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With God all things are possible, but……..
If we believe that God exists without seeing Him, then why should we continue to restrict Him. We use our wisdom to reason God out, not being able to believe for an instant that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is also God! There are those who have simplified God by saying Jesus is God full stop because they cannot comprehend the varied awesomeness of God. So what of Rev. 21:22 or St.Mark 13:32?
God has made it possible for us to be promoted to the highest levels in his kingdom but how do we attain this? The answer is that we all have to qualify by doing His will. Most persons are just interested in saving their own souls, but rather than that being the end, giving your life to God should just be the beginning. Jesus Christ laid it out to his disciples in St.John 14:12, when He told them that greater works they would do than He did while on earth and in St.John 20:23, Jesus told them that they could remit (forgive) the sins of persons. In Romans 8:17 the Apostle Paul tells us that if we suffer with Christ we could become joint heirs with Him.
Isaiah 54 speaks of a woman called by God when she was forsaken, refused, grieved in the spirit and who suffered much affliction and was not comforted. Isaiah 54:17 shows the authority and the heritage that God accords His servants. Isaiah 58 shows that if we do the will of God, which includes fasting for the correct things, we are then treated royally by God.
Simeon who God saw as qualified because of the life he lived, could not die until he saw baby Jesus in the temple and bless God for him. Anna the prophetess who served God with fastings and prayers in the temple, was seen fit and proper by God to give thanks to Him for Jesus Christ in the temple. We must be encouraged therefore to strive for the highest position in God, being joint heirs with Jesus Christ.
You just cannot lose if you choose God
If you believe that God exists and you walk according to His word and if at the beginning of eternity you discover that He does exists, then what an exceedingly wonderful eternity that would be.
If you believe that God exists and in the end you discover that He does not exist, then all it would mean, is that you would have lived your life as a much better person and impacting others positively.
If however, you believe that God does not exist and in the end you discover that He does exist, then eternity will be spent by you in much heat and torment.
If today you would believe that God exists and start that relationship with Him, you would soon discover that He is real and that He loves you so much. It is better to err on the side of caution.
Father God, I pray for Your continued urging of Your people to do the right things, Amen.
Can God Find a Place in His Temple?
With the coming of Jesus Christ, there was a shift from the physical to more of the spiritual. God continues to use the physical things to instruct us in the spiritual things.
Why is there no more need for the ark of God, which contained manna, Aaron’s rod and the tablets with the ten commandments?
God has written His words on our hearts and has allowed us all to have our own testimonies. God is now using our bodies as temples, which has to be kept clean and in good order like the physical temples of old. The more we keep our bodies as temples onto God, then the greater the pleasure God has to dwell therein.
Father we thank you for another day and we pray that we will see a bit of your glory. Father we thank you for your people across this land in Jesus’ name. Father we continue to stand in your word and on your promises. Amen.
Giving
Who shall enter into His gates, he that has clean hands and a pure heart!
The precepts of God are all interconnected and are suppose to connect us to Him. The word of God instructs us to give, and it is in that giving that we shall receive. So we should not give and then make demands because we have given! Neither should we expect it.
In the ‘Our Father’ prayer, God instructs that if we do not forgive those who have trespass against us, we should not in fact expect to be forgiven ours against God. So if we are not willing to give then we are in serious trouble.
For there is no greater love than he that would lay down his life for a friend. The question is how much of us would be willing to do this right now? Jesus Christ did!!! He has given the most. How much do we think we can give? Are we willing to give the very thing that we believe is necessary to save our lives, like the woman who gave of her last meal to Elijah and then her miracles came?
Father help us to understand these precepts and apply them to our lives in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Being Organized Helps
All of us have problems remembering things we need to remember at times. So to get by more efficiently in this stressful world, we need to set up little systems and encourage habits that can help.
1) Organize yourself from overnight as best as possible, putting things you need to take to work or school together. If you drive, put your car keys amongst the stuff you need to take with you, as you cannot drive away without your keys.
2) If you are travelling long distance, try packing your bags a day or two early. Charge phones and pack away chargers from the day before you travel. Reverse the process when you get to the other end. Leave behind things which are not necessary to take along, that way you cannot leave them on your return trip.
3) Try and be as current as possible with the various task at home or at work. The more you do today the less you will have to do tomorrow (don’t put off for tomorrow, what you can do today). (a) Make notes of the things you must do, strike them off your list as soon as they are done. (b) Multi-task at home. This is accomplished by combining two or more task that require varying levels of continuous attention. An example of this would be to wash the dirty dishes or prepare the drink while cooking. Another example would be to rake the yard or wash the car while filling your drums or tank with water.
4) Try and be at least a half an hour early for any event. If you are being offered a lift to anywhere, then you should be ready and waiting on the person. When travelling with others, you must first identify what time you need to arrive at your destination, then subtract the total number of hours that it will take the group to be ready for travel. Subtract also your travel time and the half an hour you had given yourself to be early. This should give you a reasonable point at which to start preparation.
Father I pray that as your children, we will adopt to survive, that we will not be too lazy to think or too bound to move! Almighty God, while it is an asset to be able to function under pressure, it cannot be applauded to be a last minute person. Father in the name of Jesus, I pray that we will not be so stubborn that we cannot change, but rather that we will be malleable clay on the potter’s wheel. Father we thank you for your Word in Jesus name. Amen.
Getting Rid of Demons
Let Your people be not destroyed for a lack of knowledge in Jesus Christ name, protect their minds, cover them completely as You edify in Jesus Christ name, amen.
Video of demonic possession: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF-vKrYyqOY
After watching a youtube clip of a deliverance service in Nigeria, I thought again about demonic possessions and how the devil will use such persons to destroy the lives of other persons and even churches. Some points from the clip to note are :-
1) that in that instant, possession started from before the birth of the child and continued afterwards ( that is why it is important to pray for the unborn child so God can be in control of it from in the womb).
2) that the manifestation took place during the service when the man of God tried to pray for the person.
3) why was the delivered man instructed or allowed to burn the dead chicken and the remaining witchcraft items which caused him to be struck by the dumb and deaf spirits? The burning should have been done by someone else.
4) it must be noted how sustained persistence is used when deliverance is carried out.
Back in the year 2005, a woman started exhibiting strange behaviour during a praise and worship session one Sunday morning at a church I use to attend. Her action was that of a slow gyration while walking up to the alter and back down the isle, while constantly attacking the Pastor verbally. I prayed earnestly with the help of some brethren during this attack. I attempted to lay my hands on the lady which she did not allow. The sad thing for me was that during all that was taking place, the Pastor pretended not to see or understand what was happening and therefore offered no assistance or leadership in dealing with the situation. I can now say that my attempt to deal with the situation at the time was weak and inadequate.
Not all of us would have been predestined, called or sent. Not all of us will be given the same gift(s) or levels of anointing but for those of us whom God have purposed in a particular or peculiar way, we must learn to engage as we travail and travel along. Romans 8:21-23
For if you were chosen to be a soldier of Jesus Christ then I pray for great courage, strength and endurance in Jesus Christ name. A soldier should never be feeble or faint hearted. 2 Timothy 2:1-4
Hard Facts for a Hard Life
We are all living in increasingly difficult times so we need to accept this and prepare ourselves to endure. We just cannot escape the ever increasing taxes or the high costs on food, fuel, electricity, water, etc. Irrespective of how much we earn, it is possible to spend it all. And no matter how small the pay is, it is possible to save some. For most persons, what we earn is never enough to cover all the expenses so we prioritize and then we prioritize some more until some of the items at the end of the list get burnt.
On the 1st of January 2013, NWC (National Water Commission) locked off water to our area in Westmoreland as they thought it necessary to supply only the tourist area of Negril. The total lack of piped water would continue for the next four months. During this period my wife would travel with some five gallon pails in her car and which she would take back full of drinking water from the town of Savanna-la-mar (she had to do all the lifting). I work work out of town and is only home on weekends. On most Sunday mornings for that period of time, I would put a couple of drums in the back of a pickup and take them to a spring where I would fill them with buckets for washing purposes.
For the entire four months period, my wife and myself along with my last daughter would hand wash all the dirty clothes. This activity would occur on a Saturday or a Sunday morning. The important revelations in all this are as follows:-
1) Things sometimes have to be removed forcibly for us to understand and agree with God or our brethren.
2) There can be much financial savings if we remove a particular thing from our list even if we think we can’t do without it (during the period we saved on water and electricity)
3) In the coming years, we have to decide what to give up or what not to buy so as to enable us to function better, we have to take the tough decisions.
4) More of us need to start cultivating food stuff for consumption.
Father I pray for people in this time, in this hour, for strength and courage, in Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.
Doing God’s Business
There is no perfect moment, place or time to do God’s business, when you are on the road to perfection (God). If you wait to see all things in place before you move, then you may never move. All that is required of us by God is to believe that he will take care of us and that if He says so, then we are to move…..now!
So if there are no resources, we are to move. If there is constant pain in our bodies, we are to move. If there is wickedness all around us, we are to move. If there is unbelief around us, we are to move. It is not by might but by your Spirit God Almighty and faith without works is dead. Move Lord move, move across this land…. and across this world, in Jesus Christ’s name, amen.
Remove the Stone
Psalms 130:5
I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Psalms 127:1
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Psalms 125:3
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity.
Remove the stone Lord and resurrect Your people. Remove the stone and let us live….. Amen
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
From as far as I can remember, persons have often suggested that in the story of Adam and Eve, the reference of them both eating the forbidden fruit, was speaking to Adam and Eve having sex. My question is therefore, if the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was representative of Adam and Eve having sex then what was the tree of life representing? Gen.2:9. I will suggest that since Eve ate the fruit first and then gave to Adam to eat, that this could not have been sex as they both did not eat at the same time.Gen 3:6.
In Gen 2:8-9 the Lord God planted a garden on the eastern side of Eden and out of the ground He made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. So these were actually fruit bearing trees and had nothing to do with sex.
Originally, man was not created by God with any intention for man to die (Gen 2:17), and in fact man could have eaten of the tree of life and live forever at that point. Having committed the first sin (that of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil). God had to keep man away from the tree of life so He could redeem man before eternity arrives Gen 3:22-24.
Lord help us to listen, to hear and to believe, in Jesus Christ’s name, amen.