He is Taking us There...!

He is Taking us There...!

As 2015 runs to its end and 2016 starts we need remind ourselves that our God remains the same through the change from season to season.

He is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.  He is the Author and the Finisher of our faith. When He lays a foundation you can be sure He will complete it. He is the beginning who has no beginning and the end who has no end. He starts good works in us and He is always faithful to complete it every time. Phil 1:6. He has no abandoned project, He has no incomplete building and when you walk with Him, you don't get to a dead end. When you walk with Him, a highway is always made, mountains are crushed, valleys are filled, crooked ways are made straight, rough roads are made smooth and everlasting doors lift up their heads...

Everlasting doors are those generational limitations that keeps people on same spots as years come and go...but such doors aren't good enough to stop the Alpha and Omega... When He starts a journey with you, arriving at destination is sure...

He took the children of Israel out of Egypt and definitely, in spite of all the challenges, He brought them in to the promised land, not minding the giants, the red sea, the wilderness, the snakes, the bitter water and all...Yes it will always take miracles but that's normal with God... He brought us out not to abandon us on the way but to take us in to the land He promised, the desired haven, the broad and wealthy place. Deuteronomy 6:23.

He had taken us out of the Kingdom of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.. Colossians 1:13

Now, the beginning may be small but the end shall greatly increase. He won't take you to a lesser place as destination, even if you pass through a worse place. He won't deliver from the Power of darkness and take into another bondage. He won't remove the heavy burden to bring in heavier ones. He won't take you from Egypt without removing the reproach of slavery... The path of the just is as a shinning light that shines more and more to the perfect day... God is taking us somewhere...and He'll get us there...

Men may ride over our heads, we may pass through water and fire but He is bringing us into a wealthy place...

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 66
12 Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.

What God started in us in 2015, He will bring it to perfection. The things He will be starting with the beginning of 2016 too, He will also complete...

We should make sure we join His train, He will lead us in the path of righteousness into the still waters where He will set a table before us in the presence of our enemies and whenever we stray into the valley of the shadow of death, we should remain connected with Him.. He will deliver...

Commit your way unto the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass...

Committing our ways to Him means turning over the driver's seat and the steering wheel to Him...definitely we'll arrive safely...

Get ready for a glorious 2016...it's going to be a happy new year...

Our Heavenly Citizenship

Our Heavenly Citizenship

It's amazing how we got to the point of being either of Apollo or of Paul in a revival of segregational denominationalism in the body of Christ. While being committed to Christ with a focus derived from a local church is quite needed, that should be pursued with caution so as not to create division in the body. The truth is that many of us are already too deep to even recognize that there is an anomaly in the pursuit of sectional membership in the body of Christ.

The new creation and the process of the new birth that brought about the former were targeted towards creating a new breed of people, a new race different from the races already here.

With sins forgiven, a new heart and a new spirit given, with the laws of God written on the tables of the heart and the Holy Spirit given to indwell this recreated temple, the person becomes different from who he or she used to be and different from whatever race that brought him or her to life.

This is being born again as different from being born of the flesh. He that's born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

This is the promised new covenant for the new Kingdom and a people different from those who have existed before. This is the only way into the new Kingdom where the will of God is done with the power of God.

[My Offline Bible] Galatians 3
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

[My Offline Bible] Colossians 3
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 1
22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

[My Offline Bible] Galatians 6
15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

This is the protocol of the Kingdom of God. There isn't any segregation based on any earthly difference within the body and the Kingdom of Christ. Christ is not divided. You are my brother and sister, we are members of same church no denomination and no earthly nationality can separate us, we are citizens of God's Kingdom and members of His family!

It is good that our consciousness towards our citizenship of the Kingdom become stronger. It is clear that we sometimes hold our membership to our denominations, our citizenship to our earthly nations and so on more importantly than our citizenship of heaven.

We pay more attention and we show more commitment to these earthly attachments than to our citizenship of heaven. These earthly relationships are more real to many of us, even if they often betray our trust and commitment than the citizenship we have in heaven.

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 1
5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

We must make the consciousness of our citizenship of God's Kingdom stronger, we must be conscious of our pilgrimage here and it's transient nature. That's the only time we can enjoy the fullness of what the kingdom provides. We have acceptance in the kingdom of God.

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 2
18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. 19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

[My Offline Bible] Philippians 3
17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an example. 18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

The New King James Version and other versions rendered the word conversation in verse 20 as citizenship...

We are citizens of heaven, we are the earthly part of the heavenly family of God, members of the family and Kingdom of God and we have responsibilities, we have our rights and our privileges based on how powerful and superior our Kingdom is in taking care of her citizens... I won't trade this with any lesser arrangements except such is actively promoting this... To this end we were given the new birth and the new creation...

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians  3
14 For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

We were not redeemed, recreated or reborn by the Spirit of God to enter into an earthly kingdom or a religious denomination but to enter into the kingdom of God...and to enjoy the Power of God in doing His will and pleasure...

Meditate on these child of God...

Good morning, Happy Sunday! Compliments of the season!

For the Man of God after Today's Service

For the Man of God after Today's Service

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 23
15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

[My Offline Bible] Luke 15
10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 18
19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

Church services have ended in most places, pastors, Church leaders and administrators are going through the data collected to rate the services and to plan for the next meetings...

Some don't need any data... They didn't have more that two or three upon all the efforts put in and they are feeling miserable wondering if they were called, wondering if God was in the service at all... Many of these have had to give out the offerings for welfare, and how much is even the offerings? With head bowed like Elijah under the juniper tree some are thinking of quitting, others are psyching themselves in faith, some are wondering if they had not missed their flight of destiny...

Discouragement is rife...in that job and many don't even appreciate it...

But is that discouragement justified?

If Jesus Christ would be comfortably present where two or three are gathered in His name worshipping in truth and in spirit what is it that makes such uncomfortable to us? If He who owns the system would be comfortable with a sinner's repentance why are we who are just helping hands be uncomfortable?

If the angels in heaven are rejoicing over the person who makes a turnaround because of your message today and God Himself is excited about it, why is it that it's you that's feeling bad?

Maybe it is not Him you want to please but the society or yourself...

Maybe you want to have an achievement different from that of Christ...

So long you aren't making those few people twice the children of hell but you are helping their faith in God and inspiring the renewing of their hearts towards life transformation,  God is excited and heaven is rejoicing and God's reward for what you have done is on the way...

Most importantly rejoice that the work you have done hasn't removed or blotted out your name from the book of life...

It is when you gather people and what you do is not helping people towards heaven rather making them twice the children of hell that you really need to worry...if you are rejoicing over that, you need to know also that heaven isn't rejoicing...you need help!

But if you are in obedience and you have gathered your two or three in His name, and not in the name of self aggrandizement and self seeking, know that Christ was there and your prayer is heard...

And WHEN you become hundreds or thousands don't be carried away into making people children of hell...

Keep gathering together in His name, ensuring that you maintain being the temple of Christ and His Spirit, and not a tent of wickedness...and not be carried away by the statistics!

Remain blessed, more strength man of God...

Give your Faith a Stretch: Possibility is Accessible!

Give Your Faith a Stretch: Possibility is Accessible!

Satan will battle you to that point where all natural principles will fail, where the smallest succor is an impossibility and the way out is like walking on water...expecting that you give up and die...

But that's the moment for miracles , the perfect atmosphere for the supernatural, the perfect moment for God to perfect His strength in our weaknesses...at that time something must give in and it won't be God and it shouldn't be you...you are just at the hour of breakthrough...

That's the time when your faith becomes relevant, that's the moment your faith has been waiting for, that's the moment to walk on water, the moment to turn water to wine, the moment to move the mountains, the moment to make the impossible possible, the moment for little to be multiplied to feed many, the moment to roll away the stone and call forth the one already certified dead...

That's not the moment to cow or bow to the antics of Satan, that's rather the time to step out of the boat of unbelief, complacency and fear and step on the waters by the promises and the Power of God's Kingdom and walk in to your victory...

When the natural fails you, when the physical disappoints, when human strength and power come to an end, don't allow the devil to tell you that's all that's there to help...that's the time to call on God by faith and connect with omnipotence to engage the supernatural to deliver the miracle needed in the name of Jesus Christ.

It is possible, what's needed must be provided if not through physical or natural means it will be through spiritual or supernatural means...and God is waiting for you to take the step of faith into the waters and see it part ways for you to move on into the promises of God... God is waiting to hear you speak that command of faith in Christ's authority and see the mountain move, God is waiting for you to declare 'peace, be still' and see the storms calm down... God is waiting for you to stop worrying and stop being anxious but to rest in your faith in Him...knowing full well that whatever you had committed to Him in prayers, He is already on top of it...

It's time you got your faith engaged, not walking by sight, not depending on your own strength, not permitting past failures to create a sense of impossibility, not allowing fear to cripple you but being motivated by the word of God and His Spirit unto the fullness of God's plan and purposes for your life...

It is possible! Good morning!

Kingdom Compassion

Kingdom Compassion

While Jesus taught and preached about the kingdom, His actions and attitudes were driven by compassion. Of course, His advent, His life, His ministry, His death, resurrection and ascension were expressions of the Father's love and His too.

[My Offline Bible] John 3
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus Christ changed the game by moving us from loving our neighbors, to loving our enemies but beyond that to loving not as we love ourselves to loving as He has loved us.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 5
43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? 47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? 48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

That's the reason why John the beloved told us by the Holy Spirit that if you don't have love and show it, it is not sure that you are born again...

[My Offline Bible] 1 John 3
14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

This is the kingdom life! Where through compassion the strong supports the weak not necessarily indulging them because we still have to tell the truth in love.

In fact, whatever we do outside of love, not motivated by love, not mediated by love is sin...

Ministry must be motivated by love for it to be of Christ. The lifestyle of Christianity isn't about how much we can pray, preach and do miracles.....it is about how much we can show Christ kind of love.

We may have relegated the love lifestyle to the background because it takes from us and makes us look weak and vulnerable. We don't want to look weak, foolish, and we don't want to be taken advantage of...

The flesh doesn't want that... But the recreated spirit that the new birth gives us doesn't achieve self importance and satisfaction by exerting himself or by how high or how much it attained but by how much it can give and release...

This is the precursor of the peace in God's Kingdom, it is the precursor of Kingdom prosperity, it is what makes our spiritual efforts and ministry count... Otherwise whatever we do is a waste...

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

The revival of love is  the revival of true Christianity ...it is in that that we show enough compassion that'll cause the grace and power of God to flow freely to do miracles beyond our wildest imaginations, not for show or superstardom but to meet needs in love and then we would have good enough right to challenge the erring telling the hard truth in love...

It's unfortunate that this kind of love is stood up against even from the pulpits...it's easier to support selfishness, subtle pride, oppression of the weak and so exalting the flesh as each seek his own and not the things that make for the building up of all...this supports our self aggrandizement and establishes the class culture of the world in church... Where we love our own, those who are like us and those who please us...while the others wouldn't even find space in our minds being burdensome... This isn't the spirit of Christ and a waste of Kingdom resources...

We should reassess our belief system and exorcise worldliness and it's covetousness to seek Christ acceptably and so preserve our souls...

When we show love and give to meet someone else's needs...we aren't doing such person a favor, we are only showing forth the real person God had made us...

Good morning!

Don't Choke the Word

Don't Choke the Word

The realization of the fact that the message of Jesus Christ is the proclamation of the Kingdom of God amazes me when I compare that to the main focus of our quests today as followers of Christ.

The quest to eat and drink, the drive for what to wear, ride, where to live, and cares of other things are clearly choking the seedlings of the kingdom in many hearts.

Since these aren't exclusively offered by the kingdom and obviously not the main focal point of the message of the kingdom, keeping them at the top of our life's shopping list has taken a lot off the path of seeking the kingdom of God.

As we head to church this morning we ought to ask ourselves if we are doing all these to seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness or we are out to use the system to seek either our own empires or our selfish dreams and desires.

Hear again the parable Jesus shared on the preaching and hearing of the word of the kingdom...

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 13
19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.

20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended

22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

The care of this world and the deceitfulness of riches would never permit a church goer to make profit from hearing the word of the kingdom...no matter the anointing with which the word was preached, the resident focus on the things unbelievers focus on as value will choke the word of the kingdom.

Meanwhile what we should do is simple...

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 6
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Don't seek what the world seek, know that the Father has your welfare in mind, seek His kingdom and His righteousness and He'll make sure He adds these things to you...

As we go to church today, let's by faith hand over all anxiety to God, focusing on the kingdom of God and doing the will of the King...

The additions won't fail...and the word of the Kingdom will bring bountiful harvest!

Redefining the Sharing Formula

Redefining the Sharing Formula

Some few days back I wrote on God's Kingdom Finance: Freely Receiving, Freely giving and the reviews have been interesting. To some it sounded as if I was encouraging idleness and dependence. To others it is an unsustainable system, others think it is just not natural.

I believe in work. From the biblical standpoint which I believe as true, work is not a result of the fall of man in the garden but the fall of man dealt a big blow on man's working system and it's outcome. God told Adam what he had caused and its effects on his labor and sustenance. God worked. Six days He worked in creation and had to rest on the seventh. He made man on the sixth because He needed someone to till the ground in order for the seeds created to grow as He water them.

He created man to continue where He had stopped and I believe He equipped Him with the same tools He had used to create the world.
He made man a spirit being like Himself and covered him with a dusty body. Man was not made a body, but a spirit with a body as covering. He was a living soul in the likeness and the image of God. His spirit was the toolbox carrying the
authority and power to do what God did in continuation and maintenance. He was like that until he fell to the trick of the devil, died spiritually, lost his dominion, became flesh and discovered he was naked.

The consequences are that he would now have to use his body and not his spirit as tool to labor. He would now have to eat from his sweat. He would now labour and toil instead of work with the earth not responding as it should, he would do that in suffering, pain, in sickness and disease until he wears out his body which was not cut out for such labor and eventually dies and returns to the dust from where the body was brought ab initio. Genesis 3.

Isn't that the reason why when people invest in their bodies to work, they have to depend on those who invest in their inner systems, their brains and souls to make anything worthwhile happen? And most times earn less than those with more developed minds than bodies?

Now, we realize that the result of labor of man in accessing world's wealth for sustenance would be based on each man's strength and advantages. The result can't be equal to all. It will be the survival of the fittest. It would not be based on inner character but on outward strengths and advantages. So some would eventually take more than their hundreds of generations would ever need while others would have nothing, probably absolute nothing because they aren't strong enough either mentally or physically to struggle to tap from the resources God put there for everyone legally and illegally. And that's why over 80% of the wealth of the world is in the hands and control of less than 20% of its population who still wants more...

Definitely when God created the world in the beginning it wasn't meant to be so. He put all the wealth in there for all who would eventually come. Everyone has his share but not many can access it when it's already being possessed by a stronger one who now rents it back to him with heavy pay. This is the root of all evil...

When God decided to go for a new Kingdom, He has a plan of redemption to take us back from this satanic system which for now we can't do without being jammed together here, to a new Eden, where His will is done and His structure works. I'm sure we'll still work there but not toil. Our bodies won't be the tool, our spirits will be and authority of our words will reign supreme to create change that brings satisfaction.

Work won't be for sustenance it'll be to create change that'll bring satisfaction. Work won't be to make money and the energy to work won't be physical.

But for now what do we do with the depth of iniquity and inequality that we cannot do without in strength and in different privileges and advantages each of us has.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 8
13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened: 14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality: 15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack. This is how the kingdom of God in the now would operate to justify the difference it brings. If we continue in the selfish and the greedy system of world's wealth distribution we can't justify our difference and claims of being submissive to the Lord Jesus.

Money belong to someone between mammon, the spirit and 'Caesar', the man and as they sit on the top of the pyramid they share unequally as everyone works for them in a closed world financial system where the runts must die and the strong is even enslaved to work for them, the 'wise' ones... May God give us understanding!

Work is our commitment to pursuing purpose and positive change from the potentials God has given us towards seeing satisfaction. God worked to create positive change and made sure He didn't stop until He saw what He made as good in satisfaction.

Work isn't making money. Work isn't labor. Many are born into the advantage of so much inherited wealth that makes mockery of working for money again...but such privileged people would still have purposes to pursue in life to find satisfaction and meaning and do the reasons why they were created by God and born into the world. It seems our poverty sends us to the labor market and not our pursuits of purpose.

Purposes and pursuits aren't always financially viable. A freelance teacher in the remote areas of African poor countryside wouldn't make any money in comparison with the smallest insurance salesman in an average US city. But the teacher may be pursuing her life's purpose while her salesman twin sister in the US may not even be pursuing God's purpose for her though she makes so much money.

So barring laziness and lack of discretion we remain at different financial strata by default and until we learn compassion and free giving we can't break out of the labor and burdensome system of sustenance the world operates on.

God doesn't need money, God doesn't need our help for His sustenance, people do. When we show compassion in contrast to what the greedy system of the world demands and give to bring equality to bear we break the system and bring God's Kingdom here on earth, we shine the light of heaven on earth and become salt to this tasteless world's system.

Those who follow Christ should justify their following Him by allowing the love shed abroad in their hearts to manifest in giving freely without feeling cheated or trading by expecting something in return from those they did good to.

They should seek equality and not class or caste system which are alien to God's system, they should learn to be unique in our difference instead of conforming to the system of the world in the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life....

Good morning!

God's Kingdom in the Now

God's Kingdom in the Now

Studying around God's Kingdom from the gospels and other scriptures, so much is being revealed to show that though to the disciples are given to know the mysteries of this Kingdom, very little has actually been known or taught of this phenomenon that brought about the essence of salvation and the new birth.

The hope the message of the Kingdom of God brings is something worth looking forward to but are we? It's understandable as we have seen the kingdom of this world as the ultimate and are mesmerised by the advancements in this present world.

However, the happenings in the present world should get us thinking. The violence, the wickedness, the evil and the temptation to join the band which have all defied the scientific and academic advancements that thrill us in humanity.

God offers us a Kingdom where righteousness and peace reign, a Kingdom where a good king reign and the people rejoice.

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 29
2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 32
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Yet, the Kingdom has come and those who are born of the Spirit and of the Word of God are already delivered from the alternate kingdom of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

Here at the present time however, the two kingdoms are growing together as wheat and tares which Jesus told of in the parables, the goats and the sheep, the fishing net with all sorts of catch and in so many other parables He told of the Kingdom. We are both lumped up here at same time in the same space...though for a while.

The essence of this is that the full manifestation of either of the two kingdoms cannot be seen in the logjam as they withstand each other from full manifestation of their potentials. [My Offline Bible] 2 Thessalonians 2
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

Each of this kingdoms as at today, has the capacity to manifest to some level and the world would enjoy it or suffer it as the case may be. But while we are still here we are the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

That's the reason why when Jesus Christ taught us to pray, He could only ask that we pray not to be led into temptation and to be delivered from evil. This is because for now temptations still abound and evil can't be prayed away by reason of the other kingdom, their king and the evil and unjust principles upon which it is run.

But our own kingdom offers us a way of escape to whatever temptation the  kingdom of darkness offers and provides deliverance from any evil organised against us.

But we keep our gaze on that day when evil and temptations won't exist again. When violence shall not be heard within our borders again, when the total separation would be effected and the harvest would have taken place.

But for now, we grow together. The little leaven kept in the dough is growing Matthew 13:33. The little mustard seeds is growing to become the greatest of all trees Matthew 13:31-32, the blade and the ear of the planted corn is out and the full corn in the ear is about to be harvested Mark 4:26-29. The fullness of the kingdom of God is about to be revealed...

The birth pangs are here and Christ, the king of the Kingdom is about appearing, the signs are here, our harvest and separation is close.

But while we are still here we enjoy the ambassadorial exigencies and bring to bear the practice, the power  and the glory of the Kingdom we belong within this no man's land, ruled by a god who didn't create it.

We enjoy the power and  the glory of the Kingdom yet to fully manifest as we live by its constitution and righteousness. We enjoy the health care system provided by the stripes of Jesus Christ, we enjoy the economy provided and demonstrated by Christ,  an economy powered supernaturally, we enjoy the peace as He left it for us not as the world offers through unattainable and unjust treaties and agreements. We enjoy its longevity where a child dies at hundred, and subdue the enemies of God's will under His feet. We enjoy the security of the Kingdom today being delivered by the power of God from the evil one, His agents both spiritual and physical and his violent works.

The Kingdom of God is worth looking forward to. Because it won't be business as usual when we are totally separated. The light and the salt will be missing and the hold back the church offers against the man of sin would be removed. Darkness will display the fullness of its fury against those who out of unbelief refused salvation and the way into the Kingdom of God.

The good news is that we have the Way to life... Jesus the righteous, would you follow?

Good day to you

God's Will and God's Power

God's Will and God's Power

God is a God of purpose. He works with reasons. Faith in His omnipotence requires that we have a good understanding of His operational systems to avoid disappointments.

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 1
11 In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

People often would do anything to place demands on God's omnipotence but it's good we understand that God's omnipotence is for a reason and that only that reason would trigger it.

The essence of God's power is to accomplish His will. God's power exists to satisfy God's desire. Omnipotence is that parochial.

That God can do anything doesn't mean He wants just anything, what it means is that nothing will be impossible to Him within the context and content of His will.

His power exists to accomplish His will and to satisfy His plan.

God's ultimate desire is to establish a new Kingdom where righteousness dwells. The reason why Jesus taught us to pray asking for His Kingdom to come and His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

The establishment of His Kingdom being His ultimate desire is the ultimate essence of His power. Nothing shall be impossible in His quest to establish that Kingdom.

The Kingdom is established in people submitting to the Lordship of Christ, the king of that Kingdom and by so doing, such a person connects back to the original destiny and plan God has for Him or her and omnipotence is released to accomplish that which God had prepared for him or her which is activated by simple faith according to time as programmed.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 2
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 3
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us...

That's the reason why whenever we pray in line with the will of God with a desire that falls within divine program for a place, people or an event within its ordained time no power stops such from coming to pass.

[My Offline Bible] 1 John 5
14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

That's why we must be in tandem with the Holy Spirit at all times in order to understand what the will of God is per time and to know those things that have been freely given to us of God and so make our prayer lives as effective as God desires.

When all that move us to the place of prayer are only our desires and what we perceive as pressing needs without a good perspective of what God's program is per time through the Spirit of God we create a system prone to power failure and we waste precious time and efforts.

But when we are moved by the Holy Spirit, we pray in line with God's will and no contrary power can stop that from coming to pass.

[My Offline Bible] Romans 8
26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

We can create a ceaseless flow of omnipotence in our lives by keying into God's program and will for our lives. By that we live ceaselessly in the power of the Kingdom dominating every other power and kingdom and establishing the Kingdom of God in our lives.

We must keep in mind that God's will is the reason why God's power exists. Without His power in operation His will cannot be done on earth. And because His ultimate desire is that His will be done in order to establish His Kingdom, He has released power enough through the Holy Spirit to bring His will to pass in line with His program, which includes the destiny He has for everyone who believes and walks by faith in Christ Jesus.

His power works with His will and not with our will... Our own will will require our own powers and so is any other person's will including Satan's and when we submit to God's will our own powers or weaknesses give way to His omnipotence to accomplish His will and make all things work together for our good...as we walk in faith and patience.

Being born again presumes that we are walking within His will and not in our own will as triggered by our lusts and societal demands and standards. When we live up to such standards of God's will nothing becomes impossible which is within His will.

Enjoy the power... Good morning.

God's Kingdom Economics: Receiving Freely, Giving Freely

God's Kingdom Economics: Receiving Freely, Giving Freely...

Jesus was asked if it was right to pay tax to Caesar or not. He asked for the coin and asked whose image was on the coin, the answer was, 'that of Caesar'. He said, give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's. That ordinarily tells us who controls what. We could see from that that God doesn't know about our currency, God doesn't spend dollars or any such currencies but not only that, it is good to know also that some individuals under the power of mammon are in charge.

We saw that when Jesus sent His disciples out without pursue, He still went ahead to tell them not to trade with the power He gave them to propagate the Kingdom.

Kingdom Finance isn't earthly currencies based, though being here on earth, with the mix up of the kingdoms both of God, of Satan and of men, you can't do without currencies and that's why Jesus said we should give Caesar what belongs to him and to God what belongs to Him.

And so Kingdom Prosperity can't be measured or based on money or earthly currencies. Isn't it instructive that amongst the richest in the world Christians are minority? Isn't it instructive that Jesus Christ wasn't the richest person on earth while He was here? If His kingdom's finance was Caesar's currency based He would have been the richest being the King of that Kingdom.

And He was duly offered to be the richest on earth by Satan: if He could fall down and worship Satan, He could have the Kingdom's of the world and all the glory thereof... It was a bait... Such exchange would have been foolish but it would have made Him more influential and acceptable to the world at the expense of His own eternal Kingdom.

Today, the church hardly knows the difference anyway. We can hardly recognize Mammon if he comes to town dressed in a garment made of dollars, pounds and euros. They would rather worship him and call him God.

That's why our mentality of prosperity is based on amassing wealth through trade as opposed to getting our needs met through grace.

Jesus Christ put us above money when He commanded saying freely have you received freely give. We can't see freely receiving as a possibility and so freely giving isn't possible. We have all become traders. We give only when we are sure of receiving and so we cut ourselves off the milk and the honey flowing freely in the Kingdom.

How did Jesus Christ's need got met? He wasn't always having money and when He had the money it was not possible to buy what He needed but never was He ever stranded. He always got His needs met without having to trade anything.

And under the power of the Spirit, in the early church, no one lacked anything, everyone shared what he had and that remained the hallmark of the demonstration of prosperity in the body of Christ till date.

The prosperity messages of today do not take such sharing into cognisance, it has gradually slipped back into trading even where giving is meant to power Prosperity and the result is clear... Many will still remain poor!

We cover up with the excuse that we all should work or rather trade...and so we merchandise our gifts and opportunities and return to the base carnal phenomenon of competition and the survival of the fittest. And we do all to outwit each other, deprive each other, and rob each other if possible to get by.

We become money ruled! I speak of the church of God today!

We can't seem to be able to receive freely so we can't possibly give freely and we believe we are still within the boundaries of Christ's Kingdom.

While life without trading is absolutely impossible in the natural, life without giving absolutely shuts one out of kingdom's economy. The worst is to target other children of God under the guise of ministry to do business.

We must understand well what it then mean to walk by faith in God's grace for prosperity. It is beyond the ability to trade well, we don't need Christ becoming poor to get that, it is the ability to create a flow beyond trading from heaven through freely receiving and freely giving.

Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? Can God plant a garden for a child of His as Eden? Can God add to you all your needs as you seek His Kingdom and His righteousness? Can God still multiply bread and fishes? Can God still provide without trading?

Can God open doors of opportunities beyond your capabilities to make money even when it seems impossible? Can God give you beyond what you can possibly work for without having to steal? Yes God can?

Can God move you to give and meet the needs of every needy around you? Yes, He can?

Will you listen or trade with God's opportunity? That's for you to answer!

If we are yet to follow the basic principles of the early church prosperity achievement we are yet to get the true prosperity of the Kingdom of God.

When  we get it, we'll see God demonstrating again in our day all those supernatural ways Christ got His own needs met.

Adequate money to meet present needs would be found in fish's heads and in unusual places.

Loaves and fishes and other insufficient supplies will multiply to feed many.

Needs will be met without having to depend on Caesar's currency.

And the Kingdom of God will rule amongst men again in our midst.

But before then, we'll have to cure ourselves of this present antagonistic nature towards freely receiving and freely giving. We'll have to learn not to trade with things we are sent to give. We'll have to learn not to allow our lusts to rule our economy...

God help us...

Living in Godly Sincerity

Living in Godly Sincerity

Good morning folks. It's our church day. Majority of Christians are heading to church or already there. And it's good we do not neglect the assembling of ourselves together.

I am really having issues with so many heading to church today but who also won't mind doing anything even if not in line with Christ to get along in life.

Had a disturbing discussion with my brother, who also is a minister and a lecturer in a renowned nondenominational seminary here in Nigeria.

How Christians cheat in exams, even in organised manners. My brother had to take some external exams and had a first hand experience of such. In a whole class with majority Christians and very loud and zealous ones for that matter, he was the only one who stood against an organised exam malpractice and he was badly confronted for that.

I have seen Christians doctoring documents to apply for visas, with so ridiculous things as changing dates of birth and so on...

In the civil services, you can't trust the date of birth of anyone. Based on many people's date of birth they must have had secondary school education in their mother's womb...

And all these without remorse or repentance. We go wrong once in a while but you don't make same mistake twice. But that's if we see such falsification as wrong.

The scriptures says all liars will have their part in the Lake of fire. But how many believe again in God's standard of doing things?

Folks, our difference as Christians shouldn't be in name or in attending church Sunday mornings but in living a life of total submission and dedication to the Lordship and righteousness of Jesus Christ.

If you worked hard to the level your ability and you trust God enough for success, you don't have to go into any exam to cheat, you already know your life is in God's hands, pass or fail. He has a plan for your life.

If you don't have what it takes to obtain a visa to a country, it simply means God isn't sending you to such a country. That's not where God's present plan is for you. And if it is, there must then be a legitimate way of going about it, if you will pray and find out from experts God will make a way where there's no way.

I dread having to travel abroad on false information to go and preach the gospel of Christ, how do I stand and preach against evil there? Would I have agreed that God can't make a way when I still preach miracles?

And how would God think about such?

Some believe if it is for a good cause, a lie isn't bad... Such an idea puts doubt on everything we believe..because it means the whole Way of Christ may just be a cunningly devised fable to control and achieve carnal and selfish ends.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 4
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

We must renounce hidden things of dishonesty, we must refuse to walk in craftiness, we must cease from handling the word of God deceitfully, we must manifest the truth and so commend ourselves to the conscience of the world.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 1
12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

We must build personal testimonies around simplicity and godly sincerity and not around fleshly wisdom...out of which our lifestyle and character must flow as Christians.

What God doesn't give you, you don't have it. Where He hasn't brought you, you aren't there, the level He hasn't given you will bring disgrace and it's of no use...

You can't look physically pious with wickedness and lies in your heart and expect divine approval. God looks at the heart and not the outside. We aren't sent to be as the old religious order that Jesus Christ described as whitewashed sepulchre filled with dead men's bones...

We must be true and sincere.

Are you carrying a fake certificate? Are you living a lie? Have you lost the real you through falsification? Have you traded your destiny with fleshly wisdom and 'wayo'?

God is calling you to repentance and I am advising restitution. God loves you and you need to make your way right.

If you are locked and entangled in a falsehood system it's time you unlocked yourself... Come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord, touch not the unclean thing. You are like Lot in Sodom and your spirit is being vexed daily by the errors you see... Run for your life before it becomes too late.

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 1
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

We must cease to do evil and learn to do good... At home, in our neighborhood, at work and in church, we must live out the virtue of Christ and His Kingdom... If we name the name of Christ we must depart from iniquity and unequal living....

[My Offline Bible] 2 Timothy 2
19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

Good morning.

Key to God's Kingdom Economy

Key to God's Kingdom Economy

God took the Jews from a 430 year slavery in the then Egypt, to the freedom of a homeland of their own, albeit through a wilderness. A type of the movement of God's people into a Kingdom where the will of God is known, recognised and is done.

The land God chose for them was one which flowed or flows with milk and honey, a land with mineral resources and a modern Eden...

[My Offline Bible] Deuteronomy 8
9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper. 10 And thou shalt eat and be full, and thou shalt bless Jehovah thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

That showed us today the nature of the Kingdom God is bringing us to. The land that is taken cared of by God Himself, a Kingdom where you can freely give because you have freely received Matthew 10:8, a Kingdom where you can sell all you have to purchase Matthew 13:44-46...

The Kingdom of God isn't like the kingdom God delivered us from, where it all depends on the survival of the fittest, where resources are scarce with only a few controlling the largest portion and the 80% left to scramble for the 20% or less remaining resources...See how it was described...

[My Offline Bible] Deuteronomy 11
10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs; 11 but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven, 12 a land which Jehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

This is the type of the Kingdom of God that Jesus Christ offers, a place where God cares directly as a good and compassionate Father King.

No wonder, Jesus said...
[My Offline Bible] Matthew 6
28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

When we allow God rule over us and not money.. This is what happens. When God's will is done in our finances we bring God's Kingdom to pass in our economies. When we serve God and not mammon, we enjoy the abundance of God's house.

Mammon is the tool used by Satan to control the Kingdoms of this world where scarcity is artificially created to cause people to be enslaved to money.

But when we serve God and not mammon, seeking His Kingdom and righteousness, we connect with the financial dominion of the Kingdom with contentment and without worldliness, greed, selfishness or more covetousness, ruling over money and not money reigning over us and the promises of the Kingdom can be ours today just by the grace and power of God.

Such grace is described here...
[My Offline Bible] Deuteronomy 6
10 And it shall be, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee, great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not, 11 and houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and cisterns hewn out, which thou hewedst not, vineyards and olive-trees, which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt eat and be full;

In this Kingdom of God, God is planting for us a garden like in Eden, He is bringing us to a 'country' He founded and built by Himself and we can count ourselves strangers in the land
of economic woes of this world, something better is reserved for us and we should connect with that by faith!

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 11
9 By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose
builder and maker is God.

When we seek that Kingdom just as Abraham sought his...what Jesus said concerning our sustenance comes to pass filling us with abundance and joy unspeakable full of glory!
Good Morning!

Thy Kingdom Come 2

Every time a sinner turns to the blood of Jesus in repentance to be washed a major spiritual victory is won. Luke 15:7&10

Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. The blood of bulls and goats can not wash away the sins of mankind since it is written the soul that sins should be the one to die. The wages of sin is death. Lev 17:11, Hebrew 9:22, Psalm 50:13, Hebrews 10:4, Ezekiel 18:4&20, the blood that would wash away the sin of man must be of man, and the blood must be without sin... Jesus, the Lamb of God is the one who takes away the sin of mankind John 1:29&36

Repentance is a prerequisite for being born again. God must first wash away and forget man's iniquity before removing the heart of stone to put the heart of flesh to write his laws upon it and to give man a new spirit carrying His own very nature, a series of process called being born again by the Spirit and the Word of God.. Matthew 4:17, Mark 1:5, Ezekiel 11:19, 36:26, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Hebrews 8:10. This is the new covenant that ushers in the Kingdom of God and the new order where people obey God and do His will.

This is the message Jesus of Nazareth came to proclaim and ratify by His death and resurrection as the Messiah Christ, and so open the way for man, in reconciliation, to have personal relationship with God as Father who shares His nature with us at New Birth.

This is the gospel good news, this is what Christ made disciples to and this is what we are sent to raise disciples for Him for and not mere building organisations and raising structures not better than perishable edifices which may turn tents of wickedness if the will of God isn't done therein.

This is what the authority and the Power of the Kingdom is for and not for personal aggrandizement. And that authority and power we must explore and engage as the battle of the kingdoms become fiercer daily.

Jesus Christ sent His disciples at different times to go proclaim the Kingdom and every time, He sent them with power Matthew 10:.7:10, The Kingdom of God is in power if it must be established and increased. 1 Corinthians 4:20, Isaiah 9:6&7.

The disciples were empowered to heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead, cast out demons and to do all that freely.

The power of the Kingdom as prophesied came by the exalting of Christ with all things

Thy Kingdom come

Thy Kingdom Come...!

What was Jesus Christ's message on His mission to the earth? We must always identify with Him on that message otherwise whatever we say or preach in His name may not hold any water.

We must also be clear on the mandate so that we would not work, walk or war in vain.

Jesus came to declare the Kingdom of God, a new citizenship for whosoever desires it and to demonstrate the power of that kingdom.

Satan took Jesus to a very high mountain and in a moment showed Him the kingdoms of the world and the glory thereof and asked that He falls down and worship him in exchange for the kingdoms of the world and the glory Matthew 4. Meaning, we live in a world ruled by Satan with the aim of killing, stealing and destroying and sponsoring evil in every form. John 10:10, 2 Corinthians 4:4

Jesus didn't bow and wasn't given the kingdom of this world, rather went about preaching and teaching the good news of the kingdom where God rules, its advent, its coming separation and its principles. Reading through the gospels and the parables, its clear enough to see.

When He taught us through His apostles to pray, He told them we should pray that God's Kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. I see that as a declaration of war on the Kingdom of the world and its glory. Or how do you explain calling for another kingdom to come where one is already existing?

He said the Law of Moses and the prophets where until John, the Baptist but since then the Kingdom of God is preached and people are applying pressure to enter in, and it suffers violence and the violent take it by force. Matthew 11:12, Luke 16:16

He declared that if He in demonstration cast out devils by the finger or the Spirit of God then the Kingdom of God has come unto us, He declared that the kingdom of God is within us. He declared that it is the Father's pleasure to give us the Kingdom. Luke 11:20, Matthew 12:28, Luke 17:21, Luke 12:32.

And to see and to enter the Kingdom, a person would need to be born again by the Spirit and by the Word of God. With a new spirit and a heart of flesh as against the stony heart, to accommodate the law and the Spirit of God within.

An operation done in the spirit as one believes and submits to the King and to the Kingdom.

Everyone who passionately desires the will of God to be done in his or her life and in his or her world is a seeker of the Kingdom and to such the power of the new Kingdom is given to do the will of God: this power is called the grace of God, The demonstration of God's omnipotence and authority in the impotence and the powerlessness of man to do or actualize God's will on the earth...

If God wills it He will power it, If His will must be done and if His Kingdom must increase and be established... Isaiah 9:6&7

We shall explore that later...

Seek the Kingdom and His righteousness...

Good morning, Happy weekend!

Overcoming the World's Economic Adversity

Overcoming the World’s Economic Adversity

What is the provision God made for the present economic depression in the world for His children?
That was the point of discussion at The Bible Class, TBC yesterday as we started a series on True Divine Prosperity.

First we will need to understand the present economic depression to adequately find the solution God has given.
Since 2010, when the so called bubble burst, the world has been trying to recover and it is doubtful if the recovery will be possible before the return of Christ.
This is because the depression itself is part of the events that will happen at this end time due to the conflict between the spiritual kingdoms and powers, with the earth being the battle grounds and at the receiving end.

The sequential troublesome happenings of the end time is documented in revelation chapter six. And it is obvious that at a time it will take the form of financial hardship that will make food scarce but pleasures cheap.
In Revelation 6:5&6, opening the third seal, the black horse emerged with the one on it holding a pair of balances and food became expensive but wine and oil were left unhurt.
In verse 9, the fifth seal was open to reveal those who died as a result of the persecutions that will come.

The interpretation is simple, the economic downturn will soon take the form of Christian persecution, whereby those who hold the word of God will be at the receiving end of the economic problems.
The mark of the beast for instance, in Revelation 13:16-18, will deprive those who wouldn’t receive it the chance of buying and selling; those Christians who refuse to receive the mark or worship the beast will suffer the inability to access the economy and the amenities provided by the system if they escape beheading. Re 14:9&10; 19:20; 20:4

We are sure that a falling away is coming. And this will be as a result of the hardship at one end, the pleasure that will almost be free in the world and doctrinal manipulation of Christians. The hardship will push away from Christ while the pleasures in the world will pull away with the doctrinal manipulations bringing confusion and unbelief in God’s word.

In 1Timothy 4:1&2, apostle Paul prophesied of the falling away; some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing and lying spirits and doctrines of demons resulting in seared consciences as with hot iron.

The prophesy came again to the Thessalonians, in 2Thessalonians 2:3&4, saying the day of Christ won’t come except there be a falling away first and the revelation of the man of sin, who opposes all that is called God, sitting in the temple of God and showing himself as God. That opposition of God is taken out on those who hold on to God’s word. This man is the antichrist whose spirit is already in the world.

2Timothy 3:1-4 shows the same prophesy concerning the end time, where amongst so many other evil traits, men will be lovers of themselves and lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. He called that period, perilous times.

Apostle Peter in 2Peter 3, prophesied concerning the coming of scoffers in the end time, asking for the proof of the promise of Christ’s return in verses 3&4. As at today, the scoffers are already here as prophesied but they will show up soon in the church with wrong interpretations of scriptures backed up by new translations of the Bible created to deliberately blur or blot out the truth of Christ.

With the pains, the pleasures and the distortions of scriptures and prophecies, those who aren’t properly prepared will hardly stand.

But what can we do and what is God’s provision for us?

What we have to do is to return to our strongholds which we have left for a while. The supernatural is our home and our strength. On that platform Satan has no legal rights or authority over us. And even in the thick of the persecutions of the antichrist, the supernatural provisions for the believer provided by the love of God, sustained by the faithfulness of God, accessed by faith and actualized by the power of God will remain as strong as ever.

We have the prophecy also that in the same last days there will be the outpouring of the Spirit of God, with supernatural outpouring and demonstration of the power of God. While we may not be able to access a lot that the world will provide in the technological advancement that will characterize the end time as knowledge will increase, yet the knowledge of God too will cover the earth as the waters covers the sea and faith in that knowledge will produce cheap miracles.

This is the way to go. That is how to connect with the provisions of God for us. Our faith in the power of God, in the finished work of Christ for our redemption and the riches of grace in Christ are sufficient and are more than enough to handle whatever the world throws at us and we need to revisit these provisions and learn how to tap into them. TBC is set to do that these next few Wednesdays.

The problem today is our dependence on the provisions of the kingdom of the world as we neglect the provisions of the kingdom of God. Children of God today would prefer any alternative to walking by faith and walking in obedience to the word of God. And the world has plenty alternatives to what the Kingdom of God offers. We are in a situation where the minister prays for people to be healed in church even when he doesn’t believe or ever depends on God’s word for his healing. We are in a situation where the minister preaches giving and faith in divine prosperity, while he cannot believe God for his own supplies except through gimmicks and making merchandise of God’s people. We are in a world of alternatives where we are dependent on worldly wisdom for our survival not knowing that we are only resting strongly on an untrustworthy system.

This is the time for us to start preparing by brushing up our faith in God for our sustenance in the face of the present economic hardship and so build up ourselves in our most holy faith so that we will not be at the mercy of anyone or any system that will fail or would not be accessible in the day of trouble.

Good day to you!

Preparing for the coming hostilities 2

Preparing for the coming hostilities 2

Last month, I sent a message on the above topic after the Lord had impressed it upon my heart to share the warning.

http://evansademanuel.blogspot.com.ng/2015/09/preparing-for-coming-hostilities.html?m=1

Today it came again. We are closer than we think.

Searching online, I realized that a few write ups are already online to that effect.. My doubt is if we are taking heed.

Today, a brother even sent an online material where a survival kit for the coming hostilities is being sold for almost 40 dollars in case of the apocalypse.

But how has God prepared us? What has He prepared for us to deal with the issue?

Jesus said, in this world you shall have tribulations but be of good cheer I have overcome the world. He said He left His peace with us different from what kind of peace the world gives.

The world has invented all sorts for comfort on the earth and the peace of the world has evolved to depend on all the inventions. If anything happens to that set up the world and its peace comes under threat and this will play out soon.

But whatever happens to world's peace as the new age emerges does nothing to the peace Christ gives. Yes, true Christianity is coming under more and more threats and persecution but our escape isn't in the world's devices but in the peace Christ left for us.

Pressure will be much against Christians around Christian lifestyle,  health care, supplies and provisions of basic needs, security, accommodation, energy and other basic human needs. It'll be difficult to live on what the world provides and still be able to live the life of Christ.

But Christianity has always been supernatural only that as Satan knows that his time is short, he is doing everything possible to take the focus of Christians off the supernatural essence of Christianity.

Churches aren't teaching much of grace provided to live in holiness anymore, a section preaches grace as a dispensation where you can continue living in sin since you're covered by grace. The other section preaches grace as irrelevant to living righteously only by strength. Under the trouble times coming grace will be necessary for holy living, nothing more.

Healing grace will be needed for divine healing as many will be cut off from the health care system the world provides.

The grace for supernatural provisions would also be needed as buying and selling may  become impossible.

Christians would need to employ God for supernatural and angelic security.

And the teachings that would prepare us for the coming hostilities would need to be accessed today.

In them is our peace. The peace Christ left us against the coming tribulations.

You'll say but the tribulation is coming after the rapture? well, I believe same too but look around you and prepare before the falling away catches unawares.

This is our day and we must be acquainted with what makes for our peace...
[My Offline Bible] Luke 19
41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

To endure we'll need to know the things we are already equipped with and get ready practicing  before the days come.

Start living by faith and patience in all that Christ had paid for as from today and get prepared for the devil's worst...

Good day!

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GMI School of Christian Ministry

The Message and the Method of Christian Ministry in Contemporary Times

continues this Saturday 9am...

Havila Place
#46 DF street
Opposite Bobcat Hotel
Mosan Road
Shagari Federal Estate
Iyana Ipaja
Lagos

Be there!

From Where is our Hope?

From Where is our Hope?

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 62
5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

From  where is our hope? From where is assured expectation? On what can we wait and be sure we'll receive succor and support?

Economies are failing. Cultures are crumbling. Friends and family with the best of intentions disappoints. Those without good intention can only set for others their baits on the traps they prepared. Traders would only promise at a cost, a cost which may be more than you can afford. So from where comes hope?

The righteous expectations can only come from the Lord if it won't be cut off. Only the Lord lives forever to make intercession for us and the hope He doesn't give shouldn't be expected from any man.

When He gives hope, such hopes can be realized even through the most unqualified of men.

When we have God on our side, we need not despair we can hope in Him.

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 42
5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Hopelessness is the mother of despair, hope is what gives birth to faith and boldness. The anointing to heal the brokenhearted is one that imparts hope. Hope is a life giver, hopelessness is death.

Depression and suicide are siblings from their mother hopelessness, and the hopelessness of governments to handle people's hopelessness is legalizing assisted suicide. Hopelessness is the trident of hell and the sickle of death. The precursor of every death both physical and spiritual...

Yet the eternally hopeless would fear death still even if such sees a future on earth as impossible due to hopelessness.  The dilemma of the hopeless...

So where does hope come from...?

Hope comes from God through His word.

[My Offline Bible] Romans 15
4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

The comfort of scriptures gives hope. When we find it difficult to have comfort and hope in the scriptures through unbelief, the hopelessness that results would be terminal! Such often comes with full force to kill with justifications.

Many in unbelief would want to replace scriptures with all sorts of things. Entertainment, drinks, drugs and so on...the more intellectual would add a philosophical angle to it: motivational materials which may not be based on any authority, at least not based on the authority of the Holy Scriptures.

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 31
3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

So there's no hope for hope in indulgences that give people temporary comfort based on their forgetfulness of their misery.

Nor in words that only placate without power to back up the promises it carry.

Our only sure hope is in the Word of God. When we encounter scriptures, whatever promises they carry must be used to deal with our despair, turn our hopelessness inside out and find hope and lasting comfort for us and for others who might be in the same situation.

That's one basic thing the scriptures do for us...in this world where hope is hard to find and people find it hard to believe what's even in their own selfies...the scriptures give us a perfect picture of what our future should be if we'll keep walking with God and His Spirit...

Keep your Bible open and feed on its contents in meditation and be comforted through the hope God communicates through it.

Let His Word be your righteous expectation and through faith your expectations shall not be cut off...

Happy New Week of Hope!

It is possible!

Thoughts on Leadership 1

Thoughts on Leadership

You cannot think too deeply about human development before reaching the water table of leadership.

We always think of human development as a personal responsibility and that is true to a large extent but it is also true that development can't be achieved in isolation. Humans were created as social beings. That's why God said it isn't good for man to be alone. Man can't become all he was meant to be all by himself and that is key.

The limitation of social development is in the selfishness of man which localises vision within the limits of personal betterment and achievements.

When you combine that selfishness with the social nature of leadership, what naturally results is the fish eat fish to get bigger syndrome.

The mentality that some are meant to be better than others and some are meant to rule over others have brought development of nations to its knees.

The essence of leadership is to induce and inspire corporate change within a group upon which individuals would be able to achieve personal positive changes.

The mentality of some being designed to be great and others small doesn't help the corporate goal of general development. It entrenches class consciousness and leadership corruption where the leader believes everyone should contribute to his personal aggrandisement and betterment as destined by God.

And such sees nothing wrong in oppression and in people remaining underdeveloped since he erroneously believes they were destined to be so deprived and somewhere within feels he is doing God favor keeping the people perpetually underdeveloped.

We see this in out nation and in our institutions and the thinking must change!

Jesus Christ's leadership ideology is quite different from this and it is the cure to so many national problems of class and group depravity occasioned by poor leadership mentality.

Listen to this...

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 20
25 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. 26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: 28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Meaning, leadership is for the benefit of the people and not the other way round.

Leadership shouldn't run on personal vision achievement but on a corporate vision. And the personal vision of leaders should not become the people's corporate vision.

A corporate vision is such that makes the leader a servant who works to create a platform upon which each member of the team can become all that God created him to become and achieve all possibility within his potentials with his personal vision becoming a reality.

Leadership isn't just occupying a position of rulership where everyone is put under and every vision becoming subservient but an empowering system that puts each on the pathway of success.

Leadership is assessed by the rate of personal development of the weakest in the system; it is leadership failure if the poor remains poor or becomes poorer, and the weak remains weak or gets weaker without hope of any kind of change or development while the rich keep getting richer and the ruler keeps ruling and handing over to his lineage...

That's why nations and organizations must invest in leadership research and development because ultimately a people will not be better than the leadership ideology they are led with...

In the body of Christ, like in any other communal system, success isn't success until everyone is successful. If the toe is pained every part of a healthy body must feel it...and the pain no matter how localised would eventually determine the existence of the system...the cancer or any other disease that'll kill doesn't have to spread to every part...only that the healthy part, no matter how large may not be able to handle or overcome the effect of the little part under attack...an attack on any part is an attack on the whole...

Development must be total to be true...and leadership unselfishness is the key...both in church and in society!

May God grant us wisdom!

A Charge on a Sunday Morning

So you are up already preparing to go to church as usual. It is a routine, isn't it. What we do Sunday mornings. Have you ever asked why? Do you ever ask what results it brings into your life and existence?

What do you do in church? Good music, meeting with friends and family, meeting business colleagues for fresh opportunities, or some sort of motivations for the coming week's rat race, some exciting preaching and sometimes some mental exercises?

When you miss the purpose of anything, you abuse it and so you can do without it. But when you understand the purpose, it becomes almost compulsory till the purpose is achieved!

Our gathering together in the name of Jesus is to move us away from false humanity to genuine divinity! From mere religion to deep spirituality, from the weaknesses of man to the grace and strength of God, from carnality, fleshly and selfish living to spiritual, sacrificial and qualitative living!

If going to church isn't making you more godly, more spiritual, more in tune with your inner man, more in line with God, more understanding towards Christ and His word and more dependent on Christ through the toughness of this present life and seeing His relevance in your world daily...you might need to review that aspect of your busyness!

Maybe your church isn't being a Christ proposed church....
Maybe you are disconnected from what's happening in church beyond the carnality going on at the fringes...
Maybe you aren't in a church that speaks your language...
Maybe your heart isn't yearning and seeking for God ab initio...

These and other points may be of help in reviewing your church going experience...

Church doesn't have to be comfortable, sweet and exciting to you...those aren't the primary reasons for church... but it has to practically affect your day to day living, relationships with men and with God and create a spirituality in you beyond mere observation of rituals and rites...

So, do the review and stop being mere church statistics to being a lively stone taking your place in the spiritual building inhabited by God offering quality praise to God and submitting to the Lordship of Christ, doing the will of God and enjoying His Kingdom of love!

Happy Sunday!

A Psalm for a Monday Morning

Good morning folks! It's a great day!

The Spirit of God will lead as we yield and His Word will guide as we read...His will shall be done in obedience in our lives. His kingdom shall come to crush the kingdom of darkness and sin...

Here we are, rejoicing in the Kingdom,
Delivered from the dark kingdom and translated into this grace where we stand...Let's by faith keep on standing in this nation where God rules...none other can say and have it so except our King.

He must reign till all enemies bow...and In His name we ride on in majesty. With no fear for whatever might be...we know we are safe in the hollow of His hands...none can pluck us from His grip..we are on the Lord's side and the world must know, in righteousness this kingdom is made exalted...as our  righteous King reigns over us...righteousness, peace and the Spirit's joy reign...

Full of the Spirit, Filled with the Spirit, drunken in His love, laughing as in harvest, carried by His Spirit we walk in step not fulfilling the lust of the flesh.

Changed heart, new spirit, written laws upon our chest, with the Spirit accompanying, nothing stops us from the Holy of holies.

So boldly we come, boldly we enter, barriers broken, the veil is torn, never again with a mortal high priest when Christ lives on making intercession and saving to the utmost!

So help is with us from the sanctuary, grace is available as at when needed, His power bringing His will to pass in us... expressions of His everlasting love...

So we keep trusting and believing, declaring His Word in the face of Satan's roars, by faith we quench is darts, never flinching ever strong standing still...

And so we stand till He comes, occupying the space and holding down domains. We His body covering from point to point...digging wells as we go till our Rehoboth appears...shining His light still in this present darkness.

His word we must keep holding, His life we must keep living, not driven by the various winds of doctrine and not swinging to mammon and his music...as our hearts and mouths are filled with His psalms and hymns...

Good morning folks...
It's a great week in God!

These are the Days of True Holiness!

These are the Days of True Holiness!

Lot's of preachers today would like to play the music of holiness softly. The subject of holiness would, most often, trigger some degree of godly sorrow and in a world where entertainment rules, godly sorrow is something unpopular and something the world wouldn't want propagated. Most preachers would rather tread that path with caution!

One excuse is that man is imperfect and so shouldn't be forced into holiness and that those who claim holiness are hypocrites.

But the same imperfect world creates precision over and over in technology, warfare, medicine and even in economy sometimes.

Man pursues perfection and development in every other area and that to some degree of awesomeness but would call anyone after same in relationship with God a perfectionist! To me that's the true meaning of hypocrisy!

The same mentality has found itself into the church too and the message is gaining grounds and being taught and practiced in different and various ways contrary to what Christ taught.
But Holiness remains a possibility! Righteousness is attainable!

The way to holiness is what the world has refused to discover! And that is what Christ came to give to the world!

It isn't the way, if we want to independently pursue and achive holiness by whatever strength we can muster without God and what He has provided! If we try we'll always fail. And that's the error that has led to other negative conclusions about holiness and righteousness.

Holiness won't come just by a disciplined, moral or spartan lifestyle. Somewhere there, an error will set in and crash the pack of cards.

If God sets an exam for mankind to His standard of holiness man will always fail.

So to attain success in holiness, God would have to find a way of indwelling man and through man work out what pleases Him in spite of man.

And this is what is called grace!

Galatians 2:20-21 English Standard Version (ESV)
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

The power of the New Covenant is that God gives a new heart of flesh, a new spirit, writes His laws upon the tables of the heart and dwell in us by His Spirit.

With His Spirit indwelling us we are moved and quickened beyond the power of sin and temptations and through that we reign over sin instead of being slaves to sin as we had always been!

Grace doesn't mean, that God condones sin or that He overlooks sin. Sin remains a displeasure to God any day.

When we live in pride, selfishness and in sexual immorality we create evil for ourselves and for others and displease God.

And to preach that God is ok with that is to create a god for ourselves different from the one and only True God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ!

That's not the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is purely a self seeking error to use freedom in Christ as a covering garment for unrighteousness. We can't continue in sin and expect grace to continue!

Today, we have the very nature of God indwelling us and that grace strengthens us in our weaknesses to walk as God would expect of us.

2 Corinthians 12:9 English Standard Version (ESV)
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

To those willing to walk in holiness, these are the days of true holiness!

This had always been the way of holiness! God permitted the laws of Moses as a way to holiness to make man see how impossible it is for man without Him to please Him!

Now, He has made every provision available in grace to make man walk in holiness, righteousness and unconditional love towards others even towards his enemies.

Much have been given us in our days and much is expected of us and we have nowhere to hide than to walk in God's pleasure! It's no use thinking that lack of holiness will be condoned or should be overlooked!

God has and will always give us all that's necessary to do His will, as He consistently works in us that which is well pleasing in His sight! Hebrews 13:20

We have been set free from sin, we need to walk free and in dominion over sin, walking otherwise is taking the grace of God in vain 2Corinthians 6:1, frustrating it Galatians 2:21 and doing despite to the spirit of grace, Hebrews 10:29...

Sin shouldn't have dominion over us in these days...these are the days of true holiness!

Romans 6:14 English Standard Version (ESV)
For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

The days of grace are the days of holiness!  These are the days when we have available all that it takes to live in holiness and in true righteousness! We have no excuse so let's live it up!

Good morning!

Let's Pray...

Father of all grace and everlasting mercies, we thank you and give you praise for your loving kindness and truth as they merge to produce grace for us...to you be all glory in Jesus name.

We come to you today asking that you perfect us unto every good work to do your will, working in us that which is well pleasing in your sight.
We release ourselves to your Spirit within us to lead and quicken us into righteousness and holiness!
We declare that through your grace, sin shall no longer have dominion over us. We believe we are Christ's and we have crucified the flesh and the lusts thereof and whatever residue will vanish with time as you strengthen us with your might in our inner man according to your glorious power and grace!
We receive strength not to do despite to the Spirit of grace, frustrate it or take it in vain, rather we take our stand through faith in this grace which you have provided through Christ and we reign in life!
Thanks so much for your truth...all the power and glory remain yours forever...and we believe we receive all these and much more in Jesus name...Amen!
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One of the courses in the upcoming Grace Missions International School of Christian Ministry is THE MESSAGE, in which we explore what the message of the gospel is, the harmony between it's different aspects and how these relate with many other things being propagated today! You don't want to miss it!

Prepare to be part of this school, let it prepare you for a qualitative ministry that rightly divides the word of truth!

I'll be expecting you!

Every Saturday in October 9am-3pm

@
Havila Place
#46 DF Street
Opposite Bobcat Hotel
Mosan Road
Shagari Federal Estate
Iyana Ipaja
Lagos

JESUS IS LORD!

Be the Man!

Be the Man!

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 6
8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

[My Offline Bible] Philippians 2
19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

It's natural with people to complain about what others should do that they wouldn't do.

We expect others to love us, we expect others to meet our needs, we expect others to be trustworthy, we complain about the negative attitudes we receive from others....

We want the man to step into our lives and help us! When people don't pursue our own goals, we complain, when they don't give to us, we whine. When they don't fit-in into our mould we feel betrayed.

As followers we expect the leaders to be all in all. As leaders we expect the followers not to have a life outside of us. We always have expectations of others but never of ourselves!

But that won't serve any purpose in the world, until we start focusing on ourselves as those responsible!

That advert said, if I don't do it who will? We need a sense of responsibility towards the needs of the people around us....

God's looking for a man... and you are the man and you have to stand up and be the man!

Enough of complaining about someone not feeding the poor....feed them, even if one at a time!

Enough of complaining about having no one to help you; you step out to help someone!

Enough of complaining about the rot in society, don't add to it and roll up your sleeves and clean up what you can!

You said man can't be trusted and I agree...but you are the man! Can you be trusted?

You are the man!

Who shall go for us? That's the cry of the Spirit! Who shall care in a world that doesn't care?

Who shall we send to be the answer to the cry of the young boy who can't enrol in school for lack of funds?

Who shall we send to provide a meal to the family starving out of economic depression?

Who shall we send to provide little healthcare for those who can't afford the cost of drugs?

Who shall we send to help out with those about to be thrown out of the accommodation they have?

Who shall we send to help bear that burden too heavy for the young orphan to carry?

Who shall we send to that old man or woman whose children won't care?

Who shall we send to encourage the broken hearted? Who shall we send to bring back the straying hearts to God? Who shall we send to transform the decaying society and help the people maximise their potentials? Who?

That's the cry in the heavenlies!

But you and I are the answer to that cry!

Every need is the expression of that cry...and every time we turn a deaf ear when we can do even a little, we join the selfish lot, who seek not the things of Christ but the things of self!

Some of us always know what the poor should do that they aren't doing?

We can easily identify the lazy, we can identify the unwise and could tell how that brought about their predicaments. And so we believe it isn't our duty to help anyone since they brought such upon themselves!

The truth is, whatever causes the poverty of the poor isn't ours to tell, our responsibility is to find a way out for them to get out of their needs!

We can identify the lazy, the fool and the bad choices that made the indigent and the insolvent what they are but we can't identify the selfishness in us! We can't identify the error in our thinking and the vacuum that only us should fill! Selfishness protects itself to every extent...there's always a reason not to share!

Be the man!

Don't only ask, where is the man? Let your cry be, Here I am, Lord send me!

Jesus Christ gave Himself to us not just to forgive our sins and keep us from sinning but also to help us actively pursue doing what's good and right!

[My Offline Bible] Titus 2
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Our religion is nothing if we aren't offering ourselves as living sacrifices on God's behalf to meet the needs around us...

It's another Sunday, don't just go to church with enough to give offerings and tithes...package something for someone who is in need... take a little extra meal along, it may be all that the Lord would need to feed thousands, and make it a habit henceforth!

Be the man! Be the answer to someone's prayer! Break the chain of selfishness, be there for someone else's success: leader, you too go out and be servant to someone to succeed, it's not just about you succeeding by what other people contribute! Servant, go out there and help a leader succeed...not just because you are paid to do so....

Senior pastor, find another ministry to help too...it's not meant to be a rat race!

It isn't about us alone...let others too eat of the fruits of our branches! No tree eats it's own fruits, every tree that does that remains barren!

Be the man...someone has been waiting for!

Let your answer be...

Here I am! Send me!
Good morning and have a lovely week!

Let's Pray...
Father in heaven, we give you praise for your loving kindness and faithfulness, we appreciate you for who you are, you are love who won't change. Thanks for sharing your nature with us, thanks for connecting us with your Spirit. Thanks for planting us in yourself to suck from your sap so that we can bring forth good fruit for the world to feed on. Let our praise be acceptable to you in Jesus name.

We come to you today, in total surrender to you and your truth, we come to offer our lives as living sacrifices to answer your demand to send someone to meet the world's needs, and to be the vessel to bring your answers to people in need...

We cry, Here we are! Send us!

Help us to identify the needs around us, keep our hearts tuned to hear the fainting cry of the needy behind the facades.
Help us never again to turn away our ears to the cries and never to blind our eyes and hearts to the people who need us.
Equip us with what we'll need to do your will, help us identify what we already have to share. Give us grace to be humble enough to care and to show it.
Help us to be the man to someone else without demanding of them in return....

We believe yours is the omnipotence and wisdom and we know you'll be there for us as we step out to do this from now on in Jesus mighty name!