You are tired of that situation! You have a desire to get out of that huge debt! You are living in condemnation and man made damnation and you have now begun to realise that there’s nowhere left for you to go. You are pressed by loneliness from all angles and today you have no choice left. Time is watching you with curious eyes for your next move since your situation has compressed you into despair and hopelessness. You have tried to handle that situation from every angle with no avail yet there’s one surprise awaiting you if you pay more attention.
That corner which your situation put you into is one angle of the cross of Jesus. The cross of Jesus has four angles that meet up to make a cross! Guess what! There’s no corner of life where Jesus Christ can not reach you! Forsake you sorrow and embrace the cross of Jesus. There’s life at the cross of Jesus.
I speak life into your situation. I speak life. You are here on Earth to live. You shall live and not die. It doesn’t matter the situation. I speak life. You shall live and testify growth after growth.
I speak joy into your situation. Unspeakable joy shall be experienced in your workplace and your home. The joy of The LORD is your strength. It doesn’t matter how your situation is intentionally mocking you and how your past is effortlessly compelling you to stay in sorrow. You shall experience unspeakable joy with extreme victory over victory. You shall experience unspeakable joy.
I speak an overflow of abundance to you and your children into your children’s children. Abundance of riches shall sit and lay in wait for you in every way you go. No eye has seen nor has it entered into the heart of man ‘the blessing’ that The LORD has in store for them who love Him.. In Jesus Name it shall come to pass.
-Be kind to other people. -Help those near and beyond. -Support as much as possible. -Smile and laugh to heal souls. -Love and hug to bring growth. -Give daily and cheerfully. -Forgive for your own success. -Cultivate attitudes of gratitude -Appreciate so as to add value. -Detox from unhealthy habits. -Take a rest in a day -Be empathic. -Show understanding.
If you incorporate these beautiful attitudes and life principles in your daily living one Living Truth will stand out to you * IT IS IN GIVING THAT WE RECEIVE AND IT IS IN DYING THAT WE ARE BORN TO ETERNAL LIFE*
Always pay extra attention on how you dress up anytime you are about to leave the house. This is because when you decide to dress well before going out, that decision alone contributes greatly on how you will be received when you arrive at the place where you intended to go!
So, how can one ensure that they always dress well before stepping out? The answer is very simple. Just make sure that you are not dressing in a dark room! Make sure your room is not dark else you won’t be able to check out the condition of your garments. It doesn’t matter whether you arranged your garments the before night, when the time comes for you to dress up, there’s always need to check your garments again before dressing up. That final check up greatly contributes to your dressing up properly.
Every believer ought to get rid of the darkness in their spiritual walk with God. In order to receive the garments of righteousness, believers must abandon sin and embrace righteous living. Believers must pay attention and take good care of how they put on their ‘spiritual garment’ if we are to be conformed to the likeness of Christ.
The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.
Don’t be too knowing always, learn how to dress up well ❤️啕.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
It takes you little energy to ready your clothes for the next day by washing, pressing or folding them as compared to the much energy you’d apply while trying to explain yourself to others why the shirt is missing a button or why your blouse has a bad odour.
Always dress up well because any believer who has mastered the right way to dress up properly confidently agrees that it is God that girdeth them with strength, and maketh their way perfect ❤️啕.
When you master the art of dressing well and dressing properly, it will be easier for you to dress up for any occasion without any problems. Proper dressing hardly calls for expensive numerous outfits. It is a matter of understanding your personal body and identifying that which complements your body.
Always dress up well and in case you don’t know how to dress up properly God Is faithful enough to teach and guide you through the indwelling Presence of The Holy Spirit. Psalms 32:8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with Mine eye.
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.
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.
Shalom! Your are next to receive something amazing either coming your way, or coming back to you!!! 甆甆甆甆甆甆 Whatever demonic force that was holding your blessing back no longer has power over it.
See God moving on your behalf!
Don’t be discouraged by the emptiness or the lack of it!
“See God moving at the BEGINNING of it and at the END of it!”
See God moving on your behalf!
“Don’t be discouraged by the emptiness or the lack of it” (Ps. This is not an empty plate, there’s a knife placed on the plate…See beyond the obstacle)
It was beginning to pour heavily and crowds were already dispersing. Everyone was rushing to find any near shelter that was available to hide from the heavy rainfall!
Everyone except the bride and the groom! All the guests were in such a hurry to shelter from the rain or so it seemed. No one was remembering that despite the rains there was a wedding ceremony that was taking place!
The reaction of his guests however did not catch the newly weds by surprise. The estrangement that people were beginning to pour towards Levis was undeniably obvious. Just the other day he was a widower and it is the very same people who came to offer him their sincere condolences that mostly were in attendance at the wedding on that day and their reasons for coming were so obvious. Few were actually here to celebrate with Levis his sudden life commitment!
Majority of the people who were in attendance at the wedding had come to confirm the fast spreading rumours about his wife’s death. Apparently, it was flying around that his late wife’s death was not an accident as reported. Something crucial seemed to be missing to solve the puzzling death of Mackey.
Was it actually an accident as reported by Levis and his family or Mackey was indeed murdered? To begin with, Levis and Mackey were one happily married couple which could be best described as a match made in heaven..
“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven…But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father Who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.” Lessons derived from Matthew 6:1-4 are quite many and diverse and one of those lessons is persistence in #faithfulness . Persistence by itself is not bad especially when used for the right reasons and right intention. In the Old Testament we read more of the kings who were persistent in wrong reasons and had wrong intention which ultimately led the nation of Israel to sin before their God. These kings were persistent in the sins of their fathers who had reigned before them. On the other hand when persistence is out for all the right reasons, breakthroughs are inevitable.
Reading Matthew 6:1-4, Jesus simply points out that we ought to remember the prior factor that God CREATED human beings with two hands for a reason. (Highly likely is that God’s desired will for every human being is to operate with both hands.)
…when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing…meaning
Your left hand is supposed to be busy doing something constructive while on the other hand
Your right hand is supposed to be busy doing something constructive as well.
“AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHERE PERSISTENCE COMES IN” @christinekimaita
Be persistent in faithfulness and persistent in your ACTS OF MERCY.
If both of your hands are busy doing something constructive, neither of your hands will have time to find out what the other hand is doing because both hands are working simultaneously towards accomplishment of the desired goals of the owner of these two hands.
The other thing to factor in is that JESUS is clear to point out that these charitable deeds are (meant) to be done before men…plural of man! When you set to fulfill the humble call of MERCIFUL ACTS to help out men (people) , you’ll realize that the calling is so overwhelming that you simply can’t afford to sit down and brag about your act or start blowing up your trumpet on how many friends you’ve helped #today how many strangers you’ll feed #tomorrow !
When you set out to do something to #help others especially when you’re not expecting them to pay back, or they are not in position to repay you, then once the first project on your left side is done, turn to your right side and find out who else needs your help and do the same.
God CREATED you with two hands (literally speaking ,) that when you are busy working with your one hand, you use the other (extra hand ) to reach out to your neighbor who is in #genuine need of help, or reach out to the needy in the #society and less fortunate with your other hand!
Meanwhile back to our narrative, people were yet to come to terms with the rude reality that Mackey was no more. Exactly a week after her burial here was her husband remarrying..! What really happened to poor Mackey is a whole chapter filled with encouragement and hope for the broken heartened, and a chapter that is to continue shortly…(stay blessed!)
“..YOUR FATHER WHO SEES IN SECRET..WILL REWARD YOU IN OPEN..”
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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