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.
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!
..(HERE’S SOME GOOD REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD LOVE YOUR OWN LIFE..)
Love your life!
🌴🐏🌴🐑🌴🐏 🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥🚥 Life is not a bed of roses! Life is not a smooth journey! Life is not a game! Life is not a joke! Life is not built overnight! Life is not a one day’s journey! Life is not a walk in the park! Life is not black and white! Life is not fair! Life is not a parallel take! Life..(continues) 🌴🐏🌴🐑🌴🐏🌴 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 Life happens! Life has ups and downs! Life is complicated ! Life is a guaranteed hustle! Life has it’s share of throws! Life is difficult to comprehend! Life..(is to be continued!) 🌴🐑🌴🐏🌴🐑🌴 🚣🚣🚣🚣🚣🚣🚣 Life is good! Life is sweet! Life is great! Life is above! Life is knowledge! Life is freedom! Life is rewarding! Life is a blessing! Life is divine! Life is eternal! Life is..(a continuation) ⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽
Love your life and believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name. With GOD in your life, you win every battle in your life. With God it’s a win win always. Love your God-given life and live a God-driven life always!
” #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.
Don’t be in hurry to start your day without seeking God for His guidance!
Pray that God gives you His guidance and ask that The Holy Spirit brings discernment for everything.
Whenever you pray be hopeful that God will provide wisdom for you for every step you take and expect His guidance as He promises, “I will teach you in the way you should go. I will instruct you I will advice you!”
When you desire to walk closer by God whenever you start your day, God’s Holy Presence draws near to you and your life will eventually be reflecting the fruit of The Holy Spirit.
“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” seeking God’s Fatherly guidance whenever you start your day ensures that His plans upon your life and His own Will upon your life and God’s Desired Will upon your life, will prevail and will remain!
Let your walk with God today bring a positive impact and possible difference in someone’s life in Jesus Name!
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!!!
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.”
If you want to receive something in life then always go by the principle of giving. This is one of the most powerful and true principles of right living that any person can apply. Three years ago, I received a job with a nonprofitable organization and it required me to leave my home-country and move to a totally new country for me. Though I viewed this as one of my dreams and prayers having finally come to fulfillment, on the other hand I was a bit reluctant to accept it. I knew that by accepting this job offer I was going to abandon everything that I had in possession including all the assets I had accumulated. Actually, my accepting this overseas job meant, abandoning everything and moving to a new place and starting afresh. Starting all over again! Abandoning my friends, my house, my assets, all investment and leaving my neighborhood which I had grown so familiar with. Be it a material need or emotional need, the principle of giving, once applied will always work! It will prove to be true regardless of status, race, tribe, ethnicity, gender or religion! Personally, I believe in this principle since God Is also a Giver. God so loved the world( that is you and me) that He gave His Only Begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Giving away my all was a very hard and painful decision for me, but today I’m glad I made that decision because now more than ever, my eyes of understanding have received tremendous enlightenment and my Faith in God’s WORD has grown.Why I’m saying it was a hard decision for me, is because relocating to another country and another continent required a huge sum of money of which I was short of then. On one hand I didn’t want to lose my golden opportunity to better my life while on the other hand I was reluctant to leave my country and my people.But all in all I made up my mind and I finally sent my answer to my new employer and we set the travel date to exactly 6DAYS from the day I agreed to go. The following day I woke up quite early since I knew I needed to start my preparations and packing up my household items and see how I’d move them to a close relative so he may store them for me. One thing led to another and then just a day to my travel date I had still not finished packing my things! Pressure and panic begun to mount on the inside of me and I decided to make some calls to seek help . First to my greatest disappointment, I amidst shock learnt that the relative I was hoping to take my things had an emergency journey to far place and he explained he just couldn’t help much. I managed to call couple of friends who inevitably refused to help with reasons only known to them. I felt so betrayed because here I was thinking everyone was going to be exited about my new job and help me in every way, but that was the time I knew that there are “some roads” in this life I just have to walk through them alone and by myself. I was so discouraged that I decided to lock myself in my house, shut all my electronic gudgets and just talk to God about it and hear what He had to say.I prayed reading my bible for some minutes then I decided to continue packing what I could manage because I was beginning to feel sleepy. After doing a few boxes I threw in the towel and went to bed telling myself what will be will be. The following morning as expected I woke up early and when I was coming from the bathroom after taking my shower, I had a knock on my door. I wondered who that person would be because visitors were the last thing I needed that morning. I quickly dressed up and proceeded to open the door. To my greatest surprise, I saw my landlord standing outside. After exchanging greetings, he went on to inform me that he had received a tipoff that I was moving out and he was surprised why I never informed the office. I explained my reasons knowing I was leaving 2months house deposit with the housing agency office and because the job offer had come at a short notice, I forgot to inform him. He seemed not be upset and explained that he had a suggestion that made him come over that early. He further asked me if I was willing to sell my household items to him an idea which I immediately refuted! Seeing I was not interested, he politely asked if I had any of my old clothes to give his daughter who was almost my body size. That’s when I remembered the promise I made to his daughter some years back when he came to welcome me as his new tenant with his entire family. His daughter was the one who prepared some fresh juice on my behalf and I was so happy with her character that I told her I’d give her some of my old yet in good condition clothes and shoes. A promise which I had forgotten to fulfill. I hurriedly started looking for few clothes to give him and suddenly a voice whispered in my spirit. “When was the last time you gave to the needy?”I knew this was The Holy Spirit prompting me to give cheerfully. I managed to find almost a dozen clothes of which he was very grateful and left hurriedly. I sat down and began asking myself some questions. Where was I taking all these things? It is too late to get someone to buy any of these things now. Besides, I remembered that my employer had informed me I’d be living in a fully furnished company house. Why don’t I just give away everything then call my new boss , tell him what I had done and hear what he’d have to say! That’s exactly what I did! I hurriedly called my pastor and explained to him that I had some assets, some household items as well as used clothes and shoes, bags full of house items and I wanted them to be delivered to the church for the less fortunate. I also told my pastor that my business should be handed over to the church and if possible to find any hardworking and responsible youths in the church who were unemployed to be assigned to handle it. Initially I had earlier instructed my shareholding company to channel all my shares dividends into my parents joint accounts of which was done without delay!. My pastor after praying with me, he sent some few brethren who came to collect all I was willing to give and after they left, I felt somehow relieved and peaceful. My boss on the other hand texted me asking me not to delay as I was the one he was waiting for. My decision did not seem to affect him instead he was more pleased upon learning what I did. After finishing everything I proceeded to the airport at around, 6pm that evening. I had more than enough time on my side but I just wanted to be early for check in. My hour finally arrived and I boarded safely. The flight was peaceful and uneventful all through. The minute I landed at the airport, that’s when I knew if you want to receive something in life then always go by the principle of giving. My boss had not only sent a driver to pick me but, I was received by a brand new red Mercedes car! A new Mercedes which few minutes later I was informed it now belonged to me! As if this was not enough, when I arrived at my new house, everything was fully furnished! I was so much surprised. I asked the driver why I was never informed about all these surprises early enough and the driver simply said that my boss was still checking whether I was the right person for the job and the minute he heard me tell him I had given away all my household items to the less fortunate, he announced to the whole organization that I was definitely the right employee he was looking for, a cheerful giver! In my spirit I knew the Word of God is living! Give and it shall be given unto you good measure,pressed down, shaken together and running over will be added to your bossom. The giving here is not just categorically on monetary terms. It can be giving a smile , giving material things, giving forgiveness, showing acts of mercy, etc. As I speak about it today, The Holy Spirit of has never stopped reminding me the words of Jesus, ” if you remain in Me and my words remain in you, you will be able to ask anything you want as you pray biblically and it will happen. I have realised that this principle requires one to have Faith as well. Give expecting to receive! That is what is meant by givingcheerfully, rather than giving in a boastfulheart! A cheerful heart will give in wholesome, out of obedience and in love whereas a boastful heart will tend to pay attention to self always! Truth be told it is not because of my sacrifices, God Is Who He says He Is, faithful God. His Word is True! Today as I share this, I have received wonderful designer clothes I never expected. For me I knew that I was going to work and buy myself new clothes! I have received a car of my dreams which to this day I’m still in awe of this miracle! The kind of shelter which God has given me through the hands of my new employer, has made me fall in Love with My Jesus all over again! I give God all the glory!
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