumph will not be delayed. I will save Jerusalem and bring honor to Israel there. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, then you will ask for anything you wish, and you shall have it. My Father's glory is shown by your bearing much fruit, and in this way, you become my disciples.” Isaiah 46:12-13, John 14:7-8. You will ask anything you wish. Turn your wishes into prayers when standing before God to pray. Do not limit God by your thoughts and imaginations and do not think He will not do what you ask. He will definitely do according to His will for your life when you remain and continue in Him.
Christians who pray to God, the future is not far away, and the possibility of getting there is not impossible. In promises to Israel, He redeemed them from the stronghold of Pharaoh in Egypt, He broke the yoke of slavery and suffering, took them through the Red Sea, and the wilderness; took them through the deserts, provided manner and water for them in the desert, took them through the river Jordan, break down the walls of Jericho in order to establish them in the place He had promised. There is nothing that God will not do in order to take you to the future He promised no matter the place, the people, the delays, and the difficulties you will ever experience in life. He can take down kings for your sake because of His word and promise. “Wake up, Lord, and help us. Use your power and save us; use it as you did in ancient times. It was you that cut the sea monster Rahab to pieces. It was you also who dried up the sea and made a path through the water so that those you were saving could cross. Those whom you have rescued will reach Jerusalem with gladness, singing and shouting for joy. They will be happy forever, forever free from sorrow and grief.” Isaiah 51:9-11
Daniel became an unwilling captive but he never gave up trusting in the God he knew and accepted as Lord, he never gave up on prayer and fasting, and on one of his many days of fasting and prayers, God showed up in a way that gave Daniel the encouragement he needed in the times of his many troubles while still under the rule of king Nebuchadnezzar. This is what God in His love revealed to Daniel when he prayed - “Then that same night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision, and he praised the God of heaven. God is wise and powerful. Praise Him forever and ever. He controls the times and the seasons; He makes and unmakes kings; it is He who gives wisdom and understanding. He reveals things that are deep and secret; He knows what is hidden in darkness, and He Himself is surrounded by light.” Daniel 2:19-22
Prayer is comfort in times of trouble; it is peace of heart in times of fear; it is hope in times of hopelessness; it is the future while still in the present; it is joy in the midst of sadness; direction in times of confusion, it is joy in times of success. There is no situation in which prayer is not needed or should not be offered because no human being knows the past, the present, and the future as our God who made them knows them, ordained them and promised them to you. He declared – none of His words will fail to be fulfilled - “Listen to me, descendants of Jacob, all who are left of my people. I have cared for you from the time you were born. I am your God and will take care of you until you are old and your hair is gray. I made you and will care for you; I will give you help and rescue you. To whom will you compare me? says the Lord. Is there anyone else like me? Israel, the Lord who created you says, Do not be afraid, I will save you. I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through deep waters, I will be with you; your troubles will not overwhelm you. When you pass through fire, you will not be burned; the hard trials that come will not hurt you.” Isaiah 46:3-4, 43:1-2
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September 07, 2023
LET US PRAY (4)
“For in one place the Scriptures say, what are mere mortals that you should think about them, or a son of man that you should care for him?” Hebrews 2:6. Have you prayed today? In your prayers, include your expectations. This is one of the prayers and expectations of David. “In you, Lord my God, I put my trust. I trust in you; do not let me be put to shame, nor let my enemies triumph over me. No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame, but shame will come on those who are treacherous without cause. Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. Remember, Lord, your great mercy and love, for they are from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you, Lord, are good. Good and upright is the Lord; therefore, He instructs sinners in His ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them His way. All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful toward those who keep the demands of His covenant. For the sake of your name, Lord, forgive my iniquity, though it is great. Who, then, are those who fear the Lord? He will instruct them in the ways they should choose. They will spend their days in prosperity, and their descendants will inherit the land. The Lord confides in those who fear Him; He makes His covenant known to them. My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only He will release my feet from the snare. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. Relieve the troubles of my heart and free me from my anguish. Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins. See how numerous are my enemies and how fiercely they hate me. Guard my life and rescue me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you. Deliver Israel, O God, from all their troubles.” Psalm 25:1-22
What do you see, what do you know, what have you experienced, and what do you think should happen? Many of what we see and know today in our lives and society are beyond good healthy thoughts, beyond understanding, and far beyond what we expect. To many, hope is lost, faith is dying, and strength is diminishing, but to those who know their God and stand firm on His words and commandments, hope is never lost even when all things are falling apart. – “but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” Daniel 11:32. Regardless of what we see and know, God still remains faithful to His people today as it was before, He has not changed and will not in any way change. – “For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.” Malachi 3:6
Prayer is patiently speaking our expectations to the Lord and waiting patiently for His goodness to show up according to His plans. Isaiah said with all confidence that. That God will never fail us even when we are weak and faint-hearted before Him. “Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, my way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaish 40:27-31
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September 06, 2023
LET US PRAY (3)
Prayer is not an expression of imagination; it is an expression of expectation from the Almighty God who alone created all things, and can restore all things to those who ask Him in faith by the power of His might. He has turned darkness into light before and can do it again, ask Him. He has made dark clouds bright before and He can do it again, ask Him. He has restored people and lifted them up again, ask Him. He has opened doors before and kept them open, ask Him. Do not just wish things will happen, pray for them to happen, and it will be done. God did not promise to answer our wishes in life but to answer our prayers. “When that day comes, you will not ask me for anything. I am telling you the truth; the Father will give you whatever you ask of Him in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your happiness may be complete.” John 16:23-24.
Be confident, pray, and ask in the name of Jesus Christ. Be strong and determined; do not allow anything to hinder or stop you, not frustration, not the continuous afflictions or sickness, not pains or lack, and never show any sign of slacking, as long as it takes or requires, pray until the answer comes, for God will surely answer at the right time. Do not pray if you have no expectations. Don’t just pray, pray with expectations, with hope, and pray in faith. Pray because you are speaking to your Father in heaven, the God you know, the God who saves, pray because you are His child and not a stranger before Him.
These are His promises to you today as you pray.
- I will make the people of Judah strong;
- I will rescue the people of Israel.
- I will have compassion on them and bring them all back home.
- They will be as though I had never rejected them. I am the Lord their God;
- I will answer their prayers. Israel will be strong like soldiers, and happy.
- Their descendants will remember this victory and be glad.
- I will call my people and gather them together.
- I will rescue them and make them as numerous as they used to be, they will remember me.
- Their children will survive and return home together.
- I will bring them home and settle them in their own country.
- When they pass through their sea of trouble, I, the Lord, will strike the waves, and the depths of the Nile will go dry.
- Proud Assyria will be humbled, and mighty Egypt will lose her power.
- I will make my people strong; they will worship and obey me.
“I will make the people of Judah strong; I will rescue the people of Israel. I will have compassion on them and bring them all back home. They will be as though I had never rejected them. I am the Lord their God; I will answer their prayers. The people of Israel will be strong like soldiers, happy like those who have been drinking wine. Their descendants will remember this victory and be glad because of what the Lord has done. I will call my people and gather them together. I will rescue them and make them as numerous as they used to be. Though I have scattered them among the nations, yet, in far-off places they will remember me. They and their children will survive and return home together. From Egypt and Assyria, I will bring them home and settle them in their own country. I will settle them in Gilead and Lebanon also; the whole land will be filled with people. When they pass through their sea of trouble, I, the Lord, will strike the waves, and the depths of the Nile will go dry. Proud Assyria will be humbled, and mighty Egypt will lose her power. I will make my people strong; they will worship and obey me. The Lord has spoken.” Zechariah 10:6-12
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September 05, 2023
LET US PRAY (2)
Jesus Christ told the people how to pray without ceasing – “Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will instead give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will instead give him a snake? If you then, evil sinful by nature as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven perfect as He is give what is good and advantageous to those who keep on asking Him.” Matthew 7:7-11.
This is the method Christ gave to the people in His word above, - ask God and keep asking Him without ceasing until you have what you ask for, Do not allow frustration or delays, or any form of hardship or anything else to stop you from asking continuously, knowing that our God is merciful, forgiving, loving, and full of compassion. Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives. Remember, God is never offended or disturbed when you ask Him repeatedly as people will often be, and urge you to stop repeating your prayers. God wants you to do as often as you can from your heart and with your whole being. Keep asking regardless of delays and pains.
Seeking in prayers is both spiritual and physical. Seeking revelations from God for hidden sins in your life or actions that may be preventing you from moving forward; seeking how to deal with delays, frustrations, and affliction on your Christian journey; seeking what to do next, and where to go next in prayers are all very essential. Remember, God guides, leads, and also gives directions on the next move. God gave Elijah direction on what to do next that saved his life – “And the word of the Lord came to him, saying, go from here and turn eastward and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan River. You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to sustain you there with food. So, he went and did in accordance with the word of the Lord; he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook. It happened after a while the brook dried up because there was no rain in the land. Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.” 1 Kings 17:2-9. Elijah did not ask for the raven but God knew what he wanted and made provision for him. Free yourself from worries, and keep on seeking the Lord Jesus Christ no matter what may be against you, no matter where you are, and no matter how your feelings may be. He will answer and show you the way and also lead you on that way. seek and keep on seeking and you will find. And he who keeps on seeking finds.
In praying, do not pray to an unknown God, pray to the God you know, the God who saves and the God who created all things and sustains all things by the power of His might. In knocking on doors for help, do not knock on unknown doors, do not knock on human doors seeking to enslave or use you for their own advantage. Knock on the doors of heaven and God will open the windows of heaven and pour out blessings enough to take you to the next level of raise with high praise to His Holy Name. It is God who opens doors for people by His grace and not by their might and He gives opportunities, and gives everything to everyone and mostly meets and gives the needs of those who ask Him for specific things in their lives. - Knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened. God is never late, neither is He too early, He acts right on time.
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September 04, 2023
LET US PRAY (1)
Praying is all about taking your joy, pains, sorrows, praises, and expectations in life before God at all times. Believe, faith, patience, confidence, love, and trust in Jesus Christ as Lord is the key when we go before Our Lord to pray for whatever needs we have. Prayer demands many things like being focused on it, determination in it, and remaining courageous thereafter. It demands all of you, all in you, all in your heart, and all in your thoughts. Prayers demand you put God above everything else you may think, know, or do. Despite the threat, the disciple of Jesus Christ went into prayer after His crucifixion and this was the amazing result thereafter; “And when they had prayed, the place where they were meeting together was shaken a sign of God’s presence, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness and courage.” Acts 4:31.
Did you know God wants to show you great and mighty things? In fact, He does not want to only show you, He wants you to have them and do them, and that only comes true when you actively and voluntarily engage yourself in praying. This is what God told the prophet Jeremiah while he was under captivity and kept away from the people: “Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying, thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name, Call to Me and I will answer you, and tell you, and even show you great and mighty things, things which have been confined and hidden, which you do not know and understand and cannot distinguish.” Jeremiah 33:1-3. God promised to show Jeremiah things he needed to see, know, trust, and be courageous while he was still in captivity. God is ready to do the same for you also.
Captivity of any kind and in any place cannot and should not prevent you from praying likewise are sorrows and pains from the covers of darkness. Prayer is one of the best ways we communicate with our Father in heaven concerning our needs and concerns for everything, everywhere, and every time. Prayer is timeless regardless of people and place, and it is powerful; it is one of the ways to receive comfort for our hurts and hearts and build confidence to keep pursuing the future in the presence of God amidst our difficulties and pains. Prayer releases the heart from sorrows, delays, and afflictions. It gives hope and strength; prayer is your best companion when you are in any form of trouble, feeling down, forgotten, and rejected. Prayer is also the best way to praise the Lord for what He has done and what He will do, and the best time to pray is now, and the best place to pray is right where you are right now. Do not push forward the time the Spirit of God urges you to pray. Pause from all activities and do it right there. That is the time heaven is ready to respond to the voice of your prayers.
Prayer is taking everything about you, and in you to God and trusting Him thereafter no matter what the outcome may be. In prayers, we tell God what, who, and where we are; we tell Him what we are going through, our feelings and pains, and what we are expecting, and in prayers, we praise Him for who He is, what He is able to do, and what He will do for you thereafter.
Prayer is not all about winning, it is standing strong, trusting, and remaining confident in God no matter what. It is the determination to continue and to remain faithful to Him who is faithful in all things to everyone. Prayer is lifting up your eyes above your troubles to seek help from God in what you need at that moment. “I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from where shall my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber briefly nor sleep soundly. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will protect you from all evil; He will keep your life. The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in everything that you do from this time forth and forever.” Psalms 121:1-8. Amen
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September 01, 2023
THIS MONTH, CAN THESE BONES LIVE?
“The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, Son of man, can these bones live? I said, Sovereign Lord, you alone know. Then he said to me, Prophesy to these bones and say to them, dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones; I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord. So, I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. Then He said to me, Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, this is what the Sovereign Lord says, Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live. So, I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet, a vast army. Then He said to me, Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, our bones are dried up and our hope is gone, we are cut off. Therefore, prophesy and say to them, This is what the Sovereign Lord says, my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.” Ezekiel 37:1-14
Something was going on in Israel at that time, the land, the temple of worship, and hopelessness was on the rise and no one was able to change it until God stepped in in His power. Ezekiel knew it, he did not walk to the valley of dry bones by himself, God took him there, showed and reminded him what he knew and saw physically in Israel in that vision. Ezekiel saw what others saw, the hardship, hopeless situation, and the weak people after the destruction. But despite their fears and inability to do anything, God was still willing to do what he wanted, God was still with them for His name’s sake and for their good. Do you know God sees what you and knows what you know even before you tell Him in prayers? In fact, He knows much more than we know and sees much more than we see. He sees the future before it starts and knows the end before it begins.
“Remember this, keep it in mind, take it to heart, you rebels, remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, My purpose will stand and I will do all that I please.” Isaiah 46:8-10
God would have done what he wanted by Himself but He wanted Ezekiel to be part of what He was about to do. He wants you to be part of what He wants to do this month. What have you seen? What have you heard? What have you experienced? What has the devil shown to you so often and what has the Lord shown you so often? Even when hope is lost by what you see, hear, and experience, God can bring back to life that which is lost. Can these bones live?
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August 31, 2023
WHAT YOU LOST, GOD WILL RESTORE (IX)
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified. And they shall rebuild the old ruins, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations. Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the foreigner shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers. But you shall be named the priests of the Lord, they shall call you the servants of our God. You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory, you shall boast. Instead of your shame, you shall have double honor, and instead of confusion, they shall rejoice in their portion. Therefore, in their land, they shall possess double; everlasting joy shall be theirs.” Isaiah 61:1-7
The result and reword of restoration is beyond the best imagination of men, it is far beyond our thoughts and labor, and God had promised, no matter what you have gone through in this life, He will restore you, not only you, He will also restore what you had lost in the process of waiting on Him, walking with Him, trusting in Him and believing in Him. When they think and say you are going down because of what they see and have down, God says He is restoring you in all areas, He is keeping you in His hands and in His love, He is your God and your strength and your defender and your rewarder. Jesus Christ promised Peter that He would be restored and it was that Peter was fully restored by the power of God. “And the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will Himself restore you and make you strong, firm, and steadfast. To Him be the power forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 5:10-11
In all circumstances, do not compare your God with their God, do not even imagine it. our God, He is the maker of all things visible and invisible. When we suffer, the immediate thought in our hearts is that God has forgotten us, rejected and allowed us to make mistakes and see the unthinkable and what we have not prayed for happen in our lives; we start losing hope and courage and cast down our reliance on the power in the word of God to bring us up again. There is no place that God cannot rescue us from and no fall that He cannot raise up again to stand strong and make progress.
“To whom will you compare me? Or who is my equal? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens, who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, my way is hidden from the Lord; my cause is disregarded by my God? Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and His understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:25-31
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August 30, 2023
WHAT YOU LOST, GOD WILL RESTORE (VIII)
This is what David said - “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23:1-6
David declared that God restored him. After his anointing by Samuel as the net king in Israel after Saul; after many days without the words of that anointing manifesting itself; after returning to the previous job, the same place, and the same environment, and after many years of struggles with himself and Saul, David thought he will never see what God said through Samuel; he will never be king and will forever remain in the forest caring for animals, David said he lost his soul, lost his thought, lost his ambition and dreams, but God who promise was still alive, faithful to His words and promises, willing, and able to make him what he said. David said – He – God restored his soul. God made him what He said. God will make you what He said in Jesus’ name.
The word and promises of God to you might take long, but they will surely come; you may think otherwise about God’s words and promises, but all will be fulfilled, you may feel the anxiety, the pians, and hopelessness in waiting, but God is still faithful, He will do what He said, none of His word will remain unfulfilled no matter what and no matter where. “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the Sower, and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” Isaiah 55:10-12
The situation may be very bad as you know and think; the people may be unfriendly and hostile, and the place uncomfortable to grow into what God had said, but God will still do what He said regardless of your thoughts, experiences, the people, their attitude, and the place. When they say to you it is impossible, believe God for that impossible situation to change even when you know it will be impossible, but because of what God promised, and believe Him for that impossibility before you. Mary was told to believe God for what she knew was completely impossible in her life and when she did, she saw the power of God and His hands fashioning out what He intended in her life which was considered impossible. Your day of bold declaration of God’s faithfulness and goodness is coming, even when that day is delayed, it will definitely come while you are still alive and strong to rejoice and be glad in it.
“Samuel said to Jesse, are all the young men here? Then he said, there remains yet the youngest, and there he is, keeping the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, send and bring him. For we will not sit down till he comes here. So, he sent and brought him in. And the Lord said, arise, anoint him, for this is the one. Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.” 1 Samuel 16:11-13
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August 29, 2023
WHAT YOU LOST, GOD WILL RESTORE (VII)
– “Then Satan answered the Lord, does Job fear God for nothing? Have You not put a hedge of protection around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands and conferred prosperity and happiness upon him, and his possessions have increased in the land. But put forth Your hand now and touch, destroy all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face. Then the Lord said to Satan, Behold, all that Job has is in your power, only do not put your hand on the man himself, So, Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.” Job 1:9-12, and the news of his troubles started coming in.
There are many lost things we cannot restore by ourselves no matter how much we earn, what we do, and how much we labor with our strength, but there is nothing that God cannot restore. We cannot in any way restore lost years but God can. “And I will compensate you for the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the creeping locust, the stripping locust, and the gnawing locust, my great army which I sent among you. You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord your God who has dealt wondrously with you, and My people shall never be put to shame. And you shall know without any doubt that I am in the midst of Israel to protect and bless you and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other; My people will never be put to shame. It shall come about after this that I shall pour out My Spirit on all mankind, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on the male and female servants, I will pour out My Spirit in those days.” Joel 2:25-29
If God did restore your soul through the gift of salvation, then, there is nothing else in you that He cannot restore and will not restore as you truly believe, absolutely trust, diligently follow, and obediently submit yourself to Him. Even when all people forget you or learn to forget all about you, God will still restore you, He will never forget you whom He saved through grace in Christ Jesus, washed in the precious blood of Christ Jesus, given the seal of His Holy Spirit, and given a new name, - a child of the living God, the Almighty God.
These were the words of Job’s two friend, Zophar – “Yet if you devote your heart to Him and stretch out your hands to him, if you put away the sin that is in your hand and allow no evil to dwell in your tent, then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear. You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. You will be secure because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.” Job 11:13-19
Eliphaz - “Submit to God and be at peace with Him; in this way, prosperity will come to you. Accept instruction from His mouth and lay up His words in your heart. If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove wickedness far from your tent and assign your nuggets to the dust, your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines, then the Almighty will be your gold, the choicest silver for you. Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty and will lift up your face to God. You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows. What you decide on will be done, and light will shine on your ways. When people are brought low and you say, lift them up, then He will save the downcast. He will deliver even one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.” Job 22:23-30
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August 28, 2023
WHAT YOU LOST, GOD WILL RESTORE (VI)
“All who devour you will be devoured; and all your adversaries, every one of them, will go into captivity. And they who plunder you will become plunder, and all who prey upon you I will give for prey. For I will restore health to you and I will heal your wounds, says the Lord, because they have called you an outcast, saying, this is Zion, no one seeks her and no one cares for her. Thus says the Lord, behold, hear this, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have mercy on his dwelling places; the city will be rebuilt on its old, mound-like ruin, and the palace will stand on its rightful place.” Jeremiah 30:16-18 – That is the promise to hold on as you follow the Lord for your restoration in all areas of your life.
Even when money, friends, hope, and dreams are lost, and no resources on hand to stand on or depend on, and no feasible means and ways out for you, God will still restore you by His power and by His mighty hands at the right time and place. He will never forget those He saved, called, and sent on a mission and those He destined for His purpose now and in the future. When restoration comes, people will change and things will change for you and for those with you. Hope will be restored; peace will be restored, and all that ever left you will be restored. A storm came on, an attacker rose up suddenly, a mistake was made, misinformation came up, you were ambushed by evil, friends and relatives departed, jealousy came on, the wicked ceased an open scene, sickness took its toll, mismanagement of fund brought financial hardship and debts, near success failures, unending delays, and many more things came up suddenly and overtook your dreams and life as that of Jacob. Labor, and desires, had turned your life and everything in you downward and there had been no way up again despite your best efforts, but God had not forgotten you, He is turning things around with a storm. As you were overtaken suddenly, so will you be restored suddenly, so will your field yield back its fruit suddenly, so will your labor produce its results suddenly and you will see the face of the Lord shining on you again with joy.
A storm that will bring great change is on its way. It will change spiritual and physical things. It will change people and nations, it will change the big and the small, the poor and the rich, those lifted high and those pushed down, those in the forefront and those behind, no one will be spared and no one will escape. “Behold the storm of the Lord. Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the Lord will not turn back until He has executed and accomplished the intentions of His mind. In the latter days, you will understand this.” Jeremiah 30:23-24
For whatever reason, God has not handed you over to the wicked for destruction for whatever reason; God has not abandoned you to the desires of His enemies for whatever reason; your God is still faithful and merciful. He will show you mercy, He will heal you, He will fulfill His plans, He will lead you to the destiny He planned, designed, and prepared for you; forever reason, your day of restoration is coming. When God allowed Satan to touch Job, He gave him a condition even without the knowledge of Job.
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August 25, 2023
WHAT YOU LOST, GOD WILL RESTORE (V)
David cried to God in Psalm 22:1-21 “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O, my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you, they trusted and were not put to shame. But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads; he trusts in the Lord; let Him deliver him; let Him rescue him, for he delights in Him. Yet you are He who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help. Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me; they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet, I can count all my bones, they stare and gloat over me; they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. But you, O Lord, do not be far off, O you my help, come quickly to my aid. Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog. Save me from the mouth of the lion. You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen. I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation, I will praise you.”
That same David testified thereafter of God’s restoration in Psalm 23:1-6. “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Your day of crying and sorrows is coming to an end, God is and will restore you. He will deliver you from your past and take you into the future He destined and planned. He is the only God who is abundant in love, forgiveness, and mercies. He will restore you and will show you mercies and enable you to enjoy His goodness again and even better than you had been before.
The beginning of human destruction starts with the soul and the beginning of human restoration also starts from the soul. Satan uses physical and spiritual crises to destroy the souls of men. He uses adversities, desires, pride, rejection, destructions, failures, and delays to create a scene in the heart and thoughts and actions that result in rebellion against God, His word, and commands. The effect of sin is the destruction of the relationship with God. The result of salvation through Christ Jesus is a full restoration of our soul, followed by the restoration of all other things lost to Satan, his agents of wickedness, our often mistakes, and deliberate acts of disobedience. That is why the bible describes salvation as the most important free gift from God to all who believe in Christ Jesus. “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23. There are things you cannot restore by your knowledge, strength, and wealth, but there is nothing that God cannot restore in, for, and through you.
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August 24, 2023
WHAT YOU LOST, GOD WILL RESTORE (IV)
God restored Sarah’s ability to conceive even when she thought and knew it was impossible in the same womb, in that same old body, and in that same place despite being old and advanced in age together with her husband Abraham. God can restore even the impossible no matter how it had been destroyed or what had ever happened to it before now. God will restore you, ask for it, pray for it, wait for it, and expect it. what he will restore in you will be great even the things you had forgotten all about in your life and in your future. God restored joy and laughter to Sarah and Abraham, He restored their confidence in Him and in His promises and restored their testimony of His goodness and faithfulness, and gave them a reason to celebrate the result of twenty-five years of patience while waiting and trusting in His promise. “The Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did to Sarah as He had promised. And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore him, Isaac. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. And Sarah said, God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh over me. And she said, who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age. And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.” Genesis 21:1-8
Before now, the barrenness of Sarah had made her ashamed even before the people and had become a dent in their testimony about God and their continuous faithfulness and commitment to telling others of God’s favor and ability, but after the restoration and conception and birth of Isaac, their confidence was restored and the people saw it and celebrated with them. While celebrating the birth of Isaac, Abraham, and Sarah celebrated the result of patience and faith in waiting on the Lord to fulfill and do what He promised. Your patience and waiting for what the Lord had said and promised will not be wasted despite the painful delays you have experienced.
Even in your old age, God can restore you, He can still fulfill His word and promises for there is no restriction on what He will do, His word will find you prepared and His promises to you will be fulfilled and celebrated by you as He had said. Nothing was able to stop Abraham and Sarah from having Isaac, not even their mistakes and thoughts. “He brings down powerful rulers and reduces them to nothing. They are like young plants, just set out and barely rooted. When the Lord sends a wind, they dry up and blow away like straw. To whom can the holy God be compared? Is there anyone else like Him? Look up at the sky, who created the stars you see? The one who leads them out like an army, He knows how many there are and calls each one by name. His power is so great, that not one of them is ever missing. Israel, why then do you complain that the Lord doesn't know your troubles or care if you suffer injustice? Don't you know? Haven't you heard? The Lord is the everlasting God; He created all the world. He never grows tired or weary. No one understands His thoughts. He strengthens those who are weak and tired. Even those who are young grow weak; young people can fall exhausted. But those who trust in the Lord for help will find their strength renewed. They will rise on wings like eagles; they will run and not get weary; they will walk and not grow weak.” Isaiah 40:23-31. The same issue that the people used to mock Sarah and Abraham, was the same issue they joined them to celebrate when God fulfilled what He promised. Yours is coming.
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August 23, 2023
WHAT YOU LOST, GOD WILL RESTORE (III)
When we have delays, difficulties, rejection, isolation, loneliness, and suffer spiritual and physical pains, we think God has turned His back on us forever, forgotten, rejected, allow the enemies to defeat us, and will never restore us, but our thoughts are too small compared to the mercies God has in store for us. When what we want, ask for in prayers, and expect in our lives seems too far off and our enemies are always stronger, more powerful, and active every day despite the evil we know they do, we think what we have lost in the process of remaining faithful and committed to the word and promises of God will never be restored. But God will restore us and what we have lost.
Many have even lost faith though they are still Christians. Many have lost hope though they are still in the church praying and many are wondering when and how it will all end, and the solution seems too far from their best dreams, knowledge, and imagination. Abraham had the same feeling and thoughts when he waited for Isaac, the son that God promised for twenty-five years. When Sarah looked at herself and her husband she concluded that age is never going to allow them to see the promises of God and started planning alternatives for themselves, but God was willing to do what He had said, He was still able to do what He had promised and was still with them even though they were old and had considered in their heart that it is was all over and never will be. Regardless of the alternative plans you are making for yourselves, your finances, your marriage, and your family, God will definitely do all that He planned to do for you and will fulfill what He promised you if you will remain in Him in the place that He had placed you.
This is what God told Abraham t as he was making alternatives for himself and his wife, – “After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great. But Abram said, O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? And Abram said, behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, this man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir. And he brought him outside and said, look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them. Then he said to him, so shall your offspring be. And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness. And he said to him, I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess. But he said, O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” Genesis 15:1-8
“And God said to Abraham, as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her. Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child? And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before you. God said, no, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation. But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.” Genesis 17:15-21
Because of delays, and unending hardship, you are making alternatives for yourselves as Abraham and Sarah did, but know this, whatever God had said, that He will do, and whatever He had promised that He will do. As it was for Abraham, so will it be for you. For Abraham to have Isaac, God restored Sarah's ability to conceive. You will have what He promised.
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August 22, 2023
WHAT YOU HAVE LOST, GOD WILL RESTORE (II)
No matter who, what, and where, our God is still on His throne and reigning in His majesty. You think what you have lost is gone forever and you will never see them again or recover from the losses, but you will be restored and you will recover yourself and what you have lost. God had done the impossible before and can still do the impossible again in you, in your life, and in every situation that concerns you. While restoring what you have lost, God will give you what you did not even ask but truly needed from this time on. He is the God who knows your past but leads you into your future. The future He promised, the future He made, and the future He destined.
When the children of Israel were in captivity, thinking they will never be free or retune to the place God had in word promised to Abraham their ancestor, God sent Jeremiah to give this word of comfort, hope, and assurance, - “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you. For behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it. These are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah. Thus says the Lord, we have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace. Ask now, and see, can a man bear a child? Why then do I see every man with his hands on his stomach like a woman in labor? Why has every face turned pale? Alas, that day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it. And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him. But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. Then fear not, O Jacob my servant, declares the Lord, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from far away, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return and have quiet and ease, and none shall make him afraid. For I am with you to save you, declares the Lord; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you, I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished. For thus says the Lord, your hurt is incurable, and your wound is grievous. There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you. All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe because your guilt is great because your sins are flagrant. Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant, I have done these things to you. Therefore, all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey. For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast, it is Zion, for whom no one cares. Thus says the Lord, behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings; the city shall be rebuilt on its mound, and the palace shall stand where it used to be. Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving, and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will make them honored, and they shall not be small. Their children shall be as they were of old, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish all who oppress them. Their prince shall be one of themselves; their ruler shall come out from their midst; I will make him draw near, and he shall approach me, for who would dare of himself to approach me? Declares the Lord. And you shall be my people, and I will be your God.” Jeremiah 30:2-22
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August 21, 2023
WHAT YOU HAVE LOST, GOD WILL RESTORE (I)
Don’t lose what you have because of what you have lost. You have Christ Jesus; you have God, you have the Holy Spirit, you have hope and you have life. There is every possibility that you will be restored, and the things you have lost will be restored and can be restored. Stay strong, remain faithful in Him and to Him, committed, trusting, and believing in His restoration power. People have lost many things in life; things that were precious, valued, and of utmost importance to their lives, and living, and losing them had resulted in a consistent nightmare, and hard to believe it had gone from their grip, either by mistake, deliberate actions, or carelessly. Believe and trust God for things that are possible and those that you know are impossible.
As Job did, trust in God consistently, trust His word always, and give yourself wholeheartedly to follow His commandments. Leave the rest to Him, He will fix you, and fix whatever concerns you. He will do what He said and will fulfill all He had promised regardless of the people, place, and number of years you have waited. “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded, and be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. To him be the dominion forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 5:6-11
In restoring Job, God made the impossible for him, God did not leave any aspect of his family, his life, his health, and his finances behind. He restored all to Job and took him far beyond what he was before. God restores what we had before but lost them through Satan’s attack, and He give him even more than he had before including what he did not have or ask before that day. That is what your restoration will be like as you follow God faithfully and consistently. “Your righteousness God reaches to the heavens, you who have done great things. Who is like you, God? Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. You will increase my honor and comfort me once more. I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel. My lips will shout for joy when I sing praise to you, I whom you have delivered. My tongue will tell of your righteous acts all day long, for those who wanted to harm me have been put to shame and confusion.” Psalm 71:19-24
This is what Job had when he was considered the richest in the land; “He had seven sons and three daughters. He owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 teams of oxen, and 500 female donkeys. He also had many servants. He was, in fact, the richest person in that entire area.” Job 1:2-3
This is how Job ended after Job restored him – “For now he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 teams of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. He also gave Job seven more sons and three more daughters. He named his first daughter Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch. In all the land no women were as lovely as the daughters of Job. And their father put them into his will along with their brothers. Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren. Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life.” Job 42:12-17. Can God not do even more for you? He will.
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August 18, 2023
TOTAL RESTORATION (5)
What do people think of you? What do they say to, and of you? What do you know, think, and believe of yourself? Regardless of the issues past or present, the restoration of your life by the Lord takes you over whatever had been, whatever they had said before, whatever they are saying now, whatever they had done, and whatever they are doing. It will take you beyond your known and unknown faults and mistakes; it takes you beyond all of the evil effects of the sins you have sincerely confessed and forsaken by His grace and power and had freely given you His salvation thereafter. His restoration will leave you with confidence, joy, and hope that is beyond your strength, knowledge, and any kind of help from any man. In all things, after restoration, it is what God says and does that will remain and be effective. His word will never fail or change, and His plans will never be changed by any activities or adversities from anywhere.
These are what the friends of Job said to him. Bildad; “How long will you say such things? Your words are a blustering wind. Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right? When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to the penalty of their sin. But if you will seek God earnestly and plead with the Almighty, if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore you to your prosperous state. Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be. Ask the former generation and find out what their ancestors learned. Surely God does not reject one who is blameless or strengthen the hands of evildoers. He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy. Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tents of the wicked will be no more.” Job 8:1-8, 20-22
God will never forsake the former righteousness of His people no matter what the devil will ever do to or against them. This is what David said concerning righteousness, the righteous, and all the children of the righteous – “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way. Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand. I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread.” Psalm 37:23- 25
Let us pray this David’s prayer now – “In you Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame. In your righteousness, rescue me and deliver me; turn your ear to me and save me. Be my rock of refuge, to which I can always go; give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of those who are evil and cruel. For you have been my hope, Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth. From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you. I have become a sign to many; you are my strong refuge. My mouth is filled with your praise, declaring your splendor all day long. Do not cast me away when I am old; do not forsake me when my strength is gone. For my enemies speak against me; those who wait to kill me conspire together. They say God has forsaken him; pursue him and seize him, for no one will rescue him. Do not be far from me, my God; come quickly, God, to help me. May my accusers perish in shame; may those who want to harm me be covered with scorn and disgrace. As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteous deeds, of your saving acts all day long, though I know not how to relate them all. I will come and proclaim your mighty acts, Sovereign Lord; I will proclaim your righteous deeds, yours alone. Since my youth, God, you have taught me, and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds. Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.” Psalm 71:1-18
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August 17, 2023
TOTAL RESTORATION (4)
Total restoration beyond all human expectations; total restoration beyond all personal efforts; total restoration beyond all dreams, all prayers, all prophesies, and all revelations. When we walk in obedience to God’s word, following His commands and doing them promptly and diligently, there is no doubt that our total restoration will come beyond whatever Satan has done or will ever do against us. Restoration will definitely come, that is the ultimate of salvation, godliness, and righteousness. Job lost everything, God restored everything and gave him even more than he had before. The restoration of Job was in all areas of his personal, family, and financial life. He had a complete restoration that was beyond the imaginations of his people and beyond any form of labor and prayers. When God is in you and you are in Him, expect nothing else but total restoration regardless of the battles in your life, the delays in having what you desire, and the time it will take for that restoration to come.
In restoring Job, God took him far beyond what his friends and family thought and expected and beyond what anyone could ever do to provide comfort or erase the effects and memories of all that had happened to him and all that he had lost. “There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless, a man of complete integrity. He feared God and stayed away from evil. He had seven sons and three daughters. He owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 teams of oxen, and 500 female donkeys. He also had many servants. He was, in fact, the richest person in that entire area.” Job 1:1-3
The news concerning Job’s loss came suddenly and successively. This is how they came. “One day when Job’s sons and daughters were feasting at the oldest brother’s house, a messenger arrived at Job’s home with this news; your oxen were plowing, with the donkeys feeding beside them when the Sabeans raided us. They stole all the animals and killed all the farmhands. I am the only one who escaped to tell you. While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news, the fire of God has fallen from heaven and burned up your sheep and all the shepherds. I am the only one who escaped to tell you. While he was still speaking, a third messenger arrived with this news, three bands of Chaldean raiders have stolen your camels and killed your servants. I am the only one who escaped to tell you. While he was still speaking, another messenger arrived with this news; your sons and daughters were feasting in their oldest brother’s home. Suddenly, a powerful wind swept in from the wilderness and hit the house on all sides. The house collapsed, and all your children are dead. I am the only one who escaped to tell you. Job stood up and tore his robe in grief. Then he shaved his head and fell to the ground to worship. He said, I came naked from my mother’s womb, and I will be naked when I leave. The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord. In all of this, Job did not sin by blaming God.” Job 1:13-22
When men finish with the news concerning all of your losses, falls, failures, shame, idleness and loneliness, lack and sickness, hopelessness and worthlessness, restrained by the evil of the day and without help or favor, you will receive the news of your restoration and rise beyond all of their expectations from your God in heaven as Job did. Job did not labor for his restoration, he trusted God and remained faithful all through the duration of his suffering. “When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before. Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring. So, the Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning.” Job 42:10-12
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August 16, 2023
TOTAL RESTORATION (3)
God will restore anointing and honor, grace and beauty, restore and enable, He will lead and give success, and He will take you beyond where you were before then before things started crumbling under your foot. God’s restoration is always bigger and better and it is powerful enough to take you along till eternity. Restoration always comes after repentance and forgiveness are received. Without total restoration, forgiveness is not complete. He will restore lost positions and jobs, lost opportunities and chances, lost dreams and revelation, and He will restore His grace to enable begin again and grow stronger than before – that is what total restoration means and that is His desire and plans for you.
This is what your restoration entails, “Bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me bless His Holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. Who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle. The Lord executes righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. He made known His ways to Moses, and His acts to the children of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor punished us according to our iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His mercy toward those who fear Him, as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame, He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him, and His righteousness to children’s children to such as keep His covenant, and to those who remember His commandments to do them. The Lord has established His throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all.” Psalms 103:1-19.
Total restoration changes people’s lives and changes things, it has the power to change nations and families and to bring down the glory and beauty of our Lord. Rejoice, fix your eyes, heart, and mind, and focus on your restoration. Do not mourn forever or lament indefinitely over what has been taken from you. God’s plan for you means complete and total restoration. When He is done, there will be no trace or evidence that there was ever a devil or sin or any trouble of any kind in you. That is the kind of total and heavenly restoration that is ours from our Lord God.
Let me remind you that what you lost is small compared to what God is restoring in your life. He has His plans and knows the ways and what to do for you. Thank Him for the restoration on the way, thank Him for the forgiveness and the mercies, and thank Him for the change that is coming to you and in you. When He restored Job, He took him beyond what he was before.
This is God’s word, this is the promise, and this is His commitment to you – “Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land. But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken. So, I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust,” Isaiah 1:18-20, Joel 2:25
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August 15, 2023
TOTAL RESTORATION (2)
Even when we know with all evidence that we have lost all; even when we think with all of our understanding of events that we have lost all; even when we are told in word and actions of men that we have lost all, even when we see it in our dreams and revelations that we have lost all, and will never recover, God says He will restore, and I know of truth, He can and He will restore all and even take us beyond what and where we were before. Do not be afraid, He will restore life and property, He will restore glory and honor, He will restore marriage and family, He will restore hope and faith, He will restore holiness and faithfulness, He will restore righteousness and peace, He will definitely restore all regardless of the circumstances that led to your losing all then and even now. “Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” Jeremiah 32:26-27. That is your assurance today.
Restoration by God’s standard obviously means more than just getting back what was forcefully taken, stolen, denied, or destroyed. It means that there is an increase in what you get back- more than before. God will make a full end of your restoration in which nothing is missing or broken. It means perfect and complete wholeness and abundance in every area of your life. His plans are perfect and effective and they change lives. His plans, when fully operational will not leave you the same no matter the circumstances, the people behind and before you, the place of your domicile, your age, your name, your profession, and your color. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity, I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.” Jeremiah 29:11-14
Do you think He will not or He cannot restore you? Remember He is God and not man, He made all things and kept all things by the power of His word and can restore all that had been taken, lost, or destroyed. “And the Lord shall utter His voice before His army, for His camp is very great, for He is strong that executeth His word; for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it? Therefore, also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning. And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth Him of the evil. Who knoweth if He will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind Him, even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God? Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts, let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, wherefore should they say among the people, where is their God?” Joel 2:11-17
In His plan to restore you and all that had been lost, taken, or destroyed, He is making you better than before. He will make you better than ever- better than if it had never happened. “You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God who has dealt wondrously with you, and My people shall never be put to shame. Then you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, I am the Lord your God and there is no other.” Joel 2:26-27
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August 14, 2023
TOTAL RESTORATION (1)
"Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning” No matter what has been lost, eaten, or taken away from you by the enemy by any form or means, God can, and He will make it up for you. He will pay you back and will give you more than what was lost. By His power, God will so do it and bless you such that you will never be ashamed or be put to shame again by anyone thereafter in that same thing. That was Job’s good ending story after years of pains, sorrow, loneliness, lack, rejection, and accusation – total restoration. “Then will the Lord be jealous for His land, and pity His people. Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto His people, behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith, and I will no longer make you a reproach among the heathen. But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savor shall come up because he hath done great things. Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice, for the Lord will do great things. Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength. Be glad then, children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God for He hath given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you, and my people shall never be ashamed. And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the Lord your God, and none else, and my people shall never be ashamed.” Joel 2:18-27
Your total restoration is God’s ultimate plan and it is coming; it may have been delayed but it will come soon, you have waited long and prayed long enough, but it is coming; restoration is God’s desire, and that is the reason for your salvation, the reason for your repentance and acceptance of Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior; that is the reason for your forgiveness, the reason for Christ Jesus coming into the world, the reason for His dead and the Cross, the reason for His word and His blood; the reason for His resurrection, and that remains the expectation of all true believers no matter what Satan may do or say. God says He will restore and He will. No one will be left behind by any mistake or carelessness or lateness. All will totally be restored.
No matter how broken you are and have been, your restoration is imminent. No matter your past sins and wrongdoing, when you truly repent, confess, and forsake the former ways, you have been forgiven; when you are forgiven, you are given salvation by grace, and will definitely be totally restored. Your physical and spiritual restoration is the ultimate, God is not taking you halfway through, He is taking you all way through and nothing will stop Him. When He took the children of Israel from Egypt, He did not abandon them by the Red Sea, He did not abandon them in the wilderness, He did not abandon them by the river Jordan, and He did not abandon them because of the wall of Jericho and the many armies that came up against them on the way. He did not abandon them because they were hungry or thirsty. In your life, God will not allow evil judgment to triumph over His mercy, cruelty to triumph over His love, loneliness to triumph over His presence, discomfort to triumph over His comfort, lack to triumph over His provision, wasting away to triumph over His purpose for your destined destiny. He will truly restore you.
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August 11, 2023
WHAT IF YOU CAN’T FORGIVE?
All have sinned, all have gone astray, all had done wrong at one time or another, and all need forgiveness from God and from one another. To ere is human and to forgive is divine; forgiveness is God’s will, God’s plan, God’s desire for all of us. It is God’s purpose for sending Jesus Christ to the world, for our salvation, and reconciliation to the Father, and the reason we become Christians, followers of Jesus Christ and coheir with Christ Jesus. “For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness. So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification and the end is eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” 2 Corinthians 6:20-23
Forgiveness is the power of God working in us to become Christians, acceptable, transformed, refined, and purify our hearts, mind, thoughts, and actions through the Holy Spirit of God and His word in us. If you can’t forgive for any reason from your heart and actions, then you are missing something very special in your obedience to the word of God and your relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord. If you can’t forgive, then you have failed the test of obedience and faithfulness. If you can’t forgive, then the greater part of your day is spent in internal bitterness and pains constantly reminding you of the sins or faults or offenses of others against you while masking yours inside and giving you a pass of being right while you are wrong. Forgiveness removes fears and hatred from your heart, mind, words, and thoughts, completely freeing you from the fire of revenge that burns inside of you unnoticed. It frees up a lot of space in your heart and thoughts, giving room for new things to be formed and nurtured inside of you. Forgiveness is the divine road to your spiritual and physical freedom, health, and happiness.
If you can’t forgive, then examine yourself, examine your heart, examine your motives and your purpose for being a Christian. If you can’t forgive, then examine yourself to know if you are still saved, examine your motive if they are still right, reflect on Christ Jesus and on what He did to bring you salvation, to keep you alive today, and protect you from the evils of the day and the times past and present. If you can’t forgive, then ask yourself if you have been reconciled to God through the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed to reconcile the world on the Cross at Calvary. If you can’t forgive, then ask yourself if you have been truly saved by His word, reconciled, and called to be an active member of God’s reconciliation team to all the nations of the world. Christ Jesus had declared you to be the salt of the earth and the light to the world.
If you can’t forgive, then you have lost your rightful place in the ministry of reconciliation that God had called you into, you have lost your place in the table of His goodness and mercies, and you have become resentful and will remain in bitterness forever. If you can’t forgive, then there is something wrong in you than in them. If you can’t forgive, then you have purposely blinded your mind, and heart to the true gospel of Jesus Christ and to Christianity. “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith, test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you unless, of course, you fail the test? I trust that you will discover that we have not failed the test. Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong, not so that people will see that we have stood the test but so that you will do what is right even though we may seem to have failed. For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong, and our prayer is that you may be fully restored.” 2 Corinthians 13:5-9
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August 10, 2023
WHAT IF YOU WON’T FORGIVE,
It is hard to forgive but it is needful. Forgiveness brings peace to your heart and mind, it gives you focus and attention to better things and days in the future, and it is always joyful to take the road that gives you peace. Regardless of the person, the nature of the crime, sin, or offense, if you won’t forgive, then you are holding your entire being in endless captivity, with struggles and internal bitter anger, while the other goes about free in his or her thoughts. If you won’t forgive, you are indebted to yourself, to God, preventing your mind from nursing good things and the joy it deserves. Not forgiving in living in the past while seeking the future, keeping your eyes open while your heart and mind are totally sealed and filled with the darkness of the evil you know existed and the person you suspect. “If you do not forgive others their sins, your heavenly Father will not forgive your sins.” Matthew 6:15
Forgiveness is of God, from God, and through God. We receive it freely when we accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, acknowledge, confess, and forsake our sins and former ways, and dedicated ourselves wholeheartedly anew to follow God’s ways according to His word. It opens us up to receive His mercy, peace, joy, and blessings, it took away our past and opens the door for us to receive the future He promised; it gives us the grace to have a second chance at His glory and be at peace with ourselves and with others. But if we would not forgive others, then we are bottled up in internal hatred, consistent fear and worries, anxieties, and thoughts of evil, and ready to revenge at every provocation regardless of who we are, what we do, and where we are in life. It will affect your words, deeds, and every aspect of you openly.
Those who won’t forgive speak good but meant evil in their hearts; look godly but their words always condemn and expose who and what they are; see nothing good in others, but always condemning, seeking personal attention, and ready to revenge the fullest. How do we know this? This is what Jesus said – “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit, you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus, by their fruit, you will recognize them. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and, in your name, perform many miracles? Then I will tell them plainly, I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers.” Matthew 7:15-23
If you won’t forgive, you are hurting your own self more than you think you are hurting others. You will always feel unsecured and fearful, thinking everyone is evil and thinking evil of you; always holding people to their actions you think is evil in your own world and seeking evil for them. It blinds your heart and mind in times of prayers and worship, and it hinders your prayers and expectations in life. God had forgiven you, why not forgive others? Be God’s ambassador for peace and reconciliation, - forgive. “From now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, and the new is here. All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation. God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God.” 2 Corinthians 5:16-20
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August 09, 2023
TOTAL FORGIVENESS (3)
Repentance brought your case before No sin is too big that God won’t forgive, no one is too far off that He cannot bring back through the grace of His forgiving power. What is your stand on forgiveness and what is your take on it? Remember, whatever your stand may be, we are Christians because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross, the cleansing by His blood and God’s gracious forgiveness, and nothing else. We all strayed off in many ways and did that which is scripturally acknowledged as wrong by God, but Christ brought us back through grace, God forgave us through love, and gives us joy and peace to stand before Him purified, accepted, righteous, and be called children of the Almighty God – “But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ, by grace you have been saved, and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:4-10
The message of forgiveness should be the message of all Christians; it should in our words and actions, it should be seen and acknowledged in us and it should be what we tell others. There should be no place in hearts and actions to withhold forgiveness from anyone, we should not hold ourselves or anyone else in constant condemnation. When we refuse to forgive, we act like the devil and will live our lives in hate and pain and anger, and worries which turn around to hurt and hunt us spiritually and physically in ways that are beyond our imaginations. Refusing to forgive others is not God’s will for us, it makes us be disobedient to His commands.
Forgive because you have been forgiven. Learn to forgive, practice forgiveness, and be open-minded to forgive without seeking anything in return. We should forgive others as many times as they sin against us. Jesus said we should not limit our forgiveness to only seven times, but seventy times seven, meaning an unlimited number of times on the same issue, other issues, and the same person. Forgiving your brother will not only show your obedience to God's command, but also benefit your relationship, thoughts, and your own well-being. It lightens your heart and lifts up every load from your body. The message of forgiveness can fill a void in your life.
Forgiving others is doing to them what God had done for you and nothing else. Not because we are right but because we have been or were forgiven by God. He gives total forgiveness and we should do the same. Can you let go and be focused on God and not on man or any form of past or present offense? God wants you focused on Him and giving your heart to nursing His word not the hurts of men against you. “Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2
This is the height of love and forgiveness and the very best we should all emulate – while on the cross, with all the pains, bleeding, and jeering of the people, with the watching eyes of the people willing to see Him die, and the presence and satisfaction of all his accusers, Jesus Christ ignored His shame and pains and asked the Father to forgive them because He had also forgiven them. He said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” Luke 23:34.
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August 08, 2023
TOTAL FORGIVENESS (2)
I want you to know, God did not forgive some of our sins and retain some. He forgives all and totally sets us free from the condemnation that accompanies those sins and the guilts that follow after or hold people captive indefinitely. Do not take God’s forgiveness, mercy, and love for granted; in these three lies the power of His true salvation working to make us clean, acceptable, and present us perfect before His throne through Christ Jesus. God’s provision for forgiveness is as old as sin itself and is in His original plan for the restoration of all humanity regardless of age, nationality, and color; that plan prompted Him to send Jesus into the world knowing human beings will continuously be engulfed and entangled with sin, disobedience, and hatred. This is what God told the serpent after the sin of Adam and Eve – “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:15
Teaching about forgiveness, Christ Jesus told His disciples the relationship between forgiveness of others and receiving forgiveness from God. “Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Matthew 6:11-15. Christians have to practice forgiving others consistently regardless of the offense and the person involve. Reciprocating the Father’s forgiveness is a sign of what we have received to become children of the living God, Christians, lovers, and followers of Jesus Christ on earth.
Teaching further on forgiveness, its nature, condition, consequences, and blessings, Christ Jesus and Peter had this conversation - “Then Peter came up and said to Him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times? Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. Therefore, the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So, the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything. And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, pay what you owe. So, his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, have patience with me, and I will pay you. He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. Then his master summoned him and said to him, you wicked servant, I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you? And in anger, his master delivered him to the jailers until he should pay all his debt. So also, my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.” Matthew 18:21-35
Forgiveness is from the heart and is shown openly. That is how many times God forgives us each day for the same offense and that is what we ought to do to everyone else who sins against us. It is always a two-way action. There is nobody or sin that God is not willing to forgive when they repent, and there should be nobody we should refuse to forgive.
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August 07, 2023
TOTAL FORGIVENESS (1)
We gain nothing less than total forgiveness from God through Christ Jesus. Forgiveness is the game changer after true repentance; it is what brings and gives us hope, assurance, justification, and acceptance before God. Without forgiveness, we remain condemned and doomed in all the affairs and hands of Satan. Whoever believes in Christ Jesus, accepts and confesses all of his or her sins to Him is totally forgiven, totally liberated, completely washed clean physically and spiritually, totally justified, and completely preserved for honor and glorification that will come very soon. “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law, indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact, the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.” Romans 8:1-11
Forgiveness is what Christ came to the world for, that is what He went to the cross for, and that is what we gain in believing, trusting, and following Him. If we are willing to obey and confess our sins and forsake them, He is willing and able to forgive all of our sins – “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land, but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” Isaiah 1:18-20. Confession of sin to God is a sign of our obedience to His word. He wants to hear us; He wants to see us confess and he wants to take us beyond the sins and things that hold us back in evil and wickedness. Sin is the stronghold of Satan’s affliction in the lives of all individuals.
There are no sins that God will not forgive through Christ. When we truly repent, God will truly forgive. Forgiveness is part of His love, part of His mercies, and part of the ministry of Christ Jesus then and now. In forgiveness, He showed us His love; in forgiveness, He showed us His mercies; in forgiveness, He showed us His real faithfulness, and in forgiveness, we are totally reconciled to God. On the cross, Christ paid the price that was needed to reconcile us back to the living God, the price that was accepted to open the gates of heaven for us to go through. “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9. Through Christ Jesus, God made adequate provision for our total forgiveness, there is nothing again to hold you back. There is no deception again, no sin again, and no self-condemnation. Let not Satan deceive you, and let no guilt hold you back, we are forgiven through Christ and that is it.
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August 04,023
WE OH LORD, NOT THEM.
WHEN WE REPENT
Daniel stood up for Israel, he did not blame anyone but blamed all. He used the word we and not them in addressing the sins and the issues of the nation, repenting of the sins, and seeking God’s mercy and forgiveness for all. We can and should do them, the effects of sin affect all of us despite the fact that not all are sinners and not all did the same evil. God wants Christians to stand for their nations, intercede for them, seek God’s blessings for them, repent, and call the people to repentance and recognition of God as their Savior. Regardless of what you know they have done, would you for the love of Christ Jesus our Lord intercede for your nation, family, friends, marriage, children, adults, and the government? Remember what Christ said you are – the Light of the world and the Salt of the earth. Matthew 5:13-17
This was the prayers of Daniel for Israel, - “Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. I prayed to the Lord my God and made a confession, saying, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. We have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. To you, O Lord belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us because we have sinned against him. He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity. For under the whole heaven, there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. Therefore, the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice. And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have made a name for yourself, as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly. O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and your people have become a byword among all who are around us. Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord, make your face shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate. O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive. O Lord, pay attention and act. Delay not, for your own sake, O my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.” Daniel 9:3-19. Will God not hear? Will God not forgive? Will He not act? He will.
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August 03,023
PRAY FOR TOTAL REPENTANCE (III)
Repentance is a change of mind, thought, and actions; it is not feeling sorry and continuing in the same way hoping it is over. It is acknowledging the actions as wrong and deciding not to engage in them again. “But if we confess our sins to God, He will keep his promise and do what is right, He will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing.” 1 John 1:9. It is very clear from the scriptures that without true repentance, there is no forgiveness, restoration, or revival. It is also clear that true repentance results in a change of heart and action. “Bear fruits in keeping with repentance, and do not begin to say to yourselves, we have Abraham as our father. For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets long ago.” Luke 3:8-9, Acts 3:19-21.
Repentance is key to the release of God’s people from the powers of Satan, the release of God’s blessings to His people, the release of what He had promised to individuals, and the release of the spirit of revival on His people in the church. Without repentance and turning back from sin, there is no salvation, no godliness, no righteousness, no acceptable praise, worship, and prayers. God wants us to repent and show the fruit of our repentance to the world. Repentance is key to unlocking your God-given dreams, desires, destined future, and blessings from heaven on your labor. Repentance is demonstrated by deeds and not by word alone. If the action is not changed, repentance is not complete and is unacceptable before God. Repentance involves recognizing that you have wrong thoughts in the past and presently concerning people, God, and yourself and determining to think right from now and in the future. A repentant person has second thoughts about the mindset he or she formerly embraced, accepts as right and practices. A repentant person will have a change of disposition and a new way of thinking about God, sin, holiness, people, and about doing God’s will. True repentance is prompted by godly sorrow and godly focus.” For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.” 2 Corinthians 7:10.
God does not only want to forgive your past; He wants to prepare and preserve you for the future He had promised through your repentance. Sin is Satan’s strongest weapon at work on earth in all human beings regardless of religion, wealth, age, nationality, status, and profession. Do not be ignorant, it is at work in every nation, every office and organization, in every language, in every dialect, in every age group, in every home, in every school, and in every institution. It takes only the Spirit of God actively dwelling in you to see and know and accept that sin in action in you and in a place. “For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code. What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means, yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, you shall not covet. But sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. For apart from the law, sin lies dead.” Romand 7:5-8
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August 02,023
PRAY FOR TOTAL REPENTANCE (II)
Even though sin is now accepted and has become a pride in our days, it still remains wickedness before God and shameful regardless of the comfort derived from such, and continuing in sin will always remain a disgrace to those involved no matter what their reasons, desires, function in government, in churches, and the offices they occupy. – “And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attend unto the prayer that is made in this place.” 2 Chronicles 7:12-15. This is the process for repentance – (1) my people, (2) humble themselves, (3) pray, (4) seek my face, and (5) turn from their wicked ways.
While we are waiting and praying for others to repent, God wants repentance to start with us. Let repentance start from you, start within us, let it begin from the church and the people of God. Let it start from the heart and be acted upon openly. Do not hide your sins while trying to expose that of others in ignorance, and do not think or assume God will overlook your unconfessed continuous sin because of your position, successes, and titles. The sin of hate against a people or government is bad as every other sin, “What is more pleasing to the Lord, your burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to His voice? Listen, obedience is better than sacrifice, and submission is better than offering the fat of rams. Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols. So, because you have rejected the command of the Lord, He has rejected you as king.” 1 Samuel 15:22-23
Children of the living God know this; we cannot have a revival while we are in our sins; while we are still in the comfort of sin, living in and on the proceeds and comfort that sin provides us in all things. God cannot be in the comfort that sin provides no matter how happy you may be in such a situation. Repentance precedes revival, and sin hinders revival. But – if we confess our sin, God will forgive, He will revive, and He will bless us, but if we refuse and continue in our ways, we call God a liar. When the church prays against sin, repents and rejects it; when Christians rise up and confess their sins and that of the people and their nations, God will hear, and He will act. When hating and speaking against the people do not work, praying for their repentance will work -- “If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves and not living in the truth. But if we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness. If we claim we have not sinned, we are calling God a liar and showing that his word has no place in our hearts.” 1 John 1:8-10
While we are looking to the government and others for help, God wants to help us. There is no situation that repentance cannot save us from, no sin so powerful that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot wash and make clean. No nation or individual is immune to sin unless God keeps us, we are bound to fall into sin every day, everywhere, and in everything we do. Unrepented sin is a great hindrance to great prayers, dreams, desires, and hard work. Lord, I must not continue in my intentional and unintentional mistakes and sins of yesterday; it must not continue in me and in hindering my ways before you Oh Lord – I need help, I truly repent of all my ways and sins. I ask the Holy Spirit to remind me of any hidden and unconfessed sin in me and help me confess and forsake them outrightly today. Oh Lord, the guilt and consequences of my past must be dealt with today, I no longer take the baggage of sin along with me. I NEED YOUR HELP OH MY LORD.
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August 01, 2023.
THIS MONTH,
A PRAYER FOR HELP
“I have called you back from the ends of the earth, saying, you are my servant. For I have chosen you and will not throw you away. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.” Isaiah 41:9-10. God had promised to help, and He will help. He will not ignore any of the prayers of His people; He will not ignore their requests at all times, and He will not ignore them. He is always willing, able, merciful, and compassionate to those whom He had saved, washed, and called through the power in the blood of Jesus Christ and His word. I want you to know that your salvation is of importance to Him and your spiritual good health is vital to the plans He had destined for you. “But to all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn, not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.” John 1:12-13
We are going to ask for help from above for many things this month. We will ask for the kind of help that only God in heaven can give, the help that is not temporal, the help that changes people, changes situations, and sustains God’s blessings in our lives. God wants to promote us; He wants to lift us up and keep us up; He wants to use us, and He wants to hear from us. Christ Jesus told His disciples, it is not time to go to sleep, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:41. Temptation makes Christians trip and sin makes us fall. While we cannot avoid being tempted, we can avoid being taken down by sin, there should be no falling or failing another Christian Oh Lord. Let this month be my month of victory over all forms of temptation and sin.
O Lord, this August, I must not fall, I must not see or hear that my brethren have fallen. I pray that you will keep us from falling and being mocked and celebrated by Satan because of any sin. Temptation makes people trip, sin makes people fall, and Satan rejoices when we fall, Lord, I ask and pray that I don’t want to see another Christ fall, I don’t want to see another Pastor fall, I don’t want to see another minister or leader in the church fall, I do not want to see another man, woman, child or family fall. I don’t to see or hear that another Christian marriage or business has fallen.
You are going to pray for personal help from God this month.
Help me overcome mistakes and sins that will break my good relationship with you or Lord.
Help me overcome mistakes and sins that will hinder my promotion and blessings.
Help me overcome mistakes and sins that will destroy my marriage and family.
Help me overcome mistakes and sins that will keep me isolated, rejected, and lonely in life.
Help me overcome mistakes and sins that bring a bad testimony to me and to you.
Help me overcome every temptation to indulge in activities that will destroy me now or in the future that will keep me from fulfilling my desired destiny in you.
Help me overcome all forms and imaginations of sin and evil in my heart and mind.
Help me avoid mistakes in thoughts, words, and actions that will hinder me in any way.
Help me not to fail the test that will lead to my promotion in your presence.
Help me to walk according to your word not according to my thoughts or dreams.
God will keep you because you have asked for His help. God wants to help us in all areas of life and living, He wants to help us stand up from a fall, avoid a fall, and escape the pitfalls of sin and all forms of mistakes that Satan is planning against us.
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July 31:2023
A PRAYER FOR TOTAL REPENTANCE
Sin is a strong stain in one’s life, work, and desire for righteousness and holiness. It hinders and condemns one before God. It always declares you guilty before God regardless of your feelings about Christ, your praises of His holiness, and your comfort in life. Sin can only be washed out by the blood of Jesus Christ and nothing else. Do not assume the effects of sin, it is bigger than what you can handle, it is an effective tool in hindering and stopping you; it does not only affect you; it affects everything about you, in you, and through you. It affects your nation and people and it is Satan’s strongest weapon against you. Make your repentance effective by turning from those practices, accepting and confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, and dedicating yourself to God’s ways and services once again. Regardless of what you are, who you are, and where you are, your strongest point is your area of weakness, and your weakest point is your unconfessed and hidden sins. Satan rejoices when Christians hid their sin and he uses such to perfectly hinder them.
God wants to take you to a new level of relationship with Him and in your living on earth. He wants to open you up for His greatness, open doors for you, and use you for His glory. Assuming you are sinless is one of the strongest deceptions Satan had built around Christians. Have you reflected on yourself recently? Have you examined your ways, words, actions, and thoughts? Christianity affects all aspects of our thoughts, words, actions, and work, and so also sin. It is beyond going to church, praising God, and doing anything in His name. It is living in Christ, or Christ living in you, walking with you or through you, and you doing all things for His glory regardless of the people, the place, and who we are. Christ wants all in us, He wants all of us to be in the right standing with Him at all times. Repentance brings us to full restoration regardless of what wrong we have against Him, against ourselves, and against anyone else.
The prayer for repentance; is a perfect prayer to begin the process of the confession of sin. Pray--
--- Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.
--- Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night.
--- Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.
--- For I was born a sinner—yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
--- But you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom even there.
--- Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
--- Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me— now let me rejoice.
--- Don’t keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt.
--- Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a loyal spirit within me.
--- Do not banish me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
--- Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.
--- Then I will teach your ways to rebels, and they will return to you.
--- Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves; I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness.
--- Unseal my lips, O Lord, that my mouth may praise you.
--- You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one. You do not want a burnt offering.
--- The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
--- Look with favor on Zion and help her; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
--- Then you will be pleased with sacrifices offered in the right spirit—with burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings. Then bulls will again be sacrificed on your altar.” Psalm 51:1-19
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July 28, 2023
THEREFORE, BE UNMOVABLE (V)
Despite all the plots against him, all that Esau and Laban did, and all the suffering, Jacob ended well; God changed his name to Israel, he had twelve sons and wealth, and inherited and fulfilled all the promises of God to Abraham. You will end well through Christ and the working of His power in you and through you. Salvation changes and preserves people and will definitely change and preserve you; it changes situations and will also change yours. Be unmovable by your several challenges and pains, God knows all of them and will definitely help you through all of them as He did for Jacob. Be courageous, be unmovable and be steadfast, fix your eyes and put your hope on Him, follow His word, and trust Him for the end, He had never failed, had never lost a battle, and will not fail you. God had started a good thing in you, He will complete it.
Through prayers, Jacob was destined for better days and he did live to see them. In the same way, you are also destined for better days regardless of what Satan may do. “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace. For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ. Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Philippians 1:3-8, Hebrews 12:1-2
Though Jacob started in a rough way, suffered in many ways, had his pay reduced ten times, and had trouble with almost everyone on his up, God did not depart from Him, did not leave him in the hands of the people, did not fail him in any way and Jacob ended well. This is one of the many encounters of Jacob on his way to what God had destined – “So, he came to a certain place and stayed there all night because the sun had set. And he took one of the stones of that place and put it at his head, and he lay down in that place to sleep. Then he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven, and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac, the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants. Also, your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth, you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south, and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it. And he was afraid and said, how awesome is this place. This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven. Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel. Then Jacob made a vow, saying, if God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on so that I come back to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God. And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God’s house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You.” Genesis 28:11-22
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July 27, 2023
THEREFORE, BE UNMOVABLE (IV)
“Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called, whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?” Romans 8:27-32
Regardless of what you have done before, God has the power to forgive you and had done that on the day of your salvation through Christ Jesus. Regardless of what people had done, will do, or are currently doing, they cannot change the plans of God for your life and cannot stop your future in Christ Jesus. The God who saved you also has plans that are bigger and better than plans for your life. Nothing will change what God had destined to happen to you. They tried in the life of Jacob, but God was there for him. “From that time on, Esau hated Jacob because their father had given Jacob the blessing. And Esau began to scheme, I will soon be mourning my father’s death. Then I will kill my brother, Jacob. But Rebekah heard about Esau’s plans. So, she sent for Jacob and told him, listen, Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you. So, listen carefully, my son. Get ready and flee to my brother, Laban, in Haran. Stay there with him until your brother cools off. When he calms down and forgets what you have done to him, I will send for you to come back. Why should I lose both of you in one day?” Genesis 27:41-45
To Jacob, the future he desired was impossible; to Esau his brother, Jacob will never make it to the blessings while I am alive; to his mother, I will not watch and see my son die, to Laban his mother’s brother and his future in-law, I will ensure that Jacob remains my slave and I will finish or stop him; to others who knows Jacobs beginning, he is a fraudster; to his father Isaac, the God I serve, the God of father Abraham, the God who makes promises and fulfills them, He will help Jacob my son, He will lead him, guide him in the way forward, and also fulfill the word of His promises to Abraham my father. And God was with Jacob.
This is Jacob’s testimony - “And Jacob began to notice a change in Laban’s attitude toward him. Then the Lord said to Jacob, return to the land of your father and grandfather and to your relatives there, and I will be with you. So, Jacob called Rachel and Leah out to the field where he was watching his flock. He said to them, I have noticed that your father’s attitude toward me has changed. But the God of my father has been with me. You know how hard I have worked for your father, but he has cheated me, changing my wages ten times. But God has not allowed him to do me any harm. For if he said, the speckled animals will be your wages, the whole flock began to produce speckled young. And when he changed his mind and said, the striped animals will be your wages, then the whole flock produced striped young. In this way, God has taken your father’s animals and given them to me. One time during the mating season, I had a dream and saw that the male goats mating with the females were streaked, speckled, and spotted. Then in my dream, the angel of God said to me, Jacob, and I replied, yes, here I am. The angel said, look up, and you will see that only the streaked, speckled, and spotted males are mating with the females of your flock. For I have seen how Laban has treated you. I am the God who appeared to you at Bethel, the place where you anointed the pillar of stone and made your vow to me. Now get ready and leave this country and return to the land of your birth.” Genesis 31:2-13
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July 26, 2023
THEREFORE, BE UNMOVABLE (III)
“So, humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time He will lift you up in honor. Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you. Stay alert, and watch out for your great enemy the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith. Remember that your family of believers all over the world is going through the same kind of suffering you are. In His kindness, God called you to share in His eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So, after you have suffered a little while, He will restore, support, and strengthen you, and He will place you on a firm foundation. All power to Him forever. Amen. I have written and sent this short letter to you with the help of Silas, whom I commend to you as a faithful brother. My purpose in writing is to encourage you and assure you that what you are experiencing is truly part of God’s grace for you. Stand firm in this grace.” 1 Peter 5:6-12. God’s grace strengthens and keeps one till the day of the fullness and fulfillment of all the promises made in His word concerning you.
God’s plans for your life will be fulfilled no matter what is against you, no matter the mountains before you, no matter the valleys behind you, and no matter who is before you. He can move mountains, make His way through the wilderness, through rough places, through the sea, and through the most difficult situations one can ever imagine. He can favor you, bring you into favor even with your enemies, and He will establish you beyond dreams and revelations. He did deliver Daniel from the lion’s den; deliver the three Hebrew friends from the furnace of fire; He gave Daniel favor and promoted Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego right before people who came to see them killed and before King Nebuchadnezzar.
Though God often allows the enemy to afflict us, He will never leave us in their hands forever. Though God allows the devil to have his way, his ways are never perfect and never permanent. God’s ways and plans for you are always forever better, will never fail, and will never be changed for any reason. Be courageous, not in your afflictions, and humiliations, but in your faith, hope, and trust in His word and in what He will definitely do in and for you. Job was unmovable in His faith even in his losses and afflictions and God restored him and made him better than he was before. Job said this in his moments of affliction – “Though he slays me, yet will I hope in Him, I will surely defend my ways to his face. Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless person would dare come before him. Listen carefully to what I say, let my words ring in your ears. Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated. Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die.” Job 13:15-19. Being unmovable means more to true Christians who believe every word of God than others. Christ Jesus said to Satan and to every one of His followers in Matthew 4:4 – “But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
What God said concerning you had been written in heaven and what is written will be fulfilled. In your life, nothing will be removed and nothing will remain unfulfilled. “God is not a man, so He does not lie. He is not human, so He does not change His mind. Has He ever spoken and failed to act? Has He ever promised and not carried it through? Numbers 23:19. Remember, He delivered the children of Israel from Egypt and from slavery despite the strength and knowledge of Pharoah. He restored Job and made him greater than what he was before to the amazement of those who had abandoned him. There is nothing absolutely too hard for Him to do for you.
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July 25, 2023
THEREFORE, BE UNMOVABLE (II)
“The Lord will march forth like a mighty hero; He will come out like a warrior, full of fury. He will shout his battle cry and crush all His enemies. He will say, I have long been silent, yes, I have restrained myself. But now, like a woman in labor, I will cry and groan and pant. I will level the mountains and hills and blight all their greenery. I will turn the rivers into dry land and will dry up all the pools. I will lead blind Israel down a new path, guiding them along an unfamiliar way. I will brighten the darkness before them and smooth out the road ahead of them. Yes, I will indeed do these things, I will not forsake them. But those who trust in idols, who say, you are our gods, will be turned away in shame.” Isaiah 42:13-17
When the pressure all around you is high; when the way life is taking seems too rough; when the path is not always clear; when the destiny you desire seems unattainable; when the things you desire are all too far away and the demands are beyond your imagination and strength; when all you see, all you know, and all you experience is always a hardship, trouble, and pains and those who do not worship God as you do are doing well and overcoming boundaries; when you have no help and no helper in sight; when friends and family are asking you when is your God giving you answers, when will we rejoice with you as you say; when waiting on the Lord had been too long and patience is no longer with you; when you feel like pulling over from the faith lane, taking a rest from godliness, and stepping aside from following and keeping God’s word, the word of God says, be unmovable, be strong, remain in the race, remain in Him, and keep hope alive. God is still in the business of salvation, deliverance, blessing, and of total restoration, there is nothing or anything too hard for Him to do.
“I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don’t always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time. People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy. The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand. Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread. The godly always give generous loans to others, and their children are a blessing. Turn from evil and do good, and you will live in the land forever. For the Lord loves justice, and He will never abandon the godly. He will keep them safe forever, but the children of the wicked will die.” Ecclesiastes 9:11-12; Psalm 37:22-28
There are things that will and are rising up against you but God is with you and He will speak for you. There are people threatening, despising, insulting, unjustly cheating, and disrespecting you, and there are situations shaking your faith, your hope, and your future and seeking to force you to doubt your tomorrow in Christ Jesus, but despite all these things, all these pressures, and things associated with the pressure and uncertainty, be unmovable, unshakable, and unafraid, God is with you and He is stronger than any strong thing against you. He will help you. He delivered Daniel from the Lion’s den, Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego from the furnace of fire.
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July 24, 2023
THEREFORE, BE UNMOVABLE (I)
There have been numerous predictions, dreams, and revelations in several places from several people, holy and unholy declarations, fears on every side and in every nation, and there are also worries by the faithful, yet nothing had changed the word of God concerning the return of Christ on earth. Instead of fears and worries, the righteous should rejoice because that day will be a day of joy like never before. It will be more glorious than His birth, more glorious than His resurrection, and more glorious than the very best that anyone had ever seen or received on earth. It will usher in heaven and praise to the righteous and gloom for the unrighteous at the same time, no one will be left behind in this return, He will not be seen by only the righteous, but by all who are alive and had ever lived on this earth.
His return will come with first the resurrection of the dead, the declaration of angels, then a shout of joy from heaven and followed by the holy procession. “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus, we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
1. The Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout,
2. With the voice of an archangel, and
3. With the trumpet of God.
4. The dead in Christ will rise first.
5. We who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
6. And thus, we shall always be with the Lord.
7. Therefore comfort one another with these words.”
These should be the expectations of the righteous and nothing else, not the fears, not the worries of catastrophic predictions or any other thing. These should be our hope and joy as we honor and serve our Lord in righteousness, faithfulness, and in true love. Let nothing physical and spiritual frighten you, let not the troubles of the day and of the time, let not even the unfaithfulness of the people around you, God had destined you for His glory and for His praise through Christ Jesus. He has destined to honor and reward you and to preserve you and He will not fail. You are not like others, you are special and unique before Him, what you are going through today is nothing compared to what you will be and where you will be.
“And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man. Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I tell you a mystery, we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So, when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 15:49-58.
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July 21, 2023
THESE THREE THINGS WILL HAPPEN (II)
If you believed Christ came in the flesh, died, was buried, and was raised from the dead, and that He is right now seated at the right hand of the Father Almighty in heaven interceding for the faithful believers and waiting for the final of His return, then you should also believe He is coming back as promised in John 14:3, “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.” And confirmed by the Angels to all the disciples on the day He was taken up to heaven right before their eyes. “And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Acts 1:10-11. As He was then, so will He be when He comes.
All eyes in all nations shall see and acknowledge that Christ Jesus is the one and no one else because He will come in the fulness of His glory and power, this time not as a baby, but as Lord and the justifier of the righteous. “Therefore, if they say to you, look, He is in the desert, do not go out or look, He is in the inner rooms, do not believe it. For as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” Matthew 24:26-27; 29-31
For the righteous, there is nothing to fear or be worried about but a joyful expectation, a stronger hope, and a peaceful wait for that glorious day. For the unrighteous and the wicked, it will be a day of regret but no option for repentance, it will be a justified payday for everyone. While we wait for that glorious day, this is what the Scripture wants us to keep doing -
“But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more, that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing. But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this, we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus, we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians 4:9-18
This calls for assurance of our joy, for continuous hope and rejoicing, and for our greater peace as Christians and redeemed children of the Almighty God. Christ is coming with His reward and nothing else and He will reward all of your faithfulness and obedience to Him and His word.
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July 20, 2023
THESE THREE THINGS WILL HAPPEN
“Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Do you not remember that when I was still with you, I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason, God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
The scriptures had informed us of His coming and we have had news of His coming for several years; we have seen events in the present time reminding us of His coming, and yet many are not prepared or ready, and we are called to keep ourselves ready and tell others. His coming will not be hidden, it will be open, everyone and all eyes will see Him come and know He is the One and also accept the event as true on that day when He finally comes. It will be a day of joy, gladness, and praise by all the righteous people who had ever lived on earth and a day of trouble and pain for all the unrighteous people who had ever lived on earth regardless of language, age, color, and nationality. It will be a day like never before. My prayer is that you will see the joy and part of the celebration with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, each one’s work will become clear, for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work that he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.” 1 Corinthians 3:11-17
While we prepare ourselves and keep ourselves for that day, all Christians should know that Jesus Christ is not coming to do anything else except these three things. (1) He will judge the world by His word and not by the thoughts and understanding of men. He will judge the world by their actions and by their deeds and he will seek to know who believes and follows Him and His word. (2) He will reward all the righteous; those who have dedicated their lives to accept, believe, follow Him, and be submissive to keeping His word. (3) He will punish the unrighteous because of their deeds and refusal to accept and follow Him and His word. No one will be spared and no one will escape. Do not be deceived, the righteous will be rewarded and the unrighteous punished. He will do it justly and perfectly; He will not mistake your reward for any reason. It is very certain that everyone will receive what one rightly deserves.
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July 19, 2023
CHRIST IS COMING (III)
The world is not expecting it, the people are not prepared for it and none wants to hear it, but you are different because of the grace of God that brought you salvation. Do you look forward to that day? Do you need to change anything in your life now? Do you need to change your words or action or anything in your life? What you believe and the faith you have in the word of God and your actions now as a believer will either give you the peace and assurance you need or the fear you don’t deserve when He shall come. God will definitely do what He said. Christ Jesus will definitely return; it will not be delayed and cannot be prevented no matter what.
God is never slow in His ways and in everything else; He is not weak in strength to accomplish what He had stated and started, His activities are open for all to see, and His ability can never be matched, what He said, that He will do. He will fulfill His words, uphold His children, and confirm His promises. Nothing will fail from His word and none of His children, including you, will be left behind when He finally comes. This is the written affirmation – “But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, with the Lord, one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. 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. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you.” 2 Peter 3:7-15
His coming will never fail to happen and will never be stopped from happening. The children of Israel and all Jews knew it then, Jesus Christ our Lord said it, the apostles said it, we who are saved believed it and we constantly live in that expectation. The Old Testament told of His birth, His dead, and His resurrection and it was so; the New Testament affirmed it and went on to tell us of His second coming and it will be so. As nothing prevented His first coming, nothing will also prevent His second coming, not even the passage of time or the wisdom of knowledge that rules the world today. This is the Old Testament prediction in Isaiah 53:1-11
“Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness, and when we see Him, there is no beauty that we should desire Him. He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely, He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes, we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, everyone, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep, before its shearers is silent, so He opened not His mouth.
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07.18.2023
CHRIST IS COMING (II)
Fear always goes with worries, anxieties, and confusion, they open doors for every kind of evil, sin, and common mistakes take will hunt you for a long time. When sinners hear that Christ is coming, the first thing in their mind is fear of judgment because of their deeds, but for those who fear the Lord and lives their life to honor Him, it is news to hope and rejoice. No fear or anxiety or organized group will stop Him from coming or prevent His judgment on that day of His coming. True Christians should not be ashamed, afraid, confused, or worried about that day, but should look forward with greater joy and excitement. “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” Romans 1:16-17, 2 Timothy 1:7
The best news in all of Christianity is the news of the second coming of Jesus Christ and not the miracles we have or will receive. Do not be afraid, those who are fearful also have doubts about their individual lives and Christian submission and loyalty to the word of God. Those who are fearful do so because they know who they are and what they do, they know their heart is not in Him even though they are active in the church but their deeds are against His word. Those who are afraid have one thing in common, their heart is not with Him and their ways are not His ways. Fears go along with worries and uncertainties, but as Christians, we were not given the spirit to fear or of fear on the day of our salvation but the spirit of power, love, and confidence to trust God till the very last day that Christ will come in the fulness of His glory.
Do not be afraid but beware of false believers and their actions. “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore, by their fruits, you will know them. Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you, depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness. Therefore, whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell. And great was its fall.” Matthew 7:15-27
What is required of us on that day is salvation, obedience, and faithfulness to hear His word, and do them, to shun all forms of lawlessness and unholy emulations of evil. Christ does not want us to follow the words or ideas of men, but to be fully committed to His word and His ways, and nothing else. In all things and in every nation, He said, - “Let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And where I go you know, and the way you know.” John 14:1-4
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July 17, 2023
CHRIST IS COMING (1)
Many are living today as if Christ will or is not coming back to this earth; living as if their lives and future depend on their strength, wealth, knowledge, and ability; many Christians have forgotten everything about Christ's imminent return or refused to think about it; many don’t even give a damn to whatever will be on that day and whatever He is coming to do; but to the faithful in Him, to the righteous according to His word, and those whose with faith and hope in Him alone, whether rich or poor, are looking forward to that day and made up their mind that nothing will stop them from witnessing that day with joy, not even dead. That day will be a day for both the living and the dead; it will be a day for the rich and the poor, a day for the strong and the weak; it will be a day for those who know all things and those who know nothing for any reason, it will be a day for everyone in all nations regardless of language, profession, age, and color. It will be a day for everyone who had ever lived on this planet Earth right from the days of Adam and Eve till the present day. No one will be exempted for any reason and nothing will prevent anyone from being actively involved on that day.
There will be no excuse and no exemption, all eyes shall see Him directly, no one will tell the story and no one will feign ignorance regardless of religion, tradition, affiliation, or location. God had decided and the scripture had stated His plans. Those who love Him, those who hate Him, those who despise Him, those who reject Him, those who speak ill of Him, all true Christians, those who see nothing in following Him, those who refuse to obey His word, those who hate the church and those who kill or do any kind of evil will all see Him with their eyes and with the knowledge that He is Christ the Messiah whom they rejected and refused as Lord. This is what John says in the scripture – “John, to the seven churches which are in Asia; Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven Spirits who are before His throne, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler over the kings of the earth. To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning, and the End, says the Lord, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Revelation 1:4-8
This was the assurance given to the apostle on that faithful moment of their excitement and expectations, “Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? And He said to them, it is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” Acts 1:6-11. He is not coming to tell a story, that is our duty and responsibility when we have His Holy Spirit in us, and we should be willing not only to remind ourselves but also to tell others. They may be angry but He will come, they may refuse to hear you but He will come, and they may hate you for that but it is concluded that He will definitely return to the earth, not to preach or teach, but to fulfill what had been promised.
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06.07.2023
LET MY RESTORATION COME DEAR LORD (IV)
Your weakness will not hinder God; not knowing what to do and how to do anything will not in any way hinder God. He knows what to do and will do it as He had planned. Lot did not know what and how to escape from Sodom, but God took him out. Daniel did not know how to escape from the lion’s den, but God took him out, Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego did not know how to escape from the fire of Nebuchadnezzar but God rescued them. Mary did not know how what the angel told her will be fulfilled but they were fulfilled. Your knowledge is too small compared to what God knows and what He will do. Even when He tells you, or reveals them to you, your senses cannot comprehend them.
“To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal? asks the Holy One. Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing. O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles? O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights? Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall into exhaustion. But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:25-31
No matter the situation, the power, the institutions or organization before and behind, the valleys or the rocks, the mountains behind and before you, there is still hope and every assurance from the word of God for you, - you will be delivered, rescued, and restored. The hope of the righteous never dies, they may be discouraged but they never give up. They may fall, but they will surely rise again, they will experience hardship and hopelessness, but their anchor is steadfast on Jesus Christ and on His words of promises. They may be weak, but their God is strong, they may be defeated but no one can defeat their God. Because their strength and hope are in Jesus Christ and His Spirit is in them, they will never be discarded.
“Don’t be afraid, O land. Be glad now and rejoice, for the Lord has done great things. Don’t be afraid, you animals of the field, for the wilderness pastures will soon be green. The trees will again be filled with fruit, and fig trees, and grapevines will be loaded down once more. Rejoice, you people of Jerusalem. Rejoice in the Lord your God. For the rain He sends demonstrates His faithfulness. Once more the autumn rains will come, as well as the rains of spring. The threshing floors will again be piled high with grain, and the presses will overflow with new wine and olive oil.” Joel 2:22-24
You may have been rejected by men, but God will celebrate you, The faithful Lord will show His love for you and to you in a special way. He showed it to Mary, He showed it to Jesus Christ our Lord, and He showed it to Daniel, David, Lot, Job, Jabez, and many others. He will not fail in your case and in your life. His love is everlasting, it is transforming and it endures forever. God loves you much more than Abraham loved Isaac, much more than Jonathan loved David, and much more than any form of love from any individual on earth today. God loves you and wants to show it in you and to you and through you openly.
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06.06.2023
LET MY RESTORATION COME DEAR LORD (III)
When things became hard for Jacob, God showed up. “At the top of the stairway stood the Lord, and he said, I am the Lord, the God of your grandfather Abraham, and the God of your father, Isaac. The ground you are lying on belongs to you. I am giving it to you and your descendants. Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth. They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants. What’s more, I am with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. One day I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have finished giving you everything I have promised you. Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, surely the Lord is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it. But he was also afraid and said, what an awesome place this is. It is none other than the house of God, the very gateway to heaven.” Genesis 28:13-16
Even inside the fiery burning furnace, God was able to rescue and restore Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego without the fire harming them. Even inside the lion’s den, God was able to rescue and restore Daniel without the lions being able to destroy him. Even in sickness, homelessness, rejection, isolation, and poverty, God was able to preserve, rescue, restore, and bless Job again. Even in prison, after being falsely accused, falsely judged, and sentenced, God did preserve Joseph until the day he was rescued, set free, and made to be what God had said and promised - is there anything too hard for God to do? “But now, O Jacob, listen to the Lord who created you. O Israel, the one who formed you says, do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine. when you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” Isaiah 43:1-3
With all the strength and knowledge of Pharaoh, Egypt, and their numerous counselors, God was still able to rescue the children of Israel and no one of them was left behind in Egypt. With all the dangers in the wilderness, God ensured that their journey did not end in that wilderness. He ensured that Moses was a success. “One day Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, take these people up to the Promised Land. But you haven’t told me whom you will send with me. You have told me, I know you by name, and I look favorably on you. If it is true that you look favorably on me, let me know your ways so I may understand you more fully and continue to enjoy your favor. And remember that this nation is your very own people. The Lord replied, I will personally go with you, Moses, and I will give you rest—everything will be fine for you. Then Moses said, if you don’t personally go with us, don’t make us leave this place. How will anyone know that you look favorably on me—on me and on your people—if you don’t go with us? For your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people on the earth. The Lord replied to Moses, I will indeed do what you have asked, for I look favorably on you, and I know you by name. Moses responded, then show me your glorious presence. The Lord replied, I will make all my goodness pass before you, and I will call out my name, Yahweh, before you. For I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.” Exodus 33:12-19.
This is your season to be rescued, favored, fully restored, and made greater and better than you were before. He who did it to Job will do it for you. The children of Israel did not leave Egypt empty-handed; you won’t.
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06.05.2023
LET MY RESTORATION COME DEAR LORD (II)
When God begins His restoration, there will be no turning back until all is done according to His best plans for your destiny in Him regardless of what Satan and his people may use or do against His plans for your life. You whom I the Lord have taken from the ends of the earth, and called from its remotest parts and said to you, you are My servant, I have chosen you and have not rejected you even though you are exiled. Do not fear anything, for I am with you; do not be afraid for I am your God. I will strengthen you, be assured I will help you; I will certainly take hold of you with My righteous right hand, a hand of justice, of power, of victory, of salvation. Indeed, all those who are angry with you will be put to shame and humiliated; those who strive against you will be as nothing and will perish. He is not the God who turns back for any reason
When they say to you it is impossible, then your God will say it is possible; when they tell you it is all over for you by their reasoning and understanding and power, your God says you are just beginning the very best part of your journey and relationship with Him and greater things are ahead for you to achieve in Him and through Him; when they say you can’t fit into their program because of your strong faith in the word and walk in the truth of Christ Jesus, God will say His program is bigger and better for you to walk in. When they say you are too old as they said to Sarah and Abraham, God says He will renew you, renew whatever is in you, and will make you able and make it possible for you to accomplish what He had said, what He had planned, and what He had destined for you; when they say you are too young as Goliath said of David, God says He will strengthen you beyond your age and strength and the people will see and know that He is with you and working through you. When they say you have wasted your useful years in following Christ Jesus, waiting on His promises, and asking for the impossible, God says you will recover everything lost during those waiting and wasted years that they have said and you will be even better than before like it was for Job. “When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before. Then all his brothers, sisters, and former friends came and feasted with him in his home. And they consoled him and comforted him because of all the trials the Lord had brought against him. And each of them brought him a gift of money and a gold ring. So, the Lord blessed Job in the second half of his life even more than in the beginning.” Job 42:10-12
Fear not, let the workers of evil consult and help themselves, let them gather their weapons of destruction, share useful ideas together against you, and advise each other on the best way to take you down; let them strengthen the power of their weapons of wickedness as Nebuchadnezzar did to the furnace fire against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, God will definitely help you, He will rescue you from their hands, He will restore you and He will be honored in and through you. “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego replied, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God whom we serve is able to save us. He will rescue us from your power, Your Majesty. But even if he doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.” This was the ending of their faith after the furnace fire. “Therefore, I make this decree: If any people, whatever their race or nation or language, speak a word against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they will be torn limb from limb, and their houses will be turned into heaps of rubble. There is no other god who can rescue like this. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to even higher positions in the province of Babylon.” Daniel 3:16-18, 29-30
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06.02.2023
LET MY RESTORATION COME DEAR LORD (1)
“And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed. And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the Lord your God, and none else, and my people shall never be ashamed. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. And also, upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.” Joel 2:25-29. Even when it seems that God is not seeing you, He sees and He will restore you by His own power, he will bring your restoration to pass because of His love, His word, and the salvation He had given to you through Jesus Christ. The years wasted will be recovered, the things lost will be restored, and joy and praise will be restored in you.
God will even restore His Spirit that you have lost, He will restore the honor, the hope, the faith, the hope, and everything that you have lost because of your walk in His righteousness. He will restore your home and marriage, he will restore you in the church, he will restore your finances and your wealth; he will restore your job and your work, and He will restore in you the spirit of praise and revelation. God said, “I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten, the great locusts, and the locust swarm.” And He will repay (Joel 2:25).
Whatever had eaten you will be removed because is restoring you. He is not waiting for a new government to be in place, He is not waiting for someone to cry, He is not waiting until things start being better to promise you these great times. You may still be in the pains of past wicked and evil afflictions, but God is speaking His promises of hope to you now while you are still in those pains and isolation and shame. He will do what He had said and you will live to see it. He restored Israel, He will restore you. God has restored what the people had lost before, He will do it again and do it for you also. He will bless you and give you not just hope but an amazing future better than before if you had never suffered in the first place. Your recovery is coming, and your restoration is imminent. Reach out to Him in the midst of your pain. Open your heart to His word and promises, He will deliver you, He will restore you and He will bless you. You will have enough from now forward. You will be like Isaac and like Job, you will be called the child of the living God. The God who restores and blesses His people.
Our God hears prayers and answers them, He sees us, and He knows us. and He will grant all of our requests according to His plans. “Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts, let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them, wherefore should they say among the people, where is their God? Then will the Lord be jealous of His land, and pity His people. Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto His people, behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith, and I will no longer make you a reproach among the heathen. But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savor shall come up because he hath done great things. Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice for the Lord will do great things.” Joel 2:15-21
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06.01.2023
THIS JUNE, LET MY RESTORATION COME DEAR LORD
“Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God. You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they, do not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who lives in you. Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation, but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves so that you live in fear again, rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him, we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in His glory.” Romans 8:8-17
God had promised you restoration, He is willing to do it right now, He is able to do what He said and He will definitely do as He had said. His word went out with a purpose and cannot return to Him without identifying the right person to whom the word was sent to restore and without being fulfilled as He wanted. The world may fail you, the system within the government, institutions, both private and government-owned may fail you, and people around you may fail you, but one thing is certain, God will not fail whom He had chosen, those He had washed and made pure by the blood of Jesus Christ, and whom He had enabled by the indwelling of His Spirit and keep alive by the power of His word. When God says He will restore, know that He will and nothing will stop Him, no power, or hindrance, or barriers, spiritual or physical will stop it.
When God said He will bless Abraham, He did; when He promise to deliver Noah and His family from the flood, He did; when He promised to bless Jacob despite his shortcoming and all that Laban did to him, He did; when He promised to uphold you on the day of your salvation, He will, and whatsoever had happened to you since that day of your salvation, He will restore you, He will keep you and He will enable you to be fulfilled according to His promise. He promised to deliver Israel and restore them and He did. Pharaoh could not stop Him, the Red Sea did not stop Him, and forty years in the wilderness did not prevent Him from fulling His word. The enchantment of Balaam the prophet and Balak the king did not stop them. The River Jordan and the wall of Jericho did not prevent God, and it is very certain that, nothing will stop you and your restoration. – “Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them. Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares, ah, I will vent my wrath on my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward, you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City. Zion will be delivered with justice, her penitent ones with righteousness. But rebels and sinners will both be broken, and those who forsake the Lord will perish. You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen. You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire.” Isaiah 1:23-31
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05.31.2023
TWO THINGS THAT CAN NOT CHANGE (III)
“The Lord looks down from heaven; He observes everyone. He gazes at all the inhabitants of the earth from His dwelling place. He alone shapes their hearts; He considers all their works. A king is not saved by a large army; a warrior will not be delivered by great strength. The horse is a false hope for safety; it provides no escape by its great power. Now the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, those who depend on His faithful love to deliver them from death and to keep them alive in famine. We wait for Yahweh; He is our help and shield. For our hearts rejoice in Him because we trust in His holy name. May Your faithful love rest on us, Yahweh, for we put our hope in You.” Psalm 33:3-21
Nation plans, people plan and Satan also plans his scheme, but in all things and everywhere it is the plan of God that will be established, His counsel never changes and what He sets out to do will definitely be accomplished no matter who, where and what is happening anywhere in the world. He set His heart to bless Abraham, He sent His word to inform him, He gave him counsel on how and what to do, and Abraham followed His instructions and became what God of him. “Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven and said: By Myself, I have sworn, says the Lord because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, blessing, I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore, and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed because you have obeyed My voice.” Genesis 22:13-18. As Abraham was fulfilled, so will you be fulfilled. There are numerous blessings in following the counsel of God regardless of the pains and whatsoever Satan and any group of people may say or will do to you.
God’s counsel was the only reason for Noah’s success in the days of flood and destruction in the world. God’s counsel was the reason for Peter’s restoration and success as an apostle in times of intimidation and great victimization against the followers of Jesus Christ in the early days. “For after seven more days, I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and I will destroy from the face of the earth all living things that I have made. And Noah did according to all that the Lord commanded him.” Genesis 7:4-5
There is no opposing power or counsel that can disrupt the purpose of God. His counsels and His thoughts, which refer to this present day, age, and future shall be accomplished in their times as He had destined. Whatsoever the Lord pleases, that He will do, His counsel stands forever. He does not change His plans and purpose. His decrees cannot be frustrated, His words, designs, and plans will be accomplished and none of the devices of His foes can thwart His any of them for any reason, and at any moment. Men’s purpose could be blown in the wind at any time but the eternal purposes of God are firm and will be done on the earth. Men come and go, powers also come and go, but the undisturbed mind of God moves on in unbroken serenity, producing all that had been ordained with great results of unerring certainty. No man can expect his will or plan to be carried out from age to age but the Lord’s wisdom and designs run on from century to all century. His power to fulfill his purposes can by no means be diminished by the lapses of years. Whatever is not standing in agreement with the counsel of God in your life should be discarded to allow His guidance prevails because only His counsel shall stand. Submit your ways to His ways, seek and follow His counsel in all things, and keep your ways free from the things that are against His counsel and He will show you the path to His blessings and peace.
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05.30.2023
TWO THINGS THAT CAN NOT CHANGE (II)
“So then, my dear friends, stand firm and steady. Keep busy always in your work for the Lord, since you know that nothing you do in the Lord's service is ever useless. “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” 1 Corinthians 15:58; Isaiah 43:1-3. The redeemed of the Lord will definitely rejoice; they will see justice even when the judges are against them and justice had eluded them for many years; they will still be standing even when everyone departs from them because of the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ; they will still be alive even when wickedness is poured out on them every day. Their redeemer is alive and strong and His counsel has not changed.
In all things and everywhere, their God is stronger than their fears and their hope in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the redemptive power of their God will still keep them alive even when there is no hope anywhere and in anything thing else in the world. Their faith is not in the things of men and the strength is from the grace of Jesus Christ established in heaven for their good. Be strong and steadfast and know that God will not fail even when all things around you are failing and are falling apart. God will uphold you. That is His counsel and it will never change. This is the Lord’s counsel to you: - “Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear. The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry, and filled with unfailing love. He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever. He does not punish us for all our sins; He does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve. For His unfailing love toward those who fear Him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth. He has removed our sins as far from us as the East is from the West. The Lord is a father to His children, tender and compassionate to those who fear Him. For He knows how weak we are; He remembers we are only dust. Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die. The wind blows, and we are gone as though we had never been here. But the love of the Lord remains forever with those who fear Him. His salvation extends to the children’s children of those who are faithful to His covenant, of those who obey His commandments.” Matthew 24:35; Psalm 103:8-18
What God said concerning you before you were conceived in the womb of your mother still stands no matter what the devil says and does, and no matter what you are going through. You may not know all of them or many have forgotten some due to adversities and delays, but the God who said them concerning you never forgets and will never abandon His word. Despite all the difficulties of conception that Sarah and Abraham suffered, what God said concerning Isaac before he was conceived did not change, it was still effective and active and Isaac lived to see all of them fulfilled.
The counsel of God for you is to continue in the faith, keep believing, following, and keeping His precepts. They will never fail you, rather you will be established through them. “The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations; He thwarts the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart from generation to generation. Happy is the nation whose God is Yahweh— the people He has chosen to be His own possession. The Lord looks down from heaven, He observes everyone.” Psalm 33:10-13
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05.29.2023
TWO THINGS THAT CAN NOT CHANGE (1)
No matter where, when, how. and who it may be - IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD AND HIS WORD TO FAIL. “When God made His promise to Abraham, He made a vow to do what He had promised. Since there was no one greater than Himself, He used His own name when He made His vow. He said I promise you that I will bless you and give you many descendants. Abraham was patient, and so he received what God had promised. When we make a vow, we use the name of someone greater than ourselves, and the vow settles all arguments. To those who were to receive what He promised, God wanted to make it very clear that He would never change His purpose; so, He added His vow to the promise. There are these two things then that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So, we who have found safety with Him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us. We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, it is safe and sure, and goes through the curtain of the heavenly temple.” Hebrews 6:13-19.
Put this in your calendar every day; remind yourself every day. time, and every moment regardless of your feelings, circumstances, and the situation before you that God never fails, that His word of promises will not fail, and that it is impossible for Him to fail. You may fail and fall, but He will raise you up again, He will renew your strength, He will restore your confidence and hope, He will give you a new vision and He will take you through whatever circumstances that is challenging His presence in you and His word that you hold onto. Remind yourself that God never fails and will not fail in your life.
Don’t allow your fears or anything else to make your God too small and too weak. He is much more than our fears, the words and actions of others, thoughts, and all forms of imagination; He is God and there is none like Him and none will ever try being Him. Fear of what you see and know in your life and hatred of yourself because of what you are now despite all the efforts you have put in to be what you want, and what others are doing and saying because of what you are or have experienced are the two greatest things that Satan uses to hold people captive in his schemes of evil and plans of wickedness. God’s plans for you are still active, His purpose for your life is still active, His words are forever settled and Christ our Lord knows that.
God has not cut you off from His presence or deactivated His concern for your future in His love. His love is everlasting, His arms are stretched out towards you, and His peace is poured out so that you have what is needed to be patient and wait until you receive what he had promised. It is certain and on record that Abraham needed patience in order to receive what God promised and he did receive the promise with patience after many years of waiting, trusting, walking in faith, and showing absolute obedience to the words and commands of God.
Many Christians have become discouraged after waiting too long; many have rejected the faith because of these delays and have turned themselves and attention to looking for, believing, and following something else; many have cut themselves off from the gathering of other believers, cut themselves off from church functions and attendance, turned themselves off from reading and meditating on the scriptures; many have shunned discussing things that faith demands to activate the promises of God, and many have become hostile to other Christians, but despite all the things we have seen, known, and have experienced, God still remains the same; He still loves you, His purpose in your life is still active, and he will definitely do what he said. All of His word and all of His promises are still intact and achievable and will be fulfilled, none will return to Him void. “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” Matthew 24:35
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05.26.2023
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT I WILL -- (V)
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” Daniel 3:16-18
It is impossible for God to fail no matter what, where, and how anyone may think or act; it is impossible for His word to fail regardless of the knowledge, understanding, or interpretation of His word by men, and it is impossible for your faith in His word to fail regardless of what Satan and his cohorts may throw at you. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego gave a good example of their unfailing trust in God and in His word despite their knowledge of the strength and power of Nebuchadnezzar. They knew the fire was set to destroy them, they knew Nebuchadnezzar will not change his word or plan and they knew it is impossible for anyone to survive the burning fire in the furnace, and despite impossible things they knew, they trusted God and put their faith in His hands for the possible or impossible, and the result was amazingly different – God did the impossible for them right before the people.
While the enemies are planning and plotting impossible for you, God is working in you through Christ to rise above them and see Him do that which is possible even when they are still planning and working to and expecting your failure. He did that to these three faithful men at a time when the people never expected such to happen. He did it for them openly. He will do yours openly. The fury of Nebuchadnezzar, the expectation of the people, the heart from the burning furnace, the dignitaries and strong men who stood watching and waiting, and the urgency of the decree of King Nebuchadnezzar could not stop God from doing the impossible for these men. “And he commanded certain mighty men of valor who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego and cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their coats, their trousers, their turbans, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Therefore, because the king’s command was urgent, and the furnace exceedingly hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, fell downbound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose in haste and spoke, saying to his counselors, did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said to the king, true O king. Look, he answered, I see four men lose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.” Daniel 3:20-25
No matter what, no matter where, no matter who, and no matter how God will defend you; in defending you, He will deliver you; in delivering you, He will promote you, and in promoting you, He will establish you by the power of His amazing presence and glory. “The Lord said to me, no matter how shepherds yell and shout, they can't scare away a lion from an animal that it has killed; in the same way, there is nothing that can keep me, the Lord Almighty, from protecting Mount Zion. Just as a bird hovering over its nest to protect its young, so I, the Lord Almighty, will protect Jerusalem and defend it.” Isaiah 31:4-5. Do not let the impossibilities you know and have seen and experienced all-round keep you from trusting and believing God for the possibilities in those impossibilities, He made all things and can turn things around for you, He is your God, call on Him and look unto Him always in all things and at all times.
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05.25.2023
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT I WILL -- (IV)
“For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope, for why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Likewise, the Spirit also helps with 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. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called, whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:24-32. Do not take your salvation for granted, the benefits therein are beyond the understanding of men and it is impossible for man to fully grasp and comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth, and height of God’s love through Christ Jesus which is far beyond the knowledge that you are filled with all the fullness of God.
Through salvation, what was impossible becomes possible, what was rejected becomes accepted, and what was not known through human knowledge is now known for the edification of the body and unity with Christ Jesus and God the Father. The greatest benefit of salvation is that the relationship with God we lost through sin is restored through Christ Jesus, and we are fully in Him filled by His Holy Spirit and lead by His word to do that which is right and acceptable, living a life that is acceptable to Him at all times.
Salvation is completely impossible without Christ Jesus regardless of our good names, charitable works, preaching and teaching, the activities we are engaged in within the church or outside the church, and whatever our thoughts and understanding may be. Through Salvation, we are called and granted a relationship with God, and it is impossible to maintain that relationship without faith in Christ and in His word. Salvation takes you above and beyond the realm of the impossible, it keeps and sustains you in the realm of God’s possibility regardless of what Satan may say or do. Just as Christ is in the Father and the Father is in Him, so are we through Salvation. “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” Romans 8:14-18
Remember, no one received salvation without or outside of Jesus Christ, and no one is led by the Spirit of God without Christ Jesus dwelling in that person no matter how much they read, know, and speak of the scriptures. It is impossible to know God without Christ Jesus. “Thomas said to Him, Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way? Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him. Philip said to Him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” John 14:5-8. Jesus explained the way to Thomas and his disciples. We have to follow that same route.
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05.24.2023
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT I WILL -- (III)
“Now it happened, the day after, that He went into a city called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him, and a large crowd. And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her. When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her do not weep. Then He came and touched the open coffin, and those who carried him stood still. And He said, young man, I say to you, arise. So, he who was dead sat up and began to speak. And He presented him to his mother. Then fear came upon all, and they glorified God, saying, a great prophet has risen up among us, and God has visited His people. And this report about Him went throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region.” Luke 7:11-17. This mother, who was a widow had lost all hope, the people around her had lost all hope, and Christ Jesus did not go there to comfort her in her sorrows, and He did not only restore their hope, He made that which was believed to be impossible to become possible and they all saw it. Yours will not be different.
Because it is impossible for God to lie; because it is impossible for God’s word to fail; because it is possible, I mean everything through Christ, it is very possible for you to be fully restored. You may have some fears and doubts, you may have many challenges and enemies standing in your way and on your path; you may have been ignored and called names, you have even seen yourself as unqualified and without strength, and you may have lost all hope, yet through Christ Jesus, what men considered impossible can be made possible.
To the non-believers and followers of Jesus Christ; to the Christians who are self-righteous and self-fulfilled; to those who have all they need and want without having to pray for them; to those who are at peace with themselves in sin and all forms of wickedness, and to many others, it is impossible for you to have a good relationship with God in their thoughts and imaginations they say; but I want to give the assurance one of the greatest reason Christ came into the world was to qualify you for that relationship through the forgiveness of your sins and washing you clean with His blood. In the power of His blood, He cleansed, purified, and qualified us to have a restored relationship with God and a healthy and fruitful union with the Almighty God; What men say and think and considered possible for you, Christ made it possible. “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ, all shall be made alive.” 1 Corinthians 15:22
When Adam fell through the sin of disobedience, God drove him and his wife out of the Garden of Eden, separating them from fellowship and intimacy with God the Father. Through obedience to the cross, through His death, burial, and resurrection, Christ Jesus restored that relationship back to all humanity who will believe in Him and walk in obedience to His word. The Father through the blood of Jesus Christ, accepted the sacrifice that has made us to be righteous before Him. “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, kill, and destroy. I have come that they may have life and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd, and I know My sheep and am known by My own. As the Father knows Me, even so, I know the Father, and I lay down My life for the sheep.” John 10:9-15. In Christ Jesus, you have been redeemed, renewed, regenerated, and registered in the Book of Life in Heaven so that the rest of your life will be lived for His glory.
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05.23.2023
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT I WILL -- (II)
“After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward. But Abram said Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? Then Abram said, Look, you have given me no offspring, indeed, one born in my house is my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, this one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir. Then He brought him outside and said, look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them. And He said to him, so shall your descendants be. And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. Then He said to him, I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to inherit it. And he said, Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit it?” Genesis 15:1-8. Abraham knew it was impossible but trusted God for His word and promise.
By the proven knowledge of men, it was impossible for Sarah to conceive in her womb, and it was impossible for God to bring forth Isaac through her as He had promised; by the knowledge of men, God has failed in His word and promises to Sarah, and by her knowledge, Sarah gave up on the promise and hope, but Abraham was still expecting, still trusting, and still demanding from the God who promised and can do whatever He said. Do not allow the knowledge of men and the experience of others to discourage you, hold onto our Lord God, hold unto Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and trust Him even at the most difficult times and situations in your life. Trust Him when you are happy and when you are sad. Trust Him when men disappoint, dishonor, and misuse you; trust God when men cheat you and take away your rights; trust God even when men refuse to trust you and say all manner of evil against you. Trust Him when you go out and when you come in. He will open the doors for you at the right time, in the right place, before the right audience, and you will be what He said and see what he promised fulfilled.
“And He said, I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son. Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age, and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Therefore, Sarah laughed within herself, saying, after I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also? And the Lord said to Abraham, why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old? Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. But Sarah denied it, saying, I did not laugh, for she was afraid. And He said, no, but you did laugh.” Genesis 18:10-15. Sarah knew she and Abraham was too old and saw the promise as impossible, yet God in His love, faithfulness power made it possible.
You have been told several times, in several ways, and by several people that it will never be as you desire or expect, but faith in the word of God tells me it is possible. Because of what you have experienced in the past, in the present, what you see, what you know, and what you have gone through, you have been forced to believe it will be impossible to get past some things in your life, but faith tells me that despite all the odds, it is possible for you in, with, and through Christ Jesus – you can do nothing except you abide in me, Jesus said. “Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me, you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered.” John 14:4-6
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05.22.2023
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE, BUT I WILL --- (I)
“Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, - the sure mercies of David. Indeed, I have given him as a witness to the people, a leader, and a commander for the people. Surely you shall call a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you shall run to you, because of the Lord your God, and the Holy One of Israel. For He has glorified you. Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth. It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” Isaiah 55:3-12
Do not be limited by the impossible things you know in your life and in your situation, let your prayers be full of impossible things, consistently ask God for the impossible, do not look to your ability or resources, look unto Him, His ability, His willingness, His faithfulness. His testimonies in the past, and look unto His own resources. Your fears, what you see, and all the things you have come to know and understand concerning your life and chances will make even what you expect and desire to be impossible, but faith in God, in His word, and in His promises makes all things possible.
There are things that are impossible but I will still trust God for them I will still seek His face for them, I will keep pushing forward towards them, and I will keep asking God for them. Every word of God from God is possible and will be possible regardless of the delays and the challenges which will come before and after; every command of God and from God will be possible regardless of the hardship that you will experience in obeying them; every promise made by God will be possible regardless of the known or unknown hindrances, and every blessing of God and from God will be possible – “for with God, nothing shall be impossible.” Luke 1:37. The salvation from Christ Jesus, the power of His word, the presence of the Holy Spirit, the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and the testimonies of others in the bible give me confidence. hope, and determination to keep pushing on knowing that what God had said, what God had promised, and what He commanded are and will be possible.
Mary knew that it was impossible for her to conceive a child because she was a virgin, she knew it was impossible for her cousin Elizabeth to have a child in her old age, but when she heard the word of assurance from the angel sent by God to announce her choice and the conception of her cousin and believed it, it became possible. God removed all the known and unknown hindrances and made it possible for His word to be fulfilled in them. “Then Mary said to the angel, how can this be since I do not know a man? And the angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Now indeed, Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her old age, and this is now the sixth month for her who was called barren. For with God, nothing will be impossible. Then Mary said, Behold the maidservant of the Lord, let it be to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her.” Luke 1:34-38
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05.19.2023
NOW THAT YOU ARE IN (V)
“But if you pray to God and seek the favor of the Almighty, and if you are pure and live with integrity, He will surely rise up and restore your happy home. And though you started with little, you will end with much. Just ask the previous generation. Pay attention to the experience of our ancestors. For we were born but yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are as fleeting as a shadow. But those who came before us will teach you. They will teach you the wisdom of old.” Job 8:5-10. Though your beginning is small, your end will be great. God’s faithfulness will not be in doubt in your life. Your consistency and determination in keeping His word and following His ways make things possible and the reward is always a big blessing no matter what. Even the enemies of Job reminded him of God’s faithfulness and reward when he was in pain.
The word of God is our strength and hope, and the testimonies of those before us are our confidence in what we expect now. As God did not fail in the past, as He did not disappoint those who put their trust in Him, as He deliver, defended, and bless them, so will He will do for us today. “So, we can say for sure, the Lord is my Helper. I am not afraid of anything a man can do to me. Remember your leaders who first spoke God’s Word to you. Think of how they lived, and trust God as they did. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not let the many strange teachings lead you in the wrong way. Our hearts are made strong by God’s loving favor.” Hebrews 13:6-9
Now that you are in Christ, remember to keep yourself from evil and from following or doing that which is against the word of God and evil. Be led by His word and depend on His word in every situation. “But you, Timothy, certainly know what I teach, how I live, and what my purpose in life is. You know my faith, my patience, my love, and my endurance. You know how much persecution and suffering I have endured. You know all about how I was persecuted in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra—but the Lord rescued me from all of it. Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. But evil people and impostors will flourish. They will deceive others and will themselves be deceived. But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you. You have been taught the holy Scriptures from childhood, and they have given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Christ Jesus.” 2 Timothy 3:10-16
Now that you are in, never forget to forgive others, never forget God’s grace and the reward of freedom in true forgiveness. God had forgiven you and you are required to forgive others the same way in all things. Live a life of peace within your heart by forgiving others. “Give us the bread we need today. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.” Matthew 6:11-12. When God forgives us, He restores us and keeps us safe from falling into sin again.
Never forget to entertain strangers. “Keep on loving each other as Christian brothers. Do not forget to be kind to strangers and let them stay in your home. Some people have had angels in their homes without knowing it. Remember those in prison. Think of them as if you were in prison with them. Remember those who are suffering because of what others have done to them. You may suffer in the same way. And when did we see You sick or in prison and we came to You? Then the King will say, for sure, I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of My brothers, you have done it to Me.” Hebrews 13:1-3; Matthew 25:39-40. Helping others is never going to be easy, but God demands we do it for His name’s sake. Never forget that you are now set for the reward of salvation.
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05.18.2023
NOW THAT YOU ARE IN (IV)
God will not leave you astray even when you made a mistake, he will listen to you, He will correct you and He will restore you. Your day of restoration is nearer than your fears and it is very possible no matter the sin or crime you did commit. Now that you are in Him, never forget to call on Him every day, every time, everywhere, and in everything. “Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his God while in the stomach of the fish, saying, I called out to the Lord because of my trouble, and He answered me. I cried for help from the place of the dead, and You heard my voice. You threw me into the deep waters, to the very bottom of the sea. A flood was all around me and all Your waves passed over me. Then I said, I have been sent away from Your eyes. But I will look again toward Your holy house. Waters closed in over me. The sea was all around me. Weeds were around my head. I went down to the roots of the mountains. The walls of the earth were around me forever. But You have brought me up from the grave, O Lord my God. While I was losing all my strength, I remembered the Lord. And my prayer came to You, into Your holy house. Those who worship false gods have given up their faith in You. But I will give gifts in worship to You with a thankful voice. I will give You what I have promised. The Lord is the One Who saves. Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it spits Jonah out onto the dry land.” Jonah 2:2-10
Now that you are in, God will lead you by His word and in His ways and nothing else. He has given you the power to pray through, pray effectively, pray faithfully, and pray sincerely from the heart, and He has given you reasons to be prayed for by others. He has promised to give His attention to all of your prayers, to hear your prayers, and to answer all of them as He did for Jabez and for Jonah. There is no reason or place for you or your prayers to be ignored, irrelevant, or forsaken, He will always answer the prayers of the righteous no matter what is at stake against them. Even in the whale’s belly, God answered the prayers of Jonah, He will answer yours.
Never ignore praying and prayers – “Is anyone among you in trouble? Let them pray. Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again, he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, remember this, whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.” James 5:13-20
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05.17.2023
NOW THAT YOU ARE IN (III)
“For the Lord will remove his hand of judgment and will disperse the armies of your enemy. And the Lord himself, the King of Israel, will live among you. At last, your troubles will be over, and you will never again fear disaster. On that day the announcement to Jerusalem will be, cheer up, Zion, don’t be afraid, for the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With His love, He will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. I will gather you who mourn for the appointed festivals; you will be disgraced no more. And I will deal severely with all who have oppressed you. I will save the weak and helpless ones; I will bring together those who were chased away. I will give glory and fame to my former exiles, wherever they have been mocked and shamed. On that day I will gather you together and bring you home again. I will give you a good name, a name of distinction, among all the nations of the earth, as I restore your fortunes before their very eyes. I, the Lord, have spoken.” Zephaniah 3:15-20
Now that you are in, you are no more like others or what you were before, you are different in Him, through Him, and by Him; you are renewed, prepared, preserved, and made ready for greater things no matter what they may say, who may say it, or who did or will do what. God took you out and He will keep you from all evil and pestilence. Being in Christ is much more than every other in your life, the benefits are endless, His goodness is everlasting, His faithfulness is forever and His love changes all things. You will not remain as you were and you will regret ever being in Him with all your heart and soul.
Now that you are in Him, seek things that are higher and better; seek things that are of praise and lasting; seek things that honor God and give life; seek things that are profound and sweet for your next testimony; seek things that present the gospels of salvation to others; seek things that will help you fulfill His mandate and His mission; seek divine knowledge and divine grace; and seek His presence always in all things. You are not in Him as a spectator, you are in Him as a Son and a daughter destined for honor and glory and He will not stop until you are fulfilled.
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to curry their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Anyone who does wrong will be repaid for their wrongs, and there is no favoritism.” Colossians 3:12-25
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05.16.2023
NOW THAT YOU ARE IN (II)
God is with you now and will be with you and in you throughout. No weapon fashioned against you by anyone or by any means will succeed, His grace will lift you up and keep you up; His word will show you the way and His Spirit will enable you to fulfill every mandate and mission that had been given to you. You are now in the assembly of the Lord God Almighty, surrounded by great glories and testimonies – “You have not come to a physical mountain, to a place of flaming fire, darkness, gloom, and whirlwind, as the Israelites did at Mount Sinai. For they heard an awesome trumpet blast and a voice so terrible that they begged God to stop speaking. They staggered back under God’s command; if even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death. Moses himself was so frightened at the sight that he said, I am terrified and trembling. No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering. You have come to the assembly of God’s firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God himself, who is the judge over all things. You have come to the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven who have now been made perfect. You have come to Jesus, the one who mediates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel.” Hebrews 12:18-24
Now that you are in, do not take the word for granted and let nothing else be as important to you as what is written in the word; do not compromise your faith as others do in the quest for wealth and fame that vanishes as soon as it comes; do not sell your faith for a meal as Esau did in his days and regretted thereafter forever; do not ignore the power of consistent prayers regardless of the delays and the humiliations that Satan and his people will bring to your life; do not forget the reward of prompt obedience from God; do not think as others and do not follow them to pursue things that hate but give yourself to love what God loves and do what He does. Christ Jesus said – “In his defense Jesus said to them, My Father is always at His work to this very day, and I too am working. For this reason, they tried all the more to kill Him, not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. Jesus gave them this answer, very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees His Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows Him all He does. Yes, and He will show Him even greater works than these so that you will be amazed.” John 5:17-20
Now that you are in, set your affections on things above, invest in them, seek them, pray for them, wait for them, believe them, and believe that God will do it. “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these, anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, or circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.” Colossians 3:1-11
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05.15.2023
NOW THAT YOU ARE IN (I)
“You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days, there will be very difficult times. People will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. They will act religiously, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that. They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. Such women are forever following new teachings, but they are never able to understand the truth. These teachers oppose the truth just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses. They have depraved minds and a counterfeit faith. But they won’t get away with this for long.” 2 Timothy 3:1-9. Now that you are in, make every effort to remain in Him, keep Him in you, walk in His righteousness, and not in your imagination.
Now that you are in Christ, now that you are born again, now that you are in the church, what is next for you? How prepared are you to follow Christ Jesus while carrying your cross? How prepared are you to remain faithful and obedient while others are living a deceitful Christian life and are being deceived by wild imaginations and worldly desires? How prepared are you to remain committed to Christ Jesus and to His Church despite what you know about the church and about the persecution? How ready are you to continue in Him despite the disappointments and the insults and seeming humiliation and shame associated with submitting your ways for His ways and humility in the present day and age of pride in individual accomplishments and wealth accumulations? God is calling you out so you can stand out and make a difference – “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:13-16
Greater and better things are waiting for you in Christ Jesus. Greater insight, greater persecution, higher level of temptation, heighten evil attacks from friends and foes, and in all of these things, you are expected to stand, remain strong, and overcome by the power of the word of God and by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God, the Spirit of all truth given to lead you into the fulness of God according to the working power of His salvation. “Therefore, put on every piece of God’s armor so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil. Then after the battle, you will still be standing firm. Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness. For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News so that you will be fully prepared. In addition to all of these, hold up the shield of faith to stop the fiery arrows of the devil. Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.” Ephesians 6:13-18
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05.12.2023
HIS WORD IN YOUR MOUTH TO SPEAK (5)
God will never lie and it is impossible for His word to fail regardless of the place, the event, the situation, and the people. Mary was given the assurance that regardless of what she might think of herself and the word she has heard, regardless of the process she had known, and regardless of what she may see, she is God’s choice and will see the physical manifestation of what she had been told – it is completely impossible for the word of God to fail. Luke 1:37. When God speaks, He acts, when He sends His word He follows up, and when we believe the word, we also see the physical manifestation in our lives and situations. His word can never be reversed.
After being paid to hinder the children of Israel, Balaam told Balak clearly – “God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so He does not change his mind. Has He ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through? Listen, I received a command to bless; God has blessed and I cannot reverse it. No misfortune is in His plan for Jacob; no trouble is in store for Israel. For the Lord their God is with them; He has been proclaimed their king. God brought them out of Egypt; for them, He is as strong as a wild ox. No curse can touch Jacob; no magic has any power against Israel. For now, it will be said of Jacob, what wonders God has done for Israel.” Numbers 23:19-23
Did you know that even angels also speak the word of God and nothing else? It is on record that when angel Gabriel visited Mary, he spoke the word of God to her and nothing else – “Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you, blessed are you among women. But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying and considered what manner of greeting this was. Then the angel said to her, do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His Father David. And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom, there will be no end. Then Mary said to the angel, how can this be since I do not know a man?” Luke 1:26-34
When God visited Daniel, He spoke through angles, but to you, He speaks through His word. “But I am the Lord your God, ever since the land of Egypt; I will again make you dwell in tents,
as in the days of the appointed feast. I have also spoken by the prophets, and have multiplied visions; I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets. Though Gilead has idols, surely, they are vanity. Though they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal, indeed their altars shall be heaps in the furrows of the field. Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, and for a wife he tended sheep. By a prophet, the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet, He was preserved. Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly; therefore, his Lord will leave the guilt of his bloodshed upon him, and return his reproach upon him.” Hosea 12:9-14
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05.11.2023
HIS WORD IN YOUR MOUTH TO SPEAK (4)
People may mock you for the word of God you honor, speak to yourself, and hold dearly in your heart and on your lips every day, but God will not mock you, He will perform what He had said and He will honor whoever holds His word in high esteem and with respect and do them. “Tell them therefore, thus says the Lord God, I will lay this proverb to rest, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel. But say to them, the days are at hand and the fulfillment of every vision. For no more shall there be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel? For I am the Lord. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and perform it, says the Lord God. Again, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, look, the house of Israel is saying, the vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off. Therefore, say to them, thus says the Lord God, none of My words will be postponed any more but the word which I speak will be done, says the Lord God.” Ezekiel 12:23-28
The fool takes pride in mocking the righteous, ridiculing those who trust and follow the Lord in everything they do. The mocking is daily and shameful, but there is no mockery strong enough to change what God had said and what God had planned for you. He will take away the shame from you by the power of His word, He will remove whatever is not of His will in your life and you will be established where He had destined and in what He had planned. Noah was mocked for his obedience, Job was mocked for his faithfulness and determination, Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego were thrown into the furnace of fire for their trust, Daniel was given to the lions as food for a night, David was mocked by Goliath, Nehemiah was mocked, on the cross, our Lord Jesus Christ was mocked, and all the disciples were mocked, but God in His power was always there to rescued them, blessed them, sustain them, and promoted them beyond what they were before. By the grace and power of God’s word, you will have the same experience regardless of the mockery and the people standing, waiting, and watching to see your end.
They saw the end of Sarah, the end of Hannah, the end of Noah, the end of Job, and the end of all those who stood firmly on the word of God. “Now the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning. Therefore, I make a decree that any people, nation, or language which speaks anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made an ash heap; because there is no other God who can deliver like this. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon. My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they have not hurt me. God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me.” Job 42:12, Daniel 3:29-30; Daniel 6:22, Genesis 21:6. Your testimony will not be different.
This was Hannah’s thanksgiving and prayers; “My heart rejoices in the Lord; My horn is exalted in the Lord. I smile at my enemies because I rejoice in Your salvation. No one is holy like the Lord, for there is none besides You, nor is there any rock like our God. Talk no more so very proudly; let no arrogance come from your mouth, for the Lord is the God of knowledge; and by Him, actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, and the hungry have ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children has become feeble.” 1 Samuel 2:1-5. The end of your mockery is coming soon, no matter what they are and how long it has lasted.
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05.10.2023
HIS WORD IN YOUR MOUTH TO SPEAK (3)
“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them, He has set a tabernacle for the sun, which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoicing like a strong man to run its race. Its rising is from one end of heaven, and its circuit to the other end, and there is nothing hidden from its heat. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover, by them, Your servant is warned, and in keeping them there is great reward. Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults. Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, and I shall be innocent of great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.” Psalm 19:1-14
Do not wish things will happen your way or the way God wants, Speak the word and watch God as he had promised. I encourage you to pick up the word of God, speak it, use it, and leave what happens next to God. He had created things by His word before, He will guide you by His word, He will lead you by His word and he will definitely bless you by His words. His word always brings transformation and renewal. It builds faith and courage and it establishes the things of God in all realms of human life regardless of the location and the race. The hidden word in your heart will do you no good until you bring them out, speak them out, and act them out. Abraham became a blessing by believing the word, having faith in the word, obeying the word, and doing what the word says. “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” James 1:22-25
By His word, all things were created, all things are existing, and all things are kept. Nothing in this world is outside of the control of God’s word. Your testimony is guaranteed if the actions are based on the word of God and not your feelings. Because God is unwavering, immovable, unmistakable, and reliable, and so are His words and ways. Men and everything else is wavering, insecure, untrustworthy, and ever-changing. In God’s word, we have a firm foundation on which life and eternity can expect now and in the future. David said – “I have seen the consummation of all perfection, but Your commandment is exceedingly broad. Oh, how I love Your law. It is my meditation all day. You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients because I keep Your precepts. I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word. I have not departed from Your judgments, for You Yourself have taught me. How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore, I hate every false way. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep Your righteous judgments.” Psalm 119:96-106
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05.09.2023
HIS WORD IN YOUR MOUTH TO SPEAK (2)
“Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. Brood of vipers. How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give an account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words, you will be justified, and by your words, you will be condemned.” Daniel 11:32, Matthew 12:33-37. What have you spoken about yourself today? Do not be driven by what you see in others or hear or feel, be driven by the word of God and act accordingly. In all situations, God will never forsake His word, He will always uphold His word and fulfill His word by His power.
Speak His word and watch Him fulfill it and He will. Out of the abundance in your own heart, your own mouth will speak, that is what God wants from all Christians, out of the abundance of His word in your heart, you will speak, not abundance of your sorrows or pains, not abundance of what people are doing, not abundance of your feelings or abundance of knowledge, but out of the abundance of His word in your own heart, your mouth should speak and thereafter watch as He brings the miracle that follows because God had ordained all of His words, not just one but all, for a purpose and that purpose is in your salvation by grace through Jesus Christ, it was put in place because of you and for you, for your joy, for your freedom, for your deliverance, so that you will be a living witness of God’s goodness and live your life praising His Holy name.
Your strength is in the word of God and your victory will come from the word of God and not in anything else. “And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have about the land of Israel, which says, the days are prolonged, and every vision fails? Tell them therefore, thus says the Lord God, I will lay this proverb to rest, and they shall no longer use it as a proverb in Israel. But say to them, the days are at hand and the fulfillment of every vision. For no more shall there be any false vision or flattering divination within the house of Israel? For I am the Lord. I speak, and the word which I speak will come to pass; it will no more be postponed; for in your days, O rebellious house, I will say the word and perform it, says the Lord God. Again, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Son of man, look, the house of Israel is saying, the vision that he sees is for many days from now, and he prophesies of times far off. Therefore, say to them, thus says the Lord God, none of My words will be postponed any more, but the word which I speak will be done, says the Lord God.” Ezekiel 12:21-28. What transforms us when we come to Jesus Christ is nothing else but the word of God we know, believe, and speak.
It was the word of God that made Abraham into a blessing, not his labor, it was the word of God that brought everything into existence not the work of any man, and that same word is alive and also very active today as it was in the beginning. Nothing changes things quicker than the true word of God we speak. If you want to see your life totally changed, speak the word of God to yourself every day regardless of what you see and know, and experience. If you want to see your finances change, speak the word of God to your income and be committed to His word about finance. If you want to increase your self-worth and fear disappear, speak God’s word over your situations every day. “Jesus answered and said to them, assuredly, if you say to this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea, it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Matthew 21:21-22.
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05.08,2023
HIS WORD IN YOUR MOUTH TO SPEAK
When God in His love gives you a word to speak, say it out immediately, do not delay or be afraid of what will happen thereafter. He knows the result of that word more than you do and knows what He will do thereafter regardless of what will happen when you speak it. All that He requires of you is obedience. In all circumstances, in all locations, and in languages, none of His given, written, and spoken words will go unfulfilled even when they are challenged against you, and you are called to question. Teaching and showing examples of how the word God works and will work, Christ demonstrated the power of the word using a fig tree when it was not yet time for figs to bear fruit – “Now the next day, when they had come out from Bethany, He was hungry. And seeing from afar a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. In response Jesus said to it, let no one eat fruit from you ever again. And His disciples heard it.” Mark 11:12-14. Jesus knew it was not time for fruits and He would have walked away, but rather, He stopped and said those words to the hearing of His disciple. His expectation was that the disciple will learn but they did not, and He had to remind them.
Just as He reminded His disciple then, He is reminding us today – that there is truly power in the spoken word of God when we speak them with faith in Him. When asked by His disciples who heard what He said and saw what happened thereafter, Christ told them, not to be afraid when they speak even when it is a mountain standing to prevent them – “Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, Rabbi, look, the fig tree which You cursed has withered away. So, Jesus answered and said to them, have faith in God. For assuredly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” Mark 11:20-24
I pray as you speak the word of God over the issues in your life, and things that concern you, your moment of miracle will come, as the disciples saw the fig tree withered from the root, you will see the issues you spoke about withered, you will see something new come out of it, you will have peace and rejoicing, you will see God confirm His word in you and through you, and you will glorify Him thereafter. This is the assurance that we have - “Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” Matthew 24:34-35
Say what God says, not what others are saying and not what you are thinking. Our thoughts are too small to be compared to His thoughts, and our words are nothing except we echo His word back to Him in faith. “Then the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak. So, he came to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, what has the Lord spoken? Then he took up his oracle and said, rise up, Balak, and hear. Listen to me, son of Zippor. God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a King is among them. God brings them out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox. For there is no sorcery against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob and of Israel, oh, what God has done.” Numbers 23:16-23. God has destined greater and better things for you. Speak what He says to you and believe them.
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05.05,2023
THE COINCIDENCE, MY PROMOTION (4)
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego never thought they will ever be in the place they were - the inner prison of Nebuchadnezzar. Prior to that day and time, they had no dream, no revelation, and no form of imagination of what will happen to them or what the result of such an event will ever be, but it happened; they saw themselves where they do not want, and where they did not pray for or expect in life, but one thing was fixed in their thoughts and mind, - determination to be true children of the Living God, keep their faith firmly on Him, and trust His word no matter what. In the prison, their faith was tested and their determination rose, and God saw them, and the result was amazing. – they were all transformed, blessed, and promoted. King Nebuchadnezzar set them up, and their God showed up. These men changed the evil the king had determined. This coincidence brought out their best in ways that encourage us and others who put their faith in God. A coincidence is a set of connected events which have a very low probability of happening together. A coincidence is when God turns an unexpected event in your life into His glory and unto your utmost joy.
“He said, look, I see four men walking around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks like a son of the gods. Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the blazing furnace and shouted, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out. Come here. So, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire, and the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed; their robes were not scorched, and there was no smell of fire on them. Then Nebuchadnezzar said, praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel and rescued his servants. They trusted in him and defied the king’s command and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. Therefore, I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into piles of rubble, for no other god can save in this way. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the province of Babylon.” Daniel 3:25-30
Do you know God is watching over you regardless of your feelings, thoughts, and whatever any person or people are saying and doing against you? Faith in God’s word and determination to remain faithful and obedient is all you need to keep standing up and strong when you are in a situation you cannot control again; that faith and determination coupled with obedience will definitely break the yoke of affliction, depression, and shame in your life, it will bring you to the place God had destined and will set you up on high. Your faith can speak for you everywhere in the world regardless of your profession, gender, and race. Let my faith speak to you Oh Lord. “The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy. Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him. The king said to Daniel, surely your God is the God of gods and the Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, for you were able to reveal this mystery. Then the king placed Daniel in a high position and lavished many gifts on him. He made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon and placed him in charge of all its wise men. Moreover, at Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego administrators over the province of Babylon, while Daniel himself remained at the royal court.” Daniel 2:45-49
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05.04,2023
THE COINCIDENCE, MY PROMOTION (3)
“Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh - which means the Lord will provide. To this day, people still use that name as a proverb, on the mountain of the Lord it will be provided. Then the angel of the Lord called again to Abraham from heaven. This is what the Lord says because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your son, your only son, I swear by my own name that I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies. And through your descendants, all the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have obeyed me.” Genesis 22:14-18. You have believed in the living God by accepting and believing in Jesus Christ and you are saved, God will do the rest and the needful for you as you continue to walk in faith and remain obedient to Him. Nothing not even the evil of the day will overtake you.
When all hope is lost, remember, God is not lost; when needed help is not coming as expected and on time, remember God is always there with His provisions and He will help; when known and unknown fear is all over and you are fearful for the next moment and your next move and actions, remember, God had promised He will never depart or forsake you; when trusted friends become foes and you are overwhelmed by challenges and adversities; remember, God’s presence is there to comfort and lead you; when confusion and doubts want to take over your thought and the very best of you, remember, God can still work through those challenges to set you up for the greatest blessings in your life. Be confident and trust that you are in Him and He is you. “When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you.” Isaiah 43:2
God has determined the time, the place, and the occasion for your promotion. Everyone in Christ Jesus has a place, an occasion, and a time set by Our Father in heaven for them to be glorified, honored, and blessed according to His plans and His design. Nothing will change it, not even the worst act in human history or events that take place suddenly in the lives of men. Did you know God has a set time and place for every plan that He has? He has a set time for you and nothing will change it. “My days are like the evening shadow; I wither away like grass. But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations. You will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her; the appointed time has come.” Psalm 102:11-13. Your appointed time will definitely come.
When Daniel was in prison, His appointed time came. When Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego were in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace of fire, their appointed time came. When Sarah and Elizabeth were old and passed the time of childbearing, their appointed time came. When Hannah was abused and when she cried in time of rejoicing, her appointed time came. When Joseph was in prison with no hope but only trust in the living God, his appointed time came. When David faced Goliath in a bathe with a sling and a stone contrary to what Goliath had for the fight, his appointed time came. When Matthew was sitting at the tax collector’s desk, his appointed time came. When the woman with the issue of blood had spent all her wealth with no improvement in her health and situation, her appointed time came. When Abraham holding unto the promises of God was old and waiting for too long, his appointed time came, I see God bringing and hasting on your appointed time. It will come, hold your peace and keep trusting God for everything, every moment, and everywhere regardless of what you see and know.
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05.03,2023
THE COINCIDENCE, MY PROMOTION (2)
Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego never thought their promotion was coming; they never knew God in His love had scheduled that event to lift them up and out of rejection, to bring them out of pains and anger of godlessness in the country, to honor them openly and publicly, to make His name known among the people, and teach the them that trusting, depending, and having faith in Him is beyond the physical things we see, that God saving you is needful, and that believing in Him is not foolishness and will never be wasteful as many believed and thought in their minds and in their actions this day.
While the people feared Nebuchadnezzar, these three men fear the Almighty God. While the people expected these three men to die shamefully, God scheduled them to be honored openly, publicly, and gloriously. What is it that had been planned against you? Expect God to turn it around, expect God to use the incident to honor His name, promote His glory, and bring praise to His Holy Name. These men could not do anything to change the mind and the decree of King Nebuchadnezzar, but God was watching and waiting for His glory to be seen. God did not go after Nebuchadnezzar, neither did He desire to change his mind before that set date, but He was prepared to use that occasion for His glory before the entire people who had come to watch and the nation in general. That which the people had prepared for your shame can be changed for your honor; that which the enemies had scheduled for your downfall can be used for your upliftment, that which had been scheduled for your punishment can become the source of their downfall, and the things you cannot change but trust God to take you through, can actually lead to your becoming the best with all glory to the Almighty Father in heaven. Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego never knew their promotion was coming, they never knew God was waiting to honor them, God did not give them a dream or a revelation, but He was right there to do what He had destined for their lives. You will not miss the coincidence that will bring your promotion, you will not miss the incident that will bring you to where and what God had destined. I want you to trust God till the end no matter what. He will help you and will do what He had destined.
“Nebuchadnezzar was so furious with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that his face became distorted with rage. He commanded the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usual. Then he ordered some of the strongest men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and throw them into the blazing furnace. So, they tied them up and threw them into the furnace, fully dressed in their pants, turbans, robes, and other garments. And because the king, in his anger, had demanded such a hot fire in the furnace, the flames killed the soldiers as they threw the three men in. So, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, securely tied, fell into the roaring flames. But suddenly, Nebuchadnezzar jumped up in amazement and exclaimed to his advisers, didn’t we tie up three men and throw them into the furnace? Yes, Your Majesty, we certainly did, they replied. Look, Nebuchadnezzar shouted. I see four men, unbound, walking around in the fire unharmed. And the fourth looks like a god. Then Nebuchadnezzar came as close as he could to the door of the flaming furnace and shouted, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out, come here. So, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego stepped out of the fire. Then the high officers, officials, governors, and advisers crowded around them and saw that the fire had not touched them. Not a hair on their heads was singed, and their clothing was not scorched. They didn’t even smell smoke. Nebuchadnezzar said, praise to the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He sent His angel to rescue His servants who trusted in Him. They defied the king’s command and were willing to die rather than serve or worship any god except their own God. Therefore, I make this decree, if any people, whatever their race or nation or language, speak a word against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they will be torn limb from limb, and their houses will be turned into heaps of rubble. There is no other god who can rescue like this. Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to even higher positions in the province of Babylon.” Daniel 3:19-30
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05.02,2023
THE COINCIDENCE, MY PROMOTION
“On that day you will no longer need to be ashamed, for you will no longer rebel against me. I will remove all proud and arrogant people from among you. There will be no more haughtiness on my holy mountain. Those who are left will be lowly and humble, for it is they who trust in the name of the Lord. The remnant of Israel will do no wrong; they will never tell lies or deceive one another. They will eat and sleep in safety, and no one will make them afraid. Sing, daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel. Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O daughter of Jerusalem. For the Lord will remove His hand of judgment and will disperse the armies of your enemy. The Lord Himself, the King of Israel, will live among you. At last, your troubles will be over, and you will never again fear disaster. On that day the announcement to Jerusalem will be, cheer up, Zion! Don’t be afraid. For the Lord, your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With His love, He will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs. I will gather you who mourn for the appointed festivals; you will be disgraced no more. And I will deal severely with all who have oppressed you. I will save the weak and helpless ones; I will bring together those who were chased away. I will give glory and fame to my former exiles, wherever they have been mocked and shamed. On that day I will gather you together and bring you home again. I will give you a good name, a name of distinction, among all the nations of the earth, as I restore your fortunes before their very eyes. I, the Lord, have spoken.” Zephaniah 3:11-20
When we look at ourselves, look at our strengths, our struggles in the past, all our efforts, and what we have achieved, we lost hope in ourselves, we lost hope in ever succeeding and having what we truly want in life; when we look at how others are succeeding and doing well, how others are living and making process in their lives, we lost hope in ourselves. When we look at their homes, their marriages, their children, and their actions, we think we are lost forever, but despite our thoughts, despite our feeling, and despite what people may say and do against us, it is very certain that our God is not silent and we will never give up trusting Him and waiting for that day He will show up in a mighty way to do the impossible that will definitely change, transform, and bless us beyond what we have done and what anyone else can or will ever do for us.
The Lord our God is strong, mighty, able, faithful, and willing in all things that concern us, He will not withhold any good thing from us no matter the strength, the people, the office, and the evil power of those against us. Our location is not too rough or hard that He cannot help and change and bless us for His purpose – remember He blessed Isaac with a hundredfold harvest at a time of famine and a place devastated by that same famine. “When Isaac planted his crops that year, he harvested a hundred times more grain than he planted, for the Lord blessed him. He became a very rich man, and his wealth continued to grow. He acquired so many flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.” Genesis 26:12-14. God can bless you despite the season, the location, and the hardship where you are. All it took for Isaac to be blessed was obedience and a corresponding action despising what he saw and what he knew in that location. The location and what was happening around Noah did not prevent God from speaking and rescuing Him. The location and people and actions of those in Sodom and Gomorrah did not prevent God from rescuing Lot when the time of destruction came. God is setting things up for you; He is setting you up for His purpose, it will come together as He had destined. You will live to see His hands stretched out for your joy and glory.
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05.01.2023
THIS IS YOUR MONTH OF GOOD COINCIDENCE
“So, the Lord gave to Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there. And the Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had solemnly promised their ancestors. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the Lord helped them conquer all their enemies. Not a single one of all the good promises the Lord had given to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; everything he had spoken came true. But now, O Jacob, listen to the Lord who created you. O Israel, the one who formed you says, do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine. When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. For I am the Lord, your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I am the Lord, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not destroyed.” Joshua 21:42-45, Isaiah 43:1-3, Malachi 3:6
You may have been wondering what is going on in your life after years of salvation, believing, trusting, loving the Lord, and waiting on Him faithfully for the promises He gave concerning you to be manifested. I will declare to you that God will do it, He has not forgotten neither has He abandoned you. He is never late and never unfaithful no matter the issue troubling you, the time, and the delays that you have experienced. Even when you lose faith in His promises for any given reason, God will still remain faithful to His word, commands, and to all of His promises. It is impossible for God to change what He had said. Forty years of wandering in the wilderness did not make God change His mind concerning the children of Israel and His promises. You have come to trust Him, your waiting will never be in vain, and your faithfulness to Him will not fail to bring a resounding reward to you. Keep the faith, keep the trust, and fix your eyes on Christ Jesus our Lord, our Savior, and our redeemer.
God has not and will not leave you behind, He gave you salvation, Jesus Christ shed His blood on the cross for you, His blood opens the door for the forgiveness of all of your past sins, opens the door of heaven for an impactful fellowship and relationship with God the Father Almighty, He gave you His Holy Spirit to keep and guide you, and you are truly in Him according to His word, following, and keeping His commands. By His love, you are called and preserved for a purpose, and sealed by the Holy Spirit to accomplish that purpose no matter what. The children of Israel left Egypt with joy, celebration and with hope, they left for a destination they did not know but trusted God to take them there, but when that hope failed because of Pharoah and what they say in the wilderness, God did not lose hope in them, He was still committed to His word and He did take them to the place He promised, He did not fail and his promises did not fail.
“Be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today. Then you will live and multiply, and you will enter and occupy the land the Lord swore to give your ancestors. Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey His commands. Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone, rather, we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. For all these forty years your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t blister or swell. Think about it. Just as a parent disciplines a child, the Lord your God disciplines you for your own good. So, obey the commands of the Lord your God by walking in His ways and fearing Him.” Deuteronomy 8:1-6.
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04.28.2023
TELL SOMEBODY GOD HAS PLANS FOR YOU (III)
“And God said, let there be light: and there was light. And God said, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear, and it was so. And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth, and it was so. And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years, and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and it was so. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. Then God said, let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind, cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind, and it was so. Then God said, let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.” Genesis 1:3,6,9,14-15,20,24,26,31
The whole creation, the whole visible and invisible universe and everything in them, the ones we can see and the ones we cannot see; the ones discovered and the ones yet to be discovered; the things people are working on now and the ones they will work on later, all came to be only by the power of the spoken word by His commands. The very existence of human beings was made possible through the word spoken by God. You did not just exist, God spoke concerning you, He gave His command and it came to pass and it was good. Whatever is not good in you will be taken away by the power of His word and His command.
What God said will definitely come to pass, it will definitely be as He had said, it will never be changed, it will be so, it was good when he said it and it will be good when it is manifested; it will be as He had said, and will definitely perform all of His purposes at fulfillment. When God said you will have peace, it will come to pass. When God said you will have the promotion, it will come to pass, Daniel went through the prison, Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego went through the fire, yet they were all promoted – “Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego in the province of Babylon.” Daniel 3:30. When God said you will have a child, it will come to pass. Sarah suffered barrenness yet she gave birth to Isaac, – “And Sarah said, God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me. She also said, who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.” Genesis 21:6-7. When Christ spoke and His command at the tomb where Lazarus was buried, the dead body of Lazarus heard His voice, the grave gave up its occupant, and Lazarus walked out from that confinement of the grave and everyone saw him alive again. “Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave cloths, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, loose him, and let him go.” John 11:43-44
Do not let grief consume you, God has His plans concerning you through Christ Jesus and it is on record that Christ paid the full price for your salvation, which enables you to be all that God had said, it will be so, it will come to pass, and it will be good because the Almighty God is involved. “When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, the Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy. Restore our fortunes, Lord, like streams in the Negev. Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.” Psalm 126:1-6
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04.27.2023
TELL SOMEBODY GOD HAS PLANS FOR YOU (II)
“How happy are those whose strength comes from you, who are eager to make the pilgrimage to Mount Zion? As they pass through the dry valley of Baca, it becomes a place of springs; the autumn rain fills it with pools. They grow stronger as they go; they will see the God of gods in Zion. Hear my prayer, Lord God Almighty. Listen, O God of Jacob. Bless our king, O God, the king you have chosen. One day spent in your Temple is better than a thousand anywhere else; I would rather stand at the gate of the house of my God than live in the homes of the wicked. The Lord is our protector and glorious king, blessing us with kindness and honor. He does not refuse any good thing to those who do what is right. Lord Almighty, how happy are those who trust in you.” Psalm 84:5-12
No matter what they say to you or do against you, always remember, in all situations, in all ways, and in all things, your God is never and will never be like their god no matter who, what, and where they are or the association you have in common with them. He is always far ahead in all things, always compassionate, Holy, true and trusted, faithful and merciful, full of love, willing and able to help you to become the very best and be distinguished from them. There is no night, no darkness in, or with Him; there is no power of darkness or shadow or mountain or valley, or pains or troubles or evil plans that is able to keep Him away from you; whatever is existing to hinder you cannot hinder Him and will no more stand against you when His presence is there with you. King Saul stood up against David but he was unable to stop the God of David.
David’s parents desired him to remain in the forest but God wanted him in the palace; they abandoned him to rule over sheep in the forest, but God wanted him to rule over His people in the palace as a king, their plans failed, but God’s plan prevail. David said, “When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up.” Psalm 27:10
No good thing will he withhold from those who love Him, who love His presence, who desire His righteousness, and who follow His word. This is who your God truly is – “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows grace and favor and honor; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand anywhere else; I would rather stand as a doorkeeper at the threshold of the house of my God than live at ease in the tents of wickedness.” Psalm 84:11 & 10
Our God is bigger than all the mistakes you had ever made; all the mistakes of your parents and of your ancestors; His mercies are greater and always available, there are no situations that He cannot turn around, no human who calls on Him that cannot be helped and no place so dark that His light cannot shine through and bring out His best for His glory. When Daniel was in the lion’s den, His presence was there with him; when Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego were in the furnace fire of Nebuchadnezzar, His presence was there with them. God’s presence will always make a difference. I pray you will see His presence in your life and in your situation. “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me” Psalm 27:1-3, Psalm 23:4. Worship God with confidence, remain in Him with hope, and trust Him for the very best despite all the odds against you.
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04.26.2023
TELL SOMEBODY GOD HAS PLANS FOR YOU
“For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly, you will find me. I will be found by you, says the Lord. I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.” Jeremiah 29:11-14. When Israel was in captivity and in pain in Babylon, despite the strength of Nebuchadnezzar, God told them He has a plan for them that will definitely work itself out despite the captivity and the activities of their enemies. The plans of God are real and when they are manifested, there is rejoicing and praise. The day of your recovery and rejoicing will be far greater than the days of your pains and sorrows.
Your life has been detailed in the sight of God and none of the details concerning you will be changed. God’s plans for you will come to pass, it will be fulfilled and you will also be fulfilled alongside. His plans for you had been in place before you were conceived and you will live to see it, live to enjoy it, and live to praise Him for it. By the family's thought, plan, and design, David had no other chance in life than to be following the sheep, he was scheduled to be in the forest following after, caring for, and maintaining the family sheep-keeping business, but contrary to what they schedule him for, God had His own plans for David, and for his life and at the end, God’s plan for him came to pass. God’s plan was bigger, better, and more profound, it was far beyond the forest, bigger than keeping the sheep, and better than the family plan. God will not relent in His plans for your life, He will not give up because you are doing something else right now, he will not give up because people are seeking to destroy you, He will not give up because you are weak, he will not give up because of your past. He is the God of now because through Christ Jesus, your past had been forgiven and you are now facing your future in Him through the salvation of your soul and the cleaning of your body and spirit through His word.
Concerning David God said – “Now then, tell my servant, David, this is what the Lord Almighty says, I took you from the pasture, from tending the flock, and appointed you ruler over my people Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make your name like the names of the greatest men on earth.” 1 Chronicles 17:7-8. While David’s parents were having their plans for David, God was preparing David for His own plan which was far better and bigger.
David said – “I waited patiently for the Lord to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. He has given me a new song to sing, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see what he has done and be amazed. They will put their trust in the Lord. Oh, the joys of those who trust the Lord, who have no confidence in the proud, or in those who worship idols. O Lord my God, you have performed many wonders for us. Your plans for us are too numerous to list. You have no equal. If I tried to recite all your wonderful deeds, I would never come to the end of them.” Psalm 40:1-5
This is what Amos said of himself – “But Amos replied, I’m not a professional prophet, and I was never trained to be one. I’m just a shepherd, and I take care of sycamore fig trees. But the Lord called me away from my flock and told me, Go and prophesy to my people in Israel. Now then, listen to this message from the Lord.” Amos 7:14-16
Your plans may be great, but God’s plans for you are better and greater. Your parent's plan for you may be big, but God’s plans for you are bigger and there are no circumstances that will stop God’s plans or stop you from seeing and being what God had planned.
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04.24.2023
TELL SOMEBODY THAT --- (II)
“O Lord, you alone are my hope. I’ve trusted you, O Lord, from childhood. Yes, you have been with me from birth; from my mother’s womb, you have cared for me. No wonder I am always praising you. My life is an example to many because you have been my strength and protection. That is why I can never stop praising you; I declare your glory all day long. And now, in my old age, don’t set me aside. Don’t abandon me when my strength is failing. For my enemies are whispering against me. They are plotting together to kill me. They say God has abandoned him. Let’s go and get him, for no one will help him now. O God, don’t stay away. My God, please hurry to help me. Bring disgrace and destruction on my accusers. Humiliate and shame those who want to harm me. But I will keep on hoping for your help; I will praise you more and more. I will tell everyone about your righteousness. All day long I will proclaim your saving power, though I am not skilled with words. I will praise your mighty deeds, O Sovereign Lord. I will tell everyone that you alone are just. O God, you have taught me from my earliest childhood, and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do. Now that I am old and gray, do not abandon me, O God. Let me proclaim your power to this new generation, your mighty miracles to all who come after me.” Psalm 71:5-18
Tell someone your trust in the Almighty God will never be in vain no matter what. You will live to see the reward, you will live to see the blessing and tell the end result to their hearing. David trusted God long before he was recommended by God for the anointing, and divine appointment to be the next king of Israel after Saul. The testimony of David is so great that no one can argue against it. David lived to see success in ways that only God can make possible; David had good success despite all the troubles in his own life and in his family; he had several challenges and pains yet he went through them all. He by the grace and power of God, became what God said and lived to tell his story of how the mighty hand and power of God had led and guided him.
Before David was anointed by Samuel, God said He had found a man after His own God. Before David was recommended and anointed by Samuel, David had found grace for the anointing from God early in life, David had presented His heart to seek the Lord early in life, he had submitted all his ways to Him to lead, and had trusted God as a little child long before he was commended and recommended by God for the anointing by Samuel. It was not an instant recommendation or anointing, it was a result and a reward of an early walk with God – “O Lord, you alone are my hope. I’ve trusted you, O Lord, from childhood. Yes, you have been with me from birth; from my mother’s womb, you have cared for me. No wonder I am always praising you.” Psalm 71:5-6
How long have you trusted God? It will surely pay off very soon, your trust and dependence on Him will never be in vain, it will bring forth and spring forth, and will result in your upliftment, deliverance, blessing, and preservation. Job trusted God and was healed, restored, and made seven times better than he had been before. Abraham trusted God and was established; Noah trusted God and was saved from the destructive flood in his days and blessed with a covenant. Daniel trusted God and was delivered from the den of hungry lions and brought out alive; Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego trusted God and were delivered from the burning furnace set up to kill them right before the eyes and presence of those who conspired against them and those who also constructed the furnace and those who gave the order and those who signed the sentence of their death. Your deliverance, healing, restoration, and blessings will not be in secret. It will be open for those who conspire against you to see and praise your God.
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04.24.2023
TELL SOMEBODY THAT -- (1)
You will have a testimony to tell. “May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble; may the name of the God of Jacob defend you; may He send you help from the sanctuary, and strengthen you out of Zion. May He remember all your offerings, and accept your burnt sacrifice. May He grant you according to your heart’s desire, and fulfill all your purpose. We will rejoice in your salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners. May the Lord fulfill all your petitions. Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They have bowed down and fallen, but we have risen and stand upright.” Psalm 20:1-8
Tell someone God will make you what you believe and what you trust if it has its foundation in His word and nothing else. Some people trust in their acquired knowledge, the strength they have developed over the years, the wealth they piled up for themselves, their parental background and help, and their dreams, but those who trust in the Lord, put their hope in Him, and walk with him even when their past was a daily nightmare, they will never be a hindrance to what God will do in, with, and through them. His love for the righteous is everlasting and cannot be hindered.
Tell someone because they delight, trust, and follow the word of God, their lives will hereafter be like that of David and nothing, not even delays, frustrations, or challenges will stop it. David was anointed king by Samuel at God’s command, but the manifestation of that anointing and the word spoken by Samuel to David did not come immediately, it did not come without lots of challenges, pains, and the devil standing in high places to stop him, but the word of God and the anointing prevailed at the end. Would you stand, and would you wait? God will do what He said.
This is what David said concerning his life and what God did - “I waited patiently for the Lord, and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth, Praise to our God; many will see it and fear, and will trust in the Lord. blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust, and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. Then I said, behold, I come in the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart. I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness in the great assembly; indeed, I do not restrain my lips, O Lord, You Yourself know. I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly. Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord; let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me. For innumerable evils have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore, my heart fails me. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion who seek to destroy my life; let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor who wish me evil. Let them be confounded because of their shame, who say to me, Aha, aha. Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, the Lord be magnified. But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks upon me. You are my help and my deliverer; do not delay, O my God.” Psalm 40:1-17
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04.21.2023
SHOULD I OR SHOULD I NOT DEAR LORD? (V)
“I delight to do Your will, my God; Your instruction lives within me. I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; see, I do not keep my mouth closed as You know, Lord. I did not hide Your righteousness in my heart; I spoke about Your faithfulness and salvation; I did not conceal Your constant love and truth from the great assembly. Lord, do not withhold Your compassion from me; Your constant love and truth will always guard me.” Psalm 40:8-11. The secret of David’s numerous successes in life was not in his strength or prayers, it was in what he delighted himself in doing – he takes delight in the word of God and being led by the word of God.
This is the hint that David gave in his confession, “I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your command is without limit. How I love Your instruction. It is my meditation all day long. Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are always with me. I have more insight than all my teachers because Your decrees are my meditation. I understand more than the elders because I obey Your precepts. I have kept my feet from every evil path to follow Your word. I have not turned from Your judgments, for You Yourself have instructed me. How sweet Your word is to my taste sweeter than honey in my mouth. I gain understanding from Your precepts; therefore, I hate every false way. Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path. I have solemnly sworn to keep Your righteous judgments. I am severely afflicted; Lord, give me life through Your word.” Psalm 119:96-107. You have believed God, you have been saved, you have prayed and you are waiting, please make a decision to follow His word and delight yourself in obeying His word and He will establish you by His word as He established David by His word, in His word, and nothing else.
No matter what they will say, what they will do, and whatever they may do to intimidate you, make it known to them and resolve in your heart that God’s word had been proven right before and will be proven right in your own life and in your own case. David became what God said of him before he was anointed by Samuel; he did what God anointed him to do in Israel despite what King Saul and his army did to stop him, despite what his own brothers and parents thought of him, despite what his own background was and what his family linage was in Israel, despite what his own childhood profession was and all the odd evidence of his several weaknesses. “Now this is what you will say to My servant David, this is what the Lord of Hosts says, I took you from the pasture and from following the sheep to be ruler over My people Israel. I have been with you wherever you have gone.” 1 Chronicle 17:7-8
David was the youngest in his family but that did not hinder God; his family was the smallest, yet that did not hinder God, his parents did not believe he will ever become anything, yet that did not hinder God. His brothers did not give him any chance, yet that did not hinder God. King Saul did not trust him, yet that did not hinder God, Goliath did not believe who he saw and what he saw in David’s hand and yet that did not hinder God. Did you know that nothing in you, in your family, in your finances, in your marriage, and in your surrounding will hinder you if you delight yourself in the word of God and give yourself to be led by the word and nothing else? David said, “Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light on my path.” Psalm 119:105. Not his thoughts or advice of his best counselors or friends or philosophers. “I waited patiently for the Lord, and He turned to me and heard my cry for help. He brought me up from a desolate pit, out of the muddy clay, and set my feet on a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord. How happy is the man who has put his trust in the Lord and has not turned to the proud or to those who run after lies.” Psalm 40:1-4
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04.20.2023
SHOULD I OR SHOULD I NOT DEAR LORD? (IV)
Following and relying on the word of God will end in your vindication and victory no matter the issue and what any man in his power or authority will ever do to you. Do not let anyone say any deceiving word to you with their philosophy of knowledge and power of wisdom, showing that they know God, in everything, God will never forget or depart from His stated word. He will defend and bless you by His word. This is what David said about his commitment to the word of God; “I will meditate on Your precepts. Let those who fear You, those who know Your decrees, turn to me. May my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes so that I will not be put to shame. I long for Your salvation; I put my hope in Your word. My eyes grow weary looking for what You have promised; I ask, when will You comfort me? Though I have become like a wineskin dried by smoke, I do not forget Your statutes. How many days must Your servant wait? When will You execute judgment on my persecutors? The arrogant have dug pits for me; they violate Your instruction. All Your commands are true; people persecute me with lies, help me. They almost ended my life on earth, but I did not abandon Your precepts. Give me life in accordance with Your faithful love, and I will obey the decree You have spoken.” Psalm 119:79-88
Even when we cry, complain, suffer persecution at the hands of the wicked, argue, and do not understand many things in our lives, where we are and what we are doing, God will always lead us by His word, and by the power of His presence not by our feelings, understanding, or by what people are doing against us. He will not depart from the principle of His word despite all the best knowledge and wisdom of men. His word concerning us in all issues everywhere and every time and in everything is settled in heaven and we are to implement them on earth and in our lives by our actions in all issues that concern us daily that we will ever face. Changes in season and time will not change the word of God or His intent or purpose in any way.
“Lord, Your word is forever; it is firmly fixed in heaven. Your faithfulness is for all generations; you established the earth, and it stands firm. They stand today in accordance with Your judgments, for all things are Your servants. If Your instruction had not been my delight, I would have died in my affliction. I will never forget Your precepts, for You have given me life through them. I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts. The wicked hope to destroy me, but I contemplate Your decrees. I have seen a limit to all perfection, but Your command is without limit.” Psalm 119:89-96
Christ Jesus came to show us the Father’s way, lead us on that way, keep and defend us on that way, and finally bless and reward us on the way. Our understanding or feelings or changes in time and season and locations and professions will change the ways of God and His word. The wisdom of this world will fail; the strength of men will fail them; the knowledge of men will limit them, and the wealth of men will also fail, but the word of God will never fail. Trusting and putting your hope in God is not foolishness or a sign of weakness as some have said and assumed, but they fail or refuse to remember and acknowledge that all things visible and invisible were all created by God including themselves for His purpose. No matter what you are going through in this life, you have a purpose in God, and by the power of His word, you will live to fulfill that purpose. “For everything was created by Him, in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things have been created through Him and for Him.” Colossians 1:16
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04.19.2023
SHOULD I OR SHOULD I NOT DEAR LORD? (III)
It is not the troubles we have but our decisions in life that determine our level of success, our destined feature, and the victory we will have in every issue. Decision is key in whatever we will ever become in life regardless of what we studied, our religion, and our experiences in life. The impact of our decisions is much greater than we think and its power is much more than we will ever make it look like. God speaks to everyone ahead of every situation, though we might not know, His word is always there to guide us along the path to follow. Before God brought the flood to the world, He told Noah what He will do and what he should do. Long before the flood, Noah knew the problems of men around him, he saw all of their actions and knew their thoughts, yet he did not give himself to follow them, Noah’s righteousness and decision opened the door for God to inform him of what He will do thereafter and what he should do before then.
“And Noah did this, he did everything that God had commanded him.” Genesis 6:22. In all of your troubles and situations, while waiting for God’s promises to be fulfilled, do not undermine the power of the word of God, do not undermine the impact of disobedience, do not undermine the influence of the devil, and people with contrary opinions even when they present convincing and true evidence of what they say and did, follow the commands of God, you will not regret thereafter. The result and reward of Noah’s obedience were beyond the best imagination anyone in his time could offer. Noah shun the corruption and the fanfare of the time and he did not regret thereafter in his decision to follow God and obey His commands rather than following the people and their fun time celebrations. The end of Noah’s story is that he followed and did everything that God commanded him and God rewarded him for his decision and action “My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness. Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you. But be doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Because if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his own face in a mirror. For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but one who does good works—this person will be blessed in what he does. If anyone[j] thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, then his religion is useless and he deceives himself.” James 1:19-26
While waiting and praying for God’s promises, let us walk in obedience to His written word and not our feelings no matter what men will say and do to us. God’s word is greater than and more important and worthy to be trusted than our feelings and pains. The problems we truly have each day are not in the afflictions we suffer but in the decision we make ourselves by our feelings without following the word of God, and how we handle those situations, ourselves, and the people. Let us be like Noah in righteousness and faith, let us follow the example of Christ, let us absolutely believe the word of God and obey His commands. In all things and in everywhere and every situation, God will never forsake His word and His promises, He is always there when we put our trust in Him and in His words.
By his obedience, Noah did not regret his action; by his faith, Abraham did not regret His action when he left all behind to follow the commands of God. By his dedication to godly principles, Joseph did not regret his action to comply with the sexual offer. By trust and self-sacrifice, Matthew did not regret leaving behind the job of a tax collector to follow Christ, Peter did not regret leaving his fishing business, and Paul did not regret leaving his law practice to be a disciple. It is evident that your decision today can change you for the very best.
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04.17.2023
SHOULD I OR SHOULD I NOT DEAR LORD? (II)
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will set aside the understanding of the experts. Where is the philosopher? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made the world’s wisdom foolish?” 1 Corinthians 1:18-20. It is evidently known and proven that many things, many good people, and many good projects had failed in the past, and will fail now and fail again in the future but the word of God will never fail even when heaven and earth are taken away. God has given men wisdom, but there is none greater than the word of God and nothing else is as reliable, proven, and true as the word that God in His love and wisdom had given to us in the bible. It is the word of God that holds all things and keeps all things together with profound success. The word of God also gives success in whatever good and righteousness we deliberately give ourselves to do everywhere and every time. When we depend on the wisdom of the expert, the wisdom of our strength, and years of practical learning, when we depend on the ways of the men we know as great in this world with wisdom, we will definitely miss the ways that God intends for us and the blessings He had destined for our lives.
This may sound foolish but allow God to lead you by His word and nothing else. He knows you better than you know yourself, He knows the issues in your life better than you know them, He knows the best solution for you and He knows the best way to lead you. He will not lead you to destruction or defeat no matter what you may experience along the path He is leading you. He gave us His word; “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” Isaiah 43:2-3. He says the waters, the rivers, and the fires coming from your afflictions cannot stop Him from bringing you to the success He had destined.
The problem we have is that we want God to lead us in our own way, in the ways we know and on the terms that are comforting to us, but it is not always so, God wants to lead us on His way and on His own term and most often His ways are never easy but they are sure enough to give us maximum comfort, relieve, and reward at the end. “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon. For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:7-9
When David had an issue in their camps, this is what he did to have victory; “So, David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire, and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept until they had no more power to weep. And David’s two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the widow of Nabal the Carmelite had been taken captive. Now David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. Then David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, please bring the ephod here to me and Abiathar brought the ephod to David. So, David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them? And He answered him, Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail, recover all.” 1 Samuel 30:3-8
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04.17.2023
SHOULD I OR SHOULD I NOT DEAR LORD? (I)
There are decisions to be made, decisions that will open doors, decisions that will close doors, decisions that will bring blessings, and decisions that will end frustrations. Men are always at a crossroads when it comes to decision-making, but God had not called us into confusion despite being at crossroads because of the issues we face every day. It will surprise you to know that most of the things that Christians call a disappointment do come back to be a blessing and the way that God in His love and power had destined it to be for our lives. He directs our feet and keeps our hearts and our bodies on His path when we trust our lives to Him daily in everything either big or small. That decision you call small is not small indeed, it is impactful, and it can turn you around for good or for the worst, but God had intended good things for us and He will take us through whatever decision we make in order to arrive at that God thing He intends for us.
When the children of Israel were in captivity and made slaves, their God was still alive and actively willing and capable to do what He wants and what He knows will bring them into His plans and purpose wherever they were regardless of what the people were doing against them. In all situations, this is the word of God for you – “The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those people whom he allowed Nebuchadnezzar to take away as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylonia; build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what you grow in them. Marry and have children. Then let your children get married, so that they also may have children. You must increase in numbers and not decrease. Work for the good of the cities where I have made you go as prisoners. Pray to me on their behalf, because if they are prosperous, you will be prosperous too. I, the Lord, the God of Israel, warn you not to let yourselves be deceived by the prophets who live among you or by any others who claim they can predict the future. Do not pay any attention to their dreams. They are telling you lies in my name. I did not send them. I, the Lord Almighty, have spoken. The Lord says, when Babylonia's seventy years are over, I will show my concern for you and keep my promise to bring you back home. I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not a disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for. Then you will call me. You will come and pray to me, and I will answer you. You will seek me, and you will find me because you will seek me with all your heart. Yes, I say, you will find me, and I will restore you to your land. I will gather you from every country and from every place to which I have scattered you, and I will bring you back to the land from which I had sent you away into exile. I, the Lord, have spoken.” Jeremiah 29:4-14
God’s word is to correct, direct, comfort, bless, and keep you in His plans and nothing else. Do not be restricted by your fears but be restricted by the Lord of God, do not give up because of fear but gave up when the word of God says you should. God is calling you to a higher level of relationship and it will never be possible through dreams but through your decision to follow His word. David was at a cross concerning his family and the families of the soldiers who had dedicated their lives to support, follow, and fight with him, but in that confusion and many tears, David allowed the word of God to direct his next action. He did not depend on his knowledge of warfare, did not depend on the ability of those with him to fight strong battles, did not depend on the number of weapons they had, and did not depend on their past successes in wars to make his decision. He asked God and God gave the assurance. – “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting.” James 1:2-6
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04.14.2023
I AM TOO WEAK TO CONTINUE DEAR LORD (II)
“Israel, why then do you complain that the Lord doesn't know your troubles or care if you suffer injustice? Don't you know? Haven't you heard? The Lord is the everlasting God; He created all the world. He never grows tired or weary. No one understands His thoughts. He strengthens those who are weak and tired. Even those who are young grow weak; young people can fall exhausted. But those who trust in the Lord for help will find their strength renewed. They will rise on wings like eagles; they will run and not get weary; they will walk and not grow weak.” Isaiah 40:27-31. Know this, the God you serve will restore your confidence, He will renew your strength, and will give you the grace to excel. He will not abandon you in times of weakness.
Will God do what He said? yes, He will definitely do what He said with nothing taken away from it regardless of the people with you, regardless of their wealth or lack, regardless of their strength and their knowledge, and regardless of the delays you have and will experience in this life. His word and promises are far higher in all aspects than all of your fears, delays, the fearful intimidation from challenges, people, and the system of the world. When God gives you or sends you out on a mission, He will definitely go out with you and will work through you, in going with you, He will perform His word as promised. It is on record what God did with Gideon when He gave him a mission knowing his family and personal background, and reducing his soldiers from thee-two thousand to three hundred. I know God is with you and I pray He will go with you no matter what will happen to you personally, He will never depart. He was with Job till the end.
The choice that frightened Gideon. “And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people got down on their knees to drink water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, by the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his place. So, the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And he sent away all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men. Now the camp of Midian was below him in the valley. It happened on the same night that the Lord said to him, arise, go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.” Judges 7:6-9
God gave Gideon the assurance he needed to fight by granting his request and the dream of one of the Midianite and Amalekite soldiers who was fighting against him. This is the dream that gave Gideon confidence; “Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley as numerous as locusts, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude. And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, I have had a dream, to my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed. Then his companion answered and said, this is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. Into his hand, God has delivered Midian and the whole camp. And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said, arise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.” Gideon 7:12-15. Even with your reduced strength, God can still give you victory. Even with your physical and spiritual weaknesses, God can make you recover. He can give you help; give you victory according to His word. God will always remain faithful with or without a dream. Look unto the Lord, look onto His strength, His love, His power, and praise Him for the result that will come to you in His name thereafter and very soon.
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04.13.2023
I AM TOO WEAK TO CONTINUE DEAR LORD (I)
God will do what He said, He will perform all of His words and promises. There is no one like Him and none will ever do things like Him. He is always merciful and gracious, understanding all of our frailties. He is willing to meet our request as He did Gideon's request. He gave Gideon the sign he requested but to us, He has given His Son Jesus Christ, given His word, and given His Holy Spirit. God had given us greater assurance, and much more than He gave Gideon in his time of need. He wants to grow our faith and He is ready to assist us to grow in faith. To Gideon, the fleece and the Midianite's dream show God was willing to assist him. Above everything else in this life, God desires to build our confidence in Him and in His word much more than our own strength in all things. He wants to get rid of our pride and boasting which are always destructive to genuine faith in His word and power. God delights to work through those who are too weak to act on their own but have absolute trust and faith in Him and in His word.
“Thus says the Lord to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut, I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that I, the Lord, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel. For Jacob My servant’s sake, and Israel My elect, I have even called you by your name; I have named you, though you have not known Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me, that they may know from the rising of the sun to its setting that there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the Lord, do all these things. Rain down, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; Let the earth open, let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together. I, the Lord, have created it. Woe to him who strives with his Maker. Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him who forms it, what are you making? Or shall your handiwork say, He has no hands?” Isaiah 45:1-9
You may say victory is too far from you, the battle had been too long and too intense; you may say will never get what you want, where you want, when you want it; you may say you will never see victory and will never experience it, but in that same situation, in that same shame and hopelessness, God can still give you victory. Your personal best efforts may have failed several times; your fasting and prayers may not have yielded any impactful result and be delayed or denied, you may be facing increased challenges and hardship, comfort may be only a dream, and people may depart from you, but God can and will give you victory.
With a formidable battle ahead, with the enemies well-armed and numerous, God moved in to reduce Gideon’s soldiers from thirty-two thousand to three hundred, and even with that huge reduction, Gideon was not defeated, he fought those same people with his reduced men and had the victory he deserved, the victory only God in His power can give, the victory God in His love had promised Gideon, the victory of obedience and patience. When God promises you His presence and victory, nothing will stop it, not even a reduction in your wages, in those standing with you and those supporting you. God will go ahead and do what He had said and nothing, not even lack, poverty, shame, loneliness, nakedness, or homelessness will stop Him. He wants to see your confidence in His word and in Him demonstrated even in your weakness and pains.
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04.12.2023
DON’T GIVE UP, THE END WILL BE FAR BETTER (II)
It is never impossible for God to fulfill His word, and it will not be impossible in any way or form for God to rescue, deliver, protect, and bless you. Even when they are armed and powerful, in great numbers and in power, God says your end will be better. Even when your challenges are too great, you have numerous delays, and your fears are growing stronger on every side and in everything, God says your end will be far better than your best imagination - “In righteousness, you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. Indeed, they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake. Behold, I have created the blacksmith who blows the coals in the fire, who brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the spoiler to destroy. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and their righteousness is from Me, says the Lord.” Isaiah 54:14-17
When God says it, He will do it, when He gives you a promise, have faith in His word, be faithful in your ways, keep trusting Him, and walk in obedience to every instruction, He will not fail, He will surely fulfill every word He had spoken, every promise He had given, and He will help you in every way regardless of what people may say and do. Our God is always faithful, not willing that any should perish but that everyone should know Him, accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and worship Him with their hearts in total submission to His will. No matter how rough the road He will ever take you, the end will be far better than any other way you may know or think. “But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel, fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” Isaiah 43:1-3
Christ our Lord went to the cross in shame, there He died and was buried, but on the third day, the good news breakout, He was raised back to life, and He is alive. The end was far better than all that people did to and against Him, better than all that people expected and believed and thought will ever be, and the end brought life and light to the whole world. “Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this? She said to Him, yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world. But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.” John 11:25-27; Romans 8:9-11
Through Salvation, you have become a partaker of the good news of Jesus Christ and it is very certain that you are also the good news of God in the making. Whatever is happening to you will end up for your good; you will end up on the side of the good news, the side that God had destined in His word and in His promises. “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
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04.11.2023
YET THE END WAS FAR BETTER
“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain or labored in vain. Yes, and if I am being poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all. For the same reason, you also be glad and rejoice with me.” Philippians 2:5-18
Jesus Christ came into the world as a man, while on earth and before the cross, He showed us the way to true godly love, the way to a godly life, and the way of peace with God and with all men through His word and forgiveness. On the cross, He suffered open shame, abuse, and mockery, but the end of that shame was better than the shame He suffered; He was stripped naked publicly but the end was better, He was spitted upon and given vinegar as a drink, but the end was better; He was mocked by the soldiers, the priest, the religious leaders, and all the people, He was in pains and shamefully treated; they made fun of Him, laughed at Him, ridiculed Him, hanged, and crucified, His Cross and His naked body were displayed openly for all to see, yet, the end was far better. He was betrayed by His own disciple, a confidant, sold for thirty pieces of silver coins to the religious leaders of the Jews, yet His end was better. He was accused and judged by Pontus Pilate the governor, and a thief was preferred as better instead of Him, and despite not finding any fault against Him, He was handed over to be crucified, but His end was better.
He was rejected by His people, left lonely by His disciples, and openly mocked by the people He helped, and He was buried in a borrowed grave, But His end was better. After men had done all they could and finished, then God did the unthinkable and the unimagined, but according to His own word, and His own plans. and by His won power, that same Christ Jesus was mocked and ridiculed and nailed to the cross and was raised back to life with greater honor and given a name that is far better and higher than every other name in heaven and on earth. “The Sabbath was over, and it was almost daybreak on Sunday when Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. Suddenly a strong earthquake struck, and the Lord's angel came down from heaven. He rolled away the stone and sat on it. The angel looked as bright as lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards shook from fear and fell down, as though they were dead. The angel said to the women don't be afraid. I know you are looking for Jesus, who was nailed to a cross. He isn't here, God has raised him to life, just as Jesus said he would. Come, see the place where his body was lying. Now hurry, tell his disciples he has been raised to life and is on his way to Galilee. Go there, and you will see him. This is what I came to tell you.” Matthew 28:1-7. The result was far better, the end was sweeter, the pains of the nails and the people could not stop what God had destined, so will it be for you, the Almighty God is for and, with you.
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04.10.2023
DON’T GIVE UP, THE END WILL BE BETTER (1)
“Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures. And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve, after that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remains unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, He was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all, He was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.”1 Corinthians 15:1-8
Christ Jesus ended well despite the shame and the public humiliation. By believing, trusting, and following Him, you will also end well. He was arrested openly, accused openly, and crucified publicly. He rose from the dead and was seen openly. All that happened to Christ were known openly, seen by all openly, and He was publicly crucified, but none hindered what God did plan for Him and through Him. Whatever is happening to you openly or publicly will not hinder what God had planned and destined for you.
In pursuing destiny, you will definitely encounter difficult issues, difficult people, difficult laws, difficult environments, difficult cultures, unfriendly friends and associates, and regulations that are in place to take you down and out, but if it is destiny by God, do not surrender the mandate, do not give up the desire, push until your last breath is gone. God will never back down or back out on you, He will not give up because of them and you should not give up because of what you will see, hear, experience, or be forced to learn and know. You will experience strange things and strange people, you will be disliked and humiliated, and you will be called a fool and abused, but the end will come when you will be openly vindicated, openly rewarded by God, and publicly honored.
Excuses are frequent every time, everywhere, and in everything and they are growing faster than all of your dreams, and people who give up on theirs are not helping you either. The reasons you might consider giving up are not new but the reward of standing firm regardless of what they say or do is far beyond the troubles of what they say and will ever do against you. There are many things that you will come to see, experience, and hear while pursuing what God had destined for you. There are many things that you never learn, know, see, or hear, but there is nothing that will take God by surprise concerning all that you will see, hear, and know. The road to fulling a given destiny or divine mandate is not an easy road mostly if the destiny involves God’s design not just for you but for others that will come to benefit through your action.
It is on record that Jesus Christ our Lord heard a lot, saw a lot, and experienced a lot, yet He did not give up on the divine mandate. These were the things He heard from the people but did not give up on the mandate. “- We caught this man misleading our people. - He says we should not pay taxes to Caesar, - He calls himself the Christ, a king. – He makes trouble with the people all around Judea, He began in Galilee, and now He is here. - The leading priests and teachers of the law were strongly accusing Jesus. - Herod and his soldiers made fun, ridiculed, and mocked Jesus -- they dressed Him in a kingly robe and sent Him back to Pilate. - After I punish him, I will let him go free. - People shouted, take this man away for execution. - They shouted again, crucify him, crucify Him. - They continued to shout, demanding that Jesus be crucified. - Their yelling became so loud that Pilate decided to give them what they requested - The leaders made fun sneered and mocked Him saying, He saved others, let him save himself - The soldiers offered him vinegar. - save yourself and us. - this man has done nothing wrong.” Luke 23:1-45
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04.07.2023
HIS ONLY BEST FOR YOUR VERY BEST
“By this, we know what love is, because Christ laid down His life for us. Surely He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. He was wounded for our transgressions He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes, we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, everyone, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep, before its shearers is silent, so, He opened not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment, and who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgressions of My people, He was stricken. And they made His grave with the wicked—But with the rich at His death, because He had done no violence, nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge, My righteous Servant shall justify many, for He shall bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will divide Him a portion with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He poured out His soul unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors, and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” 1 John 3:16, Isaiah 53:4-12
Coming into the world was His best, going to Jerusalem was God's plan, and the cross, the humiliation, the shame, and the chastisements were not a disappointment. The cry on the cross, the pains of the nail, and the blood that gushed out of His side were all for me, God gave His best, His one and only begotten Son for us, Christ Jesus gave His very best, His life for me, all was done that I may have access to the throne of grace and obtain mercy and help in times of need. All was done so that I will not be held captive again, so that my sins and my guilts are taken away, and all was done so that Satan will not have anything to stand on against me. God gave His best for you, and Christ gave His best for you, He did it purposely so that you can achieve the high standard and be able to be what He said and destined for you in love, and by His grace, you will not miss what He had made for you through Christ Jesus, through the cross at Calvary, through His blood, and what He had destined for you in this life.
For Christ Jesus, the process was painful but the result was sweet, the result brought great joy to those who believe and accepts the report, it brought assurance and guarantee peace, it brought light to the heart and life to the soul, it built hope and faith, it proved the loved and desire and purpose of God, it proves God to be faithful and able to do what He had said, it proved that God will never fail us no matter what – “Most assuredly, I say to you, we speak what we know and testify what we have seen, and you do not receive our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so, must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light.” John 3:11-20. Have you ever given your best for someone else’s best? You will have God’s best in return.
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04.06.2023
GOD’S WILL THEY NEVER KNOW
“I came down from heaven to do what God wants, not what I want. I must not lose anyone God has given me. But I must raise them up on the last day. This is what the one who sent me wants me to do.” John 6:38-39. Regardless of what Satan and his people who are your enemies may do, say, or compel on you, your God had ordained its end and He knows how it will end for you, how you will be, and what you will be thereafter. He is in absolute control despite the pains and all the insults and humiliations that you will receive throughout the process. I am convinced He will take you through what He had destined according to His word and plans for your life when you are submissive to His will and follow His path. He knows His thoughts, His plans, and His destiny for your life and He will fulfill all of them, nothing will be taken out, and nothing will take you out that will bring you to the fullness, peace, and good intent of His plans. There are certain aspects of God’s will for our lives that we will never know until we go through the process.
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem; the battle bow shall be cut off. He shall speak peace to the nations; His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit. Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.” Zechariah 9:8-12
All the people who welcomed Jesus joyfully into Jerusalem rejoiced for what they had seen Him do before, for what they expected Him to do while in Jerusalem, and for what their desires were at the time, but none of those people with palms on the streets knew what the Jewish religious leaders in Jerusalem were thinking and planning against Him, and none of them knew what God was about to do in Jerusalem before their own eyes. None of them knew the day of redemption of all humanity was at hand, the day of the forgiveness of sin without all the usual sacrifices of ram was at hand, the day of open heavens was at hand, the day of the end of humans greatest enemy - Satan was at hand, and the day that God will openly honor His name was near.
“When He came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen, blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, teacher, rebuke your disciples. I tell you, He replied, if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out. As He approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it and said, if you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace, but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” Luke 19:34-44
There are many things that we will never know, but there is none that God does not know in our lives and in our situations. Jesus knew that going to Jerusalem will cost Him His life, He knew He will be arrested and caused to suffer; He knew He will be stripped naked and buffeted; He knew He will be judged and condemned; He knew He will be mocked, He knew the cross was waiting for him to be hanged, he knew people will desert Him, He knew the loneliness He will experience and the cruel treatment that He will receive in the hands of those in authority, and above all, He knew He will be killed and that He will be raised from the dead to life on the third day. Jerusalem was a place destined for Christ Jesus to be fulfilled.
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04.05.2023.
JESUS, JERUSALEM, GOD’S WILL
“From that time on Jesus began to show His disciples clearly that He must go to Jerusalem, and endure many things at the hands of the elders and the chief priests and scribes, Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court, and be killed, and be raised from death to life on the third day. Peter took Him aside to speak to Him privately and began to reprimand Him, saying, may God forbid it. This will never happen to You. But Jesus turned and said to Peter, get behind Me, Satan. You are a stumbling block to Me, for you are not setting your mind on things of God, but on things of man. Then Jesus said to His disciples, if anyone wishes to follow Me as My disciple, he must deny himself, set aside selfish interests, and take up his cross, expressing a willingness to endure whatever may come and follow Me, believing in Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me. For whoever wishes to save his life in this world will eventually lose it through death, but whoever loses his life in this world for My sake will find it, that is, life with Me for all eternity. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, wealth, fame, and success, but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:21-26
Would you go with Him even now knowing what will happen to Him and to you? Christ's ultimate desire was to live a fulfilled life and be fulfilled in every aspect of life according to will, purpose, desire, destiny, and the written word of the Father about and for Him. He never in any way desired to live the ordinary life, He always desired the extraordinary life and showed us an example to follow. He desired nothing but the word of God not only to be fulfilled in us but to be fulfilled in Him. “Jesus replied to them, I am the Bread of Life. The one who comes to Me will never be hungry, and the one who believes in Me as Savior will never be thirsty for that one will be sustained spiritually. But as I told you, you have seen Me and still, you do not believe. All that My Father gives Me will come to Me and the one who comes to Me I will most certainly not cast out, I will never, never reject anyone who follows Me. For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but that I give new life and raise it up at the last day. For this is My Father’s will and purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him as Savior will have eternal life, and I will raise him up from the dead on the last day.” John 6:35-40
Christ Jesus going to Jerusalem was not an afterthought of things to do or events to observe; it was God’s will and God’s place to fulfill all of His plans, and all of His purpose in heaven and on earth and in all of humanity. He did not go there by mistake and did not do it by mistake. He did it with you and me in mind. When God ordains a thing, He will enable you to fulfill it despite the fears and uncertainties in your heart and what you know will happen to you. Christ went to Jerusalem, not for pilgrimage or anything else but to be fulfilled and to see that all that was written of Him was fulfilled. He went trusting every word of God concerning Himself, He went knowing the word will not fail, knowing He will not fail, knowing the Father will not fail His own side of the bargain. Christ had absolute confidence in every written and spoken word of God concerning all things on earth, in heaven, and in all human beings. He said what was written will never be changed. The word of God written concerning Him will definitely be fulfilled, and He expressed His confidence in the written word to Satan – “Jesus answered him, the Scriptures say, it is not just bread that keeps people alive. Their lives depend on what God says.” Matthew 4:4
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04.04.2023.
JESUS SAID, I AM GOING TO JERUSALEM
“Remember carefully the former things which I did from ages past; for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end and the result from the beginning, and from ancient times the things which have not yet been done, saying, My purpose will be established, and I will do all that pleases Me and fulfills My purpose. Calling a bird of prey from the east, from a far country, the man Cyrus of My purpose. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, be assured I will do it.” Isaiah 46:9-11
How bold are you when know what is coming will be painful and affect you and yet you decide to go ahead? Are you willing and ready to confront danger? Are you willing to stand in faith till the end and take the pains? Are you willing to say as Jesus, I am going to Jerusalem despite what I know will happen to me? Are you willing to ignore contrary views and opinions and follow the way God is leading you even when you know the danger ahead? Jesus Christ our Lord was bold and willing despite the danger He knew and the pains that will come. He told His disciples – “As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, He took the twelve disciples aside, and along the way He said to them, listen carefully, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and scribes, Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court, and they will judicially condemn Him and sentence Him to death, and will hand Him over to the Gentiles Roman authorities to be mocked and scourged and crucified, and He will be raised to life on the third day.” Matthew 20:17-19
The disciple of Jesus never knew what will happen in Jerusalem but Christ Jesus knew what was coming to Him and what will happen in Jerusalem to Him and also knew how it will end. “Then taking the twelve disciples aside, He said to them, listen carefully, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that have been written through the prophets about the Son of Man will be fulfilled and completed. He will be betrayed and handed over to the Gentiles Roman authorities and will be mocked and ridiculed and insulted and abused and spit on, and after they have scourged Him, they will kill Him, and on the third day He will rise from the dead. But the disciples understood none of these things about the approaching death and resurrection of Jesus. This statement was hidden from them, and they did not grasp the meaning of the things that were said by Jesus.” Luke 18:31-34
Fear will always create setbacks, keep us backward, and hold us down where Satan wants. But God is with us and had given us the power through faith to break through and break down the power of fear by faith and by the indwelling of His Spirit in us. Paul reminded Timothy of the power of a genuine faith in God dwelling in him and on all who truly believe and faithfully follow Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior – “When I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also. Therefore, I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:5-7
Often what we know frightens us or makes us glad; some make us retreat while others give us the courage to go ahead; what we know and what we do not know influences our decision all the time, but as Christians, we know that our God knows all things ahead of time. He knows what will happen, how it will happen and He knows the result. And if we know He knows and has faith in Him and in His word, we know that we are in good hands with Him for our own good always.
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04.03.2023.
THIS MONTH, YOU ARE GOING TO JERUSALEM.
Jerusalem is the place where Jesus Christ was crucified, buried, resurrected, and ascended to heaven. It is the birthplace of the church and the focal point of our future. Despite our knowledge and thoughts and wisdom, yet there are many things we will never know or come to understand about our own selves now and our future, but there is absolutely nothing about us or in us that is not known by God. He knows what we are, where we are, and what we are going through and He knows our future. He ordains our destiny and brings it to pass by the power of His might when we decide to be submissive to Him. “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me; when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.” Jeremiah 29:11-14
When God destines His purpose in and for you, He will declare it, what He declares, He will make possible, when He makes it possible, He will make you able and will quicken you at the right time, opening doors for you towards that direction and that purpose, and nothing that will stop what He had purposed and destined, not suffering, not demons, and definitely not any human being. His ways are perfect, regardless of what Satan may do – “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9. To get to the place He had destined, God took the children of Israel through the Red Sea, through the wilderness, and through the River Jordan. They fought wars and defeated seven great kings, they suffered hunger and thirst, but they were not humiliated, they were not destroyed, and they were not consumed.
Your journey to the place of your fulfillment may be hard and tedious, you will meet unfriendly people and discomforting situations, and you will see frighting things and experience things that are beyond your imagination, but none will stop what God had planned, what God had declared, and what God had destined for you. The Red Sea, the wilderness, the thirst, and the battles did not stop the children of Israel and did not prevent their final arrival at the place God had promised. “And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, and against those who turn away an alien. Because they do not fear Me, says the Lord of hosts. For I am the Lord, I do not change; therefore, you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob. Yet from the days of your fathers, you have gone away from My ordinances and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you said, in what way shall we return?” Malachi 3:5-7. Like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joseph, and many others, God will not take you on a path He had not destined. He will lead you, have faith in Him and focus your mind on Him and not on what you will see or have seen because “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:37-39
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03.31.23.
WHAT GOD DECLARED CONCERNING YOU
“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been upheld by Me from birth, who have been carried from the womb, ween to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs, I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry and will deliver you. To whom will you liken Me, and make Me equal and compare Me, that we should be alike? They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver on the scales; they hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god; they prostrate themselves, yes, they worship. They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; from its place, it shall not move. Though one cries out to it, yet it cannot answer nor save him from his trouble. Remember this, and show yourselves men; recall to mind, O you transgressors. Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure, calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes My counsel, from a far country. Indeed, I have spoken it; I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it; I will also do it. Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness. I bring My righteousness near; it shall not be far off; My salvation shall not linger. And I will place salvation in Zion, for Israel My glory.” Isaiah 46:3-13.
When God purposed it, He will declare it, He will do it and you will definitely see it. He will not declare what you will not see and what you will not have and what He will not make available to you. God said He had declared how all that we see and experience will end. Do not be captivated by the fears of what will happen to you, what people will say of your righteous submission, obedience, and faith in Christ Jesus and the word of God. God had declared better things that you are yet to know or see and they are your advantage and will all come to pass. In His love, He had destined you; in His wisdom, He has declared what you will be, and in His power, He will make it so. You are destined for glory no matter what – “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree; and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” Isaiah 55:8-13
Nothing is outside of God’s sight; nothing is outside of His knowledge and nothing is outside of His power. The God you know, the God you serve, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ knows all things, sees all things, and is capable of doing all things. Nothing exists without His knowledge and His permission. Before anything exists, He knows how it's formed and how it will end and he had declared it. – No evil formed against you shall prosper even when they overtake you from all sides, He is actively in control when it starts and He perfectly knows when and how it will end. God does not predict anything He knows all things. He is the author of all knowledge and all wisdom comes from Him. What had been declared of you, that will come
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03.30.23.
YOU HAVE GIVEN COMMANDMENT TO SAVE ME
“In You, O Lord, I put my trust; let me never be put to shame. Deliver me in Your righteousness, and cause me to escape; incline Your ear to me, and save me. Be my strong refuge, to which I may resort continually; You have given the commandment to save me, For You are my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. For You are my hope, O Lord God; You are my trust from my youth. By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise shall be continually of You. I have become as a wonder to many, but You are my strong refuge. Let my mouth be filled with Your praise and with Your glory all the day. Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength fails. For my enemies speak against me; and those who lie in wait for my life take counsel together, saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him. O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me.” Psalm 71:1-12
Every of God is a promise to us, a revelation of His will, His intention in that situation, His love for us, His commandment to follow, and an expression of His faithfulness. His words are not just informative, it gives us interesting information that is capable to save, deliver, rescue, direct, bless, and leads us to the throne of grace to receive mercy. His word is a covenant we can trust, depend on and hold although our lives in all situations and in all locations. God’s power binds us to His love and His power and nothing will separate us from that love. This is what Balaam said concerning the commands of the Lord – “God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good? Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed me, and I cannot reverse it. He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The Lord His God is with him, and the shout of a King is among them. God brings them out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox. For there is no sorcery against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob and of Israel, oh, what God has done. Look, a people rise like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion; it shall not lie down until it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.” Numbers 23:19-24
God’s love is stronger than our weaknesses and all of our fears are nothing before Him. His love is stronger than our worries and better than the best this world can give. By His love, He sent His son Jesus Christ; by His love, Jesus shed His love on the cross at Calvary; through His love, we receive mercy, grace, and forgiveness, and by the power of His love, we remain bonded to Him by an unbroken covenant until eternity. Balaam clearly told Balak, he has received a command to bless the children of Israel and there is nothing else he can do but bless them. Nothing in the world, no man or institution, and no wickedness will change the power of God’s love for you.
Even when we are ignored by society, by friends and associates, and by our family members, God has not ignored us, He has not ignored those He had washed with the blood of Jesus Christ, He has not ignored those He had chosen, those He sends on an errand, and those He called, He will not ignore our prayers and our suffering, He will not ignore you. God told Abraham – “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you.” Genesis 12:3. Those words and promises remained effective and active with Abraham till the end of his days on earth regardless of what happened to him. God has given a commandment to save and to bless you and it will remain active and effective as He had said.
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03.29.23.
FOR YOU, GOD WILL DO WHAT HE SAID
“When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them in that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, the Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south. They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” Psalm 126:1-6
You may forget the promises of God, forget His word, forget His righteousness, His goodness, and His faithfulness, but it is very certain that God will never forget His words and promises and He will never forget anyone who is His and hold onto His words no matter what. God’s love for you never fails even when you think and know that you are a failure, it never varnishes due to adversity, age, location, and nationality. In all things and in all situations, He is for you and He will be with you for your own good.
“Thus speaks the Lord God of Israel, saying, write in a book for yourself all the words that I have spoken to you. For behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will bring back from captivity My people Israel and Judah, says the Lord. And I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. Now, these are the words that the Lord spoke concerning Israel and Judah. For thus says the Lord, we have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask now, and see, whether a man is ever in labor with a child. So, why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale? Alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it, and it is the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from your neck, and will burst your bonds; foreigners shall no more enslave them. But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up for them. Therefore do not fear, O My servant Jacob, says the Lord, nor be dismayed, O Israel; for behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, have rest and be quiet, and no one shall make him afraid. For I am with you, says the Lord, to save you; though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, and will not let you go altogether unpunished. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 30:2-11; Jeremiah 29:11
Despite all that is going on around and within, you are not far from God’s blessings, you are not out of His sight, you are not too far that He cannot touch or reach out to you; there is nothing in you that He cannot be changed for His glory according to His plans and His purpose for your life. I am convinced that He will do in you and with you what He wants according to His plans of your destiny in Him; He will do what He had said even before you came to know and accept Him, He will take you up from wherever and whatever situation that Satan had left you. Zacharia never saw something good coming in his life, he never thought his reproach will be taken away in his old age, he thought he will die with it because it had remained with him for many years, but on that day, God acted the way He wanted, the way He had planned and destined for him, and he saw and received what he had expected for many years. God will take you out, He will do what He said in His love concerning you. God will never leave you without help when you are faithful and committed to His ways. HE WILL REMOVE ALL REPROACH FROM YOU.
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03.28.23.
TAKE THIS REPROACH FROM ME, OH LORD
“Zacharias said to the angel, how shall I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years. And the angel answered and said to him, I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time. And the people waited for Zacharias and marveled that he lingered so long in the temple. But when he came out, he could not speak to them; and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple, for he beckoned to them and remained speechless. So it was, as soon as the days of his service were completed, that he departed to his own house. Now after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived, and she hid herself for five months, saying, thus the Lord has dealt with me, in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.” Luke 1:18-25
Reproach is a hindrance to being what God said, having what God promised, and doing what God requires. Reproach holds us back, keeps us back, slows down our righteous progress, draws us towards shame, shows and magnifies our failures beyond proportion, and often reminds us of the bad side we are in life instead of showing us where we are going in the future with Christ Jesus our Lord. Zacharia saw the reproach in his life and in his marriage, and when it was time for it to be removed, God sent His angel to him with a message. Zacharia confessed after his many years of faithfulness to God, in service in His house and to His people – “The Lord has dealt with me, in the days when He looked on me, to take away my reproach among people.” Luke 1:25
Reproach comes in several ways to all people and sometimes, they last long causing all forms of shame and hardship in almost all things and these do happen to Christians despite salvation and dedication to follow Christ Jesus. But Christians have hope when reproaches come because of their faith in God that His mercy will not allow them to be destroyed by any of those reproaches regardless of their sources and the given reasons. In all things and at all times, God will always show mercy, He is always merciful to the righteous and will not withhold any good things from them when the time He has set for their blessings comes. Jesus Christ came not to condemn the world, he came not to condemn anyone, but He came to deliver men from the powers of sin and Satan and of the evil in the world, He came to save man from all forms of destruction caused by the reproaches of sin and weaknesses and failures. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” John 3:17
Salvation leads us to the presence of God where our sins are forgiven, we receive a new life of hope and assurance, and the things that reproach us are taken away by the power of God’s might. Salvation gives us the strength to resist temptation, the strength to pursue righteousness and defeat the desires of evil and Satan. It leads us to thrown of heaven where we receive mercy and grace and power to be children of the living. Salvation keeps us glued to God with Jesus Christ our Lord and savior. Salvation opens the doors of heaven for us to receive and enjoy the love of God and be partakers of His blessings. “Nicodemus answered, how can these things be? Jesus said to him, are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? Most assuredly, I say to you, we speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so, must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:9-16
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03.27.2023
NOW, YOU WILL SEE WHAT GOD WILL DO
“Then the Lord said to Moses, now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand, he will let them go, and with a strong hand, he will drive them out of his land. And God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them. I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant. Therefore say to the children of Israel, I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a heritage. I am the Lord. So, Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel, but they did not heed Moses, because of the anguish of spirit and cruel bondage. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, go in, tell Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to let the children of Israel go out of his land. And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, the children of Israel have not heeded me. How then shall Pharaoh heed me, for I am of uncircumcised lips? Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a command for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.” Exodus 6:1-13
Sometimes it seems as if God will not answer us, sometimes it seems as if God is too far from us and sometimes, we think and feel we are out of His presence and out of His sight. But no matter the feelings, no matter the thoughts, no matter the forces and powers of darkness, and no matter what we say because of what we have seen, what we have heard, and what we are experiencing, God is with us, He is in us and He will one day show up in a mighty way.
Moses wanted God in His life concerning his personal situation, he wanted help from God and he prayed for it, but the day that showed God in his life, it was not for his own personal need, it was not for his own situation, it was for something he never thought of, something he never prayed for and something too big for him to handle, but God did not give up because of what he knew, what he wanted, and what he was feeling.
God desired to use him and asked him to be His messenger, His spokesman to Pharaoh and to the children of Israel, God’s desire was too big for Moses to just accept knowing what it will take and that he was unprepared, but God was ready to make him able and make it possible for him by His presence with him and the power of His hand on Pharaoh. When God asks you to go out, He will be with you; when He asks you to speak, He will give you the word to speak: when He asks you to plant, He will give you the seed to plant; when He asks you to give, He will give you what you need to give. God has never sent anyone empty-handed and has never sent anyone on a failed mission. When He sends you, He will go with you if you will be faithful, remain faithful, and always walk with obedience.
God told Moses, even though Pharoah will resist, with the display of His strong hand, Pharoah will accept, he will bow, and he will respond positively to His demands through you. May I tell you the resistance of the devil is temporal, God’s demands will be fulfilled, as Moses saw it then, so will you see it now also. Like the children of Israel, there are things that will make you doubt the word and promises of God, and like God told Moses, you will see what God will do, for by His strong hand, He will fulfill His word and promises regardless of the resistance.
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03.24.2023
YOUR NOW MOMENT IS COMING (V)
Now and it came to pass that God spoke to Abram– “Now the Lord had said to Abram, get out of your country, from your family, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:1-3.
Regardless of the disappointment and disgrace, regardless of the delay and all the misses, all the insults and the humiliations, I know that your NOW moment will definitely come because Christ is still in charge – all things were created and made alive by Him, and for Him and for His glory. Don’t give up yet, He is still in control. In the days of Noah when God sent the flood, He was still in charge; when He sent fire and brimstone to Sodom and Gomorrah, He was still in charge, when Saul rose up against David, He was still in charge; when Goliath and King Saul came up against David, our the God called and anointed him was still in charge; when Pharaoh and his men were enslaving and increasing the cruel labors of the children of Israel with many physical pains, the Almighty God was still in charge of their final destiny, and whatever the devil is doing to you or against you, the Almighty God is still in charge of your life now and in the future. No human being or spirit can stop God from doing what He had destined for you.
Did God say it, then He will do as He had said no matter what may stand in the way to prevent it. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and do not return there, but water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth. It shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.” Isaiah 55:8-13. You can truly rest on the word and promises of God and in the efficacy of His promises.
Even when you are confused, humiliated, isolated, and insulted His word and promises are still true and effective. You may have experienced lots of pains, and sorrows, and are very fearful of your future, but nothing in the kingdom of the living or the kingdom of darkness is yet to compel the Almighty God to change His plans and deny you the impart of His forgiveness, love, mercy and the benefits of His salvation according to His word. Even when the benefits tarry, they will definitely be made manifest in your life and you will see and also experience them physically and spiritually.
God can use the evil things Satan has brought against you as a tool for deliverance, and victory, and advance His kingdom and your fulfillment. Even when you look at disasters in the natural, God can turn them into the greatest blessing you will ever experience. God wants you to know these, He is for you, and never against you. You will have to take your stand today on the Word of God with the knowledge that despite the trial you are facing, God can, and God will turn it around. Trust God because all He had said will come to pass, and no one will fail.
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03.23.23
YOUR NOW MOMENT IS COMING (IV)
“After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward. But Abram said Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus? Then Abram said, look, You have given me no offspring, indeed one born in my house is my heir. And behold, the word of the Lord came to him, saying, this one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir. Then He brought him outside and said, look now toward heaven, and count the stars if you are able to number them. And He said to him, So shall your descendants be. And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness. Then He said to him, I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to inherit it. And he said, Lord God, how shall I know that I will inherit it?” Genesis 15:1-8
What and how you feel, what you see, what you know, and what you experience are all powerful and able to affect your thoughts and actions but none of them has the power to separate you from the love of God which has been sealed by the blood that Christ Jesus shed on the cross at Calvary. Nothing, not even past or present afflictions, and sorrows has separated you from God’s plans and nothing will keep you from being what He had said. Your decision to believe, accept, obey, and follow Jesus Christ was not ordinary and had not been taken lightly. Jesus Christ came to forgive, wash and lead you to the fulness of what God had planned according to His love and His word, He shed His blood to pay the fulness of the price of your redemption and that the devil knows and cannot resist regardless of what he will put forward against you and your chances in living in God’s plans for your life.
After believing, waiting, relying on, and trusting in the promise of the Almighty God for several years, Abraham started having feelings and thoughts of being a loser but he never gave up, and on this particular day, God showed up, took him outside, and showed him things and assured him that He will definitely have what He had promised. Did you know that God can take the very thing that looks like a total disaster in your life and turn it into a wonderful victory? He can turn your tears of sorrow into tears of joy, turn your fears into your strength, and your mess into a message. He will help you keep that joy of His word and promises in your heart even during your adversity.
Joseph, a man who went through adversities time after time, was sold into slavery and sentenced to prison and eventually became the prime minister of the nation. Joseph held fast to the vision God gave to him as a young man and at the end of all the tribulations, God turned his situation around for the best. He said this to those who sold him to slavery, “But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.” Genesis 50:20. You will remember the road and tell the story of what God had done for you to those who do not want you to be around them.
I know this very well; if you will truly believe, faithfully obey, diligently follow, be patient, and hold fast to God’s Word, you will see His will for your life fulfilled. He will turn your situation around and give you total victory. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned.” John 3:16-18. This word of God still stands today and is a promise we can hold unto with assured security.
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03.22.23
YOUR NOW MOMENT IS COMING (III)
What you think will never be and what people say will never be seen in your life will come to be because God will never change His word and His promises concerning you when He brings you to the NOW moment in His mercies. Regardless of the number of attacks, the painful delays, and the humiliating circumstances, God will turn things around for you, He will bring you to your NOW moment according to His plans. He has not forgotten you and He will not forsake you, He has never forgotten or forsaken any of the righteous ones - “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delights in His way. Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholds him with His hand. I have been young and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. He is ever merciful and lends, and his seed is a blessing.” Psalm 37:23-26
There is a spiritual and physical reason for your salvation, there is a reason for His Spirit living in you, and there is a purpose for His written and spoken words. No situation will change what God had planned, written, and spoken concerning you. No human being will fall short of ever fulfilling God’s plans when such an individual is actively believing, following, and obeying His word, walking in obedience according to His word, and remaining faithful.
After many years in slavery, and in prison, when Joseph thought he will never see freedom or see any good thing again; when his brothers thought they had succeeded and that his dreams are dead and will never be fulfilled, God turn things around for him in the prison and he declared – God turn it around. – “And Joseph said unto them, Fear not; for am I in the place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God thought it out unto good, to bring to pass that which we see this day, to give life to many people. Now, therefore, fear ye not; I will nourish you and your little ones. Thus, he comforted them and spoke to their heart.” Genesis 50:19-21
Even when you think and believe God had forgotten you; even when you have been told several times that you will never make it, you will never rise again, you will never be someone, God can take you to that NOW moment no one expects of you. Don’t give up hope because of what people are saying or of your wild and unexpected circumstances, God is still turning things around for His children. Failure is never your end no matter the magnitude. Those laughing at you today will look up to you tomorrow, God did that for Joseph, He will do the same for you.
Joseph lived to see the word of God fulfilled, and it was sudden, it was unexpected by him but it was spoken by God. Yours will come suddenly as God had said concerning you. “I praise will you, Lord because you have saved me and kept my enemies from gloating over me. I cried to you for help, O Lord my God, and you healed me; you kept me from the grave. I was on my way to the depths below, but you restored my life. Sing praise to the Lord, all his faithful people, remember what the Holy One has done, and give Him thanks. His anger lasts only a moment, and His goodness for a lifetime. Tears may flow in the night, but joy comes in the morning. I felt secure and said to myself, I will never be defeated. You were good to me, Lord; you protected me like a mountain fortress. But then you hid from me, and I was afraid. I called to you, Lord; I begged for your help, what will you gain from my death? What profit from my going to the grave? Are dead people able to praise you? Can they proclaim your unfailing goodness? Hear me, Lord, and be merciful. Help me, Lord. You have changed my sadness into a joyful dance; you have taken away my sorrow and surrounded me with joy. So I will not be silent; I will sing praise to you. Lord, you are my God; I will give you thanks forever.” Psalm 30:1-12
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03.21.23
YOUR NOW MOMENT IS COMING (II)
Your decision now can be what will open the door and nothing else. That was what Job did. He put aside all fears and uncertainties. Job’s now moment came after years of wondering thoughts, personal self-examinations, painful suffering, isolation, rejection by friends, family, and wife; evil scrutiny by everyone around him, loss of all wealth, all sources of income, all children, and all sources of comfort; it came at a time of his extreme loneliness, having no one and nowhere to go for help or acceptance of his person. It came suddenly and unexpectedly when everyone had rejected him and no one gave him the smallest chance of ever surviving that day talk less of having a supernatural restoration that took all of those who rejected him and wish him nothing else but dead by surprise including himself.
Before that now moment came for Job, he had decided to trust God forever He will do despite the words of understanding, and the persuasions of men for him to forsake God; he had decided to wait and to remain faithful throughout. These are his words – “Listen to me, and I will speak, and afterward let come on me what will. Why shall I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in the palm of my hand? Though He slays me, yet I will trust in Him; but I will defend my ways before Him. He also shall be my saving health for the hypocrite shall not enter into His presence. Hear diligently my reason and my declaration with your ears. Behold now, if I draw near unto the judgment, I know that I shall be justified. Who is he that will contend with me? For now, if I remain silent, I shall die. At the least, grant me these two things; then I will not hide myself from thee; withdraw thy hand from me, and let not thy dread make me afraid. Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and answer thou me. How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.” Job 13:13-23. This means that even if God or Satan or any other powerful man, or by your own mistake everything had been taken away from you, you can still trust God to rescue you, trust Him to restore you, and trust Him for even greater blessings thereafter. It is a statement of faith, a statement of trust in God’s goodness ann His sovereignty. God will definitely make a difference no matter what is and what the situation will ever be. He is a difference-maker. He can make all things new. Your past is too small compared to your future in Christ Jesus when that NOW moment comes.
The now moment of Job came with instant rescue from all physical, spiritual, mental, family, and all financial afflictions; it came with instant healing, restoration, and favor; it took him far above and beyond whatever he was before. It took him beyond all further afflictions and wickedness of Satan and rejection of men. After that Now moment, Job became an attraction to his family and to everyone else around him. God restored his pride, his dignity, and his honor, and Job became the praise of the Almighty and living God. Is anything too hard for God to do? What have you decided now? God will never fail in His love and in His promises.
God had promised not to forsake you, the righteous will never be forsaken – “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delights in His way. Though he falls, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholds him with His hand. I have been young and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. He is ever merciful and lends, and his seed is a blessing. Depart from evil, and do good, and thou shalt live for evermore. For the Lord loves uprightness and does not forsake His merciful ones, they are preserved forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.” Psalm 37:23-28
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03.20.2023
YOUR NOW MOMENT IS COMING (I)
“So, what should we say about this? If God is for us, no one can stand against us. And God is with us. He even let his own Son suffer for us. God gave his Son for all of us. So now with Jesus, God will surely give us all things. Who can accuse the people God has chosen? No one! God is the one who makes them right. Who can say that God’s people are guilty? No one, Christ Jesus died for us, but that is not all. He was also raised from death. And now he is at God’s right side, speaking to him for us. Can anything separate us from Christ’s love? Can trouble or problems or persecution separate us from his love? If we have no food or clothes or face danger or even death, will that separate us from his love? As the Scriptures say, for you we are in danger of death all the time. People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed. But in all these troubles we have complete victory through God, who has shown his love for us. Yes, I am sure that nothing can separate us from God’s love, not death, life, angels, or ruling spirits. I am sure that nothing now, nothing in the future, no powers, nothing above us, or nothing below us, nothing in the whole created world, will ever be able to separate us from the love God has shown us in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:31-39
You may have been condemned for your past sins, weaknesses, and failures, but God has not. He still loves you with open hands and with open doors. He still reserves the opportunities and the blessings, and the upliftment He pronounced concerning you, He is not mad at you and He will not let you go unfulfilled. His love for you still stands strong despite all the odds against you. Do not be deceived by the adversities around you today - GOD HAS NOT CHANGED HIS MIND OR HIS LOVE FOR YOU. He still stands by what He said of you since the beginning of time. In His love and according to His plans, He made Adam and Eve with the grace to multiply and to increase and they did despite the fact Satan deceived them and were driven out of the Garden of Eden that God placed them in. “God blessed them and said to them, have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth. God said I am giving you all the grain-bearing plants and all the fruit trees. These trees make fruit with seeds in them. This grain and fruit will be your food. And I am giving all the green plants to the animals. These green plants will be their food. Every animal on earth, every bird in the air, and all the little things that crawl on the earth will eat that food. And all these things happened. God looked at everything He had made. And He saw that everything was very good.” Genesis 1:28-31
Through Christ Jesus and in Christ Jesus you have a better covenant and a better chance than what Adam and Eve had because of the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed on the Cross at Calvary for the remission of our sins and our subsequent rescue from the hands of Satan and restoration of what had been lost through sin. God did not withdraw or change His mind or His word concerning their blessing, and because of Christ Jesus in and with us, and the forgiveness of sins we received, we love from Him, God has not changed His word or His mind concerning us and if we have lost anything, there is the possibility of a full restoration because of His mercy and the forgiveness of our sins.
You may have fallen but God will lift you up. You may have missed many good things but the day of your full recovery is coming. No member of Job’s family and no one thought near him thought he will ever be restored not even his best business friends, but his day of rescue came and he saw the power of the Almighty God working to bring him beyond mere restoration. He was rescued, restored, and exceedingly blessed. Now, the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more.
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03.17.2023
GOD’S FOUNDATION FOR THEM WAS STILL STANDING
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us so much that He died for us. Then Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After He had gone without food for forty days and forty nights, He became hungry. And the tempter came and said to Him if You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. But Jesus replied, it is written and forever remains written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. Then the devil took Him into the holy city Jerusalem and placed Him on the highest point of the temple. And he said mockingly to Him, if You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down; for it is written, He will command His angels concerning You to serve, care for, protect and watch over You, and they will lift you up on their hands so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone. Jesus said to him, on the other hand, it is written and forever remains written, you shall not test the Lord your God. Again, the devil took Him up on a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory, splendor, magnificence, and excellence of them; and he said to Him, all these things I will give You if You fall down and worship me. Then Jesus said to him, go away, Satan, for it is written and forever remains written, you shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.” Romans 8:37; Matthew 4:1-11
As long as we are in this physical world, it is not possible to avoid all the temptations therein, but it is very possible to overcome all of the temptations through Christ Jesus our Lord. God’s grace is what we need after salvation and God will thereafter lead us by His grace and guide us through the presence of the Holy Spirit and His written word. While we do not go looking for sins or evil everywhere to indulge ourselves, Satan looks for us and entices us to sin, sets traps on our path through our desires, searches for us with anger and envy, and seeks to entice us with the things of the world and our pressing needs. Satan wants us to follow him and to comply with his ways and thoughts as Adam and Eve did, he wants us to deviate from the foundation God had set for us now and in the future, but thanks be to God for Christ Jesus and His blood that was shed on the Cross at Calvary for our redemption and subsequent victory. “Be sober, well-balanced, and self-disciplined, be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion fiercely hungry, seeking someone to devour.” 1 Peter 5:8
Daniel, Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego were taken captive and placed in prison; compelled to learn a foreign language in order to serve a King who has no respect for their God or for His word and His people. They were offered food that was against their belief and commitment to the living God, and they were asked to eat what had been offered to idols, but they stood by their commitment to the living God and were set free. Daniel was thrown into the lion’s den but he survived through God’s grace; Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego were thrown into the furnace of fire to be consumed alive, but they survived by God’s grace. All these things were done in order to destroy the foundation God had set their lives individually, but no intimidation, threat, abuse, or harassment was able to destroy the foundation that God had set for them.
“Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to answer you on this point. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and He will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if He does not, let it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.” Daniel 3:16-18
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03.16.2023
GOD’S FOUNDATION FOR JOSEPH WAS STILL STANDING
“I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the tower, and I will keep watch to see what He will say to me, and what answer I will give as His spokesman when I am reproved. Then the Lord answered me and said, write the vision and engrave it plainly on clay tablets so that the one who reads it will run. For the vision is yet for the appointed future time it hurries toward the goal of fulfillment; it will not fail. Even though it delays, wait patiently for it, because it will certainly come; it will not delay.” Habakkuk 2:1-3
Has God given you a dream, a word, or a command, hold your peace, it will come to pass, even when you think you are failing, He who gave it to you will make it happen.
Ordinarily, everything went wrong for Joseph but despite that, everything was going the way God had planned them to be and destined for his life and for His glory. God gave Joseph a dream revealing his future; a dream that only God can make possible; God showed him a dream with a foundation that nothing physical or spiritual could destroy; a dream that will take him through lots of troubles; a dream that will give him shame, bring a false accusation, and humiliations to him; a dream that will separate him from his parents and siblings; a dream that will take him to prison, keep him in prison for some time; take him to a foreign land, a dream that will come to pass no matter what people will ever do against him or against the dream; a dream that will definitely deliver Israel, a dream that he will be glad of and proud of the rest of his life.
Joseph’s dream was not an imagination of his heart or a desire of his thoughts, it was God’s plan, not just for him, but for all the children of Israel. The dream was to facilitate the divine covenant God had with Abraham, for God’s people to be established, and blessed, and for God’s power and glory to be made manifest to men in the world. Has God given you a dream, wait for it, the God who gave it to you will also make it come to pass, He has not forgotten the dream He gave you and has not forgotten you whom He had chosen.
Every dream from God is important and will be fulfilled; all have a divinely appointed and fixed time attached; every dream from God has a place of fulfillment, a destination, and a designated audience or people. Regardless of the content of the dream, there are important to God, useful to you, and destined for God’s people on earth. When God sets you up, He will cause you to rise, He will keep you no matter the storm and He will establish you at the right place at the right time and before the right audience in His set time. The brothers of Joseph thought and believed killing or selling him will stop God’s plan for his life but they failed.
“Now a certain man found Joseph, and saw that he was wandering around and had lost his way in the field; so, the man asked him, what are you looking for? He said I am looking for my brothers. Please tell me where they are pasturing our flocks. Then the man said, they have moved on from this place. I heard them say, let us go to Dothan. So, Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan. And when they saw him from a distance, even before he came close to them, they plotted to kill him. They said to one another, look, here comes this dreamer. Let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits then we will say to our father, a wild animal killed and devoured him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams.” Genesis 37:15-20. They all lived to see the end of Joseph’s dream and the end of their evil plots against him. It will end well with you no matter what evil plan and evil people are standing against you and against the foundation that God has for your future.
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03.15.2023
GOD’S FOUNDATION FOR YOU STILL STANDS (II)
“Then Moses said to the people, do not be afraid, Take your stand, be firm and confident and undismayed and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today; for those Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you while you only need to keep silent and remain calm. The Lord said to Moses, why do you cry to Me? Tell the sons of Israel to move forward toward the sea. As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, so that the sons of Israel may go through the middle of the sea on dry land. As for Me, hear this, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they will go in the sea after them, and I will be glorified and honored through Pharaoh and all his army, and his war chariots and his horsemen. And the Egyptians shall know without any doubt, and acknowledge that I am the Lord, when I am glorified and honored through Pharaoh, through his war chariots and his charioteers.” Exodus 14:13-18
Did you know God will take the glory in everything that concerns you regardless of what it is, what may be, when it will be, and who may be behind it? Where God had promised you, He will take you there; where he had placed you, He will bless you there; where He has sent you, He will defend you, and where He did not place you He will deliver you. None of His word concerning you, none of His promises concerning you now and, in the future, will ever fail. His foundation is sure, it is strong and formidable, and it has been tested and proven to be perfect, Satan had tried several times to shake this foundation but he has never for once succeeded. You will be tempted and shaken by all forms of adversities, you will be tested, insulted, humiliated, despised, isolated, denied, confounded, confused, and caused to fail, but nothing will be able to change the foundation that God had prepared for you, not even your own decision or shame or delays of the promises you have in Him. The foundation of God for you certainly stands for sure. Nothing can break it, even when an evil from hell shakes you and shakes it, God will never for any reason abandon you or abandon the foundation, only what He says, only what He wants, only what His will and only His purpose will be done in, and through you no matter what. This foundation has a divine seal and is covered by the glory of the Almighty God.
Hold your peace, look up to God, and take hold of Him as He takes hold of you. He will not let you down. He is the maker of the foundation of your life, He will uphold it, and watch over it until all that He said of you are fulfilled. “Looking away from all that will distract us and focusing our eyes on Jesus, who is the Author and Perfecter of faith, the first incentive for our belief and the One who brings our faith to maturity, who for the joy of accomplishing the goal set before Him endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God revealing His deity, His authority, and the completion of His work.” Hebrews 12:2
Regardless of what Satan did to Moses at birth, in Egypt, and when he left the Pharaoh’s place to save his life, God’s foundation for his future was not destroyed. Moses’ choice to be identified with the children of Israel instead of the Egyptians cost him much, he lost his promising position and comfort for that decision, lost his peace, and took up a menial job of keeping sheep, but did not lose his desire for God and God never took away what He had destined for him in life. After forty years of wandering thoughts and seeking peace within himself, God showed up and spoke to him – that was a big relief and thereafter, Moses was restored on the foundation of what God in His love and mercy had destined for him even before he was conceived in his mother’s womb.
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03.14.2023
GOD’S FOUNDATION FOR YOU STILL STANDS
“Nevertheless, the firm foundation of God which He has laid stands sure and unshaken despite attacks, bearing this seal, the Lord knows those who are His, and, let everyone who names the name of the Lord stand apart from wickedness and withdraw from wrongdoing.” 2 Timothy 2:19
Every foundation set up against you and against the plans of God for your life now, in the future, and till eternity begins will fail; the foundation of God for you, His foundation for what He has set for your life, what he has done for you, what He will do for you, what you will eventually be, and what you will finally become according to His plans and destiny for your life is firmly in His hands well secured and sure to be fulfilled.
The devil thinks he had succeeded over Christ Jesus in the grave but he was not; the wicked and their agents think you will never overcome or recover from afflictions and pains they had caused in your life, but you will; the powers of darkness of this world think they have you in their coven of darkness and confusion forever, but they have not; the planners of evil things think they will remain to be a god over your life, but they won’t; the strong man or woman of evil think you will never escape from their evil strongholds against you, but you will; all those observing from afar think it is all over for you, but they will live to see you take new wings as the eagle and take off flying higher than before, and they that curses and wishes you evil think you will never succeed, but you will because in all these things, in all locations, regardless of the powers behind the evil, nothing will, and nothing can separate you from the unconditional love of the Almighty God through Christ Jesus. “In all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us so much that He died for us. For I am convinced and continue to be convinced beyond any doubt that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present and threatening, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the unlimited love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:37-39
Paul said they were pressed down but they were not destroyed, this is true of all true believing and faithful Christians and servants of our Lord Jesus Christ today – “We are pressured in every way hedged in, but not crushed; perplexed, unsure of finding a way out, but not driven to despair; hunted down and persecuted, but not deserted to stand alone; struck down, but never destroyed; always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the resurrection life of Jesus also may be shown in our body. For we who live are constantly experiencing the threat of being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the resurrection life of Jesus also may be evidenced in our mortal body which is subject to death.” 2 Corinthians 4:8-11
God’s foundation for every word He has spoken concerning you stands secure on a rock that no man regardless of faith and wisdom and power can or will destroy. It was founded by our Lord, made effective by our Lord’s faithfulness, love, and truth, and it is defended by our Lord and Him alone. It is made accessible to us through salvation and the blood of Jesus Christ shed on the Cross at Calvary for the remission and forgiveness of our sins and everything else that will ever stand to condemn or destroy us. “Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; for the salvation of the righteous comes from the Lord; He is their stronghold in time of trouble. The Lord helps them and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them because they take refuge in Him.” Psalm 27:1, 39-40
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03.13.2023
THIS IS YOUR TIME TO STAND
God told Moses others may go away, you should not go away but stand - “But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will speak to you all the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments which you shall teach them, that they may observe them in the land which I am giving them to possess. Therefore you shall be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. You shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you shall possess.” Deuteronomy 5:31-33
Others may decide to go away from the scriptures, following their own ways and doing their own things; others may decide to take the advice and wisdom of men; others may say the delay is too long, the suffering is too much, the patient cannot continue and the faith is failing, but for you in Christ Jesus, truly embedded in Him, it is time to stand in faith, this is the time to stand firm on the word, stand strong in expectation, and stand ready to see what God will do. Job was advised by his wife and his three friends to stand down from being righteous before God and before men, he was asked to stand down from being upright and remaining faithful and be ready for the consequence, to denounce fearing God in all aspects of his life, and to take the other way, the ways of others like him in the world and be free from pains of living in holiness while suffering, but he told his wife and his friends, this is even the time for him to stand and be stronger – “Then his wife said to him, do you still hold fast to your integrity? Curse God and die. But he said to her, you speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.” Job 2:9-10. This is your time to stand and God will prove it.
Job continued with his friends, “Hold your peace with me, and let me speak, then let come on me what may. Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hands? Though He slays me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him. He also shall be my salvation, for a hypocrite could not come before Him. Listen carefully to my speech, and to my declaration with your ears. See now, I have prepared my case, I know that I shall be vindicated. Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I perish.” Job 13:13-19
We are not standing against the devil but standing on the word of God regardless of what the devil will do through his works. We are not standing against principalities and powers but on the blood of Jesus Christ and His word; we are not standing on our fears but confidently standing on the promises of God and on His word, and we are confident – “Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” Matthew 24:34-35
There are so many things to run away from but it is time to stand on God’s word; it is time to get up and follow all of His promises; it is time to depend on Him; it is time to fully obey and keep our eyes of faith on the word; it is time to show up in His presence with all patience and the assurance of our salvation and hope in Christ Jesus. When the children of Israel were afraid to approach God, Moses did not, he stood, when they left, he did not leave but remained, when they cried, he prayed, when they complained, Moses praised. When Moses saw the fire and stood, he heard the voice of God, his fear of Pharaoh evaporated, his life changed, and his divine mission began. That is what God wants to do with you when you stand. Change your life, overcome fear, and begin your mission on earth according to His plans.
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03.10.2023
HAVING DONE ALL, STAND FIRM.
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place.” Galatians 5:1; Ephesians 6:13-14.
As the day of blessing comes, as the day of your fulfillment comes, as the day of receiving the promise comes, as the day of seeing delays removed comes, as the day of experiencing the supernatural comes, and as the day of evil comes to shake and steal from you comes, stand firm on the word and on Christ. Let all the promised blessings of heaven find you standing faithfully in Christ Jesus, and let the test, temptation, and trials of life also find you standing on nothing else but on the word of God. You have done all, it is now time to stand and to stand firm on the word. Moses the children of Israel – “Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.” Exodus 14:13-14. When the children of Israel stood still by the bank of the Red Sea; when they handed over all that they saw, all that they knew, and all that they expected to God, they truly did witness the end of Pharaoh’s dominance over them despite arming all his men with weapons of war with the command to stop, kill, capture, or talk them alive back to captivity in Egypt.
It is your time, it is your day, and it is your year to stand and to see, experience, and celebrate the exceeding fruitfulness and blessings of our God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The day of your joy is nearer than before, the day of the fulfillment of the promises of God to you, the day you will say with your voice, He has blessed me beyond my comprehension is here. Balaam told Balak, “Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it. He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a King is among them. God brings them out of Egypt; He has strength like a wild ox.” Numbers 23:20-22
In all situations, in all locations, against all challenges, and against all fear, God wants you to stand on His word. He wants you to leave all at the altar of faith, faithfulness, and patience. He wants you not to only follow Him, but to also trust, obey, and be committed to doing what He says. Against hunger and the need for food, Jesus Christ our Lord told Satan, He will stand on the word of God no matter what Satan will offer and no matter what anyone will think He will ever lose for being obedient and committed to standing on the word of God.
“After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. The tempter came to Him and said, if you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread. Jesus answered, it is written, man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. Then the devil took Him to the holy city and had Him stand on the highest point of the temple. If you are the Son of God, he said, throw yourself down. For it is written, He will command His angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. Jesus answered him, it is also written, do not put the Lord your God to the test. Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. All this I will give you, he said, if you will bow down and worship me. Jesus said to him, away from me, Satan, for it is written, worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.” Matthew 4:2-10
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03.09.2023
I WILL MAKE YOU EXCEEDINGLY FRUITFUL (6)
“God says, be silent and listen to me, you distant lands, get ready to present your case in court; you will have your chance to speak. Let us come together to decide who is right. Who was it that brought the conqueror from the east and makes him triumphant wherever he goes? Who gives him victory over kings and nations? His sword strikes them down as if they were dust. His arrows scatter them like straw before the wind. He follows in pursuit and marches safely on, so, fast that he hardly touches the ground. Who was it that made this happen? Who has determined the course of history? I, the Lord, was there at the beginning, and I, the Lord, will be there at the end. The people of distant lands have seen what I have done; they are frightened and tremble with fear. So, they all assemble and come. The skilled workers help and encourage each other. The carpenter says to the goldsmith, well done, the one who beats the idol smoothly encourages the one who nails it together. They say, the soldering is good and they fasten the idol in place with nails. But you, Israel my servant, you are the people that I have chosen, the descendants of Abraham, my friend. I brought you from the ends of the earth; I called you from its farthest corners and said to you, you are my servant. I did not reject you but chose you. Do not be afraid, I am with you, I am your God, let nothing terrify you. I will make you strong and help you; I will protect you and save you. Those who are angry with you will know the shame of defeat. Those who fight against you will die and will disappear from the earth. I am the Lord your God; I strengthen you and tell you, do not be afraid; I will help you.” Isaiah 41:1-13
God alone is the one who gives lasting victory in all situations to all human beings. The strength, wisdom, knowledge, foresight, wealth, and all the accomplishments of men often fail with time to answer several pertinent questions, but when your victory comes from the Lord, it comes with peace and joy and with lasting praise to His name. Fear of the unknown is destructive to all good ideas and thoughts, it hinders progress and creates many uncertainties, but in all things, known or unknown, seen or unseen, hidden or open, planned or unplanned, God will take you through all of them. He took Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego through the most horrific experience in all humanity – to be thrown into a burning furnace and burnt with their eyes open while still trusting God for help, grace, and the power of redemption.
These are the words that strengthen their faith and their resolution to stand firm and they changed the atmosphere around themselves, bringing down God’s power and glory for everyone there to see and know that God can deliver us from the most difficult situations in our lives. – “If the God whom we serve is able to save us from the blazing furnace and from your power, then He will. But even if He doesn't, your Majesty may be sure that we will not worship your god, and we will not bow down to the gold statue that you have set up.” Daniel 3:17-18
There are many things to worry about, many questions to ask, and short and longtime needs to be met, but God says don’t be afraid, He has been there from the beginning and will be there till the end. When God is with you, the end will be better than the beginning. When He was with Job, we see and know that Job’s end was better, Jabez’s end was better, Joseph’s end was better, Isaac ended well through obedience, Daniel’s end was better, and Shadrach, Meshack, and Abednego all ended well. These were men tempted, teased, toasted, humiliated, and tempted, yet God kept them and took them through by His power and His grace. He will do the same for you. His words are everlasting and true, all who commit their lives to Him will not be wasted in the furnace of fire and shame in their world.
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03.08.2023
I WILL MAKE YOU EXCEEDINGLY FRUITFUL (5)
It is not dependent on what you know and sees and what others are saying and doing, it is what God had said and what God will do. If it requires showing you mercy, God will show mercy; if you require forgiveness, He will surely forgive; if you require help, He will definitely help in all ways; if you need direction, He will make a way and take you through; if you require resources, He will make the provision and give the increase, and if you require enlargement to what is coming next, He will enlarge you by His power. All you need to do is ask. This is what Jabez did when he knew he needed help in his life, “Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain. So, God granted him what he requested.” 1 Chronicle 4:10. He asked and God granted him.
“For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” Psalm 84:11. Whatever the issue may be, it is true that no good thing will God ever withhold from you when you stand in prayers before Him with a dedicated, humbled, and obedient heart. “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubt-. Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” James 1:5-6, Matthew 7:7-8
When Abraham needed a sign, he asked God and God showed him. Getting out of Egypt, Moses needed help to confront Pharaoh and God provided; when Moses needed to cross the Red Sea, he asked and God made it possible; when he needed direction in the wilderness, he asked God and it was made possible; when Sarah needed a child, she asked God and God gave her; when Solomon needed wisdom, he asked God and He gave him; when Peter needed to walk on water, He asked Christ Jesus and he was given the grace; when Jabez needed to overcome his family and personal shame he asked God; when he needed enlargement, a change from what he was before, he asked God, when he needed to be delivered and defended against evil, he asked and God granted his request and we are assured that - no good thing will He withhold from you, and from those who walk uprightly before Him regardless of their physical or spiritual or financial situation. “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.” 1 John 5:14-15
There will be definite and hard times in our lives but there is nothing impossible that God cannot do and we are assured that all things work for our good no matter the situation. There is nothing the Lord cannot take you through for His name to be lifted up above every other name and be praised and honored. Whatever the devil is doing against you, do not count yourself out of God’s grace for recovery and restoration. What He has for you, will surely come. He restored Job.
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” Romans8:28-31
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03.07.2023
I WILL MAKE YOU EXCEEDINGLY FRUITFUL (4)
“Then God said to Abraham, as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations, kings of peoples shall be from her. Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child? And Abraham said to God, oh, that Ishmael might live before You. Then God said, no, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and his descendants after him.”
Genesis 17:15-20
Even when hope is lost, when a new vision is not coming, God will still do what He wants and what He says. Even when people laugh at us for whatever reason, when we cannot understand the events around us, God will still do what He had said. Even when we have failed in baffling ways many times over, we can still be made into what God promised. Even when time is against us and the heavens are falling on us, God will still do what He said. He took David from the sheep pen and made him a king. He took Daniel from prison and made him a counselor to the king. He took Joseph from the prison and made him the next in Egypt after Pharaoh the king. Is there anything too hard for God to do?
Due to age and several failed attempts in the past, Sarah thought having her own child will never happen so she offer Hagar; She thought it will never be possible to have what she had believed and hoped for, and that she will never have what she desired and expected despite hearing, believing, and waiting for the promise from God, but even in that difficult age of conception, God turned all things around for her, God took away her shame, God confirmed His word and established His covenant as He had promised. God made her laugh at a time she never thought will ever be possible for her to laugh joyfully with a living child in her hands – Is there anything too hard for God to do?
You have come to God, believe Him even for the impossible you know and the ones you do not know. The world will laugh at you, will shame you, and may humiliate you, but God will do the impossible. Do not turn away from Him but draw close to Him and remain in Him, He will help you, and He will do as He had said in His word and promises. God will not call back His words concerning you. “Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, who trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen, because they are very strong, but who does not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the Lord. Yet He also is wise and will bring disaster, and will not call back His words, but will arise against the house of evildoers, and against the help of those who work iniquity. Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out His hands, both he who helps will fall, and he who is helped will fall down; they all will perish together. For thus the Lord has spoken to me, as a lion roars, and a young lion over his prey when a multitude of shepherds is summoned against him, he will not be afraid of their voice nor be disturbed by their noise, so the Lord of hosts will come down to fight for Mount Zion and for its hill. Like birds flying about, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem. Defending, He will also deliver it; passing over, He will preserve it.” Isaiah 31:1-5. Christ Jesus who saved you will keep you, He who called you will make you and He who will make you into what He wants will preserve you. He has never been a failure and you will not fail.
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03.06.2023
I WILL MAKE YOU EXCEEDINGLY FRUITFUL (3)
“When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless. And I will make My covenant between Me and you and will multiply you exceedingly. Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying, as for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you. Also, I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
Genesis 17:1-8
When Abraham had no future to look up to, God spoke a future to him with a promise to help him it; when he had no son, God promised to make him a nation; when Abraham waited for the promised son and years were passing by fast without any sign of the promised son coming, and being fulfilled was becoming a huge challenge, God told him ‘He will make him exceedingly fruitful, will multiply, and bless him. When having a child in his marriage was becoming an issue in his marriage and the family and things were not going well as expected, while his hopes and life expectations were dying fast, God told him again clearly ‘I will make you exceedingly fruitful’. While Abraham had no child with Sarah despite hearing and believing the promise God made to make him fruitful, while physical age was telling on him and his wife, God reminded him again, ‘I will make you exceedingly fruitful.’
There are things you should never forget as a true Christian regardless of your dreams and your desires in life, and that is the word of God to you. While life might be very dark for you, the future seems unattainable, troubles are becoming unbearable, time passing too fast on you, age calling your attention and reminding you that you have just a few remaining, and uncertainty urging you to change your mind and ways, to forget the promises of God for you, God is saying to you, He will make you exceedingly fruitful.
Regardless of the situation at hand and those to come, God had not shifted His stands and has not changed His word and His promises concerning you. The delays you have seen, the hardship you have experienced, the punishments you have received, and the things you may have been forced to endure and admit may have been too much, yet God has not changed His plans and His words concerning you. “Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might, He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find me when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive.” Isaiah 40:28-31, Jeremiah 29:11-14. That is His promise, that is His word, that is what He will do, and that is what I believe.
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03.03.2023
I WILL MAKE YOU EXCEEDINGLY FRUITFUL (2)
“Look, I go forward, but He is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive Him; When He works on the left hand, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the right hand, I cannot see Him. But He knows the way that I take; when He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside. I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food. But He is unique, and who can make Him change? And whatever His soul desires, that He does. For He performs what is appointed for me, and many such things are with Him. Therefore, I am terrified at His presence; when I consider this, I am afraid of Him. For God made my heart weak, and the Almighty terrifies me; because I was not cut off from the presence of darkness, and He did not hide deep darkness from my face.”
Job 23:8-17
When God told Abram ‘I will make you a great nation; I will bless you, make your name great, you shall be a blessing, I will bless those who bless you, I will curse him who curses you, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’ Abraham never knew what that will be like but he expected it; he never knew the means that will take, but he expected it; he never knew the number of years, the kind of labor, and how long it will be, but he expected it; he never knew what he will experience along the way, but he waited for it, and he never knew if he will fail at the end, but he believed what he heard from God, trusted it, kept it fresh in his mind and alive in his heart, followed it, rehearsed and refreshed always in his thoughts, and it ended well, just as was promised. Your doubt will not stop God but it will affect you and can hinder you.
Though things became tough for Abram, God did not fail in His promise; though Abram waited many years for the promise, God did not fail; God changed his name and that of his wife, and in the end, Abraham did not fail in seeing and experiencing what God told him. Your faith, together with time will always prove that God is right regardless of what the devil and all the agents of his darkness will ever do against you, against His word, and His promises. Hold your peace, God will make it, he will make you, He will revenge for you, He will open the doors, He will lead you through even mighty doors that you do not know and cannot see, and even when you see, you do not have the strength to overcome. Whatever it will require for God to make you exceedingly fruitful according to His word and plans, he will do it.
“Therefore, thus says the Lord, behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry. Babylon shall become a heap, a dwelling place for jackals, an astonishment and a hissing, without an inhabitant. They shall roar together like lions; they shall growl like lions’ whelps. In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep and not awake, says the Lord. I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.” Jeremiah 51:36-40.
The success of God’s enemies and your enemies are not signs that God is incapable of doing and will not do what He had promised. The hardship of today and the ones that will come and all the many years of delays are not signs of your failure or His failure. Never undermine the elevating and sustaining power of God’s love and grace. Nothing changes people and situations faster than God’s working it out for them through His grace. God will work it out for you, He did it for Abraham, Noah, Moses, and the children of Israel. He will make you, even when everyone else fails you, God will help you, He still remains the same when people depart.
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03.02.2023
I WILL MAKE YOU EXCEEDINGLY FRUITFUL (1)
“When I heard, my body trembled; my lips quivered at the voice; rottenness entered my bones; and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble. When he comes up to the people, He will invade them with his troops. Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet, and He will make me walk on my high hills.” Habakkuk 3:16-19
It does not and will not depend on who is in power or who is in charge; it does not and will not depend on the wishes of men or organizations or government; it does not and will not depend on the season or the place, the profession, or your location; God says He will make you not only fruitful but exceedingly fruitful. He is able to make dark clouds bright for His children. He made the land of Goshen more profitable for the children of Israel while they were in Egypt than for the rest of the land and people in Egypt. Is there anything too hard for Him to do?
In this world, there are many things that will never work well and will never be right regardless of what we do as Christians, but all things work for the good of those who believe in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who loves Him with all their heart, who waits on Him with all patience, who submit their thoughts, their words, ways, and actions to Him, and put all of their trust, all of their expectations on and in Him. “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. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom He predestined, these He also called, whom He called, these He also justified, and whom He justified, these He also glorified.” Romans 8:26-31.
It does not matter what we see, what we hear, and what we experience, all things work together for our good through Christ Jesus because the Holy Spirit of God intercedes, works, and helps us in all situations, whether it is good, bad, or very bad. There is no situation that will force the Holy Spirit of God to depart from us is are in Christ Jesus with all of our hearts and with full obedience to His words and do His commands.
He says even when there are no fruits in the vine, no food in the storage, no yield on the day of expected harvest; when expectations and dreams fail; when the enemy seems stronger than you; when you are forcefully relieved from what is yours and violently deprived of what belongs to you, when the forces against you seem stronger than what you can handle, and when you think you will never have what you have prayed for, what you have worked for and fight to get all of your life, God says He will make you exceedingly fruitful.
When things were not going well in the land for Habakkuk, he said he will still stand on his watch, he will still retain his expectation, will still continue in prayers, will still continue in being patient and trust in the Almighty God, will still keep believing, and will still keep pushing forward and looking forward and upward.
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end, it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”
Habakkuk 2:3
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03.01.2023
THIS MARCH, GOD WILL MAKE YOU
“For this reason, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:14-21
While we give ourselves to believe, follow, trust, pray, ask, and wait on our Lord Jesus Christ for what we need and what He had promised as believing Christians, God said, this month, He will make us into what He wants, what He had said in His words and promises, and He will be proud of us thereafter. While we labor with the best of our strength, knowledge, and wisdom, and labor continuously competing with others for the best we think is out there for us, God says, by His power, by His love, by His faithfulness, by His stretched-out arms, and by His grace, beginning this month, He will begin to make us. He will begin to make you into whom He had said.
Whomever God makes, whatever God makes, and wherever He locates who and what He makes, they are sure to be glorious and will honor and magnify His name regardless of what Satan will do. In His love, He told Abraham, “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you, and in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:2-3. And by His power alone, God made Abraham. Abraham had faith, but Abraham was not self-made, God made him what he became in life through His power and His love.
God has never failed regardless of what we will ever experience in following Him, what we will see as being against us, what we will ever come to know as false against us, and whatever Satan will ever do in our lives. Our God is capable of doing exceedingly abundantly, beyond the best of our dreams, the best of our imaginations, and the best of our requests and expectations in life. While Satan destroyed Job, his family, and his wealth, God restored all he lost and took him far above what he was before and everyone saw it. What God will do in you will be seen and known and celebrated by others around you. “And the Lord restored Job’s losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed, the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been his acquaintances before came to him and ate food with him in his house, and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversity that the Lord had brought upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and each a ring of gold.” Job 42:10-11
When God says He will make you, Satan will be after you in all directions, but despite what he and his agent will ever do against you, God will give you victory if you will keep your eyes and heart, and feet focused on Christ Jesus. “Therefore, we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2.
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02.28.2023
HOW MOSES BECAME THE WORK OF GRACE
“But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive. So, the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them, why have you done this thing, and saved the male children alive? And the midwives said to Pharaoh Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women for, they are lively and give birth before the midwives come to them.”
Exodus 1:17-19
God’s plans for your life will be fulfilled by His grace in His time and nothing else. When grace is at work, things you never expect will start happening, things you do not see before will start appearing, and things that had been impossible will start giving way to that which will be very possible beyond your present knowledge, strength, and help from people. By God’s grace, we are, you will be able to do the unthinkable, achieve the unthinkable, and become the man or woman beyond the imaginations of the people who knew you before that time. Grace makes way for us to see, and do the plans of God after salvation for His glory to be celebrated on earth and His work to be accomplished. Moses enjoyed grace from birth and lived to see the power of God’s grace working through his life to fulfill God’s promises to Abraham and his descendants.
Moses’ parents were never told he will survive the evil plans of Pharoah at birth, but by faith in God and grace from God, he did survive. Moses never knew he will become a mighty instrument in the hands of the Almighty God but by the working power of divine grace, he became a fearful and mighty toll in the hands of God that shocked Pharaoh and his people leaving them without words and the ability to recover till this very day.
Right from the moment of his conception, Moses enjoyed God’s divine grace through the faith of his parents. That divine grace was extraordinary and powerful in times of great fear in the camp of the children of Israel, it eliminated fear in the heart of his parents and gave them the boldness needed to hide him for three months. By that same divine grace, God directed them on what to do, remember, other children were born at that time and many were killed but Moses was not, because God kept him and singled him out also by His grace. None else did what his parents did by taking him to the river bank at the time Pharaoh’s daughter usually come around the river for her early morning bath at the river bank.
Though Moses was born at a time of trouble for the children of Israel in Egypt, God’s grace and the faith of his parents kept him alive to become the success he never imagined. “And a man of the house of Levi took as wife a daughter of Levi. So, the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him. Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river. And her maidens walked along the riverside and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it. And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So, she had compassion on him, and said, this is one of the Hebrews’ children. Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you? And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, go. So, the maiden went and called the child’s mother. Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. So, the woman took the child and nursed him. And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. So, she called his name Moses, saying because I drew him out of the water.” Exodus 2:2-10
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02.27.2023
MOSES, SUCCESS BEYOND IMAGINATION
“Don't worry about anything, but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking Him with a thankful heart. And God's peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus. So, get rid of every filthy habit and all wicked conduct. Submit to God and accept the word that he plants in your hearts, which is able to save you. Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice. If you listen to the word but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are. They take a good look at themselves and then go away and at once forget what they look like. But if you look closely into the perfect law that sets people free, and keep on paying attention to it and do not simply listen and then forget it, but put it into practice—you will be blessed by God in what you do.” Philippians 4:6-7, James 1:21-25
Where there is a desire, where there is a will, where there is determination, where there is vision, where there is true faith, where there is sincere belief in Christ, where there is the active word of God, divine grace will be there and there will definitely be a way. God will always lead through the right way, taking us through the right path even when Satan opens up several ways before us. It is very certain that the Spirit of God only takes us through the right way according to the word of God, He will take us through the right path, and will definitely find the right result if we will follow His ways. God will never take us the wrong way and will never give approval on what is not according to the Scriptures regardless of the best of our thoughts, the fervency of our request, the many days of fasting and abstinence, or the acceptance and approval of others.
“Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” Matthew 24:35. When God says no, it will remain to be no despite the best of our understanding, wisdom, and any of the explanations anyone anywhere. When He says yes, it will remain to be yes forever despite all the challenges, all the delays, and all the fights from Satan and his agents. God will say yes only according to His plans, according to His word in the Scripture, according to His destiny for your life, and according to His divine purpose in your life.
When Moses expressed his life challenges and fear for Pharaoh, God told him, I am sending you and will not change my mind.’ Despite what Moses knew, despite what he said was his problem, despite his fears for Pharaoh and the people of Israel, God did not change His mind concerning him. Regardless of your fears, what you know, and what you have seen, God has not changed His mind and His purpose, and His will for your life. Do not allow anything you know, have seen, and will come to experience to stop you. Moses went and had success beyond his thoughts because God said yes. “I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? And God said I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain. Moses said to God, suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, what is His name? Then what shall I tell them? God said to Moses, I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I am has sent me to you. God also said to Moses, say to the Israelites, the Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has sent me to you. This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, the Lord, the God of your fathers the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob appeared to me and said.” Exodus 3:10-16
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02.24.2023
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF GOD’S GRACE
But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and the livestock that were with him in the ark, and he sent a wind over the earth, and the waters receded. Then God said to Noah, come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives. Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.” Genesis 8:1;15-16; 9:1-3
Because of the effectiveness of God’s grace, what was fighting against the people was working for Noah, what was destroying the earth and killing the people was working for Noah, and what was making the people cry for help and never see one was working for Noah. What destroyed their wealth, their lives, their homes, their families and their dreams was all working together to see that Noah was established, Noah was blessed, and Noah was rewarded. When God’s grace is in your favor, what destroys others will make a way for you as it was for Noah. Whatever you see and know destroying others, will not destroy you when God’s grace is in you. Noah lived to see his entire family enjoy the effectiveness of God’s grace because he walked with God, obeyed God, and followed His instructions.
There is much more grace working for you, working in you, and working through you every day than you will ever imagine or ask or know. God keeps the door of grace open for the sinners, for all Christians, and for the good of His word, His calling, and His salvation. Without God’s grace, no true Christian will ever see the light of a new day or do anything meaningful, profitable, or worthy of praise. Satan works to sabotage all true Christians in everything they do, everywhere they go, frustrating them, making them permanent failures, and keeping them as his target in the front row of his attacks. “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground and after you have done everything, stand. Stand firm then with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given to me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.” Ephesians 6:10-20
Do you think God has forgotten you? Never, with your eyes, you will see the reward of His grace and His faithfulness; you will see the joy of your salvation, you will see the blessings of keeping and following His word, you will see God taking you up when others are falling or failing, you will see God granting much more than the people expect to see in you. God’s grace changes all things, it changes people, changes situations, and makes even the weak to be strong.
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02.23.2023
FAITH MAKES THINGS POSSIBLE; GRACE MAKES YOU ABLE
“Last of all He appeared also to me—even though I am like someone whose birth was abnormal. For I am the least of all the apostles, I do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted God's church. But by God's grace, I am what I am, and the grace that He gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me. So then, whether it came from me or from them, this is what we all preach, and this is what you believe.” 1 Corinthians 15:8-11
There will always be opportunities, impossibilities, and possibilities, and there will always be chances to succeed or fail; there will always be opportunities to grow and increase your faith, to receive more grace, and to become even greater than expectations. When God’s grace finds faith in you, when it finds consistency in godly purposes; when it sees your faithfulness in all the little things of God, when it sees your past, present, continuous obedience to the commands of God, and purity in thoughts and actions, there is no way that you will remain the same place doing the same thing without seeing and having an impact; there is no way that you will not be physically, spiritually, and financially transformed and made able to do even the impossible things that no one had been able to dream about. That was what grace found in Noah after years of walking with God in all righteousness, faithfulness, and perfection to enable him to do things beyond his strength, beyond his dreams, and beyond the expectations of all the people in his days.
Where there is true obedience and faithfulness, God will do what He had promised, and all of His plans will be effective in you and through you, and by His grace, there will be a way for you to see His work accomplished in you. Faith does not stand alone, faith does not make all things easy, it makes them possible while grace works to make you able because grace quickens even the weak and makes them able to accomplish the plans of God. When faith and grace come into a perfect union in you, you will start seeing their rewards in your life as a true, faithful, obedient, and willing believer and follower of Jesus Christ and impossibilities will take their leave in your life and in the things that God in His love had destined for you.
We may ask, how did Noah build the ark? Did God see Noah’s bank account before asking him to build the ark? Did God ask him if he will be willing to obey? Did God refer him to any money bag to help finance the project? Did not ask him to seek a loan in accomplishing the given task? Did Noah borrow from anyone? The answer is no, but Noah was able, he was a success, and he did all that God asked him to do exactly. “Noah did everything just as God commanded him.” Genesis 6:22. Grace made Noah able and completed what God asked him to do. In obedience and in faith, Noah accomplished what no man was able to do.
Noah never dreams and never knew God will bless him that much when he was walking with Him and people were mocking and laughing. God will in one way or another other reward His faithful children with his grace. There is no way that you will miss out on His reward when you refuse to turn your back on following and obeying Him. “The Lord sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; He seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; on them, He has set the world. He will guard the feet of His faithful servants, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness. It is not by strength that one prevails; those who oppose the Lord will be broken. He will thunder from heaven; He will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to His king and exalt the horn of His anointed.” 1 Samuel 2:7-10.
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02.22.2023
LIKE NOAH, YOUR DAY OF MANIFESTING GOD’S GRACE WILL COME
“And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah; Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.” Genesis 6:6-9
Before God’s grace located, recognized, and singled Noah out from the rest, it is stated that Noah knew God, walked with God, obeyed God, and was perfect. Every person in and around him knew his ways and actions but no one had regard for him. Every person knew his religiosity, knew he prays and pays attention to the things of God, and obeyed God in all his ways. They thought God will not reward him, they thought they were smarter than him and that he is wasting his time in being what he was, but on the day that Noah received God's grace, his life changed for the very best. God’s grace located Noah because of what he was before that day, and that grace opened his ears to hear God, that grace enabled him to obtain resources needed to obey and build the ark, and that grace preserved his life and his family all through the 40 days and nights of rain and the many years of the destructive flood that followed thereafter.
Regardless of the sham, no matter the shame, frustration, injustice, neglect, fear, loneliness, and dehumanization, your day of openly manifesting and displaying the effective working of God’s grace in your life is coming. They may stop many good things in your life now, but they will not stop them forever because no matter what is happening in, or to, or around, or with you, no matter the delays, the frustration, and disappointments of these present day, God has not forsaken you and He will never forget you; He has not forgotten your salvation, your patience, your righteousness, and your faithfulness to Him and to His household. Paul wrote concerning Israel and concerning you, “I ask, then, has God rejected His own people, the nation of Israel? Of course not. I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin. No, God has not rejected His own people, whom He chose from the very beginning. Do you realize what the Scriptures say about this? Elijah the prophet complained to God about the people of Israel and said, Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me, too. And do you remember God’s reply? He said, no, I have 7,000 others who have never bowed down to Baal. It is the same today, for a few of the people of Israel have remained faithful because of God’s grace, His undeserved kindness in choosing them. And since it is through God’s kindness, then it is not by their good works. For in that case, God’s grace would not be what it really is, - free and undeserved. So, this is the situation, most of the people of Israel have not found the favor of God they are looking for so earnestly. A few have, the ones God has chosen—but the hearts of the rest were hardened.” Romans 11:1-8
Do not turn away from God, do not turn away from being righteous, and do not allow anything to compel you to forgo your righteous duties to God and His people. I am convinced that you will be what God said of you no matter what. Your labor of love in Christ Jesus will not be in vain and your commitment to righteousness will surely yield its desired fruit. Noah had his day of rejoicing, his day of manifesting grace, and his day of enjoying the reward of God’s grace. That joy took him up, enabled him to survive the flood, and made him the first man to possess the entire earth and he divided it among his three children. The result of grace, the reward of grace, and the power of grace always bring distinction, relocation, effectiveness, and joy. YOu will see God's grace in your own life.
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02.21.2023
AND NOAH ENJOYED GRACE
“But to keep me from being puffed up with pride because of the many wonderful things I saw, I was given a painful physical ailment, which acts as Satan's messenger to beat me and keep me from being proud. Three times I prayed to the Lord about this and asked him to take it away. But his answer was, my grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak. I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ's power over me. I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:7-10
By grace, God will not only take you through whatever is facing you, but He will also give you a solid foundation and establish you firmly on that foundation. By His unending grace and peace, when others are looking down, you will be looking up, when others are crying for help you will be rejoicing for His grace, when others are calling for help, you will be calling for the activation of His grace and by His grace, you will be what He said concerning you. Grace can turn you and everything about you around, it can and will deliver you. When everyone and everything around is falling apart, collapsing, and failing to change for good, God’s grace will locate and lead you to a place where God will establish you on a foundation of praise and joy. That was the kind of grace that Noah enjoyed in his days.
“And it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. These are the generations of Noah, Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God. And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, the end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” Genesis 6:1-13
Noah was a righteous man living among the unrighteous but it was grace that saved him. The rich, the strong, the renowned and the giants could not save themselves from what they were. But God’s grace enabled Noah to hear God, obey God, and follow God’s instructions. Grace saved, delivered, and preserved Noah. God’s grace is effective and powerful in all situations even when everything else and everyone is failing and falling. Even in the midst of trouble, in the midst of unrighteousness, in the midst of powerful evildoers, and in the midst of die-hearted and corrupt and unjust men, God’s grace is effective and active enough to deliver you and it will deliver you.
Noah enjoyed God’s grace in times of God’s anger against evil-doers. God’s Grace kept Noah, took Noah through, and preserved him for the blessings that always follow Godly obedience.
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02.20.2023
UNFAILING, GOD'S DIVINE GRACE
“To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus, that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge, even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you, so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.” 1 Corinthians 1:2-9
When all things fail, divine grace will lift you up. When friends and acquaintances depart from you for no reason, divine grace will keep and comfort you. Divine grace never fails, never ends, and never departs. God’s divine grace abides with the righteous in and through all situations in all locations and situations. You may have been declared a failure for the several shortcomings in your personal life, career, family, marriage, dreams, desires, and other prospects, but one thing is very certain, regardless of your past and the difficult situations you see and are experiencing in your life now, God’s divine grace never fails. In all situations, God’s divine grace comes with the ability to rescue, restore, and make things possible even when the situations or locations are still wrong. I pray you will experience divine grace this month and beyond and throughout your life. If nothing had changed you and your situation, divine grace will change you, it will enable you to stand up and walk out from the pits of continuous failure and be accomplished according to the plans, designs, and purpose of God for your life.
When others are talking about failures and difficulties, you will be talking about divine grace from heaven above; when others are talking about hardship and pains, you will be talking about sustaining divine grace from heaven above. When others are talking about great dreams, desires, and plans, you will be talking about God’s divine grace from heaven; when others are talking about developing and having the personal strength to stand and seek help from people, you will be talking about receiving God’s divine grace from heaven. The talk of God’s divine grace will never depart from your mouth because divine grace enables us beyond all other things. By His power and love, His grace overrules all forms of injustices and disqualifications, grace installs and reinstates justice even when others do not agree with what they see because of what they know about you. “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.” 2 Corinthians 9:8
The benefits of God’s given grace are beyond just having salvation. It keeps us saved and safe in Him; it keeps us humble in obedience before Him; it keeps us in sanctification; it provides divine peace in all circumstances in all situations; it enriches us in everything regardless of where you are; it brings breakthrough even in difficult situations; it provides comfort when all things fail and when we are disappointed in our long-time expectations.
It was God’s divine grace that kept Job until the day he was healed and until the day that all of his wealth, family, children, and all the things he lost were restored. That same divine grace from heaven made him better than he was before Satan started implementing his wickedness in him. It is very possible for God’s divine grace to keep you through all the storms, rescue you from all afflictions, and restore whatever you have lost. Faith in Christ Jesus will enable His grace in you.
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02.17.2023.
DON’T RULE OUT GOD’S GRACE FOR YOU
“In the past, you were spiritually dead because of your disobedience and sins. At that time you followed the world's evil way; you obeyed the ruler of the spiritual powers in space, the spirit who now controls the people who disobey God. Actually, all of us were like them and lived according to our natural desires, doing whatever suited the wishes of our own bodies and minds. In our natural condition we, like everyone else, were destined to suffer God's anger. But God's mercy is so abundant, and His love for us is so great, that while we were spiritually dead in our disobedience He brought us to life with Christ. It is by God's grace that you have been saved. In our union with Christ Jesus, He raised us up with Him to rule with Him in the heavenly world. He did this to demonstrate for all time to come the extraordinary greatness of His grace in the love He showed us in Christ Jesus. For it is by God's grace that you have been saved through faith. It is not the result of your own efforts, but God's gift, so that no one can boast about it. God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus, He has created us for a life of good deeds, which He has already prepared for us to do.” Ephesians 2:1-10
As you believe in Christ Jesus, as you follow Christ Jesus, as you read and believe His word, as you look up to God for blessings, as you desire for and work to see peace and justice established in your home and nation, as you grow in faith and in the things of God, as you work inside and out of your heart in the things of God, as you struggle in your Christian work, struggle with workers of evil, struggling and praying to overcome sin and the works and plans of Satan and the people with him, never in any way rule out the power of God’s grace in your life assisting you in ways that are beyond what you see, what you know and what you will experience, never rule out the work of God’s grace bring you into favor with Him and with men, never rule out in your thought and mind the power of grace advancing you, never rule out the effectiveness of grace of God even in difficult issues, never rule out the grace from our Father in heaven which comes through faith in Jesus Christ working to establish you in the things God had destined.
It is easy to forget God’s promises when delays go far beyond the mark of our expectations; it is easy to think otherwise we have endless struggles in life, it is easy to forget when we are always ridiculed by people who refer to us as failures because we have not yet attained to what we say we are in Christ Jesus, but regardless to what they may say and do, we still remain the children of the Almighty God and true follower of Jesus Christ who are destined for His blessings and His glory by the power of His everlasting word of promises, we are destined for the glory that will come by His grace, and we still have the word of and promises and as He gives us the grace to be alive, we will definitely see and have and experience the good things He had promised us.
When Sarah experienced a delay in the promise of having a son and past the human assumed age of ever conceiving and having a son, she forgot the promises of God, she thought it will never be effective in her anymore, but God never changed His mind concerning her and never change His promises towards her. God has not changed His word or His promises to you. By His grace, you will see His word, His work, and His promises fulfilled.
“I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son. Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. Therefore, Sarah laughed within herself, saying after I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” Genesis 18:10-12
NEVER RULE OUT GOD’S GRACE WORKING FOR YOU
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02.16.2023
GRACE TO RECEIVE
“But the two are not the same, because God's free gift is not like Adam's sin. It is true that many people died because of the sin of that one man. But God's grace is much greater, and so is His free gift to so many people through the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ. And there is a difference between God's gift and the sin of one man. After the one sin, came the judgment of guilty; but after so many sins, comes the undeserved gift of not guilty. It is true that through the sin of one man, death began to rule because of that one man. But how much greater is the result of what was done by the one man, Jesus Christ? All who receive God's abundant grace and are freely put right with him will rule in life through Christ. So then, as the one sin condemned all people, in the same way, the one righteous act sets all people free and gives them life. And just as all people were made sinners as the result of the disobedience of one man, in the same way, they will all be put right with God as the result of the obedience of the one man. Law was introduced in order to increase wrongdoing; but where sin increased, God's grace increased much more. So then, just as sin ruled by means of death, so also God's grace rules by means of righteousness, leading us to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 5:15-20
The grace of God is more powerful than our fears so, in whatever situation you are, in whatever pains or hardship, and whatever is fighting against you, never give up hope because God will never give up His grace on you. His grace will lead you to the abundance of His redemptive love, and His blessings that passes all understanding. His plans are real and His perfect will for you will come to pass regardless of the delays and the seeming frustrations of today. There is nothing compared to God’s grace in the life of those who trust in Him and call on Him. In all things and in all locations, grace changes lives and situations, grace makes whatever and whoever you are, and whatever you do better than the efforts you put in and the help you will ever receive from people. God’s grace enables us to overcome evil works, death, condemnation, sins, stagnation, shame, fear, and all that Satan will do to set us back. His grace enables us to overcome all curses, and all human unintentional mistakes and delivers us from our past, present, and future condemnation from the devil. Adam sinned, and we inherited that sin and the condemnation, but through love, God gave us His son so that through grace, we will not continue in Sin and partake in that condemnation.
The greatness of God’s grace is everlasting and effective. It does not depend on what others are or will do, it is what God will do regardless of the location and the people. His grace works in love and we receive grace through persistent faith in Him and in His word. While faith in His word fulfills the word written, grace fulfills what we do not even expect or merit giving glory to the only true God whose grace is beyond all of the human understanding of events, learning of things, knowledge of things, and wisdom in getting what you want. While the world will seek to always condemn you, God’s grace will always work to justify you. While the world will say you do not merit what you are asking and waiting for, God’s grace says you merit it and you will have it. God’s grace overrules all the verdicts of men against you.
Through grace, this woman got what she did not deserve, “At this, the woman came and fell at His feet. Help me, sir, she said. Jesus answered; it isn't right to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs. That's true, sir, she answered, but even the dogs eat the leftovers that fall from their masters' table. So, Jesus answered her, you are a woman of great faith. What you want will be done for you. And at that very moment, her daughter was healed.” Matthew 15:25-28
NEVER FORGET TO ASK FOR GOD’S GRACE EVERYDAY
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02,15,2023
RETURN TO YOUR FIRST LOVE
“I know what you have done; I know how hard you have worked and how patient you have been. I know that you cannot tolerate evil people and that you have tested those who say they are apostles but are not, and have found out that they are liars. You are patient, you have suffered for my sake, and you have not given up. But this is what I have against you: you do not love me now as you did at first. Think how far you have fallen. Turn from your sins and do what you did at first. If you don't turn from your sins, I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place. But this is what you have in your favor: you hate what the Nicolaitans do, as much as I do. If you have ears, then, listen to what the Spirit says to the churches. To those who win the victory, I will give the right to eat the fruit of the tree of life that grows in the Garden of God.”
Revelation 2:2-7
Familiarity with God had robbed us of having peace in our hearts and desiring more of His love, His words, His presence, His glory, and His grace. Our hearts had been distracted by the sorrows and pains we see and experience every day. But that is not what He wants for us and not what He saved us for. He saved us so we can enjoy the power of His love and live our lives loving Him in return. God loves us so much that He knows how far we have gone off His love and how long we have remained outside of His love despite what we do and say in His name. You have lost much because you have strayed away from your first love for Him but you can be restored because His love never ceases no matter what, and you have this day to ask for that grace.
“People laugh at me all day long; I am a joke to them all. Bitter suffering is all He has given me for food and drink. He rubbed my face in the ground and broke my teeth on rocks. I have forgotten what health and peace and happiness are. I do not have much longer to live; my hope in the Lord is gone. The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison. I think of it constantly, and my spirit is depressed. Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing. The Lord's unfailing love and mercy still continue, fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise. The Lord is all I have, and so in Him, I put my hope. The Lord is good to everyone who trusts in Him so, it is best for us to wait in patience, to wait for Him to save us, and it is best to learn this patience in our youth. When we suffer, we should sit alone in silent patience; we should bow in submission, for there may still be hope. Though beaten and insulted, we should accept it all. The Lord is merciful and will not reject us forever. He may bring us sorrow, but His love for us is sure and strong. He takes no pleasure in causing us grief or pain. The Lord knows when our spirits are crushed in prison; He knows when we are denied the rights He gave us; when justice is perverted in court, He knows. The will of the Lord alone is always carried out.” Lamentation 3:14-37.
GOD WANTS US TO RETURN TO OUR FIRST LOVE. He will restore His grace, He is always merciful and compassionate.
He knows how far you have left loving Him and wants you to return to your first love, return to doing what you did before in, and for Him when you first received Him as your Lord. He wants to see you yearning for His presence, yearning for His peace, hungry for His word and presence, He wants to see you seeking and showing mercy, He wants to see you praying always and everywhere; He wants you to reignite His praises in your heart and He wants to see you in His presence always. You have gone too far from Him even though you are still in the church, still preaching, still a Christian, and you are still talking about Him. He wants to see your heart and ways aligned with His words. That will restore His grace and glory in your life for the very best.
NEVER FORGET TO ASK FOR GOD’S GRACE EVERYDAY
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02.14.2023
YOUR RESTORATION WILL COME THROUGH GRACE (4)
“So, God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. They traded the truth about God for a lie. So, they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise, Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved. Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, He abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.”
Romans 1:24-32
God will never abandon those who are obedient and faithful to Him no matter what people may say or do to them, He will always keep them by His grace, open up new doors for them by His grace and enable them to stand and remain in His love forever. God has not abandoned you, His grace is sufficient for you and it is always available, call for it right now.
Do not follow what others are doing when the word of God says it is wrong, Acceptance of the people does not mean God had accepted it or will accept it. God wants your faithfulness as that of Abraham, Peter, Paul, and the rest of the apostles.
6. Faithfulness. That is what God wants of you, faithfulness to all of his word and commands regardless of what the people had accepted to do with themselves and against themselves. Faithfulness is not just singing songs, going to church, reading your bible, and being with other Christians, it is paying the full price in doing what He says in the scriptures as He commanded. This is that faithfulness is all about – “Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take. Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones. Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the best part of everything you produce. Then He will fill your barns with grain, and your vats will overflow with good wine. My child, don’t reject the Lord’s discipline and don’t be upset when He corrects you. For the Lord corrects those He loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights,” Proverbs 3:4-14
Jesus Christ prayed and said to the father, regardless of the pains of the coming cross and on the cross itself, ‘not my will but yours be done’, Luke 22:41-42 - that is the true Christianity which will enable the inflow and the outflow of His grace abundantly upon our lives regardless of our sufferings and pains and the delays of all our desires in life.
God has no intent to abandon you, give up on you, or give you up for any reason, He desires to give you the abundance of His grace and abundant bless you thereafter through that grace in your faithfulness to Him. His grace can eliminate all of your fears and wipe away all uncertainties in your life.
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02.13.2023
YOUR RESTORATION WILL COME THROUGH GRACE (3)
“This boasting will do no good, but I must go on. I will reluctantly talk about visions and revelations from the Lord. I was caught up to the third heaven fourteen years ago. Whether I was in my body or out of my body, I don’t know, only God knows. Yes, only God knows whether I was in my body or outside my body. But I do know that I was caught up to paradise and heard things so astounding that they cannot be expressed in words, things no human is allowed to tell. That experience is worth boasting about, but I’m not going to do it. I will boast only about my weaknesses. If I wanted to boast, I would be no fool in doing so, because I would be telling the truth. But I won’t do it, because I don’t want anyone to give me credit beyond what they can see in my life or hear in my message, even though I have received such wonderful revelations from God. So to keep me from becoming proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from Satan to torment me and keep me from becoming proud. Three different times I begged the Lord to take it away. Each time he said, My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness. So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
God’s grace is far beyond human understanding, reasoning, and explanation. Even if we try with our limited learning and wisdom, we will never be able to unravel the mysteries in the working of God’s grace that He fully gives to His people, but despite all that, God wants us to believe in Him, believe in Jesus Christ, believe in His word, and believe in the effectiveness of His grace no matter our fears and understanding. He wants us to seek it, ask for it, and wait for it. I am convinced that we will have it and see its fullness working to establish us in the things and places He had destined for us in this life. God’s grace works here and benefits us here as we set out in joy to do His will. His grace brings us to His will and gives us the strength needed to accomplish it. God told Paul three times of the sufficiency of His grace - My grace is all you need.
God is with you always, He is for you always, and He is in you always. There is no aspect of your life that is separated from Him or is not in need of His grace. There are other two of the seven things we need to do: -
5. Obedience. God craves your obedience at all times and in all things. Obedience will definitely distinguish you regardless of the situation, the location, your age, and the problem in question. In our obedience, God opens the doors to fulfill His promises. Obeying God will never destroy you, destroy your business, or destroy your family or marriage. It will never ever ruin any aspect of your life. “Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows. Come now, let’s settle this, says the Lord. Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool. If you will only obey me, you will have plenty to eat. But if you turn away and refuse to listen, you will be devoured by the sword of your enemies. I, the Lord, have spoken.” Isaiah 1:17-20
Obedience to every word of God will not only bring you blessings, but it will defend you, open doors for you, and enable you to enjoy unlimited grace in whatever you will do in life.
Peter said to Christ Jesus: -
“Master, Simon replied, we worked hard all last night and didn’t catch a thing. But if you say so,
I’ll let the nets down again. And this time their nets were so full of fish they began to tear.”
Luke 5:5-6
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02.10.2023
HOW YOUR RESTORATION WILL COME THROUGH GRACE (2)
“But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago. We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins.”
Romans 3:21-23
God wants you to know the importance of salvation; He wants you to know that your most valuable life possession is your salvation and He wants you to cherish it, do all to preserve it, grow in it, be blessed by it, and keep yourself from all appearance of evil through grace; Because it is only through genuine salvation that you can have a real-life transforming relationship with God by His grace in everything you do, everywhere you are and anything you will ever be. God’s grace keeps us from falling even in our known weaknesses, and if we do fall, His grace lifts us up again through faith in His word. His serving grace works to separate us from the evil activities of the world seeking to discredit and destroy us before Him and before all men.
In seeking restoration through grace, we discussed two of the seven things to do, there are others:
3. Restitution. Though many do not consider this as important, restitution is a valuable component of your freedom as a Christian. Restitution frees you from the reward of your evil by your side; it frees your mind of the remembrance of what you did wrong; it helps you remember you have done what is right by restoring the joy of the person you did wrong to. What joy do you have by seeing what you stole from others with you every day? That always reminds you of your past and leaves you with a guilty conscience always. Restitution helps you have a guilt-free conscience, a guilt-free mind, a guilt-free heart when you stand before God, and a guilt-free relationship with others.
4. Humility. Humility is not foolishness as some may think, it is an attribute that God requires of all believers and followers of Jesus Christ. “In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you, dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. So, humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time He will lift you up in honor. Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you.” 1 Peter 5:5-7. God wants us to humble ourselves voluntarily before Him, we should not be proud of ourselves for any reason knowing that all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be in this life are all through His grace. His grace justifies us, lift us up, keep us high, and also enables us. Grace changes and enables us.
“He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west. The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear Him. For He knows how weak we are; He remembers we are only dust. Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die. The wind blows, and we are gone as though we had never been here. But the love of the Lord remains forever with those who fear Him. His salvation extends to the children’s children of those who are faithful to His covenant, of those who obey His commandments. The Lord has made the heavens His throne; from there He rules over everything.”
Psalms 103:12-19
TODAY, YOUR RESTORATION IS POSSIBLE BY HIS GRACE
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02.09.2023
HOW YOUR RESTORATION WILL COME THROUGH GRACE (1)
“Let all that I am praise the Lord; with my whole heart, I will praise His holy name. Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things He does for me. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies. He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord gives righteousness and justice to all who are treated unfairly.”
Psalm 103:1-6
Much more than we think, much more than we can do, and much more than anyone will ever expect of us or see in us, our God is going to restore us by His grace. The Lord is far more willing than we will ever think and He is able to restore us in grace and through grace to where we were and even higher than what we were before now. He is willing and able to restore all that we have lost and even bless us more. For those who have been brought down, the time of your lifting up from that fall by His grace is coming; for those who have been stagnated in one place for years, the time to move out and move up by His grace is coming; for those who have been in one sadness after another because of consistent adversities, the grace to overcome sadness and its associated shame are coming, and the grace your gladness is coming. God is not leaving you in there again, Jabez was not left in pain forever.
One reason for temptation and sin is to take you down from the place that God’s grace had taken you up to, that is the whole desire of the devil and that was what he did to Adam and Eve when they lost their place in the Garden of Eden because of the sin. But you have a great advocate in heaven whose greatest interest is you, who had shed His blood for your forgiveness, restoration, peace, and victory, He is advocating now for you to be restored through grace, and you will be restored through His divine grace no matter what had been standing to prevent you.
Understanding that grace that restores, grace lifts one up, grace preserves and grace keeps one faithful, holy, and acceptable from God is the foundation of Christianity will help you. These are seven things to do to quicken your restoration right now.
1. Acknowledge and confess your sins and weaknesses before God –
There is power in true confession. Do not generalize your sins, acknowledge and confess them one by one. God sees and knows them and He wants you to acknowledge them before Him. Do not conceal your sins, it will conceal you; if you cover up your sins, it will eventually cover you up permanently.
2. Forgive others and seek forgiveness from God. –
“If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Matthew 6:14-15. God wants you to be merciful to others if you want His mercy. He will not fail to show you His mercy and give you the grace to live guilt-free thereafter.
“He revealed his character to Moses and His deeds to the people of Israel. The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry, and filled with unfailing love. He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever. He does not punish us for all our sins; He does not deal harshly with us, as we deserve. For His unfailing love toward those who fear Him is as great as the height of the heavens above the earth.”
Psalm 103:7-11
TODAY, YOUR RESTORATION IS POSSIBLE BY HIS GRACE
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02.08.2023
FALLEN FROM GRACE?
THERE IS HOPE FOR RESTORATION
“Do not lurk like a thief near the house of the righteous, do not plunder their dwelling place; for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.” Proverbs 24:15-16. They rise again not by their strength but by the divine grace that comes from heaven.
For the righteous in Christ Jesus, their strength and hope are not in what they have achieved in life, their future is never compromised despite the adversities from the powers of darkness and the often mistakes in human thoughts, wisdom, and actions. Their hope and strength are firmly in the unending love of the Almighty God and their heart is settled on the unending power of grace from heaven that God gives to be what they are, where they are, and what they will ever be in the future. God’s grace prepares and preserves the righteous.
David testified and said, “The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the Lord holds them by the hand. Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread.” Psalm 37:23-25
It may, might, or will be very tough for you, but the working of God’s grace changes things in you and before you. God’s grace is endless, never diminishes, and never faulted no matter what men will ever do or say to you. In His grace and by His grace, there will always be the provision for restoration, for lifting up after a fall, for forgiveness, for mercy, for preservation, and for praise to our God.
Falling from grace does not mean the end has come for you. It means you fell from the position that grace took you to initially and Grace can take you back up there and even beyond. You are bound in Christ through salvation, faith, and love, you will grow in His grace, you will increase through His grace, you will break barriers of hindrances through His grace, you will overcome delays and afflictions through His grace, and you will be what God had said concerning you through grace.
God’s grace is the power that you need today and nothing else. Where grace dwells, there is favor, there is hope, there is assurance, and there is the confidence of true restoration.
Through God’s grace, Marriam, the sister of Moses was restored after seven days of sickness.
Through God’s grace, David was forgiven, and all privileges as a king were restored after his adultery with Bathsheba.
Through God’s grace, Aaron was kept alive after making a golden calf for the children of Israel to worship out of ignorance.
God is always forgiving, always pouring out His grace and mercy through love to everyone who acknowledges Christ Jesus as Lord. Grace is free, it cost you nothing to receive. - It is God's gift without any strings of demand.
May I tell you now, your fall was temporal, it was not permanent, and your restoration is coming because of God’s grace and nothing else. Human knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and strength will always fail, but God’s grace never fails. He gives and gives again until you are what He said.
TODAY, LIFT UP YOUR HEAD; YOUR RESTORATION IS COMING BY HIS GRACE
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02.07.2023
DO NOT UNDERMINE WHAT GRACE CAN DO
“I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don’t always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time. People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy.” Ecclesiastes 9:11-12
Did you that the system of progress in the world is based on merit? It is based on whom you are; whom you know; where you are; what you can bring to the table; how educated and talented you are; how much knowledge or how knowledgeable you are; how much experience you are, how much money you earn or have in your vault; the values of your wealth or that of your parents, the value of your property and the location of your property. The values of men are all based on the physical measurements of what they can see and where they expect to make gains from what they see and know concerning you, but God’s grace takes you far above the system of the world and the values that men use to judge and gauge you you are. Most often, you can possess all they will ever need and require of you, yet you are still denied the needed or requested favor. But God does not require you to have any before granting you His grace to have all. By God's grace, we receive an unmerited favor that surpasses all understanding.
While the world operates on the merit system for reward, God operates on the grace level of blessing and reward and He does this always. The merit system is all about human judgment of you and it is a strong hindrance to many, but God’s grace is all about His love which we did not merit because of sins and weaknesses, yet He still loves us through Christ Jesus.
While we were yet sinners, through love, we merited His salvation by grace. His grace took us to the place we can receive salvation, His grace took us to the God we can trust, and His grace took us to the God who can and is and is willing and able to help us. His grace took us to the God who will never forsake us, abandon us, or leave us in our pains and sorrows. I am convinced,
His grace will change you. Ask for this kind of grace today
TODAY, WHEREVER YOU ARE AND WHATEVER SITUATION YOU FIND YOURSELF IN, YOU WILL FIND ENOUGH GRACE FROM HEAVEN TO CHANGE YOU, CHANGE THE SITUATION, LIFT YOU OUT AND UP, AND REPOSITION YOU FOR GRAETER HONOR.
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February 06.2023.
GRACE FOR TODAY.
Without God's grace, nothing good will be possible, and you will be unable to function despite knowledge and wealth.
Grace always transforms people and situations.
Grace always makes things possible even in a hard environment and hard people
Grace always produces great results that far out weights what you put in.
TODAY ASK FOR THAT GRACE
God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Ephesians 2:9-10