“In understanding the knowledge of God there are hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge!”
Are you one of those people who view Jesus as some divine luggage for display?
Are you one of those who buy pictures of jesus for your interior decor designs or even put him as your house wall hangings?
Did you buy your jesus from the antique store?
Are you one of those people who hang a portion of jesus in your car’s rear view mirror to act as a good charm angel for you while you’re driving?
If you are one of those people who bought your jesus from the antique store and you have him on your wall decor, you put him as your house hangings and your have a display of him in your counter stores, find it in your faith and remove Jesus from those counters.
Remove Jesus from your counters. Reject every false deities and all dead gods in your life.
False knowledge of the True Living God planges you into sinful association and leads your life to the wrong eternity. We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him.
Don’t be mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God is pride and God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
HERE’S THE LIVING TRUTH
Jesus Christ Is not some divine statue or divine luggage.
Jesus Christ Is not an old ancient and historical item perceived of beneficial monetary value.
Jesus Christ Is not a vintage collection item for artistic talent display.
Jesus Christ Is not believed to have only existed during a limited time era, or previous decades of generations of millions of times gone.
If you truly want to know the True God preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
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. Preach Jesus as the Christ, Son of God, Lord of all.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. For the LORD taketh pleasure in His people: He will beautify the meek with salvation. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
💓 Revêtez donc, comme les élus de Dieu, saints et bien-aimés, des entrailles de miséricorde, de bonté, d’humilité d’esprit, de douceur, de longanimité ; S’abstenir les uns les autres et se pardonner les uns les autres, si quelqu’un a une querelle contre quelqu’un : de même que Christ vous a pardonné, vous aussi faites de même. De même, vous les plus jeunes, soumettez-vous à l’aîné. Oui, soyez tous soumis les uns aux autres et revêtez-vous d’humilité, car Dieu résiste aux orgueilleux et fait grâce aux humbles. Humiliez-vous donc sous la main puissante de Dieu, afin qu’il vous élève en temps voulu. Que rien ne se fasse par dissension ou vaine gloire ; mais en l’humilité d’esprit que chacun s’estime mieux qu’eux-mêmes. Car l’Éternel prend plaisir à son peuple; Il embellira les humbles par le salut. S’il est possible, autant qu’il est en vous, vivez en paix avec tous les hommes.
🙏… whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.-
😇Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.-
🙇I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
🙏In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
😇And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
You’re not a prisoner. You’re not a captive. You’re not bound. You’re not lost. You’re not alone. You’re not unknown. You’re not a torment. You’re not condemned. You’re not rejected. You’re not forsaken. You’re not a disappoint. You’re not forgotten. You’re not bad. You’re not unloved. You’re not fatherless. You’re not defeated. You’re not cursed. You’re not doomed. You’re not a fallen. There’s plenty of God’s Faithful promises found in the BIBLE declaring your deliverance and freedom from sin, your deliverance and freedom from fear and your deliverance and freedom from many more lies that stop you from partaking in the available grace of God.
You are CREATED. You are WONDERFUL. You are NAMED. You are BLESSED. You are POWERFILLED You are CHOOSEN. You are God’s IMAGE.
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.
You are created wonderful, named blessed, powerfilled image! I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in You;
Speak God’s promise upon your life and everyday consider letting the movement of your heart to fully and forever TRUST in Jesus Christ our Savior. I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High. When my enemies turn back, They shall fall and perish at Your presence. For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging in righteousness. You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked; You have blotted out their name forever and ever.
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.
Plenty of God’s Faithful promises declare you healed and healthy this available morning. Kindly consider letting the movement of your heart to fully and forever TRUST in Jesus Christ our Savior.
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.
Kindly join us for ENCOURAGEMENT and Christian fellowship
GOD’S REST IS #AVAILABLE ! 🌺And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
GOD’S REST IS #SACRED ! 🌺Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
GOD’S REST BRINGS #SAFETY ! 🌺Then the ark rested in the seventh month, the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.
GOD’S REST BRINGS #PEACE ! 🌺Now it came to pass when the king was dwelling in his house, and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies all around, that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells inside tent curtains.” Then Nathan said to the king, “Go, do all that is in your heart, for the LORD is with you.”
GOD’S REST BRINGS #GLORY ! 🌺If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
JESUS GIVES TRUE #REST ! 🌺Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
REST IS A #REWARD FOR THE SAINTS OF GOD! 🌺And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have ~no rest~ day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’ ” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.”
The fourth reason as to why we have to read the Word of God as we come before God in prayer is that the Word of God is THE MANUAL OF GOD! In order to understand how to communicate with God through prayer, we as God’s children need to prayerfully study God’s Holy Manual which is His Word. The Word of God is God’s story of His love for us, for God so loved the world..
Just like there’s is need to carefully read the manual that comes with every newly bought gadget in order to understand how to operate it, we should similarly prayerfully read more and study the BIBLE so as to understand WHO God Is and how to communicate with Him in prayer!
“…the word of God abides in you, And you have overcome the wicked one.” “..These words are faithful and true.”
The third reason as to why we have to read the Word of God as we come before God in prayer is that the Word of God gives us Rest. True rest comes from God, because Jesus said..”Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
📖Find your rest in Jesus as you come before God in prayer.
✔TRUE REST COMES FROM JESUS CHRIST ALONE.
✔TRUE REST IS A PERSON.
✔REST IS NOT A FEELING. REST IS NOT A THING.
✔TRUE REST IS JESUS CHRIST!
As you prayerfully read the Word of God… Find your rest in Jesus
🔥Ezekiel 37:23🔥 Thus says the LORD…..”They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will *deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.”
Yes the living Word of God is powerful enough to deliver us!~ Remember how… Moses, with the elders of Israel, commanded the people, saying: “Keep all the commandments which I command you today…You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have crossed over, ‘that you may enter the land’ which the LORD your God is giving you, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey,’ just as the LORD God of your fathers promised you.”
The Living Word of God Sets free!
The Living Word of God Cleanses! The Living Word of God Purifies! The Living Word of God brings light! The Living Word of God Washes! The Living Word of God Heals!
Are you feeling lost and you don’t know where to put your foot next? Are you feeling confused and less confident about yourself lately? Are you sad that you are unable to see your hope for tomorrow?
Find your way in the Word of God. The Word of God Is powerful enough to lead you. The Word of God is intelligent enough to lead you. The Word of God is designed to LEAD! Prayer is a lifestyle. Prayer is a journey to God’s Holy PRESENCE! Prayer is a WALK with The Spirit of God that’s why you need someone to walk your spirit to where God Is. God Is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. Since prayer is a spiritual walk or spiritual journey towards God’s Holy PRESENCE, the only Person Who Is capable enough to bring your spirit to God’s Holy PRESENCE is The Spirit of God, The Holy Spirit Himself! The Holy Spirit will lead you because He understands the mind of God. The Word of God is living..For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. The Living Word of God lives in The Holy Spirit of The Living God. The more you prayerfully read the Word of God, the more The Word of God Leads you to where God Is. The more you prayerfully read the Word of God, the more The Holy Spirit brings you closer to God, close enough for you to see God’s Deliverance!
So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther.
And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!”
Then Queen Esther answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. For we have been sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king’s loss.”
So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?” And Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!”
So Haman was terrified before the king and queen. Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.
When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?”
As the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, “Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king’s behalf, is standing at the house of Haman.”
Then the king said, “Hang him on it!” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.
WHEN ONE’S LEVEL OF GLORY DROPS, DOES HIS OR HER LEVEL OF FAVOR DROP AS WELL?
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“DON’T WAIT FOR YOUR GLORY LEVEL TO DROP”
When a man habitually and repeatedly keeps relying for simple help from people outside of his own marital cistern is clear indication that the same man is said to be swiftly falling short of his glory as a man being the head!~
Application:
“..outside of his own marital cistern is clear indication that the same man is said to be swiftly falling short of his glory as a man being the head!~”
When the husband starts to repeatedly rely for simple advice on how to treat his own wife from his parents, or from his neighbors, or even from his colleagues, other than from his own wife, this stage is spiritually labeled as the drop-point of the man’s level of glory.
Your duty as the woman of the house is to pray for your husband and seek to win his trust back.
Be a great wife who supports her husband instead of watching her husband while he swiftly drifts to the other side of the “marriage bed.”
When a man starts to repeatedly rely for borrowed money from his parents, or his neighbors or so from his colleagues other than from his wife to provide for his wife’s needs and his own children, this stage of his life is spiritually labeled as the drop-point of the man’s level of glory.
Your duty as the woman of the house is not only to pray for your husband’s financial dream, or to pray for increase of his income sources!
Be a great wife who manages and supports well the readily available income and provisions that her husband is currently earning and bringing home and always live with the expectation of producing more financial folds from what you are presently given by your husband. Women are producers by default!
“…Women are producers by default!”
When a man starts to repeatedly rely for outside help from his parents, or from his neighbors or so from his colleagues other than from his wife in performing simple house chores like changing his car tyres, or assembling a newly bought T.V or Radio, or even so simple chores like changing diapers, this stage of his life is spiritually labeled as the drop-point of the man’s level of glory. Men are providers by default!
“..Men are providers by default!”
Your duty as the woman of the house is not only to pray for your husband to learn basic skills or to pray for your husband to learn how to be a responsible father figure to his children!
Be a great wife who supports her husband with encouragement and expectations of positive changes even when her husband appears to initially lack the basic skills that old cultures engrave!
Be a great mother who takes great care of her own children and who is responsible enough to change those diapers by herself!
To be honest I don’t know about you beloved reader, but for me prayer has always worked out in my life. Whenever I engage in prayer, I have the assurance of God’s Faithfulness! Either it’s a yes, or a no or a wait depending on the circumstance but prayer for me is no try and error but tried and true!
When God blessed me with the international job, my faith shifted from one level of glory to a higher level of glory. Not necessarily because of God answering my prayer, but in the process I learnt I can always depend upon the love of God from any deepness and from all angles!
However, the grievous mistake many children of God make after receiving answer to their prayers is to have an ungrateful heart. Yes I know. By now you are probably saying this in your mind, “no I always remember to say Thank You Jesus for the healing, or Thank You Father for your provision” and etcetera etcetera! But this is one mistake that we tend to so easily forget. “An overstayed comfort-zone digs a pit for ingratitude”
An Ungrateful heart can come in so many shades of color that unless one has the spirit of discernment, it is not easy to know you are being ungrateful as a believer!
Take for instance, there was this day years into my international job when I found myself asking out this question. “After the miracle, then what next?” The reason that prompted me to ask myself the above question is what I’d like to share with you in a moment.
“THINGS OF GOD SHOULD BE MAINTAINED BY GOD”
That particular day started out well and was so promising as usual until the spoiler came! I was busy minding my own, and by my own I mean meditating upon the Word of God while reading one of my favorite Newspapers, #TheStandard #KenyaNewspaper . It was tea break.
Then, out of nowhere, a colleague came up to my desk. Initially I didn’t give it a thought. Our office is a large hall partitioned in a way where one floor has like 12 office desks, so it’s the main con of this setup is there’s very minimum privacy, that’s why it was normal for a colleague to just come over to your desk whenever they wanted. However, being an introvert, I hardly encourage chitchat during office hours but like they say “In every marketplace there’s always a mentally challenged character walking around” and this particular colleague of mine was not an exception!
He came over, sat with all nerve at the end of my desk, leaned towards me with his charming smile like he was initiating some flirting, then out of the very blue instead of a kiss on my cheek, He slapped my ears with a very painful statement!
“Tit-tok! When are we going to celebrate your wedding Ms Christine. You are the only one who’s never carried a child in this office.” What! dude, are you now a walking alarm? I was not expecting it to say the truth.
And he said it a such a way no one heard what he told me but when I briefly looked over his shoulder, I saw 10 pairs of eyes all looking my way with deep anticipation as if telling each other, “let’s wait and see, any minute from now she’s going to burst out with anger!” I say ten pairs of eyes without counting the two of us and several eye glasses used in the office leave alone the security cameras! Every single person in the office was for a minute paying attention most probably to have a live catch at my reaction!
That’s the moment when I realized that there was some foul tongue of gossip that was circulating within the office floor.
*…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.* With no physical evidence, my spirit just whispered in me that there was some very bad wind of gossip that was blowing around the office without my prior knowledge. My new international job had apparently stirred up different jealousy levels at my new work environment while I was busy enjoying the blessing of job promotion, a spiritual challenge which I had overlooked out of clear ignorance!
*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.*
My miracle of the international job had apparently come with it’s share of “spring challenges” which are usually meant to keep us awake as God’s children. See, it is very easy for a child of God to start worshipping the gifts of God without knowing, instead of worshipping The Giver. It’s easy for any believer full of patches from past wounds to start worshipping the creation instead of worshipping The Creator! It’s very easy!-just like that!~
Years into my new job, I was drifting into zones of ungratefulness without knowing. A job that I had birthed in tears, a prayer moment with body fluids flow-out running out of my body in ounces to the tiled floor of my then bedsitter. This very new job was now swiftly and firmly receiving all my praise and attention more than The Giver of that job. “THINGS OF GOD SHOULD BE MAINTAINED BY GOD”
My reader what I mean by saying body liquids flow-out, I am politely referring to tears running down my eyes and there was some from my nose also but very little. So let’s be at peace knowing that the body fluids flow-out being referred to here is tears only, because as you are aware humans have several types of body fluids flow-out and the women have an additional body fluids flow-out for that matter!
Again, my reader, I am in no way suggesting that focusing on your job is sin, no. The problem caves in when you fail to understand what happens next after the miracle! When God answers your prayer, praise Him to the magnitude where you will hear your inner man echoing and being confident of this very thing, that He Who begun the good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. The Creator of the ends of the Earth neither faints not Is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases their strength. Even the youth 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. The level of strength which I used to birth my job miracle through prayer should have been equally proportionate to the level of strength I needed to “maintain” my miracle. Applying this simple spiritual principle in your life, it doesn’t matter which Formula you use to solve the riddle in here, “After the miracle, what next? the answer is = Depend on God.
After getting my international job through prayer, I was comfortable with the casual “Oh Thank You Jesus for the job!” kind of prayers and I considered it as coming from a grateful heart. See, our Father doesn’t just require us to thank Him and give Him Praise for all He has done with us, all He has done within us, and all that He does through us. God LOVES when we Depend on Him! The time I wasted reciting reprogrammed prayers to God after receiving the international job as the answer to my prayer, was enough time for the devil to stir up jealousy levels within my work environment!
Let’s look at it this way; No country will receive you with a visa entry bearing the name of a different nation other than the name of the host nation. For example, if you are traveling to Kenya, you require a Kenyan visa in order to be allowed into the country. You can never present a Bahrain visa at the Kenyan airport and expect entry.
One fundamental Truth states “The Things of God must be maintained by God Himself.”
The statement that my colleague whispered in me that day was so piercing that I felt the urge to talk to God about it. That day I waited till evening and when I arrived at home, I immediately went to my prayer closet and poured my heart to God. I remember crying heavily that evening not because of the judgemental words of my colleague, but at some point I knew it was time for a “spiritual combat” with my Father. I needed God to make me understand why I was being attacked! In other words, I was experiencing the “why me, where did I go wrong, and when did I refuse” momentous pullback.
Funny enough the my minute I became aware of The Immense Presence of God in my prayer closet that particular evening and that’s when The Holy Spirit begun to pour understanding in me;
” Evil words or negative words spoken to you from the MOUTH of the ungodly people may pierce you like fiery darts of the enemy or be as painful as the intramuscular syringe injection, but they can never be more powerful than The Word spoken to you by the MOUTH of God HIMSELF.” For The Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Of course after that incident at the office and after applying the wise counsel of The Holy Spirit, as we speak, that particular colleague of mine though he later apologized for his careless mediocre remarks that day, the damage was already done according to his wife. Days later after everyone else had forgotten about it, his wife is said to have woken up one morning after hearing their teenage daughter screaming in her bedroom.
When the mother went to check out her daughter and when she realized she couldn’t pin why their daughter was screaming frantically, she decided to rush her to their family doctor who after several repeated examinations on the child ruled it as aneurysms of the brain as the problem!
It’s a pity that the damage was already done according to my colleague’s wife, but on my hand that a close reminder after receiving the miracle, then I depend on God all the way! One thing I strongly believe is that I don’t have to wait until God “sends” me to His drawing board when I can freely agree to stay on board with Him to begin with.
“..NEGATIVE WORDS SPOKEN TO YOU FROM THE MOUTH OF THE UNGODLY..CAN NEVER BE MORE POWERFUL THAN THE WORD SPOKEN TO YOU FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD HIMSELF”
And if by chance you happen to have wondered away from His presence, can you run to God by faith through prayer after receiving the blessing in this post? And when you receive your miracle..depend on God all the way!
” AFTER RECEIVING THE MIRACLE, THEN I DEPEND ON GOD ALL THE WAY”
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