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..”
Living in sin is simply allowing death to bite your life bit by bit. Don’t sin! Don’t hide sin! Don’t cover sin! Don’t entertain sin! Don’t glorify sin! Confess that sin. If we confess our sins He Is faithful and just enough to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
Sin brings a deadly bite to ones life… 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.
Good mornings fam.
Wow talk of instant #answer
to #prayer :
#yesterday evening I was upset little..I overheard someone talking so negatively about me. I tried to ignore it but the person kept talking and telling those he was with more and more and making fun of me…I was somewhere else but was in a position to hear..I guess he was intentional. The careless type of jokes,, you know. So I chose to move a bit far away from them..rather than go and confront him..besides it was late in the evening, and who’d want to end their day with an argument.
Then, Later in the evening when I was about to sleep , I decided to pray about the issue and I remember binding, rebuking the spirit of intimidation, etc.you know…in my mind I knew this was devil working through him trying to intimidate me..
But surprisingly this morning I woke up with the intention of binding the same spirit because I knew that I was going to bump with the same person again today, but I found myself THANKING GOD for everything…and even *him😒*
And beloved friend..what do I say…this prayer #God answered instantly.
Minutes after finishing the prayer…the very same #person came looking for me and and before I could tell he joined me in my #breakfast
We talked a lot.. .of course he did most of the talking and while in that moment..The #Holy Spirit made me realized that GOD IS ALL …ABOUT LOVE.
Fellow #believer let us #walk in the LOVE of God.
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OF course giving is a command from God yes, however, giving is neither a short cut to God nor a justification before God! ..the poor in heart shall see God be holy for the LORD God Is HOLY!
“I #pray that God continue to fight for you who is #online here and…
reading this #prayer post tonight. Through and through oh God let Your MIGHTY hand never leave their lives, but continue to guide them oh God. I pray that the power of the blood of Jesus Christ that works in my life even tonight be extended to this person’s life in the MIGHTY name of Jesus Christ. Let Your name alone be exalted in the life of this person reading the post and Lord usher them into their next level of anointing in the MIGHTY name of Jesus. The plans you have unto them who love You SUPERSEDE the evil plans and wicked traps of the enemy. Nothing catches YOU by surprise oh God and it is not a coincidence that this person is reading this post at such a time. We need YOU oh God. This person who is reading this post needs YOU my Father. Intervene on their behalf tonight. Let Your face shine upon their life through to the coming month of September in Jesus name. You have been faithful and YOU Are faithful enough to bring us through to a new MONTH! As we enter the month of September by faith, Lord silence every voice of fear and doubt as Your PRESENCE goes with us even before us into #September. You have not given us the Spirit of fear, but of power, love and of sound mind. Fear of disease and sickness is defeated in the MIGHTY name of Jesus. Every demonic fear is rendered powerless in the MIGHTY name of Jesus Christ. As we enter the Month of Jesus, we declare it The MONTH OF THE LORD. Thank You Father for it is in the MIGHTY name of Jesus we pray believing!”
You are heal in Jesus name you who was crying out loud for God to heal you!!!! #amen
🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇 It’s better to appear like a fool whenever you PRAY about everything today than PLAY with mortal understanding of what the future holds in the inside of you! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
” #religion and #sugar are BOTH not good for your health! They both make you age faster than your ordained speed of aging! “
“..Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church.
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
Jesus our good Shepherd always seeks to save the lost sheep…remember the parable of the lost sheep? The shepherd left the entire herd and went seeking for one lost sheep!
Jesus Christ came to seek and to save that which was lost.
This word *save* reminds of the time when you want to #save a file or document for storage and future reference, you simply click the “save as” command displayed on the screen. When you click the *save* command in computer operations, it means that the file to be *saved* is of importance and to be used again.
Jesus came to seek and to *save* …because He has plans for you..
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I think towards you, “says The LORD “plans of peace and not of evil to give you hope and a future.”
The Lord wants you to know about the kind of plans He has for you because “outside of His plans, you are bound to fall
1. into plans “that lack peace” and worse still You might fall
2. into “plans that are evil” and then end up
3. into “plans that have no hope” and definitely You might settle up
4. with “plans that lack a future or plans that have no expected end.”
He beckons you to allow Him to do what He’s good at; seek you and *save* you.
You may wonder why Jesus wants to save you? The truth is BECAUSE GOD’S NOT DONE WITH YOU YET!!! You are worth of His saving because you are the sheep of His pasture.
Jesus The good Shepherd will not throw His hands up in the air and say, “After all it’s only one tiny little sheep that has wandered away!”
Jesus The good Shepherd will come calling because He’s a good Shepherd enough to know that His sheep hear and know His voice.
Trials and Temptations may wear you down to the point of lagging behind in the journey of salvation. Jesus The good Shepherd wants you to hear Him calling you “come to Me all you who are weary and heavy 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.
He amazingly CARES for his own sheep. Cast your cares upon God, for He CARES for you.
That’s why Jesus wants you to know Him as The One Who SAVES because Jesus Christ Is The good Shepherd!!!
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”
– Face your challenge with hope. – Face your challenge with trust – Face your challenge with strength – Face your challenge by Faith – Face your challenge fearlessly – Face your challenge with Optimism – Face your challenge with grateful heart. Face your challenge with God’s viewing points..because He ALREADY HAS A GREAT VIEW OF WHAT IS AHEAD OF YOU. “My hope trust in God, for I shall yet praise Him.”
Good mornings friend.. Wow talk of instant answer to prayer: Yesterday evening I was little bit upset. I overheard someone talking some negative things and lying about me. I tried to ignore it but the person kept talking and telling those he was with more lies and making fun of me. I was somewhere else but was in a position to hear..I guess he was being intentional. So I chose to move away a bit far from them..rather than go confront him..besides it was late and who would want to go to bed with a heavy after and argument! Certainly not me. So, later that day, in the evening when I was getting myself ready to sleep, I remembered the incident and decided to pray about it and I remember binding, rebuking the spirit of intimidation, etc. But surprisingly today this morning I woke up with the intention of binding the same spirit because I knew I was bound to meet with the same person again today, but I found myself THANKING GOD for everything including even him😒, that very same person who was talking and lying about me. I’m in awe of this God beloved friend because this particular prayer God answered instantly. Minutes after finishing the prayer this morning, the very same person came looking for me and joined me in my Breakfast table. I was still taking my breakfast so I willing allowed him to join me. As we continued with the breakfast, we talked a lot ..and it was after our conversational moment, that God made me realized that HE IS ALL ABOUT LOVE. Fellow believers, today WHATEVER YOU DO, walk in the LOVE of God.
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