Ignorance, Deception and Fear!

Ignorance, Deception and Fear!

The three arrowheads of satanic trident! The common denominators of every bondage. The repetitive components of satanic chain of slavery. The materials the yoke of the assyrian was made of. The luggage and burdens of hell!

I speak of Ignorance, deceit and fear!

Looking at all Jesus did for us on the cross of calvary and the message of freedom He represents and how believers would still revel in bondages of all kind in spite of all that beats me.

But here we are, we have to deal with it, we can't give up until the Lord's appearing peradventure we'll be able to see some light.

Satan can't operate until his threesome dispatch riders have taken over a soul.

No bondage is possible without ignorance. Organised slavery is a result of organised ignorance. Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. But that after continuing in His word.

[My Offline Bible] John 8
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The labor and heavy loads of life we carry are kept in place by ignorance. Satan must maintain ignorance in a person to keep the person in bondage.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 11
28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

The central key is to learn of Christ. Jesus can't give rest without us learning of Him. God is helpless in saving if the subject hates knowledge.

[My Offline Bible] Hosea 4
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

The system that keeps knowledge from people or such that controls what information people have access to is one that perpetuates bondage. Satanic darkness isn't the same as physical darkness, it is ignorance.

The second of the trio is deception.

Deception is satanic proactive way of blocking the space for knowledge before the opportunity to know the truth comes. You can only deceive one who doesn't have knowledge or one who isn't convinced of truth. Deception may come in the form of twisted knowledge. Deception about destination keeps a traveller permanently away from arrival. Satan is a liar and the father of it.

[My Offline Bible] John 8
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

The battle we constantly fight is the battle for the truth. The bags of Satan are full of all sorts of tricks. His subtilty is the major tool in roping men in as he uses all sorts of good looking and nice sounding lusts to ensnare men.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 11
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

All sorts of doctrines, superstitions and practices in churches that have no scriptural basis today are ploys of Satan to deceive. The aim is to move us away from settling in the freedom needed in Christ to be conformed to His image.

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 4
13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

The third of satanic tools of bondage is fear.
I haven't seen something that binds people as fast as fear. Satan uses fear to deceive people into all sorts of bondage. He creates all sorts of threatening and scary scenarios and then wait till fear sets in. He makes men fear death, sicknesses and diseases, poverty and lack. He makes man fear witches, wizards and demonic activities while he offers them fake succour in order to trap them.

[My Offline Bible] Romans 8
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

Fear cripples. Fear creates comfort zones of stagnancy. Fear gets us unnecessarily engaged in worrisome activities even if spiritual or religious. Fear brings worry and anxiety. Nothing good comes out of fear. God hates fear and we should. Fear brings the worst of men. Fear turns the deaf ear to wisdom. Fear justifies mediocrity. Fear is failure.

God doesn't give fear. He gives sound mind. Working mentality and not shut down reasonings as fear gives. [My Offline Bible] 2 Timothy 1
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Fear shuts our eyes to God's presence and puts our faith in what Satan can do. Fear empowers Satan and his kingdom and that's why he invests in it. He uses men too as his agents of fear. Men and women who love to rule over and enslave others in politics, economy and in religion. The fear of men brings a snare. [My Offline Bible] Proverbs 29
25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.

We all need to check how much of ignorance, deception and fear Satan is using already on us and snap out of that bondage.

The key to the lock is knowledge. Robust knowledge. Full knowledge. Researching into the knowledge of God through God's word and through His Spirit. Knowing God's mind concerning everything that affects every aspect of our lives. You can't afford to snack or use fast foods in matters of life, go for full meals of knowledge and you'll be safe. We must seek to get exhaustive knowledge in the subjects and themes that matter to life and godliness to be safe.

We have the capacity to know. To us is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom and so we have the Spirit of wisdom and knowledge that delivers from every fear. We have received the Spirit of God to know...and not to be ignorant, fooled or frightened. Walk with Him!

Happy Sunday, welcome to a new week.

Who Rules Your Prayer Altar?

Who Rules Your Prayer Altar?

I'm sure some few wise people will read this message from the Lord to the end and reposition for a revival in their prayer lives for a new level of engagement with God....

Getting things done supernaturally isn't exclusive to God and His kingdom. The Kingdom of darkness too gets things done. What separates the products of the two Kingdoms are the nature and the culture that power and operate within each of them.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 12
24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
25 And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

While the nature of love, light and life rule the Kingdom of God, the nature of hatred, evil, wickedness, darkness and death rule the Kingdom of Satan.

Just as God wouldn't be moved outside His will to do things contrary to love, light and life, so also the end point of satanic operations is to bring evil, darkness, despair and death.

Between these two Kingdoms is the authority of man. What rules in life is eventually determined by us. What we permit and excuse happens accordingly in our world. Who we appease or pray directly or indirectly rules.

Many believe God automatically rules. We'll, if God rules automatically it would be impossible to sin against Him for instance. Sin is a sign that we have our choices to make even if the repercussions are definite. If God were to be responsible for everything happening then He would have been the one behind the sin and mistakes we make. We rule our world and we give it to whosoever we would.

In the place of prayer, we are opened to both Kingdoms. The place of prayer is one of those places where we engage the supernatural to permit or refuse whichever one of the divide to manifest in our world.

What directs our prayer is how compliant our desires and petitions are with the will of God or with satanic desires and projects. It isn't where we pray or how we pray or even the name we use that attracts which kingdom to attend to our prayers, it is about whose will is meant to be done.

The will of God in the place of prayer attracts the power of God, and satanic will attracts the powers of darkness. Every will is executed by the power of whose will is being solicited directly or indirectly. Power is only possessed to do the will of the possessor. God doesn't pay satanic bills and satanic kingdom won't foot God's bills.

So we need to know who's will rules our prayer  altars. Whoever that is, owns that altar even if the name of the altar sounds godly. It is not by the name but by the will. Same goes with the altar of our hearts too.

[My Offline Bible] John 15
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Before we would be able to trust our own will in the place of prayer the conditions of John 15:7 must have been met. We must abide in Christ and not only that, His words also must abide in us if we must engage God.

The confidence we have in our prayer relationship with God is that if we pray according to His will He hears us. His omnipotence responds to His will.

[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.

But if at the place of prayer and heartfelt desire, we project evil, darkness, death, diseases and despair contrary to God's will, that we address that to God in Jesus name wouldn't stop the satanic kingdom to latch on it to perpetrate evil and destructions. This is the height of the work of the flesh and the believer must be instructed.

Believers must be careful not to devour one another by reason of this error. When people take the flesh to the place of prayer, and evil happens, it's not proper to give such glories to God. They had prayed to the satanic kingdom and the credit should go there.

[My Offline Bible] Galatians 5
13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Let's allow the word of God to abound in our heart and let our desires be determined through the will of God and by the Spirit of God so we can be sure which Spirit we are engaging with at our prayer altars.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 6
14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

[My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 10
20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

I pray God grants us understanding in Jesus name!

Good morning and Happy weekend!

Opportunity within the Present Economic Downturn

Opportunity within the Present Economic Downturn

[My Offline Bible] Ezra 9
7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Adversities are not always the results of sin. But many are. The economic crisis Nigeria is going through right now is one that came as a result of iniquity, injustice, greed, laziness, corruption, leadership irresponsibility, uncaring and unloving attitude, wickedness and so many other such behaviours we have developed and indulged in over time.

Nigeria is one of the most blessed nations in the world, we are like the city of Jericho that called upon Elisha with the complaint that the situation of the city was good but the water was bad...

[My Offline Bible] 2 Kings 2
19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

We are well situated and abundantly endowed. Whatever resource you want to judge us with, we'll come tops. We are behind in nothing. We have great potentials.

But potentials alone do not bring success, if they aren't properly managed. Instead of learning to manage what we want, greed took over and we began to consume foolishly until the back is broken for the umpteenth time without learning any lessons or without putting whatever lesson we have learnt to any use not having enough leadership gut to do so.

Well, here we are.

But in our present situation, we need not lose hope. I'm sure what we have now is an open door, an opportunity for us individually and collectively get better.

There is a window of opportunity as it was in the days of Ezra, the scribe and Nehemiah. Though we need to recognise our errors and stop defending them. We need to identify where we went wrong and correct them.

Having done that we need to put despair behind us and begin to see what can be done.

One thing we need to understand is that every national economic crisis primarily changes people's spending pattern and so creates new demands for new products and those at the receiving end of that spending gets the money being spent.

And there lies the way. We need to find out where the shift is heading to and to position there to supply needs at that end.

I can tell that luxury goods and entertainment may suffer during economic downturn and so those in such industries must reposition. I realize that products and programs on premium bouquets of some digital cable television programs providers are being shared to lower bouquets to keep customers otherwise the first to go would be such expensive bouquets on people's scales of preference.

But people will always eat and will deprive other industries to fund the food industry.

With the awareness of people being raised to buy home made things, we have an opportunity to make the most of such consumer preferences.

With the fight against corruption in high gear cutting corners will lose taste even if slowly and those who deals righteously would compete favorably in the market place.

We need to see hope and position adequately. Many who have enjoyed the status quo who may not change may  go down with the crisis while many who today have nothing may become new millionaires out of the crisis by proper position...

I pray God grants us understanding and wisdom.

A Pastor's widow's mite...

Good afternoon!

Responding to Present Economic State

Responding to Present Economic State

The state of the economy is one thing that affects everyone, having the capacity to upstage people's faith in God. I saw a post yesterday saying though the prices of commodities are going higher yet tithe is still 10% and the wages of sin is still death. I'm sure whoever coined that knew that to many the first thing to be deleted on the scale of preference of many people's spending are those spendings that don't physically add anything to us personally. Our commitment to God and to other people's welfare will be the first to be expunged out of the budget.

That underscores our response to hardship and economic downturn.

We read of how different people responded to hardship in scriptures. We read of those in Samaria who resulted to eating dung and those who were eating their children.

We saw how people sold all they had and even themselves to slavery in the days of Joseph in Egypt. Genesis 47

We saw in the days of Naomi, how people migrated to greener pastures and many died there. Ruth 1

We also saw how Joseph managed the situation in favor of Pharaoh in the days of famine in Egypt.

We saw the widow of Zarephath, who saved herself and her only son by giving even in the days of severe famine their supposed last meal. 1Kings 17

We saw Jesus in the days when money failed after three days retreat and all available were 2 fishes and 5 loaves of bread with the easier option of sending the fainting people home. After all, nobody would blame Him for not feeding those who came to listen to His messages. Matthew 14

The bottom line here is that it all depends on how much of Joseph, that widow or Christ we are able to clone.

We may be like those who mismanaged scarce resources in the days of plenty and so had to sell themselves up in the days of famine in Egypt.

We may also be as those who didn't listen to God before running to Moab and so died there before God's visitation.

Others won't mind cooking and eating their own fruits to stay alive, after all, it's survival of the fittest.

Others will hide whatever they have for same reason thinking it's bad management to give what's not even enough for self.

But we'll do well if we can be like Joseph, employ the best financial and material management strategies. This isn't the time for luxury, it isn't the time for impulse buying, it isn't the time for prestige and social competitive spending. This is not the time for wastages, don't waste food, don't waste water, don't waste fuel, don't waste electricity, don't waste money, don't waste time and energy. This is the time to gather the remnants, let nothing be lost. This isn't the time to love pleasure, wine and oil that makes people poor... Proverbs 21:17

This is the time to show compassion and give. This is the time to share and not to deprive others of the little they may have. This isn't the time to 'cook and eat your children' as the women in Samaria in the days of Elisha, this is the day to make sacrifices to help those vulnerable around us. Give the hungry, either a man of God or a sinner. Help the homeless, the jobless, the employed who's not better than unemployed. Share your 2 fishes and 5 loaves and see Christ multiply it.

This is the time not to send people away hungry even when you don't have like Jesus. It is the time to engage our connections with God and anointing through faith for the miraculous. It is the time to use our advantages to support the weak.

If you have two give one to him who have none...such is the time we are now. If you are truly a disciple of Christ, this is the time the world will know. [My Offline Bible] Luke 3
11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

The king of Israel in Samaria in the days of Elisha engaged the prophet Elisha and Elisha responded and things turned around in favor of the nation. It's time to engage our connection with God for the sake of our land. 1Kings 7

Lift up the little available and give thanks to God for it. Believe God for a multiplication of the little and you'll see the same miracle even if not as literal as that of Christ.

This we must do till the siege is over and what's today expensive will become plenty this time tomorrow in Jesus name.

Our visitation is nearer than we can imagine but this bridge we must first cross!

Happy new day! Good morning!

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The Belt of Truth

The Belt of Truth

[My Offline Bible] Ephesians 6
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

The believer can't do without spiritual warfare. There are forces we have to contend with daily and the battle can't be fought for long by proxy. A day comes when the believer would have to stand with his or her own whole armour of God to contend against principalities, powers, rulers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.

David had to outgrow catapults, slings and clubs, in fact, after knocking Goliath down, he needed a sword to cut off his head. He had to graduate, just as he had to from being a dependent citizen who had to be protected to one to fight and protect others via the challenge of Goliath.

So the believer must grow from such that others would have to pray for since he can't pray, or one who had to be covered since he is a child.

Even if we can not actually totally outgrow being prayed for or with, we get to that point where we can survive even if those who to watch with us for as little as an hour are sleeping or dozing off like the disciples did to Christ.

Bottom line is that every believer would have to put on the whole armour of God by himself or herself and stand against the wiles of the enemy and having done all to stand.

One very important part of the armor is Truth. Someone said that's the pill we proscribe but wouldn't swallow. Meanwhile it is the belt among the armor.

Liars won't escape judgment. But the flip side of lying is that of people who aren't strong enough to face truth. Many a times we rather keep quiet because it could cost us like it did John, the Baptist.

Since we aren't speaking lies, nobody should tell us the truth is an hypocritical position that keeps people in bondage. You shall know the truth and the truth you know shall make you free, that's Jesus' stand, that's Christianity.

Every bondage, either spiritual, political, financial, religious or whatever the genre is maintained by falsehood, secrecy and darkness. We are children of light and we have the strength to face the truth and shine the light at all cost.

While meditating on this subject, I read that Nike terminated Manny Pacquaio's contract because he spoke against gay culture. He may have lost money and popularity among some groups of people but he has just gotten free by the reason of truth. Every dime he made from keeping quiet against sin, would hurt him deeper than the credit it added to his wealth.

But lots of so called Christians have sold out their conscience and have become hypocrites and wimps who can't stand because they had lost their belt. The strength that holds up their waist line to carry the weight of their gait. They have become like the woman Jesus healed of the spirit of infirmity, bent twice over who couldn't by any means hold herself up straight.

How can you love Christ and hate truth. But that's the way of the world. When Marion Jones came out to confess how she had used banned performance enhancing drugs to win laurels on the tracks, she was sent to prison for telling the truth and stripped of all her medals, but she was free even in prison while many like her are walking free but imprisoned within them. I pity such people living under such bondages. The truth is available to set you free and buckle you up to stand.

The world may vilify you for holding up, but they'll never know the freedom you enjoy for speaking the truth.

When you can't bear the truth, you suspend the revelation for freedom. Jesus couldn't tell the disciples certain things which the Holy Spirit later came to teach because they were not able to bear the truth.

You may have reasons to keep keeping quiet on truth or to keep avoiding facing the truth while you just play safe to enjoy certain levels of acceptability, popularity and financial or material benefits, but don't forget stolen water is sweet but it soon turns to gravel. You may look good physically but the forces we have to contend with aren't ignorant of your handicap and vulnerability in spiritual warfare...your belt is missing..

There's nothing hidden that would not be revealed... [My Offline Bible] Luke 12
2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

When you haven't developed the capacity to hear and bear the truth, liars gravitate towards you, forming a false line of defence that won't stand in the evil day!

Let me close my long treatise by what apostle Paul said...

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 13
7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Conscience, said a wise man, is an open wound only truth can heal it...

Build your capacity to accommodate truth no matter how bitter or how fearful the possible consequences may be... It sets free! Keep your belt intact don't lose or loosen it! Your victory depends on it against the evil day!

Good morning

Man and our Expectations

Man and our Expectations

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

[My Offline Bible] Psalms 60
11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man. 12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

God uses men. God works with men. A lot wouldn't happen on earth if someone wouldn't step up to make it happen. God loads man with treasures and empowers him to be fruitful. His spirit, his soul, His mind and body were equipped to deliver. He is a ruler among God's creation, a dominating figure and a major manipulator of creation. He is a devastating factor among creatures and can be ruthless at it with pride and selfishness. You, a man too can't be successful among men without a good understanding of who he is or they are.

That's who we are and we can hardly do without that, but that enigmatic feature of man would want us to put our expectations on him. We put out our profiles to create what those who patronise us should expect from us.

We boast of our advantages, properties, peculiarities and specialities. We want people to put their expectations on us and we do same also. And sometimes we fulfill some of those expectations and so increase the hope of others in us.

But man is limited. In fact, whatever he has must have  been given him. His life came out of what he couldn't control. He didn't plan his own inception, he only discovered it. His birth was not planned, couldn't have been planned because it may not have happened. He could only speculate based on past experiences and occurrences, he doesn't know what happens next or knows what the next person is thinking. He is so complex in both his advantages and disadvantages.

Now, a creature with such extremes shouldn't be one to expect much from. He is too handicapped to expect too much from. Except he is used or worked with by the Creator who preplanned what we are living through, man can't really do much.

Listen to what a king replied to a helpless woman seeking help...

[My Offline Bible] 2 Kings 6
26 And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

Besides, every little help is hyped to high heavens and we gloat if we are ever opportune to lend a little help to anyone. When we do, we mostly are seeking or expecting something else, properly bigger in return, up to enslaving whoever had 'enjoyed' the help.

But the dream of God is that we become like Him in being proactive to do good. It shouldn't be because we are expecting something in return or to make a name, but in response to the inherited nature of God from within.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 5
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.

God's desire is that He makes out of us a new creature specie that's not only winning the sin battle by not committing sin but aggressively doing good with Zeal.

[My Offline Bible] Titus 2
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 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.

Not to live in sin is wonderful and beyond merely human, but zealously doing good is absolutely out of this world and that's what God has made the believer in Christ to be.

We can never get to the point where we have done enough good to talk about or gloat over. Gloating is a sign that we aren't Spirit inspired in the good we do.

And when we receive good in as much as we show appreciation to those men God inspired to do so, we must never forget that God is the one behind it and show him much more appreciation.

And instead of keeping the vessels used as the source from where our help come, we must be careful not to put our expectation on them otherwise we suffer debilitating  disappointments. Vain is the help of man!

[My Offline Bible] Jeremiah 17
5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

Good morning!